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1. Shay No. 11 Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

2. Train Wreck in Nicholas County Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Group portrait of men sitting on a wooden bench.<br />

3. Logging Camp Crew of Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

Bergoo, West Virginia; Lumber company building beside train tracks.<br /><br />

4. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Prior to Conversion to Electricity

Logs and lumber piles seen from a distance.

5. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company Mill Yard, Bergoo, W. Va.

A Pardee and Curtin Company operation.

6. Cutting Bridge Stringers for a Logging Railroad

Pardee and Curtain Lumber operation. This tree, possibly a redwood, was used to build the Titanic. More info from Comstock's "Of Times Past", 1949.  Cut from Cuppernick ? Bend near Curtin, Nicholas County.

7. Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.

Possibly a redwood tree used in building the "Titanic". Harvested by the Pardee and Curtin Lumber Co.The man on the left is John Harvey Reid.

8. Loggers Posing in Front of Giant Tree Near Curtin, Nicholas County, W. Va.

Pardee and Curtin Logging Company

9. Scenic View of a Shay Locomotive and Fully Loaded Log Carts on a Bridge Over the Cherry River in Nicholas County, W. Va.

10. Lumber Mill at Curtin, W. Va. Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

11. Boom Piers and Logs for Sutton Mill, Pardee and Curtin Lumber Company

The logger identified in this image, John Hinkle was born August 23, 1856 in Braxton County, W. Va. and later moved to Webster County where he married his wife Eliza Ann Anderson on August 19,1876.  They established their home on Holly River, which would later be known as Wheeler.  John Hinkle was reported to have been a businessman, farmer, jeweler, and photographer.  He also started a general store, A.J. Hinkle and Son, in Wheeler, and was Postmaster at Wheeler Post Office from 1905 until 1913 when his son, Perry, succeeded him.  John Hinkle died October 8, 1930 in Webster County, W. Va. and is buried at the Alexander Anderson Cemetery.(source: genealogy research of Sherry P. Gallagher-Jaffre)

12. Logger, John Hinkle, Posing with a Large Poplar Log Near the Holly River, Webster County, W. Va.