Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County, Texas, Part 107

Author: Lewis publishing company, Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1128

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Mr. Umphress joined Company K, of the Florida Reserve, Major Miller's Battalion, and served twelve months, and during this time was in the battles of Natural Bridge, Florida, and several skirmishes. He served until the surrender at Madisonville, Florida, after which he returned home, and in 1866 was married to Miss Louisa Tucker, a daugh-

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ter of Isaac and Caroline (Turner) Tucker, natives of Florida. The parents had three sons and three daughters, namely: James, who resides in this county; David, also of this county; Aden, deceased; Elizabeth, wife of M. A. Umphress; Louisa, wife of our sub- ject; Sallie, now Mrs. John Cabot; Laura, wife of Link Morehart. The parents are both now deceased, the father dying in Flor- ida and the mother in this State. Both Mr. and Mrs. Umpliress are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church South.

OIIN T. GANO, now deceased, was born in Bourbon county, Kentucky, May 16, 1856. His parents are General R. M. and Mattie T. (Cann) Gano, whose sketch appears elsewhere.

Our subject was educated primarily in Kentucky and completed a course at Bethany College, West Virginia. He came to Dallas with his parents and then returned to college, and after graduating went into real-estate business in Dallas, which he followed the remainder of his life, although he was con- nected with other enterprises very exten- sively to the day of his death. He was pres- ident of the Bankers and Builders' Bank Building Association, vice-president of the Cable Line Road Company of Dallas city, was director in the Bankers and Merchants' National Bank, secretary and treasurer of Estado Land and Cattle Company at the time of his death. He was one of the most snc- cessful surveyors and land locators in the State of Texas, having located several mil- lions of acres of land, in person. He was a worthy and very active member of the Firs Christian Church of Dallas and was actively engaged on the board of missions, was church

Treasurer and was connected with the Sabbath- school. He filled all the positions that were entrusted to his care with great success, honor and due acceptability.

His ancestry on both sides represents people of excellent character, high social im- portance and great personal worth. His father, General R. M. Gano, took part in seventy- two battles during the late war. The Gen- eral's paternal grandfather, Ezra Gano, rose to the rank of Brigadier General in the war of 1812. He was born in 1775 and died in 1815. His wife was Elizabeth Ewing, who died of consumption a short time before her husband's enlistment in the war of 1812. Captain William, the maternal grandfather of our subject, also served in the war of 1812. The Rev. John Gano, who was the great- great-grandfather of our subject, was a Bap- tist minister, who established the first Bap- tist Church in New York city. He had held the position of Chaplain in the colonial army during the Revolution. He was a man of wonderful power and courage, his learning was great and his capability for various liter- ary work was apparent even to a stranger. He was devoted to his work and his inter- pretation of the sterling elements of large and noble manhood was exceedingly fine. He seemed to be without the feeling of fear. At one time he rallied the army when the colonial lines were beginning to waver, thereby exposing himself to the shots of the enemy. He was an intimate friend of General Wash- ington, and the latter chided him for so ex- posing himself. The good man only replied that he did not think of personal danger when he saw the men in danger of being defeated. Mr. Gano baptized General Washington, who had become dissatisfied with the baptism which had been administered to him in his own church, the Established Church of England.

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The baptism, by immersion, was performed in the presence of about forty persons. Very little was said about this, as Mr. Gano trangressed the rule of his church in baptizing any one who was outside the pale of his own church, but he felt that one could not draw the church lines too close in the army,and so all were bap- tized by immersion who so desired.

Our subject was married, January 10, 1884, to Miss Clara Bell Helm, daughter of Henry and Emma (Welch) Helm. the latter a dangh- ter of Thomas Welch of Crab Orchard, Ken- tucky. Mrs. Gano is a granddaughter of Thomas Helm, whose brother was Governor of Kentucky. Thomas Helm was the father-in- law of Jonathan F. Bell, who ran against Magoffin for Governor, just before the war, in 1860. Henry Helm's widow married again and had four children: Edward, Mattie, Lulu and Grace, all of whom reside at Stanford, Kentucky.

John T. Gano died November 2, 1891, near Lorine, Wyoming, while attending to business in that locality. The evening before his death he spoke of feeling a slight rheuma- tism, and remarked that he was glad that he was so near through his business and that he would leave for home the next day. The next morning he went out to look at a ranch for which he was negotiating a trade, and while riding to take the train to Laramie he was heard to say,"Catch me: I am surely fainting." The team was stopped and the sick man was tenderly lifted out by his anxious companion, but the gentle, loving spirit had fled to the God he had so faithfully served during his stay on this earth. His trunk was found packed by the hands, then hardly cold. What thoughts he had indulged in as he laid the articles in that his hands were never to touch again! Loving relatives unpacked that trunk and many were the bitter tears shed over it.

His remains were brought home and are now reposing in the cemetery here. His com- plaint, heart failure, had been aggravated by the high latitude. The memory of his many acts of Christian kindness serve as a requiem to the indulgent father, the true and loving husband, kind neighbor and Christian gentle- man.

In all the business enterprises that Mr. Gano was engaged in he was one of the most successful business men of the entire city. So genial and kind was he in disposition that he had the good will of all with whom he ever had dealings. He was a most estimable and worthy Christian whose influence was always felt in support of the educational, financial, social and moral interests of the city.

He and his wife had three children. Rich- ard M., Jr., Emma and John T.

RS. ISABELLA SCOTT, who resides on Highland street, two blocks north of Payne street, Dallas, is a native of Scotland. Her parents, Alexander and Ann (Lobben) Patterson, live in Banffshire, and her father is a farmer. Of their eight chil- dren she is the oldest and the only one in this country.

Mrs. Scott came from Edinburgh, Scotland via New York, to Dallas, Texas, in 1878, to be married to Thomas McLeod. their marri- age occuring soon after her arrival. Mr. Mc- Leod, a son of George and Jessie (Mckenzie) McLeod, natives of the highlands of Scot- land, came from that country to this soon after the war of the States, making the journey by way of New York and Mexico. Until 1882 Mr. and Mrs. McLeod resided on North Harwood street, where Daniel Mor- gan now lives. Mr. McLeod was a stone

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contractor, and in 1880 purchased a stone quarry, consisting of two acres of land. This he operated until the time of his death. For the past two years nothing has been done to it. Stone from this quarry is to be found in most of the principal buildings in Dallas, the first taken from it having been used in the Norton building. Mr. MeLeod died in 1887, leaving two children-George Alexander, born in 1879, and John Duncan, in 1882. He was a most worthy citizen, a member of the Masonic order, and of the First Presby- terian Church of Dallas.

In June, 1890, the subject of our sketch was united in marriage with her present com- panion, Thomas Duncan Scott, a business man of Dallas, also a native of Scotland. His father is a wine merchant of Perth. He came here from Perthshire about five years ago, coming by New York and thence South. He first stopped in Lampasas, then went to Austin, and from there came to Dallas, where he has since been engaged in business.

Mrs. Scott is a member of the First Pres- byterian Church.

ILLIAM E. AND WALTER R. AT- WOOD are among the most prosper- ous dairy farmers of Dallas county, Texas. They have a three-acre tract of land adjoining the corporation line of the city of Dallas, in a locality almost unrivaled in this naturally favored region. Here they have built up a business second to none in their line. They have 100 cows and the capacity of the dairy is about 140 gallons of milk daily, chiefly consumed in Dallas. They have managed this place for about nine years, giving their undivided attention to their busi- ness. Both young and hardy, full of energy

and pluck, they may be classed among the successful business men of the county.

Jesse L. Atwood, father of these gentle- men, came from near Bowling Green, Ken- tucky, to Dallas county in 1881, his sons having preceded him to this place by two years, they coming in 1879. Jesse L. At- wood married Susan Anderson, of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and has a family of ten children, as follows: William E. and Walter R., whose names head this sketch, are the oldest members of this family. The former married Fannie Brunson, of Kentucky, and has one child, Lizzie. Mary, the third-born, is the wife of Jolin R. Davidson and has seven children. Then there are John H., Samuel J., Maggie, Sallie (wife of Scott Mc- Farland), Jesse L., Jr., Sampson and Elijah. All reside in Dallas county. The Atwood family worship at the Baptist church, and are ranked among the most worthy people in this county.

It should be further stated that Mrs. Jesse L. Atwood is a daughter of Samuel and Eliz- abeth Anderson. She has three sisters and one brother, viz .: Mary, wife of Elijah Spill- man, who came to this county in 1835. She has three children: Alida, wife of Frank Bowser, also of this county, has two children, Mary E., wife of William A. Watson, has two children; and Warner E., who married Jennie Badgley, has two children, and resides in Dallas. Mr. Watson is also a resident of this county.

R. W. C. CULLOM, of Mesquite, Texas, was born in Tennessee in 1843, a son of G. F. and Cynthia (Hooper) Cullom, natives of North Carolina and Tennessee respectively. The father came with his father to Texas when only six years of age, and

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here he subsequently became a farmer. The parents reared a family of eleven children, our subject being the ninth in order of birth, and eight are still living: J. W. is a min- ister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in Texas; J. H., a physician of this State; E. M., a merchant at Nashville, Tennessee; Cather- ine, the wife of J. O. Hooper; Jennie, the wife of T. W. Taylor; Florence, the wife of J. E. Russell, of Tennessee; another is the wife of Sam Larkins. The daughters all reside in Tennessee. The father died in 1879, and the mother in 1888, at the ages of seventy-two and seventy seven years respectively. The mother was a member of the Methodist Epis- copal Church.

The subject of this sketch received his literary education in Davidson county, Ten- nessee, and at the age of twenty-four years commenced life independent of his father. He had three brothers in the Confederate army during the war, who persuaded the Doctor to remain at home with his father, which he did. The father remained neutral and was never molested, and lost but little by either army. At the age of twenty-seven years, our subject entered the Medical De- partment of the nniversity at Nashville- which is now known as the Vanderbilt Uni- versity, in 1871, and graduated in the class of 1872. Ile afterward located at Dixon, Tennessee, where he practiced six years, and in Jannary, 1878, came to this State and lo- cated at Haught's Store, the oldest-settled place in the county. The original owner, Samnel Ilaught, sawed the first plank for flooring a house in Dallas county, using a whipsaw. Dr. Cullom practiced there six years and then came to this place, where he has a large and paying practice. He suc- ceeded beyond his expectations financially, and is now the owner of valuable city prop-

erty and considerable real estate in the county.

The Doctor has been three times married, first in 1874, to Miss Sarah Flanavy, of Ten- nessee, who died in 1875. In 1878 the Doctor was married to a native of Tennessee, and they had one child. Mrs. Cullom died in 1882, and in 1883 the Doctor was united in marriage to Miss Louella Sewell, a daugh- ter of Jesse A. Sewell, of this county, and they have three children: Emmett B., Nannie G. and Fannie. Dr. Cullom is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Seyene Lodge, No. 295, also of the K. of H., Mesquite Lodge, No. 2,996. He is J. W. of the Masonic Lodge and Treasurer of the K. of H.

EV. WILLIAM C. YOUNG, one of the early pioneer ministers of the Methodist Episcopal Church South, in Dallas, Texas, came to this section from Columbia county, Arkansas, in August, 1863, and two years later removed his family thither. Dallas at that time was a town of some 600 or 700 inhabitants, and the entire business was confined to the public square. The church of which he became pastor was organized in 1852, with eleven members, and from that time to the close of the Civil war the congregation worshiped in the court- house. It was by his efforts that the first church building of the Methodist Episcopal Church South was erected in Dallas, being a frame building of ample proportions, erected on the corner of Lamar and Commerce streets, and dedicated November 1, 1868, and called the Lamar Street Church. A few years later, in October, 1879, the church building was destroyed by fire, and the congregation which had grown rapidly in numbers built a hand- some brick church, at the cost of $40,000, at

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the corner of Commerce and Prather streets. Mr. Young was pastor of this congregation two years, was Presiding Elder of Dallas district four years, and filled for six years the same position in the adjoining districts, which districts included the cities of Corsi- cana, Weatherford, Fort Worth, Sherman, and Gainesville. He traveled over his districts before the days of railroads by private con- veyance, and made as many as 7,000 miles per annum.

He was born in Trigg county, Kentucky, August 7, 1827, being one of four children born to Daniel F. and Marilla Young (nee Ingram), natives of Kentucky. The paternal grandfather was a South Carolinian, who took part in the Revolutionary war, and afterward settled in Kentucky, and died near Canton, in that State. The maternal grandfather was the first settler at Ingram Shoals, Kentucky, on the Cumberland river, and his death oc- curred at that place. Daniel F. Young was a tanner by trade, and about 1829 removed to Saint Helena parish, Louisiana, and in 1833 to Port Gibson, Mississippi, and died, and was buried at Brandywine Springs, near that place. His wife, Marilla (Ingram) Young, the mother of the subject of this sketch, died in 1878, was buried at Dallas, Texas, in the Masonic cemetery. Marilla street of Dallas has been named in her honor.

Rev. W. C. Young was partially reared in Mississippi and Louisiana, but the most of his elementary education was obtained in Trigg county, Kentucky. He was strictly self-educated, having lost his father when only six years of age, his mother having been left in straitened circumstances. As the years went on, he, by hard study and close application to business, arose from poverty to affluence, and from comparative obscurity to distinction in his profession. It has been

justly said of him that " he is a man of clear head, sound judgment, discriminating mind, independent thought, persevering energy, and superior talents."

Mr. Young entered the ministry January 28, 1849, near Paducah. Kentucky; was for two years a local preacher, and for three years a member of the Memphis Conference. In November, 1853, he moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, and had charge of the first Meth- odist Episcopal Church South of that city, for one year. He then resided successively in Washington, Camden, Magnolia and Co- lumbia of the same State, going in 1851 to Bastrop, Louisiana. The following year he went to Monroe, Louisiana, then in 1863 was appointed in charge of Moreau street church, New Orleans, and in 1864 to Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1865 Mr. Young was ap- pointed Missionary Chaplain for the Arkan- sas Confederate Cavalry, and for some time was in the field. He was mustered out of the service in General W. L. Cabell's com- mand at close of the war, the same year, at Wildcat BInff, Texas. He soon after came to Dallas, and immediately became identified with church work here, continuing until November, 1883, when he was put on the re- tired list. He has since that time devoted some attention to real estate, realizing some handsome profits on investments.

Ile was married near Camden, Arkansas, October 16, 1857, to Miss Mary S. C. Pipkin, a native of Alabama, a daughter of Rev. John F. and Caroline Pipkin. Mr. Pipkin was a native of South Carolina. When a child his parents moved successively to Georgia, Ala- bama, Arkansas, Louisiana, and Beaumont, Texas, in 1849. While a resident of the latter place he served three terms as Connty Judge of Jefferson county, and at the time of his death, October 28, 1890, at the age of eighty-

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one years, was filling that position. Judge Pipkin was also identified with the local ministerial work of the Methodist Episcopal Church South for fifty-four years. In all his relations he was true and faithful. The wife of his young manhood died in 1842. She was a native of South Carolina.

In his wife Mr. Young ever found a true and faithful companion, "a help-meet" in- deed, one who shared with him all the priva- tions and toils of their pioneer life, bearing her part of the burden with unflinching for- titude. She is a lady of cultivated mind, re- finement of manner, fine personal appear- ance, combined with rare graees of character, and has been a zealous and efficient laborer in church work.

Mr. Young and wife are the parents of the following living children: Lula, wife of J. R. Tillman, late an official of the Texas & Pacific railroad system; John M., Surveyor of Dallas county, who, though a young man, has already acquired distinetion in his pro- fession, as well as a reputation of splendid personal character and moral worth. He was for some time Assistant City Engineer, and is a member of the fraternity of the A. F. & A. M., having been Master of his lodge in 1890. The three younger ehildren are Lena, now in the fresh bloom of young womanhood; Louisa M., whose marriage to James T. Jen- kins, a rising young business man of Dallas, was recently solemnized; and William C., Jr., now about twelve years of age.

Mr. Young is a member of the fraternity of Freemasons, and has been Worshipful Master of five different Masonie lodges, and is now Past High Priest of Dallas Chapter, No. 47. He is Past Eminent Commander of Dallas Commandery, No. 6, and for four years was Grand Visitor of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter of Texas, and is Past Grand

Prelate of the Grand Commandery of the State; is also Past Grand of Dallas Lodge, I. O. O. F. As a Mason he, in the words of a co-worker in the order, "is recognized as the highest type of the gentleman and seholar, a true and worthy exponent in his life and eonduet of the sublime principles of the venerable order. He exemplifies the seeret work in its purity, and dispenses instruction in a style attractive in its simplicity, convine- ing in its eloquenee, and thrilling in its sublimity." It has been written of him, " No one is better qualified than he is to pre- sent the simple grandeur of the capitulary degrees in all the wisdom of their construe. tion, the truth of their traditional lore, and the beauty of their tenets." It has gone into the history of the order in Texas, that "to him the Masons of many localities are in- debted for all the true Masonie light they en- joy ; and the example he affords has been the means of raising the order in the scale of holy and profane publie opinion. He is a Christian gentleman, possessed of those quali- ties which constitute man a noble being, and to say that he is the father of intelligent and satisfactory chapter, couneil and commandery Masonry in this State would not be amiss." When he entered the field as an itinerant leeturer, the esoteric ritual of Masonry, es- pecially iu the eryptic work, in consequence of the ravages of the Civil war, had been almost completely lost to the order, and it was through his faithful labors that the work was restored.

In early manhood, Mr. Young read the entire course of text-books in the enrrieulum of allopathic medicine. He also afterward read the Napoleonie code of civil law and text books of the common law, but he never entered the practice of either of these pro- fessions, choosing rather to devote his life

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to the work, principally, of the Christian ministry. As an educator he has now some distinction, having been at the head of three different institutions of learning: the Mag- nolia Female Institute, the Columbia High School at Point Chicot, and the Concord High School at Eudora,-all in the State of Arkansas.

Mr. Young has always taken quite an inter- est in the politics of his country, and votes with the Democratic party. He was District Clerk of Columbia county, Arkansas, in 1858- '59, and of Dallas county, Texas, in 1867-'68, and was considered a competent official; and for three terms has been Alderman of the Fourth ward of the city of Dallas.

He is one of the few remaining pioneers of Dallas, and it may be said of him that his life has all along been one of usefulness. He was secretary of the Little Rock Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church Sonth, for one year; of the Louisiana Conference one year; of the North Texas Conference five years; and of the Northwest Texas Confer- ence one year. As Secretary, he won the highest approval bestowed upon any of the conference secretaries, at the quadrennial inspection of Annual Conference journals, held at the General Conference of his church, in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1870, this ap- proval being pronounced upon liis work be- cause of the perspicuity of his chirography, accuracy of forms, and neatness of his records.

He has been an untiring worker for the cause of Christianity, and his efforts have been rewarded with great success. In the pulpit, as an expositor of the tenets of his church, he was considered, in the meridian of his ministerial career, the peer of any man in the country. In the chair, as an execn . tive officer in the councils of his church, he is said to have had no superior. He is blessed

with a robust constitution, and is a man of fine intellectual endowments indeed. He may be said to possess a versatility of genius that is much above the average. He has always displayed indomitable energy in the pursuit of duty in all the positions of honor and trust to which he has been called, his rare qualifications of mind and body fitting him well for usefulness in his day and gener- ation.

EORGE L. DOYLE, a retired merchant of Dallas, Texas, was born in Chicago, February 22, 1851.

His parents, Lawrence and Margaret (Maxey) Doyle, both natives of Ireland, were married in Chicago. The former was exiled from the Emerald Isle during the insurrection in 1798. Ile first landed in Virginia, thence went to Kentneky, and from there to Chicago. By trade he was a ship-builder and carpenter. He helped to build one of the first houses in that city, where the Sherman House now stands, and in that primitive structure his son, George L., was born. The father died in 1857. The mother subsequently married Richard Powers, who died in 1859. She is still living, now being a resident of Spring- field, Illinois. Of her seven children, the subject of our sketch is the only son. Five of the family are still living.

In 1861 young Doyle enlisted as a fifer in the ninety days' service, and at the end of that time re-enlisted for three years in the United States army. He was with the forces that operated in the Southwest, participated in a number of important engagements, being with Grant at Corinth, and continued in the service nntil May 28, 1866. At Lexington he was wonnded in the center of the forehead by a piece of shell which knocked him sense-

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less and caused him to remain se for three days. The wound then received he will carry to his grave. He also received a musket ball over the left eye, which ball he still carries. At Lexington he was taken prisoner, but was paroled and sent home. On the whole, he stood the service well.

The war over, our young friend directed his steps toward the West, and from 1866 to 1870 was engaged in prospecting and mining in Colorado and Wyoming Territory, being very successful. In 1870 he came to Texas. The work of building railroads was at that time being pushed forward here, and he at once identified himself with it. He helped to build the first railroad into Dallas, having a portion of the contract for grading. Then he went to Palestine and did some of the heaviest work on the road between Crawford and Palestine, on the Great Northern Railroad. Locating in Dallas in 1871, he engaged in the grain business in the fall of that year, continuing the same till February, 1890. Ile is probably the oldest grain merchant in Texas. At the time he began business here much of the grain was hauled to him in wagons, often for a distance of 200 miles or more. Hle has handled as high as 10,000 bushels a day. Mr. Doyle is a man of natural business ability, and in this enterprise met with marked success. In the growth and development of this city he has been an im- portant factor. To him belongs the distine- tion of having built the first race track in Dallas.

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Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County, Texas, Part 107

Author: Lewis publishing company, Chicago, pub. [from old catalog] Publication date: 1892 Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company Number of Pages: 1128

Author: Lewis publishing company, Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publication date: 1892
Publisher: Chicago, The Lewis publishing company
Number of Pages: 1128