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A Twentieth Century
HISTORY
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BIOGRAPHICAL RECORD
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NORTH AND WEST TEXAS
CAPT. B. B. PADDOCK Editor
ILLUSTRATED VOLUME II.
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING CO. CHICAGO NEW YORK 1906
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INDEX
Abbott, Haskell S., 524 Able, James M., 664 Akin, Joseph W., 219 Alexander, James F., 417 Alexander, James M., 417 Allen, W. Henry, 129 Allgood, Baylus C., 323 Allin, Phil T., 153
Anderson, George, 296 Anderson, James, 334
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Anderson, John A., 295
Anderson, Robert G., 565
Anderson, Thomas M., 49
Anderson, Thomas O., 372 Andrews, Edd, 152 Andrews, John, 348
Anthony, W. E., 281
Archer, B. F., 389 Armstrong, Eli, 364
Arnold, Albert G., 463 Arnold, Robert F., 265
Austin, William H., 547
Avis, James D., 579
Aynes, James W., 571 Ayres, William A., 487
Back, Jacob M., 88 Badger, James B., 495 Bailey, Thomas D., 650 Baker, Ed C., 242 Baker, John W., 368 Baker, T. F., 460
Bales, Joseph C., 190 Ball, Thomas L., 497 Ball, William T., 333 Barber, George P., 261 Barkdull, Charles R., 68 Barksdale, Abner E., 243 Barrow, J. G., 642 Bates, David H., 61 Baum, Oscar H., 383 Beall, J. H., 382
Bean, Charles W., 119 Bean, Robert, 712 Beard, Campbell B., 237 Beasley, Marion, 611 Beckham, Robert E., 196 Bell, Brooks, 543 Berry, George S., 415 Bevering, August H., 47 Biggar, Henry F., 361 Birk, Charles, 174 Bivins, Lee, 178 Black, R. C., 347 Blackstock, J. W., 70
Blanton, John B., 550 Blanton, William L., 144
Blocker, James M., 695
Boedeker, Christian H., 89
Boggess, I. H., 223
Booth, Landon, 345
Booth, Rufus, 267
Bourland, Samuel R., 540
Bowyer, W. McD., 370
Boyd, Frank D., 96
Brant, Daniel C., 352
Brashear, Elijah, 564
Brashear, James P., 36
Brazeal, George W., 38
Brewington, Charles, 479
Brock, James A., 696
Brooks, Lewis P., 27
Brooks, Price W., 42
Brown, Abb J., 112
Brown, Charles E., 450
Brown, Elisha P., 131
Brown, Frank F., 306
Brown, Henry C., 157
Brown, Henry P., 79
Brown, Louia B., 199
Brumbelow, Nathaniel, 227 Buck, Thomas, 546 Burch, Jesse C., 247
Burgess, James A., 65
Burnam, Joseph, 22
Burns, F. M., 544
Burrus, John A., 496
Bush, E. F., 679
Butler, J. W., 46
Cagle, A. P., 289
Camp, Sterling V., 196 Cansler, Marcus D., 231
Cantey, Samuel B., 267 Carlton, Eli E., 8
Carmichael, J. B., 236 Carpenter, Jesse H., 327 Carter, James C., 713 Carter, Josiah M., 465 Cartwright, Thomas J., 142 Casey, Alfred T., 343 Cason, William L., 492 Castleberry, Stewart, 217 Caswell, Benjamin S., 626 Cate, William L., 75 Cearley, John L., 320 Celum, John, 590 Chandler, Alonzo W., 538 Chandler, Thomas J., 20 Chase, Liola W., 455
Chilton, William E., 86 Citizens' National Bank, 479
Clark, David W., 273 Clark, E. W., 652 Clark, Leigh, 685 Clark, Reuben G., 105 Clark, Sterling P., 177 Clayton, George, 426 Clayton, J. F., 377 Cleveland, Jack M., 287 Cleveland, Mason, 85 Coe, E. T., 16
Coker, Joseph J., 705
Coleman, P. C., 379 Collier, James S., 10 Collins, J. W., 474-
