Jarvis C. Train came to the village of Lowell from the farm of his father, situated five miles south and east of Lowell at Train’s Corners as a young man and started in the buying of wool, hides, pelts, etc., and as time passed he became very successful and entered the grain market. He erected a grain elevator at Segwun, which was the largest elevator the village ever had. Mr. Train did more for the up building of the west side in the erection of commercial buildings and residences than any other person. He built the opera house block, the hotel, race track and numerous other things besides. His wool warehouse was a large two-story frame building on the river west of the post office, and nearly every spring during the wool season he would be associated with George W. Paker who would have charge of the accounts as Mr. Train never kept any books.  Any purchase made by him from a skunk skin to a load of wheat was paid in cash out of his pocket.

Mr. Train was very optimistic and persistent. Many will remember at the time he was about to erect the hotel and had the brick for the same piled on Broadway, just south of Main street, and for a long while he could not finance the building, and on account of the brick not being kiln burned hard enough the elements reduced them to a clay pile, but in time more brick were bought and the hotel built. The majority of business blocks other than Mr. Train’s on the west side were built by men living outside the village, James Fox, Artemus Hoag, Morgan Lyon, Barney McGee and the Jones block.

Mr. Train was a great lover of animals and had many nice horses, cattle, mules, sheep and goats, and always a faithful dog at his side, and was respected by all who knew him in business or in a social way.

C. GUY PERRY