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A Twentieth Century History
OF
SOUTHWEST TEXAS
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME II
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
CHICAGO
NEW YORK
LOS ANGELES
1907
Contents of Volume II.
CHAPTER XXVI.
SAN ANTONIO : THE CITY AND ITS CITIZENS. I
CHAPTER XXVII.
CITY OF LAREDO 67
CHAPTER XXVIII.
SOUTHWEST TEXAS DURING THE LAST QUARTER CENTURY . . . 123
INDEX
Adams, W. B., 188.
Adams, Wm., 459.
Ahlday, Fredrick W., 429.
Border troubles, 455.
Alamo, Siege of, 510.
Bowles, Hiram J., 243.
Alexander, Isaac, 114.
Bowman, A. R., 273.
Alfred, Town of, 13.
Braunnagel, Julius, 43.
Brennan, Michael, 106.
Alice, Schools of, 456. Allen, George W., 495.
Brewster, Calvin G., 90.
Armengol, John, 94.
Bright, J. M., 191. Briscoe, John T., 528.
Atascosa county, 123; 157.
Brodbent, Charles S., 38.
Avant, A. M., 157.
Balde-Sarelli, P., 41.
Brown, George W., 195.
Baldwin, Wm. H., 449.
Brown, Robert L., 164.
Bandera county, 123.
Barker, Wm. L., 57.
Barnhill, D. W., 241. Barnes, J. I., 288.
Buckley, Timothy J., 49.
Bullis, John L., 40.
Bundick, P. B., 509.
Burns, John, 480.
Burttschell, Joseph, 366.
Butler, William G., 332.
Byars, James, 365.
Caldwell county, 124; 374, 491.
Calhoun county, 124; 465.
Cameron, Jonathan S., 482.
Campbell, Chas. A. R., 486.
Canfield, John E., 198.
Cardwell, John M., 381. Carter, John A., 361.
Best, William C., 473. Bertani, Andrea, 114. Bexar county, 123. Billings, J. R., 319.
Chamberlain, Wm. C., 92.
Clark, Charles F., 342. Clark, Hines, 454.
Benavides, Santos M., 97. Bennett, Henry W., 371.
Benson, Harry L., 45. Benton, Nat, 455. Berry, James E., 206.
Bruni, A. M., 96.
Bruns, Christian, 507.
Brunson, Charles, 358.
Batista, Pedro, 20. Bauer, John, 33.
Baumgarten, Christian, 413. Beck, J. Edwin, 52. Bee county, 124; 447, 460.
Bee culture, 27I.
Benavides, Christobal, 76.
Broussard, Joseph, 61.
Atkisson, Jesse B., 285.
Blaine, Frank C., 321.
Blocker, V. H., 169.
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Clark, Isaac E., 414. Clarke, Mrs. Jennie, 391. Coal Mines, II7.
Cogley, Miles T., 81.
Collier, W. W., 275. Collins, L. G., 452.
Colorado county, 124; 353; 487.
Comal county, 124; I43. Combs, David S., 53. Conway, John S., 340. Copp, George, 346.
Cotulla, 345; 348; Founder of, 345.
Pioneer in, 349;
Cotulla, Joseph, 345.
Coy, Andres, Jr., 44.
Crain, Jason D., 497.
Crane, John, 222.
Crisp, John C., 462. Cunningham, Leander C., 353. Daughtrey, Felix R., 327.
Davenport, A. J., 217.
Davis, David D., II7.
Davis, William H., II.
Del Rio, 282; 297; Founding of, 299. Denike, Edward, II5.
Dermody, W. P., 254.
Devine, 192; Beginning of, 193.
Dewitt county, 125; 446.
Dillard, William, 405.
Dimmit county, 125; 519.
Dittlinger, Hippolyt, 150.
Dole, W. S., 526.
Dunlap, W. P., 387.
Durham, A. J., 224. Duncan, Ben, 205.
Duval county, 125. Eagle Pass, Beginning of, 139; 522.
Edwards, D. M., 269.
Edwards, Levi J. W., 205.
Egg, Gideon, 512.
Eistetter, A. J., 118.
El Campo, Founding of, 424; 507; Na- tional Bank, 418; State Bank, 428. Ellis, Volney, 385. Evans, James R., 193. Fahrenthold, August, Jr., 423.
Faris, Joe, 533. Fayette county, 125; 410; 495.
Fenley, Joel C., 235.
Fenley, G. B., 240.
Fenley, J. Monroe, 220.
