A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas, Volume II, Part 49

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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To Mr. and Mrs. Carmichael were born eight children : Joseph B., of this review; Tinie, the wife of B. Miller; Lizzie, the wife of William Johnson ; William D., a pharmacist and partner of Dr. Carmichael in his store and gin; Rhoda, the wife of B. Hause; James D., an attorney at law in Chickasaw Nation in the Indian Territory ;. Anna, the wife of F. Fry ; and Emma, who com- pletes the family.

Joseph B. Carmichael was reared to farm life and began his education in the common schools, passing through successive grades until he had completed the high school course at Canton, Georgia. He thus acquired a liberal literary education. He taught for three years and when nineteen years of age he began reading medicine under the direction of Dr. E. E. Roberts of

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Woodstock, Georgia, with whom he continued for two years. He rode with him in his practice and assisted him in the actual work of the profession, so that he gained broad practical knowledge as well as theoretical training. In 1883 he matric- ulated in the medical department of the Univer- sity of Georgia, in which he pursued a two years' course and was graduated in March, 1885, on the completion of a course in medicine and surgery. He then came to Texas and entered upon the practice of his profession in Bonita, Montague county. There he remained for fourteen years, following his profession with excellent success, and in 1899 he removed to Nocona, where he yet resides. Here he has secured a liberal patronage as a member of the medical fraternity and he is also associated with his brother, W. D. Car- michael, in carrying on a drug store. They like- wise built and operate a cotton gin and Dr. Car- michael gives unremitting attention to his busi- ness, in which he is meeting with very creditable and gratifying success. He has a well equipped office supplied with all modern appliances and is thoroughly conversant with the latest ideas and improvements concerning medical practice.

Dr. Carmichael was married in Kendall county, Texas, in 1887, to Miss Sally Smithson, who was born in Tennessee in 1864 and is a daughter of William and Mary Smithson, likewise natives of that state. Her father was a farmer by occupa- tion and on his removal to Texas in 1874 settled in Delta county, while later he took up his abode in Kendall county. In 1898 he removed to Indian Territory, where he followed farming until his death in the spring of 1901. He was a consistent member of the Missionary Baptist church and took a very deep and helpful interest in Sunday- school work. His widow still survives and is yet living in the territory near Comanche. In their family were six children: Elizabeth, the wife of William Giles; Mrs. Sarah Carmichael; Frank- lin, a farmer ; Lulu, the deceased wife of William Salmon; Tommy, who after the death of her sister Lulu became the wife of William Salmon; and Joseph, also an agriculturist.

Dr. and Mrs. Carmichael have eight children : William, born in March, 1888; Ola, in February, 1890; Lizzie, in June, 1891 ; Ray, in September, 1895 ; Clara, in October, 1897 ; Bryan, in October, 1899; Robert P., in November, 1901 ; and Ed- ward R., November 12, 1904. The parents are members of the Missionary Baptist church and Dr. Carmichael is also connected with the Wood- men of the World and the Modern Maccabees. He is a gentleman of broad culture and scholarly attainments, who in his profession had made rapid advancement and in his business career as a rep-

resentative of commercial and industrial inter- ests is also meeting with creditable success.

CAMPBELL BURNS BEARD. In the early days of Decatur's rush and thrift and growth an aspiring youth in the last years of his minority cast his lot with its citizenship and began a long and somewhat varied business career. He was vigorous of body and bright and alert of mind, with business training and with the fires of hope · burning intensely within him. Without difficulty he associated himself with the city's commercial world and dropped naturally into the social at- mosphere of the leading families of the county. From youth to manhood and on past the meridian his life has been bound up with that of his town, and through his varied experiences and business connections Campbell B. Beard has maintained himself a figure and has come to be one of the in- teresting characters of the place.

