A history of Texas and Texans, Part 123

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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At the close of his military career, Judge Luby joined the Mexican Liberal army under Gen. Serrando Canales, serving with the rank of captain until 1867. That year saw his removal to San Diego, in Duval county, which city has since been his home. Judge Luby took an active part in the progress and development of the early Duval county, and has witnessed a great transformation since the days of the open range until now San Diego is a center of commercial, industrial and educational activities, and the name of Judge Luhy has been iden- tified with many enterprises which have contributed to its growth and improvements. After a few years he read law and was admitted to the bar in 1878.

During his term as county judge of Duval county, numerous improvements and great advancements took place, and he was one of the county's most popular and efficient officials. He has a wide acquaintance among men of note in Texas, and many of them are his per- sonal friends. During the administration of President

Arthur, Judge Luhy served as collector of customs at Brownsville, and in 1900 was supervisor of the census.

Judge Luby was married in Corpus Christi to Miss Mary J. Hoffman. She was born near Karlsbad, Bo- hemia, Austria, but was reared in Nueces county, Texas. Her father, Kletus Hoffman, brought his family to southwestern Texas in 1857. Her sister, Miss Annie Hoffman, hecame the wife of the late Norman G. Collins, who at the time of his death was one of th wealthiest men of southwest Texas. Judge and Mrs. Luhy have four children: John M. Luby, a graduate of the Annapolis Naval Academy in 1894, serving with the rank of commander in the United States navy; James; Mrs. Adelaide Whitman; and Mrs. Kate L. Shaffer. Judge Luhy is the owner of two handsome homes, one in San Diego and the other in San Antonio.

JUDGE JAMES D. HAMLIN has the distinction of hav- ing laid out the townsite of Texico and also of Far- well, the county seat of Parmer county, and for the past seven years has served as county judge of Parmer county.

James D. Hamlin was born in Louisville, Kentucky, August 5, 1871, a son of James M. and Mary J. Ham- lin, who are hoth now living in Parmer county, Texas. The father, who is seventy years of age, has been a. rancher for many years, and in his early life was a soldier of the Union army. The mother is seventy-eight years of age, and she was married in her native state of Kentucky. They were the parents of two children.

Judge Hamlin, the older of the children, attended school in the Louisville high school, and in the Unversity of Kentucky, at Lexington, where he was graduated B. A. in 1895. He then entered the St. Louis law school, and during his studies there was engaged in newspaper work with the St. Louis Republic. In 1896 he came to Amarillo to take the presidency of Amarillo College, an office which he beld for two years. He then engaged in practice at Amarillo, where he remained until 1905 and served one term as prosecuting attorney. Judge Hamlin was legal representative of the Capital Company in its vast landed interests in the Panhandle, and in this con- nection started the town of Texico in 1905 and that of Farwell in 1906. In November, 1912, he was elected county judge of Parmer county and has since given a very capable administration of the fiscal affairs of this county.

The Judge is a member of the Masonic Order and of the Kappa Sigma College Fraternity. He is a Demo- crat and a member of the Christian church, At Hutchi- son, Kansas, in 1906, he married Miss Kathryne Nichols, a native of Texas and daughter of W. H. Nichols, her parents are still living. Judge Hamlin is well known in the Pauhandle and is a man of broad ideas and di- versified activities.

PAUL WHITFIELD HORN. Probably no educator of Texas has more nearly realized the ideals of civic lead- ership than Professor Horn, the superintendent of the Houston publie school system. Professor Horn is a teacher with many years of successful experience in the- practical duties of the school room. Since 1904 he has made a splendid record in building up and developing the Houston system of public schools, and that the local school system has ranked and excelled any of the South- ern cities is chiefly due to Professor Horn's superior ability as a manager and director. Aside from this work directly connected with his profession, however, Pro- fessor Horn has been almost equally well known as a citizen of Houston, one of the leaders whose influence and counsel are considered necessary in all the larger community undertakings, and whose name properly be- longs in that group of public spirited men and women who have done most to create and develop the larger and fuller life of this city.

Paul Whitfield Horn is a native of Booneville, Mis-

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souri. His father was born in Logan county, Kentucky, and the mother at Booneville, Missouri. Rev. George W. Horn was for many years a Methodist minister and the scenes of his pastoral labors were chiefly in Missouri and Texas.

