Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1877-02-02
OUR BUSINESS MEN.

OUR BUSINESS MEN.
Having given Il readers an inventor.
of the Staunton tradesmen on Main stree
we now propose ito do" Augusta street
commencing at the G. & o. Depot will
the coal and lumber firm Of
LAREW, SON 81 LEWIS,
which has been established here nearl,
three years. The senior member, Mr.. Jno
j. Larew, resided at Greenville until TIT
year 1862, when he removed to the neigh
borhood of Bethel Church. Having rode
as sheriff and constable for nineteen years
in Augusta, few men in the county art
better known.
His son, r. Frank Larew, had his first five
years business training with Nh. Chas. t
Palmer at Arbor Hill, and came to Staun'
ton four years ago, entering the employ Of
Jas. Bumgardner & Son, where he remain,
ed only one year before going into his pre-
sent business. During his residence Of foul
years in Staunton Mr.. Larew has made
many friends, and the confidence and
esteem with which he is regarded in the
community, found expression last April
in his election to the City Council, OF
which honorable body he is the youngest
member.
! Mr.. Jas. NJ. Lewis is a Port Republic
man and is attendingto the lumber branch
of the business at Sherando. The firm are
prepared to fill any builders orders in
| Staunton from their Sherando Mill and
Lumber Yard, and keep their yard at the
depot well stocked with Nuttalburg splint
and Anthracite coal of all sizes, and wood
sawed to order or delivered by the cord
measure.
Mr.. Jno. Wilson, for twenty years a
citizen Of G%reenville, has recently come to
assist this firm and may be always found
at their office, ready to give courteous at
tention TO their customers.
First in the Stuart Block, opposite the
q. q o. Depot, is the house Of n of our
most active and enterprising men,
NJ. ERsKINE MILLER,
dealer IN coal, wood, lumber, groceries,
&c.
Mr.. Miller is a native of Huntsville,
Alabama, and while a boy his father re-
moved to Texas where he grew up
commenced business, and operated success
fully several large mercantile establish>
ments for some years. Leaving Texas in
1870, MI. M. a year or two afterwards 10
Gated in Staunton, going into the grocery
and produce business at his present stand
with Mr.. A. W. Mcclure, under the style
of Mcclure & Miller, which co>partner-
ship lasted three years, at the expiration of
which time it was dissolved and Mr.. Mil
Ter associated with his brother, A. d. Mill
Ter, carried on the same business in one of
the rooms which the former firm had occu
pied and has his coal and wood yard on the
rail- DAD near the depot, where he keeps a
large stock of Goals and wood. At the time
MI. M. settled here, he also went into the
banking and mercantile business in Hunt
iugton, West Virginia, the concern there
being Russell & Miller, who are still oper>
ating the Bank Of Huntington By the
daring robbery of this bank, in Sept, rs.
it will be recollected there wal nearly
$4,000 lost one of the robbers is now il
the West Virginia penitentiary, two were
subsequently killed aud the fourth is at
large.
MI. FL. l.. Powell is Miller's very eff
cient assistant. He is a Loudoun man and
was in business both in Richmond and
New York before coming to Stauuton.
where he first engaged in the grocery bust
ness with the firm of Taylor, CatIett Il
Powell. Mr.. P. has done a great deal to
develope the coal business in Staunton, and
seems so ~inseparably connected with it,
that it sends a warm glow over one to meet
him on the street of a cold day.
The firm of
L. BUMGARDNER s. CO.,
whiskey dealers and diStillers in the Stuart
Block, next door to Miller's, is a wells
known house and has extensive dealings
all over Virginia, while it's trade extends
to South Carolina and Florida.
Mr.. B~umgardner, when a young man.
first managed the distillery of his father,
Mr.. Jacob Bumgardner, near Bethel
Church, but IN early life he emigrated to
Missouri, where he engaged in the mer-
camille and real estate business and re-
NAMED eighteen years. Returning to Au-
gusta he sold goods at Greenville for fifteen
years, also engaged in the manufacture OF
whlskey in connection with Messrs. Jno.
y,rou, 4, Wy Nyofvuro in which fbav
continued until the commencement of the
war.
Mr.. G. Hale is the Co. Of this concern
and a South Carolinian by birth, having
resided many years in Alabama. He came
to Virginia in '67 and engaged in farming
till the year '73, when he went into his
present business with Mr.. B~umgardner.
They rebuilt and improved an old disslllery
on the G. & o. R. b., about a mile and a
half from Stanton, and have done a pay
ing business, their brand becoming very
popular and standing high in the market
everywhere it las been introduced.
The WATER WoRKs.--Friday night there
Was a full meetingo Of the City Council, Mr..
B. 7. Bagby alone being absent, to hear
the report OF Mr.. j. T. Smith, the gentle
man sent on here by Mr. Worthington, the
maker, to instruct the new engineer, sur
perintendent A. W. Smith. Mr.. Smith was
closely questioned, particularly by Mr.. ].
B. Evans, the Chairman OF the Water
Committee, and his answers were SO salts
factory that Mr.. F. j. Smiths engagement
| lo.o .uun 4orn,irntod Mr. Smith caid tLnt