Tower Topper

A friend once said of Ohio Realtor John Wilmer Galbreath: "The thing you must remember is that John must have success." At 52, John has it. When his old friend Senator John Bricker was attorney general of Ohio, Galbreath was named a real estate appraiser for the state. (Later he and Bricker formed an insurance company together.) Galbreath spread into the real estate business on his own, became president of the National Association of Real Estate Boards, and bought an estimated $10 million worth of property scattered from Hoboken, N.J. to Utah....

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