Subject: Joseph/John Alexander POTATO KING > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[email protected]> > > > Subject: [MO-STLOUIS-METRO] Joseph/John Alexander POTATO KING > > >> Could someone please tell me if you can find some needed >> information about this person named below? >> I need to locate him on the 1920 census. >> ====================== >> >>>>>Fort Smith, Oct. 30 -- Joe Alexander, who with Mrs. >>>>>Taber was abducted and forced to sign a check for >>>>>$25,000 by a group of men who are still at large, is >>>>>said to be one of the richest men in St. Louis and >>>>>probably in Missouri. He is reported to be worth >>>>>more than $1,000,000, most of which is in his >>>>>plantation in Oklahoma, just across the Arkansas >>>>>river opposite Fort Smith. He also has a large >>>>>holdings in Arkansas. >> He is said to be one of the most progressive and >> scientific farmers in Oklahoma and has been given the >> title of "potato king" because of having the largest >> acreage and shipping of potatoes in Oklahoma. >> During the last three years he has devoted his >> plantation to the growing of cotton. He also owns large >> Southern rice fields. His plantation, which will almost >> be in the city of Fort Smith when the new free bridge is >> completed, has more than 1,000 acres in cultivation, and >> has more than 100 tenant farmers. >> Only recently he gave Fort Smith an airplane landing >> station, giving up a big slice of his alfalfa fields for >> this purpose. He also gave the city a baseball field >> just inside the Oklahoma line. He is a bachelor and >> about 45 years of age. >> -------------------------------------- >> >> >> >> Pat TABER >> [email protected] >> >> Most wanted MOM: >> >> Billie Josephine LEWIS (Mrs Henry TABER) >> >> born Newport,Jackson,Ark 1914, married in Faulkner Co >> Parents John C.Breckenridge LEWIS AND Phoebe Lykins Wood from Morgan >> Co.,Ky, as per the 1930 census, > Josephine's stepfather Fred Bogardus died in Conway, Ar @1931 > > > >