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Ile was married in Cleburne April 3, 1884, to May Julia, the daughter of Dr. T. D. Loranee (often mentioned elsewhere in this volume: find his sketeh by the index), and his children are: Jessie, Bolyne, Claude, Alonzo C., Jr., and Lorance; the first two are deceased.
N. F. HIGGins, eity editor of the Cle. burne Chronicle, was born in 1864, at Grand View, the son of A. J. and Josephine (Echols) Higgins. His father was engaged in the live-stoek business, was one of the associate justiees of the county before the war, and died in September, 1883, at Grand View; and his mother afterward moved to Cleburne, where she died in 1885. From the age of fourteen to seventeen years he was in attend- ance at Add Ran College at Thorp's Spring; then for three years he was engaged in the
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drug business at Grand View and Whitney. Next he entered the office of the Cleburne Telegram and learned the printing trade; in 1556 he went into the office of the Cleburne Chronicle and set type for a year, and then became city editor.
September 20, 1888, he married Miss Ela May Poole, a native of Cleburne and a daugh- ter of R. A. Poole. She died August 12, 1889. During the same year he purchased and ran the Tri-Weekly Enterprise of Cle- burne for several months, with financial sue- cess. His health failing he sold the paper to A. II. Yeager, and he was siek for several months. Recovering, he traveled, collecting debts for a business man, and since then he has been connected with the Chronicle again.
He was elected city seeretary April 7, 1891, and he is also secretary and manager for the Electric-Lighting Company in Cle- burne. lle is a member of the order of Knights of Pythias, and is a very intelligent, polite and accommodating gentleman.
As an example of editorial rhetorie we give the following, from the Cleburne Chroni- ele of September 5, 1879, on a stale subject, the reporter using commercial language in a new role: "A large and well assorted stock of fights have been received in this market and are being rapidly disposed of. The prices are about as usual, ranging from $2.50 to $10, trimmings being charged for as extras. The old reliable, time-honored . knock-down- and-drag-out' style seems to be rapidly growing in favor. It is very efficient and generally gives satisfaction; the price is reasonable. The old and barbarons . pistol-
and-coffee' style is rapidly going into disuse, thanks to our efficient marshal, who is doing all in his power to discourage it. Among the new styles we notice the following: thumping on the head with billiard cues, quirts and things; 'you're another' and . you're another' three times; . turn mne loose and let me get to fum,' ete. Gentlemen in want of a first-class fight will remember that they are not required to pay their money and take their choice, but they have a right to take their choice before they pay. After you have procured your fight the marshal will show you around to the captain's office, where every attention will be shown you; and his honor, who has a complete priee list of all kinds of fights, will tell you how much yours is worth to n cent."
The Weekly Telegram was the second pa- per established in Cleburne, A. J. Byrd being its founder and editor, while W. II. Byrd was the business manager. It had four pages, nine columns to the page, all " home print," and yet the price was but $2 a year. The subsequent proprietors were, in turn, Mr. Senter, A. II. Yeager, Perey Simonds, A. II. Yeager again,- - who consolidated it with the Tri- Weekly News, which had been founded and run a year by Solomon Lockett, and formed the Enterprise, during the prohi- bition eampaign of 1887, and devoted to that cause. This was at first a tri-weekly, of five columns to the page; for a time it was a daily. January 1, 1890, it was purchased by T. L. Sanders, who now condnets it as a local newspaper, seven columns to the page. Mr. Sanders is a native of Louisiana, born
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in Minden, in 1864, his father English and his mother native American. At the age of eight years he came with the family to Texas, settling in Coryell county, where he learned the printer's trade; and since 1877 he has been a resident of Cleburne, engaged in print- ing and journalism. At first he was employed here by Graves & Yeager.
Ile is married, having a wife and child. Ile and his wife and five others had a narrow escape from drowning in West Buffalo creek during the flood of 1887, an account of which is given on page 61
The Cleburne Weekly Bulletin was started about August 1, 1880, by the " Bulletin Publishing Company." A. J. Byrd, editor, mal W. II. Byrd, business manager. It was then the largest paper in the county, and the material of the office all new. It had four pages, with nine columns to the page, all " home print." This paper is now the Alva- rado Bulletin, which see under a subsequent head.
