A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas, Volume II, Part 58

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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The last named became the wife of Mark Anthony and by this marriage there were eight children: Elizabeth A., who became Mrs. Keets and after his death married J. Roberts ;

Robert, who died in the army; John, who en- tered the Confederate service from Texas at the beginning of the war and was never heard from again until 1904, when W. E. Anthony learned of his whereabouts and visited him in this state; Nancy, who died in childhood; James, who served throughout the war and is now in Atlanta, Georgia; Mrs. Amanda Mount; W. E., of this review; and Chapple, who was killed in the battle of Baker's Creek, while serv- ing in the Confederate army. Four of the num- ber are yet living. The mother reared her chil- dren in a most creditable manner and in her last days found a good home with her son, W. E. Anthony, and others of the family, her deatlı occurring in this county in 1878.

W. E. Anthony was born and reared in Georgia and subsequent to his father's death assisted his mother in the management of her business affairs until 1861. He then responded to the call of the Confederacy for soldiers and joined the field artillery, first under Captain Yeiser and later under Captain Corpit, with whom he continued until the close of the war. His battery was attached to the army of the Tennessee and he participated in most of the engagements fought in the state of Tennessee. He was captured in Bakers Creek fight together with many others and was sent to Camp Mor- ton at Indianapolis, Indiana, and afterward to Fort Delaware, remaining there for three months, when he was exchanged. He then joined his command at Stone Mountain, Georgia, and the first engagement in which he afterward partic- ipated was at Chattanooga. He was later in the engagement of Lookout Mountain and after the battle retreated to Atlanta, passing all through the siege there. Later he was at Nashville and subsequently returned to South Carolina, be- ing in many of the movements of the army in that state as well as at Salisbury, North Carolina. At that place he was again captured, but by his ingenuity managed to slip away from the guard and make his escape. Three months after the close of the war he received his parole. He was always on active duty at the front and he saw hard service and bore many deprivations such as are meted out to a soldier. Subsequently . he returned home and found his mother with- out help, for the slaves had gone and she had no one to assist her. He then resumed farming and remained in Georgia for four years.

In 1870 Mr. Anthony removed to Texas. settling in Montague county before Saint Jo had been platted. He bought land on Moun- tain Creek, seven miles from the present site of Saint Jo. He found few settlers in the

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locality and was a pioneer settler of the typical type, having to brave the hardships and trials incident to life in a frontier district. He cut logs, had the lumber sawed and built a house and in the course of time was placing his land under cultivation, his labors proving that farming was not an unsuccessful experiment, but could be made a profitable and permanent industry. For six years he successfully conducted his land and then sold out, at which time he removed to a farm about five miles north of Saint Jo, pur- chasing a tract of land on which he built the first cotton gin in this locality, continuing its operation for ten years. He also carried on blacksmithing, for there were few mechanics in the locality and customers came to him from twenty miles around. He likewise placed his land under cultivation, carried on farming to some extent and was the pioneer ginner in his locality. In 1888 he sold out and came to Saint Jo, where he bought a gin surrounded by a tract of six acres. This he conducted for ten years, when he once more disposed of his gin and then bought a farm, to which he removed, continu- ing its cultivation for a few years. He then again became owner of the cotton gin at Saint Jo and yet retains it in his possession together with the six acres of land, on which he has erected a commodious residence. He yet con- ducts the gin and does some farming, but has abandoned blacksmithing. The capacity of the gin is sixty-three bales per day and it is well equipped with modern machinery, thoroughly up to date in every particular.

In 1872 Mr. Anthony was united in marriage to Miss Elizabeth Jones, an estimable lady, who has proved an excellent helpmate to her husband. She was born in Denton county, Texas, October 3, 1857, a daughter of Jackson and Ruth (Wisdom) Jones of Tennessee, who removed from that state to Missouri and later to Texas. They were pioneer residents of the Lone Star state and settled in Kaufman county, where Mr. Jones developed and improved a farm, but later he disposed of his property there and took up his abode in Denton county, where he also opened up a good farm. In 1870 he removed to Montague county, settling north of Saint Jo, where he improved a third farm. Later he rented his land and retired to Saint Jo, where he died in April, 1903, at the advanced age of eighty-two years. He was a veteran of the Mexican war and also of the rebellion and was in the One Hundred and Sixteenth Regiment, wherein he displayed the valor and loyalty which always characterized him in his relation to any cause that he espoused. He was a

