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Fifteen years ago Mr. Wade came to Texas, spent a brief time at San Angelo, and then moved to Runnels County, practicing at Miles and Ballinger for ten years as member of the firm of Stone & Wade. In December, 1914, he moved to Fort Worth and has since been with Bryan, Stone & Wade, with offices in the Fort Worth National Bank Building. Mr. Wade has taken an active part in local affairs as far as consistent with the career of a very busy lawyer. He is a member of the Glen Garden Club of Fort Worth and the First Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Decem- ber 19, 1907, he married Miss Alice Norman, of Paint Rock, Texas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Norman. They have one daughter, Mary Louise.
EDWIN E. BEWLEY, president and manager of the Bewley Mills at Fort Worth, is one of the vital and progressive business men of
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the younger generation in his native city, and is a representative of a family whose name has been identified with the civic and business ac- tivities of Fort Worth for more than forty years. He was born in this city on the 2d of October, 1881, a son of M. P. and Hattie C. (Samuel) Bewley. M. P. Bewley was born and reared in Kentucky, and in 1876 came to Fort Worth and engaged in the buying and shipping of grain.
Edwin E. Bewley attended the public schools of Fort Worth and completed the cur- riculum of the high school. Thereafter he continued his studies in the University of Texas, graduating in 1902 with the B. L. and M. A. degrees. From his youth he has been associated with the milling business founded by his father, and upon the death of the latter he became president and manager of the Bew- ley Mills, in the operation of which he has continued the progressive and honorable poli- cies which brought success to the enterprise under the able direction of his father. He succeeded his father also as a member of the directorate of the Farmers & Mechanics Na- tional Bank, one of the great financial insti- tutions of Northern Texas. The Bewley Mills has a daily capacity of 1,500 barrels of flour and 500 barrels of cornmeal and has a force of about eighty employes. Their products find ready demand throughout the Southwest, besides which an appreciable export trade has been developed. Mr. Bewley is treasurer of the Millers Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Texas, is president of the Texas National Mutual Fire Insurance Company, and is a director of the Fort Worth Life Insurance Company, and the Nash Hardware Company of Fort Worth, and is a director and vice presi- dent of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank. He is a popular member of the Fort Worth Club, the River Crest Country Club and the Fort Worth Lodge of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks. He is affili- ated also with the Masonic fraternity.
The year 1913 recorded the marriage of Mr. Bewley to Miss Martha Jennings, daughter of Hyde and Florence (Van Zandt) Jennings, of Fort Worth, and the one child of this union is a son, Edwin Elmore, Jr.
CHARLES T. ROWLAND has been a Fort Worth lawyer for twenty-seven years. He was born near Fort Worth January 8, 1874, son of David W. and Paulina Rowland. His father was born in Tennessee, at a place named in honor of the Rowland family, and as
a young man came to Texas soon after the Civil war, and was successfully engaged for many years as a farmer and stock raiser, also as a miller and cotton ginner. He died at the age of seventy-four, and his widow is still living, at the age of seventy-six.
Charles T. Rowland, the oldest of three chil- dren, spent his early life on his father's farm. At the age of seventeen he came to Fort Worth and began the diligent study of law, and was admitted to the bar at the age of nineteen. Since then he has been engaged in practice, and during the first four years of his legal career, up to 1896, served as justice of the peace. For about two years he was assist- ant county attorney, and in 1916 was a can- didate for the nomination' of attorney gen- eral of the state.
Mr. Rowland was formerly in practice with Judge Bruce Young and Judge R. E. L. Ray, and at the present time is associated with former District Judge Marvin H. Brown. Together they enjoy an extensive civil prac- tice in all the courts of the state.
Mr. Rowland married in 1900 Mary Early Morris. Her father, Colonel Ben Morris, came to Texas from Montgomery, Alabama, and was a Confederate soldier. Mr. and Mrs. Rowland have three children: Nell, Charles T., Jr., and Morris.
ARTHUR SEELEY DINGEE came to Fort Worth just thirty-five years ago (1921) and secured his first employment in a store occu- pying the site of his main business establish- ment in Fort Worth today. He is one of the city's oldest merchants, and as president of the firm of Turner & Dingee, conducts the largest grocery business in the city.
