Land and business
From the Rockville Post
Appleton City Journal, Appleton City, Missouri · · page 1
The text
From Rockville's new and newsy little paper, the Post, we observe that a banking house is to be established in that town. The capital stock is to be $10,000 divided into shares of $100 each. The following are the stock holders: Geo. W. Burford, J. C. Laughlin, Simon Hoffman, Lowry & Lowry, John W. Rubel, John W. Turner, R. B. Murfield, J. B. Durand, Jas. S. Hook, E. H. Carter, L. Hegnauer, A. Hammer, A. A. Wood, H. R. Field, William Kamm, John W. Baldwin, Henry T. Barbour, Henry Meyer, A. W. Ca[n]ity, Fred Fix, E. J. Scott, Dr. Sharpless, Geo. W. Robertson and S. M. Doyle.
The study’s reading
8. Appleton City Journal, Thu 18 Sep 1890, p. 1 (863244445).
Facts: he was an original stockholder of the Bank of Rockville in 1890. This confirms the obituary's "one of the charter members".
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