A History of the Long-bell Lumber Company and the Family at Longville, La. 1906-1934" Page 92.
| Robert Alexander Long | |
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| Born | (1850-12-17)December 17, 1850 Shelbyville, Kentucky, U.S. |
| Died | March 15, 1934(1934-03-xv) (aged 83) |
| Occupation | Co-founder of Long-Bell Lumber Visitor, real estate developer |
| Known for | Liberty Memorial; namesake of Longview, Washington and Longville, Louisiana, |
Robert Alexander Long (17 December 1850 – fifteen March 1934) was an American lumber baron, developer, investor, newspaper owner, and philanthropist. He lived almost of his life in Kansas City, Missouri and founded Longview, Washington and Longville, Louisiana.
Past 1906, Long endemic 250,000 acres (one,000 kmtwo) of pine in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana and converted it into 61 lumberyards. As the timber land was deforested in Louisiana, he moved west to the state of Washington and bought 270,000 acres (1,100 km2) of Douglas fir. There he became a pioneer in reforestation.[ citation needed ] Long eventually owned many acres of land and buildings, spanning the United states from Washington D.C. to the land of Washington.
Early on years [edit]
Long was born December 17, 1850, in Shelbyville, Kentucky, one of nine children built-in to Samuel M. Long and Margaret Kinkead White. His mother was a cousin of Joseph Clay Stiles Blackburn and Luke P. Blackburn. 3 of Long'south older brothers, Thomas, E. S. and Belvard, served in the American Ceremonious War but Robert was too immature.
Long moved to Columbus, Kansas in 1873 where his uncle, C. J. White, was a broker. In 1874, Long met nineteen-year-old Martha Ellen Wilson. She was a Quaker and became a schoolhouse teacher. After a year of courting the 2 were married Dec 16, 1876. A son lived only a few weeks merely the couple had two daughters. In 1879, Sally America Long (Ellis) was born, and in 1881 their youngest girl, Loula Long (Combs; d. 1971) was born.
Career [edit]
Long started a hay bale company along with his cousin Robert White and a friend, Victor B. Bong; the hay venture failed simply the 3 were able to sell the lumber from the hay sheds. Seeing that lumber was in demand they gild more lumber. Concern was good and the partners opened more yards. In 1877 the youngest partner, Robert White, died and the remaining partners bought out his share. Robert and Victor formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas.
While in Columbus, he bought 1,520 acres (620 ha) and developed a profitable coal mine with two shafts at Stone City. The location is establish only on historical maps, as the boondocks no longer exists today, only was only e of NW 40th street south of the junction of NW Meir road, which is northwest of Columbus.[one]
Long-Bong Lumber Company [edit]
In 1887, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The headquarters was moved to Kansas City where information technology remained until sold.
In 1889, Samuel H. Wilson, Robert's blood brother-in-constabulary, that began with the company in 1887, took over the retail department, a position he held until his expiry on October 20, 1903. In 1891, the capital stock was increased to $500,000. The Long-Bell Lumber Company was vertically integrated from the wood to the lumber yard and became the world's largest lumber visitor in the early 20th century.
Long-Bell Lumber Company filed for bankruptcy in 1934, then filed a reorganization plan in the Kansas City federal court in 1935, afterward Long's expiry.[2]
Louisiana [edit]
When the railroad entered Louisiana Robert Long was among the primeval to set up shop. He purchased land in many parts of the state to begin lumber harvesting to supply the needs of his giant lumber company.
In 1900, the Long-Bell Lumber Visitor organized the King-Ryder Lumber Company at Bon Ami, Louisiana. By 1904 the mill was producing 300,000 board feet of lumber daily which fabricated it the largest in the expanse at the time. In 1903, Long-Bell organized the Hudson River Lumber Company in DeRidder and congenital a sprawling mill across the tracks from Washington street. Kansas City Southern Railroad and the Santa Atomic number 26 Railway ran through Deridder.