Fenstermaker, William, 3.
First Texas Cavalry (Union), 86.
Fisk, James N., 40.
Fitzgerald, Alexander, 372.
Fitzgerald, Milam M., 8.
Flores, Emeterio, 104.
Floresville, 197.
Flory, Edward E., 19. Flory, Nicholas, 18. Floyd, P., 119. Forgy, James R., 419.
Fort Duncan, 138. Foster, Sam T., 85. Fort McIntosh, 70; 73. Franklin, Thomas, 25. Franks, D. G., 306. Frio county, 125; 201. Frerichs, Rolf, 179. Fruit growing, 520. Garner, Mrs. Fred C., 297.
Garcia, Eusebio, 120.
Garcia, Jose Maria, 109.
Garcia, Porfirio P., 484. Garrett, Holland, 367.
Garza family, 478. Gayle, Alexander T., 442.
Gayle, George S., 442.
Gentry, F. V., 465.
Goat raising in Uvalde, 233.
Goliad county, 125.
Gonzales county, 126; 337.
Goodwin, Hiram S., 120.
Gorden, G. S., 433. Gouger, Henry B., 199.
Grav. John A., 98.
Gray, John M., 300.
Gray, Zilpha, 02.
Green, W. B., 342.
Greenwood, Paul J., 390.
Grimes, Sterling F., 446.
Guadalupe county, 126.
Haass, Herman E., 174.
Hadra, Frederick, 14. Hagy, William N., 34.
Halsell, John T., 106.
Hamilton, Henry J .. 88.
Hankins, William M., 401.
Hardeman, Walker B., 399; John, 399: Thomas J., 399 ; Owen B., 399; Dorothy, 399. Hargus, Joe W., 348.
Hargus, W. L., 352.
Harkness, James C. B., 204.
Harrison, Sam, 64.
Hatch, A. S., 295.
Haynes, James J., 86.
Hayes, William R., 447.
Heard, Leon F., 226.
Health Department, of San Antonio, 486.
Heath, James W., 187.
Hefner, W. J., 417.
Heilig, Otto, 154. Helmcamp, Theodore, 491.
Hill, W. T., 521. Hindes, George F., 208. Hines, B. M., 261. Hines, John F., 6. Holloway, James J., 403.
Holt, John B., 380. Holt, James W., 487. Hondo, 171; 179.
Hope, Samuel M., 370.
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House, Hansel W., 263. Immigration and Settlement, 128. Indian War, 9. International Railroad, 74. Irrigation, 131. Irvin, William C., 48. Jackson, Thomas T., 24.
Jackson county, 126; 436.
Jahn, Charles A., 155.
Johnson, Charles G., 502.
Johnson, H. Evart, 207. Johnston, William L., 445.
Jones, A. H., 47.
Meny, Joseph, 33.
Mesquite block paving, 50.
Metzger, Frederick, 177.
Mexican Invasion of 1842, 295.
Mexican Laredo, 74.
Meyer, Albert, 27.
Meyer, David A., 7.
Middlebrook, Ibzan W., 355.
Milmo National Bank, 81.
Milam, D. C., 256.
Mills, Green W., 374.
Kieffer, August H., 63.
Kindred, Joseph C., 489.
King, Isaac H., 182.
King, Richard, 92. King, W. A., 10.
King, W. B., 185.
Kingsley, Byron F., 9.
Kinney county, 126.
Kline, J. F., 23.
Knoke, George, 146.
Krempkau, William B., I.
La Coste, J. B., 19.
Ney, Joseph, 172.
Nixon. Robert T., 389.
Nueces county, 452.
Nve postoffice, 137.
Nve, Thomas C., 135.
Ochoa, Eliseo E., 79.
Onion Industry, its founder, 135; in LaSalle county, 347.
Ortiz, L. R., 95.
Ortiz, Santos P., 122.
Obets, August, 201.
Pace, Wm. R., 10I.
Page, George R., 102.
Patterson, N. M. C., 209.
Patterson, George W., Sr., 278; Settle- ment, 278. Perote ·Castle, Prisoner in, 375. Perrv. John, Sr., 297.
Pfeuffer, Christoph. 151.
Port Lavaca and Vicinity, 497.
McLaurin, M. H., 29. McMullen county, 127. McNeal, Thomas, 406.
Madero, L. V., 28. Magness, James C., 206. Mangum, J. A., 279.
Marbach, John, 153. Martin, George M., 166.
Martin, Henry G., 159.
Martin, Raymond, 84.
