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Martin L. Allday received both his academic and legal education in the University of Texas, from which he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1913. Returning home, he made the race for county attorney of Cass County, but was defeated. As is so often the case, his temporary disappointment turned out to be the best thing which could have happened to him. Had he won, he would have assumed the duties of the office, and while he would have attained to local celebrity, his present pre- eminence would probably never have come to him, and certainly not in so brief a period.
Because he failed of election Mr. Allday left Atlanta, Texas, in 1914, and came to Wichita County, where he has won a fortune and a place of high standing in the industrial development of this fabulously rich section. He first located at Burkburnett, establishing himself in a legal practice, and was made city attorney. He was successful from the start, his legal talents receiving their due recognition and leading him to the associations in the great oil development that had its historic begin- ning in July, 1918, with the bringing in of
the great Fowler gusher. Since then Mr. All- day has devoted practically all of his time and attention to his oil interests, and has given up his law practice, although his knowledge of legal matters is of inestimable value to him in his present affairs. He owns production fields in both Northwestern Texas and Louisi- ana, and is rated as one of the most successful of the oil operators. As is but natural, the leading institutions of the city and county have sought to interest Mr. Allday, and he is now a director of the Wichita State Bank & Trust Company, a member of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce and of other organizations. The First Methodist Episcopal Church of Wichita Falls has his name on its membership rolls and is benefiting by his generous donations to it. As a result of his university course he is a member of the Delta Chi Greek letter fraternity, and he belongs to the Golf and Country Club and the Univer- sity Club.
Such men as Mr. Allday have great power vested in them, and fortunately for their fel- low citizens and community there are a number of the caliber of this brilliant young man. Prior to the oil boom some of the most masterly minds of the professional and busi- ness circles of the country had been attracted to the Southwest. Men of high character and scholarly attainments, who had prepared themselves for the serious work of life, had left old environments and come into the less developed region to secure for themselves better opportunities for development, and when this marvelous field was uncovered they had the sagacity and experienced knowledge of true values to take charge of affairs and pre- vent a disgraceful stampede which has so often disorganized sections in similar discov- eries of sources of great wealth. Therefore the fabulous fortunes have been safely guided into legitimate channels, and local pride awak- ened and stimulated, with magnificent results, which will be better understood and appre- ciated as the years pass. The men who did the initial work, however, those who set in motion the train of circumstances which is bearing wonderful loads of prosperity to dif- ferent parts of the country, are the ones to whom the real credit must be accorded, and among them all none is more worthy than Martin L. Allday.
WILLIAM THOMAS SHAW, present county treasurer of Tarrant County, is a native Texan and a veteran of many experiences in a long
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life. He was a Confederate soldier as a youth, and for half a century has been active in business, most of the time at Fort Worth.
Mr. Shaw's forebears on this side of the waters came from Maryland, where the family settled, just across the bay from Baltimore, in Colonial times. They have moved westward across the country, settling in Virginia, Ken- tucky, Tennessee, Texas and California. In every call of our country to arms they have been found upon the firing line. At home their blood has reddened more than one battle- field, and when our sons have been called abroad to defend our ideals they have appeared in the Philippines and upon the field of France. In times of peace they have stood among their fellow countrymen marked for their love of liberty, tolerance, unquestioned integrity and honor.
The grandfather of the subject of this sketch marched with that great Celtic genius, Andrew Jackson, and was left for dead upon the battlefield of New Orleans, when the hunt- ing shirt Celtic lads destroyed with their squir- rel rifles the finest army on the planet, under Packenham.
The father of our present subject, Gran- ville Clifford Shaw, son of James and Mary (Long) Shaw, was born in Marshall County, Tennessee, March 19, 1817, and came to Texas in 1836 to help this struggling young republic win her independence from Mexico. After the revolution he took up stock farming, and lived in the state until his death, July 16, 1890. During the war between the states, being a veteran of the Texas Republic, he helped to drill the two first companies that went from Johnson County, and served in the Home Guards and frontier service. He married Mary Ann Manning, who was born in Ala- bama, May 21, 1822, and was brought to Texas when a small child by her parents, Stephen and Elizabeth Manning. She died September 28, 1856, leaving three children. James Dixon Shaw, the other son, was for twelve years a leading minister of the Meth- odist Episcopal Church, South, and afterward a publisher of ethical journals, one being the Independent Pulpit, afterward the Searchlight. He also was a Confederate soldier, being a member of Company C, Tenth Texas Infantry, Granbury's Brigade, Cleburne's Division. He came out of the war with the rank of lieu- tenant, and is now living retired at Los Angeles, California, having for many years been a prominent citizen of Waco, Texas. The daughter, Mary Elizabeth Shaw, is the wife
of John Sarver, a well known stock farmer of Arkansas.
