A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas, Volume II, Part 131

Author: Paddock, B. B. (Buckley B.), 1844-1922; Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing co.
Number of Pages: 972

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In his political views Mr. Bailey is a stanch Democrat, doing all in his power to promote the growth and insure the success of his party. He has served as marshal of Saint Jo for two terms, also as justice of the peace for two terms, and he belongs to Saint Jo Lodge, A. F. & A. M. The various duties that have devolved upon him have been faithfully performed and he is ever true and loyal to a public trust.

Mr. Bailey was married in 1885 to Miss Mar- garet Phillips, who was born in Franklin county, Illinois, April 11, 1865, a daughter of the Rev. J. H. and Margaret (Dey) Phillips, both natives of Meigs county, Tennessee, where they were married. The paternal grandfather, Robert Phil- lips, likewise a native of Tennessee, removed to Missouri, where he became the owner of valu- able property. He belonged to the Missionary Baptist church. In his family were nine chil- dren : John, of the Indian Territory; Robert, of California ; George; William; James H .; Mrs. Elizabeth Moore ; Mrs. Martha Boyd; Mrs. Julia Walker ; and Mrs. Myra Hemphill.

James H. Phillips was reared and married in Tennessee and afterward removed to Illinois, settling in Franklin county, where he bought land and improved a farm, making his home thereon until 1871, when he sold out and with team and wagon came to Texas, settling first at Whitesboro. After eighteen months, however, he removed to Saint Jo, Montague county, in 1873, and for two years conducted a hotel here. He then bought land and improved a farm. A minister of the Baptist church, he traveled through the state doing missionary work and was well received wherever he delivered his gospel message. How- ever, there was a large rough element in the state at that time, as there always is in a pioneer district and often pistols had to be exhibited for protection. He was the first minister in many localities and he assisted largely in the moral development of western Texas, making many personal sacrifices for the good of the cause and the benefit of his fellowmen. In later years he sold his farm and engaged in general mer- chandising at Saint Jo for some time. There he retired from active business life and made his home at that place until his death in May, 1901. He was a stanch Democrat, was a social, genial companion, a kindly neighbor and a faithful Christian gentleman. He was also a worthy member of the Masonic fraternity. His wife yet survives him and resides at the homestead in Saint Jo. She, too, is a devoted member of the Baptist church. She was born in Surry county, North Carolina, September 4, 1827, a daughter

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of Moses and Mary ( Masters) Dey, who were natives of North Carolina, where her father successfully carried on general farming, remain- ing there until his death in 1830. His widow, afterward removed with her family to Tennes- see and later to Illinois, where she died. In an early day Moses Dey was an officer in the mili- tia of North Carolina and was also a preacher of the Missionary Baptist church. He had the following daughters: Betsey, the wife of J. Pierce; Nancy, the wife of William Pierce ; Lena, who became Mrs. Ramsey; Katie, the wife of P. Pierce; Sally, who married T. McCollum; Margaret, the wife of J. H. Phillips; and Mary J., the wife of J. Moore. In the Masters family were nine sons and daughters: Nicholas, James, William, John, Betsy, Anna, Susie, Mary and Sarah. The brothers and sisters of Moses Dey were: Aaron, Elijah and Mrs. Peggy Thompson.

In the Phillips family, to which Mrs. Bailey belongs, there were twelve children : Mrs. Nancy Parr, who died at Whitesboro, Texas; James M., of Saint Jo; Robert, who is living in Illinois; Mrs. Mary Moss, of Saint Jo; Martha and Sarah, who died in childhood; William A. and George W., both of Saint Jo; Margaret, the wife of our subject : Ellen; Mrs. Leona A. Ross; and Mrs. Julia Wylie.

Unto Mr. and Mrs. Bailey have been born four children : Nora, born September 23, 1888; Wal- ter, December 8, 1891 ; Martin, August 19, 1894 ; and Paul, November 11, 1897.