Martin, R. Graves, 524. Matthews, Harvey M., 32.
Matthews, James T., 65. Maverick county, 127.
Mayers, Edward, 160.
Medina county, 127; 169.
Meier, William, 59.
Menger, Erich, 54.
Jones, John C., 337. Karnes county, 126; First school in, 335. Keith, K. D., 396.
Keller, C. E., 31.
Kelley, W. A., 289.
Kennedy, Ross, 214.
Kercheville, John A., 196.
Kerr, Abnus B., 406.
Key, G. W., 165.
Mims, William H., 100.
Mixon, Wm. B., 330.
Monier, John C., 20.
Moody, Asa, 398.
Moore, A. J., 37.
Moore, W. T., 500.
Mosser, Samuel B., 530.
Muldoon, 409. Murphv, John T., 78.
New. George W., 494.
Newberry, Joseph D., 324.
LeComte, Leon, 63. Landa, Joseph, 143. Lane, Calvin M., 384. Laredo, History of, 67 fol .: Finance and Public works, 79; First fami- lies of, 67; Laredo district, 134; 516; in 1881, 71. Largen, Thomas J., 485. LaSalle county, 126.
Laughter, Mrs. Lavinia, 439.
Lawhon, John K., 535.
Leal. Manuel T., 107.
Leyendecker, Boniface J., 108. Ligarde, Honore, 84. Little, John J., 203. Lockhart, 377. Love, William D., 285. Lowry, Willis E., 116. Lynch, William S., 51. McDaniel, Arthur S., 5.
Pottery works, 55. Presnall. P. A., 457.
Puig, Valentine L., 103. Pulliam, N. B., 281. . Ranney, M. G., 16. Railroads. a factor in development, 129. Reiffert, Emil, 446.
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Reinarz, Frederick, 148.
Rheiner, F. J., 252.
Reininger, Gus, 156.
Rice, John R., 46.
Richardson, Asher, 519.
Richardson, Tilman L., 168.
Richter, August C., 87.
Richter, William L., 13.
Rio Frio, 213. Ripps, John F., 42. Rittimann, John, 57.
Roberts, Gideon L., 60.
Robinson, John F., 265.
Robinson, John F., Jr., 310.
Robinson, Henry M., 265.
Rockport, 449. Roemer, Adolph, 471.
Rogan, Edgar H., 376.
Rogers, Samuel, 234.
Rose, Patrick H., 302.
Ross, Horace B., 323.
Rubert, Chas., 468.
Runge, 325; 505; Early days in, 326.
Saenger, William, 55. Salinas, Augustin, 99.
San Antonio, 476; Capture of, 478. Sanchez, Amador, 78.
Sanchez, Thomas, 67.
Sauvignet, Edmond H., 90.
Santa Rosa Hospital Training School, 44. Schawe, Henry, 362.
Schertz, William, 56.
Schertz, Town of, 56.
Schlick, F. A., 343.
Schmidt, Hermann M., IIO.
Schultz, William H., 369.
Schreiner, Charles F., 45.
Scott, Richard G., 50.
Scott, Robert M., 313.
Scovill, Frank E., III.
Seehatz, William, 147.
Seefeld, R. H., 351.
Sengelmann Bros., 415.
Sengelmann, Charles, 415.
Sengelmann, August, 416.
Sengelmann, Gustav, 415.
Seymour. Samuel K., 356.
Shafer, William A., 51.
Sharpe, Edmund L., 167.
Shaw, Felix M., 483.
Shaw, Lemuel T., 532.
Shaw Brothers, 532.
Sheldon, B. M., 514.
Shiner, M. Charles, 476.
Shiner, Peter, 476. Shropshire, Levingston L., 17.
Simons, Geo. F., 436.
Skidmore, Frank O., 14I.
Skidmore, Town of, 142. Slade, John, 315.
Smith, Oscar B. B., 21. Smith, Samuel S., 21.
. Smith, William M., 460.
Smyth, J. G., 248; George W., 248.
Sneddon, William, 304.
Sons of Hermann, 33.
Spooner, Thomas H., 343.
Starr county, 127.
Stevens, Edward A., 479.
Stevens, Pat, 4.
Storey, Edward M., 383.
Strickland, John S., 458.
Sumpter, Jesse, 137.
Talk, A. W., 505.
Tanner, Field A., 363.
Telephones, 38. Tell, Wm., 368.
Thomas, Covey C., 350.
Thompson, James C., 194.
Tips, Gus, 325.