William Thomas Shaw was born in Walker County, September 12, 1845, and spent his boyhood days largely in Madison County on a stock farm five miles southeast of Madison- ville. He received his early advantages in the common schools. Early in 1863, when he was seventeen years of age, he volunteered as a Confederate soldier, and joined Company C of the Twelfth Texas Cavalry, Parsons' Bri- gade, Trans-Mississippi Department. He enlisted as a private, but was soon made a non- commissioned officer, and remained until the close of hostilities. The most strenuous cam- paign Mr. Shaw was called on to endure as a Confederate soldier occurred in the spring of 1864. General Banks attempted to invade Texas through Louisiana with a land force of 30,000 men and a fleet of gunboats and trans- ports on Red River numbering 150 guns. Banks was met by the Confederates first at Mansfield and later at Pleasant Hill, Louisi- ana, and signally defeated by a force less than one-half his numbers. His defeat became a rout that lasted forty-odd days. At the close of the campaign Gen. Dick Taylor, command- ing the Confederates, issued a general order addressed to his men in which he used this language : "Along three hundred miles of river you have fought his fleet, and over two hundred miles of road you have driven his army. You matched your bare breasts against his ironclads and proved victorious in the con- test. * * The devotion and constancy you have displayed in this pursuit have never been surpassed in the annals of war, and you have removed from the Confederate soldier the reproach that he could win battles but could not improve victories." Following the war Mr. Shaw helped his father make a crop, and then resumed his studies in Alvarado College under Dr. John Collier. He became very proficient in mathematics, including surveying. and his mathematical ability has stood him in good stead during his business career. For a number of years Mr. Shaw was in business at Alvarado and Cleburne, and came to be one of the leading merchants of Johnson County. While in Alvarado he was one of the promi- nent Masons responsible for the erection of the Masonic Institute, of which he became a trustee.
Mr. Shaw has been a resident of Fort Worth since September, 1880. At that time the city had one railroad, but he foresaw a great future for the city, and his resolution to
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locate here has been well justified by later events. At Fort Worth he became a stock- holder and department manager of the B. C. Evans Wholesale & Retail Dry Goods Com- pany, and later a department manager of the Martin-Brown Wholesale Dry Goods Com- pany. Mr. Shaw enjoys a well-deserved high reputation in insurance circles in Texas. In January, 1893, he entered the life insurance field and for a quarter of a century was dis- trict manager for several of the old line com- panies doing business in the state. For five years he was also connected with the United Benevolent Association, whose headquarters were at Fort Worth, and was a member of its executive committee when the insurance rates were completely revised to correspond with the rates of the Fraternal Congress. This change was largely made through the instrumentality of Mr. Shaw, and the measure was completely justified later when some of the mutual societies who did not advance their rates fell into bankruptcy, though the United Benevolent Association was spared this embarrassment.
Mr. Shaw was one of the participants in the democratic primaries of 1918 as candidate for the nomination of county treasurer. There were five men and one woman in the race, and Mr. Shaw stood best among the men candi- dates, though the honor went to the woman. In 1920 he was again a candidate, contesting for the honor against one woman, and was elected by a large majority.
On May 31, 1871, Mr. Shaw married Mattie Sterling Brown, who died in 1876. Of this union two children were born, Sterling Clif- ford Shaw and Mattie Mary Shaw. On October 31, 1877, he married Eliza Mary Demaret, who died January 21, 1919. William Edgar Shaw was the only child born of this union.
