George S. Long, Lumber Lead€r, Passes

George S. Long, vice-president and general manager of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Tacoma, Wash., for thirty years, died Saturday evening, August 2, at Klamath Falls, Oregon.

Mr. Long was born in Marion County, Indiana, near Indianapolis, December 3, 1853, the son of Isaac and Sarah V. Long. He was a lumberman from boyhood.

As a boy among his first working experiences was helping his father in a small sash mill owned by his father' Fiom the age of thirteen to fifteen he acted as the salesman for the little mill, selling the lumber in and about Indianapolis. where the family then lived. Following this selling.experience he spent four years in a real estate office and entered the lumber business again as a tallyman in the yard of a hardwood wholesaler in Indianapolis who specialized in walnut lumber, buying timber and cutting it up in small mills. He had charge of many of these mills, bought timber, sold lumber and became a highly proficient lumberman

In 1884 Mr. Long moved to Eau Claire, Wisconsin, to work as shipping clerk with the Northwestern Lumber Company. lle was made sales manager of the company within a year and remained in that capacity until 1900, when, after a brief sojourn with the Brittingham & Hixon Lumber Company, in February, 1900, he accepted an offer to become the western representative of the newly organized Weyerhaeuser Timber Company.

At the end of June, 1929, Mr. Long, after thirty years' service with the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, was made chairman of the executive 'committee of the board of directors

Mr. f,ong was married at Bedford, Indiana, to Carrie B:. Robinson, daughter of Col. Edward J. Robinson. Thref children were born to the family: Margaret R'; Helen, and George S. II, who is now in the employ of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company at Tacoma

Mr. Long, until his retirement last summer' was chair' man of the forestry committee of the National Lumber

George S. Long

Manufacturers Association, vice-president of the \Mestern Forestry and Conservation Association, vice-president and trustee -of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association, and chairman of its Forestry €ommittee.

Funeral services were held on Thursday afternoon. August 7, aI the Buckley-King Mortuary, TaComa, W"t. The honorary pallbearers were R. M. Weyerhaeuser, D. EBuckmaster,- Dr. E. P. Clapp, \ry. L. McCormick, H. H' Irvine, F. E. Weyerhaeuser, Matk Reed, Thomas Bordeaux, F. S. Bell, Julius R. Pietz, J. P. Weyerhaeuser, E- W. Delong, Jaclison F. Kimball and A. W. Clapp. The active pallbearers rvere F. R. Titcomb, W. J. Ryan, C' S. Chapman, Chas. H. Ingram, Minot Davis and A.H. Olmstead.