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Interview with William Durbrow, Irrigation Leader (1958) (233 pages)
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BIOGRAPHICAL
Family Backrround
Baum? First of all, I'd like to find out about your perents.
Durbrow: My parents were both born in New York City. My
father was Alfred K. Durbrow and my mother was Clara
Pierson, and they were both from old New Yorker families. My father's family goes back in New York to my
great<creat-grandfether, who wes merried in 1776 in
New York City. My father was streight English.
My father's mother died when he was a year and
e helf 01d, so he was brought up by his grandfather.
When my father was about eight years old he went to
live with his father in Chicago for e short time,
His father hed gone to Chicago and there formed the
firm of Durbrow end Hubbard. It wes a very wellknown concern at that time and they were importera
of wheat from the middlewest country. And my father
often spoke of the frozen hogs coming in on the top
of the wheat. They operated a grain elevator,
Baum? Frozen hogs?
Durbrow: Oh, yes, that's the way they brought the hogs in,
There was no refrigeration in those days, They