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As an evidence of the esteem in which he is held by the organization, when an official of the company was asked at a public gather-
ing what he considered the most valuable asset of the company he promptly replied "Jack Henderson." It is conceded by all who are fa- miliar with the history of the Southwestern Bell Telephone Company and its activities in the Fort Worth district that Mr. Henderson has been instrumental, and credit is awarded him for the pleasant relations which have existed between the company and its patrons. There is a public record to his credit as well. He was a member of the City Council under the mayor and aldermanic system of the city government for ten years, much of the time serving as mayor pro tem. His counsel and advice was respected, and in public affairs he was always conservative, economical and pub- lic spirited. Mr. Henderson is a member of the Telephone Pioneers of America, and is affiliated with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, Knights of Pythias, Rotary Club and votes as a democrat. He married Mrs. Martha Anderson, of St. Louis.
CHARLES H. WALTON is a member of one of the largest general insurance agencies in the State of Texas, Mitchell, Gartner & Walton, of Fort Worth. Mr. Walton after some con- siderable experience in other lines took up insurance as his life work about thirteen years ago, and merits the regard paid him as one of the unusually forceful men in this profession in Texas.
He was born at Alton, Illinois, January 7, 1878, son of Charles H. and Annie (More- head) Walton. His parents were natives of Missouri, and after living at Alton, Illinois, a few years they came to Texas in 1890. His father died at Fort Worth in 1905, and his mother is still living. All of their seven chil- dren reached mature years, and six are still living.
The youngest son of the family, Charles H. Walton acquired part of his public school edu- cation before coming to Texas, and from the age of thirteen attended public school in Fort Worth and also the old Fort Worth Uni- versity. After leaving college he engaged for a time in railroad work and was also book- keeper for Washer Brothers.
January 1, 1908, he entered the insurance business, and in 1911 became one of the firm of J. W. Mitchell & Company. In 1915 the business was reorganized as Mitchell, Gartner & Walton. Mr. Walton is a member of the Fort Worth Club and the River Crest Coun- try Club, and is affiliated with the Elks Lodge.
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In 1901 he married Miss Virginia Martin, of Fort Worth. They have no living children.
THOMAS FRANKLIN YOUNG is well known to the people of Wichita Falls not only on account of his extensive oil operations, but also in connection with the Young Drug Com- pany, one of the most reliable drug concerns of this region, which he founded and for some years operated personally, until his other interests caused him to place it in the capable hands of C. A. McDaniel, his present manager. Mr. Young was born in DeKalb County, Ala- bama, in 1872, a son of F. M. and Jemima (Childers) Young, the former of whom is deceased but the latter is still living.
Strictly a self-made man, Thomas Franklin Young left his Alabama home when only ten years old and came to Tarrant County, Texas. Here for several years he worked for and was associated with James Childers, well-known ranchman and capitalist of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, a famous cattle trader and successful business man of note, to whom Mr. Young feels himself indebted for a knowledge of practical business affairs and training that were the foundation for his subsequent success in life.
Mr. Young came to Wichita Falls early in the spring of 1918, some months before the opening of the famous Fowler Farm well at Burkburnett, which was the beginning of the great oil boom in the Wichita district. Prior to the opening of this well Mr. Young went into the northwestern part of Wichita County and bought considerable land, which later became productive in oil wells, and it was in this way that he entered the oil industry.
Seeing an opening for a first-class drug store he established the Young Drug Company at Ninth Street and Indiana Avenue, and some idea of the reliability of this concern may be gathered from the following statement is- sued by it to its customers.
"With a full appreciation of the responsi- bility which rests upon us in our service to the public, and with a knowledge of the dread- ful results of careless thought and attention in the prescription end of our business, this institution has left no stone unturned to obtain the very best men possible for prescriptionists.
"Our sales end has been builded upon an equally as high standard. The medicines which we offer to the public are recognized the country over as those of merit, and we have stocked our shelves with the best obtainable in the thousand and one toilet and health
requisites which will add to your health and happiness.
"To better serve our fountain customers we have within the last month installed an entirely new fountain, which embodies all the newest sanitary features and insures our cus- tomers of wholesome and refreshing drinks.
