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 PREFACE 
 
 ORT WORTH Men of Affairs is presented 
 by the Newspaper Artists' Association after 
 a series of unforseen difficulties that have re- 
 sulted in practically its complete revision. 
 An endeavor has been made to have the work 
 as complete as possible, and members of the staff have 
 done their utmost to keep it right up to the date of issue. 
 With a word of thanks to the many friends who have 
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 received with kindly charity for its shortcomings, we 
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 FORT WORTH NEWSPAPER ARTISTS' ASSOCIATION 
 September 1, 1914 
 
 PATRONS 
 
 B. L. Anderson 
 M. E. Berney 
 
 E. E. Bewley 
 
 F. P. Bath 
 Rufus Coy 
 
 H. C. Meacham 
 John C. Ryan 
 Emory Smith 
 
 S. B. Cantey 
 W. B. Harrison 
 D. B. Keeler 
 Sam Levy 
 O. W. Matthews 
 R. J. Rhome 
 Ed Seibold 
 Claude VanZandt 
 
 W. T. Humble
 
 H. L. Agee 
 
 10 WARD L. AGEE, 
 president and general 
 manager of the Agee 
 Screen Company, is a 
 native Texan, having 
 been born in Camp 
 County, March 13, 1873. He is 
 the son of Jonathan F. Agee, a 
 native of Hickman, Tennessee. His 
 mother was a Georgian, Miss Satsie 
 Ann Lewis, of Macon, before her 
 marriage. One of the leading manu- 
 facturers of the city, Mr. Agee is an 
 active member of the Chamber of 
 Commerce and of the Fort Worth Ad 
 Men's Club. He is a good roads 
 enthusiast and spends much of his 
 time not devoted to his large busi- 
 ness interests in driving his Maxwell, 
 automobiling being his chief hobby. 
 Mr. Agee married Miss Nora Sisk, 
 October 20, 1904. They have two 
 children, one aged eight and one four 
 years old. In politics, Mr. Agee is 
 a Democrat. He has devoted all 
 his energy, however, to manufac- 
 turing and has never been an aspi- 
 rant for public office. In his chosen 
 line of activity he has attained re- 
 markable success, his company being 
 one of the leading industries of Fort 
 Worth with trade all over the South- 
 west. To the slogan, "Swat the 
 Fly," he has added the twin slogan, 
 "Screen the Fly." With the vogue 
 of sleeping porches the screen indus- 
 try has taken on enlarged propor- 
 tions and few Fort Worth homes now 
 are being built without thoroughly 
 screened sleeping porches, while 
 many old ones are being remodeled 
 and equipped in this way. 
 
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 E. H. Ailes 
 
 west. 
 
 DWARD HOFFMAN 
 AILES has helped give 
 good streets to many 
 Texas cities, and is one 
 of the best known pav- 
 ing men in the South- 
 As superintendent of the 
 Texas Bitulithic Company he had 
 charge of the construction of the 
 many miles of Bitulithic in this city 
 and also took part in the extensive 
 paving campaigns in El Paso, Dallas 
 and Corpus Christi. All his business 
 life has been spent in the paving 
 business and all with the same com- 
 pany, with which he has been con- 
 nected over ten years. He has been 
 in Texas since 1906 and in Fort 
 Worth since 1908. He is noted for 
 his energetic work in all public 
 matters and was one of the most 
 successful workers in the Chamber 
 of Commerce membership contest, 
 when he served upon one of the 
 contesting teams. He is also an 
 active worker in the Bovinians and 
 other similar organizations, and is 
 an Elk and a Mason. Mr. Ailes 
 was born in Botkins, Shelby County, 
 Ohio, November 9, 1882. He is of 
 Welsh and German ancestry and the 
 son of Moses H. and Mary Ailes, 
 both natives of Ohio. His educa- 
 tion was obtained in Ohio Wesleyan 
 University. He is a Shriner, York 
 and Scottish Rite Degree Mason, and 
 has been prominent in all the orders 
 to which he belongs. He was 
 actively in charge of the construc- 
 tion work during the time the large 
 bitulithic contracts were being car- 
 ried out here and made a host of 
 friends for himself and the company 
 by his consideration of the rights of 
 others and lessening of the tem- 
 porary inconveniences such as ac- 
 company all improvement work.
 
 Dr. W. L. Allison 
 
 R. WILMER LAWSON 
 ALLISON, president 
 and superintendent of 
 tlie Arlington Heights 
 Sanitarium, and one of 
 the best known special- 
 ists on nervous diseases in the State, 
 is a native of Texas. He was born 
 on Big Creek, in Falls County, Feb- 
 ruary 3, 1879. His early education 
 was received in the public schools 
 of Mexia. He attended Austin Col- 
 lege at Sherman, and the Medical De- 
 partment of the University of Texas. 
 Following his graduation Dr. Alli- 
 son spent one year as an interne at 
 Sealy Hospital, Galveston, and later 
 was appointed Demonstrator of Sur- 
 gery at the University of Texas. This 
 position he held for about six months 
 when he resigned to become assistant 
 superintendent of the Southwestern 
 Insane Asylum at San Antonio. This 
 position he held for four years, re- 
 signing to engage in general prac- 
 tice in Dallas. Shortly after his re- 
 moval to that city he was elected to 
 the chair of pathology and mental 
 and nervous diseases in Southwestern 
 Medical College, Dallas. This chair 
 he held until 1912, when he was 
 elected to the chair of neurology in 
 the Medical Department of Texas 
 Christian University, which he now 
 holds. He has been a resident of 
 Fort Worth since 1908, when he be- 
 came interested in the Arlington 
 Heights Sanitarium and was elected 
 its President and Superintendent. 
 Dr. Allison was Vice-President of the 
 Tarrant County Medical Association, 
 Vice-President from Texas of the 
 Medical Association of the South- 
 west, and Treasurer of the Texas 
 State Medical Association, a member 
 of American Medico-Psychological 
 Association, Northwest Texas Medi- 
 cal Association, Texas State Society 
 of Social Hygiene and the Fort 
 Worth Chamber of Commerce. He 
 married Miss Bessie Bozeman of 
 Wharton, Texas, in 1903. They have 
 one child, Wilmer L., Jr.
 
 E. T. Ambler 
 
 R. E. T. AMBLER, as- 
 sociate of the late John 
 W. Gates in his early 
 business ventures, is 
 one of the prominent 
 figures in the South- 
 western investment world. At various 
 times interested in saddlery, hard- 
 ware and ranching, he has accumu- 
 lated a fortune and is now devoting 
 his endeavors to Texas land in- 
 vestments and handling of land 
 paper. Mr. Ambler was born in 
 Danbury, Connecticut, February 27, 
 1850. He first came to Texas in 
 1878, traveling over the state selling 
 saddlery and hardware, and became 
 connected with the Glidden Wire 
 Company when the Glidden fortune 
 was built upon the fencing of the 
 western ranges. He was associated 
 with the Oliver and Roberts Wire 
 Company as their Western Manager 
 for ten years, beginning in 1886. He 
 became associated with Mr. Gates 
 and through the accumulation of 
 Consolidated Steel stock acquired a 
 substantial financial start. He sold 
 out his steel stock and bought a 
 large ranch in Lynn and Garza 
 counties in connection with C. O. 
 Edwards and John Lofton. Western 
 lands advanced rapidly shortly after 
 and he finally disposed of his land 
 and cattle holdings to C. W. Post 
 in 1906. He then established him- 
 self in Fort Worth and began han- 
 dling land paper. Mr. Ambler is a 
 well-known figure in commercial life 
 in the Central States. He takes a 
 wide interest in church affairs and 
 is head of the finance committee of 
 St. Andrew's Parish, which has just 
 completed its handsome new church 
 building. Mr. Ambler married Miss 
 Wynne of Dallas. Their daughter. 
 Miss Grace Ambler, married Sam 
 Cantey, Jr.
 
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 Dr. J. Anderson 
 
 R. JAMES ANDERSON, 
 one of the founders of 
 the Fort Worth Medical 
 College, now merged 
 with Texas Christian 
 University, is a native 
 of Londonderry and educated at the 
 famous University of Edinboro. 
 Two of his brothers, George Ander- 
 son of California and W. A. Ander- 
 son of Vernon, had come to America 
 while their brother was in college 
 and their accounts of the opportu- 
 nities of the growing Southwest led 
 Dr. Anderson to move to Texas after 
 practicing for a time in London after 
 his graduation in 1885. He came 
 here twenty-six years ago and began 
 his practice. Having been made cog- 
 nizant while in Scotland and England 
 of the advantages of a thorough uni- 
 versity training he interested himself 
 in securing the founding of a medical 
 college here and was one of the orig- 
 inators of the Fort Worth Medical 
 College, president of the board of 
 directors and vice-president of the 
 faculty. He held the professorship 
 of medicine until a few years ago, 
 when he could no longer spare the 
 necessary time for the purpose. Dr. 
 Anderson married Miss Martha Beggs 
 of Fort Worth, December 23, 1895. 
 They have two sons, George Beggs 
 Anderson and James Anderson, Jr. 
 Dr. Anderson is a member of the 
 Tarrant County, North Texas, Texas 
 State and American Medical Socie- 
 ties. His brother, Dr. John Ander- 
 son, was for thirty years a surgeon 
 in the English army in India. He is 
 now a resident of London. 
 
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 A. August 
 
 LPHONSE AUGUST, 
 builder of the August 
 Building, and head of 
 the big August clothing 
 store, has been instru- 
 mental in giving Fort 
 Worth its largest building and inci- 
 dentally the finest theater building 
 in the Southwest. Buying the site 
 of the August building over four 
 years ago, he, with his brother, 
 Larry August, first planned to erect 
 merely a three-story building. Ar- 
 rangements, then, were made to put 
 up the theater, and before work was 
 begun upon it, it was decided to add 
 the larger office building. The re- 
 sult was the August building, with 
 its 1,650,000 cubic feet of space. It 
 houses not only the Majestic Theater, 
 but also the general offices of the 
 Rock Island Railroad, occupying the 
 four-story part, and the general of- 
 fices of the Frisco System, using the 
 three-story section. It represents a 
 Fort Worth investment of more than 
 half a million. Both this and the 
 big August store are Fort Worth 
 affairs that have engaged Mr. Au- 
 gust's attention. A native of Ger- 
 many, he came to Texas over twenty- 
 seven years ago and located here 
 with his older brother, L. August. 
 He attended school here and took a 
 business course in Pruitt's Business 
 College. Later he became a member 
 of the August firm, which became 
 known as A. & L. August. He now 
 has complete charge of the Fort 
 Worth business, L. August looking 
 after their interests in New York. 
 Mr. August is the son of Jacob and 
 Rosina August, both natives of Ger- 
 many. He married Miss Hattie Baum, 
 formerly of Charlotte, Mich. He is 
 a member of the River Crest Country 
 Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the 
 Ad Men's Club and the Knights of 
 Pythias. He is a director in the 
 Texas State Bank.
 
 M. W. Bahan 
 
 W. BAHAN is a man 
 whose hobby is gas — 
 real natural gas — and 
 gas is his business as 
 well as his hobby. Mr. 
 Bahan is manager of 
 the Texas Company's natural gas de- 
 partment, having charge of the 
 land and leasehold department. He 
 is a stockholder in the same com- 
 pany, vice-president and director of 
 the Fort Worth Gas Company, di- 
 rector in the Marshall Gas Company 
 and director of the Louisiana-Texas 
 Natural Gas Company. Mr. Bahan 
 is a New Yorker by birth. He was 
 born in Cattaragus, New York, Jan- 
 uary 23, 1863, and obtained his edu- 
 cation in the public schools of that 
 State. Nearly all of his life has 
 been spent in the oil and gas busi- 
 ness. In 1880 he entered the employ 
 of the National Transit Company, 
 New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio, 
 as a telegraph operator, afterwards 
 holding the position of engineer, 
 gauger, oil purchasing agent and 
 superintendent. In 1904 Mr. Bahan 
 came to Texas as superintendent and 
 director of the Navarro Refining 
 Company at Corsicana and in 1909 
 he became connected with the Tex- 
 as Company. Mr. Bahan is a 
 Democrat in politics but has never 
 found time enough from his favorite 
 hobby of gas to take much part in 
 political affairs. In 1892 he married 
 Miss Mary McLaughlin of Andover, 
 New York. They have five children, 
 ages nineteen, seventeen, fifteen, 
 thirteen and eight. He has been at 
 all times a consistent worker for the 
 development of Fort Worth. 
 
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 W. J. Bailey 
 
 ILLIAM JOHN BAILEY 
 has had a prominent 
 part in the affairs of 
 both the city and State 
 and though he retired 
 from the active practice 
 of law five years ago and has 
 been devoting himself to agricultural 
 pursuits, fine horses and cattle, he 
 still takes an active part in civic 
 affairs, in which he is specially in- 
 terested, being perhaps, the largest 
 individual owner of real estate in 
 and about Fort Worth. During the 
 more than twenty years he practiced 
 law in Fort Worth, he held many of- 
 ficial positions, among other things 
 being a member of the state senate 
 in the Twenty-fourth and Twenty- 
 fifth Legislatures. He was the first 
 official stenographer of a district 
 court in Fort Worth, serving for one 
 year when he resigned to become 
 second assistant in the office of the 
 Attorney General at Austin, John D. 
 Templeton being then Attorney Gen- 
 eral of Texas. After three years 
 he returned to Fort Worth and re- 
 sumed practice. Mr. Bailey also 
 served officially as a member of 
 the Board of Aldermen and as a 
 city school trustee. In politics, he 
 has been a consistent Democrat. Mr. 
 Bailey is the son of Cullen Bailey 
 and Mrs. So'phronia Holman Bailey, 
 both natives of Tennessee and of 
 English ancestry. He was graduat- 
 ed from the University of Tennessee 
 in 1881 and from the Lebanon Law 
 School in ,1882. In 1887 he married 
 Miss Stella Wooten. Later, after 
 her death* he married Miss Susa 
 Carpenter of Grand Junction, Colo. 
 He has one son, Cullen Bailey, aged 
 23. Mr. Bailey is interested in many 
 business enterprises and is Presi- 
 dent of the Greenwood Cemetery As- 
 sociation.
 
 E. E. Baldridge 
 
 ikRL E. BALDRIDGE, 
 head of the Fort 
 Worth Savings Bank 
 and Trust Company 
 and American National 
 Bank, has been con- 
 nected with an unbroken line of 
 wonderful business successes, 
 largely due to the fact that he 
 has been self-reliant since the age 
 of fourteen. Born at Possum Trot, 
 Texas, a short distance from Gon- 
 zales, with its historical associations, 
 he is typical of the energetic Texas 
 business man. Receiving his early 
 tutoring from a Baptist preacher, 
 young Baldridge began to learn the 
 lessons of experience at fourteen and 
 rode for a Pecos ranger at $25 a 
 month. Later he engaged in the cat- 
 tle business for himself, investing 
 his meager savings to good advan- 
 tage. He first ranched in Oklahoma 
 and later added ranches in Erath, 
 Crane, Ector, Ward and Winkler 
 Counties in Texas, as well as the 
 famous Blue Spring ranch near Wag- 
 goner, Okla. Upon coming to Fort 
 Worth he engaged in the livestock 
 commission business as head of the 
 Godair-Russell Company. Later this 
 company merged with the Cassidy- 
 Southwestern, with which he remain- 
 ed actively until he became head of 
 the Waggoner Bank and Trust Com- 
 pany. Mr. Baldridge is prominent, 
 too, in public enterprises, director of 
 the Chamber of Commerce, member 
 of the Saddle and Sirloin Club, and 
 member of the River Crest Country 
 Club and an Elk. Deeply interested 
 in civic affairs, he came forward 
 despite the recent unsettled condition 
 of money affairs and took the city's 
 reservoir and school bond issues at 
 par. His new home at Arlington 
 Heights is one of the finest resi- 
 dences in the city. He married Miss 
 Florence Gibson of Waggoner, Okla. 
 They have five children, John Lewis, 
 Helen, Eula May, Earl E., Jr., and 
 Martha Louise.
 
 J. H. Barwise 
 
 OSEPH H. BARWISE, 
 Jr., was born at St. 
 Charles, Missouri, 
 March 19, 1868. His 
 father was Joseph Bar- 
 wise, Sr., and his 
 mother, Lucy Hansell Barwise. He 
 was destined for the law at an early 
 age and was given the advantage of 
 schooling at National Normal Uni- 
 versity, Lebanon, Ohio. From there 
 he graduated in 1890. Twelve 
 years later he moved to Fort Worth 
 where he has since practiced law. 
 He has been eminently successful 
 and is the junior member in an emi- 
 nently successful firm of attorneys. 
 They are the general attorneys for 
 the Fort Worth & Denver and resi- 
 dent attorneys for all of the Gould 
 lines entering Fort Worth. Their 
 clientele is one of the strongest as 
 well as one of the most important 
 in North Texas. J. H. Barwise, Jr., 
 and Miss Lucy Mayfield were mar- 
 ried December 8, 1896. Their only 
 child is a son, fourteen years of age, 
 named for the father. Prior to his 
 locating in Fort Worth, Mr. Bar- 
 wise was a resident of Wichita 
 county. He was elected county at- 
 torney there in 1892, two years after 
 his graduation from the Ohio col- 
 lege, and held the office until 1894, 
 when he retired. This was his first 
 and only public office. In politics 
 he is a Democrat, and always has 
 taken a keen interest in the welfare 
 of the party and its principles. Golf 
 is his favorite form of recreation. 
 
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 C. G. Beckham 
 
 ILIFFORD G. BECK- 
 HAM is one of the 
 youngest lawyers of the 
 Fort Worth bar who 
 has become prominent 
 in political affairs. As 
 chairman of the Woodrow Wilson 
 forces in Tarrant county he conduct- 
 ed a campaign that was noted for its 
 thoroughness and success. Mr. Beck- 
 ham is a son of the late Judge Rob- 
 ert E. Beckham and Mary W. (God- 
 win) Beckham, and is a native of 
 Fort Worth, having been born in this 
 city June 20, 1881. His parents both 
 came from Kentucky to Texas. His 
 father was a captain in the Confed- 
 erate Army, coming to Fort Worth 
 after that struggle, to practice law. 
 He served as Mayor from 1878 to 
 1880; was County Judge from 1880 
 to 1884, and Judge of the Seven- 
 teenth District Court from then until 
 1892. It was but natural that his son 
 should follow in his footsteps and 
 study law. He did this, graduating 
 from the Law Department of the Uni- 
 versity of Texas in the class of 1903, 
 entering immediately into the prac- 
 tice and soon establishing an envi- 
 able reputation in his profession. He 
 married Miss Mabel Clare Van Ars- 
 dell, June 28, 1905. Miss Van Ars- 
 dell was a Kentuckian by birth, but 
 a resident of Texas from childhood. 
 They have two children, Perla Marie, 
 born September 28, 1906, and Mabel 
 Claire, born January 16, 1912. At 
 college Mr. Beckham was a Beta 
 Theta Pi. He is a Mason (both 
 Knight Templar and 32° Scottish 
 Rite) and a Shriner. In the 1914 
 campaign for submission of a Pro- 
 hibition Amendment he was Secre- 
 tary of the State Prohibition Demo- 
 cratic Advisory Committee.
 
 C. H. Bencini 
 
 H. BENCINI, formerly 
 Mayor of Brownwood, 
 has taken a prominent 
 part in Fort Worth af- 
 fairs since coming to 
 this city a number of 
 years ago. He is prob- 
 ably the largest individual cotton oil 
 mill operator in the country and has 
 oil mill interests at Brady, Brown- 
 wood, Dublin, Stephenville, Hico, 
 Hamilton, Coleman, San Antonio and 
 Goldthwaite, Texas, all directed from 
 his offices here. His success has been 
 due to his own efforts. He was 
 born at Salisbury, N. C. His father 
 died shortly after completing the 
 construction of the railway from 
 Jackson, Tenn., to Cairo, 111., and at 
 ten, he went to the country to live 
 with J. F. Cocke, a wealthy planter 
 who had become very much attached 
 to him. At the age of sixteen he 
 had been made foreman of the plan- 
 tation but soon after, his inclination 
 toward mechanics led him to leave 
 the farm and enter the railway ma- 
 chine shops at Jackson, Tenn., 
 where he received his first mechan- 
 ical training. He came to Paris 
 as engineer of an oil mill. His 
 success at Paris was immediate, and 
 in a short time he had advanced to 
 superintendent and manager. The 
 late Winfield Scott was attracted by 
 the results the young operator was 
 obtaining and the backing of that 
 wealthy investor assisted in build- 
 ing up the chain of oil mill proper- 
 ties. Mr. Bencini is also interested 
 in the cattle business, and is a 
 director in the Fort' Worth and 
 Rio Grande division of the Frisco 
 system. Despite his extensive busi- 
 ness interests, he finds time for 
 other things, and served as head 
 of the Fort Worth United Charities 
 during a most successful year. At 
 Brownwood, while mayor, it was his 
 annual custom to see that no home 
 was without its Christmas basket, 
 though the name of the donor was 
 kept concealed, and while President 
 of the Fort Worth United Charities, 
 he started the same movement in 
 Fort Worth which has been kept up. 
 He is an Elk, a member of the 
 River Crest Country Club, the 
 Chamber of Commerce and a direc- 
 tor in the Fat Stock Show. He mar- 
 ried Mrs. Jeff D. McLean of this 
 city. 
 
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 W. E. Bideker 
 
 ILLIAM E. BIDEKER 
 has as his hobby, the 
 conservation of water 
 for Texas; as his busi- 
 ness, he has the 
 preservation of Fort 
 Worth from fire. As chief of the 
 best fire department in the South- 
 west, he is effectually accomplish- 
 ing one of his life objects and on 
 the other, he is still at work. He 
 first became Chief of the Fire De- 
 partment in 1905 after four years 
 service as Assistant Chief and has 
 built up the department in that time 
 from one of seven stations and 38 
 men to one of thirteen stations and 
 a hundred men. Born in Ohio, of 
 German and Virginia parentage, he 
 was reared in West Virginia and se- 
 cured his education in the schools 
 of that state. He married Miss Ella 
 L. Fahey in West Virginia and has 
 five living children, two having died. 
 Those living are Misses Bessie, 17; 
 Ella, 15; Marguerite, 13; Mazie, 9; 
 and Frances who is six. He is a 
 Democrat and a member of the Elks, 
 Knights of Columbus, Woodmen of 
 the World, United Benevolent Asso- 
 ciation, Red Men and Eagles. He is 
 a member and subscriber to the 
 Chamber of Commerce. Under his 
 leadership, the firemen have sub- 
 scribed liberally to such city projects 
 as the National Feeders and Breeders 
 Show, the University Fund and the 
 Exline-Reimers bonus. His father, 
 H. E. Bideker, was born in Ger- 
 many and his mother. Miss M. Win- 
 per in Virginia. He was born May 
 4, 1869 at Wooster, Ohio.
 
 W. J. Boaz 
 
 ILLIAM J. BOAZ, ban- 
 ker, capitalist and ex- 
 tensive land and prop- 
 erty owner, is a pio- 
 neer resident of Fort 
 Worth. His family 
 settled in this county before the 
 days when Fort Worth was a 
 town and Birdvllle, now but a mere 
 village, was the county seat and 
 leading town. He moved to Fort 
 Worth shortly after the Civil War and 
 since that time has been identified 
 prominently with its affairs. In ad- 
 dition to his numerous business ac- 
 tivities Mr. Boaz is a leader in re- 
 ligious circles and always can be 
 found working for the moral, civic 
 and industrial progress of Fort 
 Worth. Naturally modest and re- 
 tiring, he has pursued his activities 
 in his own quiet, unassuming way 
 with the result that the general pub- 
 lic rarely hears of the part he has 
 played. He has taken an active 
 part in Methodist church affairs 
 among other things. Mr. Boaz is a 
 native of Kentucky, having been 
 born in Hickman county, that State, 
 August 26, 1840. His father, Sam- 
 uel Boaz, was a Virginian, being 
 born in Pittsylvania county. His 
 mother was Mrs. Agnes Freeman 
 Boaz. In politics Mr. Boaz is a 
 Democrat, but with the exception of 
 the time he served in the city coun- 
 cil — about 1872 — he has not held nor 
 sought public office. In 1868, Mr. 
 Boaz married Miss Mary Belle An- 
 derson. They have four sons and 
 two daughters. In addition to his 
 banking investments, Mr. Boaz has 
 an interest in a number of Fort 
 Worth business institutions, in- 
 cluding the Texas Anchor Fence 
 Company, of which he is a stock- 
 holder, and the Southern Land Com- 
 pany, of which he is treasurer.
 
 Dr. F. D. Boyd 
 
 R. FRANK D. BOYD 
 is one of the profes- 
 sional men of tlie city 
 who has become exten- 
 sively interested in 
 real estate and other 
 activities without interfering with his 
 large practice as an eye, ear, nose 
 and throat specialist. He has served 
 as chairman of the Medical Board of 
 Councilors for the State of Texas and 
 as president of the Fort Worth Y. M. 
 C. A. and is an active worker in its 
 welfare. Dr. Boyd is a native Texan. 
 He was born at Rusk, December 24, 
 1867, the son of John A. Boyd and 
 Amy E. Boyd, and is of Scotch-Irish 
 ancestry. His father was born at 
 Murfreesboro, Tennessee, and his 
 mother at Selma, Alabama. Dr. Boyd 
 was graduated from the medical de- 
 partment of the University of Louis- 
 ville in 1890. In 1892 he married 
 Miss Mattie C. Callahan. They have 
 one child living. Dr. Boyd is a 
 staunch advdcate of outdoor sports 
 and has done much to build up the 
 physical education department of the 
 Y. M. C. A. during his service at its 
 head. His favorite sports are base- 
 ball and golf. He is a Mason and 
 Shriner, an Elk, member of the 
 Country Cltib, Fort Worth Club, 
 Chamber of Commerce and Real Es- 
 tate ExchaMe. At the 1914 session 
 of the Texas State Medical Associa- 
 tion held at Houston, Dr. Boyd was 
 honored with election as president of 
 this body^y which includes nearly all 
 of the practicing physicians in the 
 State. In recognition of the honor he 
 was tendered a banquet by the Tar- 
 rant County Medical Association. He 
 is a member also of the Doctors' 
 Lunch Club and served as its chair- 
 man.
 
 Dr. R. O. Braswell 
 
 
 R. RADFORD O. BRAS- 
 WELL, for eight years 
 served as a member of 
 the Texas State Med- 
 ical Examining Board. 
 He is a native of Ala- 
 bama, having been born at Decatur, 
 in that State, in 1873. He is of 
 German and Scotch-Irish ancestry. 
 His father, D. B. Braswell, was 
 born in North Carolina and his 
 mother, who was Miss Jane Barrith, 
 was a Georgian. Dr. Braswell is a 
 graduate of the Physio-Medical Col- 
 lege of Indiana, of the Chicago Col- 
 lege of Medicine and Surgery and of 
 the New York Polyclinic. He mar- 
 ried Miss Mamie McKinnon of Dal- 
 las in 1899. They have one child, 
 five years of age. Dr. Braswell 
 is a member of Hella Temple, 
 Knights of the Mystic Shrine. A 
 surgeon by profession he makes 
 Science his hobby. In political opin- 
 ion, he is a Democrat. In 1914 he 
 announced as a candidate for Gov- 
 ernor in the Democratic primary, 
 frankly stating that he did not de- 
 sire the office, but did desire a num- 
 ber of measures and policies carried 
 out. When these were espoused by 
 other candidates he withdrew. Many 
 of the things he advocated form a 
 part of the platform of the success- 
 ful candidate. Among them are: 
 Perfection of the educational insti- 
 tutions; taking of asylums and pen- 
 itentiaries out of politics and operat- 
 ing them in a scientific way; estab- 
 lishment of a state institution for the 
 criminally insane; development of 
 Texas and establishment of a co- 
 operative marketing system for farm 
 products. He advocated also cura- 
 tive methods for treatment of crime, 
 arguing that both crime and disease 
 in most cases are curable. In Fort 
 Worth he is noted for a quiet philan- 
 thropy that has given skilled service 
 to the poorest as well as the wealthy 
 sufferers. 
 
