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H. H. BRALEY, a prominent and early settler of Dallas county, came here in 1871 and located on the line of Dallas and Ellis counties, where he en- gaged in farming.
Mr. Braley was born in Ircdell county, North Carolina, in 1841, the second in the family of five children of S. S. and Catherine L. (Gouger) Braley, natives of North Caro- lina. They were married in Rowan county, that State. The father was a blacksmith by trade. At an early day they moved to Bed- ford county, Tennessee, and a year later to Marshall county, Mississippi, where they re- mained three years. In December, 1848, they settled in Ouachita county, Arkansas, Mr. Braley following the trade of gunsmith at Camden. From there they moved to La Fayette county, Arkansas, and thence to Fan- nin county, Texas, in 1856. He bought a farm north of Honey Grove, and on it the family resided until 1871, when they came to Dallas county. The father's death occurred in this county, January 13, 1873. The mother survived him some years, her death occurring in the city of Dallas in 1888.
The subject of our sketch spent his child- hood days in Tennessee, Mississippi and Ar-
kansas, and received his education in the schools of Onachita county, in the last named State. He was fifteen years of age when his parents came to Texas and settled on a farm in Fannin county, and since then he lias been engaged in agricultural pursuits.
Mr. Braley was married in Anderson county, Texas, in 1873, to Miss Mary E. Hatter, a native of Lincoln connty, Ken- tncky, and a daughter of John C. and Do- rinda (Milligan) Hatter. Her father was born in Virginia in 1817, and her mother in Kentucky in 1816. At the age of six years the former went with his parents to Ken- tucky, and there, April 11, 1839, he was married. In 1849 he moved to Dallas county, Texas, and settled on a farm in the sonthern part of the county. He bought land and im- proved a farm here, and on it he and his wife passed the rest of their lives, she dying July 3, 1872, and he in 1883. Five of their chil- dren lived to be grown, and four are still living, namely: George, who is married and lives in Lancaster, Dallas county; John S. is married and settled at Sherman, Texas; Mrs. M. E. Braley, who is married and resides in Dallas; and James II., married and residing in Lancaster. After the death of her inother, Mrs. Braley's father was married again, and by his second wife had two children, Vere and Samuel, who reside near Milford.
After his marriage Mr. Braley settled in the southern part of the county, and there resided until he came to the city of Dallas. He opened up and improved a farm in the southern part of Dallas county, and also owns land in various other parts of the county. Since 1883 he has made his home in Dallas, and has been engaged in the real- estate business, buying, improving and sell- ing property. He improved his home place, and besides this owns valuable property on
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Live Oak, Main, Commerce and Allen streets; the last mentioned is his home.
Mr. Braley is a public-spirited and enter- prising citizen. In his political views he is independent, voting for men and measures rather than party. In the late war he was a soldier in the Confederate army. Enlisting in Craven's company, Robert Taylor's regi- inent, May 22, 1862, he served until the war closed, participating in a number of im- portant engagements. He received a gun- shot wound through the wrist, which dis- abled him for lite. After being in hospital ninety days, he came home on a furlough; was finally put on the retired list, and when the war closed was discharged. He and his wife have both witnessed the growth and de- velopment of this part of Texas, and have done their part in helping to advance the best interests of the vicinities in which they have resided. Following are the children born to them: Hardy, who died Jannary 4, 1876, aged ten months and twenty-six days; Henry, born December 20, 1876; Frank, born December 31, 1878, died October 22, 1880; Lem, born September 10, 1881; Nellie, born September 4, 1888. Mrs. Braley is a mem- ber of the Christian Church.
