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In 1872, Mr. Bouche was united in mar- riage with Miss Harriet Eingel, a native of West Baton Bouge. She was the third-born in a family of five children, and was left an orphan when quite young. She was a woman possessing many amiable traits of character, and was loved by all who knew her. Her deatlı occurred Jaunary 17, 1879. She left one child, a daughter. Mr. Bonche was snb-
sequently married to Miss Jennie E. Kendall, daughter of Elisha and Julia A. (Music) Ken - dall, her parents being natives of Georgia and Alabama. Her father died in 1879, and her mother is still living, being now a resident of Dallas. By his present companion, Mr. Bouche has one child, Julius E.
Mr. Bouche's education has been gained by actual business experience rather than by school advantages. The last day he attended school was in Baton Rouge, and the city was at that time bombarded by Commodore Fara- gut's fleets. He is a devout Catholic, and his politics are those of the Democratic party. He is an earnest advocate of every- thing pertaining to the good of Dallas city and county, and is held in high esteem by all who know him.
A. RUSH, one of the largest real-es- tate dealers in Dallas county, was born in the State of Missouri in 1840, and is a son of William and Hattie (Campbell) Rush, natives of Kentucky. The parents re- moved to Missouri. In 1844 the father con- cluded to take a trip to Texas, and that jour- ney is shrouded in mystery. His fate is un- known, but it is more than probable that he was murdered by out-laws or slain in the Mexi- can war. When our subject was seven years of age, he went to Kentucky to make his home with his uncle. He remained there until 1861, when he came to Texas and en- listed in the Eighteenth Texas cavalry. IIe served until the close of the struggle, but es- caped without the grazing of a bullet. How- ever, he was twice taken prisoner, first at Ar- kansas Post, and then at Atlanta. After the surrender he went to Kentucky, and was en- gaged in the operation of a sawmill for some
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time. He then came to Red River county, Texas, and took np the same industry. Dal- las county was the next scene of action, and for three years he had the entire manage- ment of the sawmill. In 1873 he deter- mined to turn his attention to agriculture, and purchase a tract of land that was des- tined to be of great value. It lies near the city of Dallas, and was cultivated as a plant- ation until 1890, when the city had reached such limits that sixty acres were laid out for a suburb of Dallas. It is known as North Oak Cliff, and in time will be one of the most attractive points of the city. The Oak Cliff Elevated Railway furnishes easy access to the city proper, and renders it one of the most convenient places of residence. Mr. Rush affiliates with the Democratic party, and stanchly supports all the issues of that body. He belongs to the Methodist Episcopal Church South. In 1873 he was married to a native of Kentucky.
OHN HURST is numbered among the nseful and wide- awake men of Dallas and has been identified with her inter- ests since 1879. In that year he came to the city to represent the Waters-Pierce Oil Com- pany of St. Louis, and served in that capa- city for seven years, after which he embarked in the same business on his own account. Although he began with limited capital he he has won a patronage which demands tive wagons to supply the retail trade which ex- tends throughout the city of Dallas and Oak Cliff. He has established a reputation for fair dealing and correct business methods which give him rank with the leading com- mercial houses of the place.
Mr. Hurst was born in Wayne county, In-
diana, Jannary 12, 1838, and is the third of a family of fifteen children of Sanford and Elizabeth (Little) Hurst. The father was also a native of the Hoosier State, and was a farmer and stock-raiser. He was promin- ently connected with the early settlement of Indiana, and was widely and favorably known as an agriculturist. His death occurred in 1874; his wife survives him, and resides near the old homestead in Indiana. Our subject was reared to the occupation of a farmer, at- tending the common schools during the winter season. At the age of twenty-two years he left the parental roof, and setting his face to- ward the setting sun began a journey which ended in his final settlement in Texas; he first went to Christian county, Illinois, where he secured employment as a farm laborer; the following winter he worked at the cooper's trade, and his next move was to Ottumwa, Iowa; there he was engaged in agricultural pursuits, but did not remain long; he then tried his fortunes at Springfield, Illinois, where he worked at his trade; this business however did not meet his desires, and he again started in search of more Incrative em- ployment. We next find him in Kansas City where he secured employment with the Fort Scott & Gulf Railroad Company. After this experience he went to Humboldt, Kansas, and pre-empted a piece of land belonging to the Government; at the end of two years he sold ont and went to St. Louis, Missouri, entering the employ of the Waters-Pierce Oil Com- pany. As before stated, he was with this company seventeen years, when he went into business for himself.
