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Title: History of Daviess and Gentry counties, Missouri
Year: 1922 (1920s)
Authors: Leopard, John C Hillman, Mary McCammon McCammon, Robert McMillen, 1842-1922
Subjects: Daviess County (Mo.) -- History Gentry County (Mo.) -- History
Publisher: Topeka : Historical Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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of age at the time of hismothers death, grew up in Cameron, and attended the schools there. Helearned the milling business under the efficient instruction of his father.In 1881 he left Cameron, and joined his brother, Peter P. Cline, at Gallatin.Peter P. Cline had spent his boyhood in Missouri, but returned to Pennsyl-vania later on. He and W. G. Cline Were the founders of the present millat Gallatin and the present success of the company may be traced to theexcellent work done by the two brothers in the early days of the enterprise.The industry was operated under the firm name of Cline and Cline, untilthe death of Peter P. Cline in 1912. The Cline brothers started with abuhr mill, and for six years, used three run of buhrs. Then they put inrolls, and in 1913 the present mill was built, and equipped with three doublerolls, two Buckleys, and one high corn mill. An oil engine is used. The business was incorporated in 1913 with Mr. Cline as president; I—I >
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HISTORY OP DAVIESS AND GENTRY COUNTIES 601 Homer Feurt, vice president; and Dr. R, V. Thompson as secretary. Twomen are employed, and the business is one of the successfully managedcommercial ventures of the county. During the World War the companyhad a contract with the government, and the mill was conducted as a partof the government machinery. The trade marks of the mill products areSunbeam and Old Dutch, and these names are now to be found in allparts of Missouri. W. G. Cline was married in 1879 to Mary Munsell, born in Ohio in1858. Her parents were D. A. Munsell, born in Ohio in 1825, and died atCameron, Mo., in 1888, and Hope (Skidmore) Munsell, born in Ohio in1830, and died at Gallatin in 1914. Mr. and Mrs. Cline had three children:Gertrude deceased; Fayetta, married to C. T. Mills, an assistant in theDaviess County Mill; and Helen at home. Mr. Cline is a Republican, and is a member of the Methodist churchSouth, of which he is a steward. He was a member of the city council,and

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