Obituaries

Wilbur E. Dcvis

Wilbur E. Davis, 38, passed au'ay suddenly at his home in Eugene, Oregon, November 12, following a heart attack.

Born in Chicago, he came with his parents to Southern California in 1920, and resided in Glendale. He was a Iumber buyer for Pope & Talbot, Inc., Lumber Division, at Eugene, at the time of his death. He was with the company for fourteen years, first as a member of the Los Angeles sales staff, later the San Francisco staff, and then as sales representative for two years in the Sacramento Valley-San Joaquin Valley territory when he made his headquarters in Stockton. He had been transferred back to the Los Angeles office prior to going to Eugene.

Surviving are his widow, Mrs. Lillian W. Davis; a daughter, Marlene Workman; his mother, Mrs. Jennie L. Davis; two sisters, Ruth D. Inslee and Myrtle D. Peasley, and a brother, Leonard G. Davis.

Funeral services were held in the Church of the Recessional, Forest Lawn Memorial Park, Glendale, Satttr<Iav a{ternoon. November 16.

Chester ]. Hogue

Chester James Hogue, 71, passed away suddenly at his home in Seattle on November 4.

Born in Portland, he was the son of Harvey A. Hogue, a pioneer Oregon lumberman who operated one of Portland's earliest sawmills. His education was completed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he received degrees in both architecture and civil engineering. In 7917 he joined the staff of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and served as manager of the Portland branch and as New York manager. He had lived in Seattle since 1928, retiring from active service with the Association in January, 1946. Through most of that period Mr. Hogue directed the Association's trade promotion activities and its technical services. He was the author of the "Douglas Fir IJse Book" and was nationally known to the lumber trade and the engineering profession for decades.

Mr. Hogue was a life member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and a member of the American Railway Engineering Association, the American Society of Testing Materials, the American Wood-Preserving Association, and other engineering groups.

lle is survived by his widow, Mrs. Marion L. Hogue, and by two daughters and two grandsons.

C. E. DeCcrmp

Clarence Eastman DeCamp, pioneer California redwood lumberman, first vice president of the Caspar Lumber Company, passed away in San Francisco, November 8 at the age of 87. He had been active in business up to u-ithin a few weeks of his death.

He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1859, and lvas brought to San Francisco by his parents in 18t50. He entered the store of Caspar Lumber Company as clerk in I876. His grandfather, Jacob Green Jackson, rvas the owner. A little later he went to Los Angeles to become a salesman in a retail yard owned by Mr. Jackson at First and Main Streets, one of the three lumber yards in the city at that date.

Mr. DeCamp returned to Caspar, Calif. in 1879 and becanre superintendent of the Caspar Lumber Conlpany in i881. When in Los Angeles he built the first long distance telephone line there, one mile long, in 1879, and. in 188-1 built a railroad for Caspar Lumber Companl', about six miles long, the largest bridge being l4Z feet high and 620 feet long. In 1888 he returned to Los Angeles and operated a retail yard there until 1907, when he sold out and r,vent to San Francisco as first vice president of the Caspar Lumber Company.

Mr. DeCamp was a high Mason-he rvas elected Potentate of Al Malaikah Temple in 1893; a Republican. secretary for many years of the Jonathan Club, Los Angeles, and was a member of the Union League Club, San Francisco.

Private funeral services were held in San Francisco November 9.

George T. Heywcrrd

George T. Heyward, manager of the Willits Lumber Company, Willits, passed away at his home on November 2 following an illness extending over many months.

Mr. Heyward was born at Guerneville, Calif., January 5, 1888. He went to Willits in 1905 and entered the employ of the Northwestern Redwood Co., l'orking under his father, Jesse Heyward, who passed as'af in 1920. On the death of his father, he succeeded him in the post of superintendent of the retail yard of the companr'. He remained in that capacity as long as the Norths'estern Redwood Co. was in business, and later was manager of the succeeding company, the Willits Lumber Company.

He was a member of the Masonic Lodge and Eastern Star. Surviving is his widow, Mrs. Lela Heyward. Funeral services were held in Willits. November 4.

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