Mr. Hurst was united in marriage in 1886, to Miss Theresa Corder, a daughter of Amos T. and Jane (Mansfield) Corder. Mrs. Hurst's father is a native of England and a boiler- maker by trade. He is a very fine mechanic
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and has been employed by the English Gov- ernment at various times and also by large English syndicates. It was during his resi- dence in Spain, where he was doing an extra- ordinary piece of work in the shape of a float- ing dock, that Mrs. Hurst was born, in the year 1865. In 1884 her family emigrated to America; the mother died in 1890, Septem- ber 8, after which the father removed to Dallas where he has since resided; seven of the children survive.
Mr. and Mrs. Hurst are the parents of one child: William Sanford, born May 2, 1888. Mr. Hurst affiliates with the Democratic party. He belongs to the I. O. R. M., Lodge No. 8. In all his relations with his fellow men he has followed those precepts whic !: have brought their own reward, a host of stanch friends, and a name honored by all classes of citizens.
OSEPH A. CRAWFORD was born in Patrick county, Virginia, August 17 1844, a son of Joseph and Ruth (Brad, field) Crawford. His father was born in Rockingham county, North Carolina, January 19, 1808, and his mother, October 27, 1810. They were married there in 1831, subse- quently moved to Virginia, and settled in Patrick county. In 1846 they moved to Tennessee, and from there, in 1855, to Ala- bama. In the latter State the father died, on the 17th of April, 1871, aged sixty-three years. The mother died July 12, 1885, at the age of seventy-five. They had a family of four children: James, deceased; Mary, wife of T. L. Crew; Thomas and Joseph A.
When the war broke out the subject of our sketch enlisted, in 1861, in the Thirteenth Georgia Regiment, Jackson's Corps, and
served till the war closed. He participated in twelve hard-fought battles, besides numer- ous skirmishes. The last engagement in which he took part was at Spottsylvania Court House, and there, on the 12th of May, 1864, he was captured and sent to Fort Dela- ware prison, where he was held until the close of the war, being released on the 4th of May, 1865.
Mr. Crawford returned home, and on Sep- tember 29, 1866, was united in marriage with Miss E. J. Shelton, who was born in Blount county, Alabama, May 23, 1851. Her father, James Shelton, was born in 1829, and her mother, Mary (Bishop) Shelton, in Madison county, Alabama, in 1831. They were mar- ried in 1847, and are still living, in Alabama. They had ten children born to them, two of whom are deceased. Those living are as fol- lows: Pereh; E. J., wife of J. A. Crawford; Criss; Lucinda, wife of William Hood; Lena, wife of J. M. McDaniel; James, Joseph, and Louie.
Mr. Crawford continued to live in Alabama until 1874, when he moved to Texas, and settled in Dallas county, where he now lives, sixteen miles east and south of Dallas. He first bought 160 acres of land, but has since added to his original purchase until he is now the owner of 312g acres, all under fence. Of this 190 acres are being cultivated, and the rest is in pasture. His farm is well im- proved, and his property a very desirable one. His cultivated land is in the black prairie, and his house is built on the edge of the post oaks on sandy soil. Mr. Crawford has not only been industrious since he came to Texas but has displayed good judgment in the in- vestment of his earnings, having made most of what he now owns since he came to this State.
Mr. and Mrs. Crawford have had ten chil-
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dren: James, born March 14, 1868; Ruth, August 2, 1871; Mary, January 1, 1874; Bessie, born May 9, 1876; Thomas, July 20, 1878; Joel, February 2, 1880; Lewis, Novem- ber 27, 1881; Lena, May 17, 1884; Charley, September 8, 1887; and Katy, August 10, 1890. All are living except Bessie, who died October 5, 1877. Mr. Crawford is a member of the Presbyterian Church.
In reference to his ancestors, it should be further stated that his paternal grandparents were Peter and Rachel (Christy) Crawford; that his grandfather was a native of Mary- land and served in the Revolutionary war, belonging to the De Kalb Command, and taking part in the battle of Camden.
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ON. JAMES F. ROWLAND, Repre- sentative to the State Legislature of Texas, is well known throughout this section of the country, and it is with pleasure that we present a biography of him on these pages.
