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In 1915 Mr. Mayne married Carlia Curtis, of Amarillo, daughter of James Curtis. They have one daughter, Carlia Louise. Mr. Mayne after coming to Fort Worth has interested himself in all the public programs of the city and is well connected socially and in a busi- ness way. He is a member of the Fort Worth Club, River Crest Country Club, Rotary Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
JOHN E. CHESLEY has been a resident of West Texas just forty years. His name ranks high among Texas cattle men. For years his ranch in Stephens County was the home of one of the largest herds of Hereford cattle. He began his career as a cattle man during the range days and out on the frontier, and his prosperity has been a consequent and well merited reward of having followed the indus- try through its ups and downs and in compe-
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tition with the strenuous adversity of early times.
Mr. Chesley for several years has been a retired resident of Cisco, but is a New Eng- lander by birth and ancestry, born at New Durham, New Hampshire, in 1851, a son of Moses H. and Abigail ( Berry) Chesley. The Chesleys are one of the oldest and most his- toric families of Durham, where they have lived since about the middle of the seventeenth century. The ancestor, Philip Chesley, came from England in 1630, first settling at Dover. New Hampshire. The family later located at Durham, first contesting the right to posses- sion of land there with hostile Indians. Sev- eral members of the family subsequently par- ticipated as soldiers on the American side in the Revolutionary war.
John E. Chesley was educated in Pittsfield Academy in New Hampshire. At the age of nineteen he went to Boston, where he lived about eleven years. He came to Texas in 1880 and engaged in the cattle business in Hamilton County, but in 1884 removed his modest herd to the southwestern part of Stephens County. The Tonkawa Indians had been removed from that section the same year. and the region was altogether an open range, unrestricted by fences, and almost none of the occupants of the territory engaged to any extent in agriculture. Mr. Chesley began with a small nucleus of cattle, but from year to vear extended his possessions, progressively built up his stock, and for years was known as the owner of one of the finest herds of Herefords in the county. He sold the last of his cattle in January, 1920, and is now com- pletely retired from the cattle industry. His great ranch consists of about ten thousand acres, the ranch headquarters being about ten miles north of Cisco. Some of the land extends over into Eastland County. This ranch is in the pathway of the great oil devel- opment in Stephens and Eastland counties, and practically all of his land is now under lease to some of the great oil development companies. For several years he has had his home in Cisco, and he transacts his various business affairs from that city.
Mr. Chesley's first wife and the mother of his five children was Fannie M. Sampson, of New Durham, New Hampshire. After her death he married Emma L. Brewster, of Wolfboro, New Hampshire. His children are John I., Mrs. Vida O'Connor, Mrs. Carrie Tipton, Mrs. Fanny Pully and Miss Bernie Chesley.
H. T. PANGBURN has claimed Dallas and Fort Worth as practically the home of all his years. In Dallas he was educated and trained himself for business, while at Fort Worth he has made his enterprise and experience count for practical results, has been one of the lead- ing druggists of the city for many years, and is also a candy manufacturer.
Mr. Pangburn was born at Mays Lick, Ken- tucky, October 23, 1875, the youngest of six children, five of whom are still living. The year after his birth his parents, Henry and Sue (Owens) Pangburn, the former a native of Pennsylvania and the latter of Washington. Kentucky, came to Dallas County. Texas. Henry Pangburn was a minister of the Chris- tian Church, but for many years lived on a farm, and he died when about sixty-three years of age, his wife passing away at the age of sixty-five.
H. T. Pangburn spent his boyhood days in Dallas County. At the age of fourteen he went to Dallas City, and during employment in a drug store acquired a thorough knowl- edge of pharmacy and the drug business. He remained in Dallas until 1902, when he re- moved to Fort Worth and for seven years was proprietor of the well-known corner drug store at Ninth and Houston streets. He has since continued business at Fourth and Houston.
In 1914 Mr. Pangburn branched out and began directing his enterprise and capital to other lines. In that year he organized the Pangburn Company, manufacturing ice cream. Two years later he added a candy department, and continued in this business both as a manu- facturer and retailer and is proprietor of two of the high class confectionery establishments of the city, one at 609 Houston and the other at 1007 Houston Street.
