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A. C. (Art) Penberthy was born in Menominee, Michigan, in 1892, where he lived until he was seventeen years of age. Menominee, at that time, was one of the largest lumber producing areas in the United States, and these early days spent there formed the background for his first experiences in lumber.

After spending three years at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor he was taken with the spirit of "go West young man" and started out A. C. (Art) Penberrhy to make his way in the West.

After traveling the Pacific Coast in search of a location he finally decided on San Diego where he spent a year working for the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, and it was this experience which gave him his first knowledge of West Coast woods.

However, the spirit of wanderlust and adventure prevailed, taking him to Imperial Valley in 1913, where he and his brother, Paul, acquired a quarter section of desert land and began ranching with more enthusiasm than experience, as at that time neither of them knew how to hitch np a mule. Art can tell some funny and tragic stories about those early days.

This venture lasted for about nine years and proved successful, but ultimately the recession of farm prices following the war caused it to be given up for more fruitful fields.

After winding up his affairs in the Valley he came to Los Angeles. This was in the fall of 1922, where he again cast his lot with the lumber business, working successively for the Fred Golding Lumber Co., S. E. Slade Lumber Co., the Defiance Lumber Co., and finally was successful, with the help of a group of the Tacoma mills, in setting up a selling organization that is known today as the Tacoma Lumber Sales, of which he is the head.

Perhaps the most you can say for his stock in trade and worth is that through the years he has acquired a wife and four children, (three daughters and Art, Jr.), which son enough for the urge and necessity behind his drive.

Art's experiences and career have favored him with a wide acquaintance many friends the lumber industry where he has won and this broad experience and knowledge of the business makes him well qualified for the reputation and position he holds.

Under questioning, he says that the measure of his success he attributes: first, to the building of worthy confidence with the people he contacts; second, to the merit and knowledge of the products that he sells, which all lead up to what he calls "selling lumber along straightforward lines."