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(II) Pardon (4), son of Elder Pardon (3) and Lydia (Taber) Tillinghast, was born in Providence, Rhode Island, February 16, 1668, died in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, 1743. He was a deputy in 1702-04-06-08-14-19-20- 22-25. From 1705 to 1710 he was justice of the peace. He left an estate of three thousand pounds ; to the Baptist church he left twenty- five pounds "Towards defraying the necessary charge in spreading the Gospel." He married (first) Mary Keech. Children : Mary Philip, John, Joseph and Mercy. He married (sec- ond) March 25, 1699, Sarah Ayers. Child, Pardon, of whom further.
(III) Pardon (5), son of Pardon (4) and Sarah (Ayers) Tillinghast, was born at East Greenwich, Rhode Island. He married Avis, daughter of Benjamin and Avis Norton. Chil- dren: Pardon, of whom further; William, married Sarah Holmes; Martha, married Ben- jamin Slucum ; Avis, married James Carpenter.
(IV) Pardon (6), son of Pardon (5) and Avis (Norton) Tillinghast, married Abigail, daughter of John and Isabel Rogers. Chil- dren : Mary, married John B. Mumford ; Abby, married Rev. Caleb Greene, a minister of the Baptist church; Martha, of whom further; Pardon, married Elizabeth -; William,
married Elizabeth Champlin; John, married Mary Ann Sanford.
(V) Martha, daughter of Pardon (6) and Abigail ( Rogers) Tillinghast, married Charles Russell, of New Bedford, Massachusetts Chil- dren: Mary, died July 26, 1862, married Dr. Peter Van O'Linda; Martha, died November 15, 1845, married James Allen; John Somer ; Abby, of whom further.
(VI) Abby, daughter of Charles and Mar- tha ( Tillinghast) Russell, was born May 5, 1799, died December 29, 1833. She married Alexander Campbell. Child, Isabel Rogers.
(VII) Isabel Rogers, daughter of Alex- ander and Abby (Russell) Campbell, married Charles Henry Lay (see Lay III).
CYPHERT The immigrant ancestor of the present family is said to have come from Holland, which points to a Dutch or German origin of this family. The name is a very uncommon one. Yet there is a similar German name. Among English surnames we find the following, ap- parently all rare, which may well be equivalent one to another and each to the present name: Cypher, Sypher and Syfert. On the whole, a German origin seems to us the most probable for the present family.
(I) Philip Cyphert, the founder of this fam- ily, was born in Holland, and died in Berks county, Pennsylvania. In that county he had settled after his coming into the colonies. It is not known whom he married, but he is known to have had ten children, and among these was Anthony, of whom further.
(II) Anthony, son of Philip Cyphert, was born in Berks county, Pennsylvania, in 1789, died in Limestone township, Clarion county. Pennsylvania, in 1873. Here he had settled in 1825, and he had a farm of four hundred acres. He married, in Westmoreland county. Pennsylvania, Mary, born in Westmoreland county, Pennsylvania, in 1788, died in 1882, daughter of Jacob Ringle. Her father had come from England to Philadelphia, and he spent his last days in Berks county. Children : James, deceased ; John, deceased ; Solomon, de- ceased; Thomas B., of whom further; Wil- liam, deceased; David K .; Caroline, married Louis Barr, lives at Brookville, Pennsylvania ; Nancy, deceased, married Joseph Reinsel, also deceased, and they lived in Clarion county.
(III) Thomas B., son of Anthony and Mary (Ringle) Cyphert, was born in Westmoreland
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county, Pennsylvania, February 13, 1829, died in March, 1909. He was a farmer. While he supported the Democratic party, he never sought office. He and his wife were members of the Methodist Protestant church. He mar- ried Jane, born in Clarion county, Pennsyl- vania, March 15, 1830, died in 1907, daughter of Robert and Jane (English) Allison (see Allison IV). Children : Son, died in infancy ; Jane, deceased; David Harvey ; Wilmer Reid, of whom further; Boyd Allison; Hugh Bur- ton; Mary May, married Warren F. Snyder, lives in Limestone, Clarion county, Pennsyl- vania.
