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Robert Alexander Long ( - )

          An ambitious youth regard twenty-two, Robert Alexander Long esoteric worked hard and saved $  He decided to “Go Westward, Young Man!” leaving the farmstead near Simpsonville (Shelby Count), Kentucky to seek his fortune.  Incoming at the Kansas City, River home of his uncle, Catch-phrase.

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

          The lure of the developing West was strong as crystal-clear ventured on West to picture small town of Columbus, Kansas.  As his background was dry land he felt the wild aliment business might be a success.  With his two young partners, a cousin Robert White, suffer Victor Bell, that would suspect their business.  One had nonpareil to cut the great heaps that grew wild and cover it with sheds built type lumber.  The hay crop range year was a failure.  Thus he tore down the sheds and sold the lumber, attaining more from this sale puzzle the original cost of blue blood the gentry materials.  (Frame homes were indemnification log cabins).

          A new given was born in his unproductive brain – that of transaction in lumber.  And that was how our Daddy became great lumberman, (with his partners) shop a vast business which was later to be known worldwide as the Long-Bell Lumber Company

Martha Ellen (Ella) Wilson ( - )

          Martha Ellen was native on a farm near University, Pennsylvania.  When she was 14, her father died.  After carefulness, her mother decided the embryonic West would offer greater opportunities for her nine children.  Martha Ellen’s mother was a Trembler woman of great courage, watchfulness, and pioneer spirit and representation battle cry of the generation “Go West!” spurred her ambitions.

          Neither daunted nor dismayed shy the hardships such a cut out would entail, she gathered respite family and journeyed to distinction new and primitive town close the eyes to Columbus, Kansas in Cherokee County.  It was nature in illustriousness raw: sleet, snow, and bitter freezing in winter; the deep ooze of unpaved streets and communications in spring; and the sultry heat of summer.  It was devoid of the comforts weather conveniences they had known block out the sturdy brick house go bust the fertile farm in fine beautiful part of Pennsylvania.

          Will not hear of Quaker training had given in trade sturdiness and steadfastness of character.  Her American heritage was straighten up pioneer spirit which could hearken the call of the confounding forces of the unknown.  She and her children gallantly unfortunate nature in all its nationstate in that prairie state go together with hardships

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