Collins, Thomas B., 103 Cooke, William H., 187 Cope, Lawson L., 285 Coppage, Thomas E., 495 Cornett, William L., 484 Coursey, James T., 647 Cowan, James I. G., 257
Craddock, L. L., 605 Craig, George H., 314 Craig, William D., 315 Crites, Daniel V., 191 Crockett, W. B., 405 Cross, William M., 287 Crump, John G., 45 Cubine, William H., 240 Cullum, David S., 594 Cummins, James A., 98 Cummins, William S., 169 Cunningham, David, 607 Cunningham, Milton W., 13 Cunningham, R. W., 291 Curlin, J. H., 140 Curlin, T. G., 140 Currie, Alexander H., 130 Curtsinger, George W., 95 Cutbirth, J. B., 435 Cyrus, Charles V., 133
Dale, James E., 146 Davenport, John R., 554 Davis, Samuel M., 4 Davis, William R., 369 Day, W. L., 593 Dean, Caloway, 171 Deaver, Houston E., 157 Decker, Davis E., 167 Denny, Leslie C., 155 Devereux, Albert, 58 Dillard, W. W., 374
INDEX
Dixon, E. B., 667 Dolan, Pat, 57% Donnell, Jacob, 296 Donnell, Thomas F., 67 Donnell, William L., 67 Doss. D. B., 233 Douglass, William S., 179 Dowd, Francis M., 601 Dowlen, Charles M., 41> Draughon, James W., 173 Driskill, S. L., 434 Dryden, J. A., 122 Dubbs, Emanuel, 381 Duggan. Ed, 220 Duncan, John B., 149 Dunn, James B., 396 Dunn. James 11., 649 Dunson, William H., 329 During, Charles .A., 671 Dye, L. Lee, 124 Dyer, James C., 376
Earnest, C. IL .. 404 Edgin, David L., 357 Edwards, George W., 302 Ellis, Jasper N., 334 Ellis, Merida G., 114 Embry, John A., 226 Entrekin, John P., 482 Epps, Martin A., 373 Erwin, Benjamin F., 116 Evans, A. N., 315 Evans, J. D., 270 Evans, John S., 458
Farmer, Andrew J., 622 Faught, T. J., 656 Ferguson, John E., 458 Ferrell, Charles C., 513 letherston, Robert B., 384 Fields, W. W., 493 Fincher, Edward .A., 252 Fink, William W., 485 First National Bank of Anson, 312 Fitts, W. IL., 278 FitzGerald. Robert H., 3>> Fleming, William S., 24 Flournoy. Allen G., 352 Flowers, William J., 277 Floyd, Jack P., 500 Ily. David R., 639 Ford, Griffin, 559 Ford, Joseph B., 194 Foster, Robert A., 33 Frazar, James A., 15 Freeman, William R., 102 Friberg, Will, 366 I.rost, Harvey N., 692
Gambill. Jesse P., 600 Gam, James C., 394 Garrison, Joseph 11 .. 139 Ganlt. Joseph K., 532 Geers, Charles W .. 132 George, John F .. 504 Gibbs, Wilham P. 350 Gibson, Barney G, SO Gibson, James F. 63 Gilliland, lesse FF. 144 Gilmore, Wilham 1., 97 Last. Vance, 305
Glasgow, John, 633 Glasgow, John H., 452 Glasscock, Albert H., 441 Goode, John V., 62 Goodfellow, John J., 66 Goodwin, Thomas D., 518 Gore, Allen, 627 Gore, Amos M., 541 Goree, Robert D., 455 Gough, Lysius, 388 Gowan, Garrett H., 413 Gowan, Richard T., 147 Gowan, Robert S., 546 Gragg, Marshall F., 317 Graham, James A., 120 Grant, William S., 684 Graves, Edes E., 7 Graves, Miles A., 307 Gray, James N. B., 263 Grayum, F. J., 468 Green, Marion, 393 Greenwood, Thomas J., 486 Gregory, William J., 680 Crogan, Edward. 32 Grogan, Royal W., 406 Gwaltny, William L., 380