In January, 1874, Mr. Beard accepted the ad- vice of Horace Greeley and left Charlotte, North Carolina, for the west to seek fame or fortune on the frontier. He was in his nineteenth year, and his experience for two years as shipping clerk for the largest wholesale house in North Carolina had given him an insight into the basic principles of domestic commerce uncommon to one of his years. Having grown up in a store his boyhood training familiarized him with the details of a general store, and thus strongly equipped he en- tered the store of Cates & Wood almost upon his arrival in Decatur and clerked for them and for Charles D. Cates, their successor, for three years, when he engaged in the grocery business on his own account. For five years he conducted a busi- ness alone and the profits which accrued to him and finally his capital itself were consumed by an enemy which victimized him by its dazzling smile and refreshing draught and he sought financial relief in a clerkship in the H. Great- house & Company Bank. He kept the books of the institution and of its successor, the First National Bank, until the fall of 1883, when he re- signed and again took up the grocery business. His old enemy was still his friend, and in time his business was again strangled and sniffed out and he then resorted to the real estate business. Business changes came frequently about this time and he kept books for the Mississippi store two years subsequent to his real estate brokerage career, and he was again invited into the First National Bank. About this juncture it dawned upon him that he was just about to be bound and gagged by his old enemy, and he cut the tie that had bound them for years, took a new lease on life, a new hope for the future was inspired with-

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in him and he rapidly returned to his former fresh, vigorous and temperate life. He remained with the bank until 1904, when he resigned to engage in the grocery business for the third time and the firm of C. B. Beard, comprising father and sons, is one of the leading marts of trade in the county seat.

The Tarheel state is truly the mother of the Beards. It was in that state that John Lewis Beard, the great-grandfather of our subject, set- tled, or rather founded, the family during the years of our colonial history, and it is traditional- ly asserted that he was of Scotch descent. In his family was a son, Horace H., who was the grandfather of Campbell B., our subject, and an old-time merchant of Rowan county, North Caro- lina. Horace H. Beard died about 1858 at an ad- vanced age. He married Margaret Burns, who bore him James B .; John, of Salisbury, North Carolina; William W., of Georgia; Lewis, who died in Waco, Texas, in 1866; Julia, who passed away in Salisbury, North Carolina, unmarried ; Maria, of Hillsboro, North Carolina; Sue, wife of Will Hayes, of Hillsboro, North Caro- lina; Nora, who married Robert Long, of Ashe- ville, North Carolina.

James B. Beard, father of our subject, was born in Rowan county, North Carolina, in Janu- ary, 1830, and followed in his father's footsteps by engaging in the mercantile business and mak- ing it his vocation through life. He removed to Catawba county after his marriage and in the town of Hickory he conducted business until his death, in 1897. He was appointed to a position in the quartermaster's department of the state by Governor Vance during the war, and for four- teen years was postmaster of his little town, be- ginning with the Arthur administration and run- ning into Cleveland's second term. He was a Democrat, and belonged to no society but the Episcopal church. He married Mary Camp- bell Bryce, a daughter of Peter Bryce, a Scotch- man and a cotton factor in Columbia, South Carolina. Dr. P. Bryce, late president and found- er of the Alabama Asylum for the Insane, was the latter's son, and John Y. and William H., cotton factors of Charlotte, North Carolina, and Dr. James Bryce, who died an able physician in 1869, were among his other sons. Mrs. Mary C. Beard died in 1884 at sixty-one years of age.

Campbell B. Beard and his brother, James B., Jr., of Wise county, are the surviving children of their parents, and the only ones to rear fami- lies. The former was educated in the schools of the town where he grew up and remained with his father till past sixteen years of age. He then felt that he was prepared to assume responsibili-

ty for himself and went to Charlotte to his uncles and there secured a clerkship with the leading wholesale house of the state, as above made known. Having decided to know the west and be identified with it he came hither with his small savings and assumed a modest station among the men of wealth and influence in the then cattle center of the northwest.

