Bloedel, Prentice "Bing"

BLOEDEL, Prentice "Bing," lumberman (b 1900, Bellingham, WA; d 15 June 1996, Seattle, WA). After graduating from Yale Univ he intended to become a schoolteacher but instead entered the family logging business at his father's request. He began work at BLOEDEL, STEWART & WELCH, one of the largest logging/sawmilling companies on the BC coast, in 1929 and was president from 1942 to 1951. The company merged in 1951 with the H.R. MacMILLAN Export Co to form the timber giant MacMILLAN BLOEDEL LTD. He...

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