On March 16, 1906, Long-Bell Company bought out two mills of the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Visitor in Lake Charles. This included 105,000 acres (42,000 ha) and 36 miles of the Lake Charles and Leesville railroad and was renamed the Lake Charles and Northern Railroad. This purchase included seven locomotives and 120 log cars and a total of 58.599 miles of tracks. The new rail formed part of the Atlantic System of the Southern Pacific Company. In Oct 1906, a new location (sections 25 and 30, township v, of range 8 west) was cleared along the route for the Longville Long Leaf Lumber Company and town. The company built the 3-story, 60-room "Southern Hotel", 163 cottages for workers, a large commissary with $30,000 worth of supplies, an unproblematic and high school, a complete machine shop, roundhouse, machine repair shop, and blacksmith shop. At that place was too a ii-story fire department building, providing around the clock service, that started with a horse-drawn wagon and then a fire truck, the First National Banking concern, a barbershop, and the Dixie Theater.[three]
Circa 1913, Long-Bong caused the Ludington Lumber Visitor and transferred 3000 acres (for $157,000) to shore upwardly the stumpage (uncut lumber) reserve. When the manufactory burned in 1920, there were an estimated 2500 residents in the town meaning it rivaled Fullerton. With the stumpage reserve dwindled the factory was not rebuilt so the town began to disappear. The planer was converted to a hardwood flooring factory, which was moved to DeRidder in 1927 when all performance at Longville ceased.[4]
Unions [edit]
Unions had been operating in many industries, such as the railroads and coal mines in the United States as early as 1870, and played an of import part in securing a better working environment and pay. Coal miners benefited from unions because their work under basis was poorly ventilated causing Pneumoconiosis also known every bit blackness lung (and even referred to every bit P-45),] was a fact of life. Railroad worker unions succeeded in getting rid of the "old man-killer" link and pin coupler.[5]
Union organisation began at Carson, Louisiana, led past Arthur Lee Emerson and Jay Smith in Dec 1910. Other areas such as Lake Charles, Merryville, and Eastern Texas soon followed. They met in Alexandria in June 1911 to established the Brotherhood of Timber Workers (BTW). The Southern Lumber Operators' Association had been created by fellow member mills in 1906 to end any hereafter union organizations. The association took immediately plans to include lockouts, importing strikebreakers, hiring the Burns agency, Pinkerton detectives, and other steps with the purpose of destroying the wedlock.
John Henry Kirby, that endemic the American Lumber Visitor in Merryville, Louisiana, did hire agents to infiltrate the union. Other mills either imported workers or closed mills. After the incident at Grabow suspected union workers were fired. There were no laws to protect unions such equally the Erdman Act for interstate railroad workers. The cases of Allgeyer v. Louisiana (1897), and the landmark case of Lochner v. New York (1905), called the Lochner era that did acknowledge that states have certain "police powers", but effectively took away a lot of land control, resulting in more visitor allowed controls. Information technology was not until 1955, ending the Lockner era.
Employees of many sawmills were required to sign yellowish-domestic dog contracts to prove loyalty to the company and agree not to bring together unions. The spousal relationship office in Merryville was destroyed, and inside three months union activities ceased.
C. B. Sweet, of the Long-Bell Mills, chose not to honor the lockout. Sweet already paid his employees in cash and made other concessions and there did not appear to be any spousal relationship action directed at the Long-Bell company sawmills in Louisiana. This was not to be the case with the Longview, Washington sawmill and other areas of the country.[6]
Washington [edit]
He founded the city of Longview, Washington, a "planned metropolis" built in 1923 near two of Long-Bell'southward lumber mills. He personally donated funds for the metropolis'southward public library, first loftier schoolhouse, train station, YMCA hall and its Hotel Monticello. The mills were advertised as the largest in the world.
A newspaper was planned along with the metropolis and on January 27, 1923, the kickoff issue of Longview News came off the press.
Long was the chief stockholder until his death on March 15, 1934, and in a family trust until 1947.[7] [8] In 1981 the paper won a Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.
Other businesses [edit]
Long was an early on investor in the Kansas Metropolis Southern Railroad, a source of transportation for his raw material and products. Longview Development Company was formed for handling real estate in Longview, Washington.
Structures affiliated with Long [edit]
Corinthian Hall [edit]
Long's home in Kansas Metropolis, named Corinthian Hall, was completed in 1911. The 72-room French Renaissance mansion, located on Gladstone Boulevard, was Kansas Metropolis'south outset 1000000-dollar dwelling, is now the Kansas City Museum. On Nov 14, 1980 the building was entered into the NRHP.
R. A. Long Building [edit]
In 1907 the R.A. Long Building,[9] a Beaux-Arts skyscraper in downtown Kansas City was congenital at 928 M Avenue. On January 8, 2003, the edifice was listed in the NRHP.
