A history of Texas and Texans, Part 111

Author: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884; Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed; Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 906

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Masonic order, being high priest of his Chapter and thrice illustrious master of his Council. Always a stal- wart Democrat, he has worked untiringly in behalf of his party. During the past fifteen years he has been a deacon of the Baptist church.

Mr. Hooper was married November 16, 1887, to Miss Louella White, of Dallas, Texas, daughter of G. W. White, who was for some years a merchant of Marlin, Texas, but is now living retired in Dallas. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hooper, Elsie May, aged twenty-two years, who makes her home with her parents.

EDWIN P. WALSH. The present county clerk of Wichita county, having held that office since the election of November, 1912, Mr. Walsh is an old resident of this section of Texas, and for more than twenty years has lived in Wichita Falls, where he was well known in busi- ness circles until he took his present office of county clerk.

Edwin P. Walsh was born at Fulton, Mississippi, Feb- ruary 18, 1861, the only child of James F. and Almira (Rogers) Walsh, the father a native of Tennessee and the mother of Mississippi. The father was a young man when he came to Mississippi, locating at Fulton, where he was engaged in merchandising. During the war he enlisted in the Thirty-fifth Mississippi Regiment of In- fantry, reached the rank of lieutenant of his company, was wounded in battle, and also spent some time in a Federal prison after the battle of Nashville. Following the war he returned to Mississippi, again took up busi- ness, and subsequently moved to Louisville, Kentucky, where he was in business the latter years of his life. His death occurred in 1895 at the age of sixty-seven. The mother, who was educated and married in Missis- sippi, died in that state in 1864.

·Edwin P. Walsh obtained his early education in the schools of Kentucky, and also attended college in Louis- ville. On leaving school he sought Texas as the field of his career, and in Johnson county was engaged in the cattle business until 1890. In that year he moved to Wichita Falls, and for twelve years was actively asso- ciated with business in this city. In November, 1912, he was the choice of the citizens of Wichita county for the office of county clerk. For one term he served in the city council. Mr. Walsh is an active factor in local Democratic circles. His fraternal relations are with the Masonie Order, in which he has taken the York Rite degrees, including the Knight Templar degrees, and is also a member of the Shrine. He is affiliated with the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. His church is the Pres- byterian.

Ou March 16, 1897, Mr. Walsh married Miss Cora Rus- sell at Wichita Falls. Her father was the late M. P. Russell, who came to Texas in 1890, and both he and his wife are now deceased. The one child born to Mr. and Mrs. Walsh is Miss Annette Walsh, horn at Wichita Falls, December 17, 1897, and now attending an academic school. Mr. Walsh has created his success entirely from his own hard work and application, and is now one of the most influential citizens of a city which he and many others consider a coming metropolis of Texas, having the best future of any town in the entire state.

LOUIS C. HINCKLEY. To those equipped by nature for the profession of civil engineering, this vocation undoubt- edly offers a great future. It demands, however, per- haps a more thorough technical knowledge of more sub- jeets than almost any other business in which a man can engage, but its rewards are commensurate with its diffi- culties, and upon the pages of history the names of civil engineers who have seemingly accomplished the im- possible appear with other benefactors of mankind. The great Southwest, and especially portions of Texas, without these able, trained, accurate, and daring men,

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would today have been somnolent, instead of offering homes and untold riches to the world. In the connection of civil engineering, Wichita Falls is especially fortu- nate in the possession of such an able and conscientous official as Louis C. Hinckley, city engineer, to whose ac- tivities and faithful service may be accredited much of the remarkable growth and development of this com- munity during the past several years. Mr. Hinckley is a native of Fitchville, Ohio, and was born August 24, 1872, a son of E. P. and Mary E. (Roe) Hinckley, who were also born at that place. The father was born in 1845 and the mother in 1847 and were married in 1871, and have led agricultural lives, now being residents of North Fairfield, Ohio. They have had four children- Louis C., William and Charles, who are engaged in farm- ing in Ohio, and Martha, also a resident of the Buckeye state.