Mr. Dingee was born in Canada, May 6, 1862, son of Lewis and Rebecca (Smith) Din- gee. His parents were natives of Canada. During his boyhood he attended grammar school at Georgetown, New Brunswick. In 1882, at the age of twenty, he started for the West, going out to Winnipeg, then practically on the frontier of the Canadian Northwest. He was in the service of the Canadian govern- ment surveying parties running the meridian lines over the Northwest Territory, and spent seven years in the hazardous and interesting duty, mingling with half-breed Indians and traversing vast areas of country in which white men had never set their foot. It was at the conclusion of several years of this kind of life, which completely satisfied his wander-
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lust, that Mr. Dingee arrived in the little city of Fort Worth in 1886.
At that time Turner & McClure had a gen- eral grocery store at 502 Houston Street. Mr. Dingee entered their service as a clerk, in an- other year or so had acquired a small financial interest, and gradually absorbed the entire ownership. Though Mr. Turner has been dead more than twenty years, Mr. Dingee still retains his name in the title, largely for senti- mental reasons, since it was Mr. Turner who gave him his first job in Texas at what was then considered a fine salary of fifty dollars a month. Mr. Dingee now has a complete chain of high class grocery stores so situated as to afford service to practically the entire city's population.
Mr. Dingee has accepted responsibilities in many of the important civic and commercial movements which have contributed to the suc- cessive stages of Fort Worth's growth and development. He was especially active during the World war, exerting himself in behalf of many different campaigns, and during the last War Savings Stamps drive personally con- ducted the work among his own employes, building up a subscription list in his own house to the amount of eighteen hundred dol- lars. Moreover, he served without remunera- tion as deputy inspector for the British Minis- try of Food in the Fort Worth district. He has never been a seeker for political office and is independent in his political affiliations. He is one of the charter members of the Elks Lodge.
Mr. Dingee married Miss Pink Halloway, daughter of the late Colonel H. C. Halloway, a prominent Fort Worth pioneer, whose name is inscribed on the Tarrant County court house in recognition of his valued services to the community. Mrs. Dingee's mother, Margaret Ann (Loving) Halloway, came with her parents to Fort Worth in 1849, only a few months after the military post had been estab- lished. She is one of the last survivors of the original settlers at Fort Worth. Mr. and Mrs. Dingee are the parents of four children. The son, G. F. Dingee, served in the army during the war. G. F. Dingee and his brother Henry and their brother-in-law, W. D. King, Jr., are all actively associated with Mr. Dingee in the grocery business. The two daughters are Mary, wife of W. D. King, Jr., and Anne, wife of D. I. Cox.
MARSHALL R. SANGUINET. In the course of construction of scores of towering office
buildings all over the Southwest there has ap- peared somewhere about the premises the legend Sanguinet & Staats, architects and builders, and as this simple and forceful ad- vertising in conjunction with the practical achievement itself has been going on for a quarter of a century or more, there is no ques- tion that this firm of architects is better known than any similar organization in the South- western states.
The firm has branch offices in half a dozen cities, but the senior member, Marshall R. Sanguinet, has for years been a resident of Fort Worth, and from that city he has directed the work that has made his name so widely known.
Mr. Sanguinet was born in St. Louis, Mis- souri, March 18. 1859, son of Marshall P. and Annie E. (Betts) Sanguinet. He was reared and educated in his native city, at- tended St. Louis University, spent two years in the Redemptorist College in Mississippi, and pursued a two years' course in architecture at Washington University in St. Louis. For a time while further prosecuting his studies he was under a private instructor in architecture.
Mr. Sanguinet located at Fort Worth in 1883, nearly forty years ago. His first practice as an architect was under the individual name of M. R. Sanguinet. Then successively he was a member of Sanguinet & Dawson, Hag- gart & Sanguinet, Sanguinet & Messer. The firm of Sanguinet & Staats has been in exist- ence now for a quarter of a century, and they are architects of national reputation and ex- perience. Their principal offices are main- tained at Fort Worth, Houston, Wichita Falls and San Antonio.
This firm designed and built such notable structures as the Amicable Building of Waco, at the time known as "the tallest building in Texas," the First National Bank and Carter Buildings at Houston, the Rand, Gibbs, Frost, Washer Brothers and Central Trust Buildings at San Antonio, the twelve-story City National Bank Building at Shreveport, Louisiana, the Scarborough Building at Austin, the City Na- tional Bank and Wilson Buildings at Dallas, while at Fort Worth they were architects for the First National Bank, the Burkburnett Building, the Westbrook Hotel, the Fort Worth National Bank, the Denver Record, the twenty-four story F. & M. National Bank, the new Winfield Hotel, and W. T. Waggoner Building.