Completing his literary education at the Central Col- lege in Fayette, Missouri, where he graduated in 1888 and subsequently attained the degree of A. M., Professor Horn taught one term of rural school before his gradua- tion, and then, from 1889 to 1892, was teacher in the Pryor Institute in Jasper, Tennessee. During the last three years he was president of the institute. Coming to Texas in 1892, he spent one year as teacher in Valley View, in Cooke county, and for two years at Belcher- ville, in Montague county, after which he took the prin- cipalship of the high school at Sherman. Professor Horn is highly esteemed in Sherman, where he spent nine years as an educator and upbuilder of the public school system. He was principal of the high school from 1895 to 1897, and then became superintendent of the city schools, continuing in that position until 1904. In the latter year he came to Houston as superintendeut and will soon have entered upon his tenth year as head of the local schools.

From 1905 to 1912 Professor Horn, with the excep- tion of the summer of 1911, was one of the teachers in the summer school at the University of Texas, at Austin, and during 1911 taught in the summer school of Tulane University, at New Orleans. He has contributed nu- merous articles to, newspapers and reviews on educa- tional subjects, and has often written concerning civic problems. With Mr. A. N. McCallum he is author of the "New Century Spelling Book," published in 1908; with Mr. W. S. Sntton, is author of "School Room Essen- tials," published in 1911, and is author of "Best Things in Our Schools," published in 1914. Professor Horn has membership in the National Educational Association. in the Southern Educational Association, in the Texas State Teachers' Association, of which he was president in 1910, and is a member of the board of directors of the Carnegie Library at Houston, of the Houston Music As- sociation, and of the Houston Art League. His church is the Methodist and he has membership in the Houston Rotary Club and the Southern Benevolent League.

On August 28, 1900, Professor Horn married Miss Maud Keith, a daughter of Rev. J. H. Keith, a Metho- dist minister, of Cleveland, Tennessee. They have one daughter, Ruth Horn. Their home is a+ 228 Emerson avenne, in Houston.

JONATHAN LANE, member of the legal firm of Lane, Wolters & Storey, attorneys, prominently known in Hous- ton and in this section of the state, is one of the leaders among his profession and a man of prominence in po- litical circles of the state. Mr. Lane is a native son of Texas, born in Fayette county, on October 15, 1855, and he is the son of Rev. Charles Joseph and Ellen E. (Crockett) Lane. The father was a native of Alabama and the mother of Tennessee. She was a niece of David Crockett of Alamo fame, and it was in her native state that she met and married her husband. They came to Texas in 1853, settled in Fayette county, where the senior Lane was a minister of the Methodist church and for many years presiding elder of the Austin d.strict. Rev. Lane also identified himself with the mercantile and planting business, and, though he retired from the min- istry some few years before his death, he continued his mercantile and farming activities until the end of his days.

Jonathan Lane received his education at private schools in Texas, and he studied law at home, gaining admission to the bar in 1882. In 1885 he commenced the active practice of his chosen profession at LaGrange, Texas, and in 1899 moved to Houston, becoming a men- ber of the law firm of Brown, Lane & Garwood, which

later came to be changed to read Lane, Wolters Storey.

Mr. Lane was a member of the Texas Senate from 1887 to 1891, and while it is true that this is the one political office he has held thus far, he has been very active in the councils of the state Democratie party. He has been a member of the committee on platforms and resolutions at every state Democratic convention since 1888, with but a single exception, and he has been largely instrumental in the formation of the platforms of his party, both in the way of bringing about the insertion of proper planks and the keeping out of detri- mental ideas such as he considered to be not wholly in keeping with the full principle of Democracy. In 1892 he was chairman of the Texas State Democratie Con- vention, and has given other service of a like character.

Mr. Lane has been active in the commercial welfare of Texas, as well as in her political life, and has taken a hand in numerous industrial and manufacturing con- cerus that have been big sources of benefit to the gen- eral community. As general attorney and then president of the Cane Belt Railroad Company from 1889 to 1903, he and associates built one hundred and ten miles of road for the Cane Belt Railroad, now a part of the great Sauta Fe System. He is president of the Thompson Brothers Lumber Company, of Trinity, Texas, one of the largest lumber manufacturing companies of the state, with a capital of $1,500,000. Other important concerns of which he is president are the American Surety and Casualty Company of Texas, the Guarantee Life Insur- ance Company of Texas, the Southern Irrigation Com- pany of Texas, and the Pritchard Rice Milling Company of Texas. He is president of the Continental Trust Company of Texas, as well as a member of its di- rectorate, at the same time acting as a director of the Union National Bank of Houston and of the Bankers' Trust Company of Houston.

