Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....McBride, J. E. 1857 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  J. E. McBRIDE, Manager of the Decatur Ice Company, was born in Brockport, N.
Y., in 1857. He received his education at the State Normal School at Brockport;
learned his trade as a machinist at Rochester, N. Y., and then spent two years
at school at mechanical engineering; came South in 1881 and engaged in the
cottonseed oil business; was with Valley Oil Mill one season; the two following
years was engaged in erecting mills all through the South; was connected with
the Sunflower Oil Company at Clarksdale, Miss., three years; in May, 1887, came
to Decatur and put up the Decatur Ice Company's machine, of which he is now
general manager.

  The Decatur Ice Company was organized in the spring of 1887, by J. F. Scott,
W. W. Littlejohn, C. C. Harris, A. F. Murry and others; capital stock, $20,000.

  The factory has a capacity of six tons, and is now adding twenty tons more per
day. The machines are of the absorption pattern, and made by the Cincinnati Ice
Machine Company of Cincinnati. Ohio.

  Mr. McBride was married at Buffalo, N. Y., in September, 1885, to Miss Kittie
A. Smith, of Lockport, N. Y. They have one child.


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Northern Alabama: Historical and Biographical
Birmingham, Ala.: Smith and De Land
1888

PART IV.
MONOGRAPHS OF THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN NORTHERN AND CENTRAL ALABAMA,
TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF MANY OF THEIR REPRESENTATIVE PEOPLE.


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