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 M. M. Bright 
 
 ARCUS MARCELLUS 
 BRIGHT, cashier of the 
 Fort Worth State Bank 
 and member of its 
 board of directors, is 
 but thirty-four years 
 old, but his record as a banlc official 
 is an enviable one. Mr. Bright was 
 born in Jackson, Madison County, 
 Tennessee, February 24, 1880, the 
 only son of Hon. Marcus M. Bright, a 
 prominent lawyer of that State, and 
 Belle Perkins Bright, daughter of 
 Col. Geo. Perkins, a distinguished 
 Confederate officer. When but a 
 small boy Mr. Bright's parents re- 
 moved to Ardmore, Okla. His early 
 education was secured at King's Pri- 
 vate School in that city and later he 
 entered Austin College at Sherman, 
 Texas. Mr. Bright's first banking ex- 
 perience was obtained in the First 
 National Bank of Ardmore. Later he 
 was elected cashier of the First Na- 
 tional Bank of Mineral Wells. This 
 position he held until 1909 when, at 
 the time the late Winfield Scott and 
 other capitalists of North Texas or- 
 ganized the Fort Worth State Bank, 
 he was selected for its cashier. Mr. 
 Bright is a Mason and a Shriner, be- 
 longing to Hella Temple, Dallas. He 
 also belongs to the Fort Worth Club; 
 is treasurer of the Fort Worth Associ- 
 ation of Credit Men and the Polytech- 
 nic Heights School District. In poli- 
 tics Mr. Bright is a Democrat but 
 has never held nor sought public 
 office. He has two children by his 
 first wife, Marcus M., Jr., aged six, 
 and Lawrence, aged four. On Aug- 
 ust 26, 1912, he married Miss Amy 
 Vickery, the accomplished daughter 
 of R. Vickery, a capitalist of Fort 
 Worth. He is a director of the Fort 
 Worth State Bank, the Crystal Ice 
 Company and the Veihl-Crawford 
 Hardware Company.
 
 Morgan Bryan 
 
 ORGAN BRYAN is one 
 of the originators of the 
 Fort Worth Elks Lodge 
 No. 124, a past exalted 
 ruler of the lodge and a 
 member of the board of 
 directors of the Elks' Building 
 Association, which constructed the 
 handsome club building at Seventh 
 and Lamar streets, the finest club 
 building in the entire South. He is 
 a descendant of the three Bryan 
 brothers, who were among the early 
 permanent settlers of America, com- 
 ing to North Carolina in 1687. His 
 father was Samuel J. Bryan, who 
 was born at Mt. Airy, North Caro- 
 lina, and his mother, Mrs. Sarah A. 
 Bryan, was a native of Kentucky. He 
 was born at Bonham, Texas, August 
 31, 1872. He attended Fannin Col- 
 lege at Bonham, graduating in 1890, 
 and later came to Fort Worth, where 
 he has become a prominent member 
 of the Texas bar. A lifelong Demo- 
 crat, he has taken a live interest in 
 political matters, but has never 
 sought public position. He married 
 Miss Helen Daggett, member of the 
 pioneer Fort Worth family of that 
 name, in 1898. They have one daugh- 
 ter, Dorothy Lee Bryan, a young 
 school miss. In addition to his prom- 
 inence as an attorney, Mr. Bryan is 
 well known in lodge and social cir- 
 cles, though most of the time that 
 can be spared from his professional 
 work is devoted to outdoor diversions. 
 He is an enthusiastic hunter and a 
 good shot. As a member of the 
 board of directors of the Elks' 
 Building Association he is one of 
 the men to whom Fort Worth is in- 
 debted for the handsomest club 
 house in the South.
 
 William Bryce 
 
 ILLIAM BRYCE devotes 
 a large measure of his 
 time to service for the 
 benefit of the city at 
 large demonstrating the 
 value of the suggestion 
 that a busy man is the one who will 
 find time to accomplish most things. 
 He has served on most of the im- 
 portant committees of the Chamber 
 of Commerce in recent years and has 
 been one of the heaviest contributors 
 to public funds for advancement of 
 the city's interests. Time has been 
 found for this work though he is 
 actively connected with three of the 
 large institutions of the city. He is 
 president of the Bryce Building 
 Company, president of the Drumm 
 Seed and Floral Company and presi- 
 dent of the Denton Pressed Brick 
 Company. He was president of the 
 Elks Building Association and is a 
 director of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce. Mr. Bryce was born in Scot- 
 land, February 14, 1861, the son of 
 John Bryce and Jane Gray Bryce. 
 The family moved to Canada and he 
 was graduated from the schools 
 there, coming to Fort Worth in 1883. 
 He is a Mason, an Elk, a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias and the 
 Bovinians and belongs to the River 
 Crest Club and Fort Worth Club. 
 Among the other business enterprises 
 with which Mr. Bryce is connected 
 are the Hill Crest Land Company, of 
 which he is president; the Texas 
 Rolling Mill, of which he is vice- 
 president, and the Fairmount Land 
 Company, of which he is secretary- 
 treasurer. He has an interest also 
 in the Exline-Reimers Company, 
 manufacturing printers, and in other 
 companies of the city. 
 
 
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 S. B. Burnett 
 
 APTAIN S. B. BUR- 
 NETT, as a man of 
 affairs, can't be claimed 
 by Fort Worth alone. 
 The entire State, the 
 Southwest and the 
 whole West knows and likes the gen- 
 ial cattle king of the plains. He has 
 been entertained by President Roose- 
 velt in the White House and has en- 
 tertained President Roosevelt on his 
 ranches. Even the fast disappearing 
 Redmen revere the big-hearted cow- 
 man. Old Geronimo came to him for 
 advice and consultation and always 
 received him with especial honor on 
 the occasion of Captain Burnett's 
 trips into the Indian country. Samuel 
 Burke Burnett is a Missourian. He 
 was born in Base County, Missouri, 
 January 1, 1849, of parents who had 
 previously moved there from Vir- 
 ginia. If you ask Captain Burnett 
 his business, he will tell you simply 
 cattleman. That he is on a grand 
 scale. His herds, famous in all the 
 stock shows the world over, roam 
 over thousands upon thousands of 
 acres in Central West Texas and 
 Oklahoma. But he is interested also 
 in banks and other enterprises. He 
 is a director in the First National 
 Bank of Fort Worth, a director in the 
 Benjamin, Texas, Bank, and vice- 
 president of the State Bank at Burk- 
 burnett, Texas. Besides that he is 
 treasurer of the Cassidy-Southwest- 
 ern Commission Company and 
 treasurer of the Cattle Raisers As- 
 sociation of Texas, and interested in 
 prosperous oil mill properties in the 
 Southwest. Captain Burnett is a 
 member of the Elks, Knights of Py- 
 thias and River Crest Club. His 
 hobby is cattle, first, last and all the 
 time. Wherever cattle graze, Burk 
 Burnett, as he is familiarly called, 
 is known by the stockmen. 
 
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 H. L. Calhoun 
 
 UGH L. CALHOUN has 
 been connected promi- 
 nently with Fort Worth 
 affairs both as an offi- 
 cial and in private in- 
 dustrial enterprises. He 
 has been secretary of the city Demo- 
 cratic executive committee for years 
 and for fourteen years was secretary 
 and superintendent of the city water- 
 works, serving under both the Coun- 
 cil and Commission. He is now gen- 
 eral manager and secretary of the 
 Crystal Ice Company. He came to 
 Fort Worth in 1888 as manager of 
 the Fort Worth Fuel Company, leav- 
 ing that five years later to become 
 secretary of the waterworks. After 
 serving as secretary for nine years 
 and as assistant superintendent and 
 secretary for one year, he became 
 superintendent upon the death of the 
 late Capt. A. W. Scoble, and served 
 both as secretary and superintendent. 
 He was re-elected under the commis- 
 sion government, but resigned a 
 month later to become secretary of 
 the Fort Worth Iron and Steel Works 
 and later became superintendent of 
 the Ballard Ice & Fuel Company. In 
 October, 1910, he organized the Crys- 
 tal Ice Company. Mr. Calhoun was 
 born in Shelbyville, Tenn., Aug. 14, 
 1874. His parents, N. J. Calhoun 
 and Mrs. Joana E. Calhoun, were 
 both natives of Tennessee. He mar- 
 ried Miss Carrie May Conant August 
 17, 1892. They have three children. 
 Mr. Calhoun is a member of the Elks 
 and the Fraternal Mystic Circle.
 
 R. C. Cantrell 
 
 OBERT CARUTHERS 
 .CANTRELL has been 
 a resident of Tarrant 
 County thirty-sL\ years 
 and of Fort Worth 
 nearly fifteen years, 
 and is one of the best known horse- 
 men in the Southwest. Mr. Can- 
 trell is a native of Mississippi, hav- 
 ing been born at Canton, that State, 
 August 22, 1864. He is the son of 
 Henry C. Cantrell, a noted figure 
 in the war between the States, and 
 Lila Sanders Cantrell, both natives 
 of Tennessee. Following the close 
 of the war the family returned to 
 Tennessee and Mr. Cantrell re- 
 ceived his early education there, 
 completing it in the Texas schools 
 after they removed to this State. A 
 lover of good horses, he has devoted 
 much of his time to business pur- 
 suits connected with them and is 
 manager and senior partner of Can- 
 trell Brothers' Eclipse Stables. He 
 is also president of the Fort Worth 
 Undertaking Company. Never a 
 candidate for office, he has never- 
 theless been a prominent political 
 factor in both city and county af- 
 fairs and is a lifelong Democrat. He 
 has extensi/e lodge and club con- 
 nections, being a member of the 
 Elks, the Knights of Pythias, the 
 Bovinians and the Saddle and Sirloin 
 Club. He is also identified with the 
 commercial organizations building 
 up the city and holds membership 
 in the Chamber of Commerce and 
 the Ad Men's Clubs.
 
 William Capps 
 
 IJILLIAM CAPPS, senior 
 member of the firm of 
 Capps, Cantey, Hanger 
 & Short, is at once 
 prominent as an at- 
 torney and general 
 business man. Professionally he is 
 the representative of many of the 
 leading corporations that have taken 
 a part in the building of Fort Worth. 
 He was one of the prime movers in 
 the development of the great South 
 Side residence district beyond the 
 Santa Fe Railway, and Capps Park 
 in that section is his gift to the City 
 of Fort Worth. He is president of 
 the Fort Worth Record and the Capps 
 Land Company and interested in 
 other business enterprises. Without 
 seeking office he has been a force 
 in political matters and at one time 
 served as a member of the Board of 
 School Trustees with Major K. M. 
 Van Zandt and other prominent busi- 
 ness and professional men. Mr. 
 Capps' father, A. F. Capps, was a 
 prominent attorney in Overton 
 County, Tennessee, where Mr. Capps 
 was born. His mother, Mrs. Hennie 
 J. Officer Capps, was a member of 
 another prominent Tennessee family, 
 her father being one of the largest 
 planters and slave owners in that 
 State before the war. Believing that 
 his children should be raised on the 
 farm, the elder Mr. Capps brought 
 them to Texas in 1878 and settled 
 near Arlington, where they were 
 raised. The family consisted of four 
 boys and two girls. Dr. E. D. Capps, 
 F. A. Capps of Benchley, Charles 
 Capps of Arlington, William Capps, 
 Mrs. Mattie Gill of Arlington and 
 Mrs. A. R. Eldredge of this city. Mr. 
 Capps married Miss Fannie Brooke. 
 They have three children, Mrs. H. G. 
 Lucas, Miss Mattie Mae Capps and 
 Count Brooke Capps. His latest 
 signal service for Fort Worth was 
 the institution of the movement that 
 led to formation of the Fort Worth- 
 Denton Traction Company.
 
 D. B. Carr 
 
 ELWIN BERTRAN 
 CARR, deputy district 
 clerk of Tarrant coun- 
 ty from 1906 to 1908, 
 is an eminent member 
 of the Bar in Texas, 
 and a prominent Democrat. The son 
 of Merritt L. Carr and Alice Young 
 Carr, he is a direct descendant of 
 the earliest settlers in New England; 
 his forefathers having come from 
 England to Massachusetts where 
 they settled in 1620 with the Pil- 
 grim Fathers. His father was a na- 
 tive of Scoharie county, New York 
 and his mother of Indiana. Follow- 
 ing the marriage of Mr. Carr's par- 
 ents, they were residents of Rankin, 
 Illinois and he was born there Feb- 
 ruary 22, 1880. Mr. Carr has been 
 prominent in Fort Worth fraternal 
 circles and is a member of the Fort 
 Worth lodges of Elks, Masons, 
 Knights of Pythias and Modern 
 Woodmen of America. June 26, 
 1910, Mr. Carr and Miss Clethie 
 Bradshaw were married in this city. 
 Mr. Carr is an ardent lover of fine 
 horses and takes his recreation 
 largely in riding and driving. After 
 successful practice at the Fort Worth 
 Bar, Mr. Carr removed to Dallas in 
 1913, and has continued the practice 
 of his chosen profession in that city. 
 While a resident of Fort Worth he 
 made many friends and "was highly 
 popular in lodge and social circles. 
 
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 Alonzo Carter 
 
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 LONZO CARTER, pro- 
 p r i e t r of Carter's 
 Studio & Photo Supply 
 Company, is a native 
 ^ of Alabama. He was 
 born near Anniston, 
 that State, May 11, 1873, the son of 
 M. A. and E. E. Carter. He attended 
 the public schools of his native 
 State and after completing the 
 course, entered Cumberland Semi- 
 nary of Alabama. From Alabama 
 Mr. Carter traveled extensively in 
 the interest of his profession, in 
 which he has been so successful 
 since coming to Fort Worth in 1908, 
 succeeding Mr. Greer. Mr. Carter 
 is a member of the Elks, Woodmen 
 of the World, Knights of Pythias, 
 Ad Men's Club, Rotary Club and the 
 Chamber of Commerce. High-grade 
 portraits and art photographing are 
 his hobbies. Among the prominent 
 Fort Worth men who have been 
 given sittings by him are those 
 whose pictures appear in this vol- 
 ume. In May, 1906, Mr. Carter 
 married Miss Edna C. Guthrie at 
 Galveston. They have two children, 
 Lorraine, aged six years, and Just- 
 ine, aged two. Their home is at 
 2201 Fairmount avenue. For many 
 years he has been the official pho- 
 tographer for the City of Fort Worth 
 and his collection of plates and neg- 
 atives is one of the largest and most 
 complete in the entire Southwest. He 
 is highly popular as a club man and 
 well known in business circles 
 throughout the city.
 
 Amon G. Carter 
 
 HERE is a little sign 
 that hangs over Amon 
 G. Carter's desk in 
 the Star-Telegram of- 
 fice that reads: "Most 
 anybody can get results 
 when kindly encouraged, but give 
 me the man that can get there 
 in spite of hell." It is the spirit of 
 that sign that has made him the 
 successful man he is today. He was 
 left to shift for himself at eleven. 
 His first job was washing dishes 
 for $1.50 a week at Bowie. At 
 eighteen he was traveling with a 
 crew of canvassers selling portraits 
 and at that age he could sell more 
 portraits than any man in the crew. 
 In recognition of this he was made 
 manager of the crew and later sales 
 manager for the company. The ad- 
 vertising field attracted him and he 
 became connected with a big adver- 
 tising agency in San Francisco, 
 proving as successful at that as at 
 portrait selling. After two years he 
 decided to return to Texas and, 
 locating in Fort Worth, established 
 an advertising agency, handling 
 street car advertising. The Fort 
 Worth Star was organized about 
 this time and he was selected for 
 Advertising Manager. Within three 
 months he was Business Manager 
 though then less than 26 years of 
 age. Three years later t-he Star pur- 
 chased the Telegram and he became 
 Business Manager of the Star-Tele- 
 gram, of which he is now Vice- 
 President and General Manager and 
 part owner. He has been as active 
 in building for Fort Worth as for 
 himself. He has served as Presi- 
 dent of the Chamber of Commerce 
 and is one of its Directors. He is 
 a Past Exalted Ruler of the Elks 
 and President of the Elks Building 
 Association; was one of the organ- 
 izers of the Ad Men's Club of which 
 he was Secretary; was President of 
 the University Club, and has been 
 identified with every movement for 
 the growth of the city since he lo- 
 cated here. Mr. Carter is married 
 and has one child, Bertice. 
 
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 H. M. Chapman 
 
 ENRY MO RROW 
 CHAPMAN, settled in 
 Texas in 1877, leaving 
 Bowling Green, Ken- 
 tucky, in that year to 
 - come to Weatherford. 
 He remained in Weatherford until 
 1883, when he removed to Fort 
 Worth, where he has been a resident 
 since. Always a prominent member 
 of the bar of the State and a well- 
 known Democrat, he has held a num- 
 ber of public trusts, though never 
 accepting salaried offices. He was a 
 member of the Board of Regents of 
 the State University for three years 
 and a member of the school board 
 of the city of Fort Worth for some 
 time. 
 
 As district attorney for the Frisco 
 Railway he has taken a prominent 
 part in the legal work of that com- 
 pany in Texas, the State headquar- 
 ters being in Fort Worth. During 
 his practice of law in Fort Worth 
 Mr. Chapman has been a member of 
 the firms of Boss, Chapman and 
 Boss; West, Smith and Chapman; 
 West, Chapman and West, and for 
 the past two years of Chapman and 
 Lockett. Having a hobby for pigeon 
 culture, Mr. Chapman owns a farm 
 near Bedford stocked with many fine 
 birds, a number of them prize win- 
 ners in the annual State poultry 
 shows. Mr. Chapman's other hobby 
 is fishing. He was born in Warren 
 County, Kentucky, February 22, 
 1854. His parents, John A. Chap- 
 man and Elizabeth Johnson Chap- 
 man, were both natives of the same 
 county. He became a graduate of 
 Warren College, Kentucky, in 1875, 
 and in 1876 graduated in law at 
 Cumberland University. He married 
 Mrs. Susan Carlin in 1880. They 
 have two children, John A. Chap- 
 man and Miss Bessie B. Chapman.
 
 G. C. Clark 
 
 EORGE C. CLARKE is 
 
 identified perhaps more 
 closely than any other 
 one man with the de- 
 'i velopment of the new 
 South Side of Fort 
 Worth. In the Shaw Heights and 
 Shaw-Clarlce additions he has devel- 
 oped prominent residence sections of 
 the city and is still engaged in sim' 
 ilar work in other tracts. Coming to 
 Fort Worth as a traveling man, he 
 became impressed with the oppor- 
 tunities for the development of the 
 fine high territory south of the then 
 built-up section of the city. He set- 
 tled here and took up the work with 
 immediate success. Much of the 
 territory, then prairie, is now within 
 the city limits and the site of some 
 of the best homes. Mr. Clarke is 
 a Tennesseean, born near Fayettes- 
 ville, September 14, 1870. His 
 mother, Elizabeth Clarke, was born 
 in the same place and his father, 
 James C. Clarke, came from Vir- 
 ginia. Deeply interested in civic af- 
 fairs, Mr. Clarke has served two 
 terms as a member of the Board of 
 School Trustees, and as Chairman 
 of the Buildings and Grounds Com- 
 mittee has assisted in building up 
 the finely housed school system of 
 Fort Worth. He was also urged to 
 accept appointment as a member of 
 the Park Board, but declined as it 
 would have interfered with his work 
 on the School Board, which was then 
 erecting new buildings. Mrs. Clarke 
 was Miss Fay Clark of Graham, 
 Texas, before her marriage to Mr. 
 Clarke. Both are automobile en- 
 thusiasts and take many auto trips. 
 Mr. Clarke is an Elk and a member 
 of numerous commercial organiza- 
 tions and social clubs.
 
 Sterling P. Clark 
 
 TERLING P. CLARK is 
 a native of Tarrant 
 County and has resided 
 within its bounds for 
 practically all of his 
 active business and po- 
 litical life. He was born in 1861 in 
 the northern part of the county on 
 the ranch to which his father had 
 moved after first settling at Bird- 
 ville, then the county seat. His 
 father, Pressley H. Clark, and his 
 mother, Jane Johnson Clark, were 
 both born in Hopkinsville, Ky., com- 
 ing to Texas in 1856 by wagon train. 
 Pressley Clark was once captured 
 by Indians and Sterling P. Clark 
 was chased by them as a boy, but 
 made good his escape. He received 
 only such education as was possible 
 in those pioneer days, but gained a 
 large practical experience. When he 
 was 21 he opened a drug store at 
 Keller, but the confinement injured 
 his health and he entered the cattle 
 business, ranching in Tarrant, Run- 
 nells and Hemphill counties. Later 
 he became vice-president of the 
 North Texas Live Stock Commission 
 Company and later assistant general 
 manager Cassidy-Southwestern Live 
 Stock Commission Company and is a 
 member of the Panhandle Cattle 
 Raisers' Association and the Texas 
 Cattle Raisers' Association. For 
 several years he served as deputy 
 sheriff and in 1896 was elected 
 Sheriff and re-elected for three 
 terms, when he retired. During this 
 time he was president of the Texas 
 Sheriff's Association. Following a 
 period of rest and investment he es- 
 tablished a dry goods business, now 
 one of the city's largest. He 
 married Miss Sophia Putman, Aug. 
 9, 1899. They have four children, 
 Mabel, Sterling P. Clark, Jr., Sophia 
 Belle and Floy Potts. Mr. Clark is 
 a Mason, a Woodman and a Pythian. 
 
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 G. H. Clifford 
 
 EORGE H. CLIFFORD, 
 Vice-president of the 
 Northern Texas Traction 
 Company and of the 
 Southern Traction Com- 
 pany, operating the Fort 
 Worth-Dallas and Fort Worth-Cle- 
 burne interurbans, the street railway 
 system of Fort Worth and the 
 Oak Cliff lines, has risen rap- 
 idly to one of the most responsible 
 positions in Texas. In addition to 
 his important duties as the active 
 head of these organizations, he was 
 president of the Fort Worth Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and devotes much 
 time to the general advancement of 
 the city. He has assisted both per- 
 sonally and as a railway official in 
 the city's rapid development, millions 
 of dollars having been expended by 
 his company in the street improve- 
 ment and other campaigns, including 
 the building of the Cleburne line and 
 the line to Texas Christian Univer- 
 sity, one of the factors in securing 
 the location of that influential school 
 here. Mr. Clifford was born at Crow- 
 ley, Tarrant County. He rose from 
 stenographer to the late F. M. 
 Haines, manager of the Dallas Inter- 
 urban, through a series of promo- 
 tions until he became secretary- 
 treasurer in 1903. Two years later he 
 became superintendent, with com- 
 plete charge of the operating depart- 
 ment. When H. T. Edgar went to 
 Seattle to become head of the Stone 
 & Webster properties there, Mr. 
 Clifford succeeded him in charge 
 at Fort Worth. He is the son of 
 George and Elizabeth Clifford, ear- 
 ly residents of the county. He mar- 
 ried Mrs. Lillie Thorne. He is a 
 member of various commercial or- 
 ganizations, an Elk and member of 
 the River Crest Country Club and 
 the Saddle and Sirloin Club and the 
 Auto Club and president of the 
 Electrical Railway Association of 
 Texas. 
 
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 H. H. Cobb 
 
 ORACE H. COBB was 
 born at Windham, Ver- 
 mont, January 9, 1850, 
 both his father, Ros- 
 well Lyman Cobb, and 
 his mother, Ellen S. 
 Howard Cobb, being from fam- 
 ilies prominent in the history of 
 Vermont. His mother was a cousin 
 and schoolmate of Alphonso Taft un- 
 der whose advice Mr. Cobb was sent 
 to Yale College in 1867. Because of 
 ill-health, he was obliged to give up 
 his studies during the sophomore 
 year, but recovering, afterward spent 
 two years at Cornell with the class 
 of 'Seventy-eight. He was admitted 
 to the bar in 1878 and practiced law 
 at Charlotte, Mich., until 1890, when 
 he removed to Texas. 
 
 Mr. Cobb has been interested in 
 many enterprises, one of his charac- 
 teristics being that he is always busy. 
 He has been one of the incorporators 
 of a number of successful corpora- 
 tions, including the Michigan State 
 Bank of Eaton Rapids, Mich.; The 
 Oak Land and Lumber Company of 
 Charlotte, Mich.; The National Bank 
 of Denison, Denison, Tex.; The O. K. 
 Cattle Company, Fort Worth; The 
 Southern Trust Company and South- 
 ern Surety Company, St. Louis; the 
 Cobb Brick Company and the W. C. 
 Belcher Land Mortgage Company of 
 Fort Worth. He has been manager of 
 the Belcher Land Mortgage Company 
 for over 22 years. February 4, 
 1871, he married Miss Susan M. 
 Church, of Chester, Vermont. Golf 
 is his favorite recreation. 
 
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 B. W. Couch 
 
 URR W. COUCH, 60S 
 Eighth Avenue, was 
 born near Italy, Ellis 
 County. Texas, July 
 14, 1869, the son of 
 J. C. and Laura Morris 
 Couch. He received his early edu- 
 cation in Hope Institute, a select 
 boarding school located at Italy. He 
 married Miss Myrtle Adkisson, Sep- 
 tember 9, 1890. Mr. and Mrs. 
 Couch have one daughter, Vivienne 
 Couch, a girl in her teens. For a 
 number of years Mr. Couch was 
 associated with his father in gen- 
 eral mercantile business at Italy. In 
 1900 he became principal owner and 
 general manager of the Italy Cotton 
 Oil Company, subsequently becom- 
 ing interested in a number of oil 
 mills of the State. He became later 
 one of the principal stockholders and 
 a director in the First National Bank 
 of Italy, and in April, 1909, was 
 elected Mayor of that city. He 
 served until February, 1910, when 
 he resigned and came to Fort Worth, 
 associating himself with the late 
 Winfield Scott in buying the mill of 
 the Mutual Cotton Oil Company, of 
 which he became vice-president and 
 general manager. Following the 
 death of Mr. Scott, he became presi- 
 dent of the company. Upon coming 
 to Fort Worth Mr. Couch also be- 
 came a stockholder and. director in 
 the Fort Worth State Bank. In 
 politics Mr. Couch is a Democrat. 
 He Is a 32d degree Mason and a 
 Shriner.
 
 J. W. Covey 
 
 OHN WALKER COVEY, 
 President of Covey & 
 Martin Company, drug 
 merchants, has taken a 
 prominent part in 
 many business organ- 
 izations connected with the de- 
 velopment of the drug business and 
 the growth of Fort Worth. He is 
 Past President of the Texas State 
 Pharmaceutical Association, former 
 Secretary of the Southwestern Divis- 
 ion of the Associated Advertising 
 Clubs of America and former Presi- 
 dent of the Fort Worth Ad Club, and 
 has served also as President of the 
 Tarrant County Druggists' Associa- 
 tion. He has been a leader in the re- 
 tail drug business in the Southwest 
 and is originator of the "all night 
 drug store" in Fort Worth. He is also 
 active along general commercial 
 lines, a worker in the Ad Club and 
 the Chamber of Commerce. He is a 
 member of the Fort Worth, Elks 
 Club, belongs to the Knights of 
 Pythias, and is a Shriner. Mr. Covey 
 was born in Savannah, Tennessee, 
 November 10, 1876. He is the son 
 of W. W. Covey and Sarah Amanda 
 Covey, both born in the city of Sa- 
 vannah. Following his training as a 
 pharmacist, he came to Fort Worth in 
 1902, entered the business, and has 
 devoted all of his time to it, building 
 up the large Fort Worth establish- 
 ments which Covey & Martin oper- 
 ate. Mr. Covey married Miss Emma 
 Maddox in 1903. He is vice-presi- 
 dent of the Canton Pharmacy, and 
 secretary-treasurer of the Parker- 
 Browne Company, besides being 
 head of the Covey & Martin 
 Company. His extensive business 
 interests are not permitted to pre- 
 vent him devoting considerable time 
 to social affairs and he is one of 
 the most popular business men of 
 the city.
 