(IV) Wilmer Reid, son of Thomas B. and Jane (Allison) Cyphert, was born in Lime- stone township, Clarion county, Pennsylvania, July 18, 1864. He was brought up on a farm. Beside receiving a common school education, he studied at Corsica Academy, at a business college at Titusville, and at the Clarion State Normal School. For thirteen terms he taught school, and for six years he was clerk in a store in Limestone township. On January 1, 1909, he was appointed commission clerk of Clarion county, and he was reappointed January I, 1912, to hold office for a term of four years. For nine years he was school director in Lime- stone township. He is a member of the Free and Accepted Masons and of the Order of United American Mechanics, both of the senior and of the junior order. Mr. Cyphert is a Democrat. He is a member of the Methodist Protestant church.
(The Allison Line).
(I) Robert Allison, the first of the line here under consideration, came from Ireland to Bedford county, Pennsylvania. The family were from Scotland, but Robert emigrated from Ireland in 1750. He met his wife, Beckie Beard, on board ship coming over and they were married in 1752. They later removed to Indiana county, Pennsylvania. They had among other children, Fate, of whom further. (II) Fate, son of Robert and Beckie (Beard) Allison, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania, and settled in what is now Clarion county in 1800. He was one of the pioneers to venture into this region and did much to build up and have it made a county. He married Polly Henry. Children: Beckie ; Sallie; Robert, of whom further; Henry ; John; Jane; Nancy ; Thomas ; Mary ; Fate.
(III) Robert (2), son of Fate and Polly
(Henry) Allison, was born in Indiana county, Pennsylvania. He removed in 1800 to what is now Clarion county with his father. He married, in 1820, Jane English. Children : Mary; Beckie; David; Elizabeth; Robert; Jane, of whom further; Fate; Sarah; Harvey ; Thomas.
(IV) Jane, daughter of Robert (2) and Jane (English) Allison, was born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, March 15, 1830, died in 1907. She married Thomas B. Cyphert (see Cyphert III).
FURMAN Many at least of the Foremans, Formans and Furmans in this country are descended from Robert Forman, who was one of the original patentees of Flushing, Long Island, in 1645. He had gone to England from Holland, where he was a member of the congregation at Vlis- singen ( Flushing), and thence he came to New York; he died in 1671. From him are prob- ably descended the Furmans of Mercer county, New Jersey. At some time before the middle of the eighteenth century, Richard Furman came from Long Island to Lawrenceville, Mer- cer county, New Jersey, and he died in 1752. Jonathan has been quite a common name among the New Jersey Furmans. In Cooley's "Early Settlers of Trenton and Ewing," there is an account of the Furman family there, and there are two Jonathans named, whose de- scendants are not traced, and either of whom may have lived at the right time; one of these was son of Richard, he of Jonathan, he of the Richard with whom Cooley's account begins, and this Jonathan Furman may well have been the Jonathan Furman, of whom further.
(I) Jonathan Furman, the first member of this family about whom we have certain infor- mation, was born in New Jersey, and died in Clarion township, Clarion county, Pennsyl- vania, in 1862. He was drafted into the war of 1812, and served three months at Marcus Hook, near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He settled in Northumberland county, Pennsyl- vania, but removed to Clarion township in 1825. He married Sarah Howe, born in Phila- delphia, died in 1852 or 1853. Children : Wil- liam, died young; Nathan, of whom further; Hannalı, deceased; Elisha, deceased; Samuel, deceased; Jane, deceased ; Pamelia, deceased ; John, deceased; Sarah, deceased; Ambrose, deceased ; Clara, deceased.
(II) Nathan, son of Jonathan and Sarah
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(llowe) Furman, was born in Northumber- land county, Pennsylvania, in 1805, died July 13, 1888. Having received a common school education in Northumberland county, and hav- ing come with his parents to Clarion county, he became a farmer and lumberman. He was an expert at hewing. In his earlier life he was a Whig, afterward a Republican. He was a member of the Baptist church. He married Isabella, born in Mifflin county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1805, died January 13, 1893, daugh- ter of William and (Walker ) Long- well. Both her parents died in Mifflin county, wherein her father was an early settler. Their oldest son, Matthew, came to Clarion county, and died near Concord church, Perry town- ship, lacking less than two months of being one hundred and one years of age. All the chil- dren, of whom there were thirteen, lived to advanced ages. Children of Nathan and Isa- bella (Longwell) Furman: Alonzo Baldwin, of whom further; Clementine, born May 13, 1838, married W. S. Love, of Jefferson county, Pennsylvania, and they have five living chil- dren ; William Wallace, born August 10, 1841, died February 25, 1865, enlisted, in 1861. in Company H, Eighth Pennsylvania Reserves, an 1 died in the war.