staunch Democrat, but without desire or aspira- tion for the honors and emoluments of office. He belonged to the Methodist church and was ever most loyal in his advocacy of its teachings. His wife, who died in 1897 at the age of sixty- three years, was a daughter of Thomas Wis- dom of Tennessee, who died in Missouri, where he was well known as a prominent and highly respected man. His children were: David, William, Thomas, Pollard, Elizabeth, Mar- garet, Sarah and Ruth. The brothers and sisters of Jackson Jones were: James, William, John, Robert, Wisdom, Cynthia and Mary. To Mr. and Mrs. Jackson Jones were born the follow- ing sons and daughters: Mrs. Cynthia Bron- son; Thomas, of Arizona; Newton, who is living in Jackson county, Texas; Mrs. Elizabeth Anthony; Mrs. Esther Mitchell; Carroll, who is living in Jack county, Texas; Mrs. Mina Ru- dolph; Mrs. Sarah J. Shanklin; John, of Mexi- co; and Mrs. Molly Bellis. All are yet living and with one exception all are married.

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony have a family of eleven children: Chapple, who married Miss Maggie Whaley; Ophelia, the wife of William Broome; Ada, the wife of Theodore Whaley; Maud, Newton, Belva, May, Mable, Alice, Mark and Scott, all yet with their parents.

Mr. Anthony exercises his right of franchise in support of the men and measures of the Democracy. He has seen the development of Saint Jo and all the surrounding country. There has been but one Indian raid since he settled in this part of the state and he did not suffer any loss at that time. He has enjoyed good health, has been well pleased with the country and in his business affairs has prospered. He is well known as the ginner of Saint Jo and as a public spirited citizen devoted to the welfare and progress of his community.

P. BARRETT PENNEY, who has served in the office of sheriff of Lubbock county since 1902, is an old and tried plainsman, who in his connection with the cattle industry has been all over West Texas and seen and participated in nearly all the phases of its varied life during the past twenty years. A man of great personal courage and often demonstrated physical prow- ess, of known integrity and honesty, and with broad experience of men and affairs in this sec- tion of the state, he has naturally proved a most excellent incumbent of his present office and has been an influential figure in whatever department of activity he has engaged.

Born in Bartow county, Georgia, December 14, 1869, he is a son of two well known and hon-

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ored citizens of Lubbock, William E. and .Mar- tha (Barrett) Penney. His father, who was born near Cross Hill, South Carolina, October 27, 1843, at the age of seven years accompanied his parents to Bartow county, Georgia, where was located the home farm and where he grew up to manhood. In 1861 he enlisted in the Confederate army, at first being in the Eighteenth Georgia Regiment, but later was taken out of. that regi- ment and detailed for duty in the defense of Fort McCrea, Florida, five companies consti -- tuting the garrison. He was there during the bombardment of the fort, which was kept up for forty-eight hours. Later he was in the regular field service in Mississippi and Tennessee, and among other engagements participated at Shiloh, Murfreesboro, Chickamauga. He was in the army until the war closed, when he returned to Bartow county, Georgia, and was a farmer there until 1876, in which year he came out to Texas. He lived twelve years in Washington county, and then ten years in Brown county, and in' April, 1898, he and his wife and younger chil- dren moved out to Lubbock, Lubbock county, which has since been their home. Mr. and Mrs. William E. Penney have ten children living, having lost only one son by death, namely, Lawrence, who died at Sedalia, Missouri, in- directly as a result of exposure while serving as a volunteer soldier during the Filipino insurrec- tion. Besides P. Barrett there are five other sons, all of whom are in business in Lubbock, they being R. T., J. S., R. E., E. B. and John E. There are four daughters: Mrs. Bettie Young, Mrs. Willie Stokes, Mrs. Rosabelle Royalty and Miss Mabel.