After attending the public schools of his native county, Louis C. Hinckley entered the University of Ohio, where he took a civil engineering course and gradnated in 1892. He at once entered upon the practice of his pro- fession in Ohio, but in 1894 migrated to Texas, and was engaged in general civil engineering work in Wichita Falls and the surrounding country. In 1902 he took charge of an irrigation plant, the operations of which he directed until 1908, and in the spring of 1909 was elected city engineer of Wichita Falls, an office to which he has given his attention ever since. He has had charge of all publie works, including the building of twenty miles of sewers and the laying of 35,000 square yards of street paving, and in addition to his general city work has been in the enjoyment of a large private business. His skill in handling projects of a large na- ture has made him one of the best known civil engineers in this part of the state, while in his official capacity he has proved painstaking and conscientious. His activi- ties have carried him to various sections of the South- west, and in each community in which he has found him- self has made numerous friends. With a firm belief in the future of this part of the country he neglects no op- portunity to sing its praises and advance its interests.

On August 26, 1896, Mr. Hinckley was married in Archer county, Texas, to Miss Mary Krebs, daughter of John and Louisa Krebs, both still residents of Archer county, where they were pioneers. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley: Elvira Louise, born in 1897, in Wichita county, Texas, who will gradu- ate from the Wichita Falls High School in 1914; Della, horn in 1899, in this county, now attending the high school; Emmett, born at Wichita Falls, December 26, 1902, and now attending the graded schools, and Mary Elizabeth, born in February, 1907, at Wichita Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Hinckley are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. He is a Democrat in his po- litical belief and is fraternally connected with the Mod- ern Woodmen of America and the Masons, in the latter of which he has attained to the Commandery and is now Worthy Patron of the Eastern Star.

DR. W.M. B. CRUDGINGTON. Though Dr. Crudgington has been but a brief period of time in Denison, having settled here early in 1913, he has already made some progress in his profession in this locality, and the prom- ise of a successful career in his profession here, should he elect to remain, is a very bright one.

Dr. William B. Crudgington was born on September 4, 1866, near Knoxville, Tennessee, and is a son of Elijah and Caroline (Fender) Crudgington, the latter a sister of Captain Fender of Fort Worth, Texas. Elijah Crud- gington was a farmer and stock raiser, and he came to Rockwell county, this state, in 1870, here continuing suc- cessfully in stock farming. He had served in the Union Army as a lieutenant in Company F, Thirty-Second Regiment of East Tennessee, and had a hard experience in the service. He was taken prisoner by Colonel Neal of the Confederate forces and held in prisons at Knox-

ville, Castle Thunder, Richmond and Salisbury, his pe- riod of confinement in those several prisous aggregating nineteen months. He suffered all the horrors of prison life, and when he came forth into the world again he was broken in health, and almost an invalid to the end of his days. He died at his home, in Breckenridge, Ste- phens county, on November 15, 1902, having gone to that place from Rockwell county in 1878. The mother died in 1903.

Nine children were born to these parents, and of the five sons and four daughters Dr. Crudgington was the sixth in order of birth. He had his early education in the schools of Breckenridge, Texas, and when he had fin- ished the high school there he entered the medical de- partment of the University at Louisville, Kentucky. In 1897 he was graduated from the Fort Worth University with the degree of M. D., and soon thereafter he engaged in practice in Archer City, in Archer county, Texas. He continued there for ten years, and in 1901 he estab- lished himself in practice in Gainesville, Texas, coming to Denison in March, 1913.

In the years of his practice Dr. Crudgington has en- joyed a favorable following, and has gained a reputation for skill in his chosen profession that is highly creditable to him. He has specialized the study of diseases of the nerves, and has taken post-graduate courses in the Chi- cago Post-Graduate College, at Chicago.

Dr. Crudgington has been a Democrat since he ar- rived at the dignity of his legal majority and has taken a fairly active part in politics in whatever community he has found himself located. He was county health physician for Archer county during a number of years while located there. Fraternally the doctor has mem- bership in the Knights of Pythias, the Odd Fellows, the Modern Woodmen of America, and the Royal Neigh- bors of America. He is a member of the United Presby- terian church, which denomination is generally regarded as being the acme of Presbyterianism.

Dr. Crudgington was married on December 18, 1892, at Archer City, Texas, to Miss Mary N. Youngblood, a daughter of Dr. J. M. Youngblood of Missouri. Both Dr. and Mrs. Youngblood are now deceased. To the Doctor and his wife seven children have been born, brief mention of whom are here made as follows: Leonard C., aged twenty years, is a marble-cutter at Gavensville, Texas. Mary C., eighteen years old, is devoting herself especially to the study of music, in which she is unusu- ally talented. Herbert, aged seventeen, is a student, as are also Edward Kenneth, Charles, Marie V., and Robert.

