Robert Farmer Quotes (4 Quotes)

I'm willing to bet that John Henry Kirby paid to have this house built because it was the most expensive house in Silsbee, ... It was the cream of the crop.

My grandparents bought it about 1937, but the structure was built around 1915 for the sister and brother-in-law of John Henry Kirby, the big lumber baron himself,

They lived upstairs and had the business downstairs, ... I can vaguely remember sitting on the porch, and I used to play in the big backyard. My wife and I, when we got married, even lived upstairs from 1978 until 1981.

Unless they shrunk up over the years, he must not have been a real big fellow,