lX4."B. ('Wt.Lt') \(/ickersham

over the McCormick lumber interests, Wickersham'w€flt'fr:ght along, and in 1935 he was m.ade District M4nager of their Lumber Division covering Southern California, which position he held until the time of his voluntary retirement on September 3fth.

It should be told of M.r. Wickershbm that the high light of his business career was his pioneering of creosoted lumber and other wooden items in Southern California. At the time he started introducing these treated, materials to the retail lumber trade, treated wood was entirely unknown io the bulk of lumber dealers, and they had to fe convinced. He built a tremendous volume of this line of business,,and even to thib day his record sales for creos'oted and'otherwise treated wood, challenges comparison. His greatest busiriess success by far, was along this line of endeavor.

A famous old popular song says that""A good man is hard to find."

Effective October first a certain good man-a very good man-is going to be hard to find in the lumber business for the first time in 34 years. ,IIis name is W. B. Wickersham. He retired from business on the last day of September, still fairly young, still in rugged health and able 'to enjoy his de: clining years to the fullest.

He has been District Manager of the Lumber Division of Pope & Talbot, Inc., in I-os Angeles, since 1935. He was with this concern and its predecessor lor 34 years. In fact, his entire lumber career has been with these excellent people.

He graduated from Purdue University in 1909, and came to Southern California two years later. In i916 he started in the lumber business as boqkkeeper for the San Pedro Stevedqring Compar-ry, which was the dock operating end of Chas. R. McCormick & Company. One year later John Olson, Sales Manager for McCormick, recognized the friend-making possibilities of the youthful Wickersham, and started him selling lumber in Los Angeles territory. After a few years this concern put him to specializing, concentrating his efforts on th€ sale and prqmotion of creosoted material to the railroad and public utility industries. When Pope & Talbot, Inc., took

His fult name is William Bailey Wickersharn. But to.the lumber industry in general as well as to his multitude of personal'friends he has always been familiarly and.affectionately known as "Wick." About thirty years ago he beqame interested in Hoo-I{oo, and from that day on he was a stalwart, helpful, working member of the Order. He put into it that spendid type of friendliness and character that makes him a man among men, and it broadened and deepened his legion of friends in the lumber industry. At times he served as Snark of the Los Angeles district, as well as President of the Los Angeles Hoo-Hoo Club, and always he was one of the willing workers so necessary to the up-kbep. of Hoo-Hoo.

He is a Mason, a member of the l-os Angeles Athletic Club, one of the trustees of \Mhittier College, at Whittier, California, and from 1944 to 1949 he was head of the'American Friends Service Committee, handling a relief program both locally and abroad. ' i' lncorporaled

-He makes his home in Whittier, where he has an avocado grove, and from this time on he is going to take it easy, raise avocados, and devote himself in his quiet-way to serving his fellow man. No finer, more high-mindedlChristian gentle' man ever worked in the lumber indus(1y. For 34 years his work, his character, and his manner of living, reflected the highest credit on himself, his ernployers, and the lurnber industry.

The good will and best wishes of all who know him in the lumber industry go with him in his new life. Able, honorable, useful, lovable men.like '1Wick" are .scarce. Therefore his retirement from active btisiness is entitled to more than passing mention.

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