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Hagler, John S., 200 . Hamilton, John W., 250 Hamilton, Thomas P., 636 Harding, John W., 701 Harris, William A., 603 Harrison, James L., 160 Harrison, William B., 47 Hartsell, Isaac J., 328 Hayes, James G., 668 Hayter, John P., 342 Hazelwood, George W., 294 Hazzard, P. A., 576 Heath, Samuel F., 40 Hedrick, John A., 163 Henderson, Joseph M., 39 Hensley, John A., 341 Herrin, John W., 658 llerring, David T., 84 1lighsmith, Frank C., 563 Highsmith, Joseph S., 419 Hightower, James H., 211 Ilill, David G., 354 Ilobbs, Charles W., 322 Hodge, Charles W., 2 Hodges, George H., 356 llodges, Joseph N .. 610 l lodges, William C., 165 lloffinan, Ezekiel J., 517 Holbrook, Francis L., 537 Holbrook, John R., 710 Holland, Thomas J., 472 Hollis, William IL., 316 Holmes, David W., 63 'lonea, John T .. 97 Hopkins, Jeptha B., 703 Ilord, IL. C., 686 Howard, Doctor M., 249 Howard, James L., 344 Howard, Samuel T .. 170 Howard, William J., 684 Howard, William R., 216 Howell, Richard D., 216 Howk, Andrew J., 384 Hudgins, Bela A., 118
Hudgins, William D., 185 Hudson, Isaac, 477 Hudson, William G., 530 Huff, Robert E., 14 Huff, Sterling P., 198 Hughs, Calvin C., 271 Humphries, Charles S., 438 Hunt, David L., 225 Hunt, George W., 653 Hurn, William, 138 Hyde, Richard W., 161
Ingrum, George W., 535 Irvin, T. A., 446 Isaacs, William C., 208 Isbell, James M., 371
Jackson, Andrew, 115 Jackson, Isaac N., 446 Jackson, J. Len, 217 Jeffress, R. A., 365 Jenkins, Zeb, 6 Jenne, Frank T., 645
Jenne, Richmond C., 644 Johnson, Albert W., 526 Johnson, Frank, 575 Johnson, Roland J., 660 Johnson, William B., 258 Jones, Charles W., 204 Jones, Henry M., 486 Jones, H. R., 402 Jones, Jesse L., 618 Jones, Nathan L., 452 Jones, Thaddeus K., 113 Jordan, Anna, 274 Justice, Augustus L., 711
Kaufman Brothers, 559 Kaufman, David S., 560 Kaufman, Peter S., 559 Keck, Nelson, 124 Kelly, William S., 470 Kemp, Joseph A., 444 Kennedy, Ed, 481 Kennedy, Jesse, 567 Keyser, Peter B., 321 Kibbie, Kent V., 205 Kinder, Linus S., 142 King, C. M., 702 King, S. M., 255
Lair. Lycurgus C., 607 Lamb, William R., 631 Lambeth, M. C., 561 Landrum, Benson, 74 Lane, Fred, 429 Lane, W. P., 501 Langford. William W., 337 Lasiter, Thomas G., 499 Lay, William M., 197 Leatherwood, Daniel S., 645 Leavitt, Nathan, 525 Leeson, John T., 560 1.ehane, John F., 228 LeMond, Robert F., 91 Leverette, John A., 297 Leversedge. Lionel S., 154 Lewis, Thomas E., 465 Lipscomb, Cuvier, 331 Logan, Thomas H., 502 Long, Charles D., 333
Long, James F., 202 Long, William H., 498 Lory, Jacob J., 664 Lowrance, Lanson E., 219 Lutz, John E., 676 Lydon, John J., 166
Mabry, Isaac, 661 Maddox, James H., 57 Maddox, James M., 340 Maddox, John W., 568 Maddox, Walter T., 72 Malone, Alonzo L., 82 Manning, James D., 93 Manry, W. T., 466 Marks, Thomas M., 239 Marlett, Frank, 23 Marrs, Samuel T., 221 Martin, Andrew J., 519 Martin, John A., 78 Martin, Joseph H., 155 Martine, William B., 420 Massie, James M., 30 Matney, Elisha A., 428 Matthews, John H., 449 Maxwell, James, 517 McCall, James L. L., 461 McCall, J. S., 436 McCampbell, Andrew, Jr., 109 McCan, Andrew J., 312 McClure, Albert G., 387 McCracken, John W., 162 McCrary, Joseph N., 54 McCurdy, Thomas S., 261 Mccutcheon, William A., 551 McDaniel, James P., 423 McDonald, Clark, 614 McGaughy, Henry C., 439 McGhee, Percy W., 507 McGlasson, Henry C., 285 McGown, George Q., 37 McGrady, C. F., 620 McGrady, John M., 