September 27, 1876, he married Ella, only- daughter of the financier and man-of-affairs, the- late Henry Greathouse, whose business life af -. fected the welfare of Decatur to a large degree and who was prominently connected with many of her early financial institutions. Mr. Great- house came to Decatur from Boise City, Idaho, where he had been engaged in financial ventures for some years and in which state he was one of the first star route mail contractors. He went there from Yreka, California, where he resided several years, engaged mainly in the mail-con- tract business, and where he laid the founda- tion for the fortune he amassed during life. He went to California in 1849, crossing the plains on a mule, with a caravan, and stopping in Liver- more Valley, where he tried mining and running cattle, but with indifferent success. His sagacity detected the wonderful possibilities for money- making in taking mail contracts and he soon in- vested his savings in a pack train and got his new business under way. He maintained his resi- dence at Marysville a few years, but finally estab- lished himself at Yreka, where in 1860 his first wife died and is buried. From 1856 to 1859 Mr. Greathouse was in Texas, where with his brother Robert, who died near the corners of Texas, Ok- lahoma and Kansas while driving a herd of cattle to Boise City, Idaho, years afterward, engaged in the cattle business in Southern Texas. He was first married July 6, 1853, to Mary Lehigh, of Newport, Kentucky, and July 15, thirteen years later, he married Jennie L. Call in Boise City, Idaho. His children were: George, a prominent stockman of Jack county ; William, who died in the stock business in Wise county, and Ella, now Mrs. Beard. Mr. Greathouse was born in Mason county, Kentucky, September 19, 1829. He was a son of William Greathouse, born at Shelby- ville, Kentucky, in 1791, first a lawyer and finally a planter of great resources and success. The latter was a soldier of the war of 1812, married Jane Lewis, and of their twelve children Henry was the ninth. The latter acquired a good edu- cation, and his wide and varied business experi- ence developed him into a giant of finance. He knew the west from "A" to "Z" and western methods in business brought him a rich reward. He was connected with the successful manage -.

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ment of the Decatur oil mill and was a strong factor in the Wise County Coal Company, as well as a leading figure in the First National Bank, the successor of his private bank.

When Campbell B. Beard married. he was just under twenty-one years of age. His wife was born at Yreka, California, February 21, 1859, and was only twelve years of age when she ac- companied her father to Decatur. Their union has resulted in six children, as follows: Nellie, wife of William A. Miller, Jr., of Amarillo, Tex- as, with children, Charlotte and Leroy; James Burns, cashier of the Bank of Commerce, of Frederick, Oklahoma, married Frankie Lair; William H., who is with his father in the firm of C. B. Beard; and Harry Lehigh, Horace Bruce and Campbell Bryce. Mr. Beard owns and controls extensive property interests in Decatur and Wise county, is a man of business, with a 'decided penchant for social intercourse and is a Demo- crat without political ambition. He is interested in public education, and his position on the school board of his town gives him an opportunity to carry out progressive and advanced ideas along educational lines.

THOMAS MERIWETHER MARKS. The influence of the press of Jack county received a significant impetus when four years since Thomas M. Marks became the editor and proprietor of the Jacksboro News. His acquaintance with the practical affairs of a printshop, his capability as a news-gatherer and his ability in presenting en- tertainingly the facts of local history as they occur from day to day, and, lastly, his possession of those personal traits which always attract hu- mankind equip him for a career of usefulness in the journalistic field of his favorite county.

The family which our subject represents was established in Jack county in 1877 by Frank M. Marks, his father, who came hither from Cleve- land county, Arkansas, and settled upon a farm some miles out from Jacksboro, where the father passed his remaining years and died in 1890. The latter was a plain and passingly successful farm- er, with an honorable ancestry and of Alabama birth. His birth year was 1826, and when seven years of age his father, John Harvie Marks, took up his residence in Arkansas, and near Pine Bluff the senior Marks opened a farm, built a grist mill and brought up his several children to become honorable men and women.

John Harvie Marks was born in Albemarle county, Virginia, and was descended from John and Lady Elizabeth (Hastings) Marks, who emigrated from England and settled near the eastern shore of Virginia while our country was

still a dependency of the British crown. From these pioneer ancestors have sprung many gener- ations, and the branches from this family tree have ramifications in many of the commonwealths of our federal union. Distinguished among their posterity was Colonel John Marks, a soldier of the Revolution, who married Lucy Meriwether, the mother of Meriwether Lewis, a prominent figure in American history during the formative period of our national life. In the county of his adopted Arkansas home John Harvie Marks was recognized as a good business man and a citizen of a high order. He espoused Democracy in poli- tics, was honored with the confidence of his fel- low-citizens and was sent to the state legislature to represent his county before the war. He was twice married, and by his first wife had Frank M., Rebecca, who married Judge Sorrels; Martha, wife of Madison Hudson; William D., who died in Arkansas; Emily, who became Mrs. Thomas M. Dansby, of Arkansas. Children were born to him by his second wife also, and he passed away near the scenes of his active life at the ripe age of eighty years.