Mr. Pangburn married in 1900 Miss Fanny May Tapp, and they have one daughter, Ida Nell. Mr. Pangburn is a member of the Fort Worth Club, the Elks Lodge, is a Knight Templar and thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and is a member of the Magnolia Christian Church.
GEORGE W. BROWN is a leading cotton broker and merchant of Gainesville, has spent all his life in this section of North Texas, and his career since early youth has identified him with the cotton business, and from his personal ex- perience he can speak with authority on every important subject connected with the cotton
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producing and marketing situation in North Texas over a period of thirty years.
Mr. Brown was born in the Maryville local- ity of Cooke County, Texas, August 13, 1872. a son of Robert J. Brown, a retired citizen of Gainesville, and grandson of Edward and Narcissus (McElvany) Brown. His grand- father was born in the Fairfield district of South Carolina. The McElvany family was founded in America by Robert McElvany, who came from Scotland. Edward Brown and wife had two sons and two daughters, the older son dying while a Confederate soldier. The daughters were Nancy, who became the wife of Bryant Roach and died in Mississippi, and Martha, who died in the same state as Mrs. John Robinson.
Robert J. Brown was born in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi, and three or four years of his young manhood were spent in the Con- federate army. He was a member of Com- pany E, under Capt. Robert Muldrow, in Col. Wirt Adams' regiment of cavalry, made up of Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana troops. The regiment was formed at Memphis, was ordered into active service at Bowling Green, Kentucky, and joined the main army of Con- federates just before the battle of Shiloh, in which Mr. Brown received his real baptism of fire. He was in some of the thickest of the fighting of that two-day battle on Sunday and Monday, then withdrew from the field to Corinth, where another battle was fought, and was also in the brief siege of Iuka. Some of the other engagements in which he partici- pated during the remainder of the war were Tensas Bayou, Boonville, Walton Houses, Ed- wards Depot, Bakers Creek, Champion Hills, and in the siege of Vicksburg he was on detail on General Pemberton's staff. After the sur- render of the Mississippi stronghold he was paroled and exchanged, and rejoining the army fought again up and down the railroad from Holly Springs and other points along the Mis- sissippi Central. He was in General Adams' brigade while fighting General Sherman's ad- vance in the Atlanta campaign, and the last fight he remembers was on Sipsy Creek, Ala- bama, where the Confederate troops turned back an advance of General Croxton's Fed- erals. When the end came he surrendered with his command at Gainesville, Alabama.
Just after the close of the war he came to Texas, and first located in Rusk County, where he married Miss Georgie Crow. She was a native of Georgia, but her father, Stephen Crow, came to Texas and became a farmer
near Maryville, in Cooke County, and died at the Brown home when nearly ninety-three years of age. Robert J. Brown on leaving Cooke County became a merchant and livery- man at St. Joe, in Montague County, and is now living retired at Gainesville.
George W. Brown is the only son of his parents. He was eight years of age when the family moved to St. Joe, and he finished his education there. At the age of eighteen he went to work in a local cotton yard, in order to familiarize himself with the cotton business, and was a buyer of that staple in St. Joe until he moved his office to Gainesville in 1913. Mr. Brown is now associated in business with T. L. Liddell in the firm of Liddell & Brown. They are known as "f. o. b. men" on the market, and their dealings are largely with the export trade. The thousands of bales they handle annually go east to the European markets or to the mills of the eastern states.
Mr. Brown also has a brief military record. In 1898, at the time of the Spanish-American war, he enlisted in St. Joe in Company I of the Third Texas Regiment, which was mobilized in Austin. The captain was William Walpole and the regiment was commanded by Colonel Smyth. The regiment was sent to Fort Clark. Texas, and then Company I was detailed for brief duty at Galveston, subsequently returned to Fort Clark, and then was sent to Fort Mc- Intosh, another post along the Mexican border. It was mustered out in October, 1898, and Mr. Brown left the army as orderly sergeant of his company. He is a member of the Elks Lodge at Gainesville, and as a democrat cast his first presidential vote for Mr. Bryan in 1896.
At St. Joe, Texas, in December, 1897, he married Miss Mattie Mount. She was born in Montague County, Texas, daughter of William M. and Sue Anthony Mount. Her father was an early settler and a farmer in Montague County. His family consists of three sons and three daughters, and Mrs. Brown is the third. Her brother, Charles, lives in Dallas ; her sis- ter, Mrs. Flora Petticord, in Oklahoma and her brother, Sank Mount, was last heard from at Butte, Montana. Mr. and Mrs. Brown have a family of four children : Robert W., Ruby. George Mount and Bill.
JAMES M. INGE, M.D. The honor of hav- ing practiced medicine for a longer period than any of his present contemporaries in Denton County belongs to Dr. James M. Inge, whose life is the record of an honorable service and
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the sustaining of all the responsibilities and obligations of good citizenship.
He is a native of Kentucky, born in Graves County, in the western part of that state, February 18, 1852. His father, also James M. Inge and likewise a physician, was reared at Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia, and from there entered the medical school of the Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, then the best medical college in the country. He graduated in medi- cine and practiced in Virginia, and later in Kentucky, and when his son James was about six years of age he came to Fannin County, Texas, and died there soon afterward, in 1857. at the age of about fifty-two. He married Martha Fitzgerald, a native of Spottsylvania Court House, Virginia. She died at Denton in 1887, aged seventy-five .. Of their nine chil- dren. James M. is the youngest. His three surviving sisters are Mrs. C. C. Bell. of Den- ton : Mrs. Pirtle, of Denton ; and the wife of Doctor Hughes, of Phoenix, Arizona.
Dr. James M. Inge spent his early boyhood on a farm in Fannin County, and at the age of sixteen came to Denton County. His early opportunities were those of a country school and he also attended high school at Denton. When about eighteen he began reading medi- cine under Doctor Ross, and later took lectures in Louisville and graduated from the Louis- ville Medical College in 1874. He then re- turned to Denton, and that community has been fortunate in having his abilities and counsel available throughout a period of forty-seven years.
Doctor Inge is a devoted student of medi- cine and surgery, and his associations with prominent men in his profession have kept him in touch with all the advance and progress since he began practice. He has attended the polyclinics of Chicago and New York, and has done much to organize the physicians and surgeons and raise the standards of the pro- fession in Texas. He called the first meeting and organized the first Denton County Medical Society in 1876. He served as president of the County Society three times. He was one of the organizers and promoters of the North Texas District Medical Association, and was president of that body in 1907. In 1915 he was elected president of the Texas State Med- ical Association, and presided over the meet- ings of that body in 1917. Doctor Inge in 1908 established the Denton Sanitarium. He was its chief surgeon and actively identified with its management until he sold his interests in 1919 with a view to the erection of a larger
institution for Denton. For thirty-six years Doctor Inge was local surgeon for the Mis- souri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, and a meni- ber of the Railway Surgeons' Association. He held the chair of regional and surgical anatomy in Baylor University Medical College at Dallas from 1904 to 1908, resigning because of the distance of the college from his home.
During the World war he was a member from Texas of the Medical Board of the Coun- cil of National Defense.
A hard working professional man like Doctor Inge discharges his share of the duties of citizenship without formal participation in politics. Nevertheless he has found time to do something outside his profession, and has served as a councilman at Denton and as a member of the Board of Education. He is a trustee of the Methodist Church and for sev- eral years was a director of the Exchange National Bank of Denton. Doctor Inge is owner of the site of the old Murphy log hotel, one of the historic landmarks of Denton. On that lot. now occupied by the Guaranty State Bank, was born Henderson Hughes, a promi- nent Sanger merchant, a grandson of the former owner of the hotel.
On February 27. 1876, Doctor Inge mar- ried at Gainesville Miss Annie Ritchey. She was born at Clarksville, Red River County, Texas. Sam Ritchey, her father, was an old settler of East Texas and was a farmer and Confederate soldier. Mrs. Inge has two sur- viving brothers, W. H. Ritchey, of Marietta, Oklahoma, and C. I. Ritchey, of Los Angeles, California. The two children of Doctor and Mrs. Inge are Mrs. H. R. Grant and James M .. Jr. Mrs. Grant, of Dallas, has three children, Hugh R., Jr., James Inge and Charles Platter. James M. Inge, Jr., was in the Medical Unit of the Ninth Division during the World war, and after the armistice went with the Army of Occupation into Germany and continued on duty with his command until the summer of 1919. Since his return home he has been con- nected with L. H. Lewis & Company, wholesale dry goods, at Dallas.
RAY H. MCKINLEY has spent all his life in and around Fort Worth and for twelve vears has been actively identified with the Livestock Reporter and Sunday News, the official publication of the livestock interests of the Southwest and one of the most widely circulated journals published at Fort Worth.
Mr. Mckinley was born at Arlington, Texas, September 14, 1885, a son of James
Kay . H. M. Kinley
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T. and Jessie V. (Harris) Mckinley. His father was born in Alabama and came to Fort Worth at an early day, and was connected with the first clothing store of any consequence in the town. Ray Mckinley is a grandson of a distinguished pioneer character of Fort Worth, Colonel Abe Harris, who was a sol- dier in the Mexican war and afterward con- tinued to serve with the Regular army and in 1848 was one of the soldiers who came up to North Texas and under the command of Major Arnold established Fort Worth as a frontier outpost. Colonel Harris was the last survivor of the founders of Fort Worth and helped build the first log house in which Major Arnold had his quarters.
Ray H. Mckinley acquired his education in the public schools of Fort Worth, but from early boyhood has been making his own way and most of his education has been the prod- uct of experience and active contact with the school of journalism. In 1908 he became associated with the Daily Livestock Reporter and Sunday News, and through that publica- tion has kept in close touch with the livestock interests centering in Fort Worth. He became manager of the publication, and since 1911 has been president of the company. Mr. McKin- ley is also assistant secretary of the Fort Worth Stock Show. He is a member of the Elks Lodge.
In 1908 he married Flora Newell, and has two children, Raymond and Hilda.
ED W. FORESTER, rancher and stockman in the vicinity of Sanger, is the grandson of one of the first settlers of Denton County. For seventy years the family have been prominent in the ranching and stock raising activities of that section, and Ed W. Forester has given a distinctive contribution to the stock industry as a grower of the superlative Shorthorns. Some of the finest Shorthorn blood in the Southwest has been secured from his breeding farms at the periodical sales which are largely attended.
His grandfather and the pioneer was Wil- liam Forester, who brought his family from Tennessee to Texas about 1850, and in 1852 established his home on perhaps the highest point in Denton County, on the Mill Branch tributary to Clear Creek. He began the im- provement of his ranch there about the same time as the firm of Keep & Terry established the old "White House Ranch" and built the first grist mill on Clear Creek, near by. In- (lian depredations subsequently caused the
White House enterprise to suspend, and the mill and other improvements fell into disuse. William Forester, who spent the rest of his life in that region, secured the lumber for his home by hauling it from Shreveport, the frame timbers being hewed from logs obtained on Denton Creek. This ranch house is still occu- pied and is the home of one of his grandsons. The old Chisholm Trail, laid out by John Chis- holm, passed through the Forester ranch just east of the old home, crossing Clear Creek at what is known as "Trail Crossing," not far from the old Keep & Terry mill. The trail also ran through the R. G. Johnson ranch. another of the old settled places of the region and once owned by the father of Mrs. Ed W. Forester. William Forester died when about sixty years of age. His children were Lock S., John, Sol and Turney, and his three daugh- ters were Mrs. C. P. Scripture, Mrs. George McNiell and Mrs. Sallie Ross, of Denton. The son Sol lost his life at the hands of Indians in the late sixties, being attacked by them while he was out after stock and unable to escape. That tragedy was the climax of many losses sustained by the Foresters and other pioneers in this region, their property being subject to occasional raids for many years.
Lock S. Forester was born in Tennessee October 2, 1844, and was a boy when brought to Texas. He grew up in Denton County, succeeded to his father's ranch home, and spent his last years there. Like his father, he was a stockman, running the "Two I" brand with the "Jinklebob" mark on both ears, and later adopted and used the "horseshoe" on the left shoulder, a brand now used by his son Ed W. A pair of horns of the "Two I Jinglebob" brand now reposes in the sitting room of Ed Forester as a reminder of frontier times. In the early days the Foresters sent their stock overland to Shreveport, and thence by boat down the Red River and Mississippi to New Orleans. In the early seventies stock was driven to Sherman and thence carried by rail to northern markets. Lock S. Forester served as a Confederate soldier, but all his duty was performed in Texas. He was with his com- mand on Red River when the Indians made a raid through the region and murdered a num- ber of white people. In civil life his time was entirely taken up with his ranch affairs. Dur- ing his time the industry was continued as a grazing proposition, and with practically no effort expended on cultivating and raising crops. The old ranch comprised about six thousand acres, and in later years some forage
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was raised by tenants. Lock Forester left the ranch about 1890, moving to Denton, where he died June 11, 1913. He was laid to rest in the Bolivar Cemetery.
The wife of Lock S. Forester was Ada Garrison, of another pioneer family of Denton County. Her father, Arnold Garrison, with his brother John served as a soldier in the Mexican war. The children of Mr. and Mrs. Lock Forester were: Ed W .; Ailcy, wife of Dr. M. L. Martin, of Denton ; and L. Stanford, a stockman on the old Forester ranch.
Ed W. Forester was born at the old Garri- son ranch near Bolivar, February 2, 1885, and his boyhood was spent in the same locality, where he has had the experiences and achieve- ments of his mature life. After the common schools he attended the Denton Normal, and then for a few years was employed in the Denton County Bank. With that exception his work has been that of a stockman. He left the bank to take charge of his father's affairs, and eventually established his perma- nent home on a high plateau about two miles east of his father's old place. Here he has improved most substantially another Forester home, a cluster of buildings with a modern and generous residence in the center being a conspicuous feature of the landscape. His is one of the country homes in Northern Texas electrically lighted, and with many other con- veniences and comforts of a city residence.
For a number of years Mr. Forester has specialized in the building up of a herd of grade and pure blood Shorthorns, though he has also kept a flock of sheep and handled other live stock incidental to his main enter- prise. His Shorthorns have been frequently exhibited at the Texas State Fair. His herd bull, "Butterfly's Prince." is the champion of the State Fat Stock Show and was grand champion of the Louisiana State Fair.
Recognizing the claim of public duty to a portion of a successful business man's time, Mr. Forester served one full term as county commissioner. He was elected to that office in 1916 and re-elected in 1918, but resigned soon after the beginning of his second term. His associates on the board were Commissioners Morgan. Cunningham and Ready. The chief responsibility of the board was road building, and some bond issues were approved while he was on the board as an aid to the work. The Forester family has always been democratic in politics, and Ed Forester cast his first presi- dential vote for William J. Bryan.
In Denton County, December 23, 1908, he married Miss Bessie Johnson. Her father, Robert G. Johnson, came to Texas from Bowling Green, Kentucky, in 1856, and after a brief sojourn in Red River County moved to Denton County, settling on the upper stretches of Clear Creek. For a time he was foreman of the famous Chisholm Ranch, subsequently becoming owner of a portion of the land. He. too, had a part in safeguarding the frontier from Indian raids and eventually saw it a well-settled and orderly community. His years were given to stock raising, and he lived on the old ranch until his death in March, 1918, when he had attained the venerable age of eighty- four years, one month and one day. He was a Confederate soldier during the war, while his brother, Dr. S. P. Johnson, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, was a captain in the Union army. His second wife and the mother of all his children was Eliza Gregg, who died about 1889. Her children were Robert S., of Ari- zona; Luther, who died at Lordsburg, New Mexico ; Charles C., a rancher at the site of the old Keep & Terry mill on Clear Creek ; and Mrs. Ed W. Forester, who was born on the Johnson ranch May 16, 1883.
WILLIAM B. WARD, JR. Several of the im- portant commercial and financial organizations of Fort Worth represent the business activities of William B. Ward, Jr., since he came to the city a quarter of a century ago.
He came to Fort Worth from Jefferson. Texas, in May, 1895. He was one of the or- ganizers and long an officer of the Carter- Battle Grocer Company. In 1905 Mr. Ward organized the Ward & Isbell Lumber Com- pany. In 1913 he became one of the organ- izers of the Ward-Harrison Mortgage Com- pany, and is president of that corporation.
He is a member of one of Texas' oldest American families. His grandfather, William Ward, came to Texas in 1835, before the estab- lishment of the Republic. Samuel M. Ward, father of William B. Ward Jr., was a Tennes- sean by birth and was a soldier in the Con- federate army during the war between the states.
HENRY VIRGIL HENNEN is mayor or city manager of Denton. His experience in public affairs and business qualified him for a vigor- ous administration of his present duties, and the record that can be written of his term to date justifies the confidence entertained of him by his supporters.
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