At an early age Mr. Shaw became a mem- ber of the Methodist Episcopal Church. South. For many years he was a member of the Board of Stewards and a Sunday school super- intendent in this denomination at Calvert, Alvarado, Cleburne and Fort Worth. He is a life member of Fort Worth Lodge No. 148. A. F. & A. M.
Mr. Shaw has for many years been promi- nent and active in the United Confederate Veterans' Association and the Parsons Brigade Association. He has served his local camp. Robert E. Lee No. 158, U. C. V., four years as commander, and many years as quarter- master and treasurer, a position he holds at the present time. For three years in the Texas
Division and eight years in the Trans-Missis- sippi Department he acted as adjutant general and chief of staff under General Van Zandt, commanding. For the last three years he has been assistant adjutant general, with rank of brigadier general, on the staff of Gen. K. M. Van Zandt, commander-in-chief, U. C. V. For many years he has been an active factor in the state and general conventions of this organization.
Mr. Shaw is a member of the Texas State Historical Association, and he has represented Texas on the National Committee, U. C. V., for many years. Many of his contributions to historical and insurance literature and upon miscellaneous subjects have been published in the periodicals of his day. In one instance his contribution to the annual report of the U. C. V. Historical Committee became the basis of two chapters in an important his- torical work. Though his career has been that of the business man rather than the orator. nevertheless he has been somewhat in demand as a platform speaker in Confederate and insurance circles.
Mr. Shaw is rounding out a well-spent life, having reached the age of seventy-six years, in service to his fellow citizens in his first political office, and living quietly at his long-time resi- dence in Fort Worth, where his only daughter, Miss Mattie Shaw, resides with him.
BENJAMIN NEELEY BUGG came to Cooke County as a young man more than forty-five years ago, and for years made farming and the development of his increasing share of the land the object of his most earnest and skillful labors. There were times when circumstances were against him, but the greater part of his substantial prosperity was acquired in years when market values were low. In recent years he has given much time to public affairs, and has to his credit four years of faithful service as one of the county commissioners.
This is one of the few families in Texas whose ancestry can be traced in unbroken line back to the beginning of English colonization in America. Samuel Bugg was born in Brand- erton. England, in 1600, and he and his wife. Maria, had children named Samuel. Joseph. Sarah, Maria and James. The son, Samuel. came to America and settled at New Hamp- shire. Virginia, where he died September 3. 1716. He married Deborah Sherwood, who died a year earlier. There is record of two of their sons, William and Samuel. Samuel, the third, married Sarah Bacon, and their children
B. I. Bugg
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were William, Arselen, John, Samuel, Jacob, Sarah, Sherwood, Agnes and Edmund. John Bugg, of the fourth generation, had four chil- dren, Benjamin, John, Jesse and Sherwood. Jesse Bugg, of the fifth generation, married Mary Sandifer, and their children were John, Sarah, Benjamin, Margaret. William, Samuel, Jesse and James. The sixth generation is rep- resented by Benjamin Bugg. and the seventh by his son, also named Benjamin, who mar- ried Tabitha Walden, whose three sons were named Benjamin, Jesse and John.
The eighth generation, represented by Ben- jamin Bugg, brings the family history down to comparatively recent times. He was the grandfather of Benjamin Neeley Bugg of Gainesville. He was born in Mecklenburg, Virginia, March 25, 1806, and married Nancy Green Towns, who was born in North Caro- lina, December 13, 1807. They became pio- neers in Tennessee, their home being near Couchville on Stone River. They were the parents of seven children, William H., John S., Dr. Benjamin A., Samuel M., Jesse N., James G. and Tabitha, who became the wife of Hardin Russell. Three of the sons were Confederate soldiers, John S., James and Jesse, and the only one of the family to espouse the Union cause was William.
John S. Bugg was born in 1829 and was in the Confederate army until taken prisoner at Fort Donelson, and after being exchanged re- turned home. He married Malinda Hopper. John S. Bugg, becoming tired of the routine of his Tennessee home and seeking a place on the frontier, brought his family to Texas in the fall of 1874, remaining a few months in Titus County and in 1875 coming into the new district of Cooke County. He established his home seven miles east of Gainesville, bought some of the cheap land in that vicinity, but had no opportunity to develop it and realize his ambitions for a home and farm in Texas. since his death occurred in January, 1877, when only forty-seven years of age. His wife, Malinda, survived him seventeen years, dying at the age of seventy-three. Their children were: Benjamin N., George F., Mollie, wife of L. M. Bowden, of San Antonio; Nancy Ann, wife of William Briggs, of San Antonio ; and Sallie, who is the wife of W. M. Gibson, living near Muskogee, Oklahoma. George F. Bugg died in 1917, leaving a family of seven children, as follows: Audie, Allie, Maud, John. George, Lois and Ruth.
