Robert Alexander Long (December 17, 1850 - March 15, 1934) was a wood baron, developer, investor, newspaper owner, and philanthropist. He spent most of his life in Kansas City, Missouri and founded Longview, Washington and Longville, Louisiana.
In 1906, Long had 250,000 acres (1,000 km 2 ) of pines in Arkansas, Oklahoma, and Louisiana and turned them into 61 lumberyards. Since the woodland has been deforested in Louisiana, he moved west to the state of Washington and bought 270,000 acres (1,100 km 2 ) from Douglas fir. There he became a pioneer in reforestation. Long eventually has many acres of land and buildings, which include the United States of Washington D.C. to Washington state.
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Initial years
Long born December 17, 1850, in Shelbyville, Kentucky, one of nine children born of Samuel M. Long and Margaret Kinkead White. His mother is Joseph Clay's cousin Stiles Blackburn and Luke P. Blackburn. Three Long brothers, Thomas, E. S. and Belvard, served in the American Civil War but Robert was still too young.
Long moved to Columbus, Kansas in 1873 where his uncle, C. J. White, was a banker. In 1874, Long met Martha Ellen Wilson aged 19 years. He's a Quaker and a school teacher. After one year of courtship, the two married on December 16, 1876. A son lived only a few weeks but the couple had two daughters. In 1879, Sally America Long (Ellis) was born, and in 1881 their youngest daughter, Loula Long (Combs; d 1971) was born.
Long start the straw company along with his cousin Robert White and a friend, Victor B. Bell; the straw business failed but the three were able to sell the wood from the warehouse of straw. Seeing the timber was their request order more wood. Good business and partners open more yards. In 1877, the youngest couple, Robert White, died and the remaining partners bought his share. Robert and Victor formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas.
While in Columbus he bought 1,520 hectares (620 ha) and developed a lucrative coal mine with two axes in Batu City. This location is only found on the historical map, because the city is no longer present, but is on the east of NW 40th street south of the NW Meir intersection, located northwest of Columbus.
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Company Long-Bell Lumber
In 1887, Robert A. Long and Victor Bell formed the Long-Bell Lumber Company in Columbus, Kansas. The headquarters was moved to Kansas City where it remained until it was sold.
In 1889, Samuel H. Wilson, Robert's brother-in-law, who started with the company in 1887, took over the retail department, the position he held until his death on October 20, 1903. In 1891, the capital stock increased to $ 500,000. The Long-Bell Lumber Company is vertically integrated from forest to woody yard and became the largest timber company in the world at the beginning of the 20th century.
Long-Bell Lumber Company filed for bankruptcy in 1934, then filed a reorganization plan in Kansas City's federal court in 1935, following Long's death.
Louisiana
When the railroads entered Louisiana Robert Long was among the earliest to set up shop. He bought land in many parts of the country to start harvesting timber to meet the needs of his giant timber company.
In 1900, the Long-Bell Lumber Company organized the King-Ryder Lumber Company in Bon Ami, Louisiana. In 1904 the factory produced 300,000 feet of wooden planks every day that made it the largest in the area at the time. In 1903, Long-Bell organized the Hudson River Lumber Company at DeRidder and built a vast plant along the rails of Washington Street. Kansas City Southern Railroad and Sante Fe Railway ran through the Deridder.
On March 16, 1906, the Long-Bell Company bought two factories from the Bradley-Ramsey Lumber Company in Lake Charles. These include 105,000 hectares (42,000 ha) and 36 miles of Lake Charles and Leesville railways and are named Lake Charles and North Railways. This purchase includes seven locomotives and 120 car logs and a total of 58,599 miles of tracks. The new rail forms part of the Atlantic System of the South Pacific Company. In October 1906, new locations (parts 25 and 30, district 5, from western reach 8) were cleared along the route for the Longville Long Leaf Lumber Company and the city. The company built a 60-story "South Hotel", 60-storey, for workers, a large commissioner with $ 30,000 worth of supplies, primary and secondary schools, a complete machine shop, a round house, a car repair shop, and a blacksmith shop. There is also a two-storey fire station, providing services around the clock, which starts with a horse drawn carriage and then a fire truck, the First National Bank, a barber shop, and Dixie Theater.
Around 1913, Long-Bell acquired Ludington Lumber Company and transferred 3,000 acres ($ 157,000) to sustain uncut lumber. When the factory burned down in 1920, an estimated 2500 inhabitants in the city meant rivaling Fullerton. With the shrinking bridle reserves the factory is not rebuilt so the city begins to disappear. Planer was converted into a hardwood flooring factory, which was transferred to DeRidder in 1927, when all operations in Longville stopped.
States
Unions have been operating in many industries, such as trains and coal mines in the United States since 1870, and play an important role in securing a better and paying work environment. Coal miners benefit from unions because their work in poorly ventilated underground causes Pneumoconiosis also known as black lung (and even referred to as P-45),] is a fact of life. The railroad union managed to get rid of old "man-killer" links and pin couplers.
The trade union organization began in Carson, Louisiana, led by Arthur Lee Emerson and Jay Smith in December 1910. Other areas such as Lake Charles, Merryville, and East Texas soon followed. They met in Alexandria in June 1911 to establish the Wood Workers Brotherhood (BTW). The South Lumber Operator Association was created by a member factory in 1906 to stop the union organization in the future. The Association immediately took plans to include lockouts, import strikers, hire Burns agents, Pinkerton detectives, and other measures with the aim of destroying unions.