Hon. James F. Rowland was born in Trons- dale county, Tennessee, in April, 1832. He is a son of Robert M. and Mary Kearby Row- land, natives of Tennessee. His grandfather, John Rowland, was born in North Carolina, of English descent, and his maternal grand- sire, James F. Kearby, was a native of Vir- ginia. The latter participated in the Florida war, and died in Tennessee, in 1854, at the age of seventy-two years. Robert M. Row- land moved with his family from Tennessee to Simpson county, Kentucky, and from there in 1854 came to Texas, settling in Dallas county. He was engaged in agricultural pur- suits all his life, and died in Texas, July 17, 1881. His wife departed this life April 23, 1875. The following named children were
born to them, all of whom came to Texas: Elizabeth J., James F., Lydia T., Martha A., Mary S., Maggie L., William H., John W. and Robert A.
James F. was reared on a farm, and has ever since given his attention to farming and stock-raising, displaying good judgment in the management of his affairs and being uni- versally successful in his operations. He has been largely interested in the stock business, buying and selling for the markets. He re- mained a member of his father's family up to the time the war broke ont. In 1861 he en- listed in Company C, Sixth Texas Cavalry. He served with true bravery all through the war; received three flesh wounds, none of them serious, however; was never taken prisoner.
Returning home after the war, Mr. Row- land resumed his farming operations. June 20, 1875, he married Miss Nancy E. Chris- tie, daughter of Sampson and Artemis (Curry) Christie, all of South Carolina. They came to Texas in 1852 and settled in Rusk county ; subsequently located in Collin county, where the father died in 1868. Mr. and Mrs. Row- land have had five children: Mary E., born April 28, 1876, died in May, 1876; James F., October 19, 1877; John H., October 13, 1880; William M., December 22, 1882, and Ross L., June 3, 1884.
After his marriage Mr. Rowland settled on his farm of 160 acres. He has since pur- chased other lands and now owns 430 acres, having 250 acres under cultivation, his chief products being wheat, corn, oats and cotton. He also raises some stock.
Mr. Rowland has always taken an active interest in the political affairs of the country; has sympathized and worked with the Grange and alliance organizations; and has always affiliated with the Democratic party. He is
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the present Representative of the Twenty- first Legislature of Texas, and, while not a leader, he has helped to put through several important bills, which measures have met with the entire satisfaction of his constit- uents. He is a member of the Masonie fra- ternity, and he and his family are members of the Missionary Baptist Church.
AVID E. GROVE was born in Paris, Missouri, in 1840, a son of the Rev. Samuel Grove of the Methodist Epis- copal Church, South, a native of Virginia, who had retired from the itinerant work of the ministry before his death in 1855. The mother, whose maiden name was Paulina E. Camplin, born in Kentucky, is still living, in Los Angeles, California.
He was educated at Central College, Fay- ette, Missouri. Going to New Orleans when yet a boy, he went on the river. In April, 1861, he enlisted in the Third Louisiana Volunteer Infantry. The first general engagement of his command was at Oak Hills (Wilson's Creek) and at the second Elk Horn (Pea Ridge) he was left a prisoner on the battle field and thought to be mortally wounded. He escaped, returned to Natchitoches parish, Louisiana, and was elected Sergeant-at-Arms of the Louisiana State Senate at Shreveport, the then State capital. Before his wound had healed, he returned to active service as exeentive officer of the Confederate ram Queen of the West, which had been pre- viously captured from the United States forces. He was again badly wounded and with all other survivors captured at the de- struction of the Queen in a gunboat fight near Morgan eity, Lonisiana, in April, 1863.
Recovering and escaping in the fall of
1863, Captain Grove for awhile commanded a light battery operating with the cavalry in lower Louisiana. Later he was assigned to the command of a detail of secret service seonts whose especial objeet, while in no sense the work of spies, was to secure all the information possible of the enemy's move- ments, forces, etc., as well as the supervision of securing medical supplies and surgical instruments for the Confederacy. This foree operated in a quiet way from Vieksburg to the Gulf to the entire satisfaction of his su- periors. In this service Captain Grove was more than onee wounded and captured but was each time so fortunate as to escape; never being exchanged during the war.
At the close of the war he returned to the river, and as clerk, pilot or captain, was on the river for seven years. In 1872 he came to Dallas and established the first large plan- ing inill and operated it until it was destroyed by fire in 1875. The fire resulted in his financial embarrassment and assignment, but as evidence of the opinion of him held by the business community, his creditors accepted the assignment as two days afterward he was appointed freight contracting agent by the Texas & Pacific Railway with headquarters at Dallas. He remained in railroad service for ten years, filling the positions of freight contraeting and traveling agent, elaim agent, in charge of fuel and tie department, division and general road master, train master, division superintendent and superintendent.
