Excerpts from History of Virginia, Virginia Biography, Vol VI, pgs. 621-622, 1924:
"Although he attended the public schools of Wythe County, Virginia, Robert Bunts III is largely selfeducated. At the age of eighteen years he left the farm and went to Ivanhoe, Virginia, where he took up foundry and general manufacturing work. After serving a four years' apprenticeship there he then entered the employ of the Mathieson Alkali Works at Saltville, Virginia, and in the meantime he took up a correspondence school course in mechanical engineering with the International Correspondence School of Scranton, Pennsylvania, to which he devoted much of his spare time for several years following.
He remained with the Mathieson Alkali Works in its various mechanical departments from 1895 to 1900, when he came to Pulaski and became master mechanic of the shops of the Virginia Iron, Coal & Coke Company, continuing with them until 1906, when he went with the Alabama Consolidated Coal & Iron Company at Ironton, Alabama, being chief engineer for that company's blast furnaces and mines for two years.
In 1908 Mr. Bunts returned to Pulaski and organized the company and built die plant of the Pulaski Foundry & Machine Company, continuing its vice president and general manager until 1916, when it was sold to the General Chemical Company."
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