lumberman

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Soliciting investment from a wealthy Port Blakely lumberman, Capt. William Renton, he founded the Renton Coal Mine, soon providing right of way for the nascent Seattle-Walla Walla Railroad.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 27, 2023

Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.

From The Guardian • Feb. 24, 2020

And the street where 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, son of a prominent lumberman, was kidnapped in 1935.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2016

Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.

From New York Times • Apr. 2, 2015

After the lumberman, the virile redwood sends up shoots around the bleeding stumps, thus reinforcing the seedling tree and promising the renewal of the forest groves in the centuries to come.

From Trees Worth Knowing by Rogers, Julia Ellen