Benjamin Neeley Bugg was born within a dozen miles of Nashville in Davidson County.
Tennessee, April 6, 1853, and was twenty-one when he accompanied his parents to Texas. He acquired his early training in the country schools of his native state, in the Couchville neighborhood, and while he never qualified as a teacher he had several children who engaged in that profession. As he grew to manhood he learned farming as practiced in Tennessee, and devoted himself to the same vocation on com- ing to Texas. There has hardly been any in- terruption to his continued work in the field of agriculture for forty-five years, and his present farming interests are almost within sight of the county seat of Cooke County. On starting independently he located not far from his present home, and cultivated land in that vicinity five years. For a similar period he was identified with another rural community of Cooke County, and then moved to Gaines- ville to educate his children, though at the same time supervising his interests in the coun- try. When his children had completed their schooling he returned to the country and estab- lished his home on the hilltop northwest of Whaley School No. 55. He took this land and began its improvement from the grass roots, and now a conspicuous and generous home erected in 1904 and other substantial im- provements adorn and give value to that rural community. His efforts have been chiefly be- stowed upon grain raising as a feature of farming, and for a time he was a breeder of Duroc Jersey hogs at the Cedar Hill hog farm.
In 1916 Mr. Bugg was chosen county com- missioner for Precinct No. 1. as successor of Commissioner John Putnam. During the four years of his term he worked on all the main roads in his precinct and on neighboring roads, and has been a factor in contributing to a sys- tem of gravel roads planned for the entire county. During the last year of his service as county commissioner the Commissioners Court built fourteen steel bridges in the county besides a number of wooden bridges and did a considerable amount of graveling of the county highways, spending altogether $18,000 during 1920 for that work. Mr. Bugg gave his first presidential vote to the Democratic nominee. and has ever since supported that ticket. The family are identified with the Methodist Church, and both the Woodmen and the Maccabees are represented with member- ship in the family.
On January 31. 1877. Mr. Bugg married Miss Sallie Ann Newton, who was born in Grayson County. Texas. April 20. 1860. Her parents, Thomas and Eliza ( Morris) Newton,
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were also Tennesseans, having come from McMinn County, that state, prior to the Civil war. Mr. Newton spent his life as a farmer and miller at Whitesboro in Grayson County. His sons. Charles B. and Jasper, were both Confederate soldiers. Thomas Newton and wife both died in middle age. Their children were Charles B., Calvin, Jasper, Hardy, Eliz- abeth J. (who was the wife of Ellie Ballard). Thomas J. and Sallie Ann.
Combined with the satisfaction derived from a substantial career as an agriculturist and as a public spirited citizen Mr. and Mrs. Bugg have been good home makers and have reared and trained their children for worthy. places in life and already have an interesting group of grandchildren growing up to do them honor. Their oldest child, Clara Belle, is the wife of Charles Billingsley, of Duncan, Okla- homa, and the three grandchildren of this union are Lillie Pearl, Howard Neeley and Lloyd. The second daughter, Dora C., is the wife of L. J. Davis, of Floyd County, Texas, and by that union there are five grandchildren, Lorine, Beatrice, Gertrude, Catherine and Sarah. The third of the family. Mamie L., died January 19, 1919, the wife of E. E. Van Eman, leaving two children, Mamie Esperance and Constant Everett. The oldest son, Henry C., lives at Dallas. He married Bessie Robert- son and has a daughter, Juanita Clay. Otto, the second son. lives at Grand Junction, Colo- rado, and by his marriage to Mona Cannel has two children, Eleanor and Maurice Newton. The two younger children are Rhoda Eleanor and Miss Lucile. Rhoda Eleanor is a graduate of the Gainesville High School and the Denton Normal School and is a teacher at Oklahoma City. Miss Lucile is also a graduate of the Gainesville schools, the commercial college of that city. and is a stenographer at Oklahoma City.
