A history of Texas and Texans, Part 154

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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Mr. Marlow is a member and director of the Chamber of Commerce, and is identified with numerous fraternal organizations, including the M. W. A., W. O. W., B. P. O. E., I. O. O. F., and F. and A. M. In time honored Masonry he has advanced through the degrees of the Consistory and Mystic Shrine. Politically he has fol- lowed in the footsteps of his father, and as a Democrat has taken an active interest in local politics, without, however, seeking or filling public office of any kind. As a member of the Christian church, he is interested in the various branches of this work, including the Sun- day school.

Mr. Marlow was married August 23, 1898, to Miss Sophia Mataska, a native of Texas and a daughter of Mr. Joseph Mataska. They have three children, all natives of Wichita Falls, Texas, namely: Joe, born November 10, 1899; Laura, July 5, 1901, and James

B., Jr., December 31, 1908. The family residence is 2101 Ninth street.

Of Mr. Marlow's forefathers, it should be further stated that on the paternal side they came from Scot- land to America prior to the Revolutionary war and settled in Virginia. Illinois and Missouri was the home of later generations, and, as above indicated, Mr. Mar- low's father was born in Missouri. His maternal grand- father was an Irishman and his maternal grandmother was of Scotch origin. And with a mixture of Irish and Scotch blood which came to him through pioneer and warrior parentage, he was equipped to win his own way in the world, and this he has done through his own persevering energies.

HON. A. H. CARRIGAN. For thirty years a member of the Texas bar, and a former judge of the district court, Judge Carrigan is head of the law firm of Carrigan, Montgomery & Brittain, one of the strongest legal part- nerships in Wichita Falls.

He was born at Hempstead, Arkansas, May 12, 1860. The founder of the American branch of the Carrigans was William Carrigan, an Irishman, who settled in Cabarrus county, of North Carolina, just before the Revolutionary war, in which war he served as a soldier of the American army, and was a farmer by occupa- tion. On the maternal side, the ancestry also was among the early settlers of North Carolina. The father of Mr. Carrigan of Wichita Falls was A. H. Carrigan, Sr., who was born in North Carolina, moved to Arkansas in Is51, becoming one of the pioneers of that state and a very prominent man. He is at the present writing one of the two survivors of Secession Convention of Arkansas, which voted Arkansas into the Confederacy on May 6, 1861. He also served as a soldier in Company H of the Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, was captain of his company, and afterwards appointed to lieutenant- colonel. He was neither wounded or taken prisoner, but was discharged on account of disabilities. He served as a member of the House of Representatives and in the Senate of Arkansas, was county judge of Hempstead county, and was actively identified with public affairs in that state for many years. He was born in 1828 and now lives at the advanced age of eighty-five in Hope, Arkansas. He has been a cotton planter, before the war owned a few slaves and has met with a fair share of material prosperity. He married Mary Moore, who was born in North Carolina, a daughter of Samuel Moore, who moved to Arkansas in 1855. She died in 1901 at the age of seventy-one, and was the mother of nine children, of whom the Wichita Falls lawyer was third.

Judge Carrigan received his literary education in the University of Arkansas, and then attended the Cumberland University of Lebanon, Tennessee. He graduated from the University of Arkansas A. B. and received his LL. B. degree from Cumberland University in 1883. In the same year he took up the active prac- tice of law in Texarkana, Texas, where he remained for several years and in 1888 became a permanent resi- dent of Wichita Falls, where he is among the oldest lawyers.

Judge Carrigan has always been one of the firm Democrats in this section of the state and for twelve years has served as district judge, having first been elected in 1898. He is a Knights Templar Mason, also belongs to the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and is a director of the Chamber of Commerce. His church is the Presbyterian.

At Wichita Falls, December 10, 1901, he married Miss Lulu Barwise, a native of Missouri, and a daugh- ter of J. H. and Lucy Barwise. The four children born to their marriage are: Annie, a student in the State University of Texas; Alfred; Joseph, and Elizabeth. Judge Carrigan is a member of the County Bar Asso- ciation, and as head of his law firm enjoys a good prac- tice in all the courts of Wichita county.

