“George X. Wendling was born in New York September 12, 1861. Away back in his family tree is a trace of French blood, though it is so remote that Mr. Wendling rightly claims to be what is commonly termed a “Yankee.” His parents moved to Keokuk, Iowa, in 1864, where he grew up and attended the common schools. His lumber experience dates from the time when he was fifteen years of age. He had not acquired much of an education when he entered the employ of the C. W. Goodlander Lumber Company in one of its retail yards at Weir City, eastern Kansas, of which George E. Ware was manager. He worked about the yard and in the office for three years and then became assistant manager of the retail yard of the Long-Bell Lumber Company at Cherryvale, Kansas, where Mr. Ware was manager, …”

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American Lumbermen, Vol. 3, 1906, pages 77-8