Search Results: the timber tycoons the camp families by rouse parke

1988 green hardcover & DJ in very good+ condition; slight wear to covers, good binding, no marks inside. US media mail only for shipping. For foreign shipping use Biblio Export Center.
The Timber Tycoons is the story of Paul D. Robert and James L. Camp, who devoted their loves to Virginia enterprises and their three brothers who simultaneously established lumbering, phosphate, citrus, and road-building material businesses in central Florida. They were William N. Camp of Ocala, Dr. Benjamin Franklin Camp of White Springs, and John Stafford Camp. The sons of the Camp brothers' two sisters, Mary Eliza Williams of Franklin, and Sarah Virginia "Jenny" Norfleet of Newberry, Florida, also worked for Camp enterprises. Prominent in the story are the wives and daughters who contributed much to the family's success. The sons of the Civil War-era George and Sallie Cutchins Camp were careful to choose able wives, who shared their work ethic, their family consciousness, and their austere Calvinism. Big people… Read More

Southampton County Historical Society, William Byrd Press, c.1988, 1st., 8vo., cloth, VG/VG $

Published for the Southampton County Historical Society by the William Byrd Press, 1988. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Richmond: Published for The Southampton County Historical Society, Courtland, Virginia by The William Byrd Press, (1988). First Edition. Signed by the author. Octavo, green cloth, vii, [iii[, 296, [56 photographic plates] pp. Map endpapers. Fine.

Courtland,VA: Southampton County Historical Society, (1988). First Edition. Hardcover. Very good/good. 296p plus numerous pages of photos, octavo, illustrated. A very good copy in a bit wavy dust jacket