ROBINSON, CHARLES P. -
has figured conspicuously in the lumber circles of South
Carolina over a quarter of a century. He is vice president and
manager and founder of the Southern Wholesale Lumber Company
with manufacturing plant and headquarters at Columbia.
Mr.
Robinson was born in Tyler County, West Virginia, April 24, 1867. He
had a public school education and in early life went into the lumber
woods and acquired a practical knowledge of the lumber business from
the cutting of the trees through the operation of saw mills to the
general distribution of the product. He has been a resident of South
Carolina since 1895, and for several years operated mills in
different sections of the state. He organized in 1917 the Southern
Wholesale Lumber Company, of which he is vice president and general
manager. This company manufactures large quantities of South
Carolina lumber and also deals in lumber products brought from many
sources.
Mr. Robinson in private life is well known as a
temperance worker, is active in the First Presbyterian Church and
one of the teachers in the Sunday school. August 18, 1891, he
married Eddie S. Smithson of Virginia.
[History of South Carolina,
By Yates Snowden, Harry Gardner Cutler, 1920 - Transcribed by C.
Anthony]