586 McKenna, Charles J., 75 Mckenzie, F. E., 572 McLaren, George H., 31 McMordie, Oscar R., 207 McMurray, Joe, 624 McNabb, James M., 677 McNeely, Thomas J., 230 McNutt, James A., 453 McPeak, Flavious G., 167 McRae, Duncan, 159 McRimmon, David O .; 424 Meadows, Joseph P., 689 Merchant, Washington B., 489 Merrick, Sterling P., 304 Merriman, Theodore, 210 Metcalfe, Charles B., 693 Meyer, John, 3 Middlebrook, John F., 299 Middleton, Drewry L., 615 Milam, Robert F., 11 Milburn, John W., 659 Miller, J. R., 690 Miller, Levin T., 1 Miller, Seldon J., 71 Miller, Will A., Jr., 41 Mills, Morris H., 326 Mitchell, B. L., 635 Moberley, William O., 451
INDEX
Molsbee, Abraham, 311 Moore, John, 391 Moore, Napoleon B., 303 Moore, William E., 634 Morrison, James Q., 87 Morrison, John E., 283 Morrow, James S., 478 Morton, William A., 336 Mosely, Luke T., 596
Moyer, Lewis J., 180 Mulholland, Henry A., 151
Mulkey, E. F., 714
Mulkey, George H., 121
Mullens, James G., 118
Mundy, Herbert M., 613
Mundy, John J., 477 Murchison, Robert W., 318
Murrell, John A., 704
Myers, Robert A., 510 Myers, William H., 76
Nation, David, 469 Nations, Joseph H., 480
Newby, William G., 397
Newman, Ezekiel S., 548
Nicholson, Emmett W., 180 Noble, Albert G., 713
Nobles, Joshua, 214 Nuckolls, William S., 491 Nunnally, Jesse J., 186 Nutter, Ben, 505
Nye, Henry W., 50
Oates, Oscar E., 529
Obermeier, Fred, 10 Odell, Daniel W., 164 O'Keefe, Rufus W., 305 Orrick, Eugene C., 181
Overstreet, Stephen H., 689
Owen, Thomas J., 346
Owens, Henderson P., 564 Owsley, Alvin C., 106
Padelford, S. C., 53 Paine, T. P., 300 Parker, Presley S., 490 Parker, William R., 136 Parmley, William H., 539
Parr, Berry T., 222 Parr, John D., 355 Patterson, H. B., 459
Payne, David M., 359 Peckham, William H., 44 Pedigo, James D., 313 Peery, Terry H. C., 316 Penney, P. Barrett, 282 Person, A. G., 407 Pettus, J. J., 512 Phagan, Thomas P., 488 Pickens, James D., 511 Pierce, Burrell L., 618 Pittman, Marcus M., 48 Plaster, Ben, 638 Poe, Oliver P., 123 Poindexter, John G., 362 Poole, Robert A., 2 Pope, John B., 175 Porter, William E., 360
Powell, James C., 209 Powell, Thomas E., 430 Powell, W. C., 431
Powers, Tom, 507 Preston, Isaac N., 641 Price, Thomas E., 14 Pritchard, Littleton G., 191 Proctor, James A., 570 Puckett, Sarah, 268 Pulliam, James T., 135
Quillen, C. E., 284
Raht, Adolphus W., 212 Raines, Charles B., 280 Raines, John W., 357 Ramser, Sam P., 19 Ramsey, Elisha S., 673
Ramsey, W. F., 60 Randell, Choice B., 681
Rea, William M., 403 Read, Edwin T., 143
Read, James K., 306
Reeder, Crawford B., 212 Rexford, Ensign, 204 Reynolds, A. C., 182 Rice, Elmer A., 26 Rich, John A., 246 Richardson, Andrew R., 6 Richardson, Jefferson C., 595 Richardson, Lewis T., 213 Risley, Noah, 188 Risley, Ward, 259 Roberson, James F., 637 Roberts, John T., 32 Robinson, William F., 549
Robinson, Zachary T., 627
Rogers, Frank M., 69 Ross, Thomas D., 251 Russell, B. L., 448