Mr. Barrett Penney was reared on his father's farm, and spent the first twenty years of his life at home, and from then on until he was elected sheriff of Lubbock county he was a plainsman in western Texas. He took naturally to the cattle business from his boyhood, and upon com- ing west he followed the occupation of a cow puncher, working as such on a number of the old-time big, ranches in western Texas, princi- pally in the San Angelo country and along the Western division of the Texas and Pacific Rail- way. In the spring of 1894 he was appointed manager of the Oxsheer ranch in Hockley coun- ty. Later he became manager of the S ranch in Cochran county, owned by Colonel Charles C. Slaughter, of Dallas. Having become well known in this plains country through many years' experience, he was the popular and successful candidate for the office of sheriff in 1902, and in 1904 was again a successful candidate. The duties of tax collector are also exercised by the

sheriff, and the two as yet unorganized counties of Hockley and Cochran are attached to Lub- bock for judicial purposes, so that the range and quantity of his work is large and his is one of the most responsible administrative offices of the county.

Mr. Penney was married at Lubbock to Miss Blanche Taylor, who was born in Denver, Col- orado, but was reared in Texas. Mr. Penney affiliates with the Masonic order.

JOHN EDWARD MORRISON. In the realm of domestic commerce in Young county the name of John E. Morrison stands conspicu- ously prominent as a leader and is synonymous with progress, energy, thrift and success. As a farmer and merchant he has exercised that in- tense zeal and enthusiasm which marks the thrif- ty man of business and as a citizen his towns- men recognize in him a high-minded, thorough- going, versatile and Christian gentleman. The first seven years of his life in Young county Mr. Morrison spent with stock and as a tiller of the soil. Having been trained in youth and early manhood as a merchant the longing for his first love possessed him and forced his return to the counter. In 1883 he joined S. B. Street and opened a grocery store on the north side of the square. Two years later dry goods were added and after several years the firm of Mor- rison, Street and Company dissolved and Mr. Morrison took his sons into partner- ship with him, calling the firm John E. Morrison and Company. To his stock of general merchandise the firm has expanded and added department after department until it includes undertaking, lumber and cotton gin- ning, and has grown to be the chief establishment of a mercantile character in the county and a peer of any in northwest Texas. The firm of John E. Morrison and Company has been a growth from a modest single enterprise to a vast estab- lishment whose capital represents a modest for- tune and is the creature of an ambition which business limits alone can curb. Its directing force has been a trained, methodical and sagacious mind and its sustaining power has been a con- fiding and loyal public patronage.

The state of Mississippi was Mr. Morrison's birthplace and he was born in Fayette county, October 18, 1848, a son of John P. and a grand- son of Robert Morrison, the former born in Dallas county, Alabama, and the latter in South Carolina. Robert Morrison was born in 1768, came west to Dallas county, Alabama, after being grown and was a planter there many years. He reared the following children and died in La-

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Fayette county, Mississippi, in 1865. His chil- dren: Edwin, Harvey, William, John P., Rob- ert, Polly, who married Henry Gilmer, Cynthia, who became the wife of Washton Orr, Elizabeth, who married John Gilmer, and Jennie, wife of Robert Waugh. Grandfather Morrison was of Scotch-Irish blood.

John P. Morrison was born in 1819 and reached maturity on his father's Alabama plan- tation. The private schools common to that day gave him his education and he first mar- ried Miss Underwood, who died in Alabama, leaving a daughter, Mary, who married Colonel Roane and died at Grenada, Mississippi. For his second wife he chose Martha Kimmons, a daughter of John Kimmons, who settled there from Charlotte, North Carolina. This union was productive of Anna, of Sugdon, Indian Territory, wife of Henry Davidson; Cordelia, who died at nine years; Emma, who passed away at Graham in 1905, as the wife of E. B. Norman; and John E., who was the second child.

The vocation of John P. Morrison's early life was that of a farmer and when the Civil war came on he gave his services to the Southern cause and was under the cavalry leader Forrest during much of the war. Immediately after the rebellion he engaged in merchandising at Toc- copola, Mississippi, and was for eight years iden- tified with that business. In 1874 he brought his family to Texas and located near Fort Worth, where he was for two years employed with farm- ing. He finally moved to Fort Worth, where he died in 1877. He was a Democrat in politics and was a stanch Presbyterian and elder of the Fort Worth congregation at death. His wife followed their son to Young, county and passed away there in 1879.

John E. Morrison's early environment was that of the farm and his educational privileges were fairly good. At nineteen years of age he began his independent career, at which time his father made him a partner in his Toccopola store. After coming to Texas he was identified with rural pursuits largely until his embarka- tion in business in Graham, since which time his contribution to the country's development has been substantial and important, as has al- ready been noted.