Frank M. Marks was from an educational standpoint a product of the Arkansas rural schools, and later attended a college in Georgia. For a companion in life he married Rebecca Dansby, whose father, Robert Dansby, was a native Georgian, emigrating from Oglethorpe county, where Rebecca S. was born in 1840. Mrs. Marks resides with her son on the old home- stead in Jack county, and is the mother of Mary, wife of John Bussey, of Cleveland county, Arkan- sas ; Harriet, who married H. Reeves and lives at Pine Bluff, Arkansas ; Thomas M., of this sketch ; Eleanor and Frank Harvie who reside on the Jack county farm.

From the age of seven to his fifteenth year Thomas M. Marks was a youthful aid to the con- duct of the family rural estate in Jack county. At the latter age he took a seat at the printer's case in Fort Worth, first on the Stock Journal and then on the Fort Worth Gazette, passing three years in a printing office and familiarizing himself with every detail of the work. Having acquired his trade he turned his attention toward the completion of his education. He enrolled as a student in the college at Whitt, Texas, and while there published a college paper called The Moon, which venture was undertaken largely as a means of providing him with funds to keep him in school. His removal from Whitt, after two years, caused a total eclipse of The Moon and while in Granberry College for three and a half years he reached the junior year of his course. The fourth year he entered as a senior

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at Weatherford College and finished the course in 1890 with the degree of A. B. His college days ended and commencement time actually achieved, his first work was as a reporter on the Weatherford Constitution and following this he engaged in a rather unsuccessful effort at job- printing in the same town. Now it was that he took up school work as a country pedagogue for two years and while so employed conceived the idea of entering the lecture field, perchance his road to fame and fortune, who could tell? His peculiar mental bent suggested the humorous side of life as a subject offering a good field for his efforts and he wrote and lectured on "Queer People," covering portions of his state and filling engagements for some two years. For four years following his lecture tour he was employed on railroad work, location and construction, with a civil engineering party, at the end of which time, in 1901, he purchased the Jacksboro News of Simpson and Groner, rehabilitated it and modernized it and has since given it his whole time. The Jacksboro News was found- ed in 1804 and is a five column quarto, devoted to the interests of Jack county and to the promo- tion of the welfare of its owner. Its policy is onward and upward and it sings the praises of Democracy through every biennial campaign.

As an aid to his office Mr. Marks has estab- lished a circulating library of some four hundred and fifty volumes of standard fiction, science and other desirable literature, which feature is great- ly beneficial also to the book-lovers of Jacksboro.

May 12, 1904, Mr. Marks married Miss Lutie Terrell, a daughter of B. F. Terrell, who came to Texas from Moberly, Missouri.

WILLIAM H. CUBINE, a veteran soldier of the Confederate army and a pioneer settler of Montague county, was born in Washington coun- ty, Virginia, September 7, 1839. He was edu- cated in the common schools and was reared to farm pursuits on the old family homestead. His parents were William and Nancy (Neses- sary) Cubine. The paternal grandfather, John Cubine, was a native of the Isle of Man and in his younger days went to sea. For many years he was a seafaring man and eventually he came to America, settling first in North Carolina and afterward in Virginia, where he spent his remain- ing days living the life of a farmer. He never aspired to office or public preferment of any kind, but devoted his attention to his agricultural pur- suits. He was twice married and by the first union had two children, William and Margaret, who were twins. The mother died and the fa- ther married again, the children of the second

marriage being Patrick, John, Margaret, Eliza- beth, Matilda, Catherine, and Mrs. Aerick Hill.

William Cubine, father of our subject, was born in North Carolina and spent a part of his youth in Virginia. He acquired a liberal educa- tion and for many years was a school teacher. At the time of his marriage he began farming in Withe county, Virginia, while subsequently he removed to Washington county, where he re- mained until his death in 1871. He had attained an advanced old age, having been born February 4, 1794. His entire life was devoted to agricultural pursuits and he was also for many years a local preacher in the Methodist church but later in life he affiliated with the Swedenborgian church, with which he was connected up to the time of his death. He was very charitable to the poor and needy, sympathetic with the afflicted and was a man of kindliness and generous purpose, rec- ognized by those who knew him as an upright citizen, a good neighbor and kind friend. His integrity and honor were above reproach and he was respected by all who knew him. He remained at the old homestead during the period of the Civil war and both armies foraged on his place and destroyed or used up his personal property and provisions until he was almost left penniless. He was married twice. His first union was with a Miss Harmon, by whom he had two daughters, Nancy and Matilda. After losing his first wife. he married Miss Nancy Nesessary, a native of the Old Dominion and a daughter of William Nesessary, a pioneer Methodist preacher of Virginia, who proclaimed the gospel in many hamlets and villages of that state. His death occurred in southwestern Virginia. In his family were ten children: James, Thomas, William, Henry, Wesley, Joseph, John, Rachel, the wife of J. Chadick, Sally, the wife of Sam Chadick, and Mrs. Nancy Cubine. Unto Mr. and Mrs. Cu- bine were born five children: William H., of this review; Mrs. Lucinda Waram; Mrs. Eliza- beth Bland; and Joseph and Emanuel, who are now in Oklahoma.

