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SAMUEL REEVES BANDY

Samuel Reeves Bandy, manager of the sales department
of the real estate and brokerage firm of John T.
Trout, with offices in the First National Bank Building,
Roanoke, Virginia,
was born in Franklin
County, Virginia, February
17th, 1879, and
was one of seven children,
there being four
sons and three
daughters. His parents
were Stephen Polk and
Martha N. (Hazlewood)
Bandy. His father
was a Confederate soldier
and served through
the Civil War in the
28th Virginia Regiment,
and was slightly
wounded in the battle
of Gettysburg.

Mr. Bandy, when a
boy, attended the
county schools of his native county, and won the
Scholarship Medal, afterwards attended Roanoke
College. He located in Roanoke at the age of eighteen
years and began life as clerk at the Stratford Hotel:
after nearly two years he accepted a position as assistant
postmaster and general manager of a
merchandise store at Lithia, Virginia, belonging to
J. M. Thrasher & Company, after which time he accepted
a position as cashier with the Pocahontas Coal
& Coke Company, and was with this concern for
three years and for several years he was a traveling
salesman, his territory covering eight of the Southern
states. He came back to Roanoke in 1909 and engaged
in the real estate business, in which line of trade he
has been very successful.

He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce
and is regarded as one of the city's most progressive
young business men, his friends being numbered by
the hundreds.