Salmon, W. M., 104 Samples, Alexander W., 629 Sanders, P. D., 520 Sanson, Marion, 144 Savage, Robert, 152 Sawdon, Robert E., 657 Scanland, John, 669 Scarborough, A. O., 655 Schneider, Oscar C., 527 Schoolfield, Henry F., 12 Schrock, John W., 21 Scott, A. L., 708 Scott, George B., 447 Scott, H. C., 566 Seale, Alexander J., 362 Seddon, Simeon T., 293 Seeds, Ira, 584 Sharpe, Alfred L., 473 Sherrill, Richard E., 528 Sherrill, William E., 530 Shields, William M., 276 Shirley, James W., 119 Shown, William A., 128 Shumake, Charles J., 422 Shurbet, John H., 328 Sigmon, David H., 595 Skeen; William P., 562 Sledge, John R., 523 Small, James M., 81 Smith, Alfred G., 339 Smith, Cicero, 599 Smith, Duncan G., 631 Smith, D. M., 266
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Smith, James T., 176 Smith, J. M., 410 Smith, Mike E., 26 Smith, William C., 171 Smoot, 11. B .. 545 Sneed, Robert W .. 310 Sparks, George, 390 Speer, John. 208 Spivey, James IL., 340 Spoonts, Morris A., 19 Springer, Thomas 11., 360
Stacy, Ilenry F., 509
Stallcup, John R., 590
Stallings, John M., 456
Stanley, Frank B., 31 Starr, Barton UL., 351
Steele, C. IL., 512 Stevenson, Albert, 357
Stewart, Clarence E., 706 Stewart, J. W., 55 Stewart, Rufus K., 454 Stewart, Ulysses S., 577
Stewart, William A., 43 Stinson, Jasper W., 349 Stith, Will, 392 Stout, C. W., 662 Strain, George W., 377 Strange, James F., 29 Street, Spencer B., 253 Strong, Sneed, 108 Suggs, Leonidas .A., 106 Sutherland, Samuel H., 598
Swayne, John F., 64 Sweazea, Thomas F., 1×4 Sweet, Orlando L., 168 Sweet, William L., 83
Tadlock, James H., 139 Tanner, William, 94 Tarlton, Ben D., 206 Taylor, Charlie L ... 36
Taylor, Ennis W., 126 Taylor, Frank C., 471 Taylor, Uriah G., 235 Taylor, William T., 522 Temple, James R., 35
Thomas, A. C., 682 Thomas, James K., 248 Thomas, John B., 529 Thomas, William M., 673
Thompson, Augustus W., 542 Thompson, Nelson M., 201 Thompson, Samuel D., 574
Thurston, W. S., 90 Tice, Samuel C., 674
Timmons, J. Worth, 114 Trippet, William W., 150 Truesdell. Samuel R., 602
Tucker, Elijah J., 244
Tucker, Rowan H., 102
Turner, James E., 148
Tyra. Jesse V., 483
Tyson, Lewis C., 92
Valentine, Ira T., 160 Vanbebber, John C., 707 Van Sant, James M., 136 Veale, John W., 86
Wade, George B., 338
Wagner, William M., 59 Wainscott, Isaac, 348
Walker, Henry H., 553
Wantland, William, 186
Ward, Horry A., 514
Webb, A. G., 442
Welch, Charles E., 421 Wellesley, Edward C., 324 Wells, Henry H., 467
West, Robert O., 497 Wester, James K., 137 Whatley, George W., 302 White, James M., 393 White, Milton J., 158 Wilkins, Henry A., 275 Willett, James K., 421 Williams, Charles E., 464 Williams, James P., 125 Williams, John T., 193 Williams, Joseph G., 476 Williams, William D., 34 Williamson, G. G., 409 Wills, John H., 254 Wilmeth, A. C., 436 Wilson, Oswald, 398
Wilson, Theodore O., 73
Wilson, William A., 100
Wilton, H. F., 229
Winstead, Leonard A., 333
Wisdom, W. K. P., 623
Wise, Louis C., 425 Wolf, Joseph, 323 Wood, H. R., 393 Wooten, John W., 429 Worley, Thomas G., 77
Worsham, William B., 101
Wright, John H., 194 Wright, Reuben, 506
Wristen, Daniel W., 353
Wyman, William H., 521
Wynn, Thomas, 433 Wynne, Richard M., 110
Yantis, A. B., 630
Yeakley, George W., 50 Yonge, Arthur, 411 Young, Hogan, 319 Youngblood, Thomas J., 202 Younger, Josephus, 330
Thornberry, Amos L., 685
Threadgill, Thomas, 335
HISTORY
OF
NORTH AND WEST TEXAS.
