The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 1

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1328

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H. BLUM, general manager of the Atlantic Oil Producing Company, a subsidiary of The Atlantic Refining Company, occupying the entire third floor of the American Exchange National Bank Building, Dallas, has been associated with the Atlantic Refining Company for the past sixteen years, has been active in matters pertaining to oil development since coming to Texas. The At- lantic Producing Company specializes in the produc- tion of crude oil and has agencies in a number of states, including Oklahoma, Kentucky, Kansas, Texas, Louisiana and the north and Gulf Coast States. At the present time it is drilling a large number of wells in Oklahoma and Texas, and already has a considerable number of producers in these fields. The Atlantic Oil Producing Company has approximately seventy-five men in its employ and handles all of the business of the larger company in this territory.

A native son of Pennsylvania, E. H. Blum was born at Philadelphia on the 2nd day of August, 1886. He is a son of Jacob Blum, of Pennsylvania, who was engaged in the general merchandise business in that state. The younger Mr. Blum received his general primary educational training in the public schools of Philadelphia and secured his higher education of the Temple College, also located in Philadelphia. Soon after leaving college he began work with the At- lantic Refining Company and gradually worked up to a position of responsibility with that concern.

After fourteen and one-half years with the com- pany, he was appointed general manager of the At- lantic Oil Producing Company. He opened up the Dallas branch of this company in January of 1919 and since that time has been managing all of the business of the company in this and bordering states of the union. The company is now interested in a number of Texas pools and is extending. its business to Oklahoma and Louisiana and other state just being under the process of oil development.

In October of 1916 Mr. Blum married Miss Elsie M. Hall, of Pennsylvania, and they now have their home at 3616 Maplewood Avenue, Highland Park. Since coming to Dallas Mr. Blum has become inter- ested in civic affairs and is a member of the Dallas County Athletic and Dallas City Clubs, and the Chamber of Commerce.

S. BENNETT is one of the best known men connected with the oil industry in the North Texas fields. He is the inventor of several oil well tools which are in very general use in the oil fields, especially a patented grab to fish out under reaming lugs, and a collar to be used in fishing out pipe. He has had a great deal of experience in railroad and oil well tool shops and has a practical knowledge of mechanies that enables him to understand the needs of drillers. For several years he worked in the machine shops of Gamer & Company at Fort Worth, then in the large railroad shops and in oil well tool shops. During the war he worked in the naval gun factory at Washington, and came to Wichita Falls after being discharged from the service in 1919. He organized the W. R. B.

Machine and Tool Company in October, 1919, to . manufacture all kinds of high grade oil well drilling tools, known over the State as W. R. B. Quality Brand. Associated with him in the organization were Henry Hobbs and E. T. Westmoreland.

Mr. Bennett has an interest in new patents on a grab to be used in fishing out under reaming lugs which have been lost in the hole. It will also take hold of broken rotary bits. The advantage claimed for this particular tool is that one of the prongs can go by the lug in the hole and straighten it up so that the other prong can also get around it, and the two prongs can then take hold and pull the lug out. He is also the inventor of an over shot to be used in fishing out pipe. Its advantages are said to lie in the fact that the two slugs are prevented from ever being lost in the hole by a shoulder inside the over . shot, which prevents the slugs from falling through. He is a young man and takes a great deal of interest in his work. He was born in Fort Worth, Texas, in 1886, and educated in the public schools of that city. His parents are T. S. and Julia (Jones) Bennett. and his father, who is a native of Kentucky, has been connected with the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad at Fort Worth for the past forty years and is still in the service of the company.

EO. E. LEBERMANN, Fort Worth, presi- dent of the Desdemona Oil & Leasing Syn- dicate, is directing official that leads the business world in its activities among Texas leasing agencies. The Syndicate has as other of- ficials who serve with President Lebermann, P. Edw. Glenn as secretary, A. E. Glenn as treasurer, and Judge O. W. Gillespie, attorney for the organization. It is a Trust Association that was formed in Decem- ber of 1919, with a capitalization of $300,000.00. Leases are held in Wichita, Erath, Archer, Young, Eastland, Reeves and Newton Counties of Texas- 1,332 acres. Two wells are owned in Reeves County. The Desdemona Oil & Leasing Syndicate is one of Texas' largest clearing houses in buying and selling leases.