Varied strains of blood have entered into the make-up of Dr. Crudgington, his father being of English ancestry, and his mother a woman of German and Scotch parent- age. Three brothers of Dr. Crudgington live in Texas. John R. is a stock farmer of Breckenridge, as is also James N., and Jonathan Wilford is an attorney of some prominence at Amarilla, Texas. He was county judge of Stephens county for some years, and is now chairman of the Prohibition Campaign Committee of the county. Another brother, George Elbert, was a railroad con- tractor, and died on February 21, 1900, at Fort Sill, Oklahoma.

ROBERT WHITE KNOX, M. D. Both professional sue- cess and influential activity as a citizen have marked the career of Dr. Knox in Houston and south Texas, where he has been a resident and physician and sur- geon for thirty years. Few physicians in this part of the state have accomplished more or gained higher recognition in the profession than Dr. Knox. Dr. Knox at the present time is chief surgeon for the Atlantic Division for the Southern Pacific Railroad, a position which he has held for more than ten years. An achievement which was brought to successful issue dur- ing his service as chief surgeon, and to the success of which he gave an important impetus, was the estab-

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lishment at Houston of the Southern Pacific Hospital, one of the finest institutions of the kind along the entire Southern Pacific System, and an institution of which the city of Houston as a community is intensely proud.

Dr. Robert White Knox was born at Danville, Ken- tucky, November 21, 1859. On both sides he is de- scended from sterling old Scotch ancestry, the ances- tries who founded the family in America having come from Scotland to Philadelphia about 1732. In later generations representatives of the name were soldiers in the Revolutionary war, and in every generation and in almost every phase of American national history the family has contributed worthy men and women to meet and perform the burdens and responsibilities of their day and generation. The parents of Dr. Knox were David A. and Martha H. (Maxwell) Knox, the father having been a stock raiser in Kentucky.

Dr. Knox attained his higher education at Center College, Kentucky, where he was graduated in 1880 with the degree of A. B. and from the same institution attained the degree of Master of Arts in 1885. In the meantime he had entered the University of Virginia to pursue his medical studies and was graduated in 1882 with the degree of M. D. Subsequently, in order to prepare himself thoroughly for his chosen work, he entered the New York Post-Graduate Medical College, and gained an enlarged knowledge and skill by elinieal observation and experience. After leaving school he became an interne at the Kentucky Infirmary for Women and Children of Louisville, where he remained for about one year. Coming to Texas, which was the field for his professional activities in 1883, Dr. Knox located at Richmond, where he established his office and where he remained for two years. In 1885 he came to Houston where he was engaged in a large practice as a general physician and surgeon until January 1, 1902. At that date he entered upon his duties as chief sur- geon of the Atlantic Division for the Southern Pacific Railway Company. The Southern Pacific Hospital was built by the railroad at a cost of $200,000, and the splendid building and ground were opened for use on June 22, 1911.

Dr. Knox is thoroughly representative of the mod- ern profession of medicine, and is a man of varied and broad interests, in his own profession and in the larger fields of social and civic life. He is at the present time vice president of the Texas State Medical Asso- ciation, was formerly president of the South Texas Medical Association, and a former president of the Houston Medical Club, and a member of the Southern Medical Association. He is connected with various business interests in his home city. His interests aside from his profession attract him most into the life of the outdoors, and there is no better exemplar nor advocate of outdoor living than Dr. Knox. He has membership in the Houston Club, The Houston Country Club, The San Antonio Club, The Galveston Country Club and is a lifelong member of The Houston Turn Verein, and takes a very active part in the activities of these various organizations which represent the choicest feat- ures of social life in his home city and other Texas centers. He has attained thirty-two degrees in the Scottish-Rite Masonry, has taken the degrees of Royal Arch and Knights Templar and is a Shriner.

Dr. Knox on November 11, 1892, married Miss Pearl H. Wallis, a daughter of Joseph E. and Sarah Wallis of Galveston. Her father was one of the prominent merchants of that city, and a veteran of the Confed- erate army, and saw much hard service in the war be- tween the states. Mrs. Knox is a member of the Colo- nial Dames. Their three children are named Byrd Wallis, Landis Maxwell and Robert Wallis Knox. Their attractive home is at 2204 Louisiana Street in Houston.

