R B Slaymaker

R. B. SLAYMAKER
For Ten Years a Prominent Business Man of Peabody
AN ARTICLE EXTRACTED FROM THE PEABODY NEWS 1901
Contributed by Charmaine Keith (charmain@southwind.net) 24 September 1998

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Peabody News
1901

In 1872 R. M. Slaymaker moved to Marion County from Illinois. In his family were six
boys, all strapping big fellows of good proportions and well balanced mentally. "Bob" is 6
feet, 2 1/2 inches in his stocking feet and weighs 200 pounds. Of the six, two are now in
business in Peabody and the others are on farms near town. All are successful in their line.

R. B. Slaymaker, the one whose picture is presented above and with whom this sketch
has to deal, has been in business in Peabody for ten years, ten years in one business at one
stand. When he began business it was in company with Elmer Derby but at the end of two
months bought him out and took the business, dealing in confectionery and ice cream,
conducting a restaurant in connection. He made a specialty of home made pies "like mother
used to make," and choice ice cream of his own manufacture, which gained for him a wide
reputation as a most excellent purveyor to the people. Every farmer that comes to Peabody
knows will the toothsomeness of Mr. Slaymaker's lunches and his cordial greeting and he
enjoys a nice patronage in that line. He has the reputation of making the best ice cream
make in Marion county.

Mr. Slaymaker is one of the public-spirited men of town, ever ready to spend his
time and his money in any cause that will benefit the town and much of the progressiveness
and thrift of our little city can be accredited to the members of the Slaymaker Family.

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