The City, the Family, the Compound
Conway Corners was settled in the mid-nineteenth century. Local legend says that it was named after Thaddeus Conway who retired there after patenting some part that Samuel Morse needed to make the telegraph work. He wanted a smaller and more rustic place for his retirement, so after selling the patent and manufacturing plant in Maryland, he moved to the town which became Conway Corners. In tribute to this myth, when the local high school had to rename its teams something beside “Indians,” they changed the name to “Wires.”
The present population is about 15,000. The vast majority is white. There are approximately a dozen Protestant churches and one Catholic congregation. There is no synagogue or mosque, although there are a few Jewish people in town who have to travel elsewhere for religious services.
Conway Corners and the population around are served by the Conway Corner Area Community School District and the Conway Area Public Library which has its main branch in downtown Conway Corners and a satellite branch along the road between Conway Corners and Elmerton.
Conway Corners is home to J. G. Cherry College. It was founded in 1877 in Elmerton as a male, liberal arts college in Elmerton in 1877. It moved to Conway Corners in 1891 after J. G. Cherry who had made a small fortune speculating in real estate in the region and who had bought a parcel of 35 acres for the school there. It was renamed after Mr. Cherry shortly after his death in 1896, partly to avoid confusion with several other schools named Central and partly in appreciation of J. G. Cherry and his contributions both during his lifetime and from his will.
The school which has a historically Presbyterian affiliation has been a major part of the community since then. It became co-educational in 1920. It was the first college in the region to have a female chaplain when it hired Dr. Mary Livingston in 1961. She served until her death in 1971. It was also the first in the region to hire a black academic dean when it hired Dr. Wilson Bean in 1980. Dr. Bean served until 1984 when he left to become president of a historically black college.
The Family
The fates of Conway Corners and the Simon-Mays extended family have been interwoven since Elihu Simon moved into town with this bride Elizabeth and opened an ice house. Elihu and Elizabeth were not able to have as big a family as they wished and it took them longer than they had hoped, but they did have two chldern – Anna who was born in 1910 and Simon who was born in 1916. Simon is still living. He never married and has no issue. The other members of the family are the descendants of Anna and her husband, Donald Mays, jr. and their spouses. The Simon-Mays family is sometimes called the Mays Family and in Conway Corners it is often referred [either for simplicity or from a sense of awe] as merely “the Family.”
Donald Mays, jr. and his brother-in-law Simon Simon were entrepreneurs and did quite well. They took firm control of all the family’s enterprises after Elihu’s death in 1932, although Simon was only sixteen at the time. They both had good business sense and almost uncannily knew the best times to get into and get out of business ventures, putting the family in good financial shape. They also established a history of family civic involvement. Much of what they have bought and sold is not in the Conway Corners area, but they have remained heavily involved in the economy of the area. At this time, members of the family own pieces of ventures dealing with commercial real estate, apartments, a water park, at least two motels, a taxi and limousine company, a commercial lawn care company, and a laundry service.
Family members have also been benefactors of area artistic and educational organizations, although they have put their names on relatively few things. Some of the things which have names of family members are Elihu and Elizabeth Simon Reference Room in the Conway Corners Public Library, the Donald and Anna Mays Planetarium at J.G. Cherry College, and the Geneva Mays Pediatric Unit at Southern Lakes Regional Medical Center.
Donald Mays III [the Donald Mays of this story] and John Kennedy, his uncle by marriage, were indicted for stock irregularities in 1994. The charges were dismissed but a national financial magazine estimated that lawyer fees and civil penalties probably added up to $30-$40 million. Since then whatever publicly traded assets members of the family may have have been passive investments. The businesses in which they have been active participants have been privately held. An Eastern newspaper story in 2004 estimated the wealth under family control as being approximately $1 billion.
Simon Simon and Donald Mays, jr. were against the family ostentatiously flaunting their wealth and that practice has continued for the most part, at least when they are in and around Conway Corners. There are few minimal domestic staff. There never were many chauffeurs and are none now. They use a commercial gardening and lawn maintenance service and, if they don’t do their own laundry, they use a public laundry. Members do own the Conway Corners Cab and Limousine Company, Conway Corners Lawn Care, and Anna Mae’s laundry, none of which they actively manage. Donald Mays, jr. and Simon Simon had stressed keeping local people and businesses working and felt losing a little money in a business better than parading their wealth by hiring people directly to perform the same services and the practice has survived. The swimming pools on the Compound are maintained by a service in Elmerton owned by Connor Fredricks, sr. who is the husband of one of Donald Mays, jr.’s granddaughters.
