T. B. Townsend

Thomas Burgess Townsend, known as T.B. Townsend, was a brick manufacturer, a building Contractor, and owned a cattle ranch in Kansas. Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 8 September 1837, he made Zanesville, Ohio his home. He was president of T. B. Townsend Brick and Contracting Co. in Zanesville, Ohio, claimed to be the largest brick factory in Ohio at the time. He founded one of "the most extensive and well-improved farms" in Peabody, Marion County, Kansas, in the 1880s, called Rockland Farm, better known as the Townsend Ranch.

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