"In short, our whole thought and attention is given to making our store as good as it can be made and rendering service which will be above criticism."
Becoming so deeply interested in the oil business, Mr. Young carried out a number of drilling enterprises in Wichita County, and has been notably successful in them. It is of record that everyone who has invested with him in his oil-enterprises has made money, and in one or two cases they have made substantial fortunes.
Mr. Young has production of oil in block in 74 west of Burkburnett, and the newly developed field west of the Texahoma properties, in what is known as Young's subdivision, lying about six miles south- west of Burkburnett, and he is very much occupied in looking after his oil interests in this region. Having great faith in Wichita Falls, Mr. Young expressed himself as fol- lows in a local interview, which is worthy of insertion here.
"I came here when this was wilder than the wildcat dreams of the man who imagined that the first wells were possible. I am here to stay. It looks as though it would be silly to leave here. The boom in Wichita is not over. The next six months will find the town growing faster than it has grown in the last half year. Eastern capital is just at the ripe stage for investment in this city. Men have written to me from many cities in the north and east, and what they have said assures me of the future of this city. These men write for information on the manner in which they can invest from $50,000 to $100,000. They are not dreaming nor are they uncertain as to the future of Wichita Falls.
"It was a gloomy outlook for a man entering the oil game when I first came here. I have been a little lucky in the past. The men who have been my partners and associates have not suffered in this last year. One man in- vested $10,000 with me, and I returned $40,- 000 to him. It is my hope to do as well for others who are with me." Already Mr. Young has had his good judgment with reference to the further growth of Wichita Falls justified,
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and he continues to have faith in it and this region, as he has every reason to do.
Mr. Young was married to Miss Georgia Estes, of Fort Worth, and they have three children : William Marion, Esther Norris, and Wilmot Houston.
ANDREW JACKSON DUNCAN, well known in Fort Worth, has earned a high degre of esteem for his capable management of the Electrical Public Utilities of the city.
Mr. Duncan was born at Pittsburgh, Penn- sylvania, in 1877. His father was A. J. Dun- can, who died in 1913, and his mother, still living, bore the maiden name of Sarah Mc- Kinley and was a sister of the late President William McKinley. "Jack," as his friends call him, had but a high school education. This lack is compensated for by a bright mind and an unusual aptitude for business of a wide and constructive nature. He went to New York when a young man and was em- ployed in a subordinate capacity in business. His quick and unerring grasp of large mat- ters attracted the attention of men of affairs, and when a party of Cleveland, Ohio, capital- ists acquired and consolidated the electric plants of Fort Worth Jack Duncan was se- lected as general manager of the enterprise. Under his management and direction has been constructed the most extensive plant of its class in the southwest. It has a capital of $4,500,000 and supplies power and light for an area em- bracing fully a hundred miles radiating from Fort Worth.
Under his management there has been no friction between the company, its patrons or employes. Complaint of its service from any source is never heard. He ranks among the most generous and public spirited citizens in a city of unusual activity. Mr. Duncan married Miss Jessie Rand Van Dusen, of New York, in 1904.
FORD SHOOK. While Fort Worth is a city of remarkable opportunities it takes a real man and real enterprise to realize them to the best advantage. A prosperous young mer- chant, proprietor of two popular stores in the center of the business district for men's furnishing goods and haberdashery, Ford Shook possessed only a knowledge of the busi- ness and a determination to gain a foothold as his capital when he came to Fort Worth about eight years ago.
He was born in Corsicana, Texas, June 17, 1888, son of John and Carrie (Ransome)
Shook. His parents were also natives of Texas, and his father is now living at Los Angeles, where he is a drug manufacturer, a business to which he has devoted the greater part of his life.
The older of two children, Ford Shook was educated in the public schools of Corsicana, graduating from high school in 1907. The following five years he spent at San Antonio in the men's furnishing goods and haberdash- ery business. He then came to Fort Worth, and in 1914, opened his first store at 608 Main Street. In 1917 he opened his second store, at 912 Main Street, and is now the prosper- ous proprietor of two high class stores for men's furnishing goods and has a high stand- ing among Fort Worth merchants and busi- ness men generally.
