. Canadian forest industries January-June 1913. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 35. John Jenness, Ottawa, Ont. Back in His Former Position John Jenness, formerly with the Rathbun Company, Deseron- to, Ont., whose portrait we have pleasure in reproducing herewith, has been appointed to the man- agement of the export trade and the outside trade on doors, sash, blinds, etc., together with the city and outside trade in boxes and box shooks, for the Estate of James Davidson, Ottawa, Ont. Mr. Jenness has had
. Canadian forest industries January-June 1913. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. CANADA LUMBERMAN AND WOODWORKER 35. John Jenness, Ottawa, Ont. Back in His Former Position John Jenness, formerly with the Rathbun Company, Deseron- to, Ont., whose portrait we have pleasure in reproducing herewith, has been appointed to the man- agement of the export trade and the outside trade on doors, sash, blinds, etc., together with the city and outside trade in boxes and box shooks, for the Estate of James Davidson, Ottawa, Ont. Mr. Jenness has had a long ex- perience, especially calculated to fit him for a position such as the one to which he has been newly appointed. He was born in Bos- ton, Mass., and lived there until he reached the age of sixteen years, after which he struck for the west, as it was then called, and got as far as Attica, Mich., where he entered the employ of his uncle, Mr. I. N. Jenness, a well-known lumberman of that place. After a short time in this position he obtained an appointment with W. D. Mershon & Company, Saginaw, Mich., with whom he remained for ten years, doing excellent work and securing a know- ledge of the lumber business, which has enabled him to make a name for himself as one of the most successful men in the management of the sales operations of a large lumber manufacturing and woodwork- ing institution. After remaining with W. B. Mershon & Company for ten years he left them in 1900 to accept a position with the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company, Williams, Arizona, where he looked after the in- terests of W. B. Mershon in that company. Mr. Mershon was at that time secretary-treasurer of the Saginaw & Manistee Lumber Company. Unfortunately Mr. Jenness could not stand the high alti- tude of Williams, Arizona, and ill-health obliged him, after he had only remained there one year, to seek a rest at Los Angeles, Cali- fornia. • After recuperating, Mr. Jenness turned hi
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