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Submitted: 7/21/14 • Approved: 10/15/19 • Last Updated: 10/18/19 • R1024465-G0-S3
Dec 31,1876-Dec 10,1942
:Mr.John W. Alderson, Vice-President of Fussell-Graham-Alderson Co., is a native of Virginia, having been born in Lebanon, on December 31,1876. He is a son of Judge Thomas M. and Adah V.(Davis) Alderson, married Oct.7,1874 Russell Co., Virginia. His father is also a native of Virginia, and his mother of Tennessee. Mr. Alderson served his time at clerking, and at the age of nineteen, embarked in the shoe and hat business, at Bristol, Virginia-Tennessee, which was carried on successfully, the firm being The Davis-Alderson Co.. He was educated in the public schools, and finished at the Baker-Himel University of Knoxville, Tennessee. On October 31,1901, Mr. Alderson was married to Miss Annie Katherine Rollwage, youngest daughter of Mr.& Mrs. L. Rollwage, of this city, and one child, Ada Louise, born Sept.1,1904, has blessed their union. The subject of this sketch came to Forrest City from Bristol in 1902, and a short time thereafter succeeded Hon. Otto B. Rollwage in the mercantile business of L. Rollwage & Co., and the firm name was changed to Rollwage & Alderson. He owns his home, farming lands in the St. Francis and L'Anguille Bottoms, and is also associated in several other business, viz.;Bank of Eastern Arkansas, the Forrest City Gin Co., and the Forrest City Hotel Co..
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