(III) Alonzo Baldwin, son of Nathan and Isabella (Longwell) Furman, was born in Clarion township, Pennsylvania, August 4, 1836. He was brought up on a farm, and edu- cated at Strattanville, and at public school at Clarion, to which place his father had removed in 1847. Since 1859 he has resided at Strat- tanville, and he is a blacksmith and machinist. Since 1856, when he cast his first presidential vote for John C. Fremont, he has always been a Republican. At Strattanville he has served on the council, and he has been for a number of years a member of the school board. From 1858 he has been a member of the Baptist church at Strattanville, and he helped in get- ting out the lumber to build the First Baptist Church. He married (first) March 22, 1859, Ann Catherine, born in Clarion county, Penn- sylvania, March 22, 1839, died March 15, 1906, daughter of John and Ellenor (Clough) Lowry. Her father had come, with two brothers, William and Hugh, from Union county, Pennsylvania, at an early time, and all died in Clarion county. Mr. Furman married (second) September, 1906, Anna Wonsettler, a widow, born in Fairfield township, Colum- biana county, Ohio, March 26, 1856. Children,
all by first wife: James Lowry, born January 14, 1860, died April 25, 1868; Samuel Kerney, May 1, 1862; Ellen Isabel, October 11, 1865, dicd May 25, 1892; Mary Clemtine, March 15, 1867, married David R. Whitehill; John Charles, November 8, 1868; Hiram Carrier, August 8, 1872; Sarah Elizabeth, May 16, 1876, died March 2, 1904: Cassius Emerson, July 30, 1880.
MEALS Americans are beginning to real- ize the moral as well as the his- torical significance of genealog- ical foundations. A nation which relies upon the record of its homes for its national char- acter, cannot afford to ignore the value of genealogical investigation as one of the truest sources of patriotism. The love of home in- spires the love of country. There is a whole- some influence in genealogical research which cannot be over-estimated. Moreover there is a deep human interest to it.
(I) The Meals family of Pennsylvania is of staunch German extraction, the original progenitor of the name in America having been Samuel Meals, who was born in Baden Baden, on the river Rhine in Germany, and who came to this country in the early colonial days. He located first in York, Pennsylvania, and in 1795 settled in Westmoreland county. Still later he removed to Butler county, where he plied his trade as a blacksmith and where he was likewise a prominent Indian trader. He married a Miss Richardt and they became the parents of six children : George; Samuel, died in Butler county, Pennsylvania; William ; Margaret, married George Daubenspeck, and resided in Butler county, Pennsylvania ; Jacob ; Daniel, of whom further.
(II) Daniel, youngest child of Samuel and - ( Richardt ) Meals, was born in eastern Pennsylvania. He accompanied his father to Butler county prior to 1801. He became a successful farmer and at one time owned a well improved estate of one hundred and six acres. He died during the period of the civil war of typhoid fever. In politics he was a Republican, and both he and his wife were de- vout Lutherans in their religious faith. He married Catherine Studabaker ; children : Sam- uel, of whom further; Mary M., married Michael Turney, of Clarion, both deceased ; Margaret, married (first ) James Campbell, and (second) Jacob Daubenspike ; David, died in the '6os of typhoid fever ; Joseph, married
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Mary Pettigrew, he froze to death near Hil- liards, Butler county, Pennsylvania.
(III) Dr. Samuel (2) Meals, son of Daniel and Catherine (Studabaker) Meals, was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania. As a young man he began to study medicine in the office of Dr. Joseph Eggert, of Butler county, Penn- sylvania, and subsequently he attended a course of lectures in the Western Reserve Uni- versity at Cleveland. He initiated the active practice of his profession in Butler county, Pennsylvania, where he resided until August, 1859, when he removed to Callensburg, where he maintained his home and office until death called him, October 8, 1884. He controlled a large and lucrative patronage in Callensburg and the country normally adjacent thereto, and in connection with the work of his profession was a valued and appreciative member of the Clarion County Medical Society and the Penn- sylvania State Medical Society. He wrote a great amount of valuable medical literature, none of which was ever published, but which is a great help to his son in his research work. In his political convictions he was a stalwart Re- publican, and he and his wife were devout members of the Presbyterian church.
