Edward C. Mattox papers 1906-1948
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Mattox, Edward C., 1880-1949
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Edward C. Mattox was born in December 1880, on his parents' homestead near Missouri Valley, Iowa, about twenty miles north of Council Bluffs. As a young man he worked briefly as a printers' devil on the Omaha Bee. He later worked for the Burlington railroad. In August 1903, he arrived in Dietz, Wyoming, where he was hired as a telegraph operator and payroll clerk at a Megeath-owned coal mine. Mattox gradually moved up in the business until he was the general manager of a...