Ralph hired him and Bob became the Manager of the store (1948-1958). Bob was a bomber pilot in WWII and happened to meet Ralph Carhart while in Wayne visiting the Casper family (Wayne dentist) whose daughter he married (Dorothy Casper). He returned to Carhart Lumber and managed the Neligh yard until John Carhart moved him to Wayne as General Manager of the Company.Ī manager who helped to shape the operations and success of the Wayne store in the post WWII period was Bob Harrison. He was established in Pierce when the United States entered WWII and was called up by Uncle Sam to serve as an officer aboard ship in the Navy until war’s end. Roy graduated from the University of Nebraska and was raised in a lumberyard family in Blair. Roy Christensen was brought to the company just before WWII in 1939. His primary gift to the Carhart family was his expertise in the construction of any wood farm buildings. The companies were incorporated in 1936 with Wayne as the corporate headquarters.Ĭarl Lueders was a key personality who shaped the pre-WWII form of the Wayne yard. ![]() Yards were purchased at Randolph, Pierce, Hartington, and Plainview. Charles looked around the area and began to branch the lumber company by purchasing yards owned by larger multi-yard companies who were operating on leverage and were ready to sell stores to raise cash. The 1930’s arrived with more trying circumstances. The 1920’s were a rewarding period for the Lumber Company. did estimating, accounting, and advertising with Charles. ![]() Ralph, Braden, Benjamin were involved with sales and John C. Carhart who had been studying engineering at the University of Illinois at Champaign, IL. In 1921 the two Carhart families purchased a lumber yard in Wayne, NE at 105 Main Street from Franklin Philleo and John Harington and established Carhart Lumber Co.Ĭharles and his son Ralph and Charles’ brother Benjamin with his son John Braden Carhart began operating the lumber yard and were joined in 1923 by John C. The hardware business was sold in 1919 to Lloyd McNatt and was operated by two generations of the McNatt family. After Charles located in Wayne, his brother Benjamin joined in and they operated a hardware store on the east side of Main Street between 2nd and 3rd Streets and then opened a second hardware store in Emerson, NE. Charles E Carhart arrived in Wayne, Nebraska in 1910 from Canton, South Dakota where he had lived for one year.
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