Members of the Family have been involved the community in several ways which some people view as a demonstration of their concern and others as a sign of their desire for control.
There has been somebody on the school board almost continually since 1929 when Donald Mays, jr. was first elected. Simon Simon served for almost forty years before retiring in 1995. Edna Malloy presently serves. Likewise there has been somebody on the City Council for most of the same time, starting with Simon Simon in 1940. Ashley Moore Mays who was the mother of Edna, Emily, and Gordon served for four years until her death in 1980. Miles Mills, the husband of Donald Mays, jr.’s daughter Anna, has served since shortly after marrying into the family in 2002.
Donald Mays, jr. was a lawyer and was a founding partner of Davis, Mays, and McQuiston [which shortly after become Davis and Mays] but made most of his wealth in other ventures.
Donald Mays., jr. had attended Princeton and most of the family’s men [and in the last few decades, females] have followed him there, but a few have gone to other Ivy League schools. Edna Mays went to Yale.
FAMILY MEMBERS WHO PLAY MAJOR ROLES IN THIS STORY
Donald Mays. Actually, Donald Mays III, he is the son of Walter Mays who was the son of Donald Mays, jr. [Too many people in this story are named Donald. Most of these Donalds are named after Donald Mays, jr. Donald Kennedy who is the cousin of this Donald Mays was named for the same man. Donald Kennedy’s sister, Stephanie married a man named Donald Russell and they named one of their sons Donald, also. Fortunately for readers, neither of these last two Donalds figures in this story.] Edna Mays Malloy, Emily Mays Antonelli, and Gordon Mays are Donald Mays first cousins. He is Princeton educated and owns a machine shop which employs about two dozen people. He is also involved in family trusts and pieces of some ventures in the Conway Corners area [e.g., a motel, Laundromat, fried chicken outlet, and Yankee Joe’s Water Park]. Since his indictment he has been less actively involved in the family’s bigger ventures. He and his wife, Tiffany, had no children. Tiffany oversaw most of the lesser enterprises before her death on September 11, 2001.
Edna Mays Malloy. Edna was the eldest sibling in her family. She married Paul Malloy in 1987. He was considerably older and had two sons from a previous marriage, the older of whom was twenty-one at the time. When Paul died in 1992, Edna took over control of his company, Malloy Northern against the wishes of his sons. The company had been in the process of moving all its operations to the Conway Corners area and she finished that transition. She has made peace with her younger stepson [Dean] and he is now actively involved in the company. The older son [Paul, jr.] still has a financial interest in the company, but is not actively involved and does not live in the area.
Edna’s public persona is that she is hard-nosed and all business. There is some truth behind this. Her parents had twins, Gordon and Geneva, while she was at Yale. Geneva was never healthy and died at fourteen months and Edna was so determined not to miss any opportunities at Yale that she did not come back for the funeral. Her father claimed to support her decision, but she knew that her mother did not. She did return for her mother’s funeral two weeks later. [Her mother’s car was broadsided by a drunk driver.] Marrying a man eighteen years her senior and taking control of his business probably did nothing to dispel the image.
Edna and Paul had one child, a daughter named Julie. From the time Julie was fifteen she refused to live with Edna. Nobody in Conway Corners seems to know what has caused the rift. Edna and Julie themselves don’t really seem to know. Julie is resentful to playing second fiddle in her mother’s eye to both the business and her older half-brother Dean. The Family managed to limit how much people in the town know about the rift by sending her to boarding school and arranging for her to spend school vacations elsewhere on the Compound. She dropped out of high school during her senior year and went to New York City where she has lived in a variety of places with a variety of people. In 2008 she gave birth to Xenia Ruth McGiver, a baby conceived with her frequent roommate, a forty-something painter. She receives some money from family trusts, but none directly from her mother who suspects that her sister Emily or niece Christina may send her some once in a while. Edna has expressed no desire to see either Julie of Xenia.
Gordon Mays. Emily’s brother grew up, went to Princeton, studied law at Iowa, and went into the family law firm. His mother died when he was a toddler and he was primarily raised by his father and stepmother with assistance of nannies and others in the Family. His father died when he was starting law school.