C. E. QUILLEN. The business activity and enterprise of C. E. Quillen finds scope in his successful management of the National Bank of Nocona and in the conduct of his ranch and cattle interests. He is a typical native son of Texas, thoroughly in sympathy with the progres- sive movements of the state and in the control

of his private business interests he has at the same time contributed to the general prosperity of the community in which he resides. He was born in Grayson county, Texas, June 27, 1851, and received a liberal education for a new coun- try. His parents were C. C. and Catherine (Hartzog) Quillen. The mother was born in Tennessee, while the father was a native of Mis- sissippi and came to Texas when a young man. His father, Charles Quillen, was a pioneer of this country, coming to the state about 1832. He served in the war that made Texas a republic and was a witness of the early development of the new commonwealth, taking part in movements which contributed to its upbuilding and laid the foundation for its future prosperity. He was widely known at that day and was highly respect- ed by all with whom he was associated. He had two sons, the younger being William W. Quillen, a cattleman.

The older son, C. C. Quillen, was born and. reared in Texas and after attaining his majority became connected with the cattle business, which he followed throughout his entire life, undergo- ing 'various hardships and trials that fell to the. lot of the cattlemen in early days when the Indians were frequently on the warpath and when they committed many depredations, run- ning off the stock and committing other thefts. About 1857 he removed the cattle from Grayson and other counties to Montague county and not long after brought his family here, establishing his home in this part of the state. During the rebellion he belonged to the Home Guard, or- ganized for protecting the frontier and for ward- ing off Indian attacks. In his business life he was quite prosperous and accumulated a large estate, owning extensive herds of cattle. In politics he was a stalwart Democrat and served as coun- ty clerk of Montague county and in Grayson county. He was also justice of the peace and in the discharge of his duties was very prompt and faithful. He was widely known and highly re- spected and his integrity and honor were above reproach. He died in 1868, at the age of forty- six years. The hardships of pioneer life under- mined his constitution and caused his death at that early age. His widow yet survives him and now resides at Whitesboro, Texas, at the age of seventy-two years. She is a consistent member of the Methodist church. In the family were eight children: C. E., of this review ; Mary, the wife of Joe Stanfield; Thomas J., a cattle- man; Minerva, the wife of J. Viras; Mrs. Amanda Jamison; B. F., who follows farming; Florence, the wife of R. W. Bowen; and C. C.,. a bookkeeper.

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C. E. Quillen was largely reared in the saddle and has given much attention to the cattle busi- ness throughout his entire life. He has pur- chased land until he owns thirty-one hundred acres in pasturage, while one hundred and seven- ty-five acres are devoted to farming purposes. On the latter tract he resides, and for many years he has fed cattle for the mr rket, buying and shipping and in fact has carried on a general cattle business with excellent success. He also June 5, 1863, Lawson L. Cope became a sen- ily's domestic life. As a pupil in the country schools of Lee county he acquired the elementary principles of an education and he began contrib- uting to the needs of the domestic establishment at the early age of sixteen. He never left home, as almost all sons some time do, but remained with the homestead and an aid to his mother to the last. When he married he set up his house- hold under the roof of his youth and his efforts have won him the ownership of the three hundred and seventy acre farm that furnished him a field for labor in youth and provided for the domestic wants of the family while it was growing up. tills his fields and raises good crops. He can ' tient being and from that day a factor in the fam- look back to the past when in his boyhood days he was familiar with the ways of the Indians, when he hunted buffaloes on the plains and when the entire countryside was almost wholly unset- tled and given over to free range. He has watched with interest the work of development and progress that has been carried forward and has done his full share in the advancement and upbuilding of the county. He has also figured in banking circles, becoming a stockholder and one of the re-organizers of the Nocona National ' Bank, which was first capitalized for thirty thou- sand dollars but the capital stock has since been increased to fifty thousand dollars. There is a August 28, 1887, Mr. Cope married Lucinda Sparks, a daughter of J. W. Sparks, of Blount county, Tennessee, the place of Mrs. Cope's birth in the year 1865. Mr. Sparks moved from Blount county to Freestone county, Texas, and later to Chickasaw Nation, and died in 1900. He married Miss Jane Feasel, who bore him twelve children of which number Mrs. Cope was the third child. Mr. and Mrs. Cope's children are George Mason and Ava. large surplus and good deposits and the banking business has been carried on along modern and progressive lines until the Nocona National Bank has become one of the strong and reliable finan- cial institutions of Texas. In 1902 Mr. Quillen was made president of the bank and he is also a stockholder in the Bowie Bank, of which he was a director. He also owns considerable prop- erty in the town of Nocona and deals to a greater or less extent in real estate.

