Biography of Edward Roleson, St Francis County, AR

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Submitted by: Paul V Isbell
        Date: 19 Nov 2008
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With predecessors whose history dates back as far as 1899, the Forrest City
Cotton Oil Mill, a division of Armour & Co., is an inseparable part of the
agricultural and industrial history of Forrest City. The first ancestor of the
present day mill was the Consumers' Cotton Oil Mill, founded in 1896. It was a
branch of a Chicago firm which had numerous other mills in the South and
Southwest. The late Edward Roleson was local manager. At that time there were
only four mill buildings. It was located on West Davis Street in the
southwestern part of the city, continued under the same ownership until 1914
when Morris & Co., meat packers, bought it.


SOURCE:
HISTORY of ST. FRANCIS COUNTY, ARKANSAS, 1954 - Robert W. Chowning

Copyright, with Permission: Weston McCollum Lewey, Publisher
-Times Herald Publishing-Forrest City, Arkansas