Gordon is not a partner yet, although it is generally assumed that he will be at some time soon. There is nobody named Mays as a partner now, but the firm has not changed names, partly out of respect for its history and partly because members of the extended family of Donald Mays, jr. [who lived until 1995] are still involved with the firm. [There has not been a partner named Davis since 1940.] Gordon lives with his stepmother in the house where he grew up and in which his sisters Edna and Emily earlier were raised, Madison House. Even though he has no clear memory of either of them, he visits his mother’s and sister’s graves frequently, bringing flowers from the Compound whenever he can. He seems to miss them both very much. Although Edna seems to have done a lot to keep Gordon involved in things and has sometimes gone out of her way to send opportunity his way, he still has a lot of resentment for her. He cooperates with her in things the Family undertakes, but has never been able to fully conceal this resentment of Edna.
Although his thirtieth birthday is approaching, he has never been known to be seriously involved romantically, although he does go to Sioux City, Iowa about once a month to see a female law school classmate.
Emily Mays Adams Cedar Antonelli. She is Edna’s younger sister and Gordon’s older sister. She has often been a family scandal, but now, except for the fact that she does not live with her husband, is more respectable. She is a CPA who works for Davis and Mays and serves on some of the Family’s boards. She married her first husband, a previously-married, local delivery truck driver seven years her senior when she was eighteen. They were divorced slightly afterward, the divorce being the results of both mutual infidelities and family pressure. She spent a while living in California, doing things that her family preferred not to learn about, but returned to college and went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison for a while. About four years after her divorce she moved in with and later married Bill Cedar, a man three years her younger than she was. They had a daughter, Christina. They separated after four years and later divorced. The primary cause was Bill’s coming out of the closet. She took Christina and returned to Conway Corners where she finished her undergraduate work at J. G. Cherry. After returning to Madison for graduate work, she worked as an accountant for Milwaukee County until returning to Conway Corners again when Christina was about ten. In 2005 she married John Antonelli. Although they have never actually lived together [a fact which keeps tongues in town wagging] they do see each other several times each year, sometimes in Conway Corners and sometimes in California where John’s career as an assistant football coach at various colleges has taken him. John has two teen-aged daughters from an earlier marriage who sometimes travel with him. The older one, Cecelia seems to have struck up a strange friendship with her stepsister Christina.
Christina Cedar. Emily’s only child, born to her mother’s second marriage to William Cedar. She attends Princeton and spends summers with her mother. Winter vacations are usually spent with her father and his partner [and sometimes the partner’s son] in Fort Myers, Florida. She admits that she does not like cold weather and unless she changes her mind is likely not to return to Conway Corners full time after she finishes college. She chose Justin Matheson to be her boyfriend shortly after she and her mother returned to Conway Corners when she was ten and has held on to him since, despite her family’s initial coolness. She has taken readily to the Compound’s clothing-optional environment.
Jane Alpek. She got into the family when she married John Mays. She was over thirty and a schoolteacher in Royal Oak, Michigan when she and John met through a mutual connection. It has been said that for John it was love at first sight. While it was obvious to Jane from his ability to travel so frequently, drive so nice a car, and dress so well that her new suitor was fairly affluent, she did not realize until she was fairly involved with him that he was in fact, not just affluent, but rich.
Marrying John made her a stepmother to two grown women and a boy named Gordon who was just short of his fifth birthday. Upon moving to Conway Corners she became involved full time with raising him. She has never been close to her stepdaughters which is no surprise. Emily seems to like her but still thinks her a bit of a stranger and, although the feeling may be exaggerated a bit] she feels Edna’s hostility continually.
When Gordon got older she attended law school, being admitted to the bar three years before Gordon. She has done some work for Davis and Mays, but she practices mainly general law from her solo practice in Elmerton.
Brenda Allan. Brenda Allan is the wife/ex-wife of Donald Kennedy. They married in 1982 and divorced in 1986, but reconciled in 1991 but never remarried. Brenda is a lawyer, listed as “of counsel” at Davis and Mays, but she is really more a lobbyist at the state capital. She is a tall brunette with an athletic build and is fairly buxom who loves the clothing-optional environment of the Compound.
Connor Fredricks, jr. Connor is an angry young man of 20. He sees his extended family [especially his father and Donald and Edna] as manipulators who try to control the whole world, or at least the whole of the region. He lives off compound and works at a convenience store which nobody in the Family owns. He does not collect from his trust funds, but apparently still has access to them. He is the son of Donald Mays’ sister Barbara Mays Fredricks.