 S. H. Cowan 
 
 O other man in private 
 life has played such a 
 part in national legisla- 
 tion as Samuel Hous- 
 ton Cowan. Many men, 
 not officials, have been 
 instrumental in securing special 
 laws, but those bearing the stamp 
 of Judge Cowan's work affect the 
 entire country and are among the 
 most famous pieces of legislation of 
 the era. Mr. Cowan personally drew 
 the Hepburn bill as introduced in 
 the Senate by Senator Dolliver and 
 afterwards by Mr. Hepburn in the 
 House. It is common knowledge 
 that he had the ready ear of Presi- 
 dent Roosevelt in the railroad rate 
 regulation that marked the Roosevelt 
 Administration. As general attor- 
 ney for the Texas Cattle Raisers 
 Association, Mr. Cowan began the 
 study of railroad rates in which he 
 is recognized as one of the greatest 
 experts in the country. For both 
 the Texas Cattle Raisers Associa- 
 tion and the American National Live 
 Stock Association he has appeared 
 frequently before the Interstate 
 Commerce Commission and before 
 Congressional Committees, and State 
 Legislatures, his acquaintance with 
 men in official life being wide. His 
 success is attested by the fact that 
 since 1893 he has been unanimously 
 the choice of the cattlemen for their 
 representative. Though a lifelong 
 Democrat and prominent in national 
 legislation he has had no political 
 ambitions and has held but one pub- 
 lic office, that of district attorney 
 for the Thirty Second Judicial Dis- 
 trict. Mr. Cowan was born in Mar- 
 ion County, Tennessee, December 
 15, 1858, the son of William Cowan 
 and Mrs. Sarah Caroline Cowan, 
 both also natives of Marion County, 
 Tennessee. He was graduated from 
 Sequatchie College and married Miss 
 Anna Schoolfield of Galveston, April 
 24, 1883. They have two daughters 
 Mrs. J. W. Scheuber and Miss Helen 
 Cowan. Mr. Cowan is senior mem- 
 ber of the law firm of Cowan and 
 Burney, a partnership formed by 
 him and Mr. I. H. Burney in 1896.
 
 J. B. Craddock 
 
 HN BAILEY CRAD- 
 DOCK, one of the prom- 
 inent Virginians who 
 have settled in Texas, 
 was born at Houston, 
 -^p-"^— • Va., February 8, 1866. 
 His parents, John W. Craddock and 
 Mary Easley Craddock, were both na- 
 tives of Virginia. He is secretary 
 and sales manager of the Carter 
 Grocer Company, and for eighteen 
 years has been actively connected 
 with that line of business in Fort 
 Worth, first with the Carter-Battle 
 Produce Company and then the Car- 
 ter-Hunt Grocer Company. Work, 
 hunting and fishing are his three 
 hobbies, each receiving their due 
 share of his time. Mr. Craddock 
 is a member of the Fort Worth 
 Lodge of Elks and of the Fort Worth 
 Rotary Club. In politics he is a 
 Democrat, but has never been a can- 
 didate for public office, devoting his 
 energies to the business enterprises 
 with which he has been connected. 
 April 26, 1904, he married Miss 
 Donna Lee Carter. Three children 
 have been born to them: Jean Crad- 
 dock, seven years old, and Dorothy 
 Lee Craddock, aged five years and 
 Jack B. Craddock, Jr., age two. 
 Their home is at 1330 Lipscomb 
 Street. Mr. Craddock takes great 
 interest in all matters . for the de- 
 velopment of his business and of Fort 
 Worth, and is a member of the Ad 
 Club and the Chamber of Commerce, 
 organizations that are carrying on 
 progress in those lines.
 
 F. T. Crittenden 
 
 RANK TOLL CRITTEN- 
 DEN is a noted figure 
 in the merchants and 
 advertisers organizations 
 of both the State and 
 ^^ Nation. Among the im- 
 
 portant posts he has held in business 
 organizations are the following: 
 President Associated Advertising 
 Clubs of Texas; president Fort Worth 
 Ad Men's Club (1909); president 
 Southwestern Division Associated 
 Advertising Clubs of America (1910) 
 and third vice-president of the Asso- 
 ciated Advertising Clubs of America 
 (1910). He is prominently con- 
 nected also with other organizations. 
 He was vice-president of the United 
 Charities in 1910 and director gen- 
 eral of the Elks' great charity fair, 
 which raised over S4,000. He is a 
 Mason, Past Esteemed Leading 
 Knight of the Fort Worth Elks, Past 
 Supreme Orator of the Royal League, 
 Past Regent of the Northwestern 
 Council, Royal Arcanum, and Past 
 Sachem of Minnehaha Tribe, Red 
 Men, the last two offices having been 
 held in Chicago. He has served, 
 also, as secretary of the State Asso- 
 ciation of Elks. His business rise 
 has been rapid. His first work was 
 as a messenger boy for the Atlantic 
 & Pacific Telegraph Company in 
 1871. He was later with Willoughby 
 Hill & Co., H. W. King& Co. and 
 Henry Turner of Chicago, coming to 
 Washer Brothers in 1899. He is now 
 a stockholder and general manager 
 of that company. He was born in 
 Bureau County, Illinois, February 
 17, 1861. His father, Franklin Crit- 
 tenden, was born in Ontario, Canada, 
 in 1818, as was also his mother, 
 Sarah Toll Crittenden. He married 
 Miss Minnette R. Turner of Chicago, 
 November 27, 1883. They have one 
 daughter, Mrs. John B. Tewksbury 
 of Cincinnati. 
 
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 A. F. Crowley 
 
 RCHIBALD FRANK 
 CROWLEY, vice presi- 
 dent of tiie National 
 Live Stock Commission 
 Company, is known all 
 over the Southwest for 
 the plucky uphill fight he made in 
 the cattle business into which he 
 was plunged as a mere boy 
 of fifteen by the death of his 
 father. His mother was Mrs. Seselia 
 Leonard Crowley, daughter of Col. 
 A. F. Leonard, one of Tarrant Coun- 
 ty's first settlers, and an early repre- 
 sentative from the county. His 
 father, Hiram Crowley, organized a 
 company at the outbreak of the war 
 and was chosen to head it. He was 
 killed at Yellow Bayou in 1864. With 
 his brother, a boy of thirteen, Frank 
 shouldered the responsibility of 
 caring for himself and took the 
 active management of the little Palo 
 Pinto County ranch the boys stocked. 
 He handled the selling of the cattle 
 with all the judgment of an old 
 cattleman and the youngsters were 
 soon recognized as factors in the 
 cattle business. Their relationship 
 in cattle dealing and ranches contin- 
 ued until Hiram E. entered the mer- 
 cantile business at Midland, when 
 Frank bought him out and continued 
 in the cattle business alone. He has 
 had cattle interests at various times 
 in Palo Pinto, Fisher, Gaines, and 
 other counties of the State, and his 
 acquaintance among the cattlemen is 
 probably more extensive than that of 
 any other one man. He has resided in 
 Fort Worth for a number of years, 
 this being but a short distance from 
 the old family home at Crowley.
 
 H. E. Crowley 
 
 [RAM EDWIN CROW- 
 LEY is a native of Tar- 
 rant County and one of 
 the best known men in 
 the State. Starting life, 
 orphaned by the Civil 
 war, and with the family's property 
 all lost, he has risen to a position 
 of wealth, influence and esteem. At 
 thirteen he engaged in the cattle 
 business with his brother, Frank, two 
 years older. They got together 100 
 head of cattle and started the Orphan 
 Boy ranch in Palo Pinto County. 
 They were successful, and in 1883 
 merged their interests with the Lib- 
 erty Cattle Company. Mr. Crowley 
 went to Fisher County. Later he re- 
 turned to Palo Pinto and bought a 
 ranch at the head of Walnut Creek 
 and made a specialty of young steers. 
 In 1886 he went to Gaines County 
 and in 1889 sold out all his cattle 
 interests to his brother and engaged 
 in mercantile business at Midland. 
 Fire broke up his successful mercan- 
 tile business and he then studied law. 
 He was elected District Attorney for 
 three counties, with but four votes 
 cast against him and made a remark- 
 able success as an attorney. He 
 came to Fort Worth as secretary of 
 the Texas Cattle Raisers' Associa- 
 tion, and after serving three terms, 
 resigned and became live stock agent 
 of the Rock Island. He married Miss 
 Kate Moore, daughter of a prominent 
 Chattanooga contractor, in 1888. 
 They have four children, Hiram 
 Franklin, Mackey Ruth, Henry 
 Grady and Irene. Mr. Crowley is 
 an automobile enthusiast and was 
 one of the first men to make a trip 
 from Fort Worth into Mexico by car. 
 He is Recorder of Moslah Temple, 
 Shriners.
 
 E. A. Cuendet 
 
 A. CUENDET, general 
 manager for A. A. 
 Busch & Company in 
 Fort Worth, was born 
 at St. Croix, Switzer- 
 land, May 4, 1874. He 
 is a descendant of a French family 
 that fled from their native country 
 in 1685 to escape religious persecu- 
 tion, going into Switzerland. Mr. 
 Cuendet's father was August F. 
 Cuendet of St. Croix and his mother 
 Mary Louise Cuendet of Grandson, 
 Switzerland. As a youth, Mr. Cuendet 
 attended the Ecole Industriele Can- 
 tonale of Lausanne. Coming to the 
 United States to make his own way 
 in the world, he settled in Missouri, 
 residing in Carthage and St. Louis 
 before leaving that state and remov- 
 ing to Texas. It was while living 
 in Missouri that Mr. Cuendet mar- 
 ried Miss Alice G. Hargrave of Car- 
 thage, Missouri. They were married 
 in 1905 and have one child, a 
 daughter, aged three. At the out- 
 break of the Spanish-American war, 
 Mr. Cuendet, then residing in Mis- 
 souri, was appointed a lieutenant 
 in the Second Missouri Volunteer In- 
 fantry. He is a member of the 
 Masons and the Fort Worth Lodge 
 B. P. O. E., and has been a consistent 
 and energetic worker for its success 
 and welfare at all times. As chair- 
 man of the finance committee of the 
 lodge he rendered it most dis- 
 tinguished service, giving to its 
 affairs the same energy and ability 
 that have resulted in his great busi- 
 ness success in Fort Worth. He is 
 highly popular as a club man and a 
 noted success as a business man. 
 
 LTBHARY 
 
 tmrVERSTTY OF CALIFORNIi 
 
 SANTA BARBARA
 
 F. P. Culver 
 
 R. FRANK P. CULVER, 
 former president of 
 Polytechnic College, is 
 prominent both in the 
 ministerial and educa- 
 tional work of the 
 Methodist Episcopal Church, South. 
 As president of Polytechnic he 
 headed the largest school of the de- 
 nomination in this section of the 
 country and the institution that will 
 be the girls' department of the big 
 Southern university system now 
 planned by the church. He is now 
 pastor of the Polytechnic Methodist 
 Church. Dr. Culver has been a 
 member of the past two general con- 
 ferences of the Methodist Episco- 
 pal Church, South, and was a dele- 
 gate-elect to the Ecumenical Con- 
 ference held in Toronto, Canada, 
 last year. A native of Alabama, 
 he is the son of Major I. F. Culver, 
 one of the officials of that State 
 for a number of years. His mother, 
 before her marriage, was Miss Nancy 
 McSwean. She was born in Louis- 
 ville, Alabama, and Dr. Culver's 
 father in Sparta, Georgia. Dr. Cul- 
 ver was born in Lawrenceville, Ala., 
 July 31, 1863. He was graduated 
 from Southern University in June, 
 1888, with M. A. degree, and en- 
 tered the ministry. He has besn 
 married twice, his first wife being 
 Miss Ella Taylor and his present 
 wife Miss Mary White. He has 
 four children, Frank, Bessie, Nancy 
 and Anna, aged twenty-three, twen- 
 ty-one, nine and eight years, re- 
 spectively. The degree of D. D. 
 was conferred on him last year by 
 the Southwestern University. Dr. 
 Culver is a Mason and a Democrat.
 
 J. p. Daggett 
 
 P. DAGGETT has been 
 a resident of Fort Worth 
 over half a century, 
 having been born in 
 Tarrant County in 1855. 
 All his life he has been 
 interested in the cattle business for 
 which Texas is famous. Reared in 
 the days when there were no schools 
 in this part of the country he is a 
 self-made man in a greater sense 
 than most of the successful men of 
 affairs who have that distinction. 
 Not only is his success self-made 
 but it has not been worked out under 
 the direction of others, Mr. Daggett 
 never worked for any man in his life. 
 Mapping out his own affairs, he has 
 always been prominent in the cattle 
 trade both as a ranchman and as a 
 livestock dealer. He is perhaps the 
 oldest customer of the Fort Worth 
 National Bank, having done business 
 with the one institution for 35 years. 
 Mr. Daggett is fond of automobil- 
 ing, being one of the early converts 
 to the automobile in Texas. He has 
 already owned four cars, all Buicks. 
 He is a member of the Elks. He is 
 of Scotch-Irish descent and a Demo- 
 crat, the son of Charles B. and Mary 
 A. Daggett, his father coming from 
 Queenstown, Canada, and his 
 mother from Marine, 111. In 1892, 
 he married Miss Stella E. Zahn. In 
 all the time he has been a resident of 
 Fort Worth his belief in its ultimate 
 commercial success never has wav- 
 ered and he has always been an 
 active supporter of the movements 
 that have assisted in bringing it to 
 its present prominent position 
 among the municipalities of Texas.
 
 Sam Davidson 
 
 lAM DAVIDSON, capi- 
 talist, ranchman and 
 cattle dealer, is one of 
 the few Republicans 
 who have been placed 
 in a high elective office 
 in Texas. For two years he served 
 as member of the Board of City 
 Commissioners, being chosen without 
 opposition and retiring voluntarily at 
 that time to give greater attention to 
 his varied business connections. 
 Esteemed equally by men of all par- 
 ties he has been an important factor 
 in Republican affairs in Texas and 
 has been honored with the party 
 nomination for Lieutenant Governor. 
 He was made Census Supervisor in 
 1910 for this Congressional District, 
 and was chosen as host to the Roose- 
 velt party when Mr. Roosevelt, then 
 President, visited Fort Worth. In- 
 terested in the cattle business prac- 
 tically all of his life, Mr. Davidson 
 has been prominent in the affairs of 
 the Texas Cattle Raisers' Associa- 
 tion, and is a vice-president of that 
 influential body. As a member of 
 the City Commission he inaugurated 
 the park movement through organi- 
 zation of the Park League, and 
 also put under way the street 
 paving campaign that is still going 
 forward. To aid it, he established 
 a municipal paving plant when he 
 felt paving prices had gone too 
 high in the city. He is a Shriner, 
 an Elk and a member of the River 
 Crest Country Club. A heavy stock- 
 holder in many of the city's leading 
 commercial and manufacturing in- 
 stitutions he is a prominent member 
 of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. 
 Davidson is a native of Prussia, hav- 
 ing been born in that country in 1855. 
 
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 W. J. Doherty 
 
 ALTER J. DOHERTY 
 has incorporated many 
 historical events con- 
 nected with Fort Worth 
 in his volumes of oc- 
 casional poems, a 
 number of which commemorate local 
 occurrences and give recognition to 
 the part taken by the earlier resi- 
 dents of the city in its development. 
 The first volume of his verse was 
 issued in 1911, containing sixty-six 
 of his best known compositions. So 
 well were they received that in 1913 
 a second volume comprising the 
 later poetical writings of Mr. Doh- 
 erty was published. In them there 
 is displayed also the author's love of 
 nature and the information he has 
 obtained by his studies as a nat- 
 uralist, to which he devotes his 
 spare time. This time naturally is 
 limited, as his large business inter- 
 ests require much attention. He is 
 founder and head of the Eagle 
 Steam Bread Factory, the largest 
 baking establishment in the South- 
 west, and is also president of the 
 Palace of Sweets, and has made a 
 remarkable business success. Re- 
 cently he has devoted considerable 
 time to the study of economics and in 
 behalf of the poorer people inau- 
 gurated a movement to establish a 
 uniform weight for loaves of bread. 
 Mr. Doherty was born in Killarney 
 and educated at Belvedere, Drum- 
 condra, Dublin. He is the son of 
 Timothy Doherty and Margaret Gary 
 Doherty, who also were natives of 
 Killarney. He is a prominent 
 example of the successful men of his 
 race in America and one of the 
 recognized business successes of 
 Fort Worth. 
 
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 Robert Drumm 
 
 OBERT DRUMM, gen- 
 eral manager of the 
 Drumm Seed and Floral 
 Company, is one of the 
 men taking a leading 
 part in the beautifica- 
 tion of Fort Worth and its suburbs. 
 His wide floral knowledge has been 
 a great aid in the conduct of the 
 Fort Worth flower campaigns, his 
 long residence in Texas and Fort 
 Worth, to which he came July 4, 
 1881, making him thoroughly familiar 
 with those plants most suitable to 
 the Fort Worth soil and climate. His 
 business and hobby coincide, cen- 
 tering upon nursery, seed and floral 
 work. Mr. Drumm was born Febru- 
 ary 21, 1853, in Warren County, New 
 Jersey. His father, Thomas Drumm, 
 was a native of Ireland, coming to 
 the United States in 1833, and set- 
 tling in New Jersey. His mother, 
 Sarah Butler Drumm, was born in 
 New Brunswick, New Jersey. He 
 married Nannie James, member of 
 the old Fort Worth family of that 
 name. Mr. Drumm takes a lively 
 interest in fraternal societies and is 
 an active member of the Elks, 
 Knights of Columbus, Woodmen of 
 the World and Ancient Order of 
 United Workmen. Mr. Drumm is 
 reckoned among the pioneer business 
 men of Fort Worth and has had a 
 success in his line of work that 
 shows the wisdom of his judgment 
 in selecting Fort Worth as a place 
 for the establishment of a floral 
 business upon a large scale. He is 
 highly popular as a citizen and rec- 
 ognized as a sterling character 
 among business men, as well as an 
 expert horticulturist. 
 
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 A. J. Duncan 
 
 p. DUNCAN, president 
 of the Fort Worth Power 
 and Light Company, has 
 been connected with va- 
 rious public utilities in 
 the city since he came 
 here after long connection as an 
 electrical engineer with big New York 
 concerns. He was former manager 
 of the Citizens Railway and Light 
 Company, operating the Rosen 
 Heights and Arlington Heights car 
 systems and the extensive power and 
 light business of that company. When 
 a merger of the power companies 
 was made, with the consent of the 
 city commission, he was chosen to 
 manage the concern, and the erec- 
 tion of the mammoth plant that now 
 supplies current for many industrial 
 concerns in the city, as well as for 
 many outlying sections. It is now 
 being enlarged and will form one of 
 the series of immense plants that 
 will carry electricity to the farms as 
 well as the cities of Texas. Before 
 coming to Fort Worth Mr. Duncan 
 was connected with a number of im- 
 portant Eastern works of note, among 
 them being the New York subway 
 construction. Installation of an un- 
 derground conduit system for all the 
 business district and the White Way 
 system of lighting. He is a member 
 of the American Society of Electrical 
 Engineers, a director in the Chamber 
 of Commerce, member of the River 
 Crest Country Club and of other 
 city clubs. Mr. Duncan is the son of 
 Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Duncan. His 
 mother was a sister of the late Pres- 
 ident McKinley. He was born at 
 Pittsburg, Pa. He married Miss Van 
 Deusen of New York.
 
 
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 W. A. Duringer 
 
 R. W. A. DURINGER, 
 though not a native 
 Texan, has been a resi- 
 dent of the State since 
 1875, when the family 
 moved here from 
 Pinckneyville, Illinois, where he was 
 born in 1861. He has held many 
 important posts here. He was pres- 
 ident of the Medical College for two 
 years prior to its affiliation with 
 Texas Christian University, and was 
 also president of its board. He is 
 professor of special diseases in the 
 Texas Christian University, chief 
 surgeon of the Orient in Texas, 
 general surgeon of the Rock Island, 
 division surgeon of the Frisco, local 
 surgeon for the Katy and Central, 
 chief surgeon for Armour & Co., 
 and consulting surgeon of the Eagles 
 and life insurance examiner for 
 several companies. He is a member 
 of the American Medical Association, 
 Texas State Medical Association, 
 Tarrant County Medical Association, 
 National Association of Railway 
 Surgeons, former president of the 
 Frisco Medical Association and a 
 member of the Rock Island Medical 
 Association. He is a graduate of 
 Tulane and the Charity Hospital of 
 New Orleans. He is a Knight 
 Templar and Shriner, an Elk and 
 Eagle, and a Pythian. He is presi- 
 dent of the Hust LakeArt Club and 
 a member of the River Crest 
 Country Club. He is the son of 
 Jacob Duringer and Sarah Duringer. 
 He married Bernice J. Hovey in 
 1897. They have two children, Miss 
 Elizabeth H. Duringer and H. W. 
 Duringer.
 
 W. R. Edrington 
 
 ILLIAM REYNOLDS 
 EDRINGTON, cashier 
 of the Traders National 
 Bank, comes of a fam- 
 ily noted in North 
 Texas financial and 
 social affairs. His father, Henry Clay 
 Edrington, still living in Fort Worth, 
 is known over the entire State for 
 his business ability as well as for 
 the help he has given the Texas 
 Agricultural and Mechanical Col- 
 lege. His son is following in the 
 father's footsteps in this latter 
 respect, for a short time ago he was 
 instrumental in financing the new 
 buildings at the big State school. 
 Mr. Edrington was born in Madi- 
 son Parish, Louisiana. It was there 
 his father was born before him. 
 His mother, Virginia Clarke Edring- 
 ton, came from Vicksburg, Missis- 
 sippi. The son was educated for 
 the profession of law. He is a 
 graduate of Fort Worth University 
 and of the University of Virginia. 
 He practiced law for several years, 
 but gave up the legal profession for 
 banking and became cashier of the 
 institution of which his father was 
 president and guiding spirit. Mr. 
 Edrington and Miss Fannie Feild 
 were married October 24, 1903, and 
 have three children, Henry Clay, 
 nineteen years old; Florence, four- 
 teen, and Mary Olive, eleven. He 
 belongs to no political party and has 
 never held a public office except 
 as member of City Park Board. 
 He is a member of the Masons, 
 Knights of Pythias and River Crest 
 Country Club. He took a prominent 
 part in the movement that led to the 
 establishment of Moslah Temple, 
 Order of the Mystic Shrine, and was 
 selected as its first treasurer.
 
 C. O. Elliott 
 
 HEN military affairs or 
 post office money order 
 affairs are mentioned, 
 everybody in Fort Worth 
 thinks of Carroll O. 
 Elliott. He is a major in 
 the Texas National Guard and super- 
 intendent of the money order division 
 and cashier of the postal savings 
 bank at the local post office. Every- 
 where he is known as Maj. Cal El- 
 liott. His prominence in military 
 affairs is not restricted to Ft. Worth 
 and Tarrant County, but extends to 
 every part of the Southwest. Car- 
 roll Elliott is the son of Benton R. 
 Elliott and Harriett R. Elliott. The 
 father was a Missourian and his 
 mother a Texan. He was born in 
 Tarrant County, obtained his educa- 
 tion here and has resided in Fort 
 Worth practically all his life. When 
 the Spanish-American War began in 
 1898, Major Elliott was one of the 
 first Texans to volunteer for service 
 at the front. He served during this 
 brief struggle as first lieutenant of 
 Company D, Second Texas Volun- 
 teers. Upon the return of the troop 
 from the war, he was elected captain 
 and two years later was promoted to 
 major in the National Guard. He 
 still holds this rank. Major Elliott's 
 hobby in life is military affairs. 
 Next to that, he is fond of his lodge, 
 the Benevolent and Protective Order 
 of Elks, of which he is a Past Ex- 
 alted Ruler. On June 4, 1907, he 
 married Miss Elizabeth B. Manor of 
 Manor, Texas. Establishment of the 
 postal savings bank has resulted in 
 a large business in Fort Worth which 
 entitles him to recognition as a 
 banker of prominence. In his official 
 position with the Texas militia he 
 is paymaster for a large body of 
 troops and prominent in financial 
 affairs of the Panther City.
 
 M. L. Eppstein 
 
 ILTON L. EPPSTEIN, 
 lawyer, banker and 
 merchant, was born at 
 St. Joseph, Missouri, 
 November 30, 1866, 
 son of Leopold Epp- 
 stein, and his mother, Henrietta 
 Westheimer Eppstein. The family 
 later moved to Texas, settling at 
 Denison, where the elder Eppstein 
 established the business which is 
 now known in almost every part of 
 the State — that of L. Eppstein & 
 Sons. Milton Eppstein is a trained 
 lawyer as well as a successful mer- 
 chant and banker. However, he 
 follows the legal profession no 
 longer, devoting his time entirely to 
 his Fort Worth business interests 
 and to his noted hobby — Jersey 
 cows. Speaking of the latter, he 
 owns one of the finest stock farms 
 in the Southwest, where he spends 
 most of his time after business 
 hours. Milton Eppstein came to 
 Fort Worth in January, 1904, mov- 
 ing here from Denison. Besides 
 being president of the big wholesale 
 liquor business on Throckmorton 
 street, he is also the Kentucky dis- 
 tiller of the famous brand of Jersey 
 Cream whiskey. He is a member of 
 the Elks and other clubs and lodges. 
 He is a high school and law grad- 
 uate. He is unmarried. Besides the 
 raising of fine Jersey cows, the Epp- 
 stein farm is noted for its blooded 
 hogs. In addition to the flesh and 
 blood Jersey cows, for which his 
 stock farm is noted, Mr. Eppstein 
 is the owner of the famous Jersey 
 Cream herd of iron cows which 
 furnished the sacred bovines that ac- 
 companied the members of the Fort 
 Worth Ad Club to Toronto upon the 
 occasion of the national convention 
 of advertising men held in that city 
 in 1914. He is known everywhere 
 as a genial companion and good fel- 
 low and has a large host of 
 friends. 
 
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 W. S. Essex 
 
 INFIELD SCOTT ES- 
 SEX, a capitalist, and 
 one of thie best known 
 members of the Fort 
 Worth bar, was born 
 in Morgan County, 
 Ohio. His father was Nathan H. 
 Essex and his mother Elizabeth J. 
 Morris. Both were natives of East- 
 ern Ohio and were members of the 
 most respected families in that 
 State. Young Essex's ambition to 
 enter the legal profession led him to 
 study first in the law department of 
 the University of New York and 
 later that of the University of Mich- 
 igan. He won his degree from the 
 latter institution and came to the 
 Southwest in 1885, locating in Fort 
 Worth, where he has built up a lu- 
 crative practice and a splendid rep- 
 utation as a citizen. Mr. Essex has 
 been married twice. In 1888 he 
 married Miss Virginia Tucker and 
 in 1909 Miss Esther Cowart. He 
 has two children, a son twenty-one 
 years of age, and an infant daugh- 
 ter. In 1894 the Democratic voters 
 of the Fifth Ward elected Mr. Essex 
 Alderman and forced him to remain 
 in the City Council for four terms, 
 or until 1898. He declined to stand 
 for his fifth term. Mr. Essex is a 
 member of the Independent Order 
 of Odd Fellows and of. the Knights 
 of Pythias. He is prominent in both 
 organizations. Besides his legal 
 practice, Mr. Essex has numerous 
 other connections in Fort Worth. He 
 is president of the Essex Land Com- 
 pany and assisted in organizing the 
 Germanic Building and Loan Asso- 
 ciation and the Mutual Home Asso- 
 ciation. He is also connected with 
 the Southern Land Company, the 
 American Manufacturing Company 
 and other business and manufactur- 
 ing enterprises in Fort Worth. 
 