The Cleburne Tribune, published at the next corner north of the First National Bank, was established in March, 1856, by Dr. An- drew Young and W. 11. Graves. It was then a seven-column folio, independent in politics, but with a strong sympathy for the " Labor" element, which has since developed into a great party. In 1887 it was enlarged to an eight-column, four-page paper, of which size it still remains, and still with the old sympa- thies for the rising party. It has always been published as a weekly.
Mr. Graves, who is now the proprietor and editor, was born in Indiana, January 8, 1820.
llis father was a native of Massachusetts and of English ancestry, and his mother a native of Genesee county, New York, and of Irish parentage. llis boyhood was spent in a tannery, but ever since he was a grown man he has been in the printing-office as printer and journalist, except that during ten years, including the war period, he was engaged in mercantile business in Missouri, of which State he was a resident from 1835 to 1870. In 1838 he went to Jefferson City, where he was married. While living in Missouri he was a member of the Legislature from Springfield, and Register of the United States Land Office during Buchanan's ad- ministration.
He came to Texas about twenty years ago, stopping first at Fort Worth for awhile, and for the last seventeen years he has been a resident of Cleburne. The first year here, near Cleburne, he followed farming, and then, in 1873, in partnership with B. B. Paddock, purchased the Fort Worth Democrat, which is now the Fort Worth Gazette, the principal paper of that city. On his return to Cleburne he took ebarge of the Chronicle office, be- longing to his brother, but was soon after purchased by himself and Mr. A. II. Yeager, and was connected with it until 1881. Ile is a Freemason and a member of the Legion of Honor.
lle has a son who graduated at Yale Col- lege in 1872, and is now living in Hartford, Conneetient, where he is superintendent of the public schools. Another son, the young- est of the family, is living at Springfield, Missouri; and there are two daughters; one
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living at St. Louis, Missouri, and the other at Independence, same State.
The Johnson County Review, the latest venture in Cleburne journalism, was estab- lished in the spring of 1891, by J. A. Tem- pleman and II. E. Oldfather, the first number being dated April 3. It has eight pages, five columns to the page. The office is a nice, spacious one, in the second story of the brick building at the southwest corner of the pub- lic square, where all classes of job work are well and promptly executed. The make- up of this paper is excellent, -- that is, it actually "execls" most other local papers in this part of Texas. Its specialty is the presentation of fiets concerning the advantages of Cle- burne and Johnson county, to indnee a good class of settlers, both in the country and in the town. The young, modest proprietors deserve a universal patronage.
Mr. Templeman, the city editor, is a native of Missouri, in which State he learned the printer's trade, and has been in company with Mr. Oldfather for eight years. He is a man of family. Mr. Oldfather, the business manager, has had a life-long experience in the printing-office. Both these gentlemen are Demoerats, are judicious in the manage- ment of their paper, and have an exception- ally fine manner of address.
Early in 1892 F. B. Baillio, from the Al- varado Bulletin, purchased a half and con- trolling interest in the Review, and is the editor. Mr. Baillio is one of a family of ten children. His father, Judge Gervais Baillio, was a prominent and leading man of the par- ish of Rapides, Louisiana, and was for eleven
years parish judge of Avoyelles parish. 1Ie descended from one of the original French settlers of Louisiana, and married Rebecca Leonhard, of Massachusetts parentage, -old Pilgrim stock.
Mr. Baillio was born at the village of Coco- ville, Avoyelles parish, Louisiana, February 6, 1848. In December, 1864, he enlisted in the Confederate army, in Captain Joseph A. Benjamin's company of cavalry, at that time stationed at Natchitoches, Louisiana, and served as the escort of Major-General S. B. Buckner. December 11, 1867, he left his Louisiana home for Alvarado, Johnson county, Texas, coming across the country on horse- back, and reaching Alvarado December 22, 1867. February 3, 1870, he married Miss Mattie M. Criner, daughter of Granvillo Criner, one of the first settlers of Johnson county. From that time until December, 1887, he lived at Grand View, Johnson county, Texas. Ile has had four children: Sarah Rebecca, born September 8, 1871; Helen Celeste, March 18, 1874; Martha Evans, February 9, 1877; and Gervais Gran- ville, February 10, 1881. The latter died March 4, 1881.