Anna Fredricks. Anna is Connor, jr.’s sister who is seventeen years old. She loves the clothing-optional policy and wonders whether less fortunate girls might not also, but she admits that she probably would not participate herself in public.
Maria Cortez Bullingworth. Maria is the daughter of Donald Mays’ sister Anna from her first marriage to Juan Cortez. She and her husband Bill have two young sons. She is concerned that Bear rights could become tools to use against people, especially women, who have fewer opportunities than members of her family have.
Amanda Kennedy and Aurora Kennedy Jackson. Amanda and Aurora are twin daughters of Donald Kennedy and Brenda Allan. Amanda and her husband Antoine McIntosh also do legislative lobbying, but do it in Missouri, and spend only the off-seasons at the Compound. Aurora and her husband Cody Jackson are “starving artists’ living in Seattle. They have a two-year old daughter. Both sisters married black men which has promoted some whispering both in town and at the Compound, but nobody in the Family has said anything overtly racist to them.
Edna Mays Malloy. Edna was the eldest sibling in her family. She married Paul Malloy in 1987. He was considerably older and had two sons from a previous marriage, the older of whom was twenty-one at the time. When Paul died in 1992, Edna took over control of his company, Malloy Northern against the wishes of his sons. The company had been in the process of moving all its operations to the Conway Corners area and she finished that transition. She has made peace with her younger stepson [Dean] and he is now actively involved in the company. The older son [Paul, jr.] still has a financial interest in the company, but is not actively involved and does not live in the area.
Edna’s public persona is that she is hard-nosed and all business. There is some truth behind this. Her parents had twins, Gordon and Geneva, while she was at Yale. Geneva was never healthy and died at fourteen months and Edna was so determined not to miss any opportunities at Yale that she did not come back for the funeral. Her father claimed to support her decision, but she knew that her mother did not. She did return for her mother’s funeral two weeks later. [Her mother’s car was broadsided by a drunk driver.] Marrying a man eighteen years her senior and taking control of his business probably did nothing to dispel the image.
Edna and Paul had one child, a daughter named Julie. From the time Julie was fifteen she refused to live with Edna. Nobody in Conway Corners seems to know what has caused the rift. Edna and Julie themselves don’t really seem to know. Julie is resentful to playing second fiddle in her mother’s eye to both the business and her older half-brother Dean. The Family managed to limit how much people in the town know about the rift by sending her to boarding school and arranging for her to spend school vacations elsewhere on the Compound. She dropped out of high school during her senior year and went to New York City where she has lived in a variety of places with a variety of people. In 2008 she gave birth to Xenia Ruth McGiver, a baby conceived with her frequent roommate, a forty-something painter. She receives some money from family trusts, but none directly from her mother who suspects that her sister Emily or niece Christina may send her some once in a while. Edna has expressed no desire to see either Julie of Xenia.
Gordon Mays. Emily’s brother grew up, went to Princeton, studied law at Iowa, and went into the family law firm. His mother died when he was a toddler and he was primarily raised by his father and stepmother with assistance of nannies and others in the Family. His father died when he was starting law school.
Gordon is not a partner yet, although it is generally assumed that he will be at some time soon. There is nobody named Mays as a partner now, but the firm has not changed names, partly out of respect for its history and partly because members of the extended family of Donald Mays, jr. [who lived until 1995] are still involved with the firm. [There has not been a partner named Davis since 1940.] Gordon lives with his stepmother in the house where he grew up and in which his sisters Edna and Emily earlier were raised, Madison House. Even though he has no clear memory of either of them, he visits his mother’s and sister’s graves frequently, bringing flowers from the Compound whenever he can. He seems to miss them both very much. Although Edna seems to have done a lot to keep Gordon involved in things and has sometimes gone out of her way to send opportunity his way, he still has a lot of resentment for her. He cooperates with her in things the Family undertakes, but has never been able to fully conceal this resentment of Edna.
Although his thirtieth birthday is approaching, he has never been known to be seriously involved romantically, although he does go to Sioux City, Iowa about once a month to see a female law school classmate.
