. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. irstock was enlarged by the addition of newdepartments and in order to meet the de-mands upnn iliem llieir store room waslengthened to one hundred and sixteen feetand the whole filled from bottom to top witha stock seven times as large as the <iriginalline. This success has come to Mr. Eversolewithout any show or liluster, purelv as a re-sult of his peculiar anil popular methods ofdoing business. Mr. Eversole has not been interested inmany enterprises, preferring rather to con-tiiie his a
. A Biographical history of Nodaway and Atchison counties, Missouri : compendium of national biography. irstock was enlarged by the addition of newdepartments and in order to meet the de-mands upnn iliem llieir store room waslengthened to one hundred and sixteen feetand the whole filled from bottom to top witha stock seven times as large as the <iriginalline. This success has come to Mr. Eversolewithout any show or liluster, purelv as a re-sult of his peculiar anil popular methods ofdoing business. Mr. Eversole has not been interested inmany enterprises, preferring rather to con-tiiie his attention to one thing and be con-tent with its success. Since the organizationof the Maryville Seminary he has been oneof its directors, and he is the secretary ofthe board. He was married, in Clalesburg,Illinois. May 18. 18S0, to Miss Dessie a sister of Mrs. C. .\. .thonv, ofMaryville. Their two children are Ralph Miss Maud l-ilIKAIM II. KALSTON. k,i<liiig interests of northwestMissouri are in the hands of a com[)arati\e-ly young generation of business men. and. , Ail, BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY 373 the consensus of opinion is to the effecttliat such interests are Ijeing managed withexceptional ability. One of the leadingprLiniinent young- men of affairs of thisrich and rapidly developing part of thestate is E])hraim H. Ralston, of Quitman,Nodaway county, the proprietor of the Rals-ton Bank and one of the foremost in allprogressive movements of the town andcount}-. Mr. Ralston organized a bank at Elmo,Nodaway county, in 1889. and was pro-jjrietor of the Farmers and [Merchants Bankof that place until 189S. when he foundedthe Ralston Bank, of Quitman. This insti-tution, under his able management, has be-come known as one of the solid and sub-stantial banks of northwest Missouri. Itoccupies a commodious two-story building,up to date in all its appointments, and itsoffice is fitted up in attractive, modern st} Ralstons strong personality and good
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