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the Speice-Echols-Boettcher Company. Mr. and Mrs. Ragatz went to California in July, 1909, and returned to Columbus in September, 1912.
In 1914 Henry Ragatz built a new double front brick block at Thirteenth Street and Twenty-eighth Avenue and incorporated the Henry Ragatz Company, in association with his sons, Henry, Jr. and Edward M., along with Herbert Clark, Christie Gass, and Dick Siefken. Adolph Hoge became a member of the firm in 1926, and Christie Gass sold his interest in 1929, but aside from this, the personnel of the firm remained the same until 1929.
Besides three step-children, William, George, and Lillian, Henry and Margaret Buehler Ragatz had two sons and a daughter, Henry, Jr., Edward M., and Emma. Lillian died in Columbus in 1907; George died in California; Emma died in Columbus in 1906; Henry, Jr. died in July, 1946, and Edward M. died in March, 1947.
Henry Ragatz, Sr. was interested in civic affairs and in local, state, and national politics. He was twice elected Mayor of Columbus, in 1891 and 1901, when the term of office was one year. He served as a member of the City Council from 1883 to 1887. He was a member of the Commercial Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Masonic Order, a Past Master of Lebanon Lodge, a charter member of the local Knights of Pythias and a member of the Modern Woodmen. In his later years, Henry Ragatz became a Christian Scientist. Politically, he was a Republican and was a delegate from Nebraska to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia in 1900.
Margaret Buehler Ragatz died December 5, 1917, in Columbus. Henry Ragatz, Sr. died there on November 4, 1929.
Henry Newton Ragatz, son of Henry and Margaret Buehler Ragatz, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on March 20, 1880, and died in July, 1946.
He attended the Columbus schools and then took a business course at the Quincy Business College. He learned the merchandise business in his father's store. Henry, Jr. spent the years of 1909 to 1914 in Los Angeles, California. In 1915 the Henry Ragatz Store at the southeast corner of Thirteenth Street and Twenty-eighth Avenue was built, and Henry, Jr. became associated with his father in the grocery business as junior member of the Henry Ragatz Company. He continued actively in the store for thirty years.
In 1929, after the death of their father, Henry, Jr. and Edward M. operated the Henry Ragatz Grocery until it was sold to the Council Oak Company in 1945.
Henry Ragatz, Jr. was twice married. His first wife was Louise Davies, whom he married on June 21, 1905.
Louise Davies Ragatz was born in the Postville neighborhood west of Platte Center, on January 12, 1885. Her parents died when she was twelve years old, and she came to Columbus to live. She attended the Columbus schools and the Fremont Normal College, and then became secretary to her uncle and guardian, Hugh Hughes a well-known Columbus capitalist. She had two half-brothers and three half-sisters. Her half-brothers were Hugh Williams of Texas, and John Williams of Columbus.
Henry, Jr. and Louise Davies Ragatz had two children: Henry, III, who died December 23, 1928, and Dorothy, who died in infancy. Louise Ragatz died in Columbus on September 17, 1923. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
On April 22, 1929, Mr. Ragatz married Hilda Grutter, member of a pioneer Platte County family.
Henry Ragatz, Jr. was a member of the Masons, Modem Woodmen, and was a Christian Scientist.
Henry Ragatz, III, son of Henry, Jr. and Louise Davies Ragatz and the grandson of Henry Ragatz was born in Columbus on February 16, 1907, and died there on December 23, 1928.
Henry, III received his early education in the Columbus schools and was graduated from Columbus High School in 1925. He was active in all school activities and played with the Columbus High School football squad during his junior and senior years. He attended the University of Southern California for a year, in 1925 and 1926, and the following year, he spent the winter with his grandfather, Henry Ragatz, in Southern California.
He worked for a short time with the McCord Brady Company in Omaha, and then became associated with the Henry Ragatz and Company Grocery in 1928 a short time before his death.
Edward M. Ragatz, son of Henry and Margaret Buehler Ragatz, was born in Columbus on September 28, 1881, and died March 4, 1947.
He attended the Columbus schools and then took a business course at the Quincy Illinois Business College. He then entered the Henry Ragatz Grocery firm where he was actively associated until 1909 when he went to California. He returned in 1912 and became associated with the A. L. Rush and T. B. lord Company. While with this company he organized the Fuel and Storage Company, and built the Fuel and Storage Building.
