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    WILBUR CAROL FLORY

    Wilbur C. Flory. While still numbered among the younger generation of business men of Covington, Wilbur C. Flory has already attained a gratifying success in mercantile circles, and is rapidly building up a large and prosperous grocery business. Mr. Flory is a product of the farming districts, having been born in Miami county, January 5, 1890, a son of Wesley and Fannie (Pemberton) Flory. His parents were well-known and greatly respected residents of the agricultural community, where they have passed the active portion of their careers in the pursuits of the soil. There were two children in the family: I.J., who is a clerk at the Columbia Club, Indianapolis, Ind.; and Wilbur C. Wilbur C. Flory was educated in the public schools of his native locality and at Covington High School and passed his boyhood and youth on the home place. Farming, however, did not attract him, and after one year spent under the parental roof he went to Indianapolis, where for twelve years he was identified with the dairy lunch business. During eight years of this time he was manager of an establishment, a position in which he acquired much valuable information and experience in business methods. Coming to Covington May 8, 1918, he embarked in the grocery business, with which he has been identified to the present time, and in which, as before noted, he is achieving an enviable success. Mr. Flory has a well-kept establishment, attractive in appearance and sanitary in all conditions, and carries an intelligently chosen stock of fancy and staple groceries. His custom comes from some of the best families of Covington, and his personal courtesy and known integrity have combined to gain him friends and establish him firmly in public confidence. As a fraternalist he is identified with the local lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, in which he has numerous friends, while as a citizen he has given his aid to local civic movements and during the war period campaigned effectively in behalf of the various drives. Mr. Flory was united in marriage with Elsie, daughter of Joseph Rench, of Covington, and to this union there has come one child: Mary Elizabeth, born at Indianapolis, September 5, 1914.

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