Mr. Lebermann was born in Illinois, Christian County, on May 14, 1873. His parents were J. A. Lebermann and Bertha Heck Leberman, both of Illi- nois. In 1878, appreciating the advantages afforded by the Lone Star State, they emigrated to Texas, locating at Fort Worth at a time when there was only one train into the place and when the street cars were drawn by mules. After a seven years' residence there, they moved to a ranch in 1885. Here Mr. Lebermann continued his growth and activity until going into the oil business. In 1918, he came from Young County, his residence, and entered into the organization of the company he now directs as a leader, in December, 1919. Prior to that his activities in the oil business had been various.

In 1894, Miss Mollie Gibbs of Young County, Texas, became the bride of Mr. Lebermann. They have a daughter, Fay Lebermann, and the family residence is at 2105 Fifth Avenue. Their church affiliation is Christian.

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Mr. Lebermann is a Mason, member of the Fort Worth Blue Lodge No. 148. He belongs also to the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. The Desdemona oil & Leasing Syndicate, which Mr. Lebermann di- reets as president, is filling a need in the oil busi- nes. This industry is immense, is in Texas to stay and will continue to grow in extent already making the Lone Star State rank with Uncle Sam's leading oil states, and has many phases. Mr. Lebermann and his company specializes in one of these departments and are rendering a big service.

URTIS L. SAYLOR, vice-president and manager of the Lydick Roofing Company, with offices at 311 Andrews Building, Dal- las, occupies a strong position in Dallas building interests which he has gained by a suc- cession of advantageous connections in the roofing business, mostly in Dallas. A great deal of his success has been due to the fact that his training has been gained by intimate contact with every angle of the production and sales of roofing not only in one line, but several. He is the Dallas rep- resentative for his firm which has general head- quarters at Fort Worth and employs seventy-five men in its organization, headed by Mr. Ned Lydick, president of the company. Their operations extend over Texas and Oklahoma and they handle every kind of roofing material.

He was born in St. Louis, Missouri, January 4, 1888 where his father, H. M. Saylor is interested in the cooperage business. His mother is Mrs. Sarah (Graves) Saylor. He gained his education by attending the public and high schools of his native city where he began his business career associated with his father. In 1912 he came to Dallas as the representative for the Certainteed Products Com- pany and remained in that position until 1916. He then accepted a position as manager for the Crazy Well Water Company of Mineral Wells, but after a comparatively short term of service returned to the roofing business by taking a position with the Barrett Company in Dallas, and remained with them for one year. His next work was with the Oak Cliff Paper Mills, Dallas. After continuing in this work until the spring of 1919, he joined the O. O. Buckelew Roofing Company in Dallas and in the same year bought them out. On May 1st, 1920 he consolidated his interest with the Lydick Company, became vice- president of the company, and manager of the Dallas end of the business.

On November 1st, 1917 he was married to Miss Sarah F. Coon of Missouri and they now reside at 3809 Bowser Avenue, Dallas.

Mr. Saylor has made many friends in North Texas since his first arrival in Dallas in 1912, and in his spirit of optimism as to the future of his city and state, has concluded that there is much in store for every meritorious Texas enterprise. He is a Mason and a charter member of the Dallas Athletic Club and an active member of the Dallas Chamber of Com- merce.

S S. MALLINSON, president of the Dallas Paper Company, is the owner and founder of one of the largest paper companies in Texas. Mr. Mallinson has associated with him in the business of the company his three sons, Herbert Mallinson who is vice-president of the company, Clarence Mallinson who is secretary and Fred Mallinson who is treasurer. The Dallas Paper Company was established in 1914. In six years time

it has had a phenomenal growth and at the present supplies a large percentage of the paper used by Texas business houses and also has 23 traveling men covering Oklahoma, New Mexico, Kansas, Arkansas and Louisiana. The company are jobbers of paper bags, wrapping paper and paper boxes.