E. W. CLARK. The vast stretch of country known as western Texas, with its varied resour- ces, its hills, its vales and rolling prairie covered with a luxuriant growth of natural grass, has been the scene of many eventful life histories. Years ago herds of buffaloes roamed over the district, also wild horses, and then came the van- guard of civilization as represented by the cat- tle-raisers, who fed their herds upon the plains here. Many of these men came to the west without capital, but through the utilization of the natural resources of the state worked their way steadily upward from a humble financial position to one of affluence. Many of the most prominent live stock men of America are repre- sentatives of this class. They were indeed the architects and builders of their own fortunes. Many of these men have become acknowledged leaders in business and public life and, although without the advantages of school training, have gained their education on the boundless prairies under the starlit sky, developing their powers

through their efforts to overcome the obstacles and difficulties that confronted them. To these men rightly belongs an honor which cannot be claimed by a generation reared amidst the ad- vantages and opportunities of the later times and this class of men finds a worthy represen- tative in E. W. Clark.

His father, W. T. Clark, was a native of Mis- sissippi, and was married to Miss Martha Car- rington, a native of Virginia. The marriage was celebrated in the former state, and in 1.857 they removed to Texas, settling in Denton county. There they continued to make their home, Mr. Clark following the occupation of farming and stock-raising. The wife and mother died about 1866, but Mr. Clark long survived her. and passed away in April, 1897. They reared a family of seven children, four sons and three daughters.

Eugene Walter Clark is a native of Texas, having been born in Denton county on the 16th of June, 1860. He made his home with his par- ents up to the age of fifteen years, when he went to Young county, Texas, and there began business for himself, working on a ranch for wages. In 1884 he made his way to New Mex- ico, where he entered the employ of John Chi- sum, tending his herd of cattle. He remained with him for three years, his time being spent partly in New Mexico and partly in Benson, Arizona. In 1887 Mr. Clark purchased some cattle and embarked in business for himself. He moved his herd on to the open range in Texas on the line between this state and New Mexico and while herding his cattle there their number was largely increased and he continued in the business until 1900, when he sold the stock to A. B. Robertson, of Colorado, Texas, and Winfield Scott, of Fort Worth. The fol- lowing year he entered into a contract with W. E. Connell and John Scarborough, of Fort Worth, whereby these parties purchased the famous O S ranch in Garza county, Texas, consisting of seventy-four thousand acres of patented land and about twenty thousand acres of leased land, the same being one of the largest ranches in the country. He stocked it with Hereford and Durham cattle of high grades and in the conduct of the enterprise met with grati- fying success. Mr. Clark has had a varied ex- perience on the western frontier with all its vicissitudes of the cow camp, the cattle trail, the riding lines and the general round up. He has traveled the trail extensively all through the country from Texas to the Dakotas and as far

GEORGE W. HUNT

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west as New Mexico and Arizona and is entirely familiar with all of the experiences which con- stitute the life of the cowboy and the cattle man.

Mr. Clark was married on Christmas day in 1895 to Miss Lillie McCormick, of Texarkana, Texas, a daughter of P. F. McCormick, one of the early settlers of this state and a well known business man of that city. Mrs. Clark was born in Mississippi, but was brought to this state by her parents when a small child. They have one daughter, Mona.

Mr. Clark has been a member of the Knights of Pythias fraternity for about fifteen years, having joined the order in Midland, Texas, where he holds his membership at the present time, having made his home there for about five years after his marriage. He is a typical stockman, having spent the greater part of his life in the west. In addition to his being part owner of the O S ranch in Garza county, he is also its business manager and has conducted it in a profitable manner. At the organization of the Snyder National Bank, of Snyder, Texas, in the spring of 1905, he subscribed for a con- siderable portion of its stock, is one of its direc- tors, and also the vice-president of the institu- tion. He has taken great interest in the man- agement of the bank and shows considerable ability as a financier as well as stockman. He is one of the representative men of western Texas, watchful of business opportunities, alert and enterprising, and in his utilization of the advantages that come to all he has made for himself a creditable place and honored name.

GEORGE WARFIELD HUNT. The ven- erable and cultured gentleman who manages "Drummond Farm" in Young county and whose distinguished personality renders him one of the conspicuous figures of its present- day citizenship is the person whose name ini- tiates this review. Although without historic interest as a pioneer of the county, his life rec- ord possesses an attraction for its vicissitudes and its history making incidents, and for the memories which naturally cluster about a scion of an ancient American family.