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REV. WILLIAM D. HAMMACK. The life record of Rev. William D. Hammack since his coming to Kaufman county in 1574, is one notable not alone for his achieve- ments in the fields of agriculture and finance, but also for his long and zealous service in the work of his Master. Coming here with but little save his youthful strength of heart, ambition and determination to win, he has accumulated a handsome financial competency and has gained also what few men achieve, the esteem and love of those with whom he has passed so many years. Rev. Hammack was born in Lee county, Ala- bama, February 15, 1953, and was reared on a small farm and in an upright though bumble home. His father was William B. Hammack, who owned a few slaves and identified himself with Alabama in the flush of young manhood. He was born in Georgia in 1826, and it is believed that he left his native state about the year 1840, although the early separation of our subject from his parents and his continued living apart from them precluded his acquiring data regarding the identity of his forebears of the intimate facts of his immediate family. William B. Hammack married a neighbor girl, Miss Susan Ligon, and they passed their lives within a quarter of a mile of where they established their first home. Mr. Hammack, in some manner, acquired a lib- eral education, for he taught school in young manhood and was fitted for equal competition with his fellow farmers in the race of life. He entered the Confederate army while the war between the south and north was in progress and was with General Pemberton's troops when they surrendered at Vicksburg in 1863. He was a supporter of democratic principles, and in his religious belief was a devout Missionary Baptist. He and his wife were the parents of the following children: Eugenia, who married Robert Short and died at Columbus, Georgia; William D., whose name introduces this re- view; Pascal H., who died at Abilene, Texas; John D., who is carrying on operations on the old family home in Alabama; Lee, who resides at Columbus, Georgia ; Villis W., who passed away at Crandall, Texas; Joseph, who died at Abilene, Texas; and Inez, who is the wife of Robert MeKinney, of Young county, Texas.

William D. Hammack was urged by the spirit of em- pire to seek the West in his youth. He left home with the blessings of his parents at the age of nineteen years and went by rail from Loachapoka, Alabama, to New Orleans, where he took passage on a Mississippi steamer for Jefferson, Texas, reaching that point after some ten days of travel. He and his companion, Robert MeKinney, who subsequently became his brother-in-law, boarded a Dallas freight ox-wagon at Jefferson and spent about ten days covering the distance between that old historie town and the future metropolis at the forks of the Trinity. Their destination was Collin county, where Mr. MeKinney's people lived, and the morning following his arrival Mr. Hammack started the serious part of his independent career.

As a beginning, Mr. Hammack accepted employment with a farmer, Henry Smith, in Dallas county, at nine dollars a month, and remained with him for a period of three months. His next employer was J. E. Garrett, who appreciated his services to the extent of paying him twenty-five dollars for two months' work, and the next six months be spent with William Housley, at twenty dollars per month, which concluded his first year of life in Texas. During these several months he improved an opportunity looking toward a life companionship, and in November, 1873, when but twenty years of age, he married.

Mr. Hammack began the year 1874 as a hand at twenty dollars per month and board for "the two" with Joe Sullivan and closed the year with the suggestion of a "nest-egg" which made an end of his career as a farm laborer. In 1874 he rented land in that locality and in the fall moved into Kaufman county with his few family effects and his one horse, which later he had the

misfortune to lose. The next two years he worked on shares with P. E. Yates, and out of his profits equipped himself with a team, and, for the first time, exercised some independence as a farmer. He then began rent- ing land for the "third and fourth" and continued it until 1885, when, having accumulated a small bunch of cattle and a little surplus money, he moved to Hamil- ton county, Texas, with the hope of becoming, some day, a cattle baron of Central Texas. Just what hap- pened to alter his plans so suddenly does not appear, but within ten months after his departure from Kauf- man county he was back here, minus his stock and some of his money, but, with commendable perseverance, ready to recuperate his losses behind the plow. Sub- sequently he bargained for a small tract of land three miles north of Crandall, a property containing fifty- five acres, which he could have purchased some years before at five dollars an acre and for which he had possessed the money-but for which he now paid thirty dollars an acre, giving five notes for the balance of the purchase money. The little house on the farm sheltered his family and served as his home, with its changes and its successor, for many years, and here he wit- nessed some of the most prosperous years of his active life. He brought the traet all under cultivation, pur- chased the five notes as they came due, added other lands to his tax values from time to time and even- tually accumulated two hundred and fifty acres, which, with other material possessions, form the substantial character of his holdings at the present time.

