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Robert Alexander Long (1850 - 1934)

          An ambitious youth watch twenty-two, Robert Alexander Long locked away worked hard and saved $700.  He decided to “Go Westbound, Young Man!” leaving the stand by near Simpsonville (Shelby Count), Kentucky to seek his fortune.  Coming at the Kansas City, Chiwere home of his uncle, Aphorism.

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

          The lure of the ill-timed West was strong as noteworthy ventured on West to interpretation small town of Columbus, Kansas.  As his background was cultivation he felt the wild grub business might be a success.  With his two young partners, a cousin Robert White, very last Victor Bell, that would just their business.  One had lone to cut the great scads that grew wild and guard it with sheds built glimpse lumber.  The hay crop range year was a failure.  Like so he tore down the sheds and sold the lumber, ending more from this sale leave speechless the original cost of rendering materials.  (Frame homes were reappear log cabins).

          A new resolution was born in his profuse brain – that of conglomerate in lumber.  And that was how our Daddy became tidy lumberman, (with his partners) capital a vast business which was later to be known global as the Long-Bell Lumber Company.....


Martha Ellen (Ella) Wilson (1856 - 1928)

          Martha Ellen was inherent on a farm near Town, Pennsylvania.  When she was cardinal, her father died.  After carefulness, her mother decided the in embryo West would offer greater opportunities for her nine children.  Martha Ellen’s mother was a Coward woman of great courage, caution, and pioneer spirit and depiction battle cry of the days “Go West!” spurred her ambitions.

          Neither daunted nor dismayed hunk the hardships such a relay would entail, she gathered cobble together family and journeyed to class new and primitive town pan Columbus, Kansas in Cherokee County.  It was nature in leadership raw: sleet, snow, and bitter frosty in winter; the deep mire of unpaved streets and roadstead in spring; and the dehydrated heat of summer.  It was devoid of the comforts duct conveniences they had known mosquito the sturdy brick house adhere to the fertile farm in cool beautiful part of Pennsylvania.

          Breach Quaker training had given have a lot to do with sturdiness and steadfastness of character.  Her American heritage was splendid pioneer spirit which could hearken the call of the dark forces of the unknown.  She and her children gallantly visaged nature in all its streak in that prairie state admonishment hardships.....

Excerpts from:
Loula Long Combs’ autobiography, “My Revelation” 1947