THOMAS H. STONE. A prominent Houston attorney with offices in the First National Bank Building, Mr. Stone has been engaged in practice in this city since 1896. Mr. Stone served as city attorney of Houston from 1892 to January 1, 1906, and during that time and in his official capacity drew up and wrote the connnission charter of Houston. He was one of the strongest advo- cates of the adoption of commission form of govern- ment in Houston, and led the fight with the aid of his associates which brought about the passage and approval of the commission charter in the state legis- lature and its subsequent adoption by the voters of Houston.

Thomas H. Stone was born in Jasper, Jasper county, Texas, December 5, 1871, a son of Dr. Thomas M. and Emily F. (Kyle) Stone. The father, a native of South Carolina, during the war between the states served as a private in Longstreet's Division of the Confederate army. He had gone into the army when sixteen years of age, enlisting in South Carolina, and served as a valiant soldier through the struggle up to the Battle of the Wilderness in which engagement he lost his right arm. After the war in 1866 he came out to Texas, lo- cating at Jasper, and was there 'engaged in the prac- tice of medicine up to his death on January 18, 1892. Dr. Stone married into one of the old and prominent families of southeast Texas. His wife, who died in Sep- tember, 1886, was born in Texas, and was a daughter of Wesley Harrison Kyle, who was born in Kentucky, moved to Florida, where he participated as a soldier in the Seminole Indian war of 1836 and in 1848 moved out to Texas, locating in Jasper county, where he died in 1897.

Thomas H. Stone obtained his education in the pub- lie schools of Jasper and at the Southeast Texas Col- lege, finishing in the Academic Department of the Uni- versity of Texas. He prepared for the law in the law department of the University of Texas, and was gradu- ated LL. B. in the class of 1896. In the same year he was admitted to the bar, and at once opened his office and began practice in Houston, where he has enjoyed a liberal share of the legal business. He is a mem- ber of the Houston Bar Association and of the Texas Bar Association. Mr. Stone is a member and director of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, member and di- rector of the No-Tsu-Oh Carnival Association; was president of the Houston Club until January 1, 1913; member of the Houston Country Club, the Thalian Club, and the Houston Turnverein. Fraternally he is affiliated with Holland Lodge No. 1, A. F. & A. M., and has com- pleted eighteen degrees in the Scottish Rite Masonry, and is a member of the Rose Croix Chapter. His other affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks at Houston.

On February 23, 1898, Mr. Stone married Miss Flor- ence Ford, daughter of Hon. Thomas W. Ford of Houston. Their four children are named Thomas Ford, Florence, Marshall Hampton, and Margaret Stone. The family home is at 2 Beaconfield Apartments in Houston.

DAVID DALY. Manager of the Houston Electric Com- pany and the Galveston-Houston Electric Railway Com- pany, and the local head of the Houston Electric Trans- portation interests, David Daly has occupied this im- portant position in the city since 1905.

He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, October 16, 1875, being a son of Timothy and Catherine (Hagerty) Daly. Mr. Daly was educated at the Boston Public Latin School and at Harvard University, where he was graduated with the degree of A. B. in the class of 1901. In the December following his graduation he became connected with the firm of Stone & Webster, in their Boston office. In January, 1903, he was sent out by Stone & Webster to Ponce in Porto Rico, as manager of the Ponce Railway & Lighting Company. He remained there until May, 1905, and in July, 1905, came to Hous-

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ton as manager of the Houston Electric Company. The residents of Houston who are familiar with the im- portant changes in the local transportation service will recall that the street car service has been practically made over since Mr. Daly came to take charge of the local system, and at the present time there is no city in Texas or the south, for that matter, possessing better equipment and more efficient operation than the Houston Electric Co. In April, 1913, was announced the appointment of Mr. Daly as manager of the Galves- ton-Houston Electric Railway Company. Mr. Daly is a director of the Lumberman's National Bank, vice president of the Suburban Realty Company of Houston, and has been director, managing director, vice president and president of the No-Tsu-Oh Association. He is one of the prominent members of the Houston Club and other social organizations, including the Rotary Club, the Y. M. C. A., the Knights of Columbus, the Benev- olent and Protective Order of Elks, the Thalian Club, the Houston Country Club, and the Houston Turnverein, Mr. Daly was married January 12, 1910, to Miss Ger- trude Hyde Paine, a daughter of Robert E. Paine of Houston. They are the parents of one daughter, Ger- trude Paine Daly. The home of Mr. Daly and family is at 1505 Mckinney Avenue in Houston.

