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Arkansan, One of Largest Cotton Planters, Victim Of Illness. Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 28--R. E. Lee Wilson, 67, founder and sole owner of the “model”town of Wilson, Ark., one of the world’s largest cotton planters and a powerful figure in Arkansas poli tics, died here yesterday after an extended illness. Mr. Wilson was brought here last Wednesday from Hot Springs, Ark., where he sought relief from the cancer ailment with which he had suffered for several years. An operation was resorted to a few days ago in a futile effort to save his life. His farming operations cover 40,000 acres in Mississippi county, Arkansas, alone. In addition to the acreage owned in other states, and operated in connection with the Wilson plantation, is a pedi greed cotton seed farm where a special “Wilson type” of big boll button is raised, Mr. Wilson was recognized as ‘possibly the largest individual cotton producer in the world. He was a Stockholder in a Memphis cotton firm, through which he sold 7,314 bales of cotton grown on his farms in 1929 for $712,557. The check given in payment for the cotton was one of the largest fever drawn on a Memphis bank. In the spring of 1626 he shipped the largest single order of pedi greed cottonseed ever sold in the South--a train load of 25 cars of the big bull variety. It was bought by the Red Cross for rehabilita tion of approximately 60,000 acres of Louisiana land, devastated by the flood , of 1927. He once built a railroad through
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Harrison Daily Times
Harrison, Arkansas, US
Thu, Sep 28, 1933
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