Tolle, August, 148.
Trueheart, James L 477.
Turman, John C., 292.
Underwood, Nathan, 36.
Ussery, Mastin, 394.
Uvalde county, 127; 209; 524; Early
settlement, 221 ; in the '50s, 210; Farming, 283; Banks, 253, 277; Public improvements, 287.
Val Verde county, 127.
Vela, Jose M., III.
Villegas, Don Quintin, 83.
Villemain, Celestin, 62.
Vogt, E. R., 412.
Wallace, Alfred L., 522.
Walter, C. K., 531.
Ware Settlement, 266.
Watkins, Chas. R., 200.
Watson, D. A., 65.
Webb county, 128.
Webb, Mack, 426.
Weete, Louis, 373.
Weir, James A., 259.
Werner, Fred, 105.
Wharton county, 128; 417.
White, J. B., 536.
White, Robert A., 162.
Wilson county. 128.
Wilson, John T., 41.
Wilson, Thomas A., 316.
Wilson, Willett, 469.
Winslow, A., 81.
Wire fences, 142.
Wiseman, Levi B., 197.
Wish, Jasper, 291. Witt, Edward L. & Sons, 231.
Wolters, Theodore, 410.
Womack. John W., 481.
Woods, W. G. Lee, 31T.
Yaeger, Charles F., 516. Zachrv. John H., 228.
Zavala county, 128.
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CHAPTER XXVI.
SAN ANTONIO: THE CITY AND ITS CITIZENS.
In this chapter the modern history of San Antonio and vicinity is continued from the preceding volume; but here through the medium of biography rather than by set description. It is believed that all the varied interests-the industrial, the professional and the official-have been cov- ered in these pages. While biography with most readers is not attractive for continuous reading, it is believed that the general reader will find much in this chapter of solid historical interest and value.
WILLIAM B. KREMPKAU. When only seven years of age William B. Krempkau worked for others for wages; at the age of twelve he was timekeeper and issued rations for what was known as the "Prairie Schooner Train ;" and when but sixteen he made a trip over the trail with cattle to Kansas. A busy life from early boyhood has made him a sub- stantial citizen and his record is proof of the fact that success may be gained through unremitting effort.
His birth occurred on Salinas street, San Antonio, November 9, 1863, his parents being Charles Gustav and Carolina (Dreyer) Kremp- kau. His mother was born in Alsatia and when a child came to Texas with her parents who were members of the Castro colony, arriving at San Antonio in 1844 and going thence to Castroville, in Medina county, a short time later. The maternal grandfather of our subject was a prominent and influential pioneer citizen of that locality. It is recalled that soon after they located at Castroville, while out looking for cattle he became lost in the woods, lived on herbs, etc., for twelve days and was finally found by the Indians and brought back home. He died during one of the early cholera epidemics of the state.
Charles Gustav Krempkau, also a native of Germany, became a resident of Texas in 1848, locating first at La Grange, Fayette county, and later in San Antonio. He was a man of fine talents and superior education and he left the impress of his individuality upon the progress and development of the newly developed district. By profession he was an architect and builder, having made a study of some of the most noted structures of the old country, but on coming to the frontier of Texas, like all others he had to take his part in the pioneer life of the
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period and meet the conditions and exigencies of existence in a district which was just being opened up to civilization. He was one of the earliest of the old Texas rangers in fighting Indians and protecting the home of the settlers, and as such was a comrade and associate for some years of the late Max Aue of Leon Springs, Bexar county. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate Army and served with distinction through- out the Civil war, under General Albert Sydney Johnston during the earlier part of the struggle. He died in San Antonio, January 7, 1871.
At the usual age William B. Krempkau began his education, which he pursued in the old German-English school and at St. Mary's College, but from his earliest boyhood he began to work and save his money and in this way he assisted in providing for his education. He is indeed a self-made man in the best sense of that oft-misused term. He was not more than seven years of age when he did his first work for wages, at Jackson's ranch, eight miles west of San Antonio. He next worked on a farm on the Salado creek east of town, and when twelve years of age he was time-keeper and also issued rations for what was known as the "Prairie Schooner Train," which carried freight from San Antonio to Saltillo and San Luis Potosi, Mexico. He afterward began learning the trade of blacksmithing and carriage making, but the remuneration being too small and the work too slow for one of his ambitious nature, he decided to take up something else and became connected with Cap- tain Smith of the well known old cattle firm of Smith & Elliott, of Springfield, Illinois, having large cattle interests in Texas. For them he herded cattle and made one trip over the trail to Kansas. He was then only sixteen years of age and the work entrusted to him involved much responsibility as well as hard labor.