He is a member of the Salesmanship Club, the Lions Club, Kiwanis Club, Fort Worth Club, is affiliated with the Elks, was reared a democrat but is now a republican and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Mr. Shook is a director in the Security State Bank and president of the Fort Worth Automobile Club. He has some valuable in- terests in the oil industry of Texas, and owns some valuable real estate, including a beautiful home on Fairmount Avenue. On June 1, 1911, at San Antonio, Mr. Shook married Miss Blanche Catherine Rheinhart. Mrs. Shook was reared and educated at Decatur and Alton, Illinois.
BACON SAUNDERS, a surgeon and Fellow of the American College of Surgeons, has given his attention exclusively to surgery for over twenty years, and. at the beginning was one of the two men whose exceptional abilities and achievements enabled them to forego en- tirely the rewards of general practice.
His great professional service has been in a degree a transmission and amplification of the character and career of his honored fa- ther, one of the best of the old time doctors. His father was Dr. John Smith Saunders, who was born in Kentucky, and though reared in a period and place where educational opportunities were practically lacking, achieved by his industry a broad knowledge of classical literature and became a physician of real abil- ity. In 1857 he located at Dallas, Texas, then a frontier town about ten years old. All the praises that have been sung of the old time country doctor could properly be bestowed upon him. He road and traveled many miles looking after his patients in North Texas,
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sometimes as far away as Fort Worth. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate Army, though he had been a staunch Union man. He was appointed brigade surgeon on the staff of General Gano, and served until the end of the war. After the war he built and operated the first steam mill at Dallas, was also a local merchant, but in 1869 moved to Bonham, Texas, in order to give his children better educational advantages. He continued in the active practice of medicine at Bonham until his death in 1891. At one time he served as president of the North Texas Medical Asso- ciation. He was a devoted member of the Christian Church. Dr. John S. Saunders mar- ried Sarah J. Claypool, a native of Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Bacon Saunders was born at Bowling Green, Kentucky, January 5, 1855, and was two years of age when the family moved to Dallas. He attended a private school at that city and after 1869 continued his education in Carlton College at Bonham. He graduated in 1873 with the degree of Bachelor of Arts at the age of eighteen. The following two years he was a teacher at Bonham, employing his spare time under the inspiration of his father to study medicine. He then entered the medi- cal school of the University of Louisville, Kentucky, graduating March 1, 1877, the honor man in a class of 190 members. In medical college he distinguished himself in the branches of operative surgery, and thus early the lines of his destiny were clearly marked. Doctor Saunders practiced several years in partnership with his father in Bon- ham, and even while there his great skill in surgery achieved a fame far beyond the lim- its of his community. While he has since been honored as one of the great American surgeons of his time, and while his abilities would have gained him distinction in any of the great cities of the country, Doctor Saun- ders has always been true in his allegiance to Texas, and when he left Bonham he moved to Fort Worth in January, 1893, selecting the city largely on account of its excellent rail- road facilities. For a time he was associated at Fort Worth with the late W. A. Adams, and for a number of years he and Dr. F. D. Thompson were in partnership. In a few brief years the demands upon his time were such as to practically compel him to retire altogether from general practice and devote his energies to surgery. During the past twelve years he has had as his associate his
son, Dr. Roy F. Saunders, who represents the third generation of this family in the field of medicine and surgery. The son is a graduate of the Fort Worth School of Medicine and of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia.
