The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1919-07-21
1albott Sells Stock to His
brother, c. b. Talbot, Who
Comes to keokuk to be
Head Of Business.
vroKUK MAN GOES EAST
uo, Retiring from Business, But
VIII Not Work 20 Hard and
Enter Lumber Business
More Extensively

change in the internal arrange
-ants of the largest grain concern
~ this part of the country takes u
u s from Keokuc to the east
"a brings to Keokuk G. B. Talbot
M az" has been living at Laclede,
Missouri. s .. ,,.d
~. w. his own shoulders the active
llom cement of that business while
ha e still young enough to enjoy
m ms Int will not retire entirely, and
iii Iii give his chief attention to the
S,,her business in which he is en-
.a To a considerable extent, but
sssh;ch has been a minor business in
.orest compared with the big grain
hns,ness he has been conducting for
years. . +, NV,
york state as yet not determined,
ahout the middle of September. c.
D Talbot is now seeking house in
which to live in Keokuk.
Headquarters Remain Here.
The grain business of these broth
ors has been conducted in forty-two
towns in Iowa and Missouri in which
thew have elevators. The Missouri
business was done by both as a
partnership, with c. B. Talbot in
charge of it with headquarters at
Iaclede. The Iowa business was
4 done by corporation, the O. A. Tai
| bott company, owned by o. A. Tai
4 bolt himself.
c. B. Talbot has bought half the
stock of the Iowa corporation and
retains his half Of the Missouri part
nership, which gives him half in
terest in the whole business. He
takes active charge of it all with
headquarters at Keokuk. which has
always been the administrative CEN
ter of the large concern.
They have twenty-One elevators in
Iowa and an equal number in Mis-
souri, towns, southern Iowa and
northern Missouri being their field
Big Business Built Up Quickly.
The Talbot concern is the largest
in Iowa or Missouri in the grain bust
active head of it since it's smaller
beginnings in 1895. 1t started at
0sceola, near which the four Talbot
brothers were reared on farm. Two
are now in the big grain concern
with its headquarters in Keokuk,
one is in the grain business at
0sceola, and the fourth is a promi-
nent grain man in Canada
AS it expanded, o. A. Talbot, the
elder brother and founder of the
business, took into it his two BROTH
ers, G. B. Talbot and Harry w. Tai
bolt, the latter now operating a
group of elevators around Osceola
where he still lives. c.. B. Talbot,
who now becomes the operating head
CT the business, came into it in 1912.
If 1903, 0. A. Talbot came to Keo-
kuk, built the large elevator here and
established the head offices of the
whole business in this city
From Small Beginnings.
starting in Osceola, twenty-five
years ago, with small capital, he has
increased the business to $3,OO0,00O a
year and very large investments Of
capital in the Missouri partnership
and the Iowa corporation.
Aside from its Importance in the
corn, oats and wheat trade, it has Il
commanding position in the timo.t..
see market, as it has been for Yeas
tEe largest buyers of timothy seed
IN northern Missouri and south arn
iowa. and that territory produces
1wrthirds of the timothy seed in the
tied States.
Inc business Of both the Missouri
partnership and the Iowa corpora
,lon will continue exactly as before,
put e B. Talbot replaces o. A. 1'al-
oott in active, detail charge of it,
and e. W. Schell becomes manager
Oh the Missouri business with Offices
AZ d Laclede. where C. B. Talbot has
To Get Out Of TreadnjJI.