Word: beman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Comptroller of the Currency, Brother Charles called Brother Rufus up from Marietta to run his gas companies. When he came back to found Central Trust Co. of Illinois in 1902, Rufus became cashier. Brother Henry came along a few years later, has been on the job ever since. Brother Beman was the family playboy. The others graduated from Marietta College at 19; Beman did not graduate at all. He organized one of the nation's great oil companies (Pure Oil), then left most of its management to Henry. Beman preferred to find strange new trees and shrubs...
When Father Dawes's health began to fail in 1889, it was Rufus who took over his lumber business, saw the family through the next few years, Charley was away in Nebraska, Beman and Henry were too young. Wrote the father in 1890: "Rufus will pull the stroke oar over the coming year in our business. . . . He shows excellent judgment and great capacity...
...bank being started by General Charles Gates Dawes (TIME, Sept. 12), reached a point where shares were being sold by a syndicate headed by Harold Leonard Stuart of Halsey, Stuart & Co., Col. William Franklin Knox, publisher of the Chicago Daily News and Rawleigh Warner, vice president of Brothers Beman and Henry Dawes's Pure Oil Co. The organizing committee was said to include President Sewell Lee Avery of both U. S. Gypsum and Montgomery Ward, Owen D. Young, President Robert E. Wood of Sears, Roebuck and President Philip Ream Clarke of Central Republic Bank & Trust Co., stockholders in which will...