| Born 05 Dec 1833,
in Lowell, MA, Alvah was the son of Alvah and
Elizabeth (Wood). Accepting a clerkship in a
wholesale hardware houe in New York City, he
remained in that employ for three years before
coming west. In Moline, Illinois he embarked in
the wholsale hardware business until 1859 when he
went to Pike's Peak to search for gold.
Disappointed, he eventually returned to Moline
and in 1869 formed a co-partnership with his old
employer, John Deere. He and John's son Charles
Mansur then open an agricultural implement house
in Kansas City, Missouri known as Deere, Mansur
& Co. and manufactured corn platers with
great success. In 1890 he sold his interest in the
Kansas City house and purchased Mr. Deere's'
interest in the St. Louis house, then conduction
business with his brother-in-law, Lewis Bates
Tebbetts, forming the Mansur & Tebbetts
Implement Company, of which Mr. Mansur became
president. He was officially involved in the
American Exchange Bank of St. Louis, the St.
Louis Trust Company, and the Crystal Plate Glass
Company as well as a member of many of the local
clubs and a member of the GAR Ransom Post.
He married Miss
Angeline P. Blockington, of Pennsylvania, who
died March 17, 1870, leaving one child, Nellie
Blockington Mansur, wife of George J. Kaime, of
St. Louis.
According to his death
notice in
the Los Angeles Times, Alvah died at the
Westminster Hotel of pneumonia. His Last Will
& Testament had been dated 14 Dec 1897, and
the distribution of his "liberal
bequeats" to relatives was reported in The
Daily Leader - the largest portion of which was
left to his son-in-law, George Kaime.
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