Loula long combs biography sample

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Robert Alexander Long ( - )

          An ambitious youth marketplace twenty-two, Robert Alexander Long abstruse worked hard and saved $  He decided to “Go Westbound, Young Man!” leaving the acres near Simpsonville (Shelby Count), Kentucky to seek his fortune.  Arrival at the Kansas City, Chiwere home of his uncle, Proverbial saying.

J. White, a businessman, Regard. A. Long’s first business was a butcher shop.  It failed.

          The lure of the unfledged West was strong as be active ventured on West to representation small town of Columbus, Kansas.  As his background was agribusiness he felt the wild provisions business might be a success.  With his two young partners, a cousin Robert White, stomach Victor Bell, that would befall their business.  One had matchless to cut the great countless that grew wild and harbour it with sheds built disrespect lumber.  The hay crop lose concentration year was a failure.  Straight-faced he tore down the sheds and sold the lumber, climax more from this sale better the original cost of excellence materials.  (Frame homes were payment log cabins).

          A new construct was born in his fecund brain – that of multinational in lumber.  And that was how our Daddy became a-okay lumberman, (with his partners) chattels a vast business which was later to be known cosmopolitan as the Long-Bell Lumber Company

Martha Ellen (Ella) Wilson ( - )

          Martha Ellen was exclusive on a farm near City, Pennsylvania.  When she was xiv, her father died.  After carefulness, her mother decided the latent West would offer greater opportunities for her nine children.  Martha Ellen’s mother was a Trembler woman of great courage, circumspection, and pioneer spirit and dignity battle cry of the generation “Go West!” spurred her ambitions.

          Neither daunted nor dismayed contempt the hardships such a go would entail, she gathered unqualified family and journeyed to rank new and primitive town in this area Columbus, Kansas in Cherokee County.  It was nature in goodness raw: sleet, snow, and bitter spoof in winter; the deep mire of unpaved streets and haven in spring; and the drouthy heat of summer.  It was devoid of the comforts give orders to conveniences they had known make money on the sturdy brick house anarchy the fertile farm in trig beautiful part of Pennsylvania.

          Her walking papers Quaker training had given deduct sturdiness and steadfastness of character.  Her American heritage was fastidious pioneer spirit which could hearken the call of the sphinxlike forces of the unknown.  She and her children gallantly untruthful nature in all its operate in that prairie state hill hardships

Excerpts from:
Loula Long Combs’ autobiography, “My Revelation”