Emily Mays Adams Cedar Antonelli. She is Edna’s younger sister and Gordon’s older sister. She has often been a family scandal, but now, except for the fact that she does not live with her husband, is more respectable. She is a CPA who works for Davis and Mays and serves on some of the Family’s boards. She married her first husband, a previously-married, local delivery truck driver seven years her senior when she was eighteen. They were divorced slightly afterward, the divorce being the results of both mutual infidelities and family pressure. She spent a while living in California, doing things that her family preferred not to learn about, but returned to college and went to the University of Wisconsin in Madison for a while. About four years after her divorce she moved in with and later married Bill Cedar, a man three years her younger than she was. They had a daughter, Christina. They separated after four years and later divorced. The primary cause was Bill’s coming out of the closet. She took Christina and returned to Conway Corners where she finished her undergraduate work at J. G. Cherry. After returning to Madison for graduate work, she worked as an accountant for Milwaukee County until returning to Conway Corners again when Christina was about ten. In 2005 she married John Antonelli. Although they have never actually lived together [a fact which keeps tongues in town wagging] they do see each other several times each year, sometimes in Conway Corners and sometimes in California where John’s career as an assistant football coach at various colleges has taken him. John has two teen-aged daughters from an earlier marriage who sometimes travel with him. The older one, Cecelia seems to have struck up a strange friendship with her stepsister Christina.
Christina Cedar. Emily’s only child, born to her mother’s second marriage to William Cedar. She attends Princeton and spends summers with her mother. Winter vacations are usually spent with her father and his partner [and sometimes the partner’s son] in Fort Myers, Florida. She admits that she does not like cold weather and unless she changes her mind is likely not to return to Conway Corners full time after she finishes college. She chose Justin Matheson to be her boyfriend shortly after she and her mother returned to Conway Corners when she was ten and has held on to him since, despite her family’s initial coolness. She has taken readily to the Compound’s clothing-optional environment.
Jane Alpek. She got into the family when she married John Mays. She was over thirty and a schoolteacher in Royal Oak, Michigan when she and John met through a mutual connection. It has been said that for John it was love at first sight. While it was obvious to Jane from his ability to travel so frequently, drive so nice a car, and dress so well that her new suitor was fairly affluent, she did not realize until she was fairly involved with him that he was in fact, not just affluent, but rich.
Marrying John made her a stepmother to two grown women and a boy named Gordon who was just short of his fifth birthday. Upon moving to Conway Corners she became involved full time with raising him. She has never been close to her stepdaughters which is no surprise. Emily seems to like her but still thinks her a bit of a stranger and, although the feeling may be exaggerated a bit] she feels Edna’s hostility continually.
When Gordon got older she attended law school, being admitted to the bar three years before Gordon. She has done some work for Davis and Mays, but she practices mainly general law from her solo practice in Elmerton.
Brenda Allan. Brenda Allan is the wife/ex-wife of Donald Kennedy. They married in 1982 and divorced in 1986, but reconciled in 1991 but never remarried. Brenda is a lawyer, listed as “of counsel” at Davis and Mays, but she is really more a lobbyist at the state capital. She is a tall brunette with an athletic build and is fairly buxom who loves the clothing-optional environment of the Compound.
Connor Fredricks, jr. Connor is an angry young man of 20. He sees his extended family [especially his father and Donald and Edna] as manipulators who try to control the whole world, or at least the whole of the region. He lives off compound and works at a convenience store which nobody in the Family owns. He does not collect from his trust funds, but apparently still has access to them. He is the son of Donald Mays’ sister Barbara Mays Fredricks.
Anna Fredricks. Anna is Connor, jr.’s sister who is seventeen years old. She loves the clothing-optional policy and wonders whether less fortunate girls might not also, but she admits that she probably would not participate herself in public.
Maria Cortez Bullingworth. Maria is the daughter of Donald Mays’ sister Anna from her first marriage to Juan Cortez. She and her husband Bill have two young sons. She is concerned that Bear rights could become tools to use against people, especially women, who have fewer opportunities than members of her family have.
Amanda Kennedy and Aurora Kennedy Jackson. Amanda and Aurora are twin daughters of Donald Kennedy and Brenda Allan. Amanda and her husband Antoine McIntosh also do legislative lobbying, but do it in Missouri, and spend only the off-seasons at the Compound. Aurora and her husband Cody Jackson are “starving artists’ living in Seattle. They have a two-year old daughter. Both sisters married black men which has promoted some whispering both in town and at the Compound, but nobody in the Family has said anything overtly racist to them.
The Compound
The Compound consists of approximately seventy-eight acres, mostly from two quarters of a quarter section. There are utility easements but no longer any public streets crossing the property. The area is platted into fourteen parcels, but only eight have been built upon. The remaining area provides ponds and “green space” for the developed area.
