Southampton-Nansemond County-Roanoke City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Newspapers.....Brokers, 1891 

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            ALL HUSTLERS. 

  The Roanoke Real Estate Exchange. 

     SKETCHES OF LEADING MEMBERS 

    Facts, Faces and Figures from 
            Headquarters. 

[...] 
            J. H. CUTCHIN 
  J. H. Cutchin, of the firm of Cutchin, Ellis & Co., 
was born in Nansemond county, in February, 1846.  He 
received the best educational advatages, and at an 
early age entered the Confederate army, serving with 
Pickett's division and being engaged in some of the 
most hard-fought battles of the war, and was never on 
the sick list during the whole time. 
  Mr. Cutchin has been engaged in active business 
since early manhood, and has had success in his undertakings. 
He was for a number of years a member of the Norfolk Cotton 
Exchange and later of the board of trade of Chicago. 
  Mr. Cutchin, with Mr. Ellis, established the real estate 
firm of Cutchin, Ellis & Co. in August, 1889. 
[an engraving of J.H. CUTCHIN is included with the sketch] 

            J. R. ELLIS 
  J. R. Ellis, of the firm of Cutchin, Ellis & Co., is one of 
the good-looking real-estate meen of Roanoke, and was born in 
Southampton county in 1866, where he lived until old enough to 
leave home, at which time he attended Eastman Business College, 
graduating in 1887. 
  Mr. Ellis engaged in the mercantile business in Franklin until 
January 1889, when, impressed with the future of Roanoke, he 
removed to this city, and with his brother conducted the clothing 
business for a short while, and in August the firm of Cutchin, 
Ellis & Co. was established, Mr. Ellis being the junior member. 
[an engraving of J.R. ELLIS is included with the sketch] 
[...] 


"The Roanoke (VA) Times," Jan. 22, 1891 (Vol. 9, No. 108), 
   p. 12, col. 5-6 


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Matt Harris (zoobug64@aol.com) [line breaks mine]  

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