He continued with the firm until 1922 when he sold his interest to his partners and returned to the Henry Ragatz Company. He was actively engaged there until September, 1945, when the company was sold to the Council. Oak Company.
In 1929 he became president of the Equitable Building and Loan Association, succeeding his father, and was reelected at the annual meeting in July, 1946. He served eight years as a member of the Columbus Board of Education, and he was a member of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
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On June 10, 1914, Edward M. Ragatz married Ruth Clark, the daughter of Shell and Ella Mae Hudson Clark. Mrs. Ragatz is the granddaughter of James Hudson and the great-granddaughter of H. J. Hudson, who came here in the late 1850's with a group of Mormons, and settled near Genoa.
Edward M. and Ruth Clark Ragatz had three children: Betty is deceased; Irma Mae is married to David Osterhout, and lives at Crete with their two sons, Milo David and Paul; Edward M. Ragatz, Jr. is married to Dorothy Clark, the daughter of the Clarence Clarks.
Edward M. Ragatz, Sr. was a member of the Federated Church.
Edward M. Ragatz, Jr., the son of Edward M. and Ruth Eva Clark Ragatz, was born in Columbus, Nebraska, on October 23, 1920. His father, a grocer and merchant, was born at Columbus, on September 29, 1883. His mother was born October 26, 1893, at St. Edwards, Nebraska. He had two sisters: Irma Mae, the wife of David Osterhout; and Betty, deceased.
Edward, Jr., attended the Third Ward Grade School and was graduated from the Kramer High School in Columbus. He then attended the Doane College, at Crete, Nebraska, for two years.
During World War II, he served with the Army Air Forces in the ground crew. He was stationed for one year at Waco, Texas, at the Blackland Army Flying School.
On January 17, 1941, Edward Ragatz, Jr., was married to Dorothy Mae Clark, the daughter of Clarence J. and Charlotte Eva Curtis Clark, of Columbus. Mr. Clark, a contractor and builder, was born June 22, 1878, at Ottawa, Illinois. Mrs. Clark was born May 12, 1886, at Cromwell, Iowa. Mrs. Ragatz has one brother and one sister: Gladys Lucille Clark is the wife of Donald French, and they live in Long Beach, California; Milton Dwight Clark is married to Ruth Slater and is employed by the Winthrop Diesel Pump Company, in Alhambra, California.
Edward and Dorothy Mae Clark Ragatz have three children: Edward M., III, born August 2, 1942, in Omaha; Roberta Ann, born November 17, 1945, in Omaha; and James Clark, born April 10, 1948, in Columbus.
Edward Ragatz, Jr., is engaged as a route salesman by the Peter Pan Bakery. He is a member of the American Legion, the Mariner's Club, and the Wayside Country Club. Politically, he is affiliated with the Republican Party. The Ragatz family are members of the Federated Church of Columbus.
William H. Ragatz, son of Julius and Margaret Buehler Ragatz, was born at Prairie du Sac, Wisconsin, in 1878. His mother was born in Switzerland, in 1840, and died in Columbus, Nebraska, on December 5, 1917.
His father was born in Switzerland on November 17, 1838, and died in Prairie du Sac in 1878. After the death of Julius Ragatz, Mrs. Ragatz married Henry Ragatz in April, 1879.
Henry Ragatz had come to Columbus, Nebraska, in February, 1879, and started a grocery store on Eleventh Street, in partnership with a Wisconsin friend. The store was known as the Ragatz and Hatz Grocery.
In April, 1879, William, George, and Lillian Ragatz accompanied their mother and step-father to Columbus to make their home. Two half-brothers, Henry, Jr. and Edward Milton, and a half-sister, Emma, were born in Columbus.
William Ragatz attended the Columbus schools and learned the grocery business. He was associated with the Henry Ragatz Grocery Company from the 1880's until January 1, 1909, when he bought the interest of James Murray in the Boyd and Murray Hardware Store in Columbus. This partnership continued as Boyd and Ragatz until 1924, when D. D. D. Boyd purchased the interest from Mr. Ragatz.