William H. Cubine was born and reared upon the old family homestead in Virginia and re- mained under the parental roof until 1861, when he volunteered for service in the Confederate army as a member of the Fourth Tennessee Cav- alry under command of Colonel B. S. Smith. Later he was under command of Colonel Paul Anderson and subsequently the regiment was at- tached to the Eighth and Eleventh Texas Bri- gades. He did duty in Tennessee and Alabama, was under General Forrest and took part in all the campaigns with his command and in many memorable raids and hotly contested battles of

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the Tennessee Army. At different times he was under the command of Sidney Johnston and Joe Johnston and was present at the battle of Shiloh when the latter was killed. He remained with Forrest and Wheeler until the fall of At- lanta and was ever in active duty, often being in the thickest of the fight. He never had a fur- lough during his four years' service and was seven times wounded but only once did he go to the hospital, being determined to remain with his command. He was a brave and valiant soldier who bore unflinchingly the hardships of war and never faltered in meeting the enemy even when the shot and shell rained thickest. Prior to the time of Lee's surrender he had been transferred to the First Virginia Cavalry and was at Appo- mattox Courthouse, but the brigade to which Mr. Cubine belonged, hearing of the surrender and not willing to give up to the enemy, faced about in the other direction, disbursed and went to their respective homes. Therefore Mr. Cubine has not yet surrendered and he has still in his possession his side arms and the gun which he carried on the battlefields. The old gun has since done good service in Texas in killing buffaloes and other game. Mr. Cubine went to Lynchburg with his command and from there made his way home.

He found the old homestead in a dilapidated condition and his parents were in destitute cir- cumstances owing to the ravages of war. His father gave him control of the place and he as- sumed its entire management. He then went to work to build up the farm and after the death of his father he remained upon the old homestead, continuing the work of improvement and prog- ress. He expended much labor and material in placing the farm once more in a good condition and in making the needed repairs. He then turned the property over to the administrator after which Mr. Cubine came to Texas in March, 1874. He first located in Grayson county, where he raised a crop and the same year he bought a claim in Montague county on the old Chism trail on Farmers' Creek. He soon found, how- ever, that he had located in close proximity to a clan of robbers and of murderers and no doubt many times his life hung in the balance, for he stood as a champion of law and order. How- ever, he continued to reside upon his claim and there remained until after the band was broken up, some of its members being sent to the peniten- tiary, while others were hung. Mr. Cubine built a log cabin, made rails and fenced some of his land. He was the first in the county to set out fruit trees and he has continued the work of im- provement and progress along progressive lines,

resulting greatly to the benefit of the communi- ty. He had to go six miles to find a boarding place in the early days and he made his way to and from there by different routes in order to avoid being waylaid by the clan of robbers.

In 1879 Mr. Cubine was married in Montague county, and taking up his abode upon his farm he carried on general agricultural pursuits. He .also raised some stock, for the range was free at that time and the cattle roamed over the prairie and fattened upon the native grasses. Large herds of buffalo were frequently seen and various kinds of game was to be had in abund- · ance. Wild beasts also roamed at will over the prairie, for pioneer conditions existed, the work of progress and improvement seeming scarcely begun. As the years passed, however, Mr. Cu- bine continued his work of farming and met with a creditable measure of success. He also es- tablished the first cotton gin and later as he be- came able he added to his lands and improved .two farms. He was also the first to try to make the experiment of raising fruit and found that it could be done successfully.

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A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas, Volume II, Part 49

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