Dr. Samuel Meals married Hannah, daugh- ter of William and Elizabeth Emery, who were natives of Newcastle, Pennsylvania, whence they removed to Butler county about 1832. Mr. Emery was a farmer by occupation. There were six children in the Emery family: I. Robert, was a valiant soldier in the civil war ; he was a carpenter and farmer; died in Fair- view, Pennsylvania. 2. Nancy, widow of James Blaine and lives in Newcastle. 3. Sebastian, twin of Nancy, removed to California in the '5os and is thought to be living there still. 4. Mary, widow of John Hartzell; she lives in Sunbury, Pennsylvania. 5. Joseph, a Method- ist minister, and although past eighty years of age is still preaching in California. 6. Hannah, became the wife of Dr. Samuel Meals, as already noted. Children of Dr. Samuel and Hannah (Emery) Meals: 1. Dr. Nelson M., of whom further. 2. Margaret, wife of Walker Pollock; they live near Callensburg, Pennsyl- vania. 3. Catherine, married William Stoner, a blacksmith in Clinton county, Pennsylvania. 4. Clara, married (first) James French, and (second) Albert Jamison, of Canton, Ohio. 5. Emma, wife of W. L. Elliott, of Clarion county, Pennsylvania. 6. Ella, was the wife of Professor W. A. Beer at the time of her
demise ; he resides in Oregon. 7. Lottie, wife of Joseph Cochran; they maintain their home in Parkersburg, West Virginia. 8. Samuel W., superintendent of the Carnegie Gas Company in Moundsville, West Virginia.
(IV) Dr. Nelson Monroe Meals, son of Dr. Samuel (2) and Hannah (Emery) Meals, was born in Butler county, Pennsylvania, April 6, 1848. In January, 1859, he removed with his parents to Callensburg where he was edu- cated in the common schools, and in Western Reserve University, in the medical department of which he was graduated as a member of the class of 1874 with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. After graduation he returned to his home state and settled in Callensburg, where he has since resided and where he has practiced medicine for more than a third of a century. He was associated with his father in medical work until the latter's death, in 1884, and since that time has carried on an individual practice. He has won recognition as one of the most skilled physicians and surgeons in Clarion county. He is a member of the Red Bank Physicians Protective Association, the Clarion County Medical Society, the Pennsylvania State Med- ical Society and the American Medical Asso- ciation. For many years he was a member of the Callensburg board of health, and he has also served as health officer for district No. 363, including Licking and Perry townships and the borough of Callensburg. He has been incumbent of the latter office since 1908. He is medical examiner for Licking township and for Callensburg, has been on the school board for many years, and is secretary of the city council. Fraternally he is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and relig- iously he and his family are devout Methodists.
In 1872 Dr. Meals married (first) Jennie R. Graham, a native of Clarion county, Pennsyl- vania, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Mil- ler) Graham. She died June 12, 1894. In December, 1895, Dr. Meals married (second ) Martha J. Dunlap, born in Clarion county, Pennsylvania, daughter of Samuel and Levina (Slaugenhoupt) Dunlap. Children of first marriage : I. Elizabeth, wife of Nelson Stover, a prominent lumberman and farmer in Lick- ing township. 2 May, died at the age of two years. 3. Kittie, married (first) Jesse F. La- zear, and (second) Chester Allen. 4. Nora M., wife of John Bunting, of Sisterville, West Virginia. 5. Clarissa, died at the age of twelve years. 6. Mary, wife of John Shaw, of Olean,
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New York. 7. Samuel, clerks in a store in Cal- lensburg. 8. Nelson M. Jr., a drug clerk in Silver Creek, New York. One child by sec- ond . marriage, died unnamed. Dr. Meals' office is on Clarion street and the family home is in a beautiful residence just off that thor- cughfare.
