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Frank M. Glenn never attended anything better than a log cabin schoolhouse. His only textbook was the old "blue back" speller, and his chief study was reading and ciphering. As a boy he acquired the principles of farm- ing on the old place in Alabama, and in the fall of 1861, when he was seventeen, he en- listed at Cherokee in that state in Company L of the Fourth Alabama Cavalry, under Capt. J. C. Nelson, Colonel Lyons and O. P. Roddy. His command was with the great cavalry legion of General Forrest, and he fought all through the war under that leader. His first fight was near Fort Henry, Kentucky. He was on detail at Corinth when the battles were fought there. He was in some of the fighting around Iuka, in the engagement at Harris- burg, Kentucky, in some minor engagements in Middle Tennessee, was with Forrest at Cumberland Gap, and at the close of the war was in Alabama and was paroled at Decatur. Though a soldier almost four years and shar-
ing in the strenuous experience of a cavalry- man, he had only one close call for his life. That was at Harrisburg, where he and his comrades were ordered to silence a Federal battery. Before reaching the objective a shell exploded, fragments of which knocked him down but did not even break the skin. He was carried to the rear supposed to be dead, but soon recovered his senses and was back in the fighting.
After the war Mr. Glenn returned to work where he left off. The war had ended as he expected it would, and he lost only four years of time from work, all he had to lose. He went back to the fields and got between the plow handles where there was no danger from bullets and where he was commander-in-chief. After marriage and one or two efforts at mak- ing a crop in Alabama he started for Texas to join his brothers, leaving Franklin County accompanied by his wife and child on the six day journey to the Lone Star State. The journey from Memphis to Little Rock was made by boat, and thence overland by wagon to Hood County, Texas. His resources con- stituted his team and wagon, household goods and perhaps four hundred and fifty dollars in cash. The first year he tried farming in Parker County, but the grasshoppers ate up his wheat crop. The same fall he moved into Hood County, having no profits for his year's work. On new land in Hood County he planted corn, and had a crop which tided him over the following year. He then tried both cotton and corn, with similar success, and during the twelve years he remained in Hood County he accumulated some property, bought and improved land, but abandoned it when he came to Johnson County and subsequently sold it for ten dollars an acre. The land cost him two and a half dollars.
In June, 1879, Mr. Glenn became one of the first permanent settlers in the Godley locality of Johnson County. Here he bought three hundred and sixty-nine acres at three dollars and a half an acre, and subsequently paid a dollar an acre for three hundred and twenty acres of grass land. He built a house, fenced and broke such of the land as was needed for crops, and the first few years had every en- couragement to put forth his best efforts as a crop grower. He also had horses and cat- tle, and has continued through all the years raising enough to supply himself and now and then a surplus for market. As he looks over the past he recalls nothing approaching a dis- aster in the way of crop failure, he had no
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fires, and had the good fortune to escape the ravages of thieves. The peace and order of his community seldom had disturbing ele- ments, and there were schools maintained for the enlightenment of the country youth.
Mr. Glenn has confined himself to his per- sonal affairs as a plain, common farmer. The only office he has filled was trustee of his rural school. He has always been a demo- crat, casting his vote for president as soon as his disabilities were removed after the war. He helped elect two democratic presidents, Cleveland and Wilson. Mr. Glenn has been affiliated with the Masonic Order since 1876. Outside of his farm interests he is a director of the Citizens National Bank of Godley.
One of the first acts he performed after returning from the army was to marry Cather- ine Hardy, and they have walked together along the laborious but not unfruitful path of life for fifty-six years. Mrs. Glenn was born in Franklin County, Alabama, in 1844, a daughter of Thomas and Susan (Darke) Hardy. Some brief record of their children is as follows: Mollie, wife of James W. Dockery, of New Mexico, mother of two chil- dren ; Bettie, wife of A. J. Walker, of John- son County, their family consisting of five; Laura, wife of Charles Brown, of Godley, and mother of one child; John R., a farmer near his father, who married Emma Weatherly and has two children; Finis B., who lives on a farm near Frederick, Oklahoma, married Mag- gie Weatherly, and has one child; James E .. farming near the old homestead, married Mittie Terrell and has two children; and George Thomas, who is station master at Fort Worth for the Santa Fe Railway and married Nora Chaney. Fifteen grandchildren comprise the posterity of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn in the third generation, and of the fourth generation there are eight great-grandchildren.