Mr. Lane is a Knights Templar Mason and Shriner and he also has membership in the Knights of Pythias.

On December 28, 1880, Mr. Lane was married to Miss Alma Harrison, daughter of J. M. Harrison of Flatonia, Texas, where he is a successful and prominent merchant. Mr. and Mrs. Lane reside at the Rice Hotel Annex, in Houston.

WILLIS T. BISHOP. Now filling the office of mayor of San Angelo, Willis T. Bishop is one of the most popular and at the same time one of the most successful business men of that city. His home has been in San Angelo for many years; every one in the city pays him the tribute of esteem, and it is in recognition of his ability as a citizen that he was given the present office. The reputation for honesty and fair dealing which Mr. Bishop has attained as a business man has been further strengthened since his advent into public life. He real- izes what it means to be a servant of the people and his ideal is not to serve one party or section of the com- munity, but the whole body.

Willis T. Bishop, who is of Scotch and English descent, was born at Griffin, Georgia, on May 27, 1859. His father was Willis M. Bishop, a native of Georgia, and who before the war was a large planter, and also oper- ated a mercantile business at Griffin. With the outbreak of the war between the states he enlisted in the Con- federate army, became captain of a company and saw active service during the struggle between the North and the South. He participated in many important en- gagements, and finally met his death on the fifth of the "Seven Day" battles near Richmond. That was the 26th of June, 1862, which marked the beginning of a series of disasters which finally drove the armies of Mc- Clellan and Halleck completely out of northern Virginia with the second battle of Manassas.

Willis M. Bishop married Eliza Steagall, a daughter of Rev. Ivey F. Steagall, a prominent minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, who worked and

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preached in Georgia, and was presiding elder for a num- ber of years. Mrs. Bishop, after the death of her hus- band, continued to live in Georgia a number of years, and in 1870 moved to Texas, where she had her home until her death in 1884 at Henderson. She was the mother of three children, two of whom are still living.

Willis T. Bishop was a small boy when his mother moved to Texas, and his education largely obtained in the latter state. The public schools afforded him the fundamentals, and when old enough to enter college he matriculated at Tulane University, in New Orleans. After studying there during 1888-9, he de- termined to leave his books aud get into business for himself. His first venture was as a druggist, and he lo- cated in San Angelo in 1890 in that capacity. His health began to fail and caused him to sell his business in 1893, but later he resumed his relations with the busi- ness community as a general merchant. In that busi- ness he has continued up to the present time and has been very successful.

The political career of Mr. Bishop began in 1906, when he was elected a member of the city council of San Angelo. He served as such during 1906-07, and, when elected mayor in April, 1912, he entered upon the duties of that office with considerable practical experi- ence in municipal government. He is now filling the executive chair to the entire satisfaction of those who placed him in office. Mr. Bishop is a member of the Democratic party and has taken much interest in party affairs and gives his services wherever they are needed. He affiliates with the Masonic Order, the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and the Woodmen of the World. His church is the Baptist, and for about ten years he has been a deacon in that society.

On October 29, 1884, Mr. Bishop and Miss Jennie Birdwell were married. Mrs Bishop is a daughter of Colonel Allen and Jane Birdwell, of Mt. Enterprise, Texas. Colonel Birdwell was a large landed proprietor in the days before the war, and a prominent citizen, rep- resenting his district in the legislature for several terms, and a man whose name was known much beyond the limits of his home locality. He died in 1893 at the good old age of ninety-two. His wife also lived to old age, passing away in 1903, when eighty-three years old. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop are the parents of three children, one of whom is deceased. The other two are Miss Addie Bishop and Metz Bishop.