For some reason the Family began naming the houses after early U.S. Presidents, but managed to miss the obvious names like Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln. All the houses are large buildings, with room for more people than live in them, but are not furnished like the mansions for which so many wealthy people are known. Only two houses [Adams and Polk] have swimming pools behind them, but these are shared with the others in the Compound. Because of its relative isolation from the rest of the compound and the fact that the pool at Adams is better shielded from the outside, the pool at Polk receives less use. The houses are:
Adams House: Edna’s residence. It is the only fully modern house on the Compound, built as a replacement for an earlier house also named Adams. It was erected in 1988 shortly after Edna and Paul Malloy were married.
Madison House Gordon Mays and his stepmother, Jane Alpek, live here. This is the house in which he, Edna, and Emily grew up. The original house goes back into the late nineteenth century but major additions were made in 1947 and 1959.
Monroe House: This was the first family house on the compound. The first part was built in 1881 and was bought by Elihu Simon in 1905 for the family he thought he would soon have. The house has been remodeled or expanded several times. None of the original house is visible from the outside anymore, but members of the family have kept almost all of it intact. Monroe has since been made into two side-by-side units. The smaller, eastern portion is sometimes called the Quincy House.
Donald Kennedy, a grandson of the first Donald Mays through his daughter, Sarah Mays Kennedy, and his ex-wife, Brenda Allan live in the larger Monroe House. Donald Kennedy is the CEO of DMA International, an investment banking concern. Although they were divorced in 1986, they reconciled in 1991, but have never remarried. Brenda Allan is listed as a lawyer of counsel at Davis and Mays, but is really more of a lobbyist at the state capitol, for both Family and other interests. They had twin daughters. One of them, Amanda, and her husband, Antoine McIntosh, live with them when they are not in Jefferson City, Missouri, where they both do lobbying. Aurora and her husband, Cody Jackson, live in Seattle where they are starving artists, at least as starving as somebody with Aurora’s trust funds can be.
Anna Eleanor Mays Cortez Mills, Donald Mays’ sister and her husband, Miles Mills, live in the Quincy portion of the building, along with Maria Cortez Bullingworth, her daughter from her first marriage and Maria’s husband, William Bullingworth and their two young sons, John and Derrick.
Sarah Mays Kennedy, the last surviving child of Donald Mays and Susan Seivert Mays, and her husband John Patrick Kennedy used to live here, but moved to Italy upon retirement in 1996. When they do come back they stay in a condominium they own in town, but frequent the compound and sometimes stay with Donald Kennedy and Brenda.
Jackson House: Emily Antonelli her daughter Christina Cedar live here.
Harrison House: This is the smallest house on the complex with only three rooms which could reasonably be considered bedrooms. It is officially the residence of Simon Simon, although since a series of strokes between 2000 and 2002 he has had to share the house with live-in nurses.
Pierce House. Donald Mays lives here. It was built sometime in the 1920s with additions and renovations in 1960 and 1992.
Polk House: Barbara Mays Fredricks [Donald Mays’ sister] and her husband Connor Fredricks live here with their daughter Anna and sometimes Connor, jr. When the house was built in 1887, it was outside of the land now known as the Compound, but was purchased along with the six acres attached to it in 1929 by the elder Donald Mays. His plan was to build a new house nearby on the plot for the principal family residence, but after the new house was destroyed by fire in 1931 he decided to use the older structure. The Great Depression had arrived and he did not wish to appear too ostentatious to the rest of the community, but the extensive work involved in rehabilitating and adding onto the structure gave a lot of work to the tradesmen of the community. Another addition was built in 1950.
Connor Fredricks, his brother, and members of his extended family own the majority of the largest grain milling company in the region with a major facility located near the railroad track and road between Elmerton and Conway Corners. Their family received much of the capital they needed to acquire the company with a loan from DM Associates Inc., a predecessor of DMA International.
Some of the family do not live in or near Conway Corners and some who live in the area do not live on the Compound. Because there are several trusts funds started by people in previous generations of the family going back to Elihu Simon, it is unlikely that anybody in the family needs employment to survive. However, most of them have decided to be employed in some way, usually in an occupation which can help bring more wealth in the direction of them and their families. One exception is Connor Fredricks, jr. who is the same age as Christina Cedar and Emily Malloy. He moved out of the Compound when he was eighteen and lives in an apartment in Conway Corners. He works as a clerk at a convenience store which is not owned by anybody in his family. He has not attended college and his parents are not happy with his decisions. They have maintained a space for him in their house, but although he visits sometimes, he always goes home for the night.
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