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 J. D. Farmer 
 
 ]AMES D. FARMER, a 
 cattleman since he left 
 college, many years 
 ago, is the consistent 
 lifetime record of 
 James David Farmer, 
 ' now vice-president and 
 
 sales manager of the Rhome-Farmer 
 Live Stock Commission Company, or- 
 ganized by him in connection with 
 other prominent Fort Worth citizens 
 on January 1, 1912, and which has 
 been highly successful since its or- 
 ganization. Mr. Farmer is Tarrant 
 County born and reared. His father 
 is E. W. Farmer, born in Roane 
 County, Tennessee, in 1831, and his 
 mother Sallie E. Farmer. They 
 moved to Texas from Tennessee two 
 years after the Lone Star Republic 
 became a part of the Federal Union. 
 They settled in Tarrant County, 
 where James D. was born in 1S58. 
 The best educational advantages then 
 found in the young settlement were 
 his and he was sent to Mansfield 
 College. A few years after his 
 graduation he married Miss Martha 
 C. Thompson. Having entered the 
 cattle business in a modest sort of 
 way, the establishment of the Hoxie 
 packing house, the forerunner of the 
 giant Swift and Armour establish- 
 ments of the present day, attracted 
 him and he moved to North Fort 
 Worth and entered the live stock 
 commission business by organizing 
 the Fort Worth Live Stock Commis- 
 sion Company, which was the first 
 company organized for the buying 
 and selling of live stock on the Fort 
 Worth market. The business, to 
 which he has devoted his life since 
 that time, has proven highly suc- 
 cessful and he is now one of the 
 best known commission men in the 
 Southwest. That Mr. Farmer is 
 highly esteemed and trusted by his 
 fellow citizens is evidenced by his 
 election as the first Mayor of North 
 Fort Worth. He is a Democrat and 
 served two terms as that party's 
 Mayor, and was later largely in- 
 strumental in bringing about a union 
 of the city of North Fort Worth 
 with Fort Worth proper. Nine chil- 
 dren have been born to Mr. and 
 Mrs. Farmer, eight of whom are 
 living, as follows: Fred T., 29; Min- 
 nie C, 27; A. Ward, 25; Jeannette, 
 23; James D., Jr., 21 ; Cherokee, 19; 
 Henry J., 16, and Jolly S., 14. Mr. 
 Farmer is known to have only one 
 hobby — selling cattle.
 
 H. E. Finney 
 
 ANFORD EDSON FIN- 
 NEY, former manager 
 of Armour and Com- 
 pany in Fort Worth, 
 was born in Clearfield, 
 Pennsylvania, in 1868. 
 His father, Asrael C. Finney, came 
 originally from Meadville, Pennsyl- 
 vania, while his mother, Elizabeth 
 Edson Finney, was from Scottsville, 
 New York. During the short time 
 that Mr. Finney has resided in Fort 
 Worth as head of the gigantic 
 Armour packing interests of the 
 Southwest, he has become identified 
 with everything progressive in the 
 city. His motto, "keeping some- 
 thing going on," has been felt by 
 the entire business interests of the 
 Panther City. His enterprise be- 
 came evident within a short time 
 after his arrival and his ability be- 
 came so pronounced that Mr. Fin- 
 ney is now rightly regarded as 
 among the first citizens. He is a 
 32° Mason, an Elk, a director of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, a member 
 of the Fort Worth Club, the Coun- 
 try Club and the Saddle and Sir- 
 loin Club. H. E. Finney graduated 
 from the University of Kansas in 
 the fourth year of its existence. 
 While in college he was a member 
 of the exclusive and widely known 
 Phi Delta Theta. Mrs. Finney be- 
 fore her marriage was Miss Annie 
 Evelyn Morris of Biddeford, Maine. 
 They have three children, Edson 
 Morris, nineteen years old; Doro- 
 thy Elizabeth, seventeen, and Nancy 
 Evelyn, fifteen. Recently Mr. Fin- 
 ney has been selected by Armour 
 and Company to become their South 
 American representative, and leaves 
 this fall for Rio Janeiro to take 
 charge of the fast growing South 
 American packing industry.
 
 C. W. Forbes 
 
 HARLES WESLEY 
 FORBES is the dean 
 of the far-sighted ar- 
 chitects and builders 
 who are filling the 
 Texas cities with sky- 
 scrapers. He superintended the 
 erection of the first eight-story build- 
 ing ever erected on Texas soil, the 
 Hurley building, which, before its 
 destruction by fire, stood on the site 
 of the Farmers & Mechanics bank. 
 He has also been a pioneer in the 
 movement for improved moral condi- 
 tions, and in 1892 as a private citi- 
 zen led the fight which with the as- 
 sistance of then County Attorney O. 
 W. Gillespie led to the closing of sa- 
 loons in Fort Worth on Sunday. He 
 still takes a deep interest in the liquor 
 problem and declares it his hobby 
 to drive the saloon from the face 
 of the earth. Born in Pettis County, 
 Missouri, Aug. 11, 1856, he has been 
 a resident of Texas 35 years and of 
 Fort Worth since April 5, 1887. 
 Though obliged to secure his educa- 
 tion by night study he read law two 
 years besides qualifying himself as 
 an architect. He is at present a 
 general contractor and head of the 
 Forbes Construction Co. of Los An- 
 geles and Pasadena, dividing his time 
 between there and Fort Worth. 
 His family, of Scotch ancestry on 
 both sides, numbers many men of 
 prominence. Judge Dijncan Forbes 
 being his great-great-grandfather. 
 His father, Delia Fletcher Forbes, 
 fifth son of John Duncan Forbes, 
 served in both the Mexican and the 
 Civil Wars, being in the Confederacy 
 five years. Mr. Forbes' mother, Cary 
 Ann Forbes, was the second daugh- 
 ter of David Ross and was born 
 near Bowling Green, Ky. He is the 
 father of seven children, the eldest 
 twenty-eight and the youngest ten. 
 A member of the Methodist church, 
 South. He has no lodge connec- 
 tions, belonging to his family only, 
 as he puts it. His wife was Miss 
 Mary Josephine McGinnis, daughter 
 of Judge C. C. McGinnis. They 
 were married June 25, 1882.
 
 W. C. Forbess 
 
 ILLIAM CARROLL 
 FORBESS, former 
 general passenger 
 agent and now assist- 
 ant manager of the 
 Northern Texas Trac- 
 tion Company, which operates the 
 Dallas and Cleburne interurbans as 
 well as the Fort Worth and Oak 
 Cliff city street railways, has farm- 
 ing as his hobby and devotes much 
 time to the advocacy of truck farm- 
 ing and the possibility of bringing 
 such gardens in direct touch with 
 the tables of the city by means of 
 electric line transportation. Born 
 in Huntington, Tennessee, Septem- 
 ber 26, 1869, he is a son of native 
 Tennesseans, both his father, Seborn 
 A. Forbess, and his mother, Miss 
 America Wilkes, having been born 
 in the same State. He married Miss 
 Jennie May Davis, October 19, 
 1890, and has two daughters, Miss 
 Ella Mae Forbess and Miss Nona 
 Lee Forbess. In politics Mr. Forbess 
 sticks to the Republican doctrines, a 
 bit of unorthodoxy that does not in- 
 terfere with his great popularity. 
 He is a member of the Elks, Knights 
 of Pythias, the Country Club, the 
 Chamber of Commerce and various 
 business and railway organizations. 
 With the completion of the Fort 
 Worth-Denton Interurban, the elec- 
 tric railway systems with which he 
 is connected will reach all of the 
 leading North Texas cities, forming 
 a chain of interurbans that puts Fort 
 Worth in close touch with all that 
 vast and rich territory. Operation 
 of the most modern lines is his pro- 
 fessional hobby, and the city and 
 interurban lines in the related sys- 
 tems are models of convenient and 
 comfortable rapid transit. Besides 
 his transportation interests, Mr. For- 
 bess has considerable real estate 
 holdings in Fort Worth, and is one 
 of the city's active boosters and 
 builders.
 
 W. V. Galbreath 
 
 ARREN VALETTE 
 GALBREATH, general 
 live stock agent of the 
 Missouri, Kansas & 
 Texas Railway system, 
 is a native son of 
 Ohio, having been born at George- 
 town. His first work was in the 
 banking business and his preliminary 
 success in that was so great that he 
 still retains large financial holdings 
 in the North and East. However, he 
 gave up the banking business to 
 enter the employ of the Missouri, 
 Kansas & Texas. He was given 
 charge of the live stock department. 
 To him, more than to anyone else, 
 is due the efficiency of this depart- 
 ment. He is responsible for build- 
 ing it. Mr. Galbreath does most of 
 his work from Fort Worth, though 
 he is required to make frequent 
 trips to Kansas City, St. Louis, St. 
 Joseph, San Antonio and elsewhere, 
 and is known wherever the live stock 
 business is known from St. Louis to 
 the Pacific coast. He came to Fort 
 Worth October 1, 1900, and has re- 
 sided here since. Next to his effi- 
 cient service as a live stock agent, 
 Mr. Galbreath is famed for his horse 
 show generalship. He has built up 
 the Fort Worth show to its present 
 high standing and reputation. Before 
 retiring from the Fort Worth show, 
 Mr. Galbreath had charge of five 
 different annual exhibitions. He has 
 judged shows at Kansas City, St. 
 Louis, State Fair of Missouri, San 
 Antonio, Denver and Chicago. Mr. 
 Galbreath is a graduate of Marietta 
 College, Ohio. He married Miss 
 Ella Hall of Sedalia, Missouri. 
 He is a member of the River Crest 
 Country Club, Chamber of Com- 
 merce, Elks and Fort Worth Club.
 
 A. S. Goetz 
 
 RTHUR S. GOETZ is 
 engaged in the busi- 
 ness of manufacturers' 
 agent, dealing princi- 
 pally in machinery and 
 ge n e r a 1 contractors' 
 supplies. He is one of Fort Worth's 
 most progressive citizens, interested 
 in several enterprises and always 
 anxious to help in the Panther City*s 
 commercial, civic and social ad- 
 vancement. Arthur S. Goetz was born 
 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, July 16, 
 1863. His father, August William 
 Goetz, came to this country from 
 his birthplace in Damstadt, Ger- 
 many. His mother, Augusta Goetz, 
 was born in Erfurt, Germany. The 
 parents were among the earliest set- 
 tlers in the city of Milwaukee. The 
 son was educated in the public 
 schools of Milwaukee. Mr. Goetz 
 and Miss Flora B. Jones of 
 Milwaukee were married August 
 4, 1886, before Mr. Goetz came to 
 Texas. One daughter, well known 
 in Fort Worth as Miss Florence 
 Goetz and now Mrs. N. L. Cort of 
 New York City, has been born. Mr. 
 Goetz takes an interest in politics 
 as related to good government. The 
 follower of the golden rule in all 
 his business and social duties, Mr. 
 Goetz applies to politics, "the best 
 man for the place." He is a thirty- 
 second degree Mason, a Knight 
 Templar, belongs to the Shrine, K. 
 of P. and is a past exalted ruler 
 of the B. P. O. E. He is an active 
 member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce and a consistent worker for 
 the upbuilding of Texas and Fort 
 Worth.
 
 J. B. Googins 
 
 B. GOOGINS, mana- 
 ger of Swift & Co.'s 
 Fort Worth plant, was 
 born in Cliicago in 
 1874. His parents 
 were born in Maine. 
 He was educated in the Chicago 
 public schools. His first employ- 
 ment was in the Chicago stockyards 
 and he has been associated with 
 such interests as live stock and 
 packing during much of his life. 
 Mr. Googin's entry into Texas orig- 
 inally was to recover his health after 
 a seige of pneumonia. Recuperat- 
 ing his health in ranch life on a 
 ranch south of San Antonio, and 
 later southwest of San Angelo, he 
 returned to Chicago with his health 
 restored and re-entered the live 
 stock and packing business. The 
 company into whose employ he en- 
 tered took over the plant originally 
 built by John Hoxie, Fort Worth's 
 first packing plant, known as the 
 Fort Worth Packing Company, and 
 Mr. Googins returned to Texas. He 
 married Ruth S. Swiler of Delavan, 
 Wisconsin. Later he became man- 
 ager of the Chicago Packing and 
 Provision Company's plant in St. 
 Louis, and later entered the employ 
 of Swift & Co. at Chicago, as a live 
 stock buyer, serving in that capacity 
 for several years, whe-n he became 
 manager of the company's Fort 
 Worth plant at the time of its com- 
 pletion in 1902. Most of his busi- 
 ness life has been identified with 
 Texas and Texas interests. There 
 are two sons and one daughter, 
 Ruth, David and John. 
 
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 J. H. Green 
 
 NE man who has a firm 
 faith in the future 
 greatness of Fort 
 Worth as the metrop- 
 olis of the Southwest 
 is James H. Green, 
 former credit man and manager for 
 the Gamer Company, one of the 
 largest manufacturing and jobbing 
 houses in Fort Worth. He has taken 
 up his residence here in the belief 
 that the Panther City will surpass 
 all of its rivals in the race for 
 wealth and population. He has in- 
 vested in Fort Worth real estate and 
 in business, too. James H. Green 
 is a Texas product. He was born 
 on a farm in Tarrant County, son 
 of W. P. Green, who came to Texas 
 from Mississippi before the Civil 
 War, and Mrs. J. E. Green, who 
 came from North Carolina during 
 the war. He was born October 14, 
 1880. Until he reached the age of 
 seventeen, young Green remained 
 on the farm with his father and 
 mother. The country schools af- 
 forded him his primary education. 
 This was tapered off with a course 
 at the Sam Houston Normal Insti- 
 tute at Huntsville, Texas. He mar- 
 ried Miss Elizabeth Scherz of San 
 Angelo, May 28, 1905, and came to 
 Fort Worth only a short time ago. 
 They have two children, a son, James 
 H., Jr., four years, and a daughter 
 of a year. Mr. Green is a Demo- 
 crat, dyed in the wool; an Odd Fel- 
 low and a Woodman. Work is his 
 hobby. Recently he became engaged 
 in insurance and investments and is 
 making a success in that as in his 
 earlier ventures.
 
 Leon Gross 
 
 N LEON GROSS, Fort 
 Worth has a progres- 
 sive citizen who is al- 
 ways alive to the city's 
 needs and willing to 
 give his time and 
 money to any cause that has as its 
 object the town's good. In fact — 
 town building as distinguished from 
 boosting — is Mr. Gross' pet hobby. 
 Mr. Gross, as president of Washer 
 Brothers, has exemplified his spirit 
 of progressiveness in the conduct 
 of his establishment. Each year 
 witnesses another step forward — an 
 enlargement or an improvement. In 
 1907 Mr. Gross was president of 
 the Board of Trade and his record 
 in the office is attested to by the 
 municipal progress at that time. Mr. 
 Gross is a Tennessean, having been 
 born in Memphis, August 26, 1866. 
 He moved to Texas early, settling 
 in Fort Worth where he has risen 
 from an employe of the Washer store 
 to be its president and controlling 
 factor. His parents were natives of 
 Bavaria, Germany. In politics he 
 is a Democrat, but he has never 
 taken much part in political affairs, 
 other than the kind that meant for 
 the upbuilding of the city. He is 
 a member of the Elks, 32° Mason, 
 and a Shriner, a member of the 
 Woodmen of the World, the Knights 
 of Pythias, the United Benevolent 
 Association, River Crest Country 
 Club, Chamber of Commerce and 
 various other clubs. Mr. Gross 
 married Miss Edith Mayer of this 
 city June 21, 1899. He is the son 
 of Henry Gross and Mrs. Jeannette 
 Levy Gross.
 
 J. D. Hagler 
 
 EFFERSON DAVIS 
 HAGLER is a native 
 Texan and son of a 
 Texas pioneer, his 
 fathier, David Smitli 
 Hagler, having come to 
 the State from Alabama in 1847, 
 accompanied by his mother, Sarah 
 M. Hagler, who was a native of 
 Tennessee. Shortly after the birth 
 of the son, whom he named for the 
 great leader of the South, in Mon- 
 tague County in 1861, the father 
 went to the front, commanding a 
 company in the long struggle. Mr. 
 Hagler has lived all the time in 
 Texas, much of his life before com- 
 ing to Fort Worth being spent at 
 Montague and Vernon. A frequent 
 visitor in Fort Worth on cattle busi- 
 ness in which he was extensively 
 engaged, he decided to move here 
 in order to give his sixteen children 
 the educational advantages of the 
 schools and colleges located here. 
 He accordingly entered into the land 
 and cattle brokerage business, in 
 which his wide acquaintance among 
 cattlemen has made him notoriously 
 successful. Since his marriage to 
 Miss Cora Willingham, sixteen chil- 
 dren have been born to them. His in- 
 terest in their welfare is the guid- 
 ing factor in his life, as instanced 
 in his removal to the city to give 
 them educational advantages, and 
 their photographs are always seen 
 upon his desk, a constant reminder 
 during the business affairs of the 
 day. A Democrat, he has never 
 aspired to public office. He is a 
 member of the Knights of Pythias, 
 the Odd Fellows, and the Elks. His 
 hobby is fine stock. 
 
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 p. H. Hamilton 
 
 AUL H. HAMILTON, 
 southwestern represen- 
 tative of the Neptune 
 Meter company with 
 headquarters in Fort 
 Worth, has one of the 
 most extensive and important terri- 
 tories in the United States. Because 
 of his peculiar abiHty, his geniality 
 and affability, Mr. Hamilton has 
 one of the largest acquaintances in 
 the West. Everybody that knows 
 Paul Hamilton, likes him. Paul 
 Hamilton was born in Trumbul 
 county, Ohio, the son of Wilson S. 
 and Mary Floyd Hamilton, natives 
 of that county. After a course in 
 the county schools, young Hamilton 
 entered Western Reserve at Cleve- 
 land, Ohio, finishing his studies 
 there and then embarking in the 
 waterworks supply business. Ask 
 Mr. Hamilton's friends, if he has a 
 hobby besides the selling of water- 
 works supplies and they'll all tell 
 you that he is more than an ad- 
 vocate of "good roads for Tarrant 
 county." He is almost a crank on 
 the question, if one can be a crank 
 on such a subject. He married Miss 
 Mazie Brownell, December 27, 1905. 
 Mr. Hamilton is a prominent mem- 
 ber of the Fort Worth lodge of Elks 
 and a member of the Sons of the 
 American Revolution. -In politics he 
 is a Democrat, but has held no of- 
 fice. Paul Hamilton is a brother of 
 Grant E. Hamilton, for twenty-five 
 years Art Editor of Judge. Re- 
 cently he has gone to Cincinnati, 
 and will divide his time between 
 Fort Worth and that city. Next to 
 closing a big business deal he likes 
 hunting, and is an expert shot.
 
 J. S. Handford 
 
 AMES STANLEY 
 HANDFORD is a de- 
 veloper. As president 
 of the Arlington 
 Heights Realty com- 
 pany he has developed 
 one of the most fashionable sub- 
 urbs in the State — Arlington Heights. 
 It was the Arlington Heights Realty 
 Company that laid out this suburb 
 and secured car service connections 
 with the city which finally was the 
 means of the Northern Texas Trac- 
 tion company taking over the street 
 car line, which will mean greater 
 development for that section. Mr. 
 Handford is also prominently identi- 
 fied with other business enterprises. 
 He is president of the White River 
 Grocery company, Batesville, Ark., 
 which is one of the largest whole- 
 sale grocery concerns in that State. 
 He was also president of the Bank 
 of Batesville for nineteen years, re- 
 tiring in 1909, when his other busi- 
 ness ventures required his time and 
 presence elsewhere. Mr. Handford 
 is a native of Pennsylvania, having 
 been born in Philadelphia in 1854. 
 His father, Joseph Handford and 
 his mother, Narcissis P. Handford, 
 were both natives of Ohio. Mr. 
 Handford is a thirty-second degree 
 Mason and a Shriner.- The develop- 
 ment of Arlington Heights alone 
 would be sufficient to secure for him 
 a place among the Fort Worth men 
 of affairs, but he has been promi- 
 nent also in other steps for the ad- 
 vancement of the city in which he 
 has made heavy investments.
 
 C. W. Harkrider 
 
 ^OKE W. HARKRIDER 
 was born at El Paso, 
 Arkansas, June 5, 
 1871, the son of Wil- 
 liam H. and Martha 
 Harkrider. The Hark- 
 rider family was among the early 
 ones to settle in Virginia, having 
 come from Germany. With his op- 
 portunities for an education limited 
 to the small country free school, 
 and the responsibility of educating 
 a younger sister, Coke Harkrider 
 began the battle of life at the age 
 of fourteen as clerk and bookkeeper 
 in a country store in Arkansas. Later 
 he took up insurance work and met 
 with such success that in 1893 he 
 was one of the leading field men 
 for the New York Life. Later, he 
 became general agent for this com- 
 pany in Western Texas, and when 
 it withdrew from Texas was writing 
 above two millions annually in in- 
 surance. The year 1909 found Mr. 
 Harkrider crystallizing a plan for 
 forming a large trust company, the 
 result of which was the successful 
 organization by himself and asso- 
 ciates of the Bankers Trust Com- 
 pany. Later, realizing the great need 
 of a large bonding and casualty 
 insurance company, he and asso- 
 ciates organized the Commonwealth 
 Bonding and Casualty Insurance 
 Company. He is now engaged in 
 the stock and bond business through 
 the firm of Harkrider & Company, 
 of which he is the president. He 
 has during the past two years been 
 engaged in the formation and man- 
 agement of several oil producing 
 companys, among them the John 
 Scharbauer Oil Co., of which he is 
 vice-president and general manager, 
 the Four Sands Oil Co., of which he 
 is secretary, and a number of others. 
 Mr. Harkrider is a thirty-second 
 degree Mason, belonging to the 
 Scottish Rite Consistory, and Moslah 
 Shrine. He is also a member of the 
 Knights of Pythias, Elks and treas- 
 urer Rotary Club. His hobby is 
 co-operation. Mr. Harkrider married 
 Miss Carrie Rebecca Rollins of 
 Abilene, Texas, in 1896. They have 
 three children, two boys and a girl, 
 17, 14, 8. 
 
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 W. H. Harris 
 
 F W. HOLT HARRIS 
 were not so busy mak- 
 ing business for the 
 Burton Dry Goods 
 Company the fraternal 
 and civic organizations 
 to which he belongs would keep him 
 busy. Mr. Harris belongs to about 
 fifty-seven varieties of such organ- 
 izations and he is a loyal, active 
 booster in each. Here are just a 
 few of them: Fort Worth Lodge 
 124 Benevolent, Protective Order of 
 Elks; Masons, (both routes, 32nd 
 degree and Shriner) ; Ancient Order 
 United Workmen; Knights lof the 
 Maccabees; Chamber of Commerce; 
 Advertising Men's Club, Rivercrest 
 Country Club and Bovinians. In 
 the Elks, Mr. Harris is a member of 
 the finance committee. He is a 
 past master of Spring Palace lodge, 
 A. O. U. W. ; past conductor Worth 
 Tent, Knights of the Maccabees; 
 director in the Chamber of Com- 
 merce; first vice-president of the 
 Ad Club and a member of the Bovin- 
 ians' finance committee. Warren 
 Holt Harris — to give him his full 
 name — was born in Tarrant County, 
 May 23, 1873, the son of Stephen 
 L. and Elizabeth Holt Harris. His 
 parents were early settlers in Texas, 
 his father having come to the State 
 when but two years- of age. His 
 early education was secured in the 
 public schools of this county and 
 practically all of his life has been 
 spent here and in North Texas 
 where he has always been prominent- 
 ly identified with business enterpris- 
 es. Mr. Harris was formerly manager 
 of the North and Northwest Texas 
 division of the Pierce-Fordyce Oil 
 Association. In 1894 Mr. Harris 
 married Miss Mattie Hurdleston of 
 Fort Worth. They have one child, 
 Annie Maud, aged fifteen. He has 
 recently become a resident of Dal- 
 las, being chosen general manager 
 of the large wholesale department of 
 the Burton Company.
 
 L. L. Hawes 
 
 OWMAN L. HAWES, 
 president of one big 
 Fort Worth company 
 and secretary-treasurer 
 of another, is a Ken- 
 tuckian. He was born 
 at Minerva, Kentucky, August 18, 
 1866, of distinguished lineage, his 
 great-grandfather having been Lord 
 Brown of the English peerage. His 
 father was John Brown Hawes, born 
 at Erie, Pennsylvania, May 8, 1823, 
 and his mother, Mary Haley, born 
 in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1840. 
 Mr. Hawes received his education 
 in Lexington, Kentucky, where he 
 shaped himself for his later success- 
 ful business career in Fort Worth. 
 His first business in this city was 
 the handling of fuel. Later, he be- 
 came engaged in the lumber busi- 
 ness as president of the Kelsay- 
 Hawes Company, which position he 
 still retains. A few years ago he 
 embarked in the wholesale grocery 
 business as secretary-treasurer of 
 the Hunt-Hawes Company, occupy- 
 ing magnificent quarters on East 
 Seventh Street. In each of these 
 lines Mr. Hawes has prospered. He 
 was married December 4, 1903, and 
 has two sons, one six and the other 
 eight. Mr. Hawes makes one line 
 of business a hobby, that of lumber. 
 In addition to his other" lumber in- 
 terests he is president of the L. C. 
 Malone Lumber Company, and is 
 heavily interested in Fort Worth 
 property investments, in which he 
 has been singularly successful. Never 
 an office seeker, he has taken a keen 
 interest in politics and city affairs. 
 He is a member of the Elks and 
 Knights of Pythias. 

 
 J. F. Henderson 
 
 OHN F. HENDERSON, 
 division commercial 
 superintendent of the 
 Southwestern T e 1 e- 
 graph and Telephone 
 Company with head- 
 quarters in Fort Worth, with a juris- 
 diction covering a wide range of the 
 Southwest, is as well known as any 
 man in Fort Worth, public or other- 
 v;ise. He served in a public ca- 
 pacity, as an alderman, many years 
 ago and made such a good alderman 
 that he was forced to remain in 
 office ten successive years. No 
 wonder he couldn't escape office, 
 though, for Mr. Henderson admits 
 that his hobby in life is to please. 
 He was born in Clinton, Tennessee, 
 descendant of the sturdy Scotch-Irish 
 stock that reclaimed the State from 
 the savages and moved the Ameri- 
 can frontier outposts further west. 
 His father was William Henderson 
 and his mother Martha Henderson, 
 both of whom were born in the 
 town of Clinton. Young Hender- 
 son came to Fort Worth many years 
 ago as a representative of the tele- 
 phone company and has steadily ad- 
 vanced in his chosen work since 
 coming here. He has been manager 
 of the local exchange and by suc- 
 cessive stages has advanced to the 
 important post of division commer- 
 cial superintendent in the reorgani- 
 zation plan of six years ago. Mr. 
 Henderson and Miss Martha Ander- 
 son were married in 1895. They 
 have no children. He is a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias, the Cham- 
 ber of Commerce and Elks, and is a 
 prominent Rotarian and Ad Man. No 
 Fort Worth Trade Excursion misses 
 him in its list of travelers.
 