ALPHEUS D. STROUD, M. D. More than fifty years of devotion to his profession is the record of Alpheus D. Stroud, M. D., a veteran physician of Henderson, Texas; more than fifty years of his life given to the calling which be chose as bis life work in young man- hood; more than a half a century of time spent in the alleviation of the ills of mankind. Such indeed is a faithful service, a record in which any mau might feel a reasonable degree of pride. Today, although well advanced in years, bis tall, erect and well-built figure is still to be seen on the streets, and his alert and energetic mind continues to answer every call made upon it along the lines of his honored vocation. Doctor Stroud was born in Chambers county, Alabama, March 29, 1839, and is a son of Mark and Sarah (Trammell) Stroud.

The original ancestor of this family in America was Mark Stroud, who came to this country from England, a refugee from the minions of the crown who wished his punishment as a follower of Cromwell the regicide. He settled in Georgia, it is believed, and his advent to the American shore would necessarily be soon after 1661, when Cromwell's commonwealth came to an end. Eli Stroud, the grandfather of Dr. Alpheus D. Stroud, was a Georgia planter and slaveholder, and died in Russell county, Alabama, in 1867, when about ninety years of age. Among his several children was Mark Stroud, who was born in Walton county, Georgia, in January, 1812,

came to Texas in 1839 and settled in what was then Robertson county, but now a part of the domain of Rusk county. He had been married in Chambers county, Alabama, to Miss Sarah Trammell, and the journey to Texas was made overland by wagon. After a short sojourn in Robertson county they moved to Nacogdoches proper and subsequently came into the present bound- aries of Rusk county and settled, ultimately, northeast of Henderson, where the father passed his remaining active years in farming and died in Rusk in December, 1888. Prior to the outbreak of the war between the states he was a member of the lower house of the state legislature, and always aided and abetted in the success of the democratic party. He opposed secession, like Houston, but unlike that old warrier he came to the support of the Confederate cause with what means he could command, and with his sons, one of whom died in an army hospital in Kentucky. Mark Stroud was a Methodist, and died in that faith in 1888, the same year in which his wife passed away. She was a daughter of John Trammell, a Georgia man who died in Chambers county, Alabama. Mr. Trammell married Mary Dickin- son, and Sarah was one of their ten children and the only one to make her residence in Texas. The children born to Mark and Sarah Stroud were as follows: Mary E., who married William F. Richards and died in Timp- son, Texas; Ethan Allen, who was the soldier who died in Kentucky; Alpheus D., of this review; America, who married W. M. Masson, of Henderson; and Sarah, who is the widow of F. H. Obertbier, of Henderson.

Alpheus D. Stroud has been a resident of Rusk county since 1845. For his higher education he attended school at Lafayette, Alabama, and, choosing medicine as his life work, studied in the New Orleans School of Medi- cine, an institution from which he was graduated in March, 1861. Before he could take up the practice he enlisted to the call of arms, and was commissioned assist- ant surgeon of the Tenth Texas, in the Confederate service, and was with the Army of the Tennessee through all its various struggles and achievements in the thick of the war. He was under fire frequently while on duty and ministered to the wounded on a score of bloody fields, his engagements including Richmond (Kentucky), Chickamauga, Murfreesboro, Missionary Ridge and Look- out Mountain, Resaca, Dalton, Ringgold Gap, New Hope Church, Kennesaw Mountain, where he witnessed from the heights the fascinating panorama of the whole Fed- eral army forming and marching below and the firing of cannon and maneuvering of troops as the forces of the north closed in on the retreating soldiers of Joseph E. Johnston toward Atlanta. He attended the wounded at Peach Tree Creek and at Jonesboro, and when Atlanta fell his immediate command became, by transfer, the Fifteenth Confederate Cavalry that reinforced Mobile and turned its front toward Fort Claiborne on the Ala- bama river subsequently, and was soon surrendered to the Union forces operating in that section. Doctor Stroud was paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, and given transportation to Shreveport, Louisiana, from which point he continued on foot to his Texas home. His war record is an excellent one and his memory is enshrined in the hearts of many of his old comrades whose distress and pain he was able to assuage on the field of strife.