Bacon Saunders was one of the founders of the medical department of Fort Worth University, and during its existence gave it high standards as a training school for the profession. He is now professor of surgery in Baylor University Medical Department. Doctor Saunders was one of the charter mem- bers and founders of the Texas Surgical So- ciety, membership to which is limited to those whose work is a hundred per cent surgery and whose accomplishments in that field are noteworthy. Dr. Saunders was also one of the surgeons admitted to Fellowship in the American College of Surgeons soon after that organization with its limited eligibility was established. He was the second president of the Texas Surgical Society. He is chief sur- geon of the Fort Worth & Denver City Rail- way, the Wichita Valley Railway, is surgeon of the Texas & Pacific Railway, the Interna- tional & Great Northern Railroad, the St. Louis Southwestern and the Gulf, Colorado & Santa Fe Railroad. He is consulting medi- cal director of the Fort Worth Life Insurance Company. He was one of the founders and was president of the North Texas Medical Association before his father held that post. He is also a former vice president of the International Surgeons' Association, is for- mer president of the Texas State Medical Society and former president of the Southern Surgical Association. He is a trustee and member of the Executive Board of the Texas Christian University and is chairman of the Board of Trustees of Brite College of the Bible. He is a director of the Farmers and Mechanics National Bank of Fort Worth, and has long been a prominent member of the First Christian Church, in which he is also an elder. At the diamond jubilee celebration of Baylor University in June, 1919, Doctor Saun- ders was made the recipient of further honors when the honorary degree of LL.B. was con- ferred upon him.
The domestic side of his life has been an ideally happy one shared by an accomplished wife and two talented children. A few months after he graduated in medicine he married at Bonham, October 31, 1877, Miss Ida Caldwell. Mrs. Saunders was born in Tennessee, and her father, Rev. Tillman A. Caldwell, was for
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many years a resident of Bonham, Texas. Mrs. Saunders has always been a leader in Fort Worth society, and was one of the women members of the Texas Commission to the World's Fair at St. Louis in 1904. The two children of Doctor and Mrs. Saunders are Roy F. and Linda Rav. Mention has been made of the son. The daughter is Mrs. Charles D. Reimers, of Fort Worth.
BARNEY A. GRIMES. While one of the youngest, Barney A. Grimes is by no means one of the least among Fort Worth's progres- sive and enterprising business men, and is ac- tive head of a music and musical merchandise store that has shown a remarkable capacity to grow and prosper under his management.
Mr. Grimes was born in Tyler County, Texas, April 22, 1897, a son of John Washing- ton and Emily (Davis) Grimes. His parents have been residents of Fort Worth since 1910. Up to two years ago, when he retired. John W. Grimes was a truck farmer.
Sixth in a family of nine children, Barney A. Grimes was thirteen vears of age when brought to Fort Worth. He finished his edu- cation here in the public schools and in a business college. and at the age of sixteen became a clerk in a local hardware business. Three years gave him a thorough training in general business, and he then accepted an op- portunity to embark in a more specialized field. He was associated with the Field-Lipp- man piano stores until November 15, 1920, at which date he and E. I. Conkling bought the Field-Lippman business. It was continued as a partnership until June 15, 1921, since which date Mr. Grimes has been sole proprietor, though the firm continues under the old name.
This is a business that started with a modest capital and stock and has kept up a sure and steady increase and is now one of the pros- perous firms of its class in Northern Texas. Mr. Grimes handles Behning and Behr Brothers pianos, victrolas, records, music rolls and musical accessories. He is active in local business and civic organizations, being a mem- ber of the Lions Club and Kiwanis Club, and aspires to full membership in the Masonic Order. He is independent in politics and a member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church.
On February 3, 1918, he married Miss Mary Lawing, daughter of Mrs. W. J. Lawing, of Fort Worth. She finished her education in the Fort Worth High School. Mr. and Mrs.
Grimes have one son, B. A. Grimes, Jr., born in 1919.
IRA CARLETON CHASE, A. M., M. D., F. A. C. S. Laymen who have come to know Doctor Chase of Fort Worth have been impressed not only by his unusual abilities in his profes- sion but equally well by his personal character, his elevated purpose, and all the qualities that make the physician a real leader in the slow evolution of humanity to a higher and better stage of civilization. Beyond this brief com- ment by way of generalization and introduc- tion, it will be permitted to quote from the Texas State Journal of Medicine of June, 1920, an appropriate sketch written of Doctor Chase from a professional standpoint. This sketch appeared after the election of Doctor Chase as president of the State Medical Association.
