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WHO IS WHO IN AMERICA 1950 p.747
RULE, Arthur Richards, community builder; b. Goshen, Ky., Dec. 6, 1876; s. Rev. John and Mary 11 W. R.; student dist., pct. schs. and acad.; m. Elizabeth Bacon Wright, Mar. 21, 1903; children-Patricia K. (wife of Albert Kellogg Stebbins, U.S. Army), Arthur R. (USN), Walter W., Mary W. (wife of George B. Coale, USN), Elizabeth W. (wife of D. B. Johnson, U.S. Army). With Crutchfield & Woolfolk, fruit distbrs., Pitts., 1898-1911; orgnr. Fla. Citrus Exchange, 1903; orgnr. No. Am. Fruit Exchange, N.Y., 1911; organizer Gen. Sales Agy. Am., 1915; an organizer, 1922, gem. mgr., 1923-30, Federated Fruit and Vegetable Growers; chum. orgn. corn. United Growers, Am., 1929--; pres. Mutual Service Corp.; owner, developer of Wychwood, Westfield, N.J. (home community, awarded 1st place by Am. Inst. Architects for archtl. standard, 1936); v.p., dir. Deerfield Groves Co.; pres. Sixteen Jane Street, Inc., 37 East 67th St. Corp., 26 East 83d Street Corp.; mem. gen. organizing corn. 2d Pan Am. Standardization Conf., Washington, 1927; mem. exec. corn. Nat. Council of Farmers' Coop. Marketing Assn. Mem. Home Builders Inst. of Am. (charter), Am. Inst. of Cooperation (charter, dir.), Am. Friends of Lafayette, Acad. Polit. Set., Am. Corn. Inst. of Agr. at Rome. Presbyn. Clubs: Economic, Southern Society; Filson (Louisville). Contbr. on troop. marketing of fruits and vegetables. Rome: 1011 Wychwood Rd., Westfield, N.J. Office: 580 Fifth Av., N.Y.C. Died June 27, 1950; buried Goshen, Ky.
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