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Portrait
and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and Richland Counties Illinois,Containing Biographical Sketches of
Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors of the State, and the Presidents of the United States.
(Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p. 195.
Transcribed by Judy Rosella Edwards.
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EFFINGHAM
APPLE ORCHARD COMPANY was organized in February, 1892, with a capital stock of $15,000. The following gentlemen
were elected as its officers: E. N. Rinehart, President; Calvin Austin, Vice-President; William Dyke, Secretary
and Superintendent: and Joseph Partridge, Jr., Treasurer. The corporate powers of the Effingham Apple Orchard Company
provide for buying land, planting orchards and for the growing of and dealing in fruit. The company has forty acres
of land adjoining the city limits of Effingham on the north, and this tract is planted in apples and plum trees
and small fruits. They expect to plant forty acres a year, and may exceed that number in favorable seasons. Additional
tracts of land are being contracted for, and the outlook for the business is most promising. Its stock is already
quoted above par. This section of Illinois possesses great natural advantages as a fruit-growing region, and public
attention is being attracted to the subject of making fruit the great staple of this part of the State.
Portrait and Biographical Record of Effingham, Jasper and
Richland Counties Illinois, Containing Biographical Sketches of Prominent and Representative Citizens, Governors
of the State, and the Presidents of the United States. (Chicago: Chapman Brothers, 1887), p. 532. Transcribed by
Judy Rosella Edwards.
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