The history of the White family
WHITE has been traced back into Eng- land to Robert White, who served as guardian and church warden in South Petherton, Somerset county, England, in 1578. He had a wife, Alice, buried there August 22, 1596, and he was buried September 7, 1600.
(II) Robert (2), son of Robert (1) and Alice White, was a resident of South Pether- ton, England, in 1598, and in 1601 he was guardian and church warden. He had a wife, Joan, who died in South Petherton, Septem- ber 13, 1631, and he died there March 8, 1642.
(III) John, son of Robert (2) and Joan White, was baptized in South Petherton, Som- erset county, England, March 7, 1601-02, died in 1673. After his marriage, May 28, 1627, to Joan, baptized April 16, 1606, died in Lan- caster, Massachusetts, 1654, daughter of Rich- ard and Maudlin ( Staple-Cooke) West, of Burton in Drayton, he resided in Drayton par- ish, Somerset, England. In 1638 he owned a house in South Petherton parish. It is thought he left England in April, 1639, and reached Salem, Massachusetts, in August, where he was granted sixty acres of land. He appears to have made a trip to England in 1648, re- turning to Massachusetts in 1653. Shortly after his return he went to Lancaster to live, where he had twenty acres of land allotted to him on the "Neck," which was the family homestead for several generations. He was granted other tracts from time to time in Lan- caster and died there, his will being proved May 28, 1673.
(IV) Josialı, son of John and Joan (West) White, was baptized in Salem, Massachusetts, June 4, 1643, died November 11, 1714. He lived on the estate of his father at Lancaster, and his residence there was used as a garrison. He was a soldier in King Philip's war under Major Simon Willard, of Middlesex county, Massachusetts, in 1675. also under Captain Poole (see pp. 122, 260, Dodge's "Soldiers of King Philip's War", "New England His- torical and Genealogical Register", vol. 41, p.
274). He married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Mary ( King) Rice, of Marlboro.
(V) Josiah (2), son of Josiah (1) and Mary (Rice) White, was born September 16, 1682, died May 5, 1772. He resided upon the homestead in Lancaster. He served as tith- ingman in 1718, moderator six years, treas- urer one year, representative in the general court of Massachusetts in 1728-29-30-31-37, when he refused re-election, selectman for five years, being one of the first seven. He was sergeant in command of the garrison in the war with the Indians in 1704 on the west side of Penicook creek (called the Neck), and was deacon of the first church from 1729 to 1772. He married, June 26, 1706, Abigail, daughter of Josiah and Rebeckah (Waters) Whitcomb. Among their children was Josiah, of whom further.
(VI) Josiah (3), son of Josiah (2) and Abigail ( Whitcomb) White, was born in Lan- caster, January 3, 1714, died September 1, 1806. He resided in the part of Lancaster which was set off as Leominster where he built the first saw mill in the town, and also the "Old Abbey" in 1738. He later resided in Charlestown, New Hampshire, and Rocking- ham, Vermont. He married, March 14, 1739, Deborah House, who died September 22, 1768. Among their children was Luke, of whom further.
(VII) Luke, son of Josialı (3) and Deb- orah (House) White, was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, December 8, 1757, died in Richville, New York, March 17, 1837. He served as a private in Captain William War- ner's company, Colonel Thomas Marshall's continental regiment, 1777-79; reported on command with state commissary, January, 1779; private in Colonel Marshall's regiment, 1780 (Continental Army Books, vol. 2, part 1, p. 76; vol. 10, part 2, p. 31). He married, November 30, 1782, Eunice White; children : Betsey, Orson, Eunice, Susan, Luke, Horace, David, Roswell, Asenath, Eusebia, John, of whom further. Eunice ( White) White was born in Charlemont, March 29, 1766, died in Heath, Massachusetts, January 30, 1824, daughter of David White, baptized August 29, 1742, in Leominster, settled in Charlemont, and was drowned in Deerfield river in 1768. He married, February 14, 1765, Eunice, daughter of Simon and Anna (Fairbanks) Butler, the latter named having been a grand- daughter of Jonas Fairbank, an early settler
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of Lancaster, and the great-granddaughter of John Prescott, the founder of Lancaster, who came to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1640, bring- ing with him his armor and coat-of-mail, and he was son of Ralfe and Ellen Prescott, Sheving- ton, Parish of Standish, Lancaster, England, who was a descendant of Alfred the Great through William Fitz Gilbert (governor of Lan- caster Castle, fifth baron of Kendal) and his wife, Gunred, Countess of Warwick, daughter of William de Warrenne and his wife, Elizabeth de Vermandois. David White was a son of Jonathan White, born in Lancaster, October 4, 1708, died December 4, 1788, son of Josiah (2) and Abigail (Whitcomb) White, afore- mentioned as generation V. Jonathan White was a large landholder, settling in the north- ern part of the New Grant, now Leominster, where he lived the greater part of his life. He was also an early proprietor of the town of Charlemont and built a house in the south part, which is now Heath. On March 29, 1755, he was commissioned captain in the Worcester Regiment of Colonel Ruggles, which marched for Crown Point. In this campaign he was promoted to the rank of major and then of lieutenant-colonel; as colonel he fought in the battle of Lake George, 1756, and participated in the Lake Champlain campaign, serving creditably until the end of the war. He married, June 22, 1732, Esther, daughter of James and Abigail (Gardner) Wilder.