MILTON LINK MORRIS. Beginning at the early age of twelve years in bis connection with the International & Great Northern Railroad, Milton Link Morris, now District Passenger Agent for that road, has experienced practically every variety of service peculiar to the cler- ical and executive departments up to and including his present responsible position. Twenty-seven years of service with one concern, and that covering the entire business career of the man, is a record that few men may point to, but that is the distinction claimed by Mr. Morris, and it is one that places him in a class by him- self. He has advanced step by step from the post of office boy to stenographer, clerk and ticket stock clerk, each in their turn; then special advertising clerk, assist- ant ticket agent, special passenger agent and relief agent, and in 1901 got into line for his present post. His rise has been consistent, justifiable and steady, and is a source of much gratification to those who have witnessed his upward climb.

Born at Palestine, Texas, in 1876, Milton Link Morris is the son of William and Nannie (Latimer) Morris. The father was born in Virginia and came to Texas about 1852, settling then in Palestine, where he mar- ried and engaged in the mercantile business, in which be continued until death claimed bim in 1882. The mother was a daughter of D. A. Latimer, one of the first settlers of Palestine, coming here from Kentucky with his family and making the trip overland, in the accepted and usual mode common to the period. They brought with them the first cook stove shown in Ander- son county, Texas, and were conspicuous from that fact, if for no other reason. He was a man who was promi- nent for years in the affairs of Anderson county, and was the first sheriff the county ever boasted.

Milton Morris received little enough in the way of schooling, for he was but twelve years old, as already stated, when he entered the employ of the International and Great Northern Railroad in the capacity of office boy. The death of his father some few years previous made necessary this early independence of the lad, but bis rise in his work has not been appreciably hampered by his lack in educational training. His advance from one post to another has already been cited, but it remains to add bere that in 1901 he was made travel- ing passenger agent with headquarters at San Antonio, and in 1906 he became city passenger and ticket agent at Houston, in charge of the city and depot offices, a position he continued to hold until 1911, when he was made District Passenger and Ticket Agent. The crown- ing honor of his career to date came in September, 1911,

when the reorganization of the road was effected. Mr. Morris was one of the incorporators of the new com- pany and a director of the same, which is his status with the International at this time. His advance has been due entirely to his ability, ambition and concentration on the duties of the position in which he found himself, and each promotion came as a distinct reward for effi- cient and praiseworthy service.

Mr. Morris is a member of the First Presbyterian church of Houston, and his fraternal affiliations are with the Masons, in which he has attained the Master Mason degree, and with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is also a member of the Houston Press Club, the Houston Athletic Club, the Houston Adcraft Club, the Houston Lumbermen's Club, the Houston Musical Club, and the Houston Turnverein Club.

On January 28, 1902, Mr. Morris was married to Miss Ruby Anderson, the daughter of A. A. Anderson, of Palestine, Texas, and they reside at 1509 Capital Avenue, Houston.

W. T. MELTON. The life of the late W. T. Melton of Brady was noteworthy, both in character and in accom- plishment. It began with bis service to the Confederacy and closed after forty years of business and civic activ- ities in this state, to which he always manifested the finest loyalty and affection. As editor, publisher, busi- ness man and legislator, he displayed a high order of ability, and in his death McCulloch county lost one who had at all times demonstrated the highest ideals of citi- zenship.

The first of seven children, Mr. Melton was born July 11, 1843, in Alabama, and was a son of David C. Melton, also of that state. The latter, a miller by trade, was an early settler in Denton county, Texas, where for some years he was engaged in agricultural pursuits. Subse- quently he removed to San Saba, where he continued for a long period in the milling business, but finally re- moved to Paint Rock, Concho county, where his death occurred about the year 1885.

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A history of Texas and Texans, Part 111

Author: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884; Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed; Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960 Publication date: 1914 Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society Number of Pages: 906

Author: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884; Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed; Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Publication date: 1914
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Number of Pages: 906