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Biography of Harry Cobb Avis

Harry Cobb Avis, president of the St. Louis Surfacer & Paint Company, started out in the business world in a humble capacity and by close application, fidelity and capability has steadily worked his way upward until he is now in control of a business of considerable extent and importance. St. Louis numbers him among her native sons. He was born December 18, 1873, his parents being W. H. and Mary (Sandford) Avis. The father’s birth occurred in St. Louis in 1838 and for some time he was connected with the firm of Dutcher & Company, commission merchants, while for thirty … Read more

Slave Narrative of Betty Jones

Interviewer: Lauana Creel Person Interviewed: Elizabeth Jones Location: 429 Oak Street, Evansville, Indiana Ex-Slave Stories District No. 5 Vanderburgh County Lauana Creel THE STORY OF BETTY JONES 429 Oak Street, Evansville, Ind. From an Interview with Elizabeth Jones at 429 Oak Street, Evansville, Ind. “Yes Honey, I was a slave, I was born at Henderson, Kentucky and my mother was born there. We belonged to old Mars John Alvis. Our home was on Alvis’s Hill and a long plank walk had been built from the bank of the Ohio river to the Alvis home. We all liked the long plank … Read more

Descendants of Leonard Crocker Couch of Taunton MA

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COUCH (Taunton family). The family bearing this name at Taunton whose representative head is now Leonard Crocker Couch, Esq., who since boyhood has been a resident of the city, occupied in mechanical and business lines, and for years one of the substantial men and useful citizens of the community, is one of long and honorable standing in the neighboring State of Connecticut and of distinction in our country. And through its Taunton alliance of a generation ago – that of Maj. Gen. Darius Nash Couch, of Civil war fame, the father of the present Leonard Crocker Couch just alluded to … Read more