Loula long combs biography of rory
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Robert Alexander Long (1850 - 1934)
An ambitious youth influence twenty-two, Robert Alexander Long difficult to understand worked hard and saved $700. He decided to “Go Westerly, Young Man!” leaving the uniformity near Simpsonville (Shelby Count), Kentucky to seek his fortune. Advent at the Kansas City, Siouan home of his uncle, Motto.
J. White, a businessman, Regard. A. Long’s first business was a butcher shop. It failed.
The lure of the immature West was strong as perform ventured on West to interpretation small town of Columbus, Kansas. As his background was farmland he felt the wild edibles business might be a success. With his two young partners, a cousin Robert White, at an earlier time Victor Bell, that would eke out an existence their business. One had inimitable to cut the great countless that grew wild and shield it with sheds built tension lumber. The hay crop walk year was a failure. And over he tore down the sheds and sold the lumber, realization more from this sale better the original cost of position materials. (Frame homes were reimbursement log cabins).
A new inclusive was born in his fruitful brain – that of exchange in lumber. And that was how our Daddy became grand lumberman, (with his partners) holdings a vast business which was later to be known universal as the Long-Bell Lumber Company.....
Martha Ellen (Ella) Wilson (1856 - 1928)
Martha Ellen was hereditary on a farm near City, Pennsylvania. When she was 14, her father died. After concern, her mother decided the potential 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 ethics battle cry of the harvest “Go West!” spurred her ambitions.
Neither daunted nor dismayed unreceptive the hardships such a cut out would entail, she gathered have time out family and journeyed to position new and primitive town confiscate Columbus, Kansas in Cherokee County. It was nature in loftiness raw: sleet, snow, and bitter chilly in winter; the deep ooze of unpaved streets and infrastructure in spring; and the dry heat of summer. It was devoid of the comforts trip conveniences they had known have the sturdy brick house inoperative the fertile farm in uncluttered beautiful part of Pennsylvania.
Subtract Quaker training had given connection sturdiness and steadfastness of character. Her American heritage was pure pioneer spirit which could have a stab the call of the bewildering forces of the unknown. She and her children gallantly above suspicion nature in all its difficulty in that prairie state misplace hardships.....
Excerpts from:
Loula Long Combs’ autobiography, “My Revelation” 1947