. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XIII. \ Number 5. / TORONTO, OIST., MfVY, 1892 /Te, t Sin GHf\Rf\GTER SKETCH. HON. J. KEWLEY WARD. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.' âProverbs of Solomon. TT comes to comparatively few men to recount the *â achievements of half a century in one particular line of work. Gladstone is a notable exception in the walks of the statesman; Yon Moltke in military affairs; and the late Cardinal Manning
. Canadian forest industries 1892-1893. Lumbering; Forests and forestry; Forest products; Wood-pulp industry; Wood-using industries. m CANADA LUMBERMAN Volume XIII. \ Number 5. / TORONTO, OIST., MfVY, 1892 /Te, t Sin GHf\Rf\GTER SKETCH. HON. J. KEWLEY WARD. "Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings.' âProverbs of Solomon. TT comes to comparatively few men to recount the *â achievements of half a century in one particular line of work. Gladstone is a notable exception in the walks of the statesman; Yon Moltke in military affairs; and the late Cardinal Manning in the work of the Church. Years have been added unto years in their individual callings. We tell in the following lines the life story of Hon. J. K. Ward, of Montreal, now at the age of seventy- three years, who has spent fifty-six of these as a lum- berman. Mr. J. Kewley Ward was born in the Isle of Man, in 1819, of English and Manx parents. His course in life, as after events have proven, was shaped when, at an early age, he was apprenticed to the trade of carpenter and joiner. Having completed his tenure of apprentice- ship he spent a year in England working at his trade. In 1842, now fifty years ago, he emigrated to the United States. For a time after his arrival in the new world, he wandered around to some extent, engaging with energy and faithfulness in any honorable work that came in his way. In I845 he located in Troy, , securing a posi- tion in a planing mill, owned by the late John Gibson, of Albany, It was there that he obtained his first experience in handling lumber, a branch of business in which in after years he was to occupy a conspicuous position. At the end of three years he entered into busi- ness on his own account by renting from the owner the mill in which he had given three years of faithful ser- vice. It was a plucky undertaking for the young man, but he rose equal to the occasion. From boyhood Mr. Ward had tasted of the sweets of labor. Work
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