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ALEXANDER THURMAN, Chief of Fire Department. Mr. Thurman is ana- tive of Lynchburg, was educated in the schools there and at the Virginia Military
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Bros. He became a member of the firm of Lee, Taylor & Snead, January r, 1883. After the dissolution of the firm in 1887, he was employed by Messrs. Murrell, Fleming & Co.,tobacco commission mer- chants, and remained with that firm until his election to the office of Commissioner of Revenue, July 1, 1890. Mr. Snead has been twice re-elected. His term of office expires July r, 1902. He was fire commissioner from the First \Vard from 1886 to 1890.
THOMAS W. GREEN, register in- spector of the water works, was born in Baltimore in 1821, removed to Virginia in
7 JAS. G. RY AN, superintendent city
water works. Mr. Ryan was born and raised in Lynchburg, Virginia. He was appointed superintendent of the water
He served through the war in
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the Confederate Army, and was for a time engaged in contracting and build- ing. He was appointed lumber inspector, a position which he filled with credit. In 1879 he engaged in the feed business, which he managed successfully up to the time he was appointed Chief of the Fire Department, in 1883, a position which he has held continuously for the past sixteen years. Mr. Thurman is also proprietor of the Lynchburg Laundry.
works in July, 1895, and reappointed in July, 1897. The waterworks over which Mr. Ryan is superintendent can pump 9.000,000 gallons per day. Was estab- lished in 1826. Has one of the highest elevations to pump water of any water system in the United States.
W. L. MOORMAN & CO. This firm is reliable and up-to-date, and a leading loan and collection agency for the state of Virginia. The firm is composed of W. L. Moorman and T. Hubert Fox, both public spirited and prominent among Lynchburg's business men. Their real estate department is conducted as fol- lows: ·All money is deposited as collect- ed in the First National bank of Lynch- burg, to the credit of, and subject to the
W. M. CARROLL. Mr. Carroll is one of Lynchburg's prominent tobacco manu- facturers, and among other brands puts up the celebrated" Lone Jack" smoking tobacco. He is a native of Lynchburg, and with the exception of two years in
1845, and bas been a resident of Lynch- burg since 1867. He was engaged in the grocery business up to 1878, when he was elected register of the city water works, a position that he has continuously filled with credit up to the present time.
EDW. G. FRYE. The work of this talented architect is strongly in evidence
Greensboro, N. C., his whole life has been spent there. He filled the office of tax collector since 1895, and the fidelity and efficiency with which he has discharged the duties of the office are highly appre- ciated by the tax-payers. He is widely known for his courtesy and liberality.
WM. H. SNEAD, Commissioner of Revenue. Mr. Snead was born in Am- herst County;' Va., 1854. In December, 1870, he entered the commission house of
check or draft of the owners of the prop- erty. Statements of collections and dis- bursements with vouchers attached fur- nished the owners of property the first of each month. No disbursements being made without their consent. This firm represents two of the largest and best building and loan associations }n Amer- ica, and always have plenty of money to loan on easy terms. The company gives special attention to this branch of their business, as well as buying and selling
Rucker, Hamner & Snead, as clerk. subsequently was _employed as book- keeper by Messrs. Talbot, Jones & Co., and afterwards by Messrs. Lee & Taylor
tive of Tennessee, but has been in Vir- ginia the better part of his life, and the last fourteen years he has devoted his time continuously to his present pros- perous business, with the exception of a short time spent in Washington. Some of the principal buildings in Lynchburg which were designed by him are: The Hill City Lodge Building, Craddock & Terry's wholesale shoe bouse, Geo. D. Witt's wholesale shoe house, residences of John W. Carroll, Geo. E. Ganneway, Judge Frank Christian, Wm. S. Carroll and numerous others. Among the public buildings designed by him may be men-
tioned the new High School. Since locat- ing in Lynchburg he has had the cream of the trade in his line, and out of con- tracts amounting to over $1,ooo,ooo he has never had a single law suit.
of bonds, stocks and securities, and par- ties wishing to negotiate loans, buy, rent-, sell or exchange city or country property will do well to consult them.
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