Biography of George M Rosengrant, Greene Co, AR

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        Date: 5 Sep 1998
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Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Northeast Arkansas

page 168

George M. Rosengrant, manufacturer of lumber and cooperage, Paragould, Ark. The
business interests of this portion of the country are well represented by the subject
of this sketch, George M. Rosengrant, who has been located long enough at this place
to become firmly established. He was born in Wyandot County, Ohio, in October, 1855,
and is the son of James and Lenora (Connor) Rosengrant, both natives of the Buckeye
State. The father was a large stock dealer, and is now deceased. George M. Rosengrant
grew to manhood in Guernsey County, of his native State, received his education in
the common schools, and subsequently attended the college at Antrim, Ohio. At the age
of sixteen he began to learn telegraphy, which he continued for five years for the
Pennsylvania Railroad Company. He then engaged in the lumber business in Wyandot
County, Ohio, where he carried on a good trade until 1884, when he came to Greene
County, Ark., and located at Paragould. Here he established his present business and
has been occupied in the manufacture of lumber ever since. He added the cooperage
department in the winter of 1888. He runs a large mill and employs on an average
fifty men. In the year 1883 he chose Miss Kitty Jurenall, a native of Wyandot County,
Ohio, for his companion in life. Mr. Rosengrant averages about $75,000 annually from
his mill business, and aside from this he is the owner of 5,000 acres of land, all of
which has valuable timber thereon. He is a substantial, representative business man,
is a member of the Knights of Pythias, and a progressive, enterprising citizen of the
county.