William Ragatz again became associated with the grocery company and worked there until 1940.
His most outstanding experience was being lost in the blizzard of 1888. He was also struck by lightning at three different times.
On June 1, 1896, William Ragatz married Catherine Fox, the daughter of Patrick and Ann Daily Fox, at Schuyler, Nebraska. Patrick Fox was born in Ireland on March 17, 1839, and died in Columbus on March 14, 1908. He was a farmer. Ann Daily Fox was born in Ireland on August 22, 1846, and died in Columbus on May 3, 1933.
Mrs. Ragatz had four sisters and three brothers: Ella, Mrs. M. L. Bean, who died in Columbus, June 28, 1938; Thomas died in Columbus, November 25, 1938; Mary died in Columbus on June 8, 1906; Ann is Mrs. W. H. Foster; William is a carpenter in Columbus; Julia is Mrs. Frank Heaton, of Central City, Nebraska; and David Fox, of New York City, is the owner of a chain of restaurants.
William and Catherine Fox Ragatz had six children. Margaret is employed with the United States Navy. Theodore E. was born November 55, 1900. Herman J. was born March 18, 1903. William, Jr., lives in Columbus. William T. was born March 4, 1909. Both William, Jr., and Herman J. are married. Phillip died March 17, 1899, and Fabian died in 1907.
William H. Ragatz is a member of the Sixty-Year Schoolmate Club, the Knights of Columbus and St. Bonaventure's Church. Politically, he is a Republican.
George Rambour, prominent Columbus businessman and president of the Columbus Brewing Company, came to Columbus from Schuyler, Nebraska, in December, 1904. He was born in Bavaria, Germany, October 2,
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1876, the son of Michael and Magdalena Fick Rambour. Michael Rambour died in Germany in 1905 and Magdalena Rambour died in 1904.
George Rambour received his education in the schools of Bavaria, near his home, and later attended the Munich Brewing School. On October 27, 1901, in Munich, Germany, he married Mathilda Schleifer. Four children were born to this union:
George F., Jr., born July 17, 1903, at Silver Lake, Idaho.
Louis R., born in Columbus, April 3, 1905, is a graduate of the Creighton University School of Law in Omaha, and is secretary-treasurer of the Columbus Brewing Company. A musician of talent, he is recognized as an outstanding organist, a soloist and a capable critic of the other musical arts. He is a member of St. Bonaventure's Church choir, the Lions Club and the Elks.
Walter E., born in Columbus, January 6, 1907, is vice-president of the Columbus Brewing Company. He also attended Creighton University and is brewmaster at the brewery.
Erna, born in Columbus, is a graduate of St. Bonaventure's School, and is married to Albert Badstieber, They have one child, Judith Ann, born June 2, 1947.
Mathilda Schleifer Rambour died in Columbus on October 5, 1942
In 1904, George Rambour and W. J. Walter formed a partnership and bought the Columbus Brewery. The partnership terminated on Mr. Walter's death in 1923. Since that time his sons, Louis and Walter Rambour, have become members of the brewing company.
Mr. Rambour was an active and popular member of the Columbus Maennerchor and of the Orpheus Society. He holds membership in the B.P.O.E., the F.O.E., and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. The Rambours are members of St. Bonaventure's Church.
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George Francis Rambour, Jr., eldest son of George and Mathilda Schleifer Rambour, was born at Silver Lake, Idaho, July 17, 1903.
He is a member of the firm of Becher, Hockenberger and Chambers in Columbus.
George attended St. Bonaventure's School, St. Benedict's School at Atchison, Kansas, the Creighton High School at Omaha, Nebraska, and Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
On May 28, 1927, George Rambour, Jr., was married at St. Bonaventure's Church to Ellen Delight Nichols, the daughter of Julius Sterms and Lottie Hockenberger Nichols, at Columbus.
Mr. and Mrs. Rambour have one son and three daughters: George Francis, III, was born in Columbus, March 13, 1930, was graduated from Kramer High School in 1947, and attends Dartmouth College in New Hampshire; Nancy Ellen was born in Columbus on January 16, 1929, and was graduated from Kramer High School, and attended Loretta Heights College, at Loretta, Colorado; Joan was born in Columbus, October 9, 1932, and Ruth was born in Columbus on June 6, 1938.