In 1899 Mr. Hammack moved into Crandall and for a few years remained in active conduct of his rural affairs from this point. He was one of the early settlers of the new towns, and built his home and a brick business house as his contribution to the development of the community. He is vice president of the First National Bank of Crandall and a member of its official board. While he has accomplished with much eredit the task of rearing and educating his family, he has not neglected the spiritual side of man's nature. He was reared in a home where Christian influence prevailed, but his own conversion was delayed until 1874, when at a meeting at Big Springs, near Dallas, his heart was touched under the preaching of Rev. Lockhart and he surrendered and offered his services in some manner to the forces striv- ing against sin. A voice called him to preach, and he qualified by ordination in 1887 at the Mount Calvary church, north of Crandall. He entered actively into the work of pastor and into the auxiliary work of the church and filled several charges about the country, including a service of eight years as pastor of the church where he was ordained. He continued the work unfil 1910, when his physical condition rendered bim in- capable of effective and efficient service and he aban- doned active connection with the ministry as well as his business affairs. He was a member of the East Fork Baptist Association, which co-operated with the Church party during the split in the Baptist church of Texas.

Mr. Hammack married Miss Mary E. Rogers, whose father spent his last years and died in Scott county, Texas. She was born near Forrest, Mississippi, in 1854, and she and her husband became the parents of the following children: Russell P., a farmer of Kaufman county, who married Maggie MeShann; Henry M., who is engaged in farming near Kemp, Texas; John D., a resi- dent of Groesbeck. Texas, who married Lula Tyra; and Martha, who is Mrs. J. W. Webb, of Bosque county, Texas. The mother of these children died in 1892. On January 4, 1893, in Kaufman county, Mr. Hammack married the second time, Mrs. J. M. Yates, who was Ruth Seaberry, a daughter of Oliver and Susan (Har- per) Seaberry, native of Georgia. The father was a prominent planter and farmer. By her first marriage the present Mrs. Hammack had seven children, five of whom are living, two dying in infancy. Although re- tired from active participation in business affairs, Mr.

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Hammack still evinces a keen interest in all that affects the welfare of his community, where his well-known in- tegrity, probity and force of character give him a dis- tinct influence in the forming of public opinion.

THOMAS H. JACKSON. Now manager for the real es- tate department of the Central Texas Exchange Com- pany at Waco, Mr. Jackson has had a long and success- ful career in business affairs at Waco. Starting in as a clerk with a mercantile house, he was for seventeen years continuously identified with tthe fortunes of that firm, and rose to a responsible place in its employ. Since then he has been chiefly interested in real estate, and many regard him as the best posted man on realty values and property conditions in the city.

Thomas H. Jackson was born at Bremond, Robertson county, Texas, February 3, 1876. His father, George W. Jackson, who was born in Mexico, Missouri, in 1841, came to Texas when a child, was for many years a hotel proprietor at Wootan Wells, in Robertson county, and his death occurred in 1898. The mother's maiden name was Lula M. Bennett, who was born in Mississippi in 1840, and still lives at Waco. Their four children were Thomas H., Lula C., George F. and Willie.

Educated in the Waco public schools, Thomas H. Jack- son entered upon the serious business of life when twenty years of age, as an employee in the office of Goldstein- Migel Company. For ten years he was a bookkeeper and cashier, and for the following seven years was manager of the credit department in that establishment. With a record of seventeen years with one firm, he left to take up an independent business, and for one year was in the real estate business with N. T. Cheatam as partner. The Jackson and Munnerlyn Company was then organ- ized for the handling of real estate, but at the end of two years Mr. Jackson sold his interest to Mr. Peoples. Then in 1913 he took the management of the real estate department of the Central Texas Exchange Trust Com- pany, and.in this connection has the supervision of ex- tensive and valnable interests, affecting the large cli- entage with which the company does business.

Mr. Jackson was first married at Waco, December 14, 1902, to Carrie B. Washington, who died September 5, 1909. She left one child, Mildred. On August 6, 1911, Mr. Jackson married Catherine H. Bartholew. Frater- nally he is a Mason, and is prominent in the Methodist church affairs, being steward in the Austin Street church, secretary to the presiding elder and assistant secretary of the church. He is also secretary of the Waco Adver- tising Club, of Waco, and a director of the State Asso- ciated Advertising Clubs. He is a member of the Young Men's Business League and the Waco Young Men's Christian Association. Mr. Jackson evinces a fondness for all outdoor sports, but his business and his home are the interests nearest his heart.