Leaving his parents when only nineteen years old, an inexperienced boy, with scareely any education, -- certainly not more than is possessed now-a-days by twelve-year-old boys, -Mr. Baillio's life has been a checkered one. Ile worked at anything he could find: has been a farm hand, a cotton-gin hand, a school- teacher, a farmer, a commercial tourist, a merchant, a wagoner, a cow boy, farmer again, and lastly editor. Feeling early the
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need of an education, he began just after his marriage to obtain what the war had pre- vented him from attaining, in common with so many other Southern boys. He worked hard by day, and then lay awake at night studying. Many and many a night, stimu- lated and encouraged by his noble wife, he studied after a hard day's plowing, until midnight. During 1885-'87 he plowed and hoed and paragraphed for the Alvarado Bul. letin, then owned by G. C. Fahm, and re- ceived many handsome compliments for the work he did on that paper. In December, 1887, he moved his family to Clay county, and was a farmer there until his removal to Alvarado, in January, ISS9.
In January, 1888, he bought a half inter- est in the Bulletin, and became its editor. In June following he bought the entire plant, and as sole editor and proprietor conducted that paper until February 16, 1892, when he purchased a half and controlling interest in the Johnson County Review at Cleburne, and became its editor.
munity, is really a superior man intel- leetually, and therefore socially; for we firmly believe that one cannot be highly in- tellectual without being " level-headed," social and kindly. Mr. Baillio's politeness is cosmopolitan, while his heart is as large as any man's within the circle of our ac- quaintance.
The educational department of the Review is conducted by the present city superintend- ent of schools, Prof. S. M. N. Marrs, who understands the greatest seeret of all journal- ism, namely, the necessity of colleeting and publishing news. As a curiosity, in No vember, 1891, he submitted to a vote of the teachers of the county a question to ascertain their opinion of the popularity of the follow- ing " desires," -- not indicating their own de- sires, but simply their opinion of mankind as a class, with the result here given: Life, 13; property, 7; power, 8; esteem, 7; beauty, 5; knowledge, 6; and perfection, 9. Dr. Baldwin, in his " Elementary Psychology," makes the same estimate, except that he con- siders the desire for knowledge stronger than that for beauty.
These main facts and features constitute but a meager outline of the ups and downs of Mr. Baillio's life. Ile has always been PHYSICIANS. struggling, taking for his guidance the serip- tural injunetion, " Whatsoever thon findest The present practitioners of medicine in Cleburne are Drs. T. J. and John L. Wag- ley, J. D. and T. C. Osborne, W. P. Alexan . der, J. J. Williamson, G. C. Franeis, J. R. Keating, S. A. Greenwell, Guy D. Compton, George B. Colby and J. H. Murphy. We have not intentionally omitted any name. for thy hands to do, do it with thy might." Hle never assumed any undertaking in his life but that he tried to get as near as possi- ble to the top, as he always thought there was more room there than at the bottom or about the center. Whatever advancement he has made he credits to his noble wife. Of the physicians of the past probably the Mr. Baillio, in the estimation of the com- I most noted were Drs. T. D. Lorance and
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Andrew Young. Young had been a brave cavalry Colonel in the Confederate army and a member of the Georgia Legislature, but so bitter was the warfare there against him that he iled to Texas, a community of greater liberality. Ile was fervently devoted to his friends and bitterly hated by his enemies. llere he founded the Cleburne Tribune, in company with W. II. Graves. Ile died here a few years ago, as the result of wounds re- ceived in the war twenty-five years previ- ously. Dr. Loranee came here before the war, and died in March, 1878. He did much for the interests of Cleburne.