Mr. Sanguinet is personally known in a number of leading cities of the Southwest.
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He is a member of the Elks and Fort Worth clubs, the Knights of Columbus, River Crest Country Club, Chambers of Commerce at Fort Worth and Houston, and is a member of the Houston Club and San Antonio Club. In 1886 he married Miss Edna P. Robinson. They have three daughters, Mrs. F. B. Lary, Mrs. F. L. Williams and Mrs. W. B. Ward, Jr.
CARL C. STAATS. To name Mr. Staats as junior member of Sanguinet & Staats, archi- tects and engineers, is sufficient to establish his business and professional associations in prac- tically every large city of the Southwest.
Mr. Staats, who is a building engineer of more than thirty years active experience, was born in New York City April 19, 1871, son of Frederick and Anna Staats. He was reared and educated in New York, and at the age of twenty came to Texas and in 1891 entered the office of J. Riley Gordon, archi- tect, at San Antonio. It was seven years later that he became associated with M. R. San- guinet at Fort Worth, so that this firm has been in existence for over twenty years. It is without doubt the largest organization of architects and building engineers in the state, and that means that it is one of the largest in the country. This company has furnished the plans and engineering supervision in the construction of many of the skyscraper build- ings in the Southwestern States, for innumer- able schoolhouses, high class residences, court- houses and other public buildings. At Fort Worth they were architects for the high school, more than thirty-five other schools in North Texas, courthouses in Fort Worth, Wichita Falls, Galveston, were architects for the Hous- ton City Hall, Dallas Public Library, designed about twenty of the Exchange buildings for the Southwestern Telephone & Telegraph Company, and many handsome church edifices. This firm was selected as architects and engi- neers for the beautiful church at Washington, D. C., for the Methodist Episcopal Church South, a structure built entirely of white marble.
Mr. Staats married Mary Boyce and they have six children: Regina, Anna Mae, John, Edna, Gilbert and Patrick. Mr. Staats is a member of the Knights of Columbus and Elks, the Rivercrest Country Club, Fort Worth Club, and is active in a great number of busi- ness organizations at Fort Worth and else- where.
HORACE H. COBB. While a lawyer by pro- fession and training, Mr. Cobb's associations with Fort Worth during the past thirty years have brought him intimate connections and prominent relationships with the financial and business affairs of northern Texas.
He is a New Englander, born at Windham, Vermont, January 9, 1850, son of Lyman and Ellen (Howard) Cobb. His parents were also natives of Vermont, spent many years at Chester in that state, but died in Texas. Horace H. Cobb acquired his early education in Vermont, was a student at Gale College and later at Cornell University, and was ad- mitted to the bar soon after reaching man- hood. For several years he was engaged in the lumbering industry in New York, Arkan- sas and Michigan, but in 1890 came South and located at Fort Worth as secretary and man- ager of the Belcher Mortgage Company. He has been handling the affairs of this well known financial corporation many years and is now its president. Through his connec- tion with this company he is also directing the affairs of the Southern Trust Company, which had many stockholders interested in the Bel- cher Mortgage Company. Other important business interests under his charge are the O K Cattle Company, the Portillo Land & Lumber Company, and the Economy Oil Com- pany. Mr. Cobb also has some financial inter- ests at Abilene and Greenville, Texas.
During his many years of residence at Fort Worth he has allied himself with those move- ments calculated to promote the welfare and growth of the city. He promoted the Glen Garden Country Club, of which he is an active member and honorary president. He is also a member of the Fort Worth Club. In 1871 Mr. Cobb married Susan M. Church.
HON. JAMES CLIFTON WILSON, judge of the United States District Court of the Northern District of Texas at Fort Worth, was twice elected to Congress by the Twelfth Texas Dis- trict, was former United States district attor- ney and almost continuously throughout the quarter of a century of his active legal career has been identified with public affairs.
Judge Wilson was born at Palo Pinto, Texas, June 21, 1874, son of Thomas and Margaret (Loving) Wilson. His father was born in Fayetteville, Tennessee, was a Con- federate soldier four years, and in 1867 began his civil life over again in a new district in Texas, Palo Pinto County. He soon acquired the confidence of many of the prominent cat-
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tlemen and other citizens of the frontier, was elected sheriff of Palo Pinto County, and died at Austin in 1879, while attending the first meeting of the Texas Sheriffs' Association.
