Edward Hines Lumber Company
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| Privately held subsidiary | |
| Founded | March 17, 1892 |
| Headquarters | Buffalo Grove, Illinois, United States |
| Products | Building materials |
| Parent | US LBM Holdings, LLC |
| Website | www |
Hines Supply (originally the Edward Hines Lumber Company), based in Buffalo Grove, Illinois, in the United States, is a business firm specializing in lumber, plywood, decking, doors, windows, trim, and other wood products. It also sells related services such as consultations and cost estimates for building projects. It has outlets in Alsip, Grayslake, Hampshire, Kirkland, Montgomery, St. Charles, Warrenville, Wheaton and Buffalo Grove.
Edward Hines, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1863, moved with his family to the Chicago area when he was two years old. Starting work at age 14 as an office boy for the S.K. Martin & Co., a Chicago lumber wholesaler, he became that firm's secretary-treasurer by age 21. In 1892, he started his own company, Edward Hines Lumber Co., and acquired the Martin company three years later. Frederick Weyerhauser, who founded the Weyerhaeuser timber company, became friends with Hines and served as a director of the Hines firm.
Hines, who specialized in large-scale operations, acquired big tracts of standing timber, built rail lines for hauling logs, acquired sawmills in Wisconsin and elsewhere, and leased timber-cutting permits in Canada. One of his larger undertakings involved the Virginia and Rainy Lake Company, a joint venture among Hines and Weyerhauser affiliates that employed 2,800 men and 900 horses to cut and process timber in Canada and northern Minnesota through the late 1920s. Other ventures involved purchase of the Continental Coal Company of West Virginia, timber stands in Mississippi, and a 67,400-acre (27,300 ha) tract in the Malheur National Forest near Burns, Oregon, that held "possibly the largest volume of timber ever sold in the Pacific Northwest".
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