H. A. DE VAUX. The story of Brecken- ridge's sudden leap into fame as a great oil center and population metropolis has been referred to on another page in this work. Some interesting and definite details in the progress of the little city are connected with the enterprise of one individual, H. A. De Vaux, who has achieved success both here and elsewhere as a financial manager and promoter of building improvement.
Mr. De Vaux, who came to Breckenridge from the Pacific Coast early in 1920, has in- augurated and carried out more extensive en- terprises than any other citizen. Through his
energy and initiative Breckenridge has a mod- ern and much needed postoffice building. This he built and equipped according to the speci- fications of the postoffice department. It stands at the corner of Breckenridge avenue and Williams street, and the structure cost about thirty thousand dollars. It has two stories, the entire first floor for the use of the postoffice and the second floor arranged for offices. As a postoffice in point of facilities for handling mail and giving service to patrons the building is one of the best planned and executed in the state.
Mr. De Vaux also owns all the ground on Williams Street from Breckenridge Avenue to West Court Avenue. This he has improved with a block of buildings two stories high, the first floor containing seven stores, and the second floor a modern, first-class hotel equipped with every convenience, rooms hav- ing private baths, telephones, etc. This struc- ture cost about sixty-five thousand dollars. Mr. De Vaux also erected the building of the American Express Company, costing about twenty thousand dollars. With other associates he constructed the De Vaux and Freeman Buildings, and two adjoining brick structures on Walker Street, each two stories high, costing about seventy-five thousand dol- lars. The upper floors are for offices, while below in one is the home of the Oil Exchange and in the other a motion picture house. Other buildings in which Mr. De Vaux is interested give his aggregate of investment in Brecken- bridge's permanent improvements close to a quarter of a million dollars. Needless to say his enterprise in promoting the solid and sub- stantial improvements of the city has been greatly appreciated by local citizens.
Mr. De Vaux was born at LaPorte, Iowa, but was reared and educated at Los Angeles, whither the family removed when he was a child. He lived in and around Los Angeles until he came to Breckenbridge, and while there gained an extensive experience in build- ing enterprises.
PAT CARRIGAN. Texas has produced many splendid soldiers, fighting men and tried and tested leaders in campaign and battle. Rank- ing with the best of them in soldierly courage and valor was one of the young men who died in action on the fields of France in the World war.
In July, 1919, in response to a request by the Legislature, Colonel A. W. Bloor of Aus- tin gave a formal account before that body of
at corrigan
D. S. C. and Croix de Guerre Killed in Action, October 8, 1918
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the activities of the 142d Infantry, in which he was commanding officer, while in France. He described its important achievements in the battle of October 8th, and the only name mentioned by him in his speech was that of Pat Carrigan. Colonel Bloor emphasized the devotion of this young officer to duty after receiving a mortal wound; that he thought not of himself but of others, that he gave up his life in an attempt to rescue a wounded soldier, and then gave a last command to his company without thought of self, and after the com- mand dropped dead.
A soldier's death came to him at the age of twenty-three. He was born in Wichita Falls, July 14, 1895. He was christened Alfred Holt Carrigan, Jr., but his uncle, Judge J. H. Barwise of Fort Worth, named him "Pat" when he was a baby and that nickname re- maincd with him. The Post of the American Legion at Wichita Falls is named Pat Carri- gan Post. His parents are Judge A. H. and Lucy (Barwise) Carrigan, of Wichita Falls. The career of his father as one of the oldest members of the Wichita bar is described in the following sketch.
Pat Carrigan was educated in the local schools of his native city and in Kemper Mili- tary Institute at Boonville, Missouri. In the fall of 1916 he entered the State University of Texas at Austin, and was a student there until the declaration of war against Germany. Al- most immediately, on the 7th of April, 1917, he withdrew from his studies, went to San Antonio, and at Fort Sam Houston volun- teered in the regular army. He was soon transferred to the Leon Springs training camp to prepare himself for an officer. He was commissioned second lieutenant in the Na- tional Guard June 5, 1917, and remained at Leon Springs until the 14th of July, when he received a commission as lieutenant in the National Guard issued by the adjutant general of Texas. His first assignment was to Com- pany K of the 7th Texas Infantry, National Guard. This regiment was nationalized and taken over by the United States on August 5, 1917, was transferred to Camp Bowie, near Fort Worth, where it became the 142d Regi- ment of United States Infantry. About the first of November, Pat Carrigan was commis- sioned first lieutenant of Company L, 142d Infantry, and was company commander in the absence of the captain, though still retaining the rank of lieutenant. He trained Company L and with it and the regiment as part of the 36th Division left Fort Worth July 11, 1918,
and landed in France August 1, 1918. About the first of October the 36th was ordered to the front to support the Second Division, the 36th being thrown into line behind the Second about the 6th of October. The position occu- pied was near the town of St. Etienne, be- tween Verdun and Rheims.
