Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . etween buyer and seller, broker and commissionmerchant, planter and manufacturer, this useful Association was or-ganized in 1867. It is well-nigh impossible now to over-estimate theadvantages which have accrued to the commercial interests of Lynch-burg through the labors of this influential organization, whose list of ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE, m membership bears the names of every tobacco manufacturer, ware-houseman, broker and dealer in the City. The following gentlemenare the present Officers and Committeemen : President, John T. Ed-w
Sketch book of Lynchburg, VaIts people and its trade .. . etween buyer and seller, broker and commissionmerchant, planter and manufacturer, this useful Association was or-ganized in 1867. It is well-nigh impossible now to over-estimate theadvantages which have accrued to the commercial interests of Lynch-burg through the labors of this influential organization, whose list of ITS PEOPLE AND ITS TRADE, m membership bears the names of every tobacco manufacturer, ware-houseman, broker and dealer in the City. The following gentlemenare the present Officers and Committeemen : President, John T. Ed-wards ; Mee-President, R. II. T. Adams; Seeretary and Treasurer,James Franklin, Jr.; Supervisoroj Weiglits, S. W. Younger; ExecutiveCommittee, N. R. Bowman, (Chairman), R. L. Miller, C. L. Wright,S. W. Younger, James M. Booker, Jr., E. M. Heard, Wm. King, Jr.,E. A. Allen, David Walker; Aibitration Committee, T. E. Murrell,(Chairman), J. H. Smith. H. H. Withers, John H. Flood, W. The annual meeting of the Association is held on the first Monday. RESIDENCE OP MR. JOHN D. HOLT. (corner of WASHINGTON AND HARRISON STREETS.) in October, and the regular monthly meetings on the first Monday ofeach month. Special meetings are called from time to time by thepresiding officer or members of the Executive Committee as mattersof urgency arise. The Lynchburg Tobacco Association is perhaps the best organizedand most systematic commercial body in Virginia, if not in the wholeSouth ; and it is but just to state that this state of efficiency has beenattained, to a great extent, through the untiring energy and incessantvigilance of its President, Mr. John T. Edwards, who was elected tothis position in October, 1885, and re-elected in 1886, after havingpreviously served the Association as Vice-President. His member- 132 SKETCH BOOK OF LYNCHBURG, VA. ; ship dates back to 1873, since which time he has attended ever>^meeting of the Association, except two ; and on one of these occa-sions
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