Born in Utica, New York, December 25, 1866, Mr. Mallinson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. N. Mallinson. In the public schools of New York he obtained his general education. This foundation he has built upon in a practical way through extensive knowledge cf several lines of business activity. Early in his life Mr. Mallinson moved to Texas and located at Longview. There he operated a general merchandise store with much success. In 1904 he came to Dallas and accepted a membership in the firm of Harris Lipsitz Co., dealers in wholesale dry goods. Some years later this firm sold their interest to the Hig- ginbotham-Bailey-Logan Company. Mr. Mallinson then became interested in the paper business and organized the Dallas Paper Company, which line of business activity he has followed since that time.

Mrs. S. S. Mallinson was formerly Miss Rose Lip- sitz, a sister of Louis Lipsitz, prominent business man of Dallas. The Lipsitz-Mallinson marriage was solemnized on April 5, 1901, at Tyler, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Mallinson are the parents of four children. Clarence, Herbert, Fred and Reba Mallinson. The home of the Mallinson family is at 2711 South Boule- vard.

The fraternal relations of Mr. Mallinson are numerous, he being a member of the Masonic Lodge, the Knights of Pythias, the Woodmen of the World and the Maccabees. He is also active in a number of civic organizations, such as the Colum- bian Club, the Lakewood Country Club and the Ki- wanis Club.

Among the business men of Dallas Mr. Mallinson is generally esteemed and admired for his ability to organize and advance a business rapidly. His career as a business man and merchant has been one of constant advancement and high achievement.

OSEPH H. RUTLEDGE, of the Rutledge Adjustment Company, Dallas County State Bank Building, Dallas, has been a resident of this city for the past eighteen years and during that time has been engaged, for the most part, in the insurance business. His firm has made a specialty of cotton insurance, including its various branches such as machinery cotton products and gin- ning apparatus. Associated with him in the busi- ness he has his brother, Allen Rutledge, who has also had wide experience in the adjusting and insurance fields. The Rutledge Adjustment Company was or- ganized in February of 1919, and since that time has built up a large business covering Dallas and the surrounding territory.

A native Texan, Joseph H. Rutledge was born at Cleburne on the fifth day of April, 1891. He is a son of W. J. and Molly ( Nance) Rutledge, the former having been connected with the Murray Gin Com- pany, of Dallas, for the past eighteen years. The younger Mr. Rutledge was educated in the grammar schools of Whitewright, Texas, and then attended the Dallas high school. After leaving school he began work for the Murray Gin Company, where he remained for a short while, after which he moved to Oklahoma where he operated a cotton gin for himself. Later he moved to Italy, Texas, and was selected as a traveling salesman for the Murray Gin

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Company, not only selling machinery but also super- intending its installation. In 1915 he returned to Dallas and began business in the insurance adjust- ing line, selecting as his associate R. W. Fort, of this city. When the United States entered the great war he volunteered and was sent to Camp Cody, New Mexico. He was sent to France in 1918, where he remained for a period of four months, the armistice having been signed soon after his arrival there. While in France he was attached to the 109th Am- munition Train, which returned to this country soon after the signing of the armistice. He was dis- charged from the service on January 20th, 1919, and immediately thereafter returned to Dallas, opening up his insurance adjusting office here in the month of February. Mr. Rutledge has had wide experience in the adjusting field and is well qualified for the work, having worked from the bottom of the ladder to the top.

Mr. Rutledge was united in marriage with Miss Blanch Brown, daughter of Mrs. Alma Brown, of Minneapolis, Minn., October 30, 1920, and resides at 6240 Sinex Avenue, Dallas.

Having the highest regard for the business de- velopment of his adopted city, Mr. Rutledge has always manifested great interest in its growth, both commercially and industrially. After having visited a number of the larger cities of the United States and Europe he is of the opinion that Dallas has the greatest of futures and that she will in the near future be the metropolis of the South.

HARLES L. HARTY, formerly general at- torney for the Lone Star Gas Company, American Exchange Bank Building, has be- come known, during his residence in Dallas, as a lawyer of personal integrity and convincing logic. He has devoted his entire time to the affairs of this company for nearly four years, having given up a large and lucrative private practice to form a connection with them.

On leaving the Lone Star Gas Co. in 1921, he be- came one of the incorporators of the Humphreys Pure Oil Pipe Line Co., and is general counsel for this company, which is now building a pipe line from Mexia to the Gulf formerly an outlet for the produc- ton of the Mexia field. Mr. Harty's office is 1206 American Exchange Bank Building, Dallas, Texas.