Mr. Rambour is a member of the Omaha Athletic Club, the Columbus Chamber of Commerce, and the B.P.O.E. (Elks). He was a member of the Board of Education for six years. He is a member of the Columbus Planning Board. The Rambours are member of St. Bonaventure's Catholic Church, in Columbus.
John Henry Randall, long-time resident of Platte County, was born January 27, 1870, in Corinth, New York, the son of William Henry and Sarah Angeline Card Randall. William Randall was born in New York, January 29, 1836, and died in Columbus in September 1913. Mrs. Randall, also a native of New York, was born September 9, 1840, and died in Los Angeles, California, in July, 1923. The Randalls came to Platte County in 1877. Records of Mr. Randall's family in New York date back to 1740. John's brothers and sisters, now all deceased, were: Florence Randall Mowery, Carrie Randall Day, George W., Clarence, Ulysses, and Delbert Randall. John attended the Columbus schools.
On December 31, 1904, in Columbus, John Henry Randall married Martha O'Connor, daughter of Thomas and Hannah Ann Apgan O'Connor. Mr. and Mrs. Randall had one son and one daughter: Edward J., born July 1, 1898, in Columbus, was an auctioneer and stock buyer. He founded the Randall Oil Company and operated it successfully until his death in Omaha, January 31, 1935. He attended the Columbus schools and the Jones School of Auctioneering in Chicago. Lucille Randall Lambert, a registered nurse, was graduated from Columbus High School and the Clarkson Memorial Hospital School of Nursing, in Omaha. She took special work in psychiatric nursing, in Chicago. Mrs. Lambert has two sons: Randall Thomas, born February 5, 1936, and Carroll Ronald, born October 11, 1938.
John Randall, recognized as a leading stock buyer and oil man, sold his wholesale business on November 30, 1945, but operates a retail gas business and cafe on Highways 8, and 22. Mr. Randall has been interested in civic and county affairs. He was among the first businessmen in Platte County to contribute to the sponsorship of 4-H work in this locale. His political affiliations are with the Republican party. He is a member of the Modern Woodmen, the Highlanders, and the Columbus Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. and Mrs. John Randall are members of the Federated Church, in Columbus.
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Louis Andrew Raney, associated with the United States Postal Service since May 1, 1905, was born at Galesburg, Illinois, on July 21, 1883, the only son of Calvin Stewart and Emma Keeling Raney, long-time Columbus residents. Calvin Raney, born in Watoga, Illinois, April 14, 1857, died on February 27, 1944, in Columbus. Emma Keeling Raney, born in Abingdon, Illinois, May 14, 1856, died on April 16, 1938.
Louis Raney came to Columbus from Lincoln, Nebraska, in May, 1897, with his parents. He attended the Columbus High School, Hastings College, at Hastings, Nebraska, and the Lincoln Business College in Lincoln.
On December 23, 1908, he was married to Nelle Loree Sloan, daughter of William and Anna Rebecca Summers Lutz Sloan, in Columbus. Louis and Nelle Sloan Raney have one son, Calvin Sloan, born on February 27, 1917. Calvin attended Columbus schools and was graduated from Kramer High School. He was married to Margaret Scott, and they reside in Lincoln, Nebraska, where he works with the Goodyear Rubber and Tire Company. Calvin is a veteran of World War II.
Louis Raney is a member of the A.F.&A.M. Politically, he supports the Republican party. Mr. and Mrs. Raney are members of the Federated Church in Columbus.
Julius Rasmussen was born in Saeby, Jutland, Denmark, on January 31, 1852, and died in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 1, 1898. He received his early education in his native village in Denmark, and at the age of nineteen immigrated to the United States.
He arrived in New York in September, 1871, and came West to Omaha, where he worked as a baker for eighteen months. He then was employed by the Union Pacific Railroad and located in Columbus, a year later. He worked in Columbus at the bakery trade for two and a half years, then clerked in a grocery store for a year. He saved his earnings, and in 1877, started his own business, with a capital of two thousand dollars. He sold family groceries, queensware, flour and feed.
In 1878, he visited Denmark, where he married Julia Pauline Scavenius, of Saeby, Denmark, on June 21, 1878.
