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HOSMER, ARTHUR

HOSMER

Posted By: County Coordinator
Date: 4/19/2019 at 14:50:54

Keokuk City
(P.O. Keokuk)

HOSMER, ARTHUR, lumber-dealer, and President of the State National Bank ; born in Niagara Co., N. Y.; came to Keokuk in 1857 ; he was one of the original Directors of the Keokuk branch of the State Bank ; at the time of the re-organization and change to a National Bank, he was also elected a Director, and has been connected with the institution ever since ; he has been extensively engaged in the lumber business most of the time since 1862; his son Arthur, Jr., is associated with him in this business, and their trade is very large, amounting to from five to six million feet per annum ; their shipments now are principally to Kansas.

Source: BIOGRAPHICAL DIRECTORY
HISTORY OF LEE COUNTY IOWA
CHICAGO: WESTERN HISTORICAL COMPANY, 1879

Transcription typed/proofed as article was originally published in 1879


 

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