Mr. Harty was born in Williamson County on April 15, 1885. His father was P. C. Harty, for many years in the mercantile business of George- town and now retired. His mother was a Ken- tucky girl, Miss Mary McElroy. He attended the public schools of Georgetown graduating from the high school there in 1901. He entered the South- western University receiving an A. B. degree from this institution in 1905. Following this, he studied law at the University of Texas for three years, re- ceiving his LL. B. degree in 1908. Returning to his home town, Georgetown, he opened an office and began the practice of law. For two years he was associated with Cooper Swanson of that city, then conducted a private practice for some time. Later he formed a partnership with W. M. Allison,. who was judge of the San Sana District, the firm being known as Allison and Harty, Attorneys at Law. The possibilities of a large city finally attracted Mr. Harty to Dallas. He opened an office here for gen- eral practice, but on January 1, 1918 the Lone Star Gas Company succeeded in securing his services as their general attorney.

Mr. Harty was married to Miss Julia C. Cochran. a native Texas girl. They have one son, Charles Cochran, and a daughter, Hannah. Their home is at 5619 Worth Street.

He is a member of the University Club, Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Bar Association, and the Kiwanis Club. Mr. Harty is eloquent in his praise of the city, believing its prosperity and rapid de- velopment are the results of the spirit of its citizen- ship. He predicts that Texas is just coming into its own, and that the increase in population and in- dustrial activities are not in the nature of a boom, but rather a part of steady and inevitable growth.

HI.LIAM HOWARD FRANCIS, general counsellor for the Magnolia Petroleum Com- pany, 24th floor Magnolia Petroleum Com- pany Building, Dallas, has made a specialty of the study of oil and gas law and is considered as an able authority on those subjects. He has been connected with the Magnolia company since 1914 and before that time was associated with the firm of Spoonts, Thompson and Barwise, of Fort Worth.

A native Texan, William Howard Francis was born at Denton, Texas, on March 18th, 1885. He is a son of William Burne and Mattie E (Mclugen) Francis and is the oldest of the three children of the family. His brothers, C. I. and M. L. Francis, have both graduated from school and at the present time C. I. is an attorney of Wichita Falls, while M. L. is a Dallas business man. Mr. Francis received his pri- mary education in the public and high schools of Denton, which was effectively supplemented at the University of Texas, where he graduated in 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. After secur- ing his degrec he returned to Fort Worth and began the practice of his profession with the firm of Spoonts, Thompson and Barwise. He remained with this firm for the next seven years and while there made a careful study of all oil litigation. In 1914 he was appointed assistant general counsellor for the Magnolia Petroleum Company, becoming general counsellor upon the death of Geo. C. Greer. May, 1920. While with this concern Mr. Francis has taken an important part in the development that his com- pany has carried on in this state. When appointed assistant general counsellor he was resident of Fort Worth but in 1918 he moved his offices to Dallas and has remained here since that time.

Since coming to Dallas he has taken a keen inter- est in all matters pertaining to the development of the city and was one of the organizers of the Guar- anty Bank & Trust Company, becoming a member of the first board of directors.

On December 6th, 1911, the marriage of Mr. Francis to Miss Frances Lysought was solemnized at Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Francis are the parents of four children, three of whom are boys and one a girl: William H., Junior, Edward H., James B., and Frances Margaret. The Francis home is situated at 3661 Stratford Avenue, Dallas.

In fraternal orders Mr. Francis holds membership in the Fort Worth Commandery No. 19 and in the Moslah Temple Shrine. Hc is also a member of the Dallas, the Texas and the American Bar Asso- ciations, the University Club, the Dallas Country Club and is a member of the executive committee of the Louisiana & Texas Division of the Mid-Conti- nental Oil & Gas Association and of the parent body, the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Association.

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S HERIDAN C. LEWIS, member of the law firm of Miller & Lewis, and president of the Lewis Oil Corporation, has been a well known professional and business man of Dallas since 1912, when he came to this eity to reside. He rapidly forged ahead as a lawyer and today the firm of Miller & Lewis are considered among the leaders of the Dallas bar. The Lewis Oil Corporation was organized in March, 1921, and has valuable productions in the Burkburnett fields, Northwest Extension, Texhoma, Electra and other Texas fields. The company has from thirty-five to fifty employes in the fields and has a production of over thirty thousand barrels per month.