Seeing no chance of further promotion he left railroad service in 1886 and entered that of the Liverpool & London & Globe Iusur- ance Company as their special agent and ad- juster. He now has charge of their interests as State agent for Western Louisiana, Texas, and the border towns of the adjoining States of Mexico.
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Captain Grove is a member of the Knights of Honor and the Masonic fraternity. While taking a warm interest in public affiars he has never filled a public office in Texas ex- cept serving one term as member of the City Council of Dallas.
He was married in 1871 to Adele E. Wag- gaman, a native of New Orleans. They have three children living: David E., Jr., Bessie Tompkins and Madeline.
R. FISHER, merchant, West Dal- las, Texas .- It is universally con -. ceded that the distribution of food products constitutes the most important factor in the long list of city's industries, and, such being the case, the grocer must be accorded the palin of the most important contributor to the development of this fact, his wares covering almost every article of daily con- snmption known to man. This branch of mer- cantile activity is admirably represented in Dallas by the popular and well known estab- lishment of W. R. Fisher, located in West Dallas. Mr. Fisher was born in Cambria county, Pennsylvania, Octoher 8, 1836, and his parents, Andrew and Mary Margaret Fisher were natives of Germany, where they were reared and married. The parents came to the United States in 1830, located in Pennsylvania, and of the sixteen children born to their union, fourteen grew to mature years. The father was a farmer and contin- ned the occupation until his death, when eighty-one years of age. The mother died in 1863, at the age of fifty-six years.
W. R. Fisher assisted his father on the farm until fourteen years of age and then learned the cabinetmakers trade, serving an apprenticeship of two and a half years with-
ont compensation except his board. After this he worked at the carpenter's trade in Kentucky for one year and then began tilling the soil. Abont this time the Civil war broke out and Mr. Fisher went to Virginia, where he enlisted in the Fourty-fifth Vir- ginia Battery, and served principally in Vir- ginia and Tennessee. At the second battle of Winchester, Virginia, 1864, he was taken prisoner and confined in the Delaware prison for nine months, and three months after General Lee surrendered. After the war he engaged on the Virginia & Tennessee rail- road, repairing bridges, building section houses, etc., until December, 1867, when he came to Texas. He first located at Honston, followed his trade for nine months and then came to Dallas, where he rented land and raised one crop. For three years after this he followed his trade in Dallas, and on the 1st of July, 1869, he was united in marriage to Miss Mary Ann Coombs, a native of Dal- las connty and the danghter of J. N. Coombs. Following his marriage Mr. Fisher continned his trade and shortly afterward purchased seventy acres of the old Coombs homestead, giving $5.00 per acre. Less than a year later he sold it for $17.00 per acre and purchased a partially improved farm in Tarrant county, 160 acres for $1,200, which he cultivated for three years. Returning to Dallas county he moved on the farm where a part of West Dallas now stands, it being a part of his wife's estate, began clearing, and farmed the same until 1889, when he engaged in the grocery business, in connection with his farming and real-estate business. The most of his farm is now cut up into lots.
Mr. and Mrs. Fisher had three interesting children: Edward Lee, of Dallas county; Brillia Alice, of Tarrant county, and Willie I., in Dallas. Mr. Fisher lost his wife by
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death, July 28, 1873, and his second mar- riage was two years later, to Miss Maggie Proffett, a native of Tennessee who was reared in Missouri by Isaac Boran. This union resulted in the birth of three children, one now living: Harry. Mr. and Mrs. Fisher are members of the Church of Christ. Mr. Fisher is a self-made man and all his property has been obtained by the sweat of his brow. He deserves mueli credit for his enterprise and progress.