Mr. Krempkau also did track work in the original building of the old I. & G. N. Railroad, then being constructed to Mexico. He after- ward obtained experience in mercantile lines as an employe in the store of Herman Spieler in San Antonio and later for Mr. Zinsmeyer in the same capacity. In 1884 he conducted a skating rink at Pearsall in Frio county, and subsequently went to Cotulla, in LaSalle county, where he engaged in merchandising. Later he returned to San Antonio and em- barked in merchandising with his brother, the late A. W. Krempkau, but after some time again took up railroad construction work on the old Bastrop, Taylor & Houston Railroad, now part of the main line of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad system. Following this he con- ducted a mercantile enterprise at Bastrop, and subsequently engaged in merchandising and the hotel business at La Grange in 1887. In the fall of that year he made his way to Los Angeles and to San Francisco, Cali- fornia, and in the summer of 1888 returned to San Antonio, where he entered the sheriff's office in the capacity of deputy under Captain Thomas P. McCall. On resigning from that position he again engaged in merchandising in a store on West Commerce and Frio streets, in the spring of 1890. He removed his business from there to the corner of Houston and Medina streets, where he continued to conduct the busi- ness until 1896, when he withdrew from the field of mercantile activity, in which he had met with a gratifying measure of success and won for himself an honorable place in the trade circles of the city. In the year
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1898 he bought a ranch twenty miles northwest of San Antonio, at the headquarters of Helotes creek and there made a start in the raising of cattle and horses. This ranch, which he has developed into a fine prop- erty, is now one of his principal financial resources, and comprises about four hundred acres of valuable land, the income from which supplies him with many of the comforts and some of the luxuries of life.
Mr. Krempkau was married at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, April 9, 1892, to Miss Emma Sams, a native of Wayne county, Illinois, and they are now pleasantly located in a comfortable home in his native city.
In 1899 Mr. Krempkau was made road supervisor of precinct No. 2, under Captain McCall, who was then county commissioner. In 1900, entirely without his solicitation, he was nominated and duly elected public weigher by the board of county commissioners, but he refused to qualify for the office on account of other business interests. In 1903 he was appointed to and accepted the position of city license inspector under Mayor John P. Campbell, serving for fifteen months with credit to himself and satisfaction to all concerned and retiring under protest from the city authorities, who were particularly pleased with his services in that office. In 1904 he was a candidate for the office of hide and animal inspector and was defeated by a very small majority by Captain Hart Mussey, the well known old Confederate soldier who had the regu- lar organization supporting him.
At various times Mr. Krempkau has served as an officer in the fed- eral courts in San Antonio and is a well known citizen of public-spirited devotion to the general welfare and upbuilding of the city. His broad and varied experience has been of much value to him and he has never met with failure in any branch of his business life but on the contrary has increased his resources gradually and in a conservative way from year to year, until he today enjoys high standing and credit in the financial world. He devotes most of his attention to his cattle and horse- raising interests in connection with his ranch, but makes his home in San Antonio, at the corner of Morales and Medina streets, and he owns considerable other city real estate.
WILLIAM FENSTERMAKER is a prominent contractor of San Antonio, and he is likewise engaged in business as a horse breeder. His birth occurred near Cedar Rapids, in Linn county, Iowa, in 1858, his parents, A. and Eliza (Hudson) Fenstermaker, both natives of Ohio, having become early settlers of that state. The mother died in 1872, but the father still survives and is farming in Washington county, Iowa.
Mr. Fenstermaker was reared and educated in Johnson county, Iowa, remaining under the parental roof until he had reached the age of eighteen years, when, in 1876, he left his native state and went to Den- ver, where he learned the bricklayer's trade, after which he was employed at his chosen labor, and finally entered the business world on his own account as a building contractor. He was thus engaged in Denver for about eight years, subsequent to which time he spent two years in Butte. Montana. In 1888 he took up his abode in San Antonio, where he has since made his home to the present time, being engaged as a contractor and builder. He is an expert workman, and is ever prompt and reliable in the execution of his contracts, so that he has built up a large and
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growing patronage. He has done the brick work on a great number of business and residence buildings of this city and likewise owns some substantial buildings of his own construction, these including the new hotel and business block near the I. & G. N. depot, and a new brick business block on Main avenue between West Commerce and Houston streets. He is an enterprising and progressive man, and his excellent workmanship has been a factor in the upbuilding and beautifying of his home city.
