1889 W. H. Withrow 372 One of the great lumber-kings of the country.
1918 LIV. 321 Mr. Narcross, of Lowell (the ‘lumber-king’), hit the audience ‘between wind and water’ with a highly valuable array of facts.
1941 Dec. 19/3 They were..Anderton's lumber kings; so nobody minded their smelling strongly of horses, even in the Methodist basement.