Margaret Loving, wife of Thomas Wilson, and by a subsequent marriage the wife of C. B. Raines of Mineral Wells, was the youngest child of Oliver Loving, the distinguished Texas pioneer who located in Collins County as early as 1846, and in 1855 acquired the land in Palo Pinto County still known as Loving's Valley. He was one of the pioneer stockmen of West Texas, and lost his life at the hands of hostile Indians on the Pecos River in 1867. His name has always been held in loving mem- ory by old time Texas cattlemen. Judge Wilson was named for his mother's brother, James C. Loving, who was one of the organ- izers of the Cattle Raisers' Association of Texas in 1877, and served continuously as sec- retary of that body until his death at Fort Worth in 1902.
Judge Wilson is one of a family of three children, the others being: Horace, a well known cattle man and a resident of Fort Worth, and Sue, who married Dr. J. H. McCracken, of Mineral Wells, Texas. James C. Wilson was reared and educated in Palo Pinto, attending the schools of that town and of Mineral Wells, also Weatherford College, and received his law degree at the University of Texas in 1896. He began practice at Weatherford, and continued to make his home in that city until November, 1912. From 1898 until 1900 he served as assistant county attor- ney of Parker County, following which he was for three terms county attorney, serving from 1902 to 1908. From 1908 until 1912 Judge Wilson was chairman of the Demo- cratic County Executive Committee of Parker County. Soon . after his removal to Fort Worth he was appointed assistant attorney of Tarrant County, and in August, 1913, Presi- dent Wilson nominated him for the office of district attorney of the Northern Texas Dis- trict. For this appointment he had the sup- port of United States Senator Morris Shep- pard, who had been a classmate of Judge Wilson in the law school of the University of Texas. Judge Wilson held the post of dis- trict attorney over four years. In 1916 he was nominated and elected a member of the Sixty-fifth Congress from the Twelfth Texas District, and in 1918 was re-elected for the term expiring in 1921. However. soon after the beginning of the Sixty-fifth Congress he resigned his seat, March 14, 1919, to accept
the appointment of the president as judge of the United States District Court of the North- ern District of Texas, taking this office in July of that year. During his participation in the deliberations of the Sixty-fifth Congress, bet- ter known as "the War Congress," he served as a member of the naval committee, and as a member of that committee and in an official capacity visited each of the allied countries, as well as the battlefront in Northern and East- ern France during "the big offensive" in the summer of 1918.
Judge Wilson is one of the eminent lawyers and jurists of Texas, and few men of his age have had years so crowded with honors and official responsibilities. In Parker County in 1905 he married Miss Esther English. Mrs. Wilson was born at Pictou, Nova Scotia, and came to Texas as a teacher. The three chil- dren of Judge and Mrs. Wilson are James C., Jr., Horace, and Emily Loving Wilson. Judge Wilson is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a Noble of the Mystic Shrine. -
WILLIAM A. DURINGER, M. D. As a physi- cian and surgeon Dr. Duringer's experience in Fort Worth goes back to a time when the city was largely a market town for the west- ern cattle ranchers. As a citizen of the local- ity he knew Fort Worth before it had a single railroad. While it has been his good fortune to associate with and know many of the ster- ling pioneers and city builders of Fort Worth, Dr. Duringer has been steadily in the front rank of his profession during his thirty-seven years of practice, and is regarded as one of the leading surgeons in the Southwest.
Dr. Duringer was born at Pinckneyville, Illi- nois, October 29, 1861. When he was a boy the family came to Texas on account of his father's health. His father discovered the en- vironment suited to his condition, and both he and his wife are still living, the father at the age of eighty-five and the mother at eighty- three. After reaching Dallas the Duringer family traveled overland into Tarrant County, and Dr. Duringer recalls that stage of the journey as being uninterrupted by fences, pas- tures or farms. The old Duringer homestead is located south of Fort Worth on Deer Creek.