JAMES B. BAKER, during a residence of nearly forty years, has given Fort Worth one of its essential business institutions and serv- ices. He is president of the Baker Brothers Company, nurserymen and florists. From their extensive greenhouses come a large part of the cut flowers sold in Fort Worth and vicinity, but they also do an extensive business in propagating and growing trees and other nursery stock, and the business as a whole is one of the most thoroughly organized and suc- cessful concerns of its kind in North Texas.
Mr. Baker was born in England. April 15, 1863, son of Rev. James and Hannah- ( Bean-
land) Baker. In 1870, when he was seven years of age. the family came to America and established a home at Brenham, in Washing- ton County. Texas. Rev. James Baker was a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, but passed away three years after coming to Texas, in 1873. The mother survived him until 1890. Of their seven children five reached mature years. James B. being the youngest.
James B. Baker grew up at Brenham, attended public school there. and subsequently. in 1880, graduated from the Sam Houston Normal School at Huntsville. He was a teacher for three years, but in the spring of 1884 came to Fort Worth and engaged in the nursery business with his brother. Their busi- ness has been continued with growth and expansion appropriate to the increasing posi- tion of Fort Worth as a great city. Fort Worth citizens all know the handsome store at 1013 Houston Street. The greenhouses for the growing of flowers are at Riverside, where the company has thirty-five thousand square feet under glass. For the general nursery business the company has two hundred acres east of Fort Worth.
In 1900 James B. Baker married Miss Kate Bales, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Bales, of Fort Worth. They are the parents of three children, Helena Dorris, Edward L. and James B., Jr. Mr. Baker has the honor of representing his business in membership in the Rotary Club. He is one of the prominent members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Fort Worth, was for seventeen years superintendent of its Sunday school and is a steward and trustee of the church.
CAPT. E. H. EDDLEMAN. For the past sixty years the best and most dependable citi- zens of any community in the country have been those men who served on one side or the other in the great war between the two sec- tions. There can. be no doubt but that the severity of military training which taught these men while in the flush of vigorous physical and mental development to take or give orders and execute them resulted in the creation of a class which had no equal when returned to civilian life. These men learned the value of organized effort, of prompt obedi- ence to orders, of wise and effective director- ship and personal responsibility. The United States today stands as the foremost nation of the world because of the united efforts of the veterans of its greatest war. If such condi-
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tions were secured through a war waged because of misunderstandings among its own people how much more effective will be the results accruing from the one fought to keep an alien enemy from overruning these shores. Millions were enlisted under the united sec- tions of the country when the armistice of 1918 was signed. These men were the very flower of American manhood, banded together to uphold the Union and defend the flag. They have been returned to the ordinary life of the country ; have gone back to their old homes and resumed their former occupations, but they are not the same men who left, any more than were their forefathers when they laid aside their uniforms after Appomattox. In the years to come these young men are going to make their voices heard in the land for which they risked their lives. A country worth fighting for is worth working for, and no man who participated, as private or officer, in the World war can ever lose his sense of respon- sibility in his country's welfare. The great Southwest has a number of these energetic, enthusiastic young veterans of the late war, and one of them worthy of much more than passing mention is Capt. E. H. Eddleman, one of the successful attorneys of Wichita Falls.
Captain Eddleman was born at Burleson, Johnson County, Texas, in 1892, a son of A. F. and Millie (Warren) Eddleman. A. F. Eddleman was born in Georgia in 1843, and was brought to Johnson County, Texas, by his parents in 1854, his father being a circuit rider of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Dur- ing the war between the North and the South A. F. Eddleman served very gallantly in the Confederate army, in Gen. Roger Q. Mills' Brigade, Pat Cleburne's Division. By occu- pation he has always been a farmer, and he is now the oldest living citizen of Johnson County.
Growing up in his native county, Captain Eddleman received his academic education in the Polytechnic College at Fort Worth, Texas, and his legal training in the University of Texas, and was graduated from the latter institution in 1913, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws, and immediately thereafter estab- lished himself in the practice of his profession at Wichita Falls.
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