Montour County PA Archives Biographies.....POLK, Rufus K. 1866 - living in 1899
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  RUFUS K. POLK, of Danville, Pa., is general manager of the North Branch Steel
  Company, Danville, and one of the firm of Howe & Polk, manufacturers of
  structural tubing and special shapes in iron and steel products.
  
    Mr. Polk was born in Columbia, Maury County, Tennessee, August 23, 1866, and
  removed to Pennsylvania when sixteen years of age; he was educated at Lehigh
  University, where he graduated, taking first the degree of B. S. and afterwards
  that of Mining Engineer. Immediately after his graduation he located in
  Danville, Montour County, where for many years he was chemist of the Montour
  Iron & Steel Company; he finally became assistant superintendent of this
  company, and left there to become the general manager of the North Branch Steel
  Company. On February 17, 1898, the firm of Howe & Polk was organized, after the
  purchase of the Mahoning Rolling Mill Company property. This plant is busily
  engaged in the manufacture of structural tubing and special shapes, and gives
  employment to several hundred men. Mr. Polk has taken an active part in
  politics, and in 1898 was elected to represent the Seventeenth Congressional
  District in the Fifty-sixth Congress. He has also taken an interest in the local
  affairs of the town, having served for several years as president of the board
  of water commissioners.
  
    In 1892 Mr. Polk married Isabella Montgomery Grier, only daughter of Isaac X.
  Grier, of Danville. They have three children, namely: Emma Grier; Porter Grier;
  and Isabella Grier. Mr. Polk served as first lieutenant in Company F, 12th Reg.,
  Pennsylvania Volunteers, in the late war with Spain. His portrait is presented
  on a preceding page.
  
  
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  Extracted from:
    
    Book of Biographies of the Seventeenth Congressional District
    Published by 
    Biographical Publishing Company of Chicago, Ill. and Buffalo, NY (1899)
  
  
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