Morgan County AlArchives Biographies.....Poley, Bert E. 1866 - 
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Author: Smith & De Land, publishers

  BERT E. POLEY, son of Elisha and Mary C. (Thrasher) Poley, was born in Austin
City, Nev., February 8, 1866; received his early education in the common
schools, and graduated from the college at Valparaiso, Ind., 1884.

  He was engaged in the mail service on the Chicago & Alton Railroad one year,
spent a short time at Maryville, Mo., and located at Clarinda, Iowa, where he
became assistant teller in the bank of an uncle, I. J. Poley. Having remained
there a short time he went to Quitman, Mo., and engaged in the grain business.
In 1875 he became assistant book-keeper and secretary in Smith, Poley & Co.'s
mills at Brewton, Ala., and in February, 1887, came to Decatur, and established
a lumber business in partnership with M. D. Jones, whose interest he bought out
later. He has a successful trade.

  Elisha Poley was born in Fayette County, Ky., in 1826, and Mary C. Thrasher
was born in Waverly, Ill., in 1844. He was a self-educated man, and taught
school from 1848 until 1856, near Auburn, Ill. He went to California in 1865,
and spent six years in speculating and mining in that State and Nevada. After
various adventures in Illinois, he located in Maryville, Mo., in 1874, and dealt
in grain there until his death in the same year. He had seven children born to
him, of whom Bert E. was the second.


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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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