A llfetry Ghristmas and A Happy New Yeat

One of the best known and liked men in the lumber and shipping industry of this country is A. B. Johnson, Sr., who is still active, and is to be found daily at the office of the A. B. Johnson Lumber Company, in the Fife Building, 1 Drumm Street, San Francisco.

Mr. Johnson came to Portland March 1, 1886, from Minnesota, where he was raised on a farm. His father and mother had come from Sweden and settled in Minnesota in 1852. He started in the lumber business driving a lumber team in Portland, but after three months was clerking in the retail lumber yard of Wilson Brothers. He went to San Francisco in 1888 from Grays Harbor to sell the lumber manufactured by Wilson Brothers in Aberdeen; became a junior partner in the firm on January 1, 1889, and continued with them until 1918, rvhen the partnership 'ivas dissolved.

In 7921 Mr. Johnson organized the A. B. Johnson Lumber Company in San Francisco, a partnership consisting of his wife, his son, A. B. (Bert) Johnson, Jr., and himself'

Mr. Johnson superintended the construction of six sailing vessels up to 1898, when steam vessels began to be used. Between 1898 and 1926 Wilson Brothers and A. B, Johnson built seven steamers. The Esther Johnson, built by Mr. Johnson, was the last rvooden lumber steamer constructed on the Pacific Coast. Later his company bought two coasting steamers. Mr. Johnson rvill be 82 next February.

Scwmill Burns

The mill of Calvin-Richardson-Finley at Williams, Ore., 'ivas recently destroyed by fire.