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received valuable insight into the wholesale 

 business and learned his first lessons In sales- 

 manship. 



Mr. Curll is also connected with the Curll & 

 Evans Lumber Company of Holcomb, Nich- 

 olas county, West Virginia. In the capacity 

 of sales manager of this concern he was 

 located at Holcomb for a number of years. 

 He also had charge of the large output of 

 this fine plant, acquiring thorough acquaint- 

 ance with the manufacturing end of the 

 business. 



Mr. Curll is also interested in the Common- 

 wealth Lumber Company of Glenray, W. Va., 

 and handles the output of that plant, con- 

 sisting of 1,500,000 feet of hardwoods per 

 month, largely oak of fine quality. This is 

 one of the best equipped band mills in the 

 state and has about 20,000 acres of virgin 

 timber land to draw from. 



For the past two years Mr. Curll has been 

 located in Philadelphia, engaged in what has 

 proven a very successful wholesale business. 

 E. B. Wheeler & Co. 



R. B. Wheeler & Co., 402 Crozer building, 

 is one of the old reliable concerns of Phila- 

 delphia. It has buffeted many storms which 

 have proven the strength of its foundations. 

 Robert B. Wheeler began business in 1877. 

 He admitted Horace A. Reeves, Jr., about 

 twenty-eight years ago, forming the present 

 firm. They do a strictly wholesale biisiness, 

 and have some splendid direct mill connec- 

 tions. They handle hardwoods, white pine and 

 cypress. Horace A. Reeves, Jr., the active end 

 of the firm, is well known to the lumber trade 

 of the country and is generally liked for his 

 genial personality. 



Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company 



The Thomas E. Coale Lumber Company, 

 Franklin Bank building, commenced business 

 a year and a half ago. The company has 

 some excellent direct mill connections and 

 handles at wholesale hardwoods, white pine, 

 spruce, hemlock and cypress. Thomas E. 

 Coale, head of the concern, is one of the most 

 widely known men in the lumber field. For 

 some years he was in charge of the selling 

 department of William Whitmer & Sons, Inc., 

 and prior to this conducted a lumber business 

 for some years in the southern section of 

 Philadelphia. 



George Craig & Sons, Inc. 



George Craig & Sous, Inc., 160 Drescl build- 

 ing, have been in business for a number of 

 years. They are manufacturers of hardwood 

 and spruce lumber, and have a mill at Winter- 

 bum, W. Va., with a daily capacity of 

 85,000 feet, producing spruce, hemlock and 

 hardwoods. 



The officers of the concern are George F. 

 Craig, president; J. A. Calhoun, first vice- 

 president; H. L. Newhall, second vice-presi- 

 dent, and Augustus J. Cadwallader, secretary 

 and treasurer. George F. Craig, J. A. Cal- 

 houn and A. J. Cadwallader also compose the 

 firm of George F. Craig & Co. of the same 

 address. 



George F. Craig is one of the most promi- 

 nent lumbermen of Philadelphia. As presi- 

 dent of the Lumbermen 's Exchange of Phila- 

 delphia, and of the National Wholesale Lum- 

 ber Dealers' Association during 1909, he has 

 become widely and favorably known to the 

 trade of the country. 



Augustus J. Cadwallader is a sagacious and 

 progressive man, and is one of the most pop- 

 ular lumbermen in Philadelphia. 



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I'RESIDENT TOMB LUMBER 

 COMPANY. 



C. E. LLOYD, JR. 



The Craig house has shipping offices at Sa- 

 vannah, Ga., and Fernandino, Fla. 

 Currie & Campbell 



Currie & Campbell, with office in the Com- 

 monwealth building, started business Decem- 

 ber 1, 1909, handling hardwoods, spruce, hem- 

 lock, mouldings, oak and maple flooring and 

 all kinds of dimension stock. They now have 

 connections with the Pocahontas Lumber Com- 

 pany of Burner, W. Va., which operates a mill 

 with a daily capacity of 75,000 feet of spruce. 



hemlock and hardwoods; also the Elkhurst 

 Lumber Company of Elkhurst, W. Va., with a 

 daily production of 15,000 feet of flooring, 

 30,000 feet of worked stock, which carries 

 nearly 3,000,000 feet of hardwoods at the mill. 



Ben C. Currie, one of the principals of the 

 concern, was associated with William Whit- 

 mer & Sons, Inc., from 1906 to 1908; with 

 R. M. Smith & Co., Parkersburg, W. Va., as 

 manager of their Philadelphia office from 1906 

 to 1908, and was manager for Halfpenny & 

 Hamilton from 1908 to December 1, 1909. He 

 is an experienced hardwood man. He was 

 chosen delegate from the Lumbermen 's Ex- 

 change of Philadelphia to the last annual of 

 the Hardwood Manufacturers' Association, 

 to be present at the revision of the hardwood 

 inspection rules. 



James H. Campbell for five years was 

 superintendent of the Pocahontas Lumber 

 Company 's mill at Burner, W. Va., and later 

 was employed at that company 's general offices 

 at Brookville, Pa., for two years. 



Fenwick Lumber Company 



The Fenwick Lumber Company was organ- 

 ized the latter part of 1906 at Wilkes Barre, 

 Pa., succeeding the Tennant-Richards Lum- 

 ber Company of that city. Its general office 

 is at Wilkes Barre, the sales headquarters 

 being at 1123 Real Estate Trust building, 

 Philade'phia. The company operates a mill 

 at F' awick, W. Va., with a capacity of 100,- 

 000 feet daily; one at Edgewood, N. Y., with 

 a capacity of 25,000 feet, and one at Cadosea, 

 N. Y., with a capacity of 12,500 feet daily. 

 The two first-named are band mills of the 

 most improved type. The first vice-president 

 of the company, S. L. Richards, has charge 

 of the Fenwick plant, residing at Weston, 

 W. Va. He is a lumberman of wide experi- 

 ence. 



The Philadelphia office is in charge of J. C. 

 Tennant, as secretary and sales manager. Mr. 

 Tennant is a graduate of Syracuse University, 

 having graduated with the class of 1901 with 

 Phi Beta Kappa honors. A few months after 

 graduation he became identified with the 

 wholesale firm of J. C. Tennant & Co., after- 

 wards absorbed by the Tennant-Richards Lum- 

 ber Company. For several years his head- 

 quarters were at Wilkes Barre, Pa. In May, 

 1908, he was put in charge of the newly 

 opened sales office at Philadelphia. Although 

 the Fenwick Lumber Company covers a wide 

 field in its selling, having trade both east 

 and west, the entire selling end of the business 

 is handled from the Philadelphia office. 



The mills of the company turn out largely 

 spruce, oak, poplar, chestnut, birch and maple. 

 The Fenwick product is becoming widely 

 known throughout the trade because of its 

 high grade, both as to quality and manu- 

 facture. 



S. B. Vrooman & Co., Ltd. 



The business of S. B. Vrooman & Co., Ltd., 

 importers, manufacturers and wholesalers at 

 1133 to 1141 Beach street, is conspicuous as 

 one of the most reputable and successful con- 

 cerns in the country. The business was started 