GAYLORD N. BEBOUT. An individual thoroughly versed in the laws of the country, as distinguished from the busi- ness man or the politician, has always been a recognized power. He bas ever been depended npon to conserve the best and permanent interests of the whole people of his community, and without those like bim and of bis prac- tical judgment, his deep knowledge and his thorough training, the efforts of the statesman and the industry of the worker in the marts of trade and commerce and the labors of the mechanic would go for naught. The reason is not far to seek; the lawyer is never the creature of chance or circumstance. The profession is open only to talent, and no definite prestige or success can be at- tained therein save by the utmost perseverance, indom- itable energy, tireless patience and strong mentality.

Among the distinguished members of the Texas legal profession who have risen to prominence in their chosen calling through the possession of these qualities, Gaylord N. Bebout holds a leading position. Although a resi- dent of this city only since 1913, he has already firmly

established himself in the confidence of the people of Waco, and in the field of real estate, insurance, corpora- tion, bonding and civil law has shown himself a worthy opponent for any member of the bar. Mr. Bebout was born in Knox county, Ohio, June 27, 1878, and is a son of Aaron S. and Louisa Olive (Newell) Bebout. His father, a native of Beaver county, Pennsylvania, was born February 7, 1848, removing to Knox county, Ohio, in early youth, and there grew up in a rural com- munity, early adopting the tilling of the soil as the me- dium through which he would rise to success. He con- tinued to be engaged in agricultural pursuits in Ohio until 1882, when he came to Texas and settled in Coryell county, having decided that the West offered better op- portunities than either the eastern or middle western states. Here he settled on a ranch, devoted himself to the sheep and cattle business, and through industry, good management and well directed effort accumulated a competency, so that he was able to retire and enjoy the fruits of his early years of labor. At this time he is living quietly at Gatesville, and is known as a capitalist, owning considerable stock in several banks in different parts of the state, as well as a number of farm proper- ties in the vicinity of Gatesville. His life bas been one of industry, and his transactions have always been char- acterized by the utmost integrity, so that he retains the respect and esteem of his fellow-men in marked degree. Mr. Bebout was married in Ohio, to Miss Louisa Olive Newell, who was born in the Buckeye State, April 6, 1851, and they became the parents of one son: Gay- lord N.

Mr. Bebout received his early education in the public schools of Gatesville, Texas, having been brought to Texas as a lad of four years, following which he at- tended the schools of Winfield, Kansas, his parents re- siding at that place for a short time. When his pre- liminary training was completed, he entered Emporia College, Emporia, Kansas, where he spent three years in that institution, and later spent two years in Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio. Having decided upon a legal career, Mr. Bebout next entered the law department of the University of Michigan, at Ann Arbor, and in 1905 was graduated from that institution with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. He at once opened an office at Vinita, Oklahoma, having been admitted to the bar of that state as well as to the Supreme Courts of Michigan and Kan- sas, and in the thriving Oklahoma town continued to be engaged in practice until 1913, at which time be came to Waco and opened an office at 809 Amicable Life In- surance Building. Here he has continued in the enjoy- ment of a large and representative professional business, making a specialty of real estate, insurance, corporation, bonding and civil law. One of Mr. Bebout's chief char- acteristics is the careful manner in which he prepares his cases and the accurate and systematic manner in which he draws up his legal papers. His preparation has been thorough, his study is still continuous, and he is rarely at a loss to find a precedent for any contin- gency which arises. Among his fellow-practitioners he is respected as a legist who follows the unwritten ethics of the profession, and whose courtesy and gentlemanly bearing make him an honored opponent. In his business operations, Mr. Bebout has been very successful, and a. this time be has a number of properties, including valu- able stock in the Texas Fidelity and Bonding Company of Waco.

