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616-617.

	FRANK A. MARTIN:  Frank A. Martin, who succeeded his 
older brother, George R. Martin, deceased, as president of the H. 
H. Martin Lumber Company and still occupies that position, was 
born in Wisconsin in 1870 and was a youth of nineteen years at the 
time of the removal of the family from Chippewa Falls to 
Washington.  He had acquired his education in the schools of his 
native state and had also had a limited experience there in connection 
with the lumber trade.  Attracted by the virgin forests of the Pacific 
coast, the family came to Centralia in 1889 and purchased the 
lumber mill of Gilchrist Brothers, which was established in the early 
'80s and is one of the oldest mills of Lewis county.  Since that 
period Frank A. Martin has been continuously and actively 
connected with the business.  With its incorporation in 1896 the firm 
name was changed from H. H. Martin and Sons to H. H. Martin 
Lumber Company, the father, H. H. Martin, becoming president, 
with his son, George R. Martin, as vice president and Frank A. 
Martin as secretary and treasurer.  The father continued as president 
of the company until his death in 1902 and the position is now being 
capably filled by Frank A. Martin, who is proving an excellent 
exectuive head, forceful and resourceful in this line.  His training 
under his father's direction has been thorough and his experience 
has been broad.  With the passing years the business has been 
developed until the orginal plant, with a capacity of forty thousand 
feet, has been increased until the daily output is one hundred 
thousand feet of lumber.  Since the death of H. H. Martin his 
widow, Mrs. Esther M. Martin, has been vice president of the 
company and her daughter, Miss Kate E. Martin, secretary and 
treasurer.  On the 1st of May, 1903, a disastrous fire occurred 
which destroyed the old mill.  A larger one was at once rebuilt and 
the business has continued on a greater scale than before.  The 
company maintains its own logging camps eight miles to the north 
and west of Centralia and eight men are now employed in the 
camps.  In addition to the lumber mill a shingle mill has been 
continuously operated and now has a capacity of one hundred and 
seventy-five thousand shingles, with an equipment of five 
machines.  The company built a logging road ten miles in length and 
they have three engines for operation on the road and eight donkey 
engines used in logging.  The timber land owned by the company is 
underlaid with lignite and semi-bituminous coal and it is the 
intention of Mr. Martin to engage extensively in mining at some time 
in the near future.  The property holdings, on account of the timber 
and coal, are immensely valuable.  In addition to the lumber and 
shingle mills there is a dry kiln with a capacity of forty thousand 
feet, while the planing mill has a capacity of eighty thousand feet of 
lumber per day.  The mill and yards cover thirty acres of ground and 
the annual pay roll adds immensely to the prosperity of the city.  An 
important department of the business is the manufacture of cross 
arms.  In addition to his other interests, Mr. Martin as extensive 
property holdings.
	In 1906 Mr. Martin was united in marriage to Miss Mellie 
M. Hubbard, a daughter of Francis B. Hubbard, of Centralia, and 
they now have one daughter, Geraldine.  Their home is one of the 
beautiful and attactive residences of Centralia and is the center of a 
cultured society circle.  The name of Martin has ever been a 
synonym for progressiveness in community affairs since the family 
arrived in Washington and Frank A. Martin gives active and 
generous support to all movements for the public good.  He has 
long been an active member of the Commercial Club and is in hearty 
sympathy with its purposes to upbuild the city and extend its trade 
relations.  He is a member of the Benevolent Protective Order of 
Elks and the Masonic fraternity, having taken the thirty-second 
degree of the Scottish Rite.  He gives his political allegiance to the 
republican party and in 1911 represented his district in the state 
legislature, where his father had some years before made a creditable 
record.


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