In April, 1876, the Johnson County Medi- cal Association was organized, with the fol- lowing officers: L. H. Gebhart, president; J. R. Keating, vice-president; T. J. Wagley, recording secretary; James D. Osborne, cor- responding secretary; and W. 11. Dill, treas- urer. Meetings were held twice a month, at the dental office of Dr. W. T. Moore.
SOCIETIES.
Cleburne Lodge, No. 315, F. & A. M., received its charter June 16, 1869, and the charter officers were: James Iliner, W. M .; W. J. Hay, S. W .; B. J. Chambers, J. W. J. A. Willingham is the present Secretary.
The first Masonic building in Cleburne was erected about 1870, at the southeast cor- ner of the publie square. It was 26 x 70 feet in dimensions, and two storios high. About 1879 it was burned with all the Masonic records, so that not many particulars of the earlier history of Freemasonry here ean be given. With the insurance money the present
building was erected in the fall of 1881; it is valued at $12,000. The lodge now owns stock to the amount of $4,500, and has a cash surplus in the treasury of $600. The annual dues are 82, and the present number of members is 125.
Cleburne Chapter, No. 100, R. A. M., re- eeived its charter June 15, 1871, and the fol- lowing were the charter officers: W. O. Menefee, HI. P .; Andrew Young, K .; and John Shaffer, S. The first meeting under dispensation was held July 6, 1870, with L. J. Randall as II. P .; James Hiner, K., and Jolm Shaffer, S. The first State convo- eation was held July 5, 1871, when the fol- lowing officers were duly installed, and the chapter set to work under the charter by Jolin Matlock, D. G. II. P .: W. O. Menefee, HI. P .; Andrew Young, K .; John Shaffer, S .; L. D. MeMillen, C. II .; O. S. Heath, P. S .; O. P. Arnold, R. A. C .; J. A. Chit- wood, M. 3d V .; John Evans, M. 2d V .; N. E. Iglehart, M. 1st V .; W. J. Hayes, Treasurer; N. H. Cook, Secretary; and G. B. Turner, Guard.
The chapter now owns $5,000 stock in the Masonic building, leaving 82,500 owned by individuals. Present membership, fifty-seven. Annual dues, 81.20. J. A. Willingham, Seere- tary.
Cleburne Commandery, No. 12, K. T., was organized under dispensation Angust 5, 1875, and the charter was granted February 15, 1877. The charter members were N. II. Cook, V. Gray, M. Dickson, Jesse M. Hill, B. D. Simpson, J. C. Brumley, Thomas Law- rence, O. M. Addison and O. P. Arnold, of
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whom six are living. There are now sixty- six members, and the lodge is in a flourish- ing condition. The present officers are: W. J. Rutledge, E. C .; Thomas Lawrence, G .; John HI. Boyd, C. G .; Rev. W. P. Brown, Prelate; S. B. Allen, Treasurer; G. II. Maxey, Recorder; J. B. Jones, S. W .; Jim Langston, J. W .; II. S. Wilson, Warden; B. D. Simp- son, Standard Bearer; II. F. Long, Sword Bearer; W. C. Long, Sentinel.
Johnson Lodge, No. 131, I. O. O. F., was organized July 8, 1871, by C. L. Dawson, D. D. G. M., with the following officers: G. II. Maxey, N. G .; M. S. Kahle, V. G .; B. D. Simpson, See .; G. W. Davis, Treas. Nothing of public interest occurred in the history of this lodge until October, 1881, when it suspended from some cause, and lay dormant until May 17, 1886, when it was re- instated by R. M. Chipman, D. D. G. M., of Alvarado Lodge, and the following officers were elected: A. R. Moody, N. G .; Dr. T. J. Wagley, V. G .; T. L. Townsend, Sec .; B. D. Simpson, Treas.