Julius and Julia Scavenius Rasmussen had six children, all of whom were born and educated in Columbus: Albert Julius, born December 31, 1881 ; Anna Christina, born June 6, 1879; Ella Julia, born July 4, 1884; Ruby Helen, born December 26, 1885; N. Rose, born January 30, 1888; and Olga Alexandra, born February 18, 1891. Albert J. married Vera Freeman, of Columbus. All are now deceased except Ella Julia, who is Mrs. H. A. Saunders of Lebanon, Oregon, and Ruby H., who is Mrs. Karl Becker of Columbus.
Julius Rasmussen served Columbus as an alderman. He was a Mason and a Presbyterian.
On September 20, 1947, Ted Raymond was married to Marie Susan Mueller, Columbus business-woman, and the daughter of Rudolph and Susanna Karlin Mueller.
Rudolph Mueller, well-known Platte County farmer, was born in Berlin, Germany, January 25, 1862, and died in Columbus, June 29, 1917. Susanna Karlin Mueller was born in Odessa, Russia, September 7, 1865, and died October 11, 1947, in Columbus.
Marie Mueller received her education at the District 10 Rural School and was graduated from the Grand Island Business College. She was formerly secretary-treasurer of the Ewert Brothers, Incorporated, and since the dissolution of that firm, has been secretary and bookkeeper of the Ewert Brothers Implement firm.
Mr. and Mrs. Raymond are members of the Columbus Chamber of Commerce. Politically, they support the Republican party. Mrs. Raymond is a member of the Trinity Lutheran Church.
Ted Raymond travels for the Behlen Manufacturing Company, of Columbus.
John Reck, born in 1817 in Belgium, arrived in Columbus in 1857. He had come to Omaha shortly after the organization of the territory, and had lived there and at St. Mays, Iowa, prior to 1857. A natural-born politician, he was destined to play a prominent part in the politics of the early days of Platte County.
The headquarters for the transaction of business of the Columbus Land Company was first located at Florence, Nebraska, and in 1857, transferred to Columbus. At that time, John Reck was president and J. P. Becker, secretary.
At the territorial legislative session, in the winter of 1857, Mr. Reck was elected doorkeeper, and in the year 1858, Platte County being entitled to one representative, John Rickly and John Reck were opposing candidates, and John Reck carried the election by a few votes.
In 1858, Mr. Reck was a candidate for the Democratic nomination and was defeated by S. H. Fowler. C. H. Whaley was nominated by the Republicans, and Mr. Reck ran as an independent and was elected by a fair majority. In 1859, the race was again between Reck and Rickly, resulting in the election of John Rickly.
In time, Mr. Reck changed his politics and became a Republican. He had heretofore had sufficient political influence to secure a position as doorkeeper or sergeant-at-arms during the sessions of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature, of which he was not a member, and when the Internal Revenue Law was passed, he received the appointment of deputy assessor, which he held at the time of his death, in the fall of 1863.
He was buried in the old cemetery on the hill, southeast of the Loup River Public Power House. Years later, the officers of the Columbus Cemetery Association removed his remains to the Columbus Cemetery.
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Will Carleton Rector, known as "Carl," was born in Farwell, Nebraska, September 9, 1890, the son of Labon Finley and Florence Burtis Rector, former Columbus residents.
Labon F. Rector was born in North Carolina, May 30, 1863, and spent his active years with the Burlington Railroad. Florence Burtis Rector was born in Ontario, Canada, April 3, 1871.
Carl Rector has four brothers and one sister: Royal G., known as "Roy," died November 8, 1939, at Las Vegas, Nevada; Fred Bruce, known as "Fred"; Kenneth Burtis, "Burt"; George Albert; and Florence Mary Rector Helleberg.
Carl Rector came to Columbus from Ord, Nebraska, on October 31, 1905, with his parents. He had previously lived at Burwell, Nebraska, and attended the schools near his home. He learned the plumbing trade in Columbus and was then employed by Dussell and Son.
Mr. Rector and Charles Hirshbrunner formed a partnership in the plumbing and heating business in Columbus, in June, 1944. Mr. Hanke joined the firm March 4, 1946, and it is now known as the Rector, Hirshbrunner and Hanke Plumbing and Heating Company, and is located at 2309 Eleventh Street.
On May 7, 1917, Carleton Rector married Maye Louise Bloedorn, daughter of Martin C. and Minnie E. Bruns Bloedorn, at Omaha, Nebraska. Martin Bloedorn, pioneer and former Platte County sheriff, was an implement dealer and salesman. He was born in Manitawac, Wisconsin, May 27, 1858, and died in Hollywood, California, on August 3, 1944. Minnie E. Bruns Bloedorn was born in Westfalen, Germany, September 27, 1864, and died in Anaheim, California, November 5, 1939.
Mrs. Rector had three brothers and three sisters: Clara E. lives in Hollywood, California, where she does clerical work for the Douglas Aircraft Corporation; Lillian M. is the manager of the silver department at Slavick's Jewelry Store in Los Angeles, California. Three brothers and one sister died while the Bloedorn family lived in Columbus: Arnold C. died March 14, 1907; William F. died September 25, 1912; George M., assistant editor of the Columbus Biene, died July 18, 1913; and Laura A. died February 18, 1921.
Carl and Maye Bloedorn Rector have two daughters. Shirley May is Mrs. Clarence Wilken. Mr. Wilken is an implement dealer in Columbus. Jean is Mrs. Ray Krumland. Mr. Krumland is associated with the Nielsen Chevrolet Company, in Columbus. Both Shirley May and Jean attended the Columbus schools and were graduated from Kramer High School. While in school, Shirley May was a member of the National Honor Society and later served as secretary of the local Chamber of Commerce. Jean was a member of the Girl Reserves at Kramer High School and a leader in the Girl Scouts for several years.
Carleton Rector is affiliated with the Masonic organizations. He was Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Select Masters in Nebraska, in 1939. He was a member of the Board of Education for two terms. The Rectors are members of the First Baptist Church and Mr. Rector was chairman of the Building Committee for the erection of that church. Politically, he is a Republican.
John A. Reece, son of Thomas and Harriet Lemon Reece, was born August 3, 1857, in Rohrsburg, Columbia County, Pennsylvania. His father was born November 17, 1828, in Pennsylvania, and his mother was born October 20, 1828, in Pennsylvania. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Reece died at Ashland, Nebraska. They were the parents of six sons and two daughters.
John A. Reece spent his boyhood in Pennsylvania, coming west to Malvern, Iowa, when he was about nineteen years old. That was the time of the gold rush activities in the Black Hills, so John joined a group of men bound for the mines. He spent two or three years in that region, during the hectic frontier era, when lawlessness was rampant and the six-gun was the frequent arbiter of men's differences.
Mr. Reece, a quiet and friendly man with high ideals, found the conditions there at that time so distasteful that he returned to Iowa and turned to farming. Later on, he moved to a farm in Cass County, near Greenwood, Nebraska. While living in this section of the state, he married Alfa C. Laughlin, at Plattsmouth, Nebraska, on August 5, 1885. Alfa C. Laughlin Reece is the daughter of Ephraim Decatur Laughlin, a native of Washington County, Iowa, and Letitia Rhoads Cooper Laughlin, a native of Salem, Indiana. Mr. and Mrs. Laughlin were pioneers in Cass County.
After their marriage, John and Alfa Reece lived on the farm for two or three years and then moved to Ashland, Nebraska, where Mr. Reece established a retail shoe business. They came to Platte County in August, 1911.
Once settled in Columbus, Mr. Reece engaged in the retail shoe business and later acquired an interest in the Wooden Sole Shoe Factory. He later sold his retail business in order to devote his full time to the development of the shoe factory. The Wooden Sole Shoe Factory had been operated in Columbus from 1885, but was still a small concern when Mr. Reece took it over in 1912.
He acquired new quarters for it, increased the equipment, perfected several new lines of shoes, on some of which he secured original patents, and built the business to a point where it became one of the outstanding manufacturing enterprises of the state; in fact, the only factory of its kind in this section of the country. He enlarged his trade territory gradually until now the Reece Wooden Sole products are sold in every state in the Union and exported to Canada and Europe, the widespread sale attesting their superior quality.
His daughter, Genevieve, who was associated with him in the operation and management of his manu-
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