 E. C. Hoadley 
 
 EW big buildings have 
 been erected in Texas 
 during the past twelve 
 years without Edward 
 Copland Hoadley being 
 connected with them in 
 some wise. He was organizer and 
 President of the Fort Worth Builders 
 Supply Company for ten years, but 
 recently sold his interests in that 
 company, and is now Vice-President 
 and General Manager of the Texas 
 Clay Products Company, which has 
 the most modern fire-proofing plant in 
 the Southwest, manufacturing hollow 
 building tile, partition blocks, silo 
 blocks, drain tile, face brick and fire 
 brick. Mr. Hoadley was born at 
 Lewes, England, he being of Scotch- 
 English ancestry. Twelve years ago 
 he came to Texas, taking up his resi- 
 dence in Fort Worth. For two years 
 he acted as the Southwestern Rep- 
 resentative of the Kelley Island 
 Lime and Transport Company of 
 Cleveland, Ohio. Ten years ago, 
 however, he resigned this important 
 post to organize the concern of 
 which he was the head. Mr. Hoadley 
 married Miss Edna Tidball, member 
 of one of the oldest and best known 
 families in Fort Worth. One child 
 has been born to them, Suzanne 
 Austin, eight years of age. Mr. 
 Hoadley is a member -of the River 
 Crest Country Club. He is an en- 
 thusiastic golfer and follower of 
 other outdoor sports. Before his 
 present business connections were 
 made, Mr. Hoadley was general 
 manager of the Malakoff Press Brick 
 Company, of which he was the 
 organizer.
 
 F. P. Hopkins 
 
 RED P. HOPKINS, 
 first vice-president and 
 treasurer of the North 
 Fort Worth Townsite 
 Company, was born in 
 Chicago, Illinois, De- 
 cember 23, 1861. His father was a 
 native of Duchess county, New York, 
 and his mother was born in Mon- 
 treal, Canada. She is still living, at 
 the age of eighty-seven, being a mem- 
 ber of her son's household in Fort 
 Worth. Mr. Hopkins graduated 
 from the Palatine High School and 
 from the Union College of Law in 
 Chicago. He became a member of 
 the Phi Delta Phi while in the law 
 school. Ever since he was able to 
 sign his name to a receipt he has 
 been in the real estate business, and 
 in that line has made a great suc- 
 cess in handling the business of 
 the Townsite Company here. The 
 extent of his public office holding 
 has been the post of school trus- 
 tee and Treasurer in North Fort 
 Worth when that section was an 
 independent school district. Work 
 of this kind has intensely interested 
 Mr. Hopkins. He gave much atten- 
 tion to educational affairs on the 
 North Side and was instrumental in 
 building up the kindergarten system 
 there. This latter was made a part 
 of the North Side public schools 
 even before the city proper took 
 such action. He was married Dec- 
 ember 26, 1889, to Miss Lydia G. 
 Kidder, of Davenport, Iowa. His 
 family now includes two daughters 
 and a son. The daughters are 
 Misses Freda and Catherine, and 
 the son is Ralph G. Hopkins. The 
 latter returned this summer from 
 a year at the Roycroft School of 
 Life for Boys. It is Elbert Hub- 
 bard's school at East Aurora, New 
 York, where schoolroom and outdoor 
 and shop work are mingled with 
 study and play. Mr. Hopkins is a 
 firm believer in fraternal organiza- 
 tions. He belongs to Marine Lodge, 
 Knights of Pythias, Julian Feild 
 Masonic Lodge, Modern Woodmen 
 of America, Columbian Knights of 
 Chicago, and other organizations.
 
 S. B. Hovey 
 
 MITH B. HOVEY, 
 known as the man who 
 built the Rock Island 
 into Fort Worth, now 
 a prominent stockman, 
 adjuster and lately 
 receiver of the Orient, is a member 
 of an old York State family and has 
 the blood of empire builders in his 
 veins. He himself was born in 
 Newark, Tioga County, New York. 
 His father, Calvin Hovey, was a 
 native of the same State as also was 
 his mother, Mary S. Hovey. Both 
 were born in Broom County. As a 
 youth, he was sent to Homer Acad- 
 emy at Homer, New York, from 
 which institution he was' graduated 
 in 1863. He entered railroad ser- 
 vice in 1871 as a switchman and 
 clerk for the Chicago and North- 
 western since which time he had 
 been consecutively train baggage 
 master, freight brakeman, freight 
 and passenger conductor, claim 
 agent, trainmaster and division sup- 
 erintendent of the Rock Island and 
 Pacific, division superintendent of 
 the Western Division of the same 
 road and division superintendent of 
 the Southwestern division. From 
 1892 to 1906 he was vice president 
 and general superintendent of the 
 Chicago, Rock Island and Texas and 
 the Chicago, Rock Island and Gulf 
 into which the former was merged in 
 1903. Mr. Hovey and Miss E. J. 
 Onderdonk were married in 1869. 
 Mrs. W. A. Duringer of Fort Worth 
 is their only daughter. The raising 
 of blooded stock has always been 
 a hobby with Colonel Hovey and 
 upon leaving the vice-presidency of 
 the Rock Island he devoted much 
 time to this and is now a successful 
 breeder. Prize stock is his hobby. 
 If there was such a party as "For 
 the Good of Fort Worth," Colonel 
 Hovey would be a charter member. 
 But there's not, so he votes the ticket 
 which he thinks the best for his 
 city.
 
 William James 
 
 ILLIAM JAMES, presi- 
 dent of the James, 
 and Schow Company, 
 Jamestown, on the 
 Interurban, was born 
 at Greenville, Alabama, 
 March 24, 1862. His father was 
 Thomas Randle James, whose birth- 
 place was in Jones county, Georgia; 
 his mother was Mary Jane Hager- 
 man of Talberton County, Georgia. 
 The future Texas harness manufac- 
 turer had all of his schooling con- 
 fined to a few brief years at Green- 
 ville, Alabama, where he attended 
 the common schools. He was a stu- 
 dent for four years, from eight to 
 twelve. That ended his school edu- 
 cation, the rest being gained by ex- 
 perience and by his successful battle 
 with the world. Colleges, he con- 
 siders useful for ornamentation only. 
 In business, Mr. James has pros- 
 pered until now he is at the head 
 of one of the biggest manufacturing 
 plants of its kind in Texas. Though 
 an influential Democrat all his life 
 in a Democratic community, Mr. 
 James has never sought political 
 honor and his office holding has 
 been limited to the position of school 
 trustee. Mr. James has been prom- 
 inently identified with Masonic af- 
 fairs in Texas and Is past grand 
 master of the State. Mr. and Mrs. 
 James have four children, aged re- 
 spectively twenty-six, seventeen, 
 eight and three. The great harness 
 manufacturer admits that his only 
 hobby is "work." Upon the insti- 
 tution of Moslah Temple Shrine, 
 in Fort Worth, Mr. James was chosen 
 Chief Rabban, an honor which places 
 him next in line to become Poten- 
 tate. He is a consistent booster for 
 Fort Worth and one of its chief trade 
 exponents upon trade excursions of 
 the Chamber of Commerce.
 
 Hugh Jamieson 
 
 UGH JAMIESON, 
 clothier, is one of Fort 
 Worth's young business 
 men who believes in 
 doing things. Though 
 conducting a store of 
 his own less than five years, he has 
 built up a splendid trade as well as 
 reputation in Fort Worth. Of all the 
 enterprises started last year in the 
 Panther City, not one missed Hugh 
 Jamieson as a booster, working con- 
 tinually for the upbuilding of his 
 adopted city. Hugh Jamieson is of 
 Scotch ancestry. His father, Philip 
 Jamieson, and his mother, Dorcas 
 Wilson, were born in Edinburgh, but 
 moved to Canada before Hugh was 
 born at Toronto, in 1876. When only 
 sixteen years of age, young Jamieson 
 was graduated from Upper Canada 
 College at Toronto and a few years 
 later came to Texas, going to Gal- 
 veston. There he married Miss 
 Cecilia Seal in 1902. Mr. Jamieson 
 was in Fort Worth a number of years 
 before embarking in business for 
 himself. The firm originally was 
 known as Jamieson & Miller, but 
 now is Jamieson-Diggs. After busi- 
 ness hours, you'll find Hugh Jamie- 
 son almost as busy as when you en- 
 ter his "Bright Spot" store down 
 town. He is a dog fancier and a 
 dog breeder. His kennels of bull 
 dogs are known everywhere. That's 
 his recreation and his hobby. Mr. 
 Jamieson is a member of the Elks, 
 Chamber of Commerce, Ad Club and 
 associated with all the Fort Worth 
 development organizations. As presi- 
 dent of the Fort Worth Ad Club he 
 headed the large delegation that 
 attended the Toronto convention and 
 secured recognition of the Fort 
 Worth Truth Emblem plan. Truth 
 in advertising is his greatest busi- 
 ness motto.
 
 Dr. Clay Johnson 
 
 R. CLAY JOHNSON, 
 surgeon of Fort Worth, 
 was born at Dawson- 
 ville, Georgia, January 
 2, 1867. His parents 
 were sturdy stock from 
 the Carolinas, the father, Samuel C. 
 Johnson, coming from North Caroli- 
 na, and the mother, Emily M. John- 
 son, being a native of South Carolina. 
 The family left the Carolinas for 
 Georgia, where their son was born. 
 Dr. Johnson received his profes- 
 sional degree at the age of twenty- 
 four, finishing his course at the Col- 
 lege of Physicians and Surgeons in 
 Baltimore, Maryland, in 1891. Miss 
 Alice Jester and Dr. Johnson were 
 married in Corsicana in 1898. Four 
 children have followed the union, 
 aged eleven, eight, four and six 
 years. Dr. Johnson is owner of the 
 sanitarium at Sixth and Lamar 
 streets, bearing his name. He is a 
 member of the Tarrant County and 
 Texas State Medical associations. 
 While never taking an active part 
 in political matters, he consented 
 upon the urging of prominent citi- 
 zens to permit the use of his name 
 as a candidate for membership on 
 the city school board and was chosen 
 without opposition. The Fort Worth 
 school buildings have" attracted the 
 attention of civic and professional 
 publications in all parts of the 
 United States, their modern sanita- 
 tion, lighting and ventilation being 
 among the features that have been 
 complimented so highly. Dr. John- 
 son served the city also as a mem- 
 ber of the advisory committee of 
 physicians that helped guard Fort 
 Worth against a scourge of menin- 
 gitis when that disease caused 
 heavy losses in Texas, and has al- 
 ways been ready to render public 
 service for the city.
 
 G. B. Johnson 
 
 lEORGE B. JOHNSON, 
 superintendent of the 
 joint track of tlie Katy 
 and Texas & Pacific 
 Railways, is one of the 
 ^ railroad men of Fort 
 
 Worth who have become interested 
 in the city's various institutions in a 
 financial way. Mr. Johnson was born 
 at Bonaparte, Iowa, July 14, 1865. 
 He attended the public schools in 
 Bonaparte and learned telegraphy 
 there. He began railroading with 
 the Rock Island going then to the 
 Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul and 
 coming to Fort Worth in 1883 
 as an operator in the dispatcher's 
 office of the Missouri Pacific. In 
 1884 he became train dispatcher. At 
 that time he was the youngest train 
 dispatcher in the State. He went 
 to the Denver as chief dispatcher, 
 in 1889, remaining with that road un- 
 til 1891. The Katy and Texas & 
 Pacific, formerly united under the 
 Missouri Pacific, were separated by 
 that time and 1891 he became dis- 
 patcher for their joint track, and in 
 1892 became chief dispatcher. He 
 remained chief dispatcher until 1909, 
 when he was made superintendent 
 upon the resignation of W. S. Pol- 
 hemus, after having been chief dis- 
 patcher of this same division for 
 practically seventeen years. Mr. 
 Johnson is a prominent member of 
 the Knights of Pythias and has 
 served as chairman of the finance 
 committee of the Grand Lodge for 
 thirteen years. His home was one 
 of those destroyed in the fire which 
 swept the South Side in 1909, and 
 he started the rebuilding activity 
 with a two-story brick apartment 
 house. He is a stockholder in sev- 
 eral of the city and out-of-town 
 banks and a director in the Conti- 
 nental Bank and Trust Company and 
 of the First Guaranty State Bank of 
 Collinsville. He married Miss Allie 
 M. Hanback of Bonaparte, Iowa, in 
 1887. They have two sons, George 
 A. and William A. Johnson.
 
 S. L. Johnson 
 
 INCH Sam L. Johnson 
 of the Texas Bitulithic 
 Company came to Fort 
 Worth, the P a n - 
 ther City has earned 
 its fame as the best 
 paved and most rapidly paving city 
 in the Southwest. Whether Mr. 
 Johnson's arrival had anything to 
 do with this sudden and substantial 
 start in municipal progress and beau- 
 ty is a matter that can't be deter- 
 mined either way. But this much is 
 certain, Mr. Johnson has suddenly 
 become one of the best known and 
 best liked young business men in 
 Fort Worth. He was born in Top- 
 sham, Maine, July 9, 1878. His 
 father was Samuel E. Johnson and 
 his mother Johanna P. Johnson. The 
 Johnsons were of revolutionary 
 stock, for their forefathers fought 
 with Washington, Putnam and other 
 heroes of 1776-81. Coming from 
 such a sturdy family, it was no won- 
 der the young Johnson, who came to 
 Texas in 1906 with the Texas Bitu- 
 lithic Company, succeeded. He is 
 now manager of the important Fort 
 Worth company and has earned a 
 splendid reputation for integrity and 
 ability in the business world of the 
 Southwest. In politics, Sam Johnson 
 is a Democrat and though never a 
 seeker after or a holder of public 
 office, his influence in Fort Worth 
 has always been thrown to the party 
 "demanding a square deal and hon- 
 est administration." He is a mem- 
 ber of the Elks, the Chamber of 
 Commerce, Rotary Club, and is with- 
 out a hobby. He married Miss Ada 
 Darter, daughter of W. A. Darter, 
 September 10, 1912. They have one 
 daughter, Ada Darter Johnson, born 
 August 31, 1913.
 
 R. M. Kelso 
 
 OBERT M. KELSO, 
 general manager of the 
 Empire Grain company 
 of Fort Worth, is one 
 of the prominent fig- 
 ures in this important 
 business in the Southwest. At the 
 head of a big concern, he wields an 
 immense commercial influence both 
 in Fort Worth and other parts of 
 the grain belt. Mr. Kelso was born 
 September 29, 1863, at Fayetteville, 
 Tennessee. His father, James C. 
 Kelso, was a native of the same 
 Tennessee town, while his mother, 
 Elizabeth Kelso, came from Hunts- 
 ville, Alabama. Mr. Kelso has al- 
 ways been more or less prominent 
 in Texas affairs and at one time 
 was well known politically. He has 
 been a life-long Democrat and came 
 from an old Democratic family. 
 Former Governor Charles A. Culber- 
 son appointed him Lieutenant-Col- 
 onel on his staff, in which post of 
 honor he served for a number of 
 years. Mr. Kelso married Miss Hen- 
 rietta Hogg of Denton, Texas. They 
 have three daughters and a son. In 
 recent years he has taken no prom- 
 inent part in politics and never has 
 sought public office, confining his 
 energies to his extensive business 
 undertakings. He has, however, 
 taken an active interest in the 
 measures that tend to the upbuilding 
 of the city and State and is looked 
 upon as one of Fort Worth's most 
 progressive citizens. Mr. Kelso's res- 
 idence is at 2300 Lipscomb street, 
 one of the choice locations of the 
 South Side. His acquaintanceship 
 is one of the most extended in the 
 city.
 
 Edgar Kerr 
 
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 DGAR KERR, cattle 
 speculator, pro b a b 1 y 
 has bought more cattle 
 in the past few years 
 than than any other 
 person on the Fort 
 Worth market. Certainly, he topped 
 the buyers in 1910 with 92,000 head 
 and outdistanced most every one 
 with 72,000 head in 1909. Mr. Kerr 
 was born and reared in Texas. Fan- 
 nin county is his birthplace and 
 1873 is his birth year. His father 
 was Robert Kerr and his mother, 
 Sallie Kerr. The former came to 
 Texas from Tennessee, meeting his 
 wife in this state and marrying her 
 here. The Kerrs are of Irish stock. 
 The cattle business has been Mr. 
 Kerr's life vocation. He entered it 
 over twenty years ago and has been 
 eminently successful. Besides his 
 prosperous operations in Fort Worth, 
 he has acquired a big ranch in Ok- 
 lahoma and two in Tarrant county, 
 Texas. The latter alone represents 
 1,200 acres, a size unusual in this 
 section of the State. Mr. Kerr has 
 resided in Fort Worth seven years. 
 He is a member of the Elks lodge 
 here and is a Mason, as well as a 
 member of the unique Saddle and 
 Sirloin club. In politics he is a Dem- 
 ocrat. Six children have been born 
 to Mr. and Mrs. Kerr. The latter 
 was Miss Louie Runnells. The 
 children are Dewit, Adelia, Zola, Jay, 
 Ileta and Leslie. Mr. Kerr's hobby 
 is riding horses. 
 
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 F. M. Kuhlman 
 
 IHEN Fred M. Kuhl- 
 man of Huntington, In- 
 diana, moved to Texas 
 twenty-two years ago, 
 tlie Lone Star State 
 welcomed a son of one 
 of Indiana's pioneer residents, Fred- 
 erick Kuhlman. Fred Kuhlman, 
 prominent paving contractor of this 
 city, was born in Huntington, In- 
 diana, May 26, 1866. He is the son 
 of Frederick Kuhlman and Verena 
 Long Kuhlman, members of old 
 Hoosier state families. Young Kuhl- 
 man, came to Texas when but twen- 
 ty-six years of age. He moved to 
 Fort Worth two years later and has 
 resided here continuously twenty 
 years. His work as a contractor, 
 however, has not been restricted to 
 Fort Worth nor to paving. He has 
 erected many structures, as well as 
 paved many streets over the State in 
 these twenty years. Mr. Kuhlman 
 is noted for his hobby — motoring. 
 He enjoys the streets which he has 
 built about as much as anybody else. 
 His sole connection with secret so- 
 cieties and lodges is his membership 
 in the Mystic Knights of Bovinia, 
 the organization peculiar and native 
 to Fort Worth. He is a Democrat 
 and unmarried. Arnong the recent 
 Fort Worth improvements in which 
 he has taken part is the West 
 Seventh Street Viaduct that helps 
 form the continuous motorway from 
 the heart of the city to Arlington 
 Heights and other suburbs on the 
 west. As a contractor he has made 
 a noted success in Fort Worth.
 
 N. H. Lassiter 
 
 EWTON HANCE LAS- 
 SITER, railroad attor- 
 ney and insurance 
 company pres i d e n t , 
 was born near Lexing- 
 ton, Tennessee, Sep- 
 tember 13, 1862, the son of Henry 
 Lassiter and Eliza Lassiter. His 
 father was a native of North Caro- 
 lina, and his mother a native of 
 Tennessee. He was graduated from 
 Cumberland University, Lebanon, 
 Tennessee in 1881. In 1885 he locat- 
 ed in Fort Worth, Texas, at which 
 place he has been engaged in the 
 practice of law ever since. The Board 
 of Trade complimented him with its 
 presidency in 1911, and his term 
 was noted for the progress the city 
 made. Upon his retirement, a ban- 
 quet was tendered him by the citi- 
 zenship, at which a handsome testi- 
 monial was presented. In the early 
 90's he served two terms as city 
 alderman. At the present time he 
 is General Attorney of The Chicago, 
 Rock Island & Gulf Railway com- 
 pany and of The Trinity & Brazos 
 Valley Railway company, and pres- 
 ident of the Fort Worth Life Insur- 
 ance company. He married Miss 
 Elizabeth Davis in Fort Worth July 
 9th, 1890. Two children have been 
 born, Helen Davis Lassiter, age 21, 
 and Henry Ruth Lassiter, age 18. 
 "Fishing for bass" is Ihis second 
 love and main hobby. His interest 
 in the advancement of Fort Worth 
 has not decreased since his retire- 
 ment as head of the commercial 
 body, and he was one of the most 
 active spirits in securing the Denton 
 interurban. He served also as one 
 of the Advisory Committee on con- 
 struction of Lake Worth and the 
 city's water supply, and was one of 
 the committee that obtained a right- 
 of-way for the Cleburne interurban. 
 
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 J. J. Langever 
 
 AMES JOSEPH 
 LANGEVER, to use 
 his own term, is a 
 Yankee-Texan. He was 
 born in Rutland, Ver- 
 mont, but came to 
 Texas when quite young. He is of 
 French ancestry, his father and 
 mother having both been French 
 Canadians. His education was ob- 
 tained in the Catholic schools where 
 it was intended he should become a 
 priest. However, the priesthood did 
 not appeal to him as strongly as did 
 the call from the business world 
 where he longed for the struggle 
 and the chance to rise. He became 
 a sign-writer, out-door advertiser 
 and interior decorator and through 
 his success in this line has built 
 up a business that is a source of 
 both credit and profit to him. He is 
 proprietor of the J. J. Langever Ser- 
 vice, out-door advertisers and sign- 
 writers, and is noted for original and 
 artistic designs. He is a member of 
 the Master Painters' Association of 
 the United States, and the Out-Door 
 Advertising Painters' Association of 
 the United States. In the Knights of 
 Pythias Uniform Rank he has at- 
 tained distinction, and has been the 
 recipient of several honors. He was 
 captain for six years and for four 
 years was colonel of the Second 
 Regiment. Mr. Langever's hobby is 
 flying machines, where his inventive 
 genius is given full play. He is a 
 member of the Southwestern Aero- 
 nautical Association of America and 
 is chairman of the committee on 
 signals and ordinances. In Septem- 
 ber, 1914, he was elected Major 
 •General in command of the new Pa- 
 trol of the Dramatic Order of the 
 Knights of Khorrassan. 
 
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 J. C. Lord 
 
 OS EPH CARTON 
 LORD, superintendent 
 in charge of construc- 
 tion of tlie city's mil- 
 lion dollar reservoir on 
 the West Fork has 
 been connected with much public 
 utility work in Fort Worth. He was 
 born at Oldham, county of Lan- 
 cashire, England, January 17, 1854. 
 His father was Charles Lord and his 
 mother Sarah Lord. His paternal 
 ancestors were gas engineers, while 
 those on his mother's side were silk 
 weavers. At an early age he left 
 England and came to the United 
 States, locating in Indiana and pur- 
 suing his vocation of gas engineer. 
 Later he became the manager of the 
 Washington, Indiana, Gas & Elec- 
 tric Co., holding that position from 
 1878 to 1890. On January 1, 1890, 
 he moved to Fort Worth and be- 
 came general manager of the Fort 
 Worth Light & Power Company. This 
 position he held until October, 1911, 
 when the Fort Worth Power & Light 
 Company took over his concern. 
 Upon this deal he was made general 
 superintendent of the new concern. 
 In June, 1875, he married Miss Es- 
 ther Bonner. They made their resi- 
 dence for the first year in Anderson, 
 Indiana. They have two children, 
 Charles P. Lord and- Mrs. Esther 
 Burke. The son was born in June, 
 1876, while the daughter was born 
 in 1884. Mr. Lord was a student 
 at Redhill Academy in England for 
 four years but did not take a de- 
 gree, being anxious to get from col- 
 lege life into actual work, at which 
 he has been so successful. Mr. Lord 
 is a Mason. He professes one hob- 
 by — gas business.
 
 J. H. Maddox 
 
 AMES HODGE MAD- 
 DOX, for two terms 
 City Commis s i o n e r, 
 has been a resident of 
 Fort Worth from the 
 time it became a "rail- 
 road town," coming here as a cow- 
 boy to witness the arrival of the 
 first train. Since that time, he has 
 held many offices of public trust 
 advancing steadily from one to an- 
 other until he was one of the board 
 of five having all city affairs in 
 charge. As commissioner of streets 
 and public buildings and chairman 
 of the Park Board he devoted his 
 time to permanent civic improve- 
 ments, more street paving having 
 been accomplished during his term 
 of office than in all the history of 
 the city before or since. His aim 
 was to make Fort Worth the best 
 paved city in the southwest. Fort 
 Worth's valuable park properties 
 were also secured under his direction 
 and the municipal grounds have been 
 changed from neglected spots to 
 the most beautiful parts of the city. 
 His first office was deputy sheriff 
 of Tarrant County, a post he held 
 in the early period when lawless- 
 ness was not infrequent; he then 
 served twelve years as chief of po- 
 lice and four years as fire chief. He 
 was born in Claiborne Parish, La., 
 Jan. 22, 1863, the son of William A. 
 and Mrs. Mary Mayes Maddox. In 
 1886 he married Miss Josie B. Doug- 
 lass and four years ago Mrs. Alice 
 Wise Craig. He has four children, 
 Douglas McCart, aged 24; Victor F., 
 23; Payton Maddox, 16, and Mrs. 
 Kenneth Craig Jure. Mr. Maddox 
 is a member of practically all the fra- 
 ternal societies of the city in addition 
 to the Fort Worth Athletic Club, the 
 Chamber of Commerce and similar 
 business organizations. He is ex- 
 tensively interested in North Texas 
 oil fields and in the farming land of 
 the Coast Country.
 
 L. H. McKee 
 
 YPICAL of the younger 
 set of merchants and 
 business men who are 
 helping Fort Worth 
 to become the commer- 
 cial capital of the 
 Southwest is Lloyd Hawley McKee, 
 partner in the Waples-Platter Grocer 
 company, one of the biggest grocery 
 jobbing houses in the South. Mr. Mc- 
 Kee was born in Chillicothe, Mis- 
 souri in 1876, of sturdy Scotch-Irish 
 stock. His father was Edwin Mc- 
 Kee and his mother was Francis 
 McKee. Prior to settling at Chilli- 
 cothe, the McKee family had lived 
 in New York state, where both Mr. 
 McKee's parents were born. Since 
 coming to Texas Mr. McKee's suc- 
 cess has been rapid. Now he is the 
 manager of the Fort Worth house, 
 the biggest in the firm's chain of 
 stores. He is also an officer in the 
 board which controls all the others. 
 In April, 1906, Mr. McKee 
 married Miss Helen Waples, the only 
 daughter of the late John G. Waples. 
 To them have been born three child- 
 ren, Edward, Helen and Lloyd H. Jr. 
 The young merchant has been helped 
 along in his advancement by no col- 
 lege education, his schooling consist- 
 ing of a rudimentary course in the 
 Chillicothe public schools. Mr. Mc- 
 Kee's political leanings are Repub- 
 lican; his clubs in Fort Worth are 
 the Country Club and Fort Worth 
 Club. Hunting is his hobby and his 
 principal outdoor sport. He is also 
 noted among his friends as a billiard 
 player of ability and is very fond of 
 the game.
 
 W. p. McLean 
 
 EW men in Texas have 
 had a more distin- 
 guished career than 
 William Pinkney Mc- 
 Lean of Fort Worth. 
 Honors which his fel- 
 low citizens have conferred upon 
 him include many important posts. 
 He has been county attorney of 
 Titus County, member of the 
 Texas Legislature twice, member of 
 United States House of Represent- 
 atives, member of the constitu- 
 tional convention 1875, district judge 
 and State railroad commissioner. He 
 was a Confederate soldier and rose 
 to the rank of major. So many hon- 
 ors fall to a few men in any State. 
 Judge McLean was born in Copiah 
 County, Mississippi, August 9, 1836 
 and has lived in Texas since 1839. 
 His father, Allen F. McLean, was a 
 native of Robeson County, North 
 Carolina, and his mother, Ann Rose 
 McLean, was a native of Mississippi. 
 When a mere youth, the future great 
 Texan entered college at the Univer- 
 sity of North Carolina at Chapel 
 Hill, North Carolina, graduating 
 from that institution in 1857 in the 
 Literary and Law Departments. He 
 married July 11, 1859, Miss Marga- 
 ret Batte being his bride. Mr. Mc- 
 Lean came to Fort Worth, Texas, in 
 1893 to practice and. immediately 
 was recognized by his fellow citizens 
 as a man of exceptional ability and 
 talent. Honors came thick and fast 
 until now Judge McLean has gladly 
 retired to his lucrative private prac- 
 tice in Fort Worth. The following 
 children have been born to Judge 
 and Mrs. McLean: Annie, Ida, 
 Richard, Thomas R., Jefferson D., 
 William P., Margaret, John H. and 
 Bessie. Judge McLean's affiliation 
 with fraternal bodies dates back to his 
 college days when he was a member 
 of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity. He 
 is also a Royal Arch Mason. 
 