E. FLIPPEN, real-estate dealer and ranebman, was born in Lauderdale county, Tennessee. Flippen is a depot on the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad, named for Benjamin MeFlippen, about forty miles from Memphis. The date of our subject's birth is March 24, 1846. His parents were Benjamin and Eliza (Caldwell) McFlippen. The father was born in Knox county, Tennessee, Jannary 1, 1819, of good old Virginia parentage; is an extensive farmer and stock-raiser in Tennessee, being the best known man in the county, where he has lived for about fifty years. He furnished four soldier sons in the late war, three under General Forrest and one under General Bragg. This gentleman is now seventy-three years of age, and has been a prominent mem- ber of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for over fifty years, and has been an Elder in the same for a number of years. His wife, who died in 1873, was born in 1823, in Smithland, Kentucky, and was a member of the same church as her husband. She came from one of the best families in Kentucky. She was a true, good woman, filling all the relations of life as only a Christian person could, being a true and faithful wife, devoted mother and kind neighbor and friend, and no
words can speak her praise too warmly. Her parents were natives of North Carolina. Benjamin McFlippen had nine children, five still living, three sons and two daughters One brother and two sisters of our subject died when quite young. Bird, the oldest member of the family, was in the Tennessee infantry, was wounded and captured at Mission Ridge, and died in Rock Island prison, aged thirty years. He slumbers in an unknown grave that the family have never been able to dis- eover. The next one was Ben, Captain of Company F, Fifteenth Tennessee Cavalry, Steward's regiment, Kneely's Brigade, and Forrest's Division of Cavalry. He served through the war, being First Drill- Master of the First Tennessee Heavy Artillery; was in the siege of Fort Pillow and first siege of Vicksburg, but resigned his command in 1863 at Chiekamanga, returned home and raised his company of cavalry, serving through the remainder of the war, surrender- ing with Forrest at Gainesville, Georgia, in May, 1865. He is still living near Memphis, engaged in the mercantile and milling busi- ness. His wife was a Miss Nelly Keaton, whom he married in 1865, at Buena Vista, Mississippi. They have two children, Robert and Ben; the latter, about twenty-two years of age, is new the cashier of the Newport News & Mississippi Valley Railroad at Mem- phis. Mrs. Ben Flippen died and her hus- band married again, this time a sister of the first wife, Miss Keaton. They have no chil- dren. The third son of Benjamin Flippen was William H., who participated in the late war as a private in the artillery mentioned above, at Fort Pillow, when he returned home sick, and after recovering joined his brother's cavalry company, in which he served until the close of the war. He is married and has a large family; is residing
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on his farm, near Ripley, Tennessee. His wife was Miss Callie Campbell, of Chickasaw county, Mississippi. The two living sisters of our subject are Ellen, wife of K. B. Davidson, and Fanny, wife of Mr. Stone, both living in west Tennessee, ncar where they were reared.
Our subject was reared in the country schools of Tennessee. He enlisted in March, 1863, in his brother's company of cavalry, and served in that company until the close of the war. He was taken prisoner in north Mississippi, and was retained as a prisoner in Memphis, but escaped and returned to his company. His horse was killed under him at Memphis, Tennessee, during the war, and he had some narrow escapes, but never was hit with bullet, while his three brothers were all wounded. He now feels that the war is over, and accepts the result as best for our conntry and times. The black belt of north Texas is his adopted home, the garden spot of the United States, where all the four princi- pal crops of the United States-corn, wheat, oats and cotton-grow side by side in the same field, and one can scarcely tell which the country or climate is best adapted to.
After the close of the war he went to Egypt, Mississippi, and engaged in the mer- cantile business for thirteen years, when he disposed of his business to William Busha- man & Co., and came to Texas, Jannary 5, 1881, landing in Dallas, where he has re- mained, in and near, ever since, engaged in mercantile pursuits and stock-raising, in which he has been successful in every way.
Mr. Flippen was married in 1878, to Miss Nannie Gates, daughter of J. N. Gates, a planter of Mississippi, who now resides at Huntsville, Alabama.
Mr. and Mrs. Flippen have a family of four children, namely: Edwin E., Jr., Edwina,
Mc Neuton and May Blanche. Mr. and Mrs. Flippen are members of the Methodist Epis- copal Church South, and Mr. Flippen was formerly a member of the Tannehill Lodge, Dallas, and was one of the charter members of the Oak Cliff Lodge of Masons. Our subject is a Democrat in politics, as was his father before him, after the dissolution of the Whig party. Mr. Flippen has seen many changes in this part of the country. In 1871 to 1873 he went hunting and killed buffaloes where Wichita Falls now stands; rode horse- back from Shreveport, Louisiana, 180 miles, to get into the State of Texas, as there were no railroads then. He has gone by stage from San Antonio to Austin in a day, ninety- six miles. At that time the Indians were in the majority and had matters pretty well under their control from Wise county north and west.
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