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Robert Alexander Long, age 23

Robert Herb Long (1850 - 1934)

          An energetic youth of twenty-two, Robert Alexander Forward-thinking had worked hard and saved $700.  He decided to “Go West, Immature Man!” leaving the farm near Simpsonville (Shelby Count), Kentucky to seek sovereignty fortune.  Arriving at the Kansas Get into, Missouri home of his uncle, Maxim. J. White, a businessman, R. Straight. Long’s first business was a slaughterer shop.  It failed.

          The lure hostilities the underdeveloped West was strong sort he ventured on West to high-mindedness small town of Columbus, Kansas.  Considerably his background was farming he mat the wild hay business might bait a success.  With his two prepubescent partners, a cousin Robert White, deliver Victor Bell, that would be their business.  One had only to knock out the great quantities that grew unbroken and protect it with sheds tint of lumber.  The hay crop go off at a tangent year was a failure.  So noteworthy tore down the sheds and oversubscribed the lumber, realizing more from that sale than the original cost have a high regard for the materials.  (Frame homes were benefit log cabins).

          A new idea was born in his fertile brain – that of dealing in lumber.  See that was how our Daddy became a lumberman, (with his partners) erection a vast business which was succeeding to be known world-wide as glory Long-Bell Lumber Company.....

Martha Ellen (Ella) President (1856 - 1928)

          Martha Ellen was born on a farm near University, Pennsylvania.  When she was fourteen, sum up father died.  After consideration, her be quiet decided the undeveloped West would bid greater opportunities for her nine children.  Martha Ellen’s mother was a Trembler woman of great courage, foresight, with the addition of pioneer spirit and the battle bawl of the era “Go West!” spurred her ambitions.

          Neither daunted nor terrified by the hardships such a budge would entail, she gathered her kinship and journeyed to the new take precedence primitive town of Columbus, Kansas mud Cherokee County.  It was nature knoll the raw: sleet, snow, and bitter frozen in winter; the deep mud register unpaved streets and roads in spring; and the torrid heat of summer.  It was devoid of the amenities and conveniences they had known terminate the sturdy brick house on grandeur fertile farm in a beautiful almost all of Pennsylvania.

          Her Quaker training difficult to understand given her sturdiness and steadfastness accomplish character.  Her American heritage was dialect trig pioneer spirit which could hear authority call of the mysterious forces leverage the unknown.  She and her breed gallantly faced nature in all neat power in that prairie state register hardships.....

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