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 Byron Miller 
 
 YRON MILLER, presi- 
 dent and treasurer of 
 the Miller Manufactur- 
 ing Company, one of 
 the young enterprises 
 in Fort Worth which 
 has attained phenomenal success in 
 the last few years, was born in 
 Limestone County, Texas, in 1872. 
 To the little city of Ennis in Ellis 
 County, young Miller was sent to 
 secure his education and graduated 
 from the high school in due course 
 of time. His first position was with 
 a New Orleans wholesale grocery 
 house, for which he traveled eight 
 years. He gave this up to come 
 to Fort Worth to organize the first 
 pants and overalls factory employing 
 union labor here. This was in the 
 fall of 1903. Its capital stock was 
 placed at $15,000. This infant plant 
 grew wonderfully until now it em- 
 ploys two hundred people and is rec- 
 ognized as the most modern factory 
 of its kind and the largest in Texas. 
 His father, John Miller, was born in 
 Mississippi and served in the war 
 between the States. Shortly after 
 the close of the war, John Miller 
 moved to Texas, settling at Spring- 
 field, where he was appointed post- 
 master and where he later erected 
 a saddle-tree factory. This was the 
 largest manufacturing plant of its 
 kind in the State. He married Miss 
 Sallie Hanson of Tennessee, in 1869. 
 Byron Miller is an active member of 
 the Fort Worth Chamber of Com- 
 merce, also a director of the Amer- 
 ican National Bank of Fort Worth. He 
 married Miss Katherine Battle of 
 Collin County, Texas, November 1, 
 1906. His hobby is playing golf. 
 
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 Dr. J. D. Mitchell 
 
 OHN DOUGLAS 
 MITCHELL, physician, 
 is identified as a prom- 
 inent practitioner not 
 only in Fort Worth 
 but over the entire 
 State. He has been secretary of the 
 State Board of Medical Examiners 
 for the past six years. Dr. Mitchell 
 is the descendant of Scotch cove- 
 nanters and was born in Sweetwater, 
 Tennessee, in 1872. His father, 
 James Mitchell, was a native of 
 Ayr, Scotland, and his mother, Anna 
 Stephen Mitchell, came from Glas- 
 gow, Scotland. Early in life he de- 
 termined to devote his life to the 
 medical profession and went to 
 Philadelphia first, and to Chicago 
 later, to pursue his studies. He 
 graduated at Hahnemann College, 
 Philadelphia, in 1891, and in Chi- 
 cago two years later. Dr. Mitchell 
 is a member of the Knights of Py- 
 thias and of the Elks and belonged 
 to the old University Club and the 
 River Crest Country Club. Dr. 
 Mitchell and Miss Zetta Gatlin were 
 married in 1898 and have one child, 
 Gatlin Douglas Mitchell, nine years 
 of age. Of hobbies. Dr. Mitchell 
 boasts two, pretty flowers and fine 
 Jersey cattle. He is also the owner 
 of several fine horses and an en- 
 thusiastic automobilist. Another out- 
 door sport to which he is devoted is 
 the great national pastime — baseball. 
 He is a regular attendant at the local 
 games of the Fort Worth ball team 
 and a rooter for the home club. He 
 is also a supporter of the Fort Worth 
 Horse Show and one of its ex- 
 hibitors.
 
 J. E. Mitchell 
 
 lAMES E. MITCHELL 
 is a native Texan. 
 His father, CoL Har- 
 vey Mitchell, was a 
 famous pioneer of the 
 Lone Star State, coming 
 to Texas before it won 
 its independence from Mexico. Soon 
 after his arrival in 1835, he took up 
 arms for the struggling Republic and 
 helped to win its freedom. In sub- 
 sequent years he took part in many 
 Indian campaigns. When peace fol- 
 lowed, he became prominent in the 
 affairs of Texas. When Brazos 
 county, his home, was organized, he 
 was appointed to and conducted all 
 offices of the county from Consta- 
 ble to County Judge, besides acting 
 as postmaster and operating a gen- 
 eral merchandise store. He was a 
 warm personal friend of Gen. Sam 
 Houston and a business partner of 
 the late Gov. E. M. Pease. Col. 
 Harvey Mitchell was a native of 
 Tennessee. Mr. Mitchell's mother, 
 Jane Foley Mitchell, was likewise 
 a native of Tennessee. James 
 Mitchell was born Sept. 28, 1864, at 
 Bryan, Brazos County, Texas, re- 
 ceived his education at Agricultural 
 & Mechanical College, which insti- 
 tution owes much to Col. Harvey 
 Mitchell for its existence and loca- 
 tion. Mr. Mitchell came to Fort 
 Worth to make it his home in 1883, 
 engaging in the jewelry business. 
 He married Miss Maud Halsell, 
 member of a very prominent West 
 Texas family, June 18, 1890, at the 
 bride's home in Decatur. Two chil- 
 dren, girls, were born of this union. 
 He served three years as president 
 of the organization now known as 
 the Chamber of Commerce and is 
 ever ready to do his full share to- 
 ward the support of any and all pub- 
 lic enterprises. He is a member of 
 the Knights Templar and Scottish 
 Rite Masons, Mystic Shrine, Knights 
 of Pythias and Elks. He was one 
 of the organizers and first presi- 
 dent of the Fort Worth Rotary Club, 
 and is among the oldest members of 
 the Fort Worth and Country Clubs, 
 and member of the directors of the 
 Fat Stock Show. Mr. Mitchell in 
 1914 became superintendent of Time 
 Service for the railways entering Fort 
 Worth.
 
 W.T. Montgomery 
 
 ILL I AM THOMAS 
 MONTGOMERY, a 
 man who is prominent 
 not only in his particu- 
 lar line of business but 
 in the general social 
 and commercial life of Fort Worth, 
 was born in Haywood County, Ten- 
 nessee, August 30, 1872. His resi- 
 dence in the Panther City, however, 
 has been long, for he came here 12 
 years ago. His father was John D. 
 Montgomery who originally came 
 from South Carolina. His mother 
 was Miss Susie Williams, a native 
 of Kentucky. Young Montgomery 
 spent his boyhood days in Tennessee, 
 attending the public schools at 
 Brownsville. Incidentally, he man- 
 aged to become a Republican in a 
 community that was ordinarily 
 strongly Democratic. Essentially, 
 Mr. Montgomery has been a railroad 
 builder and road builder, a business 
 in which he has been largely en- 
 gaged. Some of his work has been 
 upon the St. Louis, Brownsville & 
 Mexico, Trinity & Brazos Valley, the 
 Frisco branches to Brady and to 
 May, the Stephenville North and 
 South, Fort Worth & Denver and 
 Rock Island. States in which Mr. 
 Montgomery has been in charge of 
 railroad construction work are: Tex- 
 as, Nebraska, Colorado, Iowa, Illi- 
 nois, Missouri, Alabama, Mississippi, 
 Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, 
 New Mexico and Ohio. Mr. Mont- 
 gomery is a member of the Univer- 
 sity Club and of the Elks. In both 
 of these organizations he is promin- 
 ent. The particular hobby of Mr. 
 Montgomery is good roads for Tex- 
 as. He is now living in San An- 
 tonio.
 
 G. H. Mulkey 
 
 EORGE HILL 
 MULKEY, prominent 
 in church, financial, 
 educational, official and 
 lodge circles, has had 
 a life filled with activity 
 from the time, as a mere 
 boy, he carried the mail through Tar- 
 rant County while the grown men 
 were away at the front until he was 
 big enough to shoulder a rifle and join 
 them, down to the present, when, 
 after filling a series of important of- 
 ficial positions, he has taken active 
 charge of extensive building opera- 
 tions in the city he once knew as a 
 mere village. The son of Rev. 
 William Mulkey of Georgia and Miss 
 Annis Pinkerton Reid of Kentucky, 
 he was born in Arkansas, July 1, 
 1847. A resident of Ellis and John- 
 son County in the early part of his 
 career he later came to Tarrant 
 County where he has at various 
 times been engaged as miller, whole- 
 sale piano dealer and as a banker 
 and real estate operator. A life-long 
 Democrat he became district clerk 
 of Tarrant County in 1875, after 
 stumping much of the County on 
 foot. Later he served as a city coun- 
 cilman three terms and was unani- 
 mously chosen as one of the first 
 board of commissioners. He was re- 
 elected and retired at the end of the 
 second term, declining to run again. 
 He was one of the early chiefs of 
 the volunteer fire department. A 
 student of McKenzie College he has 
 taken a deep interest in educational 
 affairs and for many years was a 
 trustee for as well as one of the 
 heavy contributors to Polytechnic 
 College. The son of a Methodist 
 preacher he has been an untiring 
 religious worker and one of the 
 founders of Mulkey Memorial 
 church, named in honor of his father. 
 He was a delegate to the Ecumenical 
 Conference held in London in 1900. 
 Since retiring from the city com- 
 mission he has devoted his time to 
 his duties as vice-president of the 
 Traders' National Bank, secretary of 
 the Bankers Mutual Insurance Com- 
 pany, and president of the Fort 
 Worth Real Estate and Development 
 Company. He is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, Ad Club, 
 Elks, Knights of Pythias, and U. 
 B. A. He has been twice married, 
 his first wife being the daughter of 
 J. W. Graves, of Cleburne. His 
 present wife was Miss Frances An- 
 derson. They have five sons and two 
 daughters.
 
 W. G. Newby 
 
 ILLIAM G. NEWBY, 
 president of the former 
 American National 
 Bank, was born in St. 
 Charles, Mo., March 
 11, 1859, the son of 
 John H. and Mary A. Newby, 
 nee Broadhead. Both his father 
 and mother were natives of Vir- 
 ginia. The elder Mr. Newby came 
 to Texas in 1871, while his son was 
 still attending St. Charles College. 
 He came to Texas in 1873 and start- 
 ed ranching with C. L. Carter on his 
 Young County ranch. About a year 
 and a half later he became asso- 
 ciated with the Joseph H. Brown 
 Company, the pioneer wholesale gro- 
 cery house of Fort Worth. In 1890 
 he became cashier of the Traders' 
 National Bank and remained in that 
 position until he became president of 
 the American National. His father, 
 who had settled in Parker County 
 upon coming to Texas, came to Fort 
 Worth, also, in 1887, and made his 
 home here until his death about a 
 year later. At the instance of civic 
 improvement forces, Mr. Newby con- 
 sented at one time to enter city poli- 
 tics, and served as a member of the 
 Council, resigning when his new 
 home was built taking him from the 
 ward which he represented, ward 
 lines then governing the selection of 
 representatives in Council. He has 
 also served the city in many unoffi- 
 cial capacities. He is treasurer of 
 the Star-Telegram and connected with 
 other successful business enterprises. 
 Mr. Newby married Miss Etta O. 
 Price, December 14, 1883. He is a 
 Mason and has filled all offices in 
 the Commandery. Following i 1 1 
 health in 1914 he resigned the presi- 
 dency of the American National 
 Bank, but retains his interest in that 
 institution.
 
 T. A. Nored 
 
 HOMAS ALVIN 
 NORED, Manager of 
 the Lee Livestock Com- 
 mission Company, is 
 one of the prominent 
 ' figures on the Fort 
 Worth market, the second largest 
 cattle market in the world. The 
 Lee Livestock Commission Company 
 is one of the largest commission 
 companies operating and has offices 
 in the eight principal cattle cities of 
 the country — Fort Worth, Kansas 
 City, Chicago, St. Louis, St. Joseph, 
 Omaha, Sioux City and Denver. Mr. 
 Nored is known all over the South- 
 west as a cattle commission mer- 
 chant and he is also widely inter- 
 ested in ranching and cattle feed- 
 ing. He was one of the first men to 
 take up silo feeding and is a leader 
 in this line. His first venture in 
 this new field consisted of two 150- 
 ton silos erected north of the stock- 
 yards. He has since built two large 
 cement silos of 382 tons capacity 
 each at Bluffdale, Erath county. Mr. 
 Nored is a descendant of the Ten- 
 nessee family of that name. Both 
 his father, Thomas Jefferson Nored, 
 and his mother, Mrs. M. C. Nored, 
 were born in that State. His birth 
 took place at Paris, Tennessee, May 
 18, 1880. The family came to Fort 
 Worth while he was a young boy, 
 and his education was received in 
 the public schools of this city. He 
 married Miss Sallie Elizabeth Sloan, 
 September 14, 1909. Her death 
 occurred April 5, 1912. They had 
 one child, Eugene, aged three. Mr. 
 Nored is one of the members of the 
 Old Town Lodge of Masons, No. 148, 
 and a member of the Saddle and 
 Sirloin Club.
 
 p. B. O'Connell 
 
 HILIP BERT O'CON- 
 NELL, head cattle buyer 
 for Swift & Company, is 
 one of the prominent 
 men in the stockyards 
 district. His important 
 position with Swift & Company is 
 held after nearly twenty years' con- 
 nection with the firm, over ten years 
 of which has been given to the cat- 
 tle business. Six years of this time 
 has been spent in Fort Worth. He 
 came to Fort Worth from St. Joseph, 
 Mo., where he was with the same 
 company. He was born in Kansas 
 City, February 19, 1880. His father, 
 J. D. O'Connell, was a native of Ire- 
 land. His mother, Mrs. Mary O'Con- 
 nell, was born at Washington, D. C. 
 Mr. O'Connell married Miss Kather- 
 ine Calahan, only daughter of M. M. 
 Calahan owner of Meadow Vale 
 Stock Farm near Marysville, Arkan- 
 sas. They have one son and daugh- 
 ter. Jack Burton and Mary Margaret. 
 Mr. O'Connell is a member of the 
 Fort Worth Club and the Saddle and 
 Sirloin Club. His favorite hobby 
 is farming. He is accounted one of 
 the best judges of cattle in the South- 
 west, the land of cattle raisers and 
 cattle judges. The position he holds 
 is one of the most important in the 
 cattle and packing industries and has 
 been filled in a way that adds to it 
 additional prestige. Highly success- 
 ful in his chosen line of activity, Mr. 
 O'Connell is also extremely popular 
 among his business associates and 
 acquaintances and one of the best 
 known young men in Fort Worth.
 
 B. W. Owens 
 
 RYANT WESLEY 
 OWENS is one of the 
 best known lumbermen 
 in Texas. For forty- 
 five years he has been 
 a resident of the State 
 and for twenty-five years of that 
 time he has been prominently iden- 
 tified with the lumber industry 
 of the State. Together with his 
 brother, G. W. Owens of Dallas, he 
 operates one of the largest lumber 
 concerns in the State. Mr. Owens 
 has been in Fort Worth eleven years, 
 having come here to take charge 
 of the yards owned by the company. 
 He has five yards under his direct 
 management, three in Fort Worth, 
 one at Handley and one at Arling- 
 ton. He is a native of Alabama, 
 having been born in that State in 
 1863. His father, Samuel Owens, 
 and his mother, Martha Jordan 
 Owens, were both natives of Ala- 
 bama also. Though a consistent 
 Democrat all his life, Mr. Owens 
 has never found time from his large 
 business interests to devote to poli- 
 tics and never has sought public 
 office of any kind. Deer hunting 
 is his favorite diversion He is mar- 
 ried and the father of eight children, 
 George, Bryant, Shelby, Bessie, May, 
 Philip, William Howard and Mary 
 Elizabeth. Mr. Owens is a Mason 
 and a Shriner. While not a poli- 
 tician in the sense of being a seeker 
 of office or preferment, Mr. Owens 
 has been a prominent worker for 
 good government, and has devoted 
 much of his valuable time to such 
 public service. 
 
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 Dr. W. B. Parks 
 
 O WRITE a fitting and 
 creditable story of the 
 career of Wm. B. 
 Parks, A. M., Pli. D., 
 would be almost like 
 writing a history of 
 Texas Christian University, so 
 closely are the two linked together. 
 Dr. Parks has been identified with 
 this great school almost from the 
 time he went forth as a graduate 
 from its predecessor, Add-Ran, in 
 1886. Its ups have been his ups; 
 its downs, his downs. Few men 
 ever have been connected with the 
 school who have devoted as much 
 of their life and energies to it as 
 has Dr. Parks, and now that the 
 school is taking its just place among 
 the colleges of the Southwest, those 
 who have watched it from its earliest 
 days can see no small part of its 
 success is due to Dr. Parks. At 
 Add-Ran University in 1886, Dr. 
 Parks was graduated with the 
 degree of B. S. In 1892 he received 
 his A. M. degree, and in 1894 his 
 Ph. D. The following years he did 
 work at Vanderbilt, Harvard, Uni- 
 versity of Virginia and Chicago Uni- 
 versity, and returning again became 
 identified with his alma mater, taking 
 the chair of natural science. This 
 chair he held for fourteen years, 
 leaving in 1900 for work in Eastern 
 colleges, returning again in 1904 to 
 accept the chair of chemistry with 
 the now Texas Christian University. 
 From his earliest year with the 
 college Dr. Parks has been loved 
 and respected by the student body. 
 "Marse Ben" is their favorite, and 
 his selection in 1910 by the board 
 of trustees to fill the office of dean 
 was hailed with delight. In the 
 handling of all out-of-class matters, 
 the strong character of Dean Parks 
 has always manifested itself; in him 
 the faculty has one of its strongest 
 members and the student always a 
 true friend and wise counsellor.
 
 G. S. Pentecost 
 
 ^ORGE S. PENTECOST, 
 general passenger agent 
 of the Chicago, Rock 
 Island & Gulf Railroad, 
 '1 is deeply interested in 
 the development of the 
 Southwest. He first came to Fort 
 Worth in 1902 as traveling passenger 
 agent of the Rock Island, remaining 
 until 1904, when he went to El Paso, 
 and then to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, 
 Omaha, Nebraska, and Kansas City, 
 Missouri, returning to Fort Worth as 
 general passenger agent. He is the 
 originator of the Firefly, the famous 
 Rock Island train to the North, and 
 its service is one of his particular 
 business hobbies. Practically his en- 
 tire life has been devoted to railroad 
 work. A Democrat politically, he has 
 never sought official positions. Mr. 
 Pentecost is the son of Fielding 
 Archer Pentecost and Margaret Vir- 
 ginia Pentecost, both of Mount Ver- 
 non, Indiana. He, too, was born at 
 that place in 1872. He married Miss 
 Cora M. Nelson of Chicago in 1902. 
 In fraternal circles Mr. Pentecost 
 is almost as prominent as in railway 
 affairs, in which he occupies such an 
 important position. He is an active 
 member of the Fort Worth Lodge of 
 Elks, taking a keen interest in the 
 affairs of the order, and is one of 
 the prime movers in the successful 
 Elks Minstrels, which have come to 
 be an important Fort Worth event. 
 Mr. Pentecost also is an enthusiastic 
 Mason and has received the Scottish 
 Rite and Shrine degrees. He has 
 taken an active part in bringing set- 
 tlers to Texas and is a steady and 
 consistent advocate of the state's de- 
 velopment.
 
 J. L. Price 
 
 ACOB L. PRICE was 
 born in Springfield, Illi- 
 nois, about forty years 
 ago. His mother is a 
 native of the same town, 
 her ancestors having 
 originally settled in Pennsylvania. 
 His father was a practicing physi- 
 cian, born near Lexington, Kentucky; 
 the family having removed there from 
 Prince Edwards County, Virginia, 
 where it had been established since 
 Colonial days. Mr. Price graduated 
 from the High School in Springfield 
 and went to a preparatory school in 
 anticipation of a college education. 
 About that time he was offered a 
 bank position and spent five years in 
 that business. After resigning his 
 position, he studied law in the offices 
 of Hon. John M. Palmer and of Gen- 
 eral Orendorff. About ten years ago 
 he became associated with Armour & 
 Co., as credit man, and he held va- 
 rious positions in the credit and fi- 
 nancial departments of that company. 
 He came to Fort Worth when the 
 local packing houses were opened. 
 He was elected president of the Stock 
 Yards National Bank July 2, 1908. 
 Mr. Price is a member of the River 
 Crest Country Club, Polo Club, Fort 
 Worth Golf Club, the Saddle and 
 Sirloin Club, Hella Temple of Dallas, 
 Knights Templar and various other 
 Masonic lodges, and of the Elks and 
 Sons of the American Revolution. He 
 has but two hobbies: out-of-door 
 sports and the banking business. Mr. 
 Price was married before coming to 
 Texas, his wife was formerly Harriet 
 Crabbe of Illinois. She is a grand- 
 daughter of General Palmer, a for- 
 mer governor of Illinois. 
 
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 E. G. Rail 
 
 
 LBERT GEORGE RALL 
 is a prominent figure in 
 the wholesale grain 
 business of Fort Worth 
 and the Southwest, 
 having extensive mill 
 interests in Paris, Texas, Sherman, 
 and Gainesville, Texas, as well as 
 at Oklahoma City and Ardmore, in 
 Oklahoma. He has also business 
 interests in Kansas City as well as 
 Fort Worth. In addition to being 
 head of the E. G. Rail Wholesale 
 Grain Company of this city, he was 
 president of the Durrett-Winter 
 Company, now the Durrett-Vincent 
 Company. Mr. Rail is a successful 
 and enthusiastic stock raiser as well, 
 and takes a great interest in stock 
 farming. He is of Irish descent, the 
 son of George S. Rail and Mrs. 
 Estelle M. Rail, both natives of Ohio. 
 His father was born at Dayton and 
 his mother in Cincinnati. He was 
 born at North Vernon, Indiana, in 
 1866. He married Miss Kate Cren- 
 shaw. They have two children, Mar- 
 vin and Miss Estelle. Mr. Rail is a 
 Republican, a member of the 
 Country Club, a Mason, Shriner and 
 an Elk, and was a member of the 
 University Club during its existence. 
 Mr. Rail is an enthusiastic motorist 
 and deeply interested in the good 
 roads movement that ia being fos- 
 tered throughout the State of Texas. 
 He has also been an active but un- 
 ostentatious supporter of the various 
 movements that have resulted in the 
 building of Fort Worth to its present 
 proportions, and is counted as one 
 of its leading citizens. In addition 
 to his handsome town residence at 
 Chase Court, he has a country resi- 
 dence on the Benbrook Road. He 
 has local grain elevators at River- 
 side and on the Arlington Heights 
 road.
 
 W. M. Rea 
 
 ILLIAM MARIAN REA, 
 a resident of Tarrant 
 County since 1859 and 
 of Fort Worth since 
 1878, has held many po- 
 sitions of trust in both 
 the city and county, filling all in such 
 a way as to win public approval and 
 repeated re-election. He has served 
 in a public capacity since 1879 and 
 always with the greatest honor to 
 himself, the city and county. In 
 working to protect the public from 
 criminals he has also worked to pro- 
 tect those with criminal tendencies 
 from their environments. He was 
 the first public advocate of a school 
 for wayward boys in Texas and has 
 been a constant worker to bring 
 about conditions that would free boys 
 from contact with old offenders. In 
 his public work he has served va- 
 riously as a police officer in the 
 early days of the then wild cattle 
 town, as Police Chief, Deputy Sheriff 
 and Sheriff. Mr. Rea was born 
 June 10, 1850, in Knox County, Illi- 
 nois. Both his father, Thomas Rea, 
 and his mother, Elizabeth Rea, were 
 natives of Ohio. His first wife was 
 Miss Laura Blue, four children being 
 born to this union, Misses Rhoda, 
 Ida, Caroline and Easter. In 1912 he 
 married Miss Estella Floyd, his pres- 
 ent wife. Mr. Rea is a member of 
 the Masons, Elks, Woodmen of the 
 World, Knights of Pythias and Odd 
 Fellows. During the present year he 
 completed his second term as Sheriff 
 of Tarrant County, voluntarily de- 
 clining to again become a candidate 
 for the office. Always prominent in 
 city and county politics, he was noted 
 as a fair fighter and one whom his 
 opponents always were ready to con- 
 gratulate upon success.
 
 C. D. Reimers 
 
 HARLES D. REIMERS 
 made a notable success 
 in the newspaper field 
 in Fort Worth prior to 
 the formation of The 
 Exiine-Reimers Com- 
 pany, the largest concern of the 
 kind south of St. Louis. Coming to 
 Fort Worth in 1902 from Davenport, 
 Iowa, he purchased the old Mail- 
 Telegram and putting it on its feet 
 transformed it into a modern paper 
 with wide circulation. Before com- 
 ing to Fort Worth he was publisher 
 of the Davenport Times from 1899 
 to 1902. He published the Telegram 
 from 1902 to 1909, and published the 
 Texas Farm Co-Operator after that. 
 He holds the presidency of The Ex- 
 iine-Reimers Company. Mr. Reim- 
 ers was born at Rock Island, Illinois, 
 May 2, 1872, son of John J. and 
 Marietta A. Reimers. He was edu- 
 cated in Iowa State University and 
 Northwestern University; and is 
 a member of the Phi Delta Thetas. 
 He married Miss Linda Ray Saun- 
 ders, October 30, 1906. Mr. Reim- 
 ers is a member of the Chicago 
 Press Club, Fort Worth Ad Club, 
 the River Crest Country Club, the 
 Chamber of Commerce and is a 
 Shriner. He is a baseball enthus- 
 iast of the playing kind, and former 
 first baseman at Northwestern Uni- 
 versity. He was also one of the 
 first automobile owners of Fort 
 Worth, and continues an enthusiastic 
 motorist. All of his business life 
 has been connected in some way with 
 the printing business, and the con- 
 cern he now heads has more em- 
 ployees than any similar concern in 
 the Southwest.
 
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 G. T. Reynolds 
 
 EARLESS courage, rest- 
 less energy and an 
 iron determination that 
 knew not failure, are 
 the traits of character 
 that have meant suc- 
 cess for George T. Reynolds. Mr. 
 Reynolds was but a babe of three 
 when his parents emigrated from 
 Alabama to Texas. The family first 
 settled in Shelby county and later 
 settling in Palo Pinto County in 
 1860, when George Reynolds was 
 but sixteen. The same year the fam- 
 ily moved into Stephens county, 
 where the elder Reynolds made his 
 first venture in the cattle business. 
 Young Reynolds joined the Con- 
 federacy, serving with Col. Nat 
 Buford's regiment of Nineteenth 
 Texas Cavalry. His service was 
 short, however, for he was badly 
 wounded and given honorable dis- 
 charge. Returning to Texas with his 
 pony and S300 Confederate money, 
 he found the country ablaze with 
 Indian warfare and during his early 
 career on the plains was engaged 
 in a number of battles with the Red- 
 skins. In a fight in Haskell coun- 
 ty, he was shot through the body 
 with an arrow, the head of which 
 was not removed for sixteen years. 
 In those days he made many nota- 
 ble overland trips driving stock to 
 Mexico and to Utah and then to 
 California and Colorado. In 1874 Mr. 
 Reynolds returned to Texas and pur- 
 chased a herd of cattle at Weather- 
 ford, and once again embarked upon 
 the cattle business in Texas. Rapid- 
 ly his interests developed, and within 
 a comparatively few years he was 
 accounted one of the biggest ranch- 
 men of West Texas. He ranks as 
 one of the wealthiest and most pro- 
 gressive men of the State. His 
 ranching interests, while still form- 
 ing the largest part of his fortune, 
 are by no means all. He is heavily 
 interested in Fort Worth business 
 and rental property and in Texas and 
 Oklahoma banks. He is an enthus- 
 iastic hunter and has traveled as 
 far as Alaska for big game.
 