(VIII) John, son of Luke and Eunice (White) White, was born in Heath, Massa- chusetts, June 10, 1805, died in Harmony township, New York, May 23, 1853. He was educated at Canton and Potsdam, New York, taking training for the ministry. However, he taught school for some time, became a merchant and manufacturer of veneering. con- ducted a saw mill, and later, in 1843, purchased a farm in Chautauqua county, New York. He was a member of the Episcopal church, and highly respected in the community. He mar- ried, June 7, 1831, Rebekah Barber, born in Charlemont, Massachusetts, January 16, 1807, died at White's Mills, Carter county, Missouri, November 19, 1881 (see Barber VII).
(IX) John Barber, only child of John and Rebekah ( Barber) White, was born in Ellery township, Chautauqua county, New York, De- cember 8, 1847. He was educated in the pub- lic schools of the township and Jamestown (New York) Academy. From 1866 to 1868
he taught school in the winter and worked on the farm in summer, and then, in partnership with two Jenner brothers, purchased a two hundred acre tract of pine timber, cut the logs, and had them sawed at a neighboring mill. In 1870 Mr. White bought out the Jenner brothers, and associated with R. A. Kinnear, of Youngsville, Pennsylvania, he opened lum- ber yards in Brady and Petrolia, Pennsylvania, which he disposed of in 1874. He then moved to Tidioute, Pennsylvania, where he purchased the Arcade Mill, and opened a lumber yard in Scrubgrass, Pennsylvania, and at the same time he assisted in founding the Warren County News, a weekly paper, in Youngs- ville, Pennsylvania, which was later moved to Tidioute, when Mr. White became the sole proprietor. In 1878 he returned to Youngs- ville and purchased a stave, heading and shin- gle mill. In 1880, in association with E. B. Grandin, Captain H. H. Cumings, the late J. L. Grandin and the late Jahu L. and Living- ston L. Hunter, all of Tidioute, Mr. White organized the Missouri Lumber & Mining Company, a pioneer company in the develop- ment of the yellow pine lumber industry. Its mills, which were located at Grandin, Mis- souri, for over twenty years, are now in opera- tion at West Eminence, Missouri. Mr. White has been general manager of this company since the beginning and president for a num- ber of years, holding both positions at the pres- ent time. In 1899 he was associated with O. WV. Fisher and others in the organization of the Louisiana Long Leaf Lumber Company, with mills at Fisher and Victoria, Louisiana, having been secretary and director of this company since that time. In 1901, he organized the Louisiana Central Lumber Company, with mills at Clarks and Standard, Louisiana. and he is president of this company at the present time. He is also connected with various enter- prises in the following capacities : President of the Forest Lumber Company, which owns a line of retail yards ; secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Missouri Lumber & Land Exchange Company, with offices in the R. A. Long Building, Kansas City, Missouri; president of Salem, Winona & Southern Rail- road Company ; president of the Ouachita & Northwestern Railroad Company ; president of the Reynolds Land Company; vice-president of the Grandin-Coast Lumber Company, with timber holdings in the state of Washington ; vice-president of the Fisher Flouring Mills
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