Dr. Ira Carleton Chase, the fifty-third presi- dent of the State Medical Association of Texas, was born in Oberlin, Ohio, August 16, 1868, son of Edward R. Chase, a Presbyterian minister, and Malvina Dayton Chase. The family is of old Colonial stock, one of whom was a signer of the Declaration of Independ- ence. His father died when he was four years old and he grew up under the influence of his grandfather. He received his early education in the public schools of Flint, Michigan, and Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio, from which latter institution he received the degree of A. B. in 1891 and A. M. in 1898. He was associate editor of the Oberlin Review in 1890-91. In 1910 he married Miss Helen Keating, of New York City. They have two sons, Edward Dayton, born in 1911, and Robert Keating, born in 1914. He now resides at his country home at Sagamore Hill, Fort Worth, and his practice is limited to surgery, gynecology and consultations.
Business brought Doctor Chase to Texas in 1891. He contracted typhoid fever in Tyler. In this locality he remained to recuperate, in the meanwhile acting as physical director of the Young Men's Christian Association. He served as general secretary of this organiza- tion at Denison, Texas, during 1892-93. He came to Fort Worth in March, 1893, as pro- fessor of physics and chemistry in the old Fort Worth University, and was soon recognized as one of the leading chemists of the state. In 1894 he was the leading spirit in the organiza- tion of the Medical Department of the Uni- versity, in which department he held the chair of chemistry and toxicology and was secretary
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of the faculty. This directed his energies more and more in medical fields and he graduated at the New York and Bellevue Hospital Medi- cal College. He was associated, after gradu- ation, for five years with the firm of Doctors Adams, Thompson and Saunders in Fort Worth. In 1901 he was elected professor of Anatomy in the Medical Department of Fort Worth University, which chair he held until 1910. For several years he was one of the editors of the Texas Medical Gazette. In 1904, at Austin, the year of the reorganization of the State Medical Association of Texas, he was elected secretary to fill the vacancy fol- lowing the death of Dr. H. A. West of Gal- veston. This position he held for six years. In 1905 at Houston, he urged through a re- port to the House of Delegates the establish- ment of an official medical journal for the Association, which was ordered, and he be- came its first editor-in-chief, so acting for five years, when he declined further service and spent a major part of the years 1910 and 1911 in medical study in Europe. In 1913 he served as Dean of the Fort Worth Medical College and was an associate professor of surgery in that institution until its close. He is widely known in Texas, through his many pupils, as a teacher of medicine. In 1915 he was made a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. He is at the present time secretary of the staff of St. Joseph's Infirmary, Fort Worth.
Doctor Chase has been an indefatigable worker in the cause of better medical laws for Texas, and spent much study in an effort to compile a model Medical Practice Act, under the limitations of the Constitution of the State of Texas. The first draft of the present medi- cal law was from his pen. He has become a familiar figure at Austin in the advocacy of nearly all legislation affecting the public health of this state during the last seventeen years.
During the period following the Mexican invasion of Columbus, New Mexico, he assumed the duties of secretary-editor in order to release Dr. Holman Taylor for border serv- ice, and on the latter's induction into national army service continued so to serve until the close of the World war. During much of this time he was chairman of the Council of Na- tional Defense, Medical Section, for Texas, and conducted an active campaign for securing Texas doctors for the army. During the war he was also contract surgeon for the Canadian government, having charge of the injured from the three large aviation fields near Fort Worth.
He has served a number of terms as delegate VOL. III-10
from Texas to the American Medical Associa- tion, and is now a member of the Judicial Council of that organization. He has taken great interest in the work of popular educa- tion on health subjects, and delivered through- out the state in 1909 and 1910 many illus- trated lectures on tuberculosis. Among his public health addresses that will be remem- bered were "Popular Regard for Human Life," Dallas, 1909, and "The Selection of a Medical Attendant," Dallas, 1913.
He is the author of a text book of Medical Chemistry (1898) and a small book on the Analysis of the Stomach Contents (1901). As editor of the Journal, as well as from his contributions to medical literature otherwise, he is one of the best known writers of Texas.
We see in the elevation of Doctor Chase to the highest honors within the gift of the pro- fession of Texas not only reward for faithful and efficient services but recognition of leader- ship in scientific medicine as well. The brief outline of his life here recorded is by way of information. To those who know him it will be sufficient ; to those who do not know him twice as much would not suffice.
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