During the four years that he was in the army, Doctor Stroud gained a wide experience in his profession, and he at once took up practice on the old home farm near Henderson. A year later he moved to the county seat and here he has lived continuously since January 1, 1867. He is the oldest physician in the county and few in Texas of his age are actively dispensing relief to the sick and afflicted. He attended the initial pro- ceedings toward the forming of a local medical society and is an ex-president of the Rusk County Medical So- ciety, holding membership also in the Texas State and American Medical Associations. Doctor Stroud is a Democrat without a record in active politics. His

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Masonic connections are with the Blue Lodge and Chapter and no man has enjoyed in greater degree the respect and esteem of his fellow members. A consistent member of the Presbyterian church, he is now serving as elder, and has frequently officiated as a delegate to synods and presbyteries and several of the general assemblies of the church.

Doctor Stroud was married (first) in Rusk county, Texas, in June, 1865, to Miss Fannie G. Rogers, a daughter of John Rogers, who came to Texas from Georgia. Mrs. Stroud died in 1884, the mother of these children: Minnie, who is the wife of E. C. Hearne, of Texarkana, with these children- Ollie, Frank, William, A. D. and Worth; Miss Martha, a resident of Hender- son; Mark, of Monroe, Louisiana, who married . Pearl Sharp, and has four children-Lucile, Eva, Martha and Frances; John P., of Palestine, Texas; Albert Sidney, of Monroe, Louisiana, who married Neta White and has a son, Carl W .; and Fannie, who married Eugene Croon, of Mooringsport, Louisiana. Doctor Stroud's second marriage occurred in June, 1894, when he was united with Miss Pattie Foreman, daughter of Stephen Fore- man, a Mississippian, and one son has been born to them-Alpheus F.

CHARLES CHAUNCEY GIDNEY, M. D. In the active prac- tice of medicine in Texas, since 1892, Dr. Gidney, by his thorough training and successful experience, may easily be ranked as one of the ablest men in his profession at the present time. It is of special interest to note that the partnership of Drs. Anderson & Gidney, which was formed at Granger, Texas, in January, 1895, and still exists after nineteen years, is probably the oldest medi- cal partnership existing in the state. Dr. Gidney and partner are now practicing at Plainview, in Hale county, and are the recognized leaders of their profession in that locality.

Charles Chauncey Gidney was born May 17, 1867, at Shelby, North Carolina, a son of Capt. John W. and Mary E. (McFarland) Gidney. His father won his title and rank through service in the war between the states. Dr. Gidney has an unusually liberal and thorough edu- cational equipment. After spending two years at the University of North Carolina, in 1884-85, he was ap- pointed and was for one year a student in the United States Military Academy of West Point during 1886. He later graduated from the Eastman Business College of Poughkeepsie, New York, and soon afterwards di- rected all his efforts to fulfill his ambition for the medical profession. For some time he taught school in North Carolina, and in New York City worked as a hotel clerk. With the means acquired through these occupa- tions, he entered Louisville Medical College, in Ken- tucky, where he was graduated M. D. in 1892. On four different occasions, since beginning his career as a physician in Texas, Dr. Gidney has interrupted his prae- tice for varying lengths of time in order to take post graduate courses. He spent one term in St. Louis in 1895, and has done post-graduate work in Chicago in 1897, in 1900, and in 1902. Dr. Gidney began the gen- eral practice of medicine at Granger, Texas, in 1892, and lived there until 1910. Since the latter date he and Dr. Anderson have been in practice at Plainview.

With excellent professional success he has also inter- ested himself in business and financial affairs. While in Granger he owned several brick business houses, stock in the First National Bank, and still owns farm lands in Williamson, Nueces, Jim Wells, and Hale counties, be- sides residence and business property at Plainview.

In his political views he is a Democrat. Fraternally, his associations are with the Knights of Pythias, of which order he is district deputy grand chancellor, and also has membership in the Woodmen of the World and the Benevolent aud Protective Order of Elks. The doc- tor has the different professional associations with the medical societies. He has served as president of the Vol. IV-26

board of stewards of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Granger and at Plainview for ten years.

On November 6, 1894, at Granger, occurred his mar- riage to Miss Maggie K. Keliehor, a daughter of Col. and Mrs. William Keliehor, of Williamson county. They have the following children: Anna Marie, Daisie Eliza- beth, C. Chauncey, John William, and Janies A., the last named being now deceased.

ELMER E. WINN. In Plainview, Mr. Winn since 1908 has made a very successful record as a real estate man and practical colonizer. He does a large business, has located many contented families in the south of the Pan- handle country, and is highly esteemed by his com- munity.

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A history of Texas and Texans, Part 123

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