On the morning of October 8th his brigade was ordered to attack the Germans and drive them back and establish a line about four miles in front of their first position. Pat Carrigan was second in command of his company. Ar- riving at the village of St. Etienne, the ad- vance was delayed by barbed wire entangle- ments and machine gun emplacements located in a small cemetery. The company commander reports that Lieutenant Carrigan volunteered to take his company through the wire entan- glements and capture a machine gun nest. During this advance one of his privates was wounded and became fastened in the barbed wire and could not get out. Lieutenant Carri- gan, again following closely the reports of his superior officers, being in a place of safety, went to the rescue of the wounded man, pulled him out of the barbed wire in order to take him to a place of safety, and while so doing was shot through the neck and mortally wounded. His company was lined up in security only a few feet from him. He turned to them and gave his last command, "Boys, they got me, now go and get them." He dropped dead and a sergeant by the name of Clements took charge of the company and in a few moments captured the machine gun nest of about sixty machine guns and about one hundred twelve Germans, and brought them back into the American lines.
All his youthful years were but a prepara- tion for these few minutes of glorious action and intrepid achievement. The deeds were not denied appropriate recognition after his death. The field marshal of the French army issued two citations for bravery and extraordinary heroism in battle, and also issued to him the Croix de Guerre and the palm for distin- guished services. Our own Government gave Lieutenant Carrigan a citation for extraordi- nary heroism in battle and for giving up his life in an effort to save a wounded soldier, and also issued to him the American Distinguished Service Cross. He was killed about ten o'clock in the forenoon of October 8, 1918. His body was laid to rest in French soil in the Romagne Cemetery, but under the auspices of the War Department will eventually be re- turned to Texas.
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HON. A. H. CARRIGAN is one of the pioneer lawyers of Wichita Falls, where for over thirty years he has practiced law and is a for- mer judge of the District Court.
Judge Carrigan is descended from William Carrigan, who came from Ireland and settled in North Carolina just before the Revolution- ary war, and served as a soldier in the Conti- nental army. The father of Judge Carrigan was A. H. Carrigan, Sr., who was born in North Carolina in 1828, and in 1851 moved to Arkansas, where he became very prominent in business and public affairs. He was the last survivor of the delegates to the Secession Convention of Arkansas. During the Civil war that followed he was captain of Company H of the Twentieth Arkansas Regiment, later promoted to lieutenant colonel, but before the close of the war was discharged on account of disabilities. Besides being represented by soldiers in the war for independence and war of secession there is the additional military prestige brought to the family name by the late Pat Carrigan, son of Judge Carrigan, whose biography precedes this sketch. After the Civil war Colonel A. H. Carrigan, Sr., served both in the House and Senate of Arkansas, and was county judge of Hempstead County. He married Mary Moore. a native of North Carolina, and daughter of Samuel Moore, who came to Arkansas in 1855. She died in 1901 at the age of seventy-one.
Third in a family of nine children, Judge A. H. Carrigan was liberally educated, gradu- ated with the A. B. degree from the University of Arkansas, and in 1883 received his law degree from Cumberland University at Le- banon, Tennessee. He practiced for several years at Texarkana before locating at Wichita Falls in 1888. He was soon known as a man of special attainments in that then modest town of North Texas, and ten years after go- ing there, in 1898, was elected judge of the District Court. He filled that office twelve successive years, three terms, and then retired to private practice, in which he has since suc- cessfully engaged during the past decade.
