[2] Edward Hines, born in Buffalo, New York, in 1863, moved with his family to the Chicago area when he was two years old.

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".

[4] After winning the timber contract, the Hines Company built the 52-mile (84 km) Oregon and Northwestern Railroad between Burns and Seneca.

[7] US LBM Holdings was founded by a private equity firm, BlackEagle Partners, LLC, based in Detroit, Michigan.