A son of William Griffin and Jessie (Carroll) Lewis, Sheridan C. Lewis was born at Richmond, Virginia, January 7, 1889, the youngest of a family of ten. His early education and training was ob- tained in the public schools of his native city, while his legal education was received at the law school of the University of Virginia. On finishing college in 1907 he was attacked by the desire to travel and set out for Alaska. In the following years he re- turned to the states, but went back to Alaska in 1909. He became interested in mining and remained at that task until October, 1911, at which time he went to Denver, Colorado. The following year he came to Texas, locating in Dallas. He at once began the practise of his profession and in a few years time had a large clientele. One of the inter- esting cases that Mr. Lewis has tried is one grow- ing out of a partnership of the Burk-Waggoner Oil Company, involving $150,000 and in which he repre- sented the National Bank of Commerce of Wichita Falls, Texas.

In 1912 the marriage of Mr. Lewis to Miss Annie Farmer was solemnized at Fort Worth, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis are the parents of two children: Mary Fay, age four and Sheridan C. Lewis, Jr., age three. Their home is on Harvard Street, High- land Park.

While in Nome, Alaska, Mr. Lewis became a member of the B. P. O. Elks and has been active in that order since that time. He is also a member of the Cedar Crest Country Club and the County, State and American Bar Associations. He is .a former officer of the old Dallas Lawyers' Associa- tion, which is now the Dallas Bar Association.

OHN DAVIS. senior member of the firm of Davis, Johnson & Handley, has been a member of the Dallas bar since 1899 and is especially well known for his work as a representative in the State Legislature from Dallas County. Davis, Johnson & Handley was organized in 1915 and previously to that time Mr. Davis was a member of the firm of Meador & Davis, of this city.

A native Texan, born near Lufkin, Angelina County, August 28, 1877, John Davis is a son of James Pierce and Mary Jane (Cochran) Davis, the former being a prominent physician of this state. Mr. Davis is the oldest of ten children, and received his early education in the common schools of East Texas and in the public schools of Dallas. Coming to Dallas in 1896 he was a stenographer for a short time in a local law office and secured his legal educa- tion by attending a night school. He was admitted to the bar in 1899 and for the following two years practiced in Dallas, after which he attended the law school of Cumberland University, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1903. After his

graduation he returned to Dallas and for the follow- ing four years was engaged in the practice of law alone, later in 1907 he formed a partnership with Robert T. Meador, under the firm name of Meador & Davis, which continued until the month of April, 1915. In 1915 he formed the present partnership of Davis, Johnson & Handley, and has been senior member of that firm since that time.

As attorney in a number of important cases Mr. Davis has become well known in the legal fraternity and by his able pleading has influenced the in- terpretation of the law by the courts. Among the more important cases Mr. Davis has tried are Erick- son versus The Fraternal Mystic Circle, which was a re-rating case involving the standing of old mem- bers in various fraternal orders, Finks, et al., versus Fred Fleming, et al,, which involved an attempt to place the Western Bank & Trust Company into bankruptcy. In 1918, he was elected to the State Legislature as the representative from Dallas and Kaufman Counties and while there has been instru- mental in the passage of a number of important and beneficial acts. He was re-elected in 1920 and still holds that o fice.

On November 24, 1904, Mr. Davis married Miss Marguerite Reagan, and they are the parents of one child, Marguerite Nell Davis. The Davis home is located on Drexel Drive, Highland Park.

ARION S. CHURCH, attorney, partner in the law firm of Mccutcheon & Church, 1127 Great Southern Life Building, Dallas, Tex., is among the foremost of real estate, ad- ministration, land and corporation lawyers in the chief metropolis of Texas. As men multiply upon the earth and their organizations do as they do, there is much "specialized law" in addition to the "common law." As civilization grows, the special laws increase to govern men in their intricate rela- tionships with one another and in business, and today it requires a mind highly analytical and clear in thinking as well as versed in law, both common and special, to pilot big business in their legal relation- ships. This is the profession of Mr. Church and he leads in his husiness.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 1

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau Number of Pages: 1328

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1328