Mr. Hunt's business relation to Young coun- ty associates him with one of the chief enter- prises of the county, Drummond Farm. Ly- ing along the west shore of the Brazos and ex- tending back into the interior for several miles is a rolling and semi-mountainous stretch known as Drummond Farm. Its name perpet- uates that of the worthy father of its founder

and owner and is ever suggestive of associa- tions which lie close to the hearts of the two men whose mind and means have made its af- fairs a success. The ranch embraces five thou- sand acres and was established by Col. P. B. Hunt, of Dallas, for the breeding of Shetland ponies. After a few years pony culture was abandoned and the ranch was converted into a registered Short Horn breeding ground, and this industry, along with that of the growing of feed-stuffs for its maintenance, constitutes the business of Drummond Farm and indicates the substantial activities under its manager's control and suggests its part in the develop- ment of the county.

In 1886 George W. Hunt accompanied his brother to Young county, Texas, to assume his share in the shaping of matters on the ranch which the latter was opening and afterward called Drummond Farm. While the brother, Col. Hunt, has passed some time on the ranch, personally associated with its affairs, he has been chiefly concerned with official duties of a responsible character, as internal revenue col- lector of the northern district of Texas and, in years prior, as United States marshal of the same, and to the management of George W., our subject, Drummond Farm has ever been committed. The brothers came hither from Fort Sill, Indian Territory, where Col. Hunt was agent of the Kiowa and Comanche Indians from 1877 and where George W. was first agen- cy farmer and then for several years in charge of the agency schools. The latter accompanied his brother to the Territory from Fayette coun- ty, Kentucky, where he was born July 11, 1834. In point of settlement the family was an old one in that county, it having been founded by George Hunt, our subject's grandfather, in 1794. The latter was born in Monmouth coun- ty, New Jersey, and was a son of Col. Jonathan Hunt of Revolutionary times and of English stock. John Hunt was the English ancestor to establish this family on American soil and he sought the shores of the new world during the period of colonization in the seventeenth century.

George Hunt, Sr., married Catherine Drum- mond, who died in 1794, leaving an only child, Drummond, who was born in that year and who accompanied his father to the then frontier state of Kentucky. In that state the father re- married and two sons, Gordon and John, were the result of the union.

Drummond Hunt grew up where his father established their early home and acquired his

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education in the old subscription schools. He became a Whig in politics, knew the party's leader, Henry Clay, and was his warm personal friend. He made a success of the farm and re- tired at an advanced age to the enjoyment of ' his years of successful agricultural effort. He followed the Whig party into the Republican party in 1856 and, upon the issues of the war, his sentiments were pronouncedly with his country and its flag. Of his four sons, two entered the Federal army and two the Confed- erate and all cast their future on the fortunes of war. He was a typical gentleman of the old in- tellectual school, of splendid physique and strong and active mind and to the last day his mental ac- tion was as clear and reliable as in the vigor of life. Perhaps no man of his station was more widely known in Fayette county than he. He passed away in 1889, surviving his wife forty-seven years.

On his maternal side our subject is descended from the Burgesses, his mother, Catherine Burgess, having been a granddaughter of Wil- liam Burgess, who commanded Maryland troops during the latter part of the seventeenth century. William Burgess was from Anne Ar- undel county, Maryland. The family was founded in Kentucky in 1790 where Philemon Burgess, the father of Catherine (Burgess) Hunt, was its recognized pioneer head. Drum- mond and Catherine Hunt were the parents of George W., of this notice; Mary, deceased, wife of Dr. Lewis Craig, of Plainfield, New Jer- sey ; Col. Philemon B., of Dallas; Albert G., of Dallas; and Drummond, who was killed in the Missionary Ridge fight while a soldier in the Union army.

George Warfield Hunt came to maturity on his father's Kentucky farm and acquired his education in Georgetown College. He chose the profession of law and read with the firm of John C. Breckenridge and James Beck in Lexington where he was admitted to the bar and practiced law for a time before the war. His health failing he went to Arkansas and took charge of a plantation of his father's and was there when the conflict opened. He did not hesitate to cast his fortunes with the south and enlisted at Greenville, Mississippi, in the Twen- ty-eighth Infantry as a private in Capt. Black- well's company and after serving some months was transferred, in 1862, to Gen. Morgan's com- mand, then preparing to cross the river into Ohio. Before he started, the Confederate gov- ernment learned of Morgan's capture and our subject was ordered to report to Gen. Joe

Wheeler and he took part in the Thompson's Station and Missionary Ridge battles. Join- ing Gen. Morgan, eventually, he was made first lieutenant of his company and was placed on the staff of Gen. Basil Duke with the rank of adjutant. The command passed about over the states of Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia while the war was in progress and when Lee surrendered the Fifth Kentucky or, perhaps, Gen. Duke's command, left Char- lottsville, North Carolina, and joined Jeff Davis's party, making its escape from the Fed- eral authorities, guarding him to Washington, Georgia, where the Confederate president ad- vised them to report for parole and permit him to continue his flight alone and with less dan- ger of capture. At Augusta, Georgia, Mr. Hunt was paroled.

