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Floyd W. Elliott

The subject of this career sketch, Floyd W. Elliott, is one of the best known and liked executives in the lumber business in Northern California. He has a record of nearly 25 years in the lumber industry, which includes retail, wholesale 'and manufacturing experience.

He is manager of the $fln Francisco office of Schafer Bro,$. Lumber & Shingle Company,. of Montesano, Wash., one of the mos"t important manufacturers of old growth Fir and Hemlock lumber and Red Cedar Shingles in the Northwest.

Floyd was born in the W-estern part of New York State, and after attending the lJniversity of Rochester and the LTniversity of Chicago, first entered the lumber bus,iness with the Monarch Lumber Company, at Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. in the summer of 1912.

IIe came to California in the fall o,f 1913, and got back in the lumber business in 1914 with the San Joaquin Lumber Company at Stockton, staying there until 1915. After a couple of years' railroading with the Santa Fe he reentered the lupber business with Pope & Talbot, San Francisco, remaining with this pioneer concern until 1922, when he went with the Chas. R. McCormick Lumber Company, San Francisco, for tvhich firm he covered the San Francisco Bay district for nearly 11 years.

For some time during this period he was treasurer of the San Francisco Lumber Salesmen's Club, an organiza-