Judge Carrigan is a democrat, a Knight Templar, Mason and Elk, a member of the Chamber of Commerce, and has been actively identified with most of the movements which have brought prosperity to Wichita Falls. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
December 10, 1901, Judge Carrigan married the daughter of one of Wichita County's old- est and most successful citizens, Miss Lulu Barwise, daughter of Judge J. H. Barwise.
Four children were born to their marriage : Annie, Alfred H. (Pat), Joseph and Elizabeth.
WILLIAM S. TUCKER during an active life in Northern Texas has been identified in a progressive manner with farming and various business interests, and for a number of years has lived at Godley in Johnson County, where he was formerly a ginner and miller in addi- tion to farming.
Mr. Tucker was born near Garland, in Dallas County, November 6, 1860. His father, Charles Master Tucker, was a native of Eng- land. He was reared there to the age of eighteen and then came to the United States with a sister. They made their first stop in Illinois. His only capital was his labor, and for two years he worked as a farm hand, and his sister also worked out and remained in Illinois until married. For a year Charles M. Tucker worked near Indianapolis, Indiana, and about the time he attained his majority he started for the Southwest, arriving in Texas in 1853. He located in Collin County, near the present town of Saxe, worked as a farm hand there two years, and after his marriage in Dallas County established his home near Garland. He regarded Texas as his perma- nent home, and when Texas seceded and went into the Confederacy he remained loyal to his faith and joined the Confederate army. He was a teamster and was with the troops on the east side of the Mississippi River, con- tinuing on duty until the war ended. He then resumed farming, bought land, paying five and a half dollars an acre for the first hundred and forty acres, and at the time of his death had accumulated four hundred and seventy- seven acres, with four sets of improvements and a large part under cultivation. He was a successful stockman, and for a number of years fed and fattened livestock for the mar- kets of Kansas City.
Charles M. Tucker was a democrat, tried to cast his vote intelligently, but was never in- terested in politics to the extent of holding an office. Charles M. Tucker, who died in 1900, married Miss Kibby Kirby, a native of Ken- tucky and daughter of William Kirby. The Kirby family came to Texas before Mr. Tucker. Mrs. Charles M. Tucker died in 1913. She reared the following children : William S., of Godley ; Elihu Henderson, better known as Dick, a resident of Garland ; Jesse F., a farmer near the old homestead ; and Columbus, also of Garland.
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William S. Tucker grew up on the old homestead in Dallas County and acquired a common school education. From his farm he learned the practical side of agriculture and stock raising and adopted that as his chief vocation when he attained manhood. His first home was three and a half miles northeast of Garland, and for three years he was a ten- ant on the old farm. He then bought an ad- joining tract, and continued his efforts as a grain and cotton raiser until he left the county and came to Johnson County on August 11, 1910. Locating at Godley, Mr. Tucker en- gaged in the gin business with S. L. Hard- castle as the successor of Newman & Tucker, and they continued the joint operation of the plant five years. During his third year in this locality Mr. Tucker bought a farm almost ad- joining the townsite, and much of his time since then has been taken up with its operation. After selling his interest in the gin to his partner together they then purchased a flour mill at Godley, and a year later Mr. Tucker became sole owner of the mills. He continued their operation until January, 1921, when he exchanged the property for lands and other considerations, and since then has confined his efforts entirely to farming.
At his old home locality in Dallas County Mr. Tucker married in September, 1885, Miss Mary C. Garrison, who was born near Rock Hill, South Carolina, September 2, 1866, daughter of William and Nannie (Poovey) Garrison. When she was four years of age her parents moved to Arkansas, living for seven years in Bradley County and then for a time in Washington County, until the family drove through to Dallas County in 1879. Her father throughout the war served as a soldier in the Confederate army, but was never wounded or captured. His active career was spent as a farmer, and he died at the age of forty-one and is buried at Pleasant Valley near Garland. After his death his widow bought and paid for with the aid of her chil- dren the farm on which she now resides. She was born August 22, 1846. Mrs. Garrison had the following children: Mrs. Tucker; James P., of Dallas County ; Augustus, who died un- married; Emma, wife of Marion Fudge, of Southern Texas; John, who died at Godley, leaving five children; William, of Dallas County ; Estelle, the deceased wife of Frank Boyd, living near Armstrong, Oklahoma ; Nannie, wife of Will Sebastian, of Garland; and Lois, wife of Clifford Thompson, of Garland.