Resuming civil pursuits Mr. Hunt joined his brothers at their old home in the breeding of blooded horses, under the firm of Hunt Bros., and was connected with this industry until 1878, when he joined Col. Hunt, his brother, for service among the Indians in the Territory. as previously narrated.

Until recent years Mr. Hunt was a Democrat and as such he was elected county commission- er of Young county, but when his term was nearing a close Democracy split and he allied himself with the gold remnant of it and, while he was urged to stand for re-election, he de- clined, knowing the power of the free silver sen- timent in the county. From a gold Democrat to a Mckinley Republican was only a step and he took it in 1896 and supported the lamented chieftain for president. He cast a second bal- lot for Mr. McKinley, and in 1904 gave Roosevelt his vote for the greatest American office.

All his life Mr. Hunt has been a soldier of the cross. When he came among the Drummond settlements he was an Episcopalian but in the absence of the church of his choice he united with the Methodists and for many years taught the bible class in the Miller's Bend Sabbath school, serving for a time as superintendent of the school. He is a lover of good books and has his table covered with papers, magazines and other periodicals. He is especially fond of bi- ography and has acquainted himself with most of the standard authors of fiction. His gentle- ness, his tender sympathy, his bright and active mind and his moral rectitude especially fitted him for the duties and responsibilities of a fath- er but he has passed through life a celibate and all his friends know him and revere him as "Uncle George."

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DR. A. O. SCARBOROUGH, successfully engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery in Snyder, is a grandson of Irvin Scarborough, who spent the greater part of his life in Louisi- ana, but died in Coryell county, Texas. In his family there were six sons: Mathias, Josiah, James W., Andrew J., George W. and John B., all of whom are now deceased. There were also several daughters. The descendants of the family are somewhat scattered over the country, although a large number are residents of Louis- iana and Texas.

Dr. Scarborough is a son of Captain Andrew J. Scarborough, who was a veteran of the Mex- ican war. He was born in Mississippi, whence he removed to Louisiana, remaining there for a number of years, after which he came to Texas in 1859, settling in Dewitt county. There he carried on business as a stock farmer. Through- out the Civil war he was actively connected with the Confederate service and raised a company in and near Gonzales, of which company he was made captain. He was first on duty in the west in various sections of Arizona and afterward was in active service, participating in many campaigns and in forty-seven different engage- ments. He was several times wounded although not seriously. His last years were spent in Snyder, where he passed away on Christmas day of 1904, in the seventy-eighth year of his age. His wife bore the maiden name of Miss E. S. Stell, was a native of Georgia and a daugh- ter of E. M. Stell, who became a prominent · physician of Gonzales, Texas. He was also a Baptist minister and engaged in the practice of medicine and in preaching the gospel. He died in Mount Sylvan, Smith county, Texas, in 1875. His eldest son, Jep Stell, was a prominent law- yer of Gonzales, and at one time represented his district in the state senate. Mrs. E. S. Scarborough died in Smith county, Texas, in 1875, at the age of forty years. She was the mother of seven children, four sons and three daughters, of whom A. O. Scarborough and two daughters are still living, these being Mrs. R. A. Austin, of Lindale, Texas, and Mrs. John A. Evans, of Trenton, this state.

The ancestral history of the Scarborough family is traced back to a still more remote period, the family having at one time been resi- dents of Scarborough Castle in England. Dr. Scarborough of this review was born in Dewitt county, Texas, November 27, 1860, and spent his boyhood days on a farm in Smith county after leaving Gonzales, where he had remained during the period of the Civil war. He received

a common school education, and in 1882 came to Snyder with his father, the family being the first settlers of Scurry county, living here be- fore the county was organized. Dr. Scarbor- ough opened a drug store in Snyder, which was the first establishment of this kind in this sec- tion of the country, and his father at the same time conducted a hotel. W. H. Snyder, the founder of the town, had formerly kept a little store for the purpose of supplying the buffalo hunters with ammunition and other things need- ed by them, but he had left this place and gone to Colorado.