John Henry Kirby, owner of the American Timber Company in Merryville, Louisiana, did hire an agency to infiltrate the union. Other factories either imported workers or closed factories. After the events in Grabow, union workers allegedly dismissed. There is no law to protect unions such as Erdman Law for railroad workers interstate. Allgeyer case v. Louisiana (1897), and the landmark case of Lochner v. New York (1905), known as the Lochner era, admits that the state has certain "police forces" but effectively takes on a lot of state control, resulting in more controls allowed by the company. It was not until 1955, ending the Lockner era.
Employees from many sawmills are required to sign a contract with a yellow dog to prove loyalty to the company and agree not to join the union. The union office at Merryville was destroyed, and within three months of union activity stopped.
C. B. Sweet, from Long-Bell Mills, chose not to honor the lockout. Sweet has already paid her employees with cash and made other concessions and there seems to be no union action directed to the Long-Bell sawmill in Louisiana. This is not a problem with the Longview sawmills, Washington, and other areas of the country.
Washington
He founded the city of Longview, Washington, a "planned city" built in 1923 near two Long-Bell wood mills. He personally donated funds for the city's public library, junior high school, railway station, YMCA hall and Hotel Monticello. The factories are advertised as the largest in the world.
A newspaper was planned along with the city and on January 27, 1923, the first issue of Longview News came out of the press.
Long was a major shareholder until his death on March 15, 1934, and in family confidence until 1947. In 1981 the paper won the Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the eruption of Mount Helens in 1980.
Other businesses
Long is an early investor in Kansas City Southern Railroad, a source of transportation for raw materials and products. The Longview Development Company was formed to deal with real estate in Longview, Washington.
Structure affiliated with Long
Corinthian Hall
The Long House in Kansas City, named Corinthian Hall, was completed in 1911. The 72-room Renaissance French Mansion, located on Gladstone Boulevard, is the first million dollar home in Kansas City, now a Kansas City Museum. On November 14, 1980, the building was incorporated into the NRHP.
R. A. Long Building
In 1907, R.A. Long Building, a Beaux-Arts skyscraper in downtown Kansas City was built at 928 Grand Avenue. On January 8, 2003, the building was registered in NRHP.
Longview Farm
Longview Farm was built in 1913-1914, east of Jackson County, on the outskirts of Kansas City. The 2,000 acres (8.1 km 2 ) land has 42 buildings, 250 trimmed grasslands, large flower beds, and four greenhouses; in the following years fresh carnations and greetings are delivered daily. The farm section is now the site of Longview College and Longview Lake. The farm was registered in NRHP on 24 October 1985.
Liberty Memorial Monument
Long is the driving force behind the creation of Liberty Memorial Kansas City, a museum and monument of World War I. He is president of the Liberty Memorial Association and a major contributor. In less than a year the organization raised $ 2,500,000. This monument is dedicated on November 11, 1926.
R.A. Long High School
The R.A. Long High School was a gift to the city of Longview, Washington in 1923 from Robert Long. The building is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. School is one of several buildings built from personal funds.
Association
Long was involved in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), as well as his family, until his death. Loula remains faithful to the Christian Church of the Longview Chapel (Disciples of Christ) until she dies and is celebrated as one of the longest-serving members.
Long is active in some associations. Long is the president of the Southern Pine Association founded in 1915. The name was changed in 1970 to the Southern Forest Products Association with the division that became the Southern Pine Council and is still active today. Long owned by the National Lumber Manufacturers Association.
Other associations include:
- The American Christian Mission Society
- The National Brotherhood of the Disciples of Christ
- Pension Program Organizer and Pension Trustee of the Disciples of Christ
- The Council of Christian Publications. A great publisher for the religious faith books he bought.
- International Convention of the Christian Church
- Men & amp; Millions of Christian Church Movements
- Trustee of Bible College in Missouri Death and legacy
- Grabow Riot
- Hoit, Price, and Barnes
- Source
- Biography of Robert Alexander Long from A History of Kansas and Standard Chancellans, written and composed by William E. Connelley, Secretary of Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka. Chicago: Lewis Publishing Company, copyright 1918
- Robert A. Long (PDF), speech by J.C. Nichols, April 30, 1925.
- Longview History, Washington
- Liberty Memorial website
- Kansascity.com
- "Ours to Give: The Long Legacy of American Family", Video Documentary
- R. A. Long Historical Society
- Long history
- Quote
- R. A. Long Historical Society
- Corinthian hall
- R. A. Long Portrait
- New Longview Foundation
- Article on R. A. Length of VintageKansasCity.com
- Works by or about Robert A. Long in the library (WorldCat catalog)
Long died on March 15, 1934. His legacy included a city he founded and named, the churches he helped to build, 13 timber mills, 110 yards of retail timber, a door and door factory, many warehouses and prosperous cities partly with hers. business.
At Longview, Washington, the bronze statue of Long, by Alonzo Victor Lewis, was placed in the name of R. A. Long Park on August 24, 1946.
In 1956, the International Paper Company (IP) purchased all of the remaining holdings of the Long-Bell Lumber Company and renamed it IP-Long-Bell. With timber exhausted and the factory becoming old-fashioned, the IP-Bell ceased operations in 1960 and its factory was dismantled and sold. Several old giant beams were used to build a large house of Microsoft founder Bill Gates at Medina in Lake Washington.
R. A. Long Historical Society was formed in 2006.
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