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"A Finger in Almost Every Pie":
James H. Cissel (center with mustache), president of the Silver Spring Building Supply Co., poses with his employees in this photo taken July 18, 1924 in the ground floor office at 8222-26 Georgia Avenue. Cissel's sister-in-law, Rose A. Clark, sits in the background. Cissel was first president of the Silver Spring National Bank, founded in 1910. He was a founding commissioner of the Maryland-National Park & Planning Commission in 1927, donating portions of his vast land holdings to preserve the original bucolic nature of Silver Spring, and helped create the M-NCPPC park system. |