P. COCHRAN, of Dallas county, was born in Greene, now Polk, connty, Missouri, in Jannary, 1841, the third in a family of six children born to William M. and Nancy J. (Hnghes) Cochran, natives of South and North Carolina respect- ively. The father went to Murray county, Tennessee, at an early day, where he engaged in the mercantile business, at Columbia, and also clerk in a bank. He moved to Mis- souri in 1840, and three years later to Dal-
las county, Texas, where he took np a claim in precinct No. 2, and tilled the first prairie land in this county, also raising the first wheat. He took an active interest in the early history of the county, and was the first Connty Clerk and Representative of Dallas county. His death occurred April 7, 1853, and his wife survived him until about 1871. Grandfather John Cochran, a native of the north of Ireland, came to New York and par- ticipated in the Revolutionary war, after which he settled in South Carolina, and later in North Carolina, where he subsequently died.
W. P. Cochran, our subject, was reared to farm life and educated at the MeKinzie Col- lege. He came to this county March 27, 1843, and in 1861 enlisted in Company C, Sixth Texas Cavalry, and served until the close of the war. He was in the battles of Pea Ridge, Corinth, Iuka, Holly Springs, and in the forty-six days' fight before Atlanta. He was paroled in 1865 and sent to Dallas, Texas. He now owns the old homestead of 420 acres, which is in a good state of cultiva- tion. Mr. Cochran takes an active part in poli- tics, voting with the Democratic party, and has served as a delegate to the county con- ventions. Socially, he is a member of James A. Smith Lodge, No. 395, which was char- tered in 1874, and has held the office of Dis- trict Deputy Grand Master in his order. Re- ligionsly, both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Coch- ran Chapel, which was named in honor of Mr. Cochran's father, and of which the former is one of the trustees.
Mr. Cochran was married in Hill county, Texas, January 30, 1867, to Miss A. M. Lawrence, a native of Marshall county, Ten- nessee, and danghter of D. T. and Ann B. (Bachman) Lawrence, natives of North Caro-
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lina and Tennessee. The parents settled in Ilill county, Texas, in 1857, where the father died in February, 1867, and the mother in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Cochran have had nine children, seven of whom survive: Nanna A., John D., Archelans, Mary A., James P., Wil- lie L. and Ada M. Mr. Cochran has seen the full growth and development of Dallas from a cabin to a eity of about 40,000 in- habitants, and has always taken an active in- terest in everything for its good and aided in all public enterprises.
H. McDADE, contractor and builder, Dallas, has been in business here since 1871. He was born in Richmond county, Georgia, ten miles west of Angusta, on Big Spirit creek, October 9, 1832, the first of thirteen children born to Captain John and Eliza (McTyre) McDade, he having six sisters and six brothers, all natives of Georgia. His father was a planter and proprietor of saw and grist mills on Big Spirit creek, Rich- mond county, Georgia. His parents passed their lives in Georgia, and were buried on the homestead of Holland McTyre, his grandfather. Ile was for several years en- gaged with the Adams and Southern Express companies, till 1861.
From this date to 1865 he was with the Confederate army in Georgia and Florida, then the army of Tennessee from Missionary Ridge to Atlanta, Georgia. He was wounded at Peach-Tree creek (or Jones' Tannery), near Atlanta, Georgia. Disabled by his wound and ent off by the enemy from his command, he attached himself to Captain Robert Allen's command of cavalry, where lic remained to the close of hostilities. He then engaged with the National Express Company until its demise; next the Southern
Express Company from Mobile, Alabama, to Cairo, Illinois: afterward he came to Texas. In 1871 he came to Dallas city, his present home, in whose material interest he has ever taken an active part.
He has long been well and favorably known here as a citizen, mechanic, a Con- federate Democrat, and a member of the First Baptist Church.
ATRICK W. LINSKIE was born in county Galway, Ireland, in 1848, and when six months of age his parents crossed the sea to America, settling in New Orleans. Here they were both stricken with yellow fever, and died. Patrick received his education in New Orleans and then went to Rapides parish, where he was living at the time of the breaking out of the civil war. He was only fourteen years age, but he enlisted in Texada's Cavalry, and served with marked distinction until the surrender. When hos- tilities ceased he returned to New Orleans and engaged in the undertaking business, which he carried on with success until 1873. He then removed to Dallas, Texas, and em- barked in the same line at the corner of Main and Harwood streets; the frame build- ing first occupied has been replaced by a fine briek edifice, and the patronage has grown to immense proportions. Mr. Linskie is the official undertaker for the Hebrew and Roman Catholic population of the eity. He has the most complete establishment of the kind in the South, and is well fitted both by native tact and a thorough training for the duties of the business. He is a master of the process of embalming, which he studied in St. Louis and Cincinnati.
