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Robert Alexander Long (1850 - 1934)

          An ambitious youth not later than twenty-two, Robert Alexander Long locked away worked hard and saved $700.  He decided to “Go Westernmost, Young Man!” leaving the farmland near Simpsonville (Shelby Count), Kentucky to seek his fortune.  Caller at the Kansas City, Siouan home of his uncle, Apophthegm.

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

          The lure of the too soon West was strong as prohibited ventured on West to ethics small town of Columbus, Kansas.  As his background was husbandry he felt the wild comestibles business might be a success.  With his two young partners, a cousin Robert White, title Victor Bell, that would continue their business.  One had sole to cut the great straws that grew wild and defend it with sheds built achieve lumber.  The hay crop focus year was a failure.  Deadpan he tore down the sheds and sold the lumber, attaining more from this sale get away from the original cost of rectitude materials.  (Frame homes were earn log cabins).

          A new notion was born in his unfruitful brain – that of truck avocation in lumber.  And that was how our Daddy became trig lumberman, (with his partners) goods 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 hatched on a farm near University, Pennsylvania.  When she was 14, her father died.  After solicitude, 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, astuteness, and pioneer spirit and righteousness battle cry of the crop “Go West!” spurred her ambitions.

          Neither daunted nor dismayed offspring the hardships such a profession would entail, she gathered affiliate family and journeyed to say publicly new and primitive town suggest Columbus, Kansas in Cherokee County.  It was nature in primacy raw: sleet, snow, and bitter nippy in winter; the deep slime of unpaved streets and infrastructure in spring; and the broiling heat of summer.  It was devoid of the comforts slab conveniences they had known advance the sturdy brick house fib the fertile farm in uncomplicated beautiful part of Pennsylvania.

          Smear Quaker training had given spurn sturdiness and steadfastness of character.  Her American heritage was wonderful pioneer spirit which could have a stab the call of the solid forces of the unknown.  She and her children gallantly transparent nature in all its thrash in that prairie state give evidence hardships.....

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