COLONEL LEVIN T.MILLER is a promi- nent lawyer and real estate operator at Wichita Falls, where he located during its very earliest years and where he has ever since been promi- nently identified with its great progress and up- building. Colonel Miller has a distinguished history and is a man of mark in many ways, having been a leader in military, political and professional affairs from the days of early man- hood.
He was born in Preble county, Ohio, in 1838. His parents were Levin and Frances (Buell) Miller. His father, who was also a lawyer by profession, was born in Pennsyl- vania, made his home in Preble county, Ohio, until 1844, and then moved to Williamsport, Indiana, where he died in 1847. Colonel Mil- ler's mother was born in Kentucky, was mar- ried in Preble county, Ohio, and passed away at Williamsport.
Colonel Miller is an alumnus of Wabash College at Crawfordsville, Indiana, where he graduated in the scientific department in 1858, when twenty years of age. A short time later he went west and located at Independence, Missouri, where he began the study of law with Judge Hovey as preceptor, and in the latter part of 1859, when twenty-one years of age. was admitted to practice by Circuit Judge Hicks at Independence. He returned to Wil- liamsport in 1860. At the outbreak of the Civil War he raised a company, which was at- tached to the Tenth Indiana Infantry as Com- pany B, and went out on the three months' enlistment, young Miller being its first lieu- tenant. This company was engaged at the battles of Carrick's Ford, Rich Mountain and
Beverly. When the three months was up Colonel Miller returned home and raised another company, Company K, Thirty-third Indiana Infantry, and was made captain of this company which was a part of the Army of the Cumberland under Thomas. From the cap- taincy Mr. Miller was promoted to major, to lieutenant colonel and then colonel of the regi- ment, and during the larger part of his last year in the army he commanded a brigade. He won every one of these promotions by hard and meritorious service on the field, and he was one of the most efficient officers the Thirty- third Regiment ever had. As an officer of this regiment he was at the battles of Wildcat, Cumberland Gap, in the battles on the way to Atlanta, and was in all the fighting in the siege and taking of that city. His time expired after the Atlanta campaign and he then came home.
Owing to his fine army record and his proved character and ability, Colonel Miller soon came into prominence in the state of Indiana. He engaged in the practice of law at Williams- port, and in 1865 he was appointed, by Presi- dent Johnson, to the office of governor of the territory of Montana. He had just married, and as his wife did not care to go to the then far off country, and as Montana did not at that time give evidence of great wealth of resources, he declined this appointment and remained at Williamsport in law practice. He was among the leaders in Republican politics in Indiana, and in 1876 was nominated for attorney general of Indiana. In this candidacy he stumped the state with General Benjamin Harrison, who was the candidate for governor ; the Republican ticket in the state was defeated that year.
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Colonel Miller thus gained a large acquaintance with the leading men of Indiana, and he is still well remembered in his part of the state.
Colonel Miller came out to Texas in 1881, and for the first year was a partner in the law firm of Crawford & Crawford at Dallas. In Novem- ber, 1882, he came to Wichita Falls, which then was the mere germ of a town, and the county of Wichita had only just been organized. The Denver road had also just been completed to the place, and the town was beginning that era of prosperous development which has since made it one of the leading commercial centers of north Texas. Colonel Miller has made this city his residence ever since, and has been en- gaged in the practice of law and in the real estate and loan business. Several times he has received appointments as special judge of the district court. He is a worthy and honored citi- zen, and has made a fine record in all lines of his endeavor.
Colonel Miller was married at Williamsport, Indiana, in June, 1865, to Miss Sarah Hichens. She was a most highly esteemed woman, and her death at Wichita Falls, on May 26, 1904, was the occasion of great sorrow to the hosts of friends and acquaintances who have for so many years loved and honored this noble couple. The one son, Fred S. Miller, is now in business in Chicago, the daughter, Miss Mary, (lied at Colorado Spring in September, 1903.
