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Politicians in the Lumber and Timber Business in Missouri


  Elmer T. Allison (1883-1982) — of Seattle, King County, Wash.; Cleveland, Cuyahoga County, Ohio; Manhattan, New York County, N.Y.; Bethel, Fairfield County, Conn.; Washington. Born in Houstonia, Pettis County, Mo., December 5, 1883. Son of Nathaniel Allison and Mattie (Johnson) Allison. Sawmill worker; arrested in Cleveland, 1919, on charges of violating the state's criminal syndicalism law; Workers candidate for New York state senate 14th District, 1926; poet. Member, Industrial Workers of the World. Died in Olympia, Thurston County, Wash., July 18, 1982 (age 98 years, 225 days). Interment at Woodbine Cemetery, Puyallup, Wash.
  Relatives: Son of Nathaniel Allison and Mattie (Johnson) Allison; married 1908 to Anna Theresa Swanson; married 1922 to Rose Rosen; brother of Hortense Allison (who married Alfred Wagenknecht); uncle of Helen Allison Winter (who married Carl Winter). See Wagenknecht-Winter family.
  See also Wikipedia article
  Image source: Marxists Internet Archive
  Samuel Washington Arnold (1879-1961) — also known as Samuel W. Arnold; Wat Arnold — of Kirksville, Adair County, Mo. Born near Downing, Schuyler County, Mo., September 21, 1879. Son of Cumberland Wilson Arnold and Mary Elizabeth (Hill) Arnold. Republican. School teacher; superintendent of schools; lumber dealer; U.S. Representative from Missouri 1st District, 1943-49; defeated, 1948, 1950. Presbyterian. Member, Rotary; Freemasons. Died in Kirksville, Adair County, Mo., December 18, 1961 (age 82 years, 88 days). Interment at Maple Hills Cemetery, Kirksville, Mo.
  Relatives: Married, December 24, 1904, to Myra Gertrude Mills.
  See also congressional biography — Govtrack.us page — Wikipedia article — Find-A-Grave memorial
  William Forest Phares (b. 1886) — also known as William F. Phares — of Maryville, Nodaway County, Mo. Born in Sharon, Barber County, Kan., June 7, 1886. Son of Edgar C. Phares and Mary (Craig) Phares. Republican. Lumber dealer; hardware business; banker; member of Missouri Republican State Committee, 1914-26; Missouri Republican state chair, 1924-26, 1948; delegate to Republican National Convention from Missouri, 1928, 1940. Protestant. Member, Elks; Freemasons; Shriners. Burial location unknown.
  Relatives: Married to Maude Marie Bainum.
  Henry Arthur Quellmalz (b. 1884) — also known as Henry A. Quellmalz — of Peach Orchard, Clay County, Ark.; St. Louis, Mo. Born in Missouri, September 8, 1884. Democrat. Lumber company manager; alternate delegate to Democratic National Convention from Arkansas, 1928. Burial location unknown.

 

 


 
   
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