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C. Ff. Griff€D, Jr.
Charles H. Grifien, Jr, recendy appointed general manager of the California Redwood Asoociation, with headquarters in San Francisco, was born in Clinton, Mo., in 1887, and came with his family to California when he was four years old.
Ffe was raised in Los Angeles, where he attended public school and high school. He attended. the University of Southern California f9r 9ne_ year_, and completed his education as a mining engineer at the (Jniversity of California, in Berkeley.
After five years' experience in the mining businesc all over dhe wester.n Statec, he came to a decision to enter the lumber businesc, and in 1915 went to wor& for Frank Graver Saeh, Door & Mill Co. in Los Angelee. It ie interesting to note here that his father, C. H. Grifien, Sr., was first employed by the Willamette Lumber Co., Loc Angelea, in 1891, after coming to California, and is now in the retail lumber busine$ in Artesia, Calif., having completed 61 years in the business.
Mr. Grifien left his first position to become associated with the Flayward Lumber & fnvestment Co., and was identified for the next few yeare with this frrr'g branchec at Rivetside and Rialto, Calif., and Yuma, Ariz.
When the Ffomer T. Flayward Lumber Co. was organized in 1919, he left Yuma to tqfte charge of the new 6rm's Paso Robles yard, and later managed the Santa Cruz yard. For the past six years he has been superintendent of this company's chain of yards.
Early in his careet in the lumber business Mr. Grilfen began to take a keen interest in association work, and his ability for and enthusiasm in this work were quictly recognized by his appointment ac a director of the California Retail Lumbermen's Aooociation. He has been a director of this association for almost the entire peried since its organization. I{e was president of the Coast Counties Lumbermen's Aesociation in 1923, and hac given freely of his time and energy to helping to work out the problemc of both his local association and the State association. fn the course of this work he has made many friends and no enemies that he knows of, and it hac beerr said of him that he personally knows more retail lumbermen in California than any other individual.
Mr. Grif,en married Catharine Hayward, daughter of Flomer T. Hayward, of South Pasadena, in 1913, and they have one son, Charles, 17, now in hic last year in high school.
FIe is a Rotarian, having been precident two years ago of the Santa Cruz Rotary Club. He is a member of the Elts Lodge, and a member of Pasatiempo Country Club, Santa Cruz. Lumbermen golfers will be interested in the information that his handicap is 5.
In his new position his main job wiII be to develop new markets for Redwood and to controvert some of the misinformation that has gone out about wood. He bringc to thia work much Valuable tnowledge gained from 17 yeat{ close study of the problemc of tte retail dealer, tnowledge that will be of the greatest acsistance to him in market extension work for the manufacturecs.
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