Longview Subcontract [edit]
Longview Subcontract was congenital in 1913-1914, in eastern Jackson Canton, on the outskirts of Kansas Metropolis. The 2,000-acre (8.1 km2) farm had 42 buildings, 250 acres of clipped lawns, extensive flower beds, and four greenhouses; in later years fresh carnations and gardenias were shipped daily.[10] Portions of the subcontract are at present sites of Longview College and of Longview Lake. The subcontract was listed on the NRHP on October 24, 1985.
Freedom Memorial [edit]
Long was a driving force backside the creation of Kansas City'due south Freedom Memorial, a Earth War I museum and monument. He was the president of the Liberty Memorial Association and a major contributor. In less than a year the organization collected $2,500,000. The monument was defended on November 11, 1926.
R.A. Long Loftier School [edit]
The R.A. Long High School was a souvenir to the metropolis of Longview, Washington in 1923 from Robert Long. The edifice is listed on the National Register of Historic places. The school was one of several buildings that Long congenital from personal funds.
Associations [edit]
Long was involved in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), equally well as his family, until his death. Loula remained faithful to the Longview Chapel Christian church building (Disciples of Christ) until she died and was celebrated as one of the longest attention members.[11]
Long was active in several associations. Long was the president of the Southern Pino Clan founded in 1915.[12] The name was inverse in 1970 to the Southern Forest Products Association[thirteen] with a partitioning beingness the Southern Pine Council[14] and is still active today. Long belonged to the National Lumber Manufacturers Clan.
His other associations include:[ citation needed ]
- The American Christian Mission Society
- The National Brotherhood of Disciples of Christ
- An organizer of the Alimony Plan and Trustee of the Alimony Fund of the Disciples of Christ
- The Christian Lath of Publication. A big publishing house for religious books of faith that he purchased.
- The International Convention of Christian Churches
- Men & Millions Motility of the Christian Church
- Trustee of the Bible Higher of Missouri
Death and legacy [edit]
Long died on March 15, 1934.[2] In Longview, Washington, a bronze bust of Long, by Alonzo Victor Lewis, was placed in the renamed R. A. Long Park on Baronial 24, 1946.
In 1956, International Newspaper Company (IP) purchased all remaining holdings of the Long-Bell Lumber Company and renamed information technology IP-Long-Bell. With the lumber depleted and the mill being antiquated, IP-Bell ceased operations in 1960 and the mills were dismantled and sold. Some of the giant old-growth beams were used to build Microsoft-founder Bill Gates' mansion in Medina on Lake Washington.[fifteen]
The R. A. Long Historical Society was formed in 2006.[16]
See also [edit]
- Grabow Anarchism
- Hoit, Price and Barnes
References [edit]
- ^ [i] -Stone Urban center
- ^ a b [2] - Port of Longview History
- ^ [3] -Longville
- ^ "Longville, 1906-1934". History. Metropolis of DeRidder. Retrieved January xviii, 2015.
- ^ "History of Railroad Unions in the U.S." Matrimony history . Retrieved January xviii, 2015.
- ^ Rex, Helen (August 1936). "The Economic History of the Long-Bell Lumber Visitor". History Thesis. McNeese Land University. Retrieved January 18, 2015.
- ^ [four] -Longview News
- ^ [five] -Longview News
- ^ [6] - R. A. Long Historical Society
- ^ [7] -Longview Subcontract
- ^ [8] -Loula; church membership
- ^ [nine] -Southern Pine Association
- ^ [x] -SFPA
- ^ [xi] -Southern Pine Quango
- ^ [12] -beams to build a mansion
- ^ [13] -R.A. Long Guild
Sources [edit]
- Biography of Robert Alexander Long from A Standard History of Kansas and Kansans, written and compiled past William E. Connelley, Secretary of the Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918
- Robert A. Long (PDF), spoken language by J.C. Nichols, April xxx, 1925.
- History of Longview, Washington
- Liberty Memorial web site
- Kansascity.com
- "Ours to Give: The Long Legacy of an American Family", Video Documentary
- R. A. Long Historical Club
- Long history
External links [edit]
- R. A. Long Historical Society
- Corinthian Hall
- R. A. Long Portrait
- New Longview Foundation
- Articles about R. A. Long from VintageKansasCity.com
- Works past or about Robert A. Long in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_A._Long
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