At occasions of family reunions Mr. and Mrs. Tucker have the place of honor among a large number of children and grandchil- dren. The oldest of their children is Bar- settie, wife of Jo Daniel, near Garland. Their children are Aleen, William, Cecil, Jo Bailey, Clois, Mary and Woodrow. Jewel Tucker is the wife of James T. McEntee, of Rowlett, Texas, with children Annie, Agnes, Evelyn, J. O. and Patrick. Frances, the third daugh- ter, is the wife of Frank Gibbs, of Cleburne, and has three sons, Marvin, F. W. and Charles Landon. Willie is the wife of Wyatt Griffith, of Port Arthur, Texas. Ada married Jesse Thompson, of Rowlett, and has children as follows : Paul Clifton, Ada Fay, Aubrey and Edwin. Charles, the second oldest son, is also a resident of Port Arthur and was the soldier representative of the family, spending nine months in Camp Bowie at Fort Worth as a member of Bakery Company No. 371, being discharged at the close of 1918. Sidney lives at Godley, and by his marriage to Thelma Allard has a son, Perry Wilburn. James, always known to his family and acquaintances as Dick, lives at Godley and married Tina Markham. The two younger children, still in the home circle, are Horace Jesse and Maria.
Mr. Tucker has always been aligned with the democratic party but has been satisfied to cast his vote. He is a member of the Inde- pendent Order of Odd Fellows, and Mrs. Tucker is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
CHARLES CABELL BRADFORD, M. D. Besides the earnest and capable work done by Doctor Bradford in the Godley locality of Johnson County his name serves to introduce one of the pioneer families of Northern Texas, where the Bradfords established a home more than sixty years ago.
Doctor Bradford is a descendant of the Virginia Colonial family of Bradfords, a name long held in high esteem in that old state. The great-great-grandmother of Doctor Bradford was a Monroe, a niece of President Monroe.
Edward Cabell Bradford, father of Doctor Bradford, was born in Mercer County, Mis- souri. He was one of four children to come to Texas. His brother William spent most of his life in Wise County, where he was a local Methodist minister and reared a family of five children, and died in Knox County, Texas. His sister Harriet became the wife of Mr. Browder, lived many years in Knox
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County and is buried there. Hervey Bradford was long a resident of Tarrant County, but spent his last years in the Plains country of Texas.
Edward Cabell Bradford came to Texas when a young man in company with his brother William and located at Cedar Hill in Dallas County. He left there early in 1857 and identified himself with the stock busi- ness. When the war broke out he left his farm and range to enter the Confederate army, and while he was away his stock dis- appeared. After the war he moved to Tar- rant County, where he built a log house four miles. west of Mansfield, on the Mansfield- Weatherford Road. Subsequent years brought a steady increase in his fortune, and at the same time he provided a good living for a family of children, eleven of whom grew to mature years and gave him their filial affec- tion. When he died at his old home in 1889, at the age of sixty-one, he left a quarter sec- tion of land substantially improved. He was interested in public matters, always voted as a democrat, but sought no office. He was reared a Presbyterian, but his church for many years was the Methodist. His wife was Miss Sidney Smith, also of Mercer County, Missouri, who rode to Texas on horseback when a young girl of fifteen in com- pany with her sister, Mrs. William Bradford. She stopped near Decatur and soon afterward married. This good old pioneer woman died in 1914, at the age of seventy-three. Of her thirteen children all but two grew up. James Frederick, a merchant at Mansfield; Mrs. D. C. Stark, of Polytechnic, Fort Worth ; Mrs. I. W. Bass, of Fort Worth; Nannie, a teacher in the Fort Worth public schools; Mrs. Hol- brook Chalmers, of Denton County; Sam G., of Mansfield; Thomas B., of Joshua, Texas ; Ben E., a real estate man of Polytechnic, Fort Worth; Dr. C. C. Bradford; Mrs. George Hackler, of Mansfield; and Henry, associated with his brother in the real estate and drug business at Polytechnic.
Charles Cabell Bradford was born at the old farm near Mansfield, September 4, 1877. That was the environment in which he grew up, and from the country schools he attended the Mansfield schools and subsequently the old Terrell School, now the North Texas Normal College. During his student career he taught a number of terms and thus earned the means for his higher and professional education. He was in the school room as a teacher for seven years, beginning in the Center Point district
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