 W. D. Reynolds 
 
 ILLIAM D. REYNOLDS, 
 one of the pioneer 
 cattlemen of Texas, and 
 one of the leading citi- 
 zens of Fort Worth, has 
 been so closely con- 
 nected both with the growth of the 
 cattle industry in Texas and the de- 
 velopment of Fort Worth that any 
 account of either would be incom- 
 plete without reference to his stead- 
 fast assistance to both. One of the 
 leading ranch owners of the State, he 
 is also one of the largest property 
 holders in Fort Worth and an active 
 worker and contributor in all move- 
 ments for the advancement of the 
 city. He has served on the principal 
 special committees of the Chamber 
 of Commerce and of the old Board 
 of Trade before the Chamber of 
 Commerce succeeded it in city 
 affairs. One of the cattlemen who 
 drove cattle overland in the early 
 days, frequently after combats with 
 the Indians and desperadoes, he has 
 devoted his later years to civic de- 
 velopment and gives it much of his 
 time, though he never has held pub- 
 lic office. Mr. Reynolds is a native 
 of Alabama, having been born in that 
 State April 22, 1846. His father, G. 
 W. Reynolds, was a native of Geor- 
 gia, and his mother, Mrs. Ann Reyn- 
 olds, a native of South Carolina. He 
 married Miss Matthews, June 1, 
 1879. They have eight children. Mr. 
 Reynolds is vice president of the 
 Reynolds Cattle Company with ex- 
 tensive ranch and cattle holdings. 
 He is a Mason and one of the best 
 known cattlemen in Texas, and holds 
 an interest in a number of Fort 
 Worth enterprises, besides being one 
 of its leading investors and builders.
 
 L. P. Robertson 
 
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 OUIS p. ROBERTSON 
 is one of those men 
 who came to Fort 
 Worth without finan- 
 cial resources, and 
 through hard work and 
 wise management has accumulated 
 wealth. The undertaking and em- 
 balming business he operates, from a 
 modest beginning, has become one of 
 the largest in the State, and Mr. Rob- 
 ertson has just erected a new mor- 
 tuary building, the most modern of 
 its kind in the South, to care for 
 it. He is a native of Georgia, born 
 in Merriweather county, that State, 
 September 29, 1858, the son of Thos. 
 J. Robertson and Sarah H. Pyron. 
 His early education was received in 
 the common schools and the high 
 school at Senoia, Georgia. Leaving 
 school, Mr. Robertson began his bus- 
 iness life as a cotton buyer, after- 
 ward engaging in the business on 
 his own account. Following his 
 failure, due to poor crop seasons, he 
 came to Texas and started anew as a 
 cotton buyer for a Galveston firm, 
 but again hard luck, in the shape 
 of a drouth, befell him and caused 
 the firm to close its Fort Worth of- 
 fice. Then Mr. Robertson entered 
 the employ of Fakes & Company, 
 and after working nine years there 
 bought out that company's undertak- 
 ing and embalming business, which 
 he has so successfully conducted 
 since. Mr. Robertson is interested 
 in a number of Fort Worth enter- 
 prises, including the Cotton Collar 
 Works, the James and Schow Com- 
 pany and the Exchange National 
 Bank, of which he is a vice-president 
 and director. He is a member of the 
 Chamber of Commerce, Mercantile 
 Club, River Crest Country Club, Elks, 
 Masons, Shriners, Knights of 
 Pythias, Woodmen of the World and 
 Maccabees. He has been a great 
 horseman until the last few years, 
 and Bicarbonate, one of his string, 
 was one of the best harness horses 
 in Texas. Bicarbonate was burned 
 to death in a wreck while being 
 shipped to the Denver races, and 
 since that time Mr. Robertson has 
 turned from horses to autos. He 
 owns several fine cars and his prin- 
 cipal recreation now is motoring. 
 Mr. Robertson married Miss Susie 
 L. Wright in 1890. 
 
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 T. D. Ross 
 
 HOMAS DAVIS ROSS, 
 president of the Fort 
 Worth and Tarrant 
 County Abstract Com- 
 pany and president of 
 the Texas Securities 
 Company, is one of the men who 
 have become prominent at the Fort 
 Worth bar. He has also been ex- 
 tensively interested in Fort Worth 
 property. Mr. Ross is of Scotch 
 descent. His father, Zeno C. Ross, 
 was a native of Kingston, New York, 
 and his mother, Mrs. Mary J. Ross, 
 was born at Wentworth, North Car- 
 olina. Mr. Ross was born at Mag- 
 nolia, Arkansas, February 22, 1861. 
 He attended the University of Vir- 
 ginia, being graduated there in 1882. 
 He then went to Yale University, 
 being graduated from there a year 
 later. He married Miss Clara Gate- 
 wood Dunn in 1889. They have two 
 daughters, Jeanne D. Ross and 
 Mrs. Chilton Jennings. Mr. Ross is 
 an Elk, a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias, the Fort Worth Club and 
 the River Crest Country Club. He 
 was also a member of the University 
 Club and of the old Country Club. 
 Since his membership in the Uni- 
 versity Club began that club has 
 been merged with the Fort Worth 
 Club, which shortly will begin the 
 erection of a modern club and 
 office building at Sixth and Main 
 streets. Mr. Ross resides at 1430 
 Pennsylvania Avenue, one of the 
 noted residence boulevards of the 
 city. His holdings in other city 
 properties are extensive. He has 
 taken no active part in politics of 
 the City, State or County. By affil- 
 iation he is a Democrat.
 
 Marion Sansom 
 
 ^lARION SANSOM is 
 closely connected with 
 the various business 
 activities that make Fort 
 Worth the leading cat- 
 tle market of the South- 
 west. He is at the head of the Cas- 
 sidy-Southwestern Commission Com- 
 pany, president of the Fort Worth 
 Livestock Commission Company of 
 Kansas City and president of M. 
 Sansom & Company. He was the 
 first president of the Stockyards Na- 
 tional Bank, a position from which 
 he resigned in 1905 because of the 
 press of his other affairs. He still 
 remains a director in that bank and 
 was also a director of the State 
 National Bank, which erected the 
 twelve-story building at Fourth and 
 Main streets. He is at the same 
 time a cattleman, banker, commission 
 man, feed man and cotton oil mill 
 investor, besides holding large land 
 interests north of the city. Mr. San- 
 som is a native Texan, born in Mad- 
 ison County, June 20, 1853. His 
 mother, Susan Manning Sansom, was 
 a native Texan also, being the daugh- 
 ter of Stephen Manning, the noted 
 Mexican War fighter. His father, R. 
 P. Sansom, was a native of Tennes- 
 see, but came to Texas in 1836. The 
 family settled at Alvarado in 1859, 
 and Mr. Sansom remained on the 
 farm and in business' there until 
 1902, when he came to Fort Worth. 
 While at Alvarado he was elected 
 Mayor of that place. He married 
 Miss Eliza Powell of Alvarado. They 
 have three children. Mrs. Winifred 
 Schultz, Miss Nina Sansom and Ma- 
 rion Sansom, Jr. Mr. Sansom is a 
 Knight Templar, Mystic Shriner and 
 a member of the Knights of Pythias 
 and Odd Fellows. His nomination 
 for Regional Bank Director was by 
 almost unanimous choice.
 
 Dr. B. Saunders 
 
 R. BACON SAUNDERS 
 
 is one of the profes- 
 sional men who has 
 taken a prominent part 
 in the general business 
 affairs of Fort Worth. 
 He is the builder of the Flatiron 
 building at Ninth and Houston 
 streets, and also the big industrial 
 plant of the Exline-Reimers Com- 
 pany. One of his important public 
 services has been the carrying 
 through of arrangements for the 
 building of the joint City and County 
 Hospital, and he was largely instru- 
 mental in the establishment of the 
 Medical College, which in 1911-12 
 became a department of the Texas 
 Christian University. He is a lineal 
 descendant of Lawrence Saunders, 
 the Christian martyr who was burned 
 at the stake during the reign of 
 Queen Mary, and his ancestors ren- 
 dered distinguished service to the 
 Colonies in the American Revolu- 
 tion. He is the son of John Smith 
 Saunders and Sarah J. Claypool 
 Saunders, descendants of Scotch- 
 Irish families, who first settled in 
 Virginia and afterwards emigrated 
 to Kentucky with Daniel Boone. He 
 is a native of Bowling Green, Ky., 
 and was graduated with the highest 
 honors of his class, from the Medi- 
 cal Department of the University of 
 Louisville, afterwards taking post- 
 graduate courses in New York, Phil- 
 adelphia, Baltimore and other large 
 clinical centers. He is Professor 
 of Surgery and Clinical Surgery of 
 the Medical Department of Texas 
 Christian University and President 
 of the faculty. He is also a mem- 
 ber of the Board of Trustees of Tex- 
 as Christian University. He is 
 Chief Surgeon of the Fort Worth 
 & Denver, the Wichita Valley and 
 the Trinity & Brazos Valley Rail- 
 ways, and Division Surgeon for many 
 of the railroads centering here. He 
 is ex-president of the Texas State 
 Medical Association, and ex-vice- 
 president of the Southern Surgical & 
 Gynecological Association, and of 
 the American Association of Rail- 
 way Surgeons. He was president 
 of the old Country Club and 
 is a charter member of the Chamber 
 of Commerce. His wife was Miss 
 Ida Jane Caldwell. They have two 
 children. Dr. Roy F. Saunders and 
 Mrs. Linda Ray Reimers. 
 
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 J. M. Scott 
 
 pHN M. SCOTT, attor- 
 ney, has many interests 
 in Fort Worth. Mr. 
 Scott is a native of 
 Alabama, having been 
 born at Braggs, Octo- 
 ber 17, 1870. His father, Joseph 
 M. Scott, was born in Scotland, mov- 
 ing to Alabama, where he was a 
 member of the Alabama Conference 
 of the Methodist Episcopal Church, 
 South. His mother, Amanda B. 
 Scott, was a Virginian. Mr. Scott's 
 early education was received in Ala- 
 bama. He then graduated from 
 Southern University, where he was 
 a Phi Delta Theta. Shortly after 
 graduation he came to Texas. He is 
 a member of the Elks, the Country 
 Club and the Knights of Pythias. In 
 the Knights of Pythias he has been 
 especially prominent and was made 
 chairman of the general committee 
 appointed for the entertainment of 
 the National Convention of the or- 
 der to have been held in Fort Worth 
 in 1912. He married Mrs. B. R. 
 Stratton, March 21, 1911. In addi- 
 tion to his extensive legal practice, 
 Mr. Scott is interested in a number 
 of Fort Worth enterprises, among 
 which is numbered the George B. 
 Loving Company, of which Mr. Scott 
 is president. This company is one 
 of the large land and cattle com- 
 panies of the State. An active 
 worker in fraternal circles, he is also 
 an active builder and booster for 
 Fort Worth, and highly popular 
 among a host of acquaintances.
 
 J. S. Shaw 
 
 OSEPH STE P H EN 
 SHAW, President of 
 the Fort Worth Build- 
 ers' Supply Company, 
 has taken a part in 
 much of the building 
 activity in Fort Worth, and before 
 coming to this city designed and 
 erected some of the largest and 
 handsomest buildings in Southern 
 West Virginia. He was also engaged 
 in the coal mining operations in 
 that State. Mr. Shaw studied min- 
 ing engineering at the University of 
 Kentucky, afterwards he became 
 chief topographer of the Kentucky 
 Geological Survey and for several 
 years was chief engineer of two of 
 the largest coal mines in the cele- 
 brated Pocahontas coal fields. He 
 is a member of the American Insti- 
 tute of Mining Engineers and other 
 professional and trade organizations. 
 Mr. Shaw is of English and Scotch- 
 Irish ancestry. He was born in 
 Winchester, Kentucky, in 1886, the 
 son of Stephen and Amanda Shaw, 
 both of whom were natives of Ken- 
 tucky. He married Miss Nita Cock- 
 ill of Pennsylvania. They have two 
 children, Marie three and Elizabeth 
 one year. He is fond of athletics 
 and especially tennis. One of the 
 most noted engineers in the South- 
 west, he is devoting his energies to 
 the building trades, finding a fruitful 
 field in the rapidly developing cities 
 of Texas with their constant demand 
 for newer, larger and better con- 
 struction.
 
 J. F. Shelton 
 
 OHN F. SHELTON, 
 general manager of the 
 Texas Anchor Fence 
 Company, and the Fort 
 Worth Wagon Factory, 
 director in Texas 
 Christian University, the National 
 Feeders and Breeders' Show and a 
 charter member of the Fort Worth 
 Ad Men's Club, has made the devel- 
 opment of interest in home indus- 
 tries one of his special works for the 
 city's welfare. Through his assist- 
 ance a number of home industry dis- 
 plays have been made possible. He 
 was born April 3, 1867, at Monticello, 
 Ark. His parents, Joseph Shelton 
 and N. J. Shelton, were North Caro- 
 linians, who had moved to that State. 
 Mr. Shelton first attended private 
 schools and finished his education at 
 Franklin Seminary, Pilot Point. He 
 railroaded five years as an agent and 
 operator and began a practical course 
 in electrical engineering in the plant 
 of the General Electric Company at 
 Lynn, Mass. After completing his 
 studies there he entered the service 
 of the company as constructing engi- 
 neer, installing light and power plants 
 in Europe and Africa and many 
 Latin-American countries. The Span- 
 ish-American War interfered serious- 
 ly with the West India business, in 
 which he was then" engaged, and 
 after contracting a few years indi- 
 vidually he came to Fort Worth and 
 took charge of the Texas Anchor 
 Fence Company, which he soon put 
 upon a paying basis. At the same 
 time he worked for general indus- 
 tries of the city and was an active 
 member of the old Board of Trade 
 and for several terms chairman of 
 its manufacturing committee. Mr. 
 Shelton is noted also as a naturalist 
 and an aviary at his private resi- 
 dence contains one of the finest col- 
 lections of rare birds to be found in 
 the South. He married Miss Emma 
 Kaeshamer of San Francisco in 1896. 
 They have one child. 
 
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 W. B. Sloan 
 
 ALTER BENNETT 
 SLOAN, manager of the 
 William Cameron & 
 Co., Inc., has been con- 
 nected with that firm 
 almost from the time 
 he came to Texas, fifteen years 
 ago. Beginning at the bottom he 
 has worked up to the managership 
 of the large interests of that com- 
 pany in Fort Worth. In this way 
 he has been connected closely with 
 much of the building activity that 
 has marked the city in the past few 
 years. Mr. Sloan is of Scotch an- 
 cestry, members of the family having 
 come to America at an early date. 
 Both his mother and father were 
 natives of North Carolina, where he, 
 also, was born. He is the son of 
 John L. Sloan and Mrs. Salena 
 Sloan. A Democrat all his life, he 
 has taken no part in politics in an 
 active way and has not sought 
 political office nor preferment, de- 
 voting his time exclusively to the 
 business in which he has proven so 
 successful. He married Miss Emma 
 Shulenberger thirteen years ago, a 
 short time after coming to Texas to 
 make his residence here. Mr. Sloan 
 is a member of the Masons and the 
 Elks. He is extremely fond of 
 hunting and spends his recreation 
 periods largely in the field with his 
 gun. He is one of the most popular 
 of the host of young business men 
 who have made Fort Worth notable 
 for its push and energy, and in addi- 
 tion to his important business con- 
 nections has built up a large ac- 
 quaintance and has a host of loyal 
 friends.
 
 B. O. Smith 
 
 |ENJ AMIN OTHER 
 SMITH, president of the 
 Farmers and Mechanics 
 National Bank, has 
 played a prominent part 
 in the financial activi- 
 ties of Fort Worth and its trade ter- 
 ritory. Having been connected with 
 this bank since its organization in 
 1889, he has held various positions 
 of responsibility in it until February, 
 1911, he became its chief official. In 
 1884, he came to Fort Worth and 
 was connected with the B. C. Evans 
 company in the wholesale mercan- 
 tile business remaining with them 
 until the formation of the Farmers 
 and Mechanics' Bank. His motto 
 has been Fort Worth, first, last and 
 all the time, and he has been an 
 official of many of the organizations 
 working for the city's advancement. 
 Mr. Smith was born in Boyle County, 
 Kentucky, October 17, 1867, the son 
 of A. R. and Minerva Calvert Smith. 
 He married Miss Frances H. Port- 
 wood in 1891. They have one child, 
 Ben O. Smith, Jr. In addition to his 
 banking connections, Mr. Smith has 
 an interest in a number of the suc- 
 cessful business enterprises of Fort 
 Worth and always has been an 
 active worker for the upbuilding of 
 the commercial and industrial wel- 
 fare of the city. His residence at 
 Arlington Heights occupies one of 
 the most beautiful sites in all North 
 Texas, overlooking the valley of the 
 West Fork. Among the prominent 
 business organizations in which he 
 holds an official position are: Di- 
 rector Mount Olivet Cemetery; di- 
 rector Mount Olivet Burial Associa- 
 tion, and treasurer of the U. B. A.' 
 the Mutual Home Association, the 
 Texas Anchor Fence Company, and 
 the Fort Worth Jobbers' and Manu- 
 facturers' League.
 
 E. B. Spiller 
 
 DMUND BERKELEY 
 SPILLER, secretary and 
 general manager of the 
 Cattle Raisers' Associa- 
 tion of Texas, is one of 
 ■1*^ the youngest men who 
 
 has ever held that position, with its 
 great importance to the livestock in- 
 terests of the State. His choice for 
 the appointment, which he has held 
 successively for several terms, is par- 
 ticularly fitting, his grandfather, J. 
 C. Loving, having been the first sec- 
 retary of the now powerful organiza- 
 tion. As secretary of this organiza- 
 tion he occupies a position that brings 
 him in close contact with the great- 
 est cattle interests of the Southwest- 
 ern part of the United States and a 
 large part of Mexico, the membership 
 covering all that territory. Since he 
 succeeded H. E. Crowley as secre- 
 tary upon Mr. Crowley's resignation, 
 his administration has been so sat- 
 isfactory that he has been repeatedly 
 elected his own successor by accla- 
 mation. Mr. Spiller is the son of 
 George Spiller, Sr., and Mrs. Belle 
 Loving Spiller. His father came to 
 Texas from Virginia and his mother 
 was a native of Lovings Valley, Tex- 
 as. Mr. Spiller was born at Jacks- 
 boro, Texas, October 24, 1885, where 
 he lived until he came to Fort Worth 
 as assistant secretary of the Cattle 
 Raisers' Association. July 16, 1908, 
 he married Miss Frances Wright of 
 Mansfield, Texas. He is a member 
 of the Bovinians and the Fort Worth 
 Club and an ardent baseball fan.
 
 R. T. Stuart 
 
 T. STUART, president 
 of the stock and bond 
 firm of R. T. Stuart 
 and Company, was 
 born near Terrell, 
 Kaufman County, Tex- 
 as, January 24, 1880, his grandfath- 
 er having come from Scotland when 
 a boy and locating in that county. 
 Of Scotch-Irish descent, his people 
 were all early pioneers of Texas. 
 After Mr. Stuart finished college he 
 located at Vernon, at nineteen, 
 teaching school and writing insur- 
 ance on Saturday. His success in in- 
 surance was so phenomenal that it 
 attracted the attention of the vice- 
 president of the Equitable Life of 
 New York, and he was made general 
 agent of the Company. At twenty- 
 five he made the world's record with 
 the Company, having won the Loving 
 Cup which was presented at a con- 
 vention in New York attended by 
 delegates from all over the world. 
 He came to Fort Worth in 1907 as 
 general agent of the Pacific Mutual, 
 and in 1908 won a Loving Cup for 
 having the largest producing agency 
 in the United States. In January, 
 1909, he formed the American Home 
 Life Insurance Agency of Fort 
 Worth of which he was elected pres- 
 ident; in September, 1909, he re- 
 signed its presidency and organized 
 the Bankers' Trust Company of 
 which he is president. He also or- 
 ganized the Commonwealth Bonding 
 & Casualty Insurance Company, of 
 which he is vice-president. Mr. 
 Stuart is also interested in the or- 
 ganization of other corporations in 
 Fort Worth and Texas, and during 
 the past two years has added over 
 three and a half million dollars of 
 capital to Fort Worth financial in- 
 stitutions. Mr. Stuart is a self-made 
 man, having educated himself by 
 working in the harvest fields in sum- 
 mer, earning money to go to school 
 in winter. Success is his one watch- 
 word and will power his road to 
 success. He married Miss Maud 
 McKibin, of Vernon, Texas. He is 
 a thirty-second degree Mason, a 
 Shriner, a Knight Templar and a 
 Pythian. In politics he is a Demo- 
 crat.
 
 James T. Taylor 
 
 AMES THOMAS TAY- 
 LOR, president of the 
 Jas. T. Taylor Com- 
 pany, is a native of 
 England, where his an- 
 cestors for the past 500 
 years have been residents of the 
 County of Surrey. He was born in 
 1870 at Epsom, England, where both 
 his father, Henry Taylor, and his 
 mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Lipscomb 
 Taylor, were born. He received his 
 education in the English schools be- 
 fore coming to America. In June, 
 1905, he married Miss Edna Earle 
 Ratcliff, following the death of his 
 first wife, Mrs. Cora Mitchell, whom 
 he married in April, 1889. He has 
 three children, James Oscar, Jessie 
 May and Edna Earle. He is a mem- 
 ber of the River Crest Country Club. 
 Mr. Taylor belongs also to the Elks, 
 the Hoo-Hoos and the Saddle and 
 Sirloin Club. Devoting his attention 
 to the details of railroad, good roads, 
 public buildings and private con- 
 struction, he finds his recreation in 
 automobiling, golf and baseball. He 
 is also an enthusiastic lover of flow- 
 ers and is expending large sums in 
 importing plants for his Arlington 
 Heights grounds. Mr. Taylor estab- 
 lished the first Portland Cement fac- 
 tory in Dallas, an institution that now 
 employs 2,500 men. He also estab- 
 lished the sash and door factory in 
 Fort Worth, the most- modern plant 
 of the sort west of the Mississippi. 
 In addition to his business interests 
 he owns a half interest in the Buck- 
 ingham apartment house. 
 
 He was head of the company 
 which secured the contract for build- 
 ing the system of cardinal roads 
 leading into Fort Worth. These 
 roads have attracted attention all 
 over the Southwest and are being 
 used as a model for road improve- 
 ment in many places. The high- 
 ways, rapidly being completed, will 
 make Fort Worth the center of a 
 great good roads system. Among 
 other noted constructions carried out 
 by him here is the modern Denver- 
 Record building at Fifth and 
 Throckmorton streets. His home at 
 Arlington Heights is one of the 
 handsomest and most complete in 
 the entire Southwest. 
 
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 J. L. Terrell 
 
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 OHN LAWRENCE 
 TERRELL, born 
 August 1, 1873, is a na- 
 tive of Fort Worth and 
 a member of one of 
 Tarrant County's pio- 
 neer families. His father, Joseph C. 
 Terrell, came to this State from Mis- 
 souri and settled in Fort Worth in 
 1857. His mother's maiden name 
 was Mary V. Lawrence. Judge 
 Terrell's early education was secured 
 in the public schools of Fort Worth. 
 After a finishing course at Randolph- 
 Macon College, Virginia, he entered 
 the University of Texas at Austin 
 where he studied law. Graduating 
 there he returned to Fort Worth and 
 entered upon the practice of his 
 profession. The war with Spain 
 broke out just about this time and 
 young Terrell was one of the first to 
 enlist for service. He was one of 
 the organizers of Company D, sec- 
 ond volunteer infantry, and served 
 as its second lieutenant. After his 
 company was mustered out he re- 
 sumed his law practice in Fort 
 Worth, also taking an active part in 
 Democratic party affairs. The first 
 office to which he was elected was 
 that of justice of the peace. After 
 three terms in this office he was 
 elected county judge, which office 
 he held until four years ago. Judge 
 Terrell is a member of the Kappa 
 Sigma fraternity, the Elks, and the 
 Knights of Pythias. In 1901 he mar- 
 ried Miss Ann Ross Bowlin of 
 this city. They have one child, 
 Catherine Ross, aged eleven years. 
 In addition to his legal practice 
 Judge Terrell is interested in the 
 General Construction Company and 
 makes the advancement of Fort 
 Worth his hobby.
 
 Geo. Thompson 
 
 EORGE THOMPSON, 
 for twenty-seven years 
 a prominent figure in 
 Fort Worth's legal cir- 
 cles, had a "rawhide 
 chair and a pine table" 
 as his alma mater. Born 
 near Winchester, Tennessee, in 1857, 
 Mr. Thompson, after a literary course 
 at Carrick Academy, Winchester, 
 taught school for a few terms and 
 then began reading law in W. H. 
 Brannon's office. He secured his 
 license in November, 1880, and be- 
 came Brannon's partner. Terminat- 
 ing the partnership in 1887, Mr. 
 Thompson came to Fort Worth, 
 where he formed a partnership with 
 Henry Finch. Soon after his ar- 
 rival here, he entered the legal 
 service of the Texas & Pacific Rail- 
 way Company and the Missouri, 
 Kansas & Texas Railway Company 
 as justice court attorney. A year 
 later he was promoted to the posi- 
 tion of legal representative for these 
 companies in all the Tarrant county 
 courts. He was Mr. Finch's partner 
 until the latter's death in 1892. He 
 then formed a partnership with Judge 
 N. A. Stedman, which lasted until 
 Judge Stedman became a member 
 of the State Railroad Commission in 
 1894. F. B. Stanley and M. A. 
 Spoonts then became Mr. Thompson's 
 partners, the firm being Stanley, 
 Spoonts & Thompson. Later it be- 
 came Spoonts & Thompson. J. H. 
 Barwise eventually was taken into 
 the firm. Since Judge Spoonts' 
 death in July, 1912, it has been 
 known as Thompson & Barwise. In 
 addition to its work for the Texas 
 & Pacific and the Missouri, Kansas 
 & Texas, the firm now acts as gen- 
 eral attorney for the Denver and 
 attorney for the Cotton Belt, H. & 
 T. C, the I. & G. N. and the 
 Western Union Telegraph Company. 
 It also represents several Fort Worth 
 industrial companies with large in- 
 terests. Mr. Thompson married Miss 
 Anna B. Baker at Houston in 1885. 
 He has four children. His oldest 
 son, George Thompson, Jr., is asso- 
 ciated with him in his law practice. 
 His other sons are Beverly Thomp- 
 son, a student at Yale, and Mack 
 Thompson, who is attending school 
 at Andover. His only daughter is 
 Mrs. Bert Honea, of Fort Worth. 
 
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 G. B. Turner 
 
 !1AINES B. TURNER 
 belongs to that long list 
 of Texas farmer boys 
 who have risen to 
 prominence in their 
 native State. Mr. 
 Turner was born on a farm in Rusk 
 county forty-two years ago. His early 
 life was spent there and his early 
 education was obtained in the rural 
 schools of his county. Afterward 
 he attended Sam Houston Normal 
 School at Huntsville and the 
 National University of Lebanon, 
 Ohio, from both of which he was 
 graduated with honors. Leaving the 
 university he returned to his native 
 county and began the practice of law, 
 shortly thereafter becoming identi- 
 fied with the politics of his county 
 and being honored by election to the 
 legislature. He served as represent- 
 ative in the Twenty-third and Twenty- 
 fourth Legislatures. Five years ago 
 Mr. Turner came to Fort Worth and 
 formed a partnership with former 
 Judge Mike E. Smith, Tom Bradley 
 and T. J. Powell. This partnership 
 continued until Mr. Powell was 
 elected a member of the City Com- 
 mission and withdrew, and Mr. Tur- 
 ner and Mr. Bradley then constituted 
 the firm. He later became associated 
 with former Senator D. W. Odell. 
 Mr. Turner is a lover of nature and 
 animals. He has a magnificent 
 country place on the interurban 
 where he has the finest herd of deer 
 in the State, as well as fine blooded 
 stock of other kinds and fancy 
 pigeons. Every year Mr. Turner 
 gives a venison dinner to a large 
 party of his friends, and so enjoy- 
 able has this affair proven that it 
 has become an event now looked 
 forward to by those fortunate enough 
 to be on his invitation list. 
 