As a diversion from his building operations, Mr. Fenstermaker is also engaged quite extensively in breeding horses, having a fine ranch of about two thousand acres of rich and valuable land situated in Uvalde county, near the town of Uvalde, on which he raises standard bred stock, among which he has some fine trotting horses. One of his ani- mals is a son of old Nutwood, one of the leading race horses of the United States. His trotting horses have frequently won premiums when they have been entered in different race courses throughout the coun- try, and his stock is considered as fine as any that can be found in this state.
Mr. Fenstermaker was united in marriage to Miss Josie Somka, who was reared in Seguin, Texas, and they have a family of three sons, Clarence, Arthur and Leslie. The family occupy a beautiful and com- modious home in the south part of the city, located on Grove street near Roosevelt avenue, where a hearty welcome is extended to their numerous friends.
PAT STEVENS, stockman of San Antonio with interests in the south- ern part of Bexar county, also figures in connection with the public serv- ice, holding at the present time the position of city commissioner. A native son of Texas, he was born in Victoria county, April 12, 1860, his parents being W. A. and Jane (Clay) Stevens. His father came from Alabama to Texas in 1848, locating in Victoria county, and during all his active business life was a farmer, removing in his later years to Indian Territory, where he continued in the same occupation. He died while on a visit to his daughter in Wise county, Texas.
Pat Stevens is a thoroughly typical representative of the cattle busi- ness of the days of the free range, the old trail and the puncher's outfit. He was virtually "brought up in the saddle" and as a cowboy, broncho buster and stock trader, he has been all over the trails and camped in all the familiar haunts of the cowboy through the southwest.
He is particularly well known in the "lower country" of Texas, where he has always been called "Bud" Stevens. When sixteen months of age he was taken from Victoria to DeWitt county and from there he made his way to all sections of the southwestern country and also made several trips over the trail to the north. He spent most of his time, however, in the lower country until about 1890, when he established his home and headquarters in San Antonio, where he has since resided. Coming here when still a youth he began work for twelve dollars a month and from this humble financial position he has gradually worked his way upward until he has important stock interests that bring him a good financial return. For a time he was not actively connected with the stock business but has returned to it and is now handling his stock
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in the southern part of Bexar county on what is known as the Saus and Asa Mitchell pasture.
Mr. Stevens has a pretty home at No. 609 Burnet street, and his wife, whom he married in Sherman, Texas, was in her maidenhood Miss Josie Sticht.
Mr. Stevens is a large man, of peculiarly attractive personality, which perhaps accounts for the fact of his having become so prominent in local politics. It is said of Mr. Stevens that he can always carry his ward, the sixth, anyway he wants it, and he is certainly a power in local political circles. He was licensed inspector under the Hicks adminis- tration of the city and city commissioner under the John P. Campbell administration. He has exerted a wide influence in local affairs on the . side of better and cleaner politics and is a strong opponent to misrule in municipal government.
ARTHUR SHAW MCDANIEL, M. D., engaged in the practice of medi- cine and surgery in San Antonio, was born in Obion county, Tennessee, in 1856, his parents being W. I. and Margaret ( Harrison) McDaniel. Mr. W. I. McDaniel is now living at Pearsall, Texas. The mother was a sister of Dr. R. H. Harrison, a noted representative of the medical profession of Texas, who for a long period lived at Columbus, Colo- rado county, this state, where he established and was for several years the chief surgeon of the Southern Pacific Hospital. He was also the most prominent factor in the movement resulting in the establishment of the state board of health and in other ways his name is closely and honorably associated with the history of the medical profession of the Lone Star state.
During the boyhood of their son Dr. McDaniel, his parents re- moved from Tennessee to Dunklin county, Missouri, and in 1876 came to Texas, settling first in Columbus, Colorado county. It was there that Dr. McDaniel, having completed his literary education, engaged in the study of medicine under the direction of his uncle, Dr. Harrison, while later he matriculated in the Ohio Medical College, at Cincinnati, from which he won his degree and was graduated with the class of 1882. Following his graduation he received an appointment as physician in the Southern Pacific Hospital, at Columbus, Texas. He subsequently resumed the study of medicine in postgraduate work at Bellevue Med- ical Hospital, of New York, from which he obtained a degree and was graduated in 1890. In July of that year he located for practice in San Antonio, where he has since lived, and during the sixteen years of his residence here he has gained and maintained a high position as a lead- ing representative of his profession.
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