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G. W. Cable
C. First Johnson
Mobile, Ala.
. 11R..1011 'SON i ecretary amI general manager of the mon
'luLU<l I .\id :\s:o('iation, dislriet gra.nd masLer of the Grand
t'niLd Order of Odd F lIow in Ameri('<l. and one of the
wealthiest ~ewoes in Alabama.
He was born in Hayne. ville.. la.,
of former sla.ve par nL. oon after the
war. He is the eldest of Lwelve children.
lie went to chool o('ca. ionally. and in
ten years "got about Len months of
s('hooling. 'uch a it wa.." The old
,. blue-back speller" was hi first book,
and he ay: that each y ar when chool
wa out,-" and'Jt was aIways 'otu '
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when the children were needed on the
farm ," - he was put to work with hi
parent and other relatives, chopping
cotton, planting potatoes, plowing
c, F. Johnson corn, and doing other farm work.
Hi first \'iew of :\fontgomery wa from the top of a bale of
cotton on which he ate and lept a his father drove in from the
far-awa\.' ('ountr.\' home. At the a<Ye of fourteen he entered the
tate ::\ormal chool at Montgomery from which he graduated.
He left '('\1001 and ent red politic. He became eel' tary of the
Exccuti\'(' Committee of the tate, wa. at one time employed at
the ~Iobile eu tom Hou 1', and received minor appointments,
among them a 'hance to run the u tom Hou elevator.
He :;{ave up politic: Lo enter bu 'ine . H organized the
nion MuLua'! \id A. ociation. and in this work, as iLs first and
only gcn('ral manager, he ha, demon lJ'aLed hi. executive and
finan('ial ability. Wl1Cn he began the work of the a oeiation
his eapilnl was so mall he did not oar offer it for deposit.
The busill(,ss bas grown Lo uch proporLions that more than
six hundred X<'l:~1'0 men ano women arc now on his pay-roll,
having profitabl(' employment in indu. trial in 'urance endeavor,
Many Leadwrs. physician, and other laid th(' foundations in
the employ of Mr. John on, as solicitors for his Association.
:\Jr. John:on is a deacon of the nion Baptist hurch and a
tru. tee of elma nivcrsit.\'. ome time ago he purchased as a
home for hi' parents, who are still li"ing, a part of the old farm
of their former ma. LeI'. He i· aid to be worth about, 100,000.
George W. Cable
Indianapoli., Ind.
}In. CABLE i foreman of letter di tributer in the Indianapoli
post-office, president of avin<Ys and Investment Associat
ion. and a public-spirited citizen.
He was born at .'-'..\ton. TIL, in 1859. Soon after his birth the
family located in lVIacoupin County,
where, after year of close application
to his work, the father, George Cable,
acquired a controlling interest in a
steam sawmill. The ho tile race feeling
at the breaking out of the Civil War,
and the more inviting timbered region
of lVIichi<Yan were causes which led " ' the family, with six children, to move
northward. A steam sawmill was
erected in the town of Lawrence,
:Mich., and the family was located on
a tract of woodland, six miles farther
north. It was here George wa.
reared, and where he laid foundations for future succes .
Hi schooling consisted of the rudiment gained at a little
country school during the four months' winter term. The rural
life, which seemed to make" book learning" unnecessary; the
Chicago fire, which destroyed large stores of lumber; and other
reverses, left him without further schooling. But his love of
books, and the resolution to never pend time in idleness, made
it po sible for him to become principal of olle of the city schools
of Topeka, Kan., in 1883. After eight years in Kansas, two
years were spent as teacher in Indianapoli. In 1893 he
entered the U. S. Postal Service.
:For many ~'ear he has been identified with numerous help
effort. among hi people, having served as president of Flannel'
Guild, a colored Settlement House; president of the Industrial
avings and Inve. tment As ociation, and chairman of one of the
ections of voluntary probation officers of the Juvenile Court.
Mr . Cable has for a number of years been a director of
practice in the public chools of Indianapolis, and has taken a
leading part in helping the home life of the children of her
district by changing un ightly vacant spaces into gardens of
flowers and vegetables. Their only child, Theodore, nineteen
year of age, has entered Harvard College.
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