John L. Todd . ..

One of the best known and respected men in any branch of the lumber industry in California is John L. Todd, president of the Western Door & Sash Co., Oakland, Calif. It is with pleasure that The California Lumber Merchant presents a brief sketch of the business career of this pioneer of the West, who celebrated his 9fth birthday on June 10,1944, and, is still actively engaged in business.

He was born on a farm in Sullivan County, Missouri, and came to Tacoma in 1889, where he established a sawmill. He remained there until 1897, and during the last years of this period also operated a planing mill and sash and door business. He returned to the East in 1897 and, having had considerable experience in this line, traveled for the wholesale hardware firm of Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. of Chicago in the Colorado and New Mexico territory until 1903. He returned to Tacoma and again engaged in the sash,