On March 11, 1889, on account of some bad material in the lodge, a motion was made to surrender the charter, and carried. May 18 following the lodge was resuscitated by D. D. G. M., J. P. Mimins, with P. J. Nor- wood, N. G .; Nich. Hanson, V. G .; W. M. Thompson, L. S. N. G; J. II. Keith, R. S. N. G .; John Clark, R. S. V. G .; G. V. Ilalla- baugh, O. G .; Thomas Boulware, I. G .; J. W. Riley, Chap .; W. W. Murdock and J. M. Bal- len, S. S .; G. R. Schinaltz, Treas .; J. W. Norwood, See .; P. J. Norwood, Reporter to Grand Lodge.
Since the above date the lodge bas run smoothly, having now a working force of fifty-eight members. It meets every Mon- day night. The present officers are: J. M. Flitch, N. G .; William Loekett, V. G .; Green Whittenbury, Treas .; W. A. Dillard, Senti- uel; and l'. J. Norwood, Reporter to Grand Lodge.
Olive Lodge, No. 31, K. of P., was or- ganized March 9, 1882, by District Deputy and Past Grand Chancellor Max Elser, of Fort Worth. The first officers were: T. Law- rence, C. C .; J. D. Osborne, V. C .; II. W. Patton, Prelate; J. A. Lindgren, Sec. The lodge has increased in membership from twenty-two to 113. The present officers are:
Il. P. Brown, C. C .; John Floore, V. ( .; Sam Ramsey, Prelate; J. R. Ransone, Jr., K. of R. & S .; I. Frenkel, M. of F .; J. M. Eller, M. of . E .; II. Hall, M. at A. Succeed. ing Mr. Osborne, W. II. Patton-was the next Chancellor Commander; then W. B. Shaw, J. R. Keating, Louis Moses, B. L. Hodge, J. A. Lindgren, J. A. Styron, Sam Straus, S. D. Mobley, R. E. Alexander, B. L. Ilig- gins, C. V. Myers and II. P. Brown. The lodge meets on alternate Wednesdays, finan- cially is in a strong condition, and it is accumulating a fund for the erection of a building.
Cleburne Lodge, No. 1,095, K. of II., was organized May 29, 1878, with a membership of ten. The first officers were: J. M. Griffin, Past Dictator; L. II. Gebhard, Dictator; B. J. Frenchi, Assistant Dictator; J. A. Lind- gren, Reporter; T. Lawrence, Financial Re- porter; Max Lasky, Guide; M. Morris, Guard-
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ian; and 1. Stone, Sentinel. Besides these, T. W. Shaw was also a charter member. Messrs. Lindgren and Lawrence are now the only members of the above list.
Since the date of their organization they have initiated 103 members, and admitted by card thirty-two, while twenty-six have with- drawn; thirty-six members have been sus- pended, and seven have died. The total membership at present is therefore seventy- six. This lodge has paid into the widow and orphan fund 818, 128.90, and there have been drawn from the fund $14,000. The present officers are: J. R. Keating, D .; W. l'. Browne, V. D .; J. M. Clower, A. D .; J. 1. Lindgren, R .; James D. Osborne, F. R .; N. L. Poole, T .; P. J. Norwood, E. Il .; W. Clarkson, C .; 1. Frenkel, Cardinal; E. M. Allard, S.
Cleburne Lodge, Legion of' Honor, was established in 1881, with the following ehar- ter members: W. II. Graves, ---- Dill, C. Dickson and wife, B. L. Durham, W. F. Ramsey and W. C. Smith. Mr. Smith was the first Commander, and Mr. Graves is the present incumbent; T. H. Osborne, Sce. This lodge meets twice a month. It has received for benefits a total of $10,000. Three members have died.
Cross Timbers Camp, No. 4, Modern Woodmen of the World, was organized April 3, 1891, with W. II. Wilson, Couneil Com- mander; J. C. Morton, Vice-Lieutenant; W. T. Blakeney, Banker; T. J. Wagley, Clerk; R. B. Craft, Escort; A. C. Seurlock, Watch- man; and R. K. Craft, Sentry.
and for sick benefits; $100 is allowed for a monument for every sovereign who dies. There are at present about thirt-seveny active members. This society is very thrifty for a young lodge, and is substantially growing. It meets monthly. The present officers are: W. Oliver, C. C .; W. M. Dillard, V. L .; J. HI. Bowman, Banker; J. E. Pitts, Clerk; Managers-C. C. Byers, W. F'ilgoe and John Ramsey.