CHARLES W. HODGE, M. D. Among those who have attained distinctive prestige in the practice of medicine and surgery in Quanah and Hardeman county and whose success has come as the result of thorough technical information and skill, stands Dr. Charles W. llodge, who is a man of scholarly attamments and who has made deep and careful research into the two sciences to which he is devoting his life. He was born at Farmersville, Louisi- ana, in 1853, a son of the Rev. Charles W. and Mary A. (George) Hodge. The father was a minister in the Methodist church, was a native of Georgia, and his death occurred in Louisiana, as did also his wife's.
In the schools of his native city Charles W. Hodge received his early mental training, while his medical education was pursued at Tulane University, New Orleans, where he remained for four years and graduated with the class of 1882. llis first practice was at Logtown, on the Onachita river, thence returned to Farmers- ville, and in 1881 took up his abode in Alex- ander, Erath county, Texas, there continuing the practice of his chosen profession until 1889.
In that year he located in Quanah, and is now numbered among the oldest physicians in Hardeman county, where he has built up an excellent practice and has won the commenda- tion of the public and his professional brethren. He is also local surgeon for the Fort Worth & Denver and the Frisco Railroads, a member of the State Medical and the Panhandle Medi- cal Societies, a member of the A. F. & A. M., a Royal Arch Mason and Knight Templar ; also a Knight of Pythias. Dr. Hodge was united in marriage to Leona (Gillette) Goshorn.
ROBERT A. POOLE, who since 1866 has been a resident of Johnson county, is now en- gaged in business as a grain and feed merchant at Cleburne. He was born in East Feliciana parish, Louisiana, November 16, 1835, and is a son of Orlando L. and Elizabeth (Poole) Poole. The father was born in Louisiana and came to Texas with his family in the fall of 1836, after Texas had become an independent republic. He settled in the northeastern district in Bowie county at Old Boston, and thirty miles from Texarkana and there followed the occupation of farming. When the Mexican war was in- augurated his health was too poor to allow him to enlist, but he furnished another man an outfit and money to enter the service .. Mr. Poole continued to reside in Bowie county until 1867, when he removed to Johnson county to join his son, Robert A., who had arrived here the previous year. His remaining days were passed in this county, his death occurring in Cleburne in 1898, while his wife passed away in the same year.
Robert A. Poole was reared to farm life, but spent much of his time in mercantile pursuits. For about four years before the war he was. engaged in merchandising at Dokesville, in the southeastern part of Choctaw Nation, Indian Territory. In the spring of 1862 he joined the Confederate army, going out with Company H. First Texas Battalion, which moved east- ward to Mississippi. The command was re- organized at Corinth and formed into the Thirty-second Texas Infantry. Mr. Poole's service was mostly in Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and Georgia, and in fact he partici- pated in all of the most important engagements of the Confederate Army of the Tennessee, be- ing attached to Bragg's command much of the time. The first notable engagement in which he participated was at Richmond, Kentucky, under General Kirby Smith and later he was in the battle of Perryville, that state. He was also with the army as it left Kentucky going
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south and he participated in the battle of Stone river, near Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Subse- quently he entered the Chickamauga campaign and participated in the battle of Chickamauga under Bragg and was then sent to relieve Vicksburg. Following the capitulation of that city the army to which he was attached joined the Confederate forces opposing Sherman at Atlanta, and Mr. Poole was in the siege of that city and in various battles of the Atlanta cam- paign. He was then with Hood on the cam- paign back toward Nashville, was in the battle at that place and afterward moved southward to Mobile, his last engagement being at Spanish Fort across the bay from the city of Mobile. Following the battle of Richmond, Kentucky, he became ordnance sergeant.
When the war was over Mr. Poole returned to Bowie county and planted a crop, but it proved a failure on account of the Red river flood. He then came to Johnson county in 1866 and has here practically lived since, mak- ing his home most of the time in Cleburne. He has farmed to some extent in the county, but has spent most of his time in mercantile life. For three years he conducted business at Plano and he is now a wholesale and retail dealer in hay, feed and grain at Cleburne. He has sold his farming interests, but has consider- able valuable real estate in the city.
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