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Paine & Fishburn Granite Company in Grand Island
Paine & Fishburn Granite Company, Grand Island
PAINE & FISHBURN GRANITE COMPANY
Paine & Fishburn Granite Company in Grand Island, Nebraska.
"[Ira T. Paine] arrived with but a small amount of capital but as he was frugal, a hard worker and had early acquired industrious habits, he soon found employment and for six years worked in a lumber yard after which he went into the railway mail service where he remained seven years. In the spring of 1888 he embarked independently in the monument business, a con cern which has developed into a stock company of large importance, under the firm name of the Paine-Fishburn Granite Company, oper ating with a capital! stock of $64,000. Mr. Paine is president of the company and much of its success is due to his careful, conserva tive guidance of its affairs." To Read More History About Paine-Fishburn Granite Company
History of Hall Cuonty Nebraska (1920), p. 822.
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