"smiling Bob" Osgood Celebrating His 25th Anniversary Also

"Smiling Bob" Osgood is a top man in personal popularity among the lumbermen of Southern California in general and the Los Angeles district in particular. He is rightfully so. Always smiling, allr'ays cordial, always friendly and courteous, he has for twenty-five years been an oustanding personality in the lumber industry.

It is rvorthy of note that he, also, is celebrating the twenty-fifth anniversary of his business career in Southern California, so that he and THE CALIFORNIA

LUMBER MERCHANT exchange congratulations. Both have been on the most cordial terms for the entire 25 years.

On July first, 1922, Robert S. Osgood, r,vhich is his formal name, took charge of the branch office and rvarehouse of the Wheeler Osgood Company, of Tacoma, of which his father was a Dartner.. He held that position until 1931 rvhen he went to Olympia, Washington, to become Sales Manager for the Washington Veneer Co. He stayed there two years, then the'lure of the South brought him back to Los Angeles. FIe joined Cadvvallader-Gibson, manufacturers of l'hilippine mahogany and other hard.r.voods, as General Sales Nlanager. He rvorked in this capacity for Roy Barto from 1933 Lo 1941 , 'ivhen he joined Frieder Brothers, handling the entire American end of their philippine lumber brrsiness. In May, 1912, he entered business for himself wifh offices in Los Angeles, doing a rvholesale and commission hardn'ood business, handling both foreign ancl clo- mestic rvoods.

He is one of a third ger.reration of Osgoods in brrsiness of the I)acific Coast. His father, George the lumber J. Osgood,