lumberman
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See -man.
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Origin of lumberman
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Soliciting investment from a wealthy Port Blakely lumberman, Capt. William Renton, he founded the Renton Coal Mine, soon providing right of way for the nascent Seattle-Walla Walla Railroad.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 27, 2023
Her father, Joshua Coleman, had farmed and worked as a lumberman, and, in the 1930s, was employed at the local upmarket resort, the Greenbrier.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 24, 2020
And the street where 9-year-old George Weyerhaeuser, son of a prominent lumberman, was kidnapped in 1935.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 25, 2016
Born in Harrison, Ark., on May 4, 1922, he was the son of Arthur Hammerschmidt, a lumberman, and the former Junie Taylor, a homemaker.
From New York Times ● Apr. 2, 2015
The children continued to pick up a few nuts at a time, but there were not so many scattered over the ground as the lumberman had led them to expect.
From The Bobbsey Twins at Cedar Camp by Hope, Laura Lee
In this once working-class city of lumbermen and Boeing machinists, the median home price is now $535,000, a 19 percent increase since March 2014, and bidding wars are common.
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2015
Local trade and craft guilds, from lumbermen to haberdashers, marked territory and sharpened rivalries.
From New York Times ● Jul. 4, 2013
Latest case in point is that of the Pacific Northwest's softwood lumber industry, which has been losing its traditional East Coast markets at a spectacular rate to Canadian lumbermen in British Columbia.
From Time Magazine Archive
According to Harrison Ngau, a Sarawak native being held under house arrest for taking part in antilogging protests, some forests have been excised from protected lands to open them up to the lumbermen.
From Time Magazine Archive
Callow had been a logger in his younger years, and like most lumbermen he believed that cedar was only good for making shakes and shingles.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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