Mr. Quillen is a man of sturdy habits, thrifty and enterprising, and his labors have been crowned with a gratifying measure of prosperity. In politics he is a Democrat but has no aspiration for office, preferring to devote his undivided at- tention to his business interests, in which he is meeting with signal success.

LAWSON L. COPE. Ex-Sheriff Cope came to Jack county a youth of sixteen, and was from thenceforward an active aid to the maintenance of the family headed by his widowed mother. His rural homestead on Cleveland creek marks the site of their early settlement and with its de- velopment and improvement has he been chiefly occupied since.

Lawson L. Cope is a native son of the Lone Star state and was born in Lavaca county, where his father, Andrew J. Cope, settled as an emi- grant, in 1859. The latter was born near Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, in 1813, came to mature years on his parents' farm and married there

Miss Martha Clepper, who survived him many years and passed away in Jack county, Texas, in January, 1901. Of their large family of ten children only three survive, viz: Lawson L., Silas, of Indian Territory, and Sonora, wife of D. P. Hill. From Lavaca county Mr. Cope, Sr., took his family into Lee and it was there he died in 1878, and from this point the widow and children migrated to Jack county a year later.

In his political relations to Jack county Mr. Cope has been one of the spokes in the political wheel set in motion here by the People's party. This party acquired such a force at one period of its history as to almost, if not quite, dominate county affairs, and fill the county offices with its favorite sons. In 1902, Mr. Cope was named as its candidate for sheriff and was elected, retiring at the end of two years and turning the office over to a Democratic successor. During his incum- bency only one case of prominence came before the district court of the county and that the arrest, trials and conviction of George Freeman, a large stockman and early settler, for the murder of his son-in-law. Beyond this incident the mere routine of the office relieved the monotony of office-holding in his case and he returned to the life of a stock farmer.

HENRY C. McGLASSON, the well known real estate man of Wichita Falls, Texas, has been identified with the business interests of this city since 1888. He has an eventful life

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history covering many scenes of the world then given him, and in this hazardous capaci- ty he was under General Hood when the lat- ter started on his raid to Nashville. While he was bearing despatches war horses were shot from under him and he braved death in many forms. When the Confederate government since the time of his boyhood, and he has been noted for his sturdiness and uprightness in all the transactions of business and social relations wherever his lot has been cast. Mr. McGlas- son comes of fine Scotch stock, and high prin- ciples and manliness are inherent in him. He was . was compelled to abandon Richmond, Mr. Mc- born in Green county, Kentucky, August 13, 1844, and his parents were Rev. John H. and Mary Anne (Toms) McGlasson. His father was of a Virginia family that settled in that state from Scotland, but he spent most of his life in Kentucky, where besides his work as a minister of the Baptist church he was suc- cessfully engaged in farming and stock breed- ing. Mr. McGlasson's mother was of German descent, and both his parents passed away in Kentucky.

Henry C. McGlasson was reared on a farm, and the memories of his youthful days cluster about the state of Kentucky. He had not yet reached the age of eighteen when he en- tered upon his long and eventful experience as a soldier for the south. His career as a sol- dier was more than ordinarily thrilling, and he was in position at several times to be an authentic witness of events that have since been subjects of dispute among historians. It was early in 1862 that he enlisted for service in the Confederate army, being enrolled in Company F, First Kentucky Cavalry, in the corps com- manded by the little general, Joseph E. Wheel- er. The enlistment took place at Elizabeth- town, Hardin county, Kentucky, and Captain Dick Thompson was his first captain. As he and his comrades were starting out for the serv- ice they were captured and held prisoners for being found inside the Federal lines, and as they did not have their muster rolls to show that they were regularly enlisted Confederate soldiers they were sent to the Union prison on Johnson's Island in Lake Erie. Four months passed before an exchange was effected, and that was brought about through the efforts of Eunice Taylor, a sister of Captain Dan Taylor, who, when she learned the cause of their im- prisonment, traveled a long distance to obtain the company's muster roll, and after this was forwarded to Washington an exchange was ordered and effected at Vicksburg.

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A twentieth century history and biographical record of north and west Texas, Volume II, Part 58

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