Eletheun Chapter, C. L. S. C., was or- ganized in the spring of 1891, with the fol- lowing officers: J. L. Bushong, President; Miss Lalla Suratt, Vice-President; Walter Baird, Secretary; Miss Belle Chambers, Cor- responding Secretary; and Miss Berta Hall, Treasurer. This society is purely educa- tional.
There have been, naturally, many other small societies organized in Cleburne, social, musical, cte., most of which have had but a transient existence.
CHURCHES.
Methodism .- The first Methodist minister preaching in Johnson county, was Simeon Odem (or Odom), who held a meeting not far from Grand View, in the southeastern part of the county. Ile was a good man and had a vast influence. The next was " Uncle" Jeremiah Easterwood, a one-legged man, who eame in 1853; he was a practical and ellicient worker. Methodismn was established at Cle- burne early in the '70s.
First there was a union Sunday-school in the old college building, with fifteen or
This society insures for $500 to $3,000, "twenty members, including officers and teach-
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ers, The school was afterward transferred to the residence of Mr. Mabry, next to a private honse immediately across the street, next to the old courthouse, then to an old store-room on the south side of the square, and finally to the church building before it was finished, where scantlings were fixed up for seats. This church had been erected as far as the joists about 1870, and for the lack of funds work was suspended. About two years after- ward it was covered, but as yet no floor was laid. The society of course, had been organ- ized some time prior to this.
The first pastor, or about the first, was Rev. J. P. Mussett, who was succeeded by I. N. Reeves, R. Il. II. Burnett (now a traveling evangelist whose reputation extends beyond the boundaries of the State), J. W. Campbell (afterward editor of the Texas Christian Advocate), A. Gaskill, W. L. Nelms, four years, S. J. Franks, two years, D. II. Dickey one year, A. P. Taylor two years, J. II. Col- lard two years, T. W. Rogers, one year, and J. S. Chapman, the present pastor, since December, 1891. He is a native South Carolinian, but recently from Los Angeles, California.
The present membership of the church is said to be 450. There are four loeal preach- ers, namely: A. I'. Taylor, R. HI. Adair, II. C. Ellis and S. B. Walker. The stewards are Dr. W. P. Alexander, James Langston, A. W. Baird, Dr. J. J. Williamson, John M. Clower and A. P'. Taylor. Ed. M. Allard is class-leader.
In the Sunday-school are twenty-one classes, with an average attendance of 150 to 160; there are 175 on the roll, so that about 200
children and officers can be counted as meet- ing at this Sunday-school. There are twenty. five officers and teachers. A. W. Baird is superintendent. E. B. Black has been seere- tary for the last seven years.
The church building, which is on South Main street, is a frame, costing about 86,000, and seating about 500.
Besides, there are two colored Methodist churches in Cleburne, whose membership is light. One is the African Methodist Episco- pal Church, and the other the Colored Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South.
Presbyterianism, old-school, was first in- troduced into Johnson county at Alvarado in 1874. For an account of it, see under head of Alvarado, further on.
Ten members, in different parts of the county, drew up a petition for the organiza- tion of a Presbyterian church under the care of the Central Presbytery of Texas. The petition was forwarded to the moderator and secretary, Rev. S. A. King, at whose sugges- tion it was presented to another minister to seenre his signature; but it was deemed un- necessary to eall a meeting. It would be difficult to obtain a quorum. These views were communicated to the chairman of the committee on sustentation; and he, with Revs. W. S. Johnson and S. A. King, was ap- pointed a committee to organize the church. Notice was therefore given that services would be held in Cleburne Friday to Sunday, An- gust 20 to 22, 1875, to conclude with the organization of a Presbyterian church. The services were held first at the Methodist church and then at the courthouse. Rev: W.
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