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McKinlock B 22--J. M. Preston...
County bank. Later they progressed to Des Moines, to Chicago. Banker Stevens began his career in a Preston (Minn.) wagon factory as a small but husky boy, working overtime to help his mother balance the household accounts. At 20, he embarked for the nearest big city, which happened to be Minneapolis. He worked for the F. H. Peavey Co., who are now the largest grain merchants in the U. S. He became an investment banker. When he was 46, he went to Chicago, as vice president of the old Illinois Trust & Savings Bank. Last year he became president...
Died. Miss Jessie Claire McDonald, 59, for 15 years principal of the National Cathedral School for Girls, Washington, D. C., trustee of Wellesley College; in Preston, Canada...
...Preston S. Arkwright, Atlanta lawyer, went into the office of President Henry Morrell Atkinson of the Georgia Railway & Power Co., asked him to sign certain securities. "Sign them yourself," said President Atkinson, and went on working. Politely Lawyer Arkwright insisted...
Last week on the Million Dollar Pier at Atlantic City, N. J., before 10,000 utility-men, and with more formality, Preston S. Arkwright (now president of the Georgia Power Co.) was installed as president of the National Electric Light Association...