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Summers Ancestor Contributes To Economy In Texas
J W Summers, a Rusk merchant and planter born September 13 1846 in Rutherford County Tennessee, grew up in Cherokee County Texas. He moved to Rusk in 1853 and built a large dry goods business, with land and farms, cited as one of the city’s oldest and most influential citizens.
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