Cowlitz County WA Archives Biographies.....Smith, Jr., Burton Howard November 4, 1891 - 
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Source: History of the Columbia River Valley From The Dalles to the Sea, Vol. III, Published 1928, Pages 71-72
Author: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company

     BURTON H. SMITH, JR., assistant general manager of the Longview division 
of the Long-Bell Lumber Company, is particularly well qualified by long 
experience for the position which he holds and he commands the uniform respect 
of all who are associated with him. Mr. Smith was born at Curtis, Frontier 
county, Nebraska, November 4, 1891, and is a son of Burton Hayes and Ida May 
(Emerson) Smith. His father, who is of English descent, was born in Chicago, 
Illinois, June 17, 1866, was with the Long-Bell Lumber Company for twenty-six 
years in Kansas City, Missouri, Indian territory and Louisiana, but is now 
retired and lives at Atascadero, California. His wife, who resides in 
Longview, Washington, was born in Mendota, Illinois, November 17, 1866. Her 
family was established in New England in colonial days and one of its 
illustrious members was Ralph Waldo Emerson, the essayist. Several members of 
the family participated in the war of the Revolution.

     Burton H. Smith, Jr., received his early education in the public schools 
of Bonami, Beauregard county, Louisiana, completing his studies in Racine 
(Wis.) College, from which he was graduated in 1911. In that year he entered 
the employ of the Long-Bell Lumber company, working at Bonami and Longville, 
Louisiana, for awhile and was then transferred to the retail yard at 
Coffeyville, Kansas. Later he was made superintendent of the company's mill at 
Quitman, Mississippi, and from there was sent as general manager to Ludington, 
Louisiana. In 1923 he was transferred to Washington as assistant general 
manager of the Longview division, and has immediate charge of the East unit, 
which comprises the largest single sawmill plant in the world. This mill, in 
which two thousand men are employed, has seventy acres under roof, and has a 
daily capacity of two million feet of lumber.

     On December 25, 1915, in San Diego, California, Mr. Smith was united in 
marriage to Miss Esther Charlotte Anderson, who was born in that city December 
18, 1893. Her father, Julius Anderson, who is a native of Sweden, came to the 
United States in the '80s, locating at San Diego, and in 1887 established the 
San Diego Steam Laundry, which he still owns and operates. His wife, Helen, 
who also was a native of Sweden, died December 24, 1918. Mrs. Smith graduated 
from the San Diego high school, after which she attended Miss Barnard's school 
for kindergarten training at Berkeley, California. Mr. Smith gives his 
political support to the republican party and while living at Ludington, 
Louisiana, served one year as jury commissioner. He is a member of the 
American Legion at Longview, and was the first president of the Longview Young 
Men's Christian Association, which has in its building and equipment here an 
investment of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Mr. and Mrs. 
Smith are communicants of the Protestant Episcopal church. In 1917 Mr. Smith 
entered the first officers training camp at Fort Logan H. Roots, Little Rock, 
Arkansas, but was rejected for minor physical defects. He has applied himself 
closely to the duties of his responsible position and is regarded as one of 
the most valuable employees of the Long-Bell Company, while in the civic 
affairs of the community he has been an effective factor in the promotion of 
the public welfare. Progressive in his ideas, loyal and true to every 
obligation of citizenship, and cordial and friendly in his social relations, 
he has won and retains a high place in the esteem and good will of the people 
of the community.

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