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Author: S. J. Clarke (Publisher, 1922)

VICTOR ANDERSON.
    Victor Anderson, an alert, energetic business man, now general manager of
the Fort Smith Brick Company, with offices in the Merchants National Bank
building, is a native son of this state, his birth having occurred in Van Buren,
Arkansas, in 1880. No special events occurred to vary the routine of life for
him in his boyhood, which was largely devoted to the acquirement of a public
school education in Fort Smith. He mastered the work of successive grades until
he had completed three years in high school and also a business course. In early
manhood he filled the office of deputy United States marshal and most loyally
and capably performed the duties of that position. It was in 1914 that he
entered the service of the Fort Smith Brick Company as a salesman, and
thoroughly acquainting himself with the work and manifesting marked capability
and adaptability, he was advanced to the position of sales manager in 1917.

    The Fort Smith Brick Company was organized as the Burke Brick Company by the
Burke brothers, who secured an extensive contract for paving the streets of Fort
Smith. The wonderful quality of shale found in this vicinity, especially adapted
to the manufacture of brick, resulted in making a splendid finished product,
used in paving the streets, and thus the brickmaking industry became a firmly
established enterprise of Fort Smith. The entire output of the original factory
was used for street paving for some time, but later was used for construction
work. Among the buildings that have been built with the product of the Fort
Smith Brick Company are the new dormitory of Galloway College at Searcy,
Arkansas; the high school building at Little Rock; the station of the Missouri,
Kansas & Texas Railroad and the Frisco station at Durant, Oklahoma: the station
of the Midland Valley Railroad at Fort Smith; the Frisco station at Hugo,
Oklahoma; the plant of the Cooke-Boyd Motor Company at Fort Worth, Texas: the
Bank of Commerce at El Dorado, Arkansas; the hospital at El Dorado; the high
school at De Valls Bluff. Arkansas; the federal post office at Rogers, Arkansas;
and many residences throughout this and other states. In the position of general
manager Mr. Anderson has greatly developed the business, which is now one of
very gratifying proportions. He has constantly studied the trade and striven to
extend the commercial activity of the company and the results achieved have been
most, gratifying and satisfactory to the corporation which he represents.


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Citation:
Centennial History of Arkansas
Volume II
Chicago-Little Rock: The S. J. Clarke Publishing Company
1922



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