Dr. Scarborough attended his first medical lectures at Missouri Medical College in St. Louis in 1884, remaining in that institution until 1886, when he obtained a certificate and en- tered upon the practice of medicine in Snyder. In 1889 he attended the Kentucky School of Medicine, from which he was graduated in the spring of 1890. In 1898-99 he attended the New York Polyclinic Hospital, of which he is also a graduate. He has been in the active practice of medicine in Snyder since 1886, and is a phy- sician of marked prominence and capability, who has continuously broadened his knowledge by post-graduate collegiate work and also by private reading and investigation. He is the first man that introduced and operated an X- ray machine in western Texas and he has done a large amount of surgical work, making a spe- cialty of practice in that direction. He has a comprehensive and accurate knowledge of anat- omy and the component parts of the human body and a delicacy and precision in the me- chanical work in this part of the profession that makes him one of the most able surgeons of western Texas. He is frequently called in con- sultation on important cases to the adjoining counties and his reputation as a skilled physi- cian and surgeon has spread throughout the west. He is medical examiner for seventeen different life insurance companies. In connec- tion with his professional service he is inter- ested in stock and is the owner of the famous O and U ranch in Garza and Kent counties, comprising about eight thousand acres and stocked with Hereford and Durham high grade cattle. This is one of the finest and best im- proved ranches in western Texas.

On the 26th of October, 1886, Dr. Scarbor- ough was married to Miss Nannie Goodwin, a daughter of H. A. Goodwin, of Scurry county, and they now have three children: Ione, Hugh J. and Enid. Dr. Scarborough belongs to the Baptist church, with which he has been identi-

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fied since 1882, and he holds membership rela- tions with the Masonic lodge at Snyder and the Royal Arch chapter at Colorado, Texas. He is an intelligent and entertaining conversationalist and a man of pleasing personality, whose long residence in the west has given him a wide and varied experience. He has a fund of informa- tion concerning this part of the country and the reminiscences which he sometimes narrates are interesting to his hearers to a marked degree. He is a great lover of good stock and since be- coming connected with the stock-raising busi- ness has given to it a large share of his atten- tion, with the result that he is now recognized as a successful representative of this industry as well as of his chosen profession.

T. J. FAUGHT, a prominent representative of the cattle interests of Texas and the owner of an extensive ranch, was born April 22, 1847, in Kentucky, his birth-place being near the boun- dary line of Wayne and Henry counties. His father was Elijah Faught, a native of Indiana, who when a young man removed from that state to Kentucky. He was married there to Miss Sarah Payton, a native of the Blue Grass state, and in the fall of 1849 Elijah Faught re- moved his family to Missouri, settling in Macon county, where he continued to make his home up to the time of his death, which occurred about 1895. Throughout his entire life he fol- lowed the occupation of farming. His wife passed away about 1886. In their family were eight children, seven sons and a daughter, namely: Priscilla, deceased; Henry A., a resi- dent of Macon county, Missouri; W. L., of the same county; Thomas J., of this review; Gor- don S., of Macon county: James T .; John L .; and Elijah. The sons all reside in Macon coun- ty with the exception of our subject.

Thomas Jefferson Faught was less than two years of age when his parents removed to Mis- souri. He was reared on his father's farm until he was fifteen years of age and his first trip, away from home was to Hancock county, Illi- nois, where he engaged in feeding cattle for Thomas Pool, whose home was in Macon coun- ty, Missouri, but who had stock interests in the former state. Mr. Faught remained there for about six months and his next trip was on a visit to Canada, where he remained for about three months. Following his return to Mis- souri, he went to Nebraska City, Nebraska. where he engaged in freighting as a teamster, hauling freight from Nebraska City to Denver, Colorado. There he engaged with a man by

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A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas, Volume II, Part 131

Author: Paddock, B. B. (Buckley B.), 1844-1922; Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1906 Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing co. Number of Pages: 972

Author: Paddock, B. B. (Buckley B.), 1844-1922; Lewis Publishing Co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1906
Publisher: Chicago, New York, The Lewis publishing co.
Number of Pages: 972