During his youthful years Dr. Duringer helped develop that farm, toiling in the fields throughout the summer season and attending a term or two of country school in winter. Though living somewhat isolated from the great currents of the world's activities he real- ized a definite impulse toward scientific attain-
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ments and determined to become a physician. Dr. Duringer entered Tulane University, med- ical department, at New Orleans in 1883 and showed such proficiency as to win an interne- ship. His education completed, he returned to Fort Worth and in 1885 occupied a little frame one-room building on the corner of Sixth and Houston streets, on the site of the imposing Waggoner Building. He soon left his office quarters there to join the firm of Burts, Field & Duringer, who had more com- modious offices on the corner of Third and Main streets. At that location Dr. Duringer remained and looked after his growing prac- tice in medicine and surgery for over thirty years. His present offices are in the Club Building. Dr. Duringer was one of the orig- inal organizers of the Fort Worth Club and participated in its affairs when the club rooms were two rented rooms over the express office at Main and Second streets.
In his profession Dr. Duringer has become prominent as general surgeon of the Rock Island lines in Texas, as surgeon of the South- ern Pacific lines, consulting surgeon for Armour & Company, and he is a member of the board of directors of All Saints' Hospital and visiting surgeon of St. Joseph's Infirmary at Fort Worth. He enjoys the distinction of being a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, a member of the County and State Medical Society and the American Medical Association, and an honorary member of the Phi Chi Medical Society.
Besides his honored place among the mem- bers of the Fort Worth Club he was one of the earliest Knights of Pythias in the city, also one of the first members of the Elks Club, and for many years has been a Knight Templar Mason and Shriner, and is an honorary mem- ber of the Eagles. He also belongs to the River Crest Country Club and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
Dr. Duringer, in 1897, married Bernice Juanita Hovey. She is the only daughter of Colonel S. B. Hovey. Their two children are Elizabeth H., wife of C. A. Banks, and W. Hovey Duringer.
O. K. SHANNON, who has been a resident of Fort Worth since 1907 and prominently identified with the city's public utilities, is a lawyer by training and profession and came into prominence over the state as a political associate of the late Governor Lanham.
Mr. Shannon was born at Manhattan, Kan -. sas, January 8, 1872, and came to Texas when
a small boy. He was a student at that famous institution of learning known as Add-Ran Col- lege at Thorp Springs, the traditions of which are inherited by the Texas Christian Univer- sity at Fort Worth. Later he studied in the Kansas University at Lawrence.
Mr. Shannon lived for a number of years at Weatherford, where he studied law, and after his admission served as city attorney. For four years he was a clerk in the General Land Office of Texas and for two years chief clerk in the office of the secretary of state. Later he was chosen secretary of state under Governor Lanham, and his official duties at Austin gave him a wide acquaintance all over Texas.
On moving to. Fort Worth in 1907 Mr. Shannon became associated with the Jones- Wortham Lumber Company. Somewhat later, when the Consumers Light Company obtained a franchise from the city, Mr. Shannon, dis- posing of his interests in the lumber company, became secretary of the light corporation. He also took part in another development in the public utility situation, and at the consolidation of the gas interests at Fort Worth became secretary of the gas company. For several years past he has been vice president and gen- eral manager of the gas company.
Mr. Shannon is affiliated with the Masonic fraternity and the Elks, and is a member of the Fort Worth Club and the Rotary Club. He married at Weatherford, Texas, in June, 1898, Miss Emily Armstrong.
WILLIAM BAILEY FISHBURN came to Texas when a young man, has had a busy career, and at Fort Worth has achieved rank as one of the leading business men. He is president and general manager of the Fishburn Dyeing. & Dry Cleaning wholesale establishment at 501-502 Commerce street, representing one of the most progressive concerns in the city. Its present prosperity and prestige are directly due to the initiative and intelligent manage- ment of its president.
Mr. Fishburn was born at Lafayette, Ten- nessee, January 24, 1864, son of Wilson and Elizabeth Fishburn. He was educated in the public schools of his native state, and in 1884, at the age of twenty, came to Texas. He. worked as a farm and ranch hand and from his earnings paid for three years' tuition in the Texas Christian University. In 1901 he located in Fort Worth and invested a very modest capital in a dyeing and cleaning shop. He has made a close study of that business
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and has enlarged his facilities in proportion to the increasing appreciation of its service. In March, 1920, the business was incorporated with a capital stock of $350,000, and the mod- ern plant of W. B. Fishburn, Incorporated, is regarded as one of the largest and most com- plete dyeing and dry cleaning establishments in the South. Only the most modern, im- proved methods are employed. Mr. Fishburn is also interested in oil refining, and has some direct connection with Texas agriculture.
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