Ellington established the planing mill and contracting firm of Ellington, Royster, and Company. Evidently prospering as a builder, Leonard, known by this time mainly as Len, had joined forces in a partnership with a complementary entrepreneur. In 1880 he and Elizabeth were living with her parents and other family members. The couple had married on October 25, 1863. Frost and working as a carpenter in Raleigh. Royster, 28, was head of his own household, married to Elizabeth (Bettie) A. Royster, an older Raleigh house carpenter, who named his own son Vitruvius and James Royster, father of at least seven children named for states of the union, and whose great-grandson Vermont Connecticut Royster became a prominent writer.)īy 1870, Leonard H.
(This family may have been related to other local Royster families, including David L. In 1860 at age 17 he was working as a carpenter and living with his widowed mother, Mary Royster, then 46 and working as a seamstress, as well as David, 27, a tailor, and Burtus, also 17, a printer. Royster went to work at an early age probably because of his father’s premature death. Royster, a native of Raleigh, and Ellington, who came from Chatham County, created one of the city’s largest contracting and building supply businesses, in which Royster served primarily as the “architect” and superintendent of building from 1878 until the two parted ways in 1894.Įvidently the son of William H. Ellington (1849-1919) the Raleigh contracting and manufacturing firm of Ellington, Royster, and Company.
Royster (October 2, 1840-April 2, 1912) was a carpenter and builder who in 1878 formed with William J.
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