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Show EARLY PAINTING OF PETERSON STORE ONCE OWNED BY JOSEPH ROBBINS the store. He was pitcher on the team. That year I lost interest in the store and sold it to Axcel and Oscar Olsen. In the Fall of 1905 my father died in Logan. At the funeral my brother, Sey¬mour, told me about Mr. Keeley and Mrs. Birds being in the ice cream business. They furnished ice-cream to drug stores and delivered it to people's homes. Seymour was keeping the books and said the Company needed money and was look¬ing for another partner. I had sold the store the latter part of March, 1906, and moved to Salt Lake City. This action made it possible for our children to get better schooling. I started working for the Keeley on April 7, 1906, and we incorporated under the name of Keeley's Ice Cream Company. This Corporation included Mr. Keeley, Mrs. Bird, Seymore, Rudolph Dumbeck and myself. We brought a horse down from Mountain Green and sold it to the Company. That gave us two one-horse wagons for delivery. About five of us did all the work. I drove one of the wagons for a while. The business grew very fast and we moved from Richards Street to State where we opened up a confectionary store and made ice cream and candy in the basement. Joseph Robbins was President and the largest stockholder of the Keeley Ice¬cream Company until his death on July 2, 1958, in Salt Lake City. Ellen France Robbins outlived her husband nine years and was one month short of being 100 years old when she died June 3, 1957, in Salt Lake City. —Thelma Robbins Evans 217 |