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 K. M. Van Zandt 
 
 AJOR GENERAL KHLE- 
 BER MILLER VAN 
 ZANDT, son of Isaac 
 Van Zandt, who nego- 
 tiated the treaty of an- 
 nexation by which Texas 
 became a part of the United States, 
 has been a figure in the development 
 of Fort Worth since its earliest days. 
 Major Van Zandt was born in 
 Franklin County, Tennessee, in 1836, 
 but was brought by his parents to 
 the then Republic of Texas in 1839, 
 settling in Harrison County. His 
 father, Isaac Van Zandt, was a Ten- 
 nesseean. His death occurred while 
 he was running for Governor in 1847, 
 as the result of an attack of yellow 
 fever. His mother, Frances Cooke 
 Lipscomb Van Zandt, was a Virginian 
 and lived here until 1909, when her 
 death occurred in Fort Worth. 
 Trained as a lawyer, Major Van 
 Zandt had embarked upon that pro- 
 fession when the Civil War occurred. 
 He organized Company D, Seventh 
 Texas Regiment, and was chosen its 
 Captain. At its head he participated 
 in many of the hardest engagements 
 of the war and at Raymond, Miss., 
 lost half his company in the fighting 
 of the day. He was taken prisoner 
 at Fort Donaldson, February 16, 1862, 
 and exchanged at Vicksburg, Miss., 
 September 16, 1862. For his field 
 services he had been promoted to 
 Major when his hard campaigning 
 broke down his health and he was 
 ordered from field service by the 
 army surgeons. He returned to 
 Texas and in 1865 located in Fort 
 Worth. The first land he secured 
 here was in the block where the 
 Westbrook now stands. He engaged 
 in the mercantile business and later 
 entered the banking business as a 
 member of Tidball, Van Zandt & 
 Co., predecessors of the Fort Worth 
 National Bank, of which he is presi- 
 dent. In 1873 he was elected a 
 member of the Legislature against 
 his own wishes and served in that 
 body. He has also served as mem- 
 ber of the School Board and is at 
 present a member of the City Park 
 Board. He is at present Commander 
 of the Trans-Mississippi Department 
 of the U. C. V.
 
 C. R. Vickery 
 
 T used to be said that 
 when a man failed in 
 every other business he 
 tried real estate. And 
 it was true in most 
 cases then. But it is 
 far from true in the case of Chas. R. 
 Vickery. He entered the real estate 
 business from choice and opportunity 
 and the big success that he has made 
 has demonstrated that his selection 
 was based on sound business judg- 
 ment. Few young men in Fort Worth 
 have made as great a success in 
 their chosen work as has Chas. R. 
 Vickery. Among real estate men he 
 ranks as one of the most energetic 
 and successful in the city. Many of 
 the biggest and most improved addi- 
 tions in the city were promoted by 
 him, as sales agent for the Hyde 
 Park Land Company and the Mutual 
 Land Company. Mr. Vickery is a 
 native of Texas, having been born 
 in Waxahachie, April 13, 1884. Both 
 his father and mother were of Eng- 
 lish parentage. He was educated at 
 Racine College, Racine, Wisconsin, 
 and later at the Eastman Business 
 College, Poughkeepsie, New York. 
 Mr. Vickery is prominently identified 
 with various clubs and public or- 
 ganizations of the city. He is a 
 member of the Elks, Chamber of 
 Commerce, Fort Worth Club and 
 Real Estate Exchange. Never a 
 seeker for public office of any sort, 
 for himself, Mr. Vickery has taken 
 an active part in the campaigns 
 of many of his friends and is 
 reckoned as a political factor in both 
 city and county. His judgment in 
 political matters is as good as that 
 of many professional politicians. He 
 is an enthusiastic motorist and 
 spends most of his leisure time in 
 that way.
 
 R. S. Wakefield 
 
 OBERT S. WAKE- 
 FIELD, as General 
 Manager of the Fort 
 Worth branch of the 
 Wesco Supply Com- 
 pany, became a prom- 
 inent business leader. He is a 
 native son of Illinois, San Jose being 
 his birthplace. His father, Clark 
 Wakefield, came from Johnstown, 
 Pennsylvania, and his mother, Emma 
 Wakefield, from Springfield, Illinois. 
 Fitted by long experience in the 
 jobbing end of the electrical supply 
 business, the owners of the ex- 
 tensive Wesco Company selected Mr. 
 Wakefield as the head of their 
 Southwestern branch, located in Fort 
 Worth. He has since gone to Waco 
 as representative of the Western 
 Electric Company, where he is as 
 active as he was in Fort Worth. In 
 fact, Mr. Wakefield is known for one 
 hobby, getting orders and more or- 
 ders for electrical supplies. Miss 
 Clara B. Bye and Mr. Wakefield 
 were married April 24, 1894, and 
 they have two children, aged 14 and 
 16, respectively. Though never in- 
 terested directly in politics, either 
 national or municipal in so far as 
 seeking office is concerned, Mr. 
 Wakefield is a follower of the Re- 
 publican doctrines, both in state and 
 national issues. Mr. Wakefield is a 
 member of the Chamber of Com- 
 merce, the Ad Club and a leader 
 among the Jovians in Texas. Full 
 of energy and fun, he has been the 
 life of several Fort Worth trade ex- 
 cursions.
 
 J. A. Walkup 
 
 A. WALKUP is a prom- 
 inent wholesale and re- 
 tail druggist of Fort 
 Worth. His ancestors 
 were among the early 
 Scotch settlers who 
 came to Virginia, later moving to 
 Tennessee. His father and mother 
 both were born in Somerville, 
 that State. Mr. Walkup was born 
 at Cameron, Texas, in 1878. He 
 came to Fort Worth in 1894 to enter 
 Polytechnic College, after having 
 attended the public schools at Waxa- 
 hachie. In 1900, after graduating 
 from the University of the South, he 
 returned to Fort Worth and became 
 associated with the firm of Small- 
 wood and Anderson, at Seventh and 
 Main streets. He left to take a post- 
 graduate course in Washington Uni- 
 versity, St. Louis, and upon return- 
 ing, again established the drug busi- 
 ness he now conducts at 1610 Main 
 street. In addition to the Walkup 
 store, he is interested in the Max- 
 well-Clark Wholesale Drug Company 
 and is vice-president of that com- 
 pany. Mr. and Mrs. Walkup have 
 one son, J. A. Walkup, Jr., born 
 October 10, 1912. Motoring is Mr. 
 Walkup's hobby. He is a Mason 
 and a Shriner. When the institution 
 of a Shrine Temple in Fort Worth 
 was proposed he became one of the 
 most ardent supporters of the plan, 
 and was one of the large party of 
 Shriners who went to Atlanta and 
 secured the necessary authority for 
 the establishment of Moslah Temple. 
 He displays the same energy in all 
 matters in which he takes an interest 
 and is one of the hustling business 
 men of the city. 
 
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 Paul Waples 
 
 lAUL WAPLES, promi- 
 nent in many lines of 
 business activity in 
 Texas, has taken an 
 active part in the de- 
 velopment of the whole 
 State as well as Fort Worth. He has 
 always taken an active interest in 
 politics, and rendered notable public 
 service as chairman of the executive 
 committee of the St. Louis World's 
 Fair. Mr. Waples was born in Chil- 
 licothe, Missouri, February 4, 1850, 
 the son of Edward B. and Nancy 
 Waples. His father was born in 
 Delaware and his mother in Ken- 
 tucky. He came to Texas in 1876, 
 locating at Denison, moving from 
 there to Sherman and then to Fort 
 Worth, where he has resided since 
 1894. He graduated at the Univer- 
 sity of Missouri in 1871 and in 1872 
 married Miss Minnie E. Hubbard of 
 Columbia, Missouri. He is perhaps 
 best known in business circles as 
 president of the Waples-Platter Gro- 
 cer Company. He is vice-president 
 of the Waples-Painter Lumber Com- 
 pany of Gainesville, chairman of the 
 board of directors of the Star-Tele- 
 gram and a director of the American 
 Exchange National Bank of Dallas. 
 He is also connected with many busi- 
 ness and financial institutions in Fort 
 Worth and is one of the heavy con- 
 tributors and supporters of the 
 Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Waples 
 is an Elk. His principal recreation 
 is gulf fishing, for which he main- 
 tains a well-appointed yacht on the 
 gulf coast. Never a seeker for 
 office, he has been prominent in the 
 councils of the Democratic party. In 
 the recent State campaign he was 
 one of the earliest and strongest 
 supporters of James E. Ferguson. 
 At the El Paso convention he was 
 elected chairman of the State Demo- 
 cratic Executive Committee. 
 
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 J. E. Weeden 
 
 OHN E. WEEDEN, 
 vice-president and sec- 
 retary of the Texas 
 Brewing Company and 
 interested in many of 
 Fort Worth's big en- 
 terprises, is an example of a North- 
 ern capitalist who has faith enough 
 in Texas to adopt the state as his 
 own and to invest his money in its 
 development. Mr. Weeden was born 
 in Providence, Rhode Island, in a 
 family prominent in the manufac- 
 turing circles of the New England 
 city. His father, William B., was 
 a native of Bristol, Rhode Island, 
 and his mother, Hannah R. Balch, 
 of Providence. Both were of Eng- 
 lish descent. Like so many other 
 sons of Rhode Island families, 
 young Weeden was sent to Brown 
 University, from which institution he 
 graduated in 1891. Several years 
 later he came to Fort Worth and be- 
 came largely interested in the 
 Texas Brewing Company. Mr. 
 Weeden has numerous other inter- 
 ests in Fort Worth. He is president 
 of the Texas Fixture Company, a 
 director in the Home Improvement 
 Association, a director in the Texas 
 National Fire Insurance Company 
 and a director in the Polytechnic 
 Heights Investment Company. Few 
 men in Fort Worth -have better or 
 firmer friends than "Jack" Weeden, 
 both in a business and a social way. 
 Mr. Weeden is a member of the 
 Elks and he is a heavy contributor 
 to the Fort Worth Chamber of Com- 
 merce, of which he is a member, as 
 well as a supporter of all movements 
 for development of the city. 
 
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 T. F. West 
 
 THOMAS F. WEST, a 
 native of Virginia, has 
 been a resident of Fort 
 Worth since 1876, 
 having come to this city 
 June 25 of that year, 
 before the then frontier town had 
 any railroad connections. In this 
 spirit of taking up the development 
 of a new country he was but follow- 
 ing the family trait, his noted an- 
 cestor, Sir Thomas West, Lord Dela- 
 ware, being the head of the Ameri- 
 can branch of the family settling in 
 Virginia in 1654. Mr. West is the 
 son of Frank T. West and Addie M. 
 West, both of Virginia. He was 
 born in Louisa County, Virginia, July 
 22, 1852. He was educated at Ran- 
 dolph Macon College, graduating in 
 1869, and at Washington and Lee 
 University, from which he was 
 graduated in 1873. After coming to 
 Fort Worth to begin the practice of 
 law in 1876, he went to Jacksboro 
 for a short time, but returned to 
 Fort Worth in September, 1886. As 
 an attorney he has been representa- 
 tive of the Frisco system lines and 
 a prominent member of the bar. A 
 sound money Democrat all his life, 
 he has not sought political office, de- 
 voting himself to his practice. Mr. 
 West was one of the members of 
 the original Elks' Lodge in Fort 
 Worth and a prominent member of 
 the present organization. He is also 
 a member of the Knights of Pythias 
 and the Odd Fellows and a member 
 of the Delta Psi Fraternity. He 
 married Miss Mabel Creel, July 12, 
 1878.
 
 I f^l^vCxf 
 
 Dr. W. B. West 
 
 R. WILLIAM BEVER- 
 LEY WEST, the son of 
 Capt. Francis Thornton 
 West, a prominent Mex- 
 ican War veteran, and 
 descendant of Lord De 
 La Ware and Thomas West, an early 
 Governor of Virginia, has taken a 
 great interest in public health mat- 
 ters as well as carrying on his large 
 private practice. He was President 
 of the old Board of Health, and City 
 Physician in 1890, 1891 and 1892. 
 He was professor of skin and blood 
 diseases in Fort Worth Medical Col- 
 lege for seventeen years but resigned 
 recently and is local surgeon for 
 the Houston & Texas Central Rail- 
 way and medical examiner for sev- 
 eral large insurance companies and 
 a member of the State and County 
 Medical Societies. He was educated 
 at Randolph Macon College and 
 graduated from the College of Phy- 
 sicians and Surgeons, Baltimore, in 
 1885. His mother was Miss Addie 
 M. Chiles, great - granddaughter of 
 Edmund Randolph, first Attorney 
 General of the United States. She 
 was born at Cool Springs, Va., and 
 is still living at 82 years of age at 
 the family country home, Westland, 
 Va. His father was a native of 
 White Chimneys, Va.. Dr. West was 
 born in Louisa County, Virginia, 
 January 30, 1862. He married Miss 
 Alice Mensing of Galveston, Texas, 
 October 21, 1896. They have four 
 children, three boys and a daughter. 
 Dr. West Is an ardent fisherman and 
 that is his favorite recreation. He 
 is a Mason, an Elk, and a member 
 of the Knights of Pythias. At college 
 he was a Kappa Alpha. 
 
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 C. A. Wheeler 
 
 HARLES ARCHER 
 WHEELER, president 
 and treasurer of the 
 laundry which has be- 
 come a household word 
 in Texas, particularly 
 in Fort Worth, is a native of Mans- 
 field, Ohio, where he was born 
 March 28, 1874. His father, W. B. 
 Wheeler, and his mother, Amelia A. 
 Larimore Wheeler, are also residents 
 of Fort Worth. W. B. Wheeler was 
 born at Oxford, New York, while 
 his wife is from Mansfield, Ohio. 
 The Wheelers are of Scotch-Irish 
 stock. Charles "Acme" Wheeler is 
 a graduate of the Fort Worth pub- 
 lic schools. Together with his 
 father, he purchased the present 
 Acme plant when it was neither pre- 
 tentious in size nor in work like the 
 present institution, the largest laun- 
 dry in the Southwest. By the ap- 
 plication of business principles and 
 more especially by hard work, 
 Charlie Wheeler soon started the 
 Acme to growing. It hasn't quit yet. 
 One of Mr. Wheeler's hobbies — his 
 only hobby, in fact — is work, then 
 more work. That's one of the secrets 
 of his success in Fort Worth. Mr. 
 Wheeler and Miss Alberta Bridges 
 of Fort Worth were married Septem- 
 ber 19, 1894, and two children have 
 been born to them, William B., aged 
 eighteen, and Charles A., sixteen 
 years. Charlie Wheeler is person- 
 ally one of the most popular men in 
 Fort Worth. He is a member of the 
 Shriners, B. P. O. E., Country Club, 
 the Advertising Men's Club and 
 Chamber of Commerce. He is Pres- 
 ident of the National Laundrymen's 
 Association of America.
 
 W. M. Whitenton 
 
 IILLIAM MAYNARD 
 WHITENTON, former 
 manager of the First 
 District of the Rock 
 Island Railway, with 
 headquarters at D e s 
 Moines, Iowa, is still claimed as a 
 Fort Worth man of affairs. During 
 his residence here as vice-president 
 and general manager of the Chicago, 
 Rock Island & Gulf Railway and as 
 general manager of the Third Dis- 
 trict of the Chicago, Rock Island & 
 Pacific, he became closely identified 
 with Fort Worth activities. He 
 married in this city in 1888, his wife 
 having been Miss Annie May Wins- 
 low. Mr. Whitenton is a native 
 Texan, born near Victoria, Sep- 
 tember 22, 1867. His father, Cole 
 C. Whitenton, was a native of North 
 Carolina, and his mother, Sallie 
 Henry Whitenton, a native of Ten- 
 nessee. Mr. Whitenton graduated 
 from the public schools in 1883 and 
 at once began railroading as a pro- 
 fession. He is a Mason, including 
 the Shrine, and an Elk. In politics 
 he is a Democrat. His rapid suc- 
 cess In the railroad world is partially 
 due to his fidelity to his motto of 
 keeping everlastingly at it. He re- 
 tired from the Rock Island in 1913, 
 after having had a most successful 
 railroad career. While a resident of 
 Fort Worth he made a great host 
 of friends, who regretted his de- 
 parture from the city at the same 
 time that they welcomed his further 
 advancement in his chosen profes- 
 sion. He is one of the numerous 
 Texans who have attained great 
 prominence in railway circles.
 
 W. W. Wilkinson 
 
 ^F SOME day in the 
 future, residents of 
 Fort Worth begin to 
 cast about to discover 
 the father of street 
 paving in the prettiest 
 and best paved city in the South, 
 they will finally select William War- 
 ren Wilkinson, attorney-at-law. It 
 was he who persuaded seventy-five 
 per cent of the property owners be- 
 tween Magnolia and Jessamine 
 streets on Hemphill to sign paving 
 contracts many years ago. The move- 
 ment, started then by Mr. Wilkin- 
 son, has been growing and growing 
 until now it is almost a habit in 
 Fort Worth. W. W. Wilkinson was 
 born and reared on a farm seven- 
 teen miles west of Corsicana, Na- 
 varro county, Texas. The date of 
 his birth was December 30, 1869. 
 His father was Isaac Newton Wil- 
 kinson and his mother was Sue 
 Hust, both natives of Tennessee. 
 Young Wilkinson's literary educa- 
 tion was obtained at Staunton Mili- 
 tary Academy in Staunton, Virginia, 
 and his professional education in the 
 law department of the University of 
 Texas. Since coming to Fort Worth 
 to practice his profession Mr. Wil- 
 kinson has won an enviable reputa- 
 tion. He is attorney for the Texas 
 Bitulithic Company. - From 1903 to 
 1904, he was assistant city corpora- 
 tion counsel in charge of the delin- 
 quent tax department. Mr. Wilkin- 
 son married Emma A. Morris, June 
 24, 1903. Two children, boys, one 
 nine years and the other four 
 years, have been born. Mr. Wil- 
 kinson has always been a Democrat. 
 He is a member of the Fort Worth 
 Woodmen of the World, the Fort 
 Worth Club and of the Kappa Sigma 
 fraternity.
 
 W. E. Williams 
 
 ALTER E R S K I N E 
 
 ^i WILLIAMS, for twen- 
 ty-three years an active 
 practitioner of law at 
 the Fort Worth bar 
 and now a member of 
 the firm of Williams & Smith, has 
 been a prominent public figure since 
 his coming to this city. He is a 
 son of Rev. Edmund J. and Almyra 
 P. Williams. He has continued in 
 active service for the church in 
 which he was reared and is identified 
 with many movements of religious 
 importance. For fourteen years he 
 has been a member of the General 
 Conference of the Methodist Church. 
 Until a short time ago he was a 
 member and secretary of the Board 
 of Trustees of Polytechnic College. 
 He is recognized as a leader in the 
 rapidly growing Laymen's Missionary 
 movement, being now a member of 
 the Executive Committee of the 
 movement of his church, and is 
 himself a striking example of the 
 highly successful professional man 
 who has found ample time from his 
 business cares to devote to church 
 and educational work. For two 
 years he was a member of the school 
 board and served a similar period 
 of time in the city council. At one 
 time he was special county judge. 
 Though prominent in the affairs of 
 the Democratic party, he has not held 
 nor sought other public offices. He 
 has been a member of nearly every 
 State Democratic convention since he 
 came to Texas. Of Welsh-Irish 
 parentage, Mr. Williams was born 
 in Tennessee, April 19, 1860, and 
 was graduated from the University 
 of Mississippi in the class of 1885 
 with the degree of Bachelor of Phi- 
 losophy. While at college, he was a 
 valuable member of the chapter of 
 the Sigma Chi fraternity, in which 
 he still takes a keen interest. He 
 won the Senior Debaters medal of 
 the University of Mississippi. He is 
 a gifted writer on topics of public 
 interest and won a prize of $50.00 
 for the best article on the question, 
 "How to invest the public school 
 funds." He married Miss Ida E. 
 Quillian in Colorado in 1892. They 
 have seven children: Orline, aged 
 20; W. Erskine, Jr., deceased; Pro- 
 bert, 13; Lillian, 12; Tom Q., 10; 
 
 Florence, 7, and Lois, 5.
 
 Doug-las Wolseley 
 
 OUGLAS WOLSELEY, 
 manager of the Wil- 
 liam Cameron & Com- 
 pany's yard on the 
 North Side, is one of 
 the oldest employes of 
 this large organization and one of 
 the best known lumbermen in the 
 State. Mr. Wolseley has been with 
 Wm. Cameron & Co. for twenty years 
 and has been manager of the North 
 Side yard since 1902. This yard was 
 the first opened on the North Side, 
 and its success has been such that 
 it frequently has been found neces- 
 sary to move to larger sites. The 
 location at Twenty-second and Ellis 
 Avenue was obtained in order to 
 afford more room. In addition to 
 handling lumber, Mr. Wolseley has 
 done an extensive loan business, 
 with the result that hundreds of 
 homes were built on the North Side 
 that perhaps would not have been 
 there otherwise. He is one of the 
 incorporators and vice-president of 
 the Home Development Company, 
 organized to encourage building. 
 Mr. Wolseley was born in Chicago 
 in 1875. He came to Texas in 1893, 
 locating at Brownwood and entering 
 the employ of the Wm. Cameron 
 Company there as bookkeeper and 
 assistant manager. From Brown- 
 wood he was transferred to Fort 
 Worth. He is married and has three 
 children, Douglas, 9; Margaret, 7; 
 Elizabeth 3. Mr. Wolseley is a 
 Mason, a member of No. 148. Fort 
 Worth is noted as a city in which 
 a large percentage of the residents 
 are owners of their homes. Mr. 
 Wolseley has taken a keen interest 
 in making this condition possible for 
 many people, and in this respect 
 must be recognized as one of the 
 most effective makers of Fort Worth.
 
 J. H. Woodard 
 
 AMES HOMER WOOD- 
 ARD, manager of the 
 West Texas Townsite 
 Company, has been 
 instrumental in settling 
 up Fort Worth's trade 
 territory with Northern farmers who 
 have been brought through his 
 efforts to the rich country in West 
 Texas. One of the youngest inde- 
 pendent real estate and townsite 
 promoters in the Southwest, his suc- 
 cess has been remarkable and in a 
 short time he has risen from a 
 position as real estate salesman at 
 $40 a month to the general manager- 
 ship of one of the largest develop- 
 ment companies, buying and selling 
 lands for colonization purposes. Re- 
 cently he engaged in the oil busi- 
 ness and has established a branch 
 office in Chicago. He has oil prop- 
 erties in North Texas, also. Mr. 
 Woodard was born in Danville, Yell 
 County, Arkansas, August 30, 1887. 
 His father, James Wesley Woodard, 
 was a native of Arkansas and a 
 prominent attorney of that State for 
 eighteen years. During that time he 
 was county attorney of Yell County, 
 and he served also as a Deputy 
 United States Marshal at the time 
 distilleries were in abundance in the 
 mountain regions of the State. Later 
 he was associated with his son in his 
 colonization work, and the adminis- 
 tration of his estate was placed in 
 Mr. Woodard's hands. His mother. 
 Miss Melissa Alexander Black before 
 her marriage, was a native of Geor- 
 gia. Mr. Woodard married Miss 
 Mollie E. McBurnett, January 12, 
 1906. They have two children. He 
 is a member of the Knights of 
 Pythias and a Democrat. Warfield, 
 Midland County, Texas, is one of 
 the town sites built up through his 
 energy.
 
 L. J. Wortham 
 
 OUIS J. WORTHAM, 
 equally prominent as a 
 writer, speaker and 
 legislator, shows his 
 preference for the pro- 
 fession he has followed 
 with short intermissions through 
 practically all of his life and desig- 
 nates himself as a newspaper pub- 
 lisher. One of the early Texas 
 newspaper men, equally at home 
 setting type at the case or 
 writing editorials, he has been, at 
 various times, foreign correspond- 
 ent, editorial writer and publisher 
 of the leading papers in the South- 
 west. For many years he was a 
 correspondent for New York pa- 
 pers at Washington and Mexico City 
 and later, in 1900, chief editorial 
 writer of the Houston Post. He 
 founded the Fort Worth Star with 
 others and was its editor-in-chief, 
 becoming vice-president and general 
 manager of the Fort Worth Publish- 
 ing Company and editor-in-chief of 
 the Star-Telegram upon the consol- 
 idation of the Star and Telegram. 
 He was also founder and publisher of 
 the Current Issue. As general man- 
 ager of the Texas World's Fair Com- 
 mission at St. Louis and as general 
 manager of the International Fair 
 Association he has accomplished 
 much for one of his two hobbies, 
 the development of Texas resources. 
 The other, good roads, he has urged 
 in both his writings and speeches. 
 He was Captain of River Guards in 
 co-operation with the State Rangers 
 and the sheriffs of border counties 
 in the frontier days; Senator Coke's 
 private secretary at Washington and 
 Federal Inspector during Cleveland's 
 administration, being stationed va- 
 riously at Mobile, Laredo, and San 
 Antonio. He has been given a fourth 
 term in the legislature as represent- 
 ative from Tarrant County. He is 
 a member of the Elks, the Eagles 
 and also of the River Crest Country 
 Club, the Saddle and Sirloin Club, 
 the Ad Men's Club and Chamber of 
 Commerce. Col. Wortham is the son 
 of William B. Wortham, a native of 
 Columbia, Tennessee, himself a vet- 
 eran Texas newspaper man. His 
 mother, Mrs. Adaline E. Ashcroft 
 Wortham, was a native of South 
 Carolina.
 
 Zane-Cetti 
 
 ANE-CETTI was born in 
 Philadelphia of Enlish 
 Quaker parentage in 
 1844. When fifteen he 
 was sent to Germany 
 to complete his educa- 
 tion. He remained in the Polytechnic 
 College of Carlsruhe for five years 
 and then served in the government 
 service until his return to America in 
 1870. He was engaged in railroad 
 building in Alabama when he was 
 sent by General Grenville M. Dodge 
 to assist in the survey of the original 
 line of the Texas and Pacific Railway 
 and ran that line from Jones County 
 to El Paso. During this work the 
 Indians were so numerous and dan- 
 gerous that U. S. troops were fur- 
 nished as an escort for the engi- 
 neers. Zane-Cetti then began town- 
 site work in the Eastern division and 
 was at Marshall when "Black Fri- 
 day" caused the suspension of rail- 
 road building. He came to Fort 
 Worth and engaged in the real es- 
 tate business until 1875, when the 
 Tarrant County Construction Com- 
 pany was formed to secure the com- 
 pletion of the Texas & Pacific. 
 Through this means the road was 
 completed into Fort Worth in 1876, 
 and it remained the Western termi- 
 nus until 1878. Mr. Zane-Cetti was 
 also interested in bringing the Santa 
 Fe and other early roads to Fort 
 Worth. In 1895 he devoted him- 
 self to active management of the 
 Texas Brewing Company, of which 
 he is president and one of the found- 
 ers. For a time he served as City 
 Engineer, but outside that period he 
 has not been actively engaged in 
 public life. 
 
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