Ernest Cleveland Firestone, born 1 Nov 1886, was a Botetourt County, Virginia businessman whose career spanned canning, poultry production, construction, and corporate leadership. President of Troutville Poultry Farm and active in local banking, insurance, and church work, he also expanded food-canning operations during World War I to meet wartime demand.
Biography of Samuel Riley Hurst, a Winchester horticulturist, florist, orchardist, apple packer, and landscape architect. Born in Kentucky in 1890, he worked in postal service and wholesale grocery before building Hurst Rainbowridge Gardens near Winchester. The account also notes his marriage to Juanita June Fishpaw, their two daughters, and his church and business roles.
Blair Joshua Fishburn was a Roanoke business executive, civic leader, and politician born in Big Lick in 1876. The son of tobacco manufacturer Reuben Harvey Fishburn, he attended Randolph-Macon Academy, led several banking and commercial firms, served on Roanoke’s city council and in the Virginia House of Delegates, and gave land for Fishburn Park.