Mr. Bebout was married at Dunkirk, New York, Sep- tember 12, 1901, to Miss Effie Esler Mann, the daughter of Horace A. Mann. Mr. Mann is widely known in amusement circles all over the United States, being man- ager of the contract department for such great amuse- ment enterprises as Barnum & Bailey and Forepaugh Brothers great circuses, a position he has held for many years. At this time he resides at Syracuse, New York, and is well known in business circles of that city. One child has been born to Mr. and Mrs. Bebont: Gaylord

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N., Jr. Mr. Bebout is a member of the Young Men's Business League, and is a prominent Mason, belonging to the Cousistory of McAllister, and the Shrine at Tulsa, Oklahoma. He finds his greatest pleasure in his home, however, and he has never allowed fraternities or politics to lure him therefrom. He and Mrs. Bebout are con- sistent members of the Congregational church, and she has more than a local reputation as a vocalist, being a leading member of the Eulepica Club, a singing organ- ization.

CRATE DALTON. The pioneer in the stock aud bond brokerage business in McLennan county, Crate Dalton has long been identified with the movements and activi- ties which have made Waco one of the leading cities of Texas, and both in the business field and the political arena has displayed characteristics which have com- mended him to the people. Still a young man, he has accomplished much through enterprise and initiative, and his career since his college days has been one o1 constant activity and consecutive advancement. Mr. Dalton is a Kentuckian by nativity, but a Texan by training. He was born December 19, 1879, at Mayfield, Kentucky, and is a son of George W. and Cordelia Dalton. George W. Dalton was born in Springfield, Tennessee, in 1843, was there married, and subsequently went to Kentucky, from whence he came to the Lone Star state in 1881 and set- tled in McLennan county. Here he engaged in agri- cultural pursuits during the remainder of his life and passed away in 1912, at the age of sixty-nine years. Cor- delia (Highsmith) Dalton was also born at Springfield, Tennesseee, in 1847, and still survives her husband, being a resident of Coryell county, Texas. They were the par- ents of ten children, as follows: Alice, Martin V., Marcus P., Tolbert, Crate, Teresa, George W., Jr., Gilbert, Har- vey and Leonard.

Crate Dalton began his education in the public schools of MeLennan county, whence he had been brought as a child of two years, and subsequently entered Baylor University, from which institution he was graduated in 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts. One of the foremost pupils of his class, during his last year at col- lege he won the oratorical contest for his school in com- petition with representatives from six other leading uni- versities of the state. Following his graduation, Mr. Dalton took up educational work, and for six months was engaged in teaching in the public schools and Bar- ton College, but this work did not appeal to him and he eventually turned his attention to other pursuits. In 1910 he became the pioneer of the stock and bond broker- age business in McLennan county, when he opened offices at No. 301 Amicable building, Waco, and since that time he has built up a large and representative clientele in this field. Mr. Dalton has large landed interests, having two farms in Coryell county, comprising 226 acres, and 1482 acres in Gaines county, the latter being leased and used as ranch land. He is also the owner of his own modern home at No. 2022 Barrett street. Mr. Dalton has long been interested in political matters, and his publie spirit and loyal devotion to Waco's best inter- ests brought him favorably before the public in 1914, when he was a candidate for the office of mayor on the Democratic prohibition ticket. Fraternally he is a Ma- son, and he also holds membership in the Young Men's Business League, of which he was first vice president for one year and a member of the board of directors for four years. With his family he attends the Baptist church, and has been liberal in his support of its various move- ments. He is fond of fishing and spends much of his spare time at the sport, but finds his greatest pleasure in his home.

Mr. Dalton was married at Oglesby, Coryell county, Texas, June 28, 1903, to Miss Susie C. Isbell, daughter of George P. Isbell, a retired farmer now living in Waco. To this union there have come two children: Lowell, born May 15, 1905; and Lena F., born July 29, 1910.

JAMES M. MILSTEAD entered the realty field as a dealer only in 1912, yet he has already attained prestige in this his chosen field, and through his activities and well- directed operations has served to promote the best inter- ests of Waco and the surrounding territory. To the ener- gies of those who devote their attention to the exploita- tion of real estate, every community owes much for its growth and development, and the really successful oper- ator and he who gains the most in the long run is he who advances the community's interests while furthering his own. Mr. Milstead undoubtedly belongs to this class, and to his energy and initiative Waco is indebted for the development of several sections. Mr. Milstead was born August 21, 1873, in Smith county, Texas, and is a son of John L. and Mildred (Ragsdale) Milstead.

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A history of Texas and Texans, Part 154

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