The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . T. J. Meiiiner. buying and selling lands, lots and houses whoare in the business because they have idlecapital and see money in it; but thei-e are oth-ers who have no choice—there are men who tothe profession are born; they are kiiown as nat-ural traders, and close to the top in this classstands T. J. Meri-iner. Mr. Merriner was b
The story of StreatorBeing an account of the growth of its institutions civic, social and industrial, with special reference to its manufacturing and business interests; together with an outline of its early history and life sketches of some of its leading citizens . T. J. Meiiiner. buying and selling lands, lots and houses whoare in the business because they have idlecapital and see money in it; but thei-e are oth-ers who have no choice—there are men who tothe profession are born; they are kiiown as nat-ural traders, and close to the top in this classstands T. J. Meri-iner. Mr. Merriner was born in Virginia and Streator. He ap]irentieed as a mason and aftermastering the details of the craft, worked as ajourneyman, later branching out for himself asan independent general contractor in the build-ing line, in which he continued until less thana year ago, when he opened a real estate officeover the Peoples Trust & Savings V\lieif All. .Milliner Offices. This dei)!irture on his part was but theculmination of his lifes inclinations and in-tent, for during all of the years he had beena contractor he had been profiting by the op-portunities afforded to learn land and lot and TH>: STOR^ OF 119 location vahios. and as a result of the manytransaction already entered into, when he open-ed his real estate ollicc he had a variety ofIjrojterties all his own. He had options onmany other choice hits liere and there over the in,,- land investments in other growing andra])idly developing section, will make no mis-take in talking the matter over with him be-fore reaching a decision. Here is one real estate man that sells and
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