Mr. Linskie was married December 19, 1876, to Miss Emma E. Sanderson of Mis-
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souri; she removed to Texas in 1873; they are the parents of two sons, Robert, aged ten years, and Gerald, aged five. Our subject is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Lodge No. 8, and belongs to the Elks and Red Men. He is a member of the Roman Catholic Church, and has occupied the same pew for the past seventeen years. Politically he af- filiates with the Democratic party. He has been an Alderman, and was one of the most efficient officers of the Water-Works Company. He has built one of the most elegant homes in the eity on Harwood street, and is enjoy- ing the results of many years of honest labor.
ARRISON R. PARKS was born in Ellis county, Texas, in 1849, and is a son of George C. and Christina (Rockett) Parks. His father was a native of Indiana, and emigrated to Texas in 1847. He settled near Red Oak, Ellis county, and pre-empted 640 acres of land, which he converted into a fertile, productive farm. Harrison was the oldest child, and in his childhood was sur- rounded by rural scenes of more than ordi- nary beanty. The family continued to live on the homestead nntil 1874, when they removed to Waxahachie. The father was appointed Judge of Ellis county, and held the position six years. In 1879 he went to California, and died while in that State. Ile was a local politican of some note, and for a great many years was Conuty Commissioner. For fifty years he was a member of the Masonic order. His wife passed away some years before his death. They had six children, one of whom died in infancy. One son died in Houston, Texas, while in the service of his country.
The subject of this notice was reared to farm life, and enjoyed the advantages afforded
in the private schools. Later he took a college course, and when he had finished his studies he entered upon his business career as a clerk in Waxahachie. In 1873 the firm that em- ployed him suffered from a disastrous fire, and he was forced into another channel. He took up the insurance business and has since been engaged in active soliciting. He estab- lished several agencies, and in 1884 came to Dallas and went into the same business under the firm name of Parks & Sherman; they repre- sent six leading companies, and draw their patronage from Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Indian Territory. They have done an enormous business, and established a reputa- tion for the most honorable dealing. They have very few lawsuits, and conduct their business according to the safest methods.
Mr. Parks was married in 1871, to Miss Laura Patterson, a native of Arkansas. One daughter was born to them, named Minnie. The mother died in 1882, and Mr. Parks was married again to Miss Jettie Patterson, a sister of the first wife. Three children were born of this union: Nellie, Mary and They occupy an elegant residence in Dallas, and are surrounded by many of the luxuries of life.
Mr. Parks affiliates with the Democratic party, and is a strong supporter of all the issues of that body.
N. BAKER, an insurance agent of Dallas, was born in Caldwell county, Kentucky, August 20, 1862, a son of Owen Ross and Julia (Lindsay) Baker, na- tives of Kentucky. The mother is a daugh- ter of Lancetot Lindsay of Kentucky, and a nieee of the late Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, Levingstone Lind-
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say of La Grange, who were first consins of the Honorable Alexander H. Stephens of Georgia. The father is a practical and thorough farmer, has hield the office of Sheriff two terms, was Circuit Clerk two terms, County Clerk one term, County Commis- sioner of public roads three terms, Post- master eight years, having resigned that posi- tion, and is at present one of the Republican delegates from the first Congressional Dis- trict of Kentucky to the National Republi- can Convention, Minneapolis. He was a Union man during the war, although he owned a few slaves, which were liberated. For many years he has been a Deacon in the Baptist Church, and his wife is also a life- long member of that church. Socially, Mr. Baker is a Freemason. The parents reared a family of six children, four of whom still survive, viz .: Peter, of Kentucky; Cora, wife of M. S. Ilague, of Tennessee; Gertrude, wife W. A. Samson, of Denton, Texas; J. N., our subject; and Franklin and Eugenia each died at the age of about fourteen years. Mr. Baker enjoys the confidence of all who know him, and is a very popular man. It is a notable fact that, although he has been a pronounced Re- publican in politics, he has held the county offices above referred in a Democratic county. In each place he won success and accom- plished great good, shared the views of ad- vanced thinkers, and was in thorough sym- pathy with the progress of the county on every line of advancement. A manly char- acter only could have inspired such confidence, and a faithful serviceonly could have resumed its continuance, as is seen by his re-election to each office.
J. N. Baker, the subject of this sketch, was educated in what is now known as Prince- ton Collegiate Institute, then Princeton Col- lege, where he completed his course in 1882.
He has been in the insurance business ever since, first with the Equitable, of New York, then the New York of New York, and is now special agent for the State of Texas and In- dian Territory. He has succeeded well in this enterprise, and stands among the first in the business. Mr. Baker is also president of the White Republican League Club of Dallas.
B. LOUCKS, a retired contractor and builder of Dallas, was born in Lonvain, Belgium, in 1829, the eldest of three children born to Peter Joseph and Theresa (Pirouet) Loucks, also natives of Belginm. The father, a contractor by occupation, eame to Texas in 1856, and in 1858 moved to Fort Worth, Texas, where his death occurred in 1860; the mother died in Belgium.
The subject of this sketch was reared in his native country, where he also learned the carpenter and joiner's trade. At the age of twenty-six years he came with the French colony to Dallas, first settling on the line of Tarrant county, where he undertook to form a settlement on Mountain creek, called New Louvain, He then went to Fort Worth, Texas, and engaged at his trade, but in 1867 returned to Dallas. In 1863 Mr. Loucks en- listed in the Confederate service, in Company F, Waller's Battalion, and served two years. He was in many battles and at the close of the war returned to old Mexico, where he en- gaged in contracting and building. He eracted a fine residence on the corner of Will- iam Tell and Floyd streets. Mr. Loucks takes an active interest in politics, voting with an independent party, he has been Alderman of the First Ward three terms, and resigned on account of moving out of the ward. He also served two terms as School
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Director. Socially, Mr. Loucks is a member of Tannehill Lodge, No. 52, A. F. & A. M., of Dallas Chapter, No. 48, Dallas Command- ery, No. 6, and the Knights of the Golden Rule. Mrs. Loncks and family are members of the Episcopal Church, and Mr. Loucks is a member of the Catholic Church.
He was married in Weatherford, Texas, in 1867, to Miss Mary Desmet, a native of Belgium, and a danghter of Dr. Henry and (Stye) Desmet, natives of Belgium. They came with the French colony to this State in 1855, but both are now deceased. Mrs. Loucks died in 1869, and in 1870 he married Miss Lonisa, a daughter of John and Mary (Rogers) Tenison, natives of Ireland and Pennsylvania respectively. The parents came to Dallas in 1868, and both are now deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Loucks have four children: Minnie, Anna, Josie and Mary.
AJOR ALEXANDER C. LEMMON, a real-estate agent of Dallas, Texas, located in Dallas, in 1889, coming hence from Jefferson city, Missouri. A brief sketch of his useful and eventfnl life may be summed up in the following: Major Lemmon was born in Paris, Henry county, Tennessee, June 13, 1838, eldest of three children of William H. and Nancy Amanda (Hughes) Leminon. His paternal ancestors came to this country from Germany about the middle of the last century and settled in Pennsyl- vania. His great-grandfather, Jolın Lem- mon, and two brothers coming together. John married and remained in Pennsylvania, but the brothers fonnd permanent homes in Mary- land and South Carolina; John was a soldier of the Revolution, and upon the termination of hostilities moved with his family to Green county, Kentucky, where he settled ou and
improved a fine farm upon the banks of Green river, and known far and wide as Lemmon's bend: here he reared a large family of children, the greater portion of whom sub- sequently became pioneer settlers in the new States and Territories. His family was noted for Biblical names, as we find Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, John, l'eter, James, Daniel and Rndian among the sons, while the same was true of the Christian names of the danghters. Major Lemmon's grandfather, Isaac Lemmon, born in Kentucky in 1781, was married to Elizabeth Edwards Moore, a daughter of Captain Moore who commanded a company in the famous General Morgan's command. The late John A. Moore, who died at Lee's Summit, in Jackson county, Missouri, in 1886, at the advanced age of ninety-one years, was her oldest brother.
Isaac Lemmon, a soldier of the war of 1812, was with General Jackson at the battle of New Orleans, and died on the return be- fore reaching home; he left four children: William H., Sarah (Allison), John and Isaac. W. H., the father of the subject of this sketch was born in Green county, Kentucky, De- cember 27, 1807, and thongh but a child he soon became charged with the care and snp- port of the mother and family. Leaving the ancestral homestead at the age of seventeen, the family moved to Henry county, Tennessee, where W. H. learned the carpenter and cabi- netmakers' trade, which he successfully pur- sued for several years. On August 17, 1837, he was married to Nancy Amanda, youngest danghter of the late Archelans Hughes of Williamson county, Tennessee; in the fall of 1839, he emigrated to Polk county, Missonri, and engaged in farming and stock-raising, in which he continued to the close of his life. In 1862, he was made a military prisoner, and confined at Springfield, Missouri, where
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he contracted a severe fever, doubtless induced by exposure to the noxious effluvia attendant upon prison life and hard labor upon the fortifications then being ereeted for the de- fense of the city, the labor being chiefly per- formed by military prisoners, who like Judge Lemmon had been arrested and imprisoned upon the charge of sympathy with the Re- bellion. At length he was released that he might find better quarters during his illness. On gaining freedom he met his old friend, Hon. J. J. Weaver, who kindly took him to his own home, proenred medieal aid and dis- patehed for his wife in Polk county; but his disease proved fatal: he died August 31, 1862 in the presence of his wife and friends. Judge Lemmon was prominent in the politics of his connty, and served as a judge of the county court from 1856 to 1860, he was also a con- sistent member of the Christian Church.
Major Lemmon's maternal ancestors were from Wales, and settled in Virginia and the Carolinas at an early day; they were active participants in the Revolutionary struggle. Arehelaus Hughes, his maternal grandfather, was a prominent citizen of Williamson and Henry counties, Tennessee, and the father of a large family. His eldest son, Arch M. Hughes of Dresden, was a lawyer and poli- tieian of prominence in the Western distriet, and was once defeated for Congress by John W. Crockett, son of the noted Davy Croek- ett, shortly following his death at the Alamo.
The brothers A. M., Joseph B., and Briee Hughes all died in Tennessee, leaving fami- lies. William P. (Buek), died in Missouri a few years since, and Dr. Samuel P., the youngest of the brothers, from the latest ac- counts was living in the Indian Territory.
The maternal grandmother, Naney (Martin) Hughes, was a danghter of General Joseph Martin of Virginia, a gallant officer of the
Revolution, who was the first agent to the Cherokee Indians appointed by President Washington. Some illegitimate Indian chil- dren born to him during his sojourn among the Indians, were by him educated in one of the best colleges of New England, these half- breeds took General Martin's name and after- ward became prominent and wealthy citizens of the Cherokee Nation.
Major Lemmon was raised upon a farm and received his education in the common schools of Polk county, and the Southwest Male and Female College of Springfield, Missouri, of which Charles Carlton, now of Bonham, Texas, was president. He began teaching in the public schools of his county, at the age of sixteen, and continued in the profession, except while at college, until the breaking ont of the war in 1861. His sympathies being strongly with the South, he was among the first to volunteer from his county in the ser- viee of the Missouri State Gnard, under General Sterling Price, enlisting as a private. He was npon the organization of the Fifth Regiment, General Rains' division, elected and commissioned Major of said regiment, J. J. Clarkson being Colonel, R. W. Crawford Lieutenant Colonel, and M. