Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County, Texas, Part 124

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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NOCH HORTON, deceased, was born in Russell county, Virginia, March 22, 1777, a son of John Horton, a native of Ireland. When a young man the latter eame with his father's family, which included the father, mother, three sons and two daughters, to Virginia, first settling in the eastern part of the State, and later removed to Russell county. John Horton was married in that State to Isabelle Kendrick, a native of Eng- land, and they reared a family of four sons and five daughters, of whom our subjeet was the third son. The parents passed their days in Russell county, the father dying at the age of sixty years, and the mother lived to an advanced age.

Enoch, our subjeet, was reared to farm life, and received but five days' schooling, but by his own exertions he has attained a good edu - cation. After his marriage he settled on a

farm which his father had taken up under the squatter's sovereignty act, where he fol- lowed farming until he came to the frontier of civilization in Dallas eounty, Texas. In the spring of 1845 the family emigrated with horse teams to Springfield, Missouri, but the same year eame to Dallas county, first locat- ing near Eagle Fork, Preeinet No. 7, where they were both deceased.

Mr. Horton was married in Russell county, Virginia, March 22, 1797, to Miss Martha Stinson, a native of that county, and daugh- ter of John and Jane (Stewart) Stinson, na- tives of Virginia and of English ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Horton were the parents of nine children who lived to be grown, and all but one came to Texas, namely: Mary, de- eeased, was the wife of Martin Thompson; Jane, deceased, was the wife of William Bradshaw; John died in Texas; James also died in this State; Saralı, now Mrs. Cockrell, of whom mention is made elsewhere in this volume; Enoch, who died in Dallas county ; Robert, deceased in California; Martha, de- ceased, was the wife of William Horton; Rachel, deceased, was the wife of Joseph Read. Mr. and Mrs. Horton were both members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. The father's death occurred March 21, 1851, and was buried on the same day of the month of his birth and marriage. His estimable wife departed this life April 7, 1850.

ARTIN H. LOVE was born in Mur- ray county, Georgia, October 12, 1849, son of Osburn and Jane (Franehen) Love, natives of North Carolina. After their marriage his parents moved to Georgia, and from there in 1865 came to Texas. The senior Mr. Love purchased 160

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acres of land in Dallas county, near what was then known as Post Oaks, and improved the same and lived on it until 1867, when he died, at the age of sixty-seven years. His wife passed away in 1866, aged fifty-six. The names of their nine children are as fol- lows: John; Malinda, wife of Charles John- son; Perry, deceased; John; Encethi, wife of John Holman; and James, William, Osburn and Martin II.

After his father's death the subject of our sketch was employed in driving cattle, fol- lowing that business eight years. At the end of that time he was married, and after his marriage turned his attention to trading on the shares, which he continued for several years. Then he changed to farming. He now owns 135 acres of land, all well fenced, and sixty acres under cultivation.

Mr. Love wedded Miss Zorelda A. Muneic, who was born November 10, 1855, daughter of William Muncie. The four children of her parents are: Mary J., wife of Charles Gray; Zorilda A., G. C., and Manerva, wife of Marion Dimond. Mr. and Mrs. Love have six children, viz .: Leona, wife of L. Q. Miller; Clergy, Otto, Emery, Elvey and Herbert.

Mr. Love belongs to the Methodist Epis- copal Church, while his wife has her mem- bership in the Christian Church.

OODSON P. WHITE belongs to that sturdy, honest and independent class, the farmers of Texas, and is now engaged in the successful conduct of an estate which comprises 1,631 acres of fine farming land. His name has been long and worthily identified with Dallas county, and his farm indicates to a noticeable degree

what years of industry, good management and superior knowledge will do toward the maintenance of a farm. He was born in Sparta, White county, Tennessee, in 1850, but removed to Texas with his parents and remained with them until he was twenty-one years of age, after which lie engaged in the cattle business with his father, buying and driving to Kansas, to which calling he gave his attention for two years. At the end of this time he purchased a farm, which he at once, with characteristic energy, began to improve, but at the same time dealt in hogs and cattle, and was associated with his father in the cotton business. In connection with farming he, in 1886, engaged in the mercan- tile business, and now carries a stock of goods valued at about $5,000, and is also the owner of other valuable property.

In 1872 he was united in the bonds of matrimony to Miss Maggie Perry, a daughter of Captain Mid Perry, whose biography is elsewhere in this volume. Four children have been born to Mr. and Mrs. White: Roy L., born September 29, 1874; William T., Mid Perry, and Lanra Estelle, born Janu- ary 29, 1888. Mr. White was given a good start in life, and on commencing for himself was the owner of abont $5,000, but unlike the majority of young men, to whom money is a doubtful blessing, he put it to a good use, and has added thereto nntil he is now in independent circumstances. He is a mem- ber of the Knights and Ladies of Honor, and in politics is a Democrat.

JOSEPH S. JOHNSTON, a prosperous farmer and stock raiser of Dallas county, Texas, was born in Knox county, Ten- nessee in 1819, and was the youngest of nine children born to William and Martha (Swan)

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Johnston, natives of Ireland and Tennessee, respectively. The father, a man of education, a graduate of a well-known college in Ireland, was a pioneer of Tennessee, where he was en- gaged in teaching and surveying until his death in 1840. His wife survived him six years, expiring in the same State in 1840.

Joseph S., the subject of this sketch, was reared to farm life and educated in the public schools of Knox county, Tennessee, and later commenced farming for himself in Meigs county, same State. By industry and economy he accumulated about $50,000, but lost it all by ravages of war, coming to Dal- las eounty, Texas, with only $1,400 in green- backs. Ile first bought 1,114 acres of partly improved land, to which he afterward added until he owned 500 acres, of which he has since sold all but 200 acres, which he now has under an excellent state of cultivation, with good buildings and other modern im- provements. Besides this, he also owns resi- dence property in Dallas to the amount of $5,000, together with a warehonse on the river, the whole amounting to about $30,000.

Ife was married in Hamilton county, Ten- nessee, in 1846, to Mary Powell, a native of that State and a danghter of Scott and Mary (Wammock) Powell, also natives of that State. Her parents were early settlers of Tennessee, first locating on a farm in McMinn county, later removing to Hamilton county, where they both lived until their death.

Mr. and Mrs. Johnston have had seven children, five of whom now survive, namely: William C., residing in Tarrant county, Texas; Isabella, wife of D. R. Long, of Dal- las; Joseph, having charge of his father's warehouse at Dallas ; Mary A., wife of William Day; Lula, wife of Tom Work, also a resi- dent of Dallas.

Mr. Johnston takes an active interest in all

public affairs of importance, and votes with the Democratic party. Socially, he is a member of Tannehill Lodge, A. F. & A. M.

He and his worthy wife are earnest and useful members of the Baptist Church.

Many men are satisfied if, by persistent industry, they are able to accumulate one fortune during a life time; but Mr. Johnston has shown unusual energy in starting life anew after the war, since when he has accumu- lated another comfortable income, and de- serves much credit for his intelligence and enterprise.

UDGE ROBERT E. BURKE, one of the leading citizens of Dallas, Judge of the Fourteenth Judicial District of the State of Texas, was born in Tallapoosa county, Alabama, in August, 1847. His parents, James M. and Narcissa J. (Holmes) Burke, were natives of Georgia.

The Judge received a common-school edn- tion in Alabama and Georgia, and before he was sixteen left the school room to enter the Confederate service. Ile enlisted in Com- pany D, Tenth Georgia Regiment, and took part in the war until its close, being at Greensborough, North Carolina, at the time of the surrender. He was in Hampton's Corps, Butler's Division, and during his ser- vice received one wound in the right arm, not a serious one, however.

In January, 1866, he came to Texas and settled in Jefferson. Here he began the study of law, in connection with which he clerked and taught school four years. He was admitted to the bar in 1870. In 1871 he came to Dallas, opened an office and be- gan the practice of his profession, and he has been an honored resident of this city ever since. He was a member of the City Coun-

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cil in 1874 and 1875; was elected County Judge in 1878 and re-elected in 1880 and 1882; was elected to the District Judgeship in 1888, his term of office expiring in No- vember, 1892. With the ntmost truth it can be said that the Judge is the right man in the right place. He has a wide acquaint- ance and carries the respect of all who know him.

He was married at Jefferson, Texas, in 1870, to Miss Mary L. Henderson, danghter of Judge J. B. Henderson, late of Cass county, Texas. To them have been born three children, Robert E., Albert C., and Lu- cile. Robert E. is employed in a land office at Austin.

Mrs. Burke is a member of the Baptist Church. The Judge is connected with a num- ber of organizations, among which are the Masonic fraternity, the K. of H., and the A. L. of H. He is a worthy citizen, such as gives character to any community.

ENERAL RICHARD M. GANO, one of the present active men of Dallas, Texas, and well known throughout Ken- tncky, Texas, and the States of the great Southwest, was born in Bourbon county, Ken- tucky, on the 18th of June, 1830. His father was the well-known and dearly beloved John Allen Gano, of Kentucky, one of his most devout, able and popular preachers in the Christian Church in his day. During his ministry, covering a period of sixty years, he baptized more than 10,000 persons upon pro- fession of faith. He was the earnest and able co-laborer of Alexander Campbell, Barton W. Stone and other leaders of the reforma- tion, to whose efforts is due the strength and influence of the church in Kentucky to-day.

He died October 10, 1887, in his eighty- second year, and left behind him a name and memory dear to the people among whom he had lived. His wife, the mother of General Gano, was a devoted wife and mother, and entered into the life work of her husband with Christian zeal and courage. For sixty- five years she was an active member of the church, and passed to her reward on the 10th day of October, 1891, in her eightiethı year. This union was blessed with nine children, only two of whom survived the parents: General Gano, the subject of our sketchi, and Captain John Allen Gano, of Taylor, Texas. It will be seen from the foregoing that Gen- eral Gano was raised in a religions atmos- phere. Its great truths took hold on his youthful mind and have remained unshaken throughout his long and active life.

He was educated at Bethany College, West Virginia, graduating from that school in 1849, and from the Medical University at Louis- ville, Kentucky, two years later. He was a practicing physician from that time until the beginning of the Civil War in 1861. being located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, a portion of the time.

In 1857 he came to Texas with his family and settled on Grapevine prairie in Tarrant county. During the following year the Co- manche Indians raided through North Texas, attacking settlers in Parker and Wise counties. Dr. Gano assisted in organizing a company and went in pursuit of the red-skins. The campaign lasted a month, and upon Dr.Gano's return home the citizens of Tarrant county presented lim with a costly sword for his gallant and meritorions conduct on the field. He represented Tarrant county in the Legis- lature during the sessions of 1860 and '61, resigning his seat to enter the Confederate army. Organizing a battalion of cavalry in

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Jannary, 1862, he entered active service and only sheathed hissword when the armies of the Confederacy disbanded in 1865. He was with General John M. Morgan during '62 and '63, commanding first a squadron of Texas Rangers, then a regiment and finally a brigade. His record as a dashing cavalry commander was not surpassed by any one in that department of the service. He was transferred to the department of the Trans- Mississippi in 1863, just before Morgan's Ohio raid, and so escaped that disastrous campaign. In the Trans- Mississippi he was assigned by General E. Kirby Smith to the command of two brigades of cavalry operat- ing in Arkansas, Indian Territory and Mis- souri, and sneh active and efficient work was done by his forces that he was recommended for promotion as Major-General, Richmond falling, however, before his commission is- sued. Ile was in seventy-two engagements with the enemy, in all of which he was vic- torious, except four. He was wounded at the battle of Cabin Creek, Indian Territory, his left arm being broken by a minie ball; and during the war had five horses shot under him. During his three and a half years' ser- vice the Christian was never lost in the sol- dier, and upon his return to Kentucky in 1865, whither he decided to move and rebuild his broken fortunes, his thoughts turned to the ministry, and in July, 1866, he preached his first sermon at Leesburgh, Bourbon county, Kentucky.

He has been a successful preacher, most of his time being given to evangelical work, and during his ministry has baptized more than 4,000 persons, besides establishing many churches. He is intensely loyal to the church of his choice, steadily and ably upholding her doctrines and giving liberally both in time and means to her institutions. In 1874

General Gano began the importation of fine stock into Texas, and as his interests increased he again moved to this State, locating at Dallas, where he has since lived. He has imported probably more blooded stock into the State than any other one man, and has done much to turn the attention of the people of Texas to the importance of improving the breeding of their live-stock. His efforts in this direction have borne fruit, and to-day North and Middle Texas stock grazers can show fancy breeds of Shorthorn, Jersey and Holstein cattle and standard-bred horses, which will compare favorably with those of Kentucky and Illinois.

General Gano has ever been an active man, engaging in many important business enter- prises. He is at present Vice-President of the Estado Land & Cattle Company, and a director in the Bankers & Merchants' National Bank, he having been an important factor in the organization of both institutions. Since his return to Texas his many friends have importuned him to enter public life, but he has declined, preferring to devote his life to the Christian ministry and his private affairs. Being a moralist he has always been an avowed enemy of the saloon, and during the heated prohibition campaign in 1887, he took the stump and advocated the adoption of the constitutional amendment prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating liquors in the State. General Gano as a business man has been successful, and his time, when not engaged in active church work, is occupied with his large business interests in Texas and Kentucky.

Ile was married, in March, 1853, to Miss Martha J., danghter of Dr. Thomas Welch, of Crab Orchard, Kentucky, a prominent physician of that city. Mrs. Gano is a sister of Dr. Samuel Welch, of this city, and also of

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Colonel W. G. Welchi, of Stanford, Kentucky, who is esteemed one of the ablest lawyers in that State. She is a lady of culture and re- finement, having gradnated with class honors from Greenville Institute in 1851, and dur- ing the thirty-nine years of her married life has ever been a devoted wife and mother.

General and Mrs. Gano have had twelve children, as follows: Wm. B., John T. (de- ceased), and Clarence W., sketches of whom will be found in this volume; Sam W. (de- ceased); Kate M., wife of Dr. Hugh McLan- rin of this city; Fannie (deceased); Manrice Dudley, B. A., of Kentucky University and B. L. and M. A. of Texas University, now prac- tising law in this city; Lee, a graduate of Ken- tucky and Texas universities, now engaged in the practice of law in partnership with his bro- ther, Maurice Dudley; Sidney Johnston, twin brother of Lee, a graduate of medicine from the University of Pennsylvania, recently com- mencing the practice of his profession in this city; Emma, graduate of Hamilton College, Kentucky, and the Conservatory of Music at Cincinnati; Frank (deceased); and Mattie, the youngest of the family, who has not yet com- pleted hier studies. All the family are mem- bers of the Christian Church.

ILLIAM F. DOUGHERTY, Secre- tary of Oak Cliff corporation, was born in Trimble county, Kentucky, in 1847, the son of John and Sarah (Kyle) Dougherty, natives also of that State, wlio when William was ten years old emigrated to White Rock, Dallas county, Texas.

The subject of this sketch began life as a farmer, and after continuing that for eleven years entered clerical work, in which he has given great satisfaction. On the incorpora-

tion of Oak Cliff he became its first Secretary and has continued in that capacity through all the changes of that municipality to the present time. By common consent he seems to be the unanimous choice of the citizens for that position. Ile is a reliable Demoerat in his political sympathies.

In 1868 he married Miss Nannie Kyle, and they have one daughter, named Julia.

EORGE C. COLE, who has been in the grocery business in Dallas since 1889, was born in this county, August 8, 1857, the eldest of eight children born to John H. and Elizabeth (Preston) Cole, na- tives of Tennessee. They came to Dallas in an early day, where they both still reside. George C. was reared to farm life, and cdu- cated at Add Ran College, Thorp's Spring, Hood county, Texas, graduating in the liter- ary department in 1881. Hle then read law under the tutelage of Hunt, Lathrop & Hays, and in 1882 was admitted to the bar of Dal- las county, and since that time has followed the practice of law. In addition to this he is engaged in real estate, and also in the manufacture of sewer pipes and fire brick at Athens, Texas, being a member of the Fire Brick and Tile Company, and President of the Association.

Mr. Cole was married in Dallas county, October 30, 1883, to Sue E. Bennett, a native of Jackson county, Arkansas, and daughter of Dr. J. A. and Henrietta (Crump) Bennett, the foriner a native of Madison county, Mis- souri, and the latter of Henrico county, Vir- ginia. The father settled in Jacksonport, Arkansas, in 1844, and engaged in the prac- tice of medicine, and in 1862 removed to Texas, where he engaged in general mer-

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chandising at Kanfman, Kaufman County, for twenty years. Mr. and Mrs. Cole have four children: George C., Kate, Annie and Joseph. Mr. Cole is a Democrat, politically, and has held the office of Chairman of the Democratie Committee and Alderman of the Eighth Ward. Socially he affiliates with the K. of P., No. 70, at Dallas, and also with the Knights of Honor, and religiously, both Mr. and Mrs. Cole are members of the Chris- tian Church at Dallas.

A. ARCHER, engaged in street con- tracting in all kinds of maeadamized and other styles of street pavements since 1885, has done nearly all the work on Ervay and Holmes streets, on College Hill, in the Exposition Park, and on many other streets. He has been connected with general street work for some years. Prior to that he engaged in farming and cotton ginning. Was in business in connection with W. C. Leonard, an early pioneer of the county. Mr. Archer came from Pennsylvania to Dallas county in 1874, settling in Precinet No. 7 and engaged in farming.

Ile was born in Staffordshire, England, in 1853, the third of the five children born of Thomas and Mary (Elsmere) Archer, natives of Wales, who settled in Staffordshire. The father, by ocenpation a merchant, died in 1862; the mother died abont 1873. Mr. Archer was reared in Cheshire, England, and about the age of nineteen left his native country, coming to Pennsylvania. He was a machinist, following his trade in Pennsyl- vania, and in 1874 came to Dallas county, and has been directly identified with the business interests of Dallas in one line or another. At the present time he pays strict attention to

street contracting. He has established for himself a fine residence on Chestnut Hill, and he has ever taken an interest in the publie welfare of the city and connty.

Hle was married in Dallas county, in 1883, to Miss S. A. Smith, a native of Dallas county, Missouri, and daughter of B. and N. (Bonner) Smith, the father a native of Mis- souri and the mother of Pennsylvania. The father was married in Missouri. Ile was a farmer by occupation and in 1879 came to Dallas county, settling on a farm west of Dallas. He died in Parker county, this State, in 1884, Mrs. Archer's mother resides in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Archer have had four children, two living, Myra and Clara.

EDWARD A. STUART, an eminent financier and popular cashier of the Bankers and Merchants' National Bank of Dallas, Texas, was born in Knox county, Tennessee, February 23, 1863.

Ilis parents are A. M. and Nellie (Bowers) Stuart, both natives of Tennessee. His father has been Clerk of Washington county, Tennessee, for the past ten years, previons to which he had been for life a partner with his father, Stephen Decatur Stuart, in the ownership of large iron works near Jones- boro. A. M. Stuart is a prominent politician, taking an active part in all public affairs. He served in the late war on the side of the Confederate States of America. The family is connected with General J. E. B. Stuart, the great Confederate States of America cavalry- man. Both parents are prominent members of the Presbyterian Church, of which the father is an elder. The mother survives at the age of forty-nine years, while the father is fifty-two.

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They have four children: the subject of this sketch; Samuel D., in the drug busi- ness in Jonesboro, Tennessee; Mary N., a graduate of Jonesboro Academy, now the wife of Thomas A. R. Nelson, a son of the late Supreme Judge of Tennessee, who de- fended A. Johnson in his impeachment trial; Mary S. is their only child; Alvie M., a pupil of the Jonesboro high school.

The subject of this sketch was educated in Jonesboro Academy, and is a graduate of Goodman's Commercial School of Knoxville, Tennessee. After graduating, he was em- ployed for two years in the Knoxville Pension Agency, after which he accepted the position of chief book-keeper for MeLung, Powell & Company, of Knoxville, Tennessee, whole- sale hardware merchants, with whom he re- mained for three years. February 1, 1883, he came to Texas, and was employed in the banking house of Clark, Bryan & Howell, with whom he remained for six years, when he removed to Texarkana, where he aeted as assistant cashier of the Texarkana National Bank for eighteen months. Then, in 1890, he came to Dallas and assumed his present position, which he has held ever since.

Mr. Stuart was married April 15, 1885, to Miss Anna B. Fowlkes, an estimable lady and a daughter of J. S. Fowlkes, President of the First National Bank of Bryan, Texas. She is a graduate of Holland's Institute of Virginia, and took a finishing course at Miss Carey's school in Baltimore, which is one of the most prominent educational institutions of that city. She has considerable talent for belles-lettres, and is a fine musician. Mr. and Mrs. Stuart had one son, Edwin, who died, aged six months.

Mr. Stuart is not much of a politician, in the general acceptation of the term, but, like all good men, desires to see worthy and able

men at the head of public affairs. Socially, he is a Mason, a member of the Elks, and Past Chancellor of the Knights of Pythias.

Mrs. Stuart is an earnest and useful mem- ber of the Baptist Church, to the support of which both she and her husband liberally contribute.

Aside from his connection with one of the most distinguished families of the South, Mr. Stuart has qualities which alone would command the respect of his fellow men. With business ability, indomitable energy, sterling integrity and of a progressive dispo- sition, he is a young man whose brilliant fu- ture is easily prognosticated, and is eminently worthy of a place in the history of the repre- sentative men of the Lone Star State.

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Memorial and biographical history of Dallas County, Texas, Part 124

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