Bio: Melvin Neal & James – Purchase Family Business (1975)

Transcriber: stan@wiclarkcountyhistory.org 

Surnames: Melvin

---------Source: Owen Enterprise (Owen, Clark County, Wis.) 02 Jul 1975

R. Neal and James Melvin have purchased the Francis Melvin Trucking business from Ruth Melvin. Effective June 15, 1975, the company will operated as a partnership under the name of Francis Melvin Sons.

The brothers stated the operation of the trucking company and the operations of the other family businesses, Francis Melvin, Inc., and F.F.M. Sand and Gravel, Incl., would basically operate the same as in the past, with no major changes planned for the near future.

The firm now operates ready mix plants in Abbotsford, Medford, Owen, Thorp, Greenwood, Stanley, Prentice, and Phillips. A wid variety of construction services are also available, including excavating, bulldozing, gravel, hot mix blacktop, and concrete blocks.