Anyone Know What Year A. LIAN Was in Business?

[Tiramisu]

They took the front siding off the Fort Worth and this was underneath!

[Petee]

Amen!

[Polo]

Usually when we have a post like this, Netzlof has an answer for us.

[Polo]

I did a little searching today on Find a Grave.com.  A photo of the grave of an Abraham Lian, 1883 - 1952, was pictured. He would have been 68 or 69 when he died.   The grave was in the Saint Catherine Cemetery in DuBois, PA.  A man by the name of Edison B. Waite, Jr., had photographed it.  He had a camp in this area at the time and had photographed many graves around here between 2007 and 2013.  If Abraham Lian was the store owner, he probably had the store in the early to mid 1900's.  If he wasn't the owner, perhaps he was a close family member of the owner, as his initials are the same.

[Petee]

Doesn't the library keep City Books of who lived and worked here in years past?

 

[BigT]

The Historical Society has City Directories dating back to the late 1800's. Unfortunately we are only open on Thursday's for 2 hours. I will check next week to see what I can find out.

[BigT]

A. Lian was in business from 1926 till 1951 as best as I can tell. His first name may have been Abraham, the City Directories only listed him as Abr. His wife was Alice and a daughter was Jane. They had 3 different homes from 1926 till 1952- 431 W. Long Ave - 1926 till 1943. 421 Spruce Alley, 1944 to 1948 and 14 S. State St.  1948 to 1953??

[Petee]

His daughter's obituary and some census info.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/120369798/jane-r-lian

[Polo]

13 hours ago, BigT said:

A. Lian was in business from 1926 till 1951 as best as I can tell. His first name may have been Abraham, the City Directories only listed him as Abr. His wife was Alice and a daughter was Jane. They had 3 different homes from 1926 till 1952- 431 W. Long Ave - 1926 till 1943. 421 Spruce Alley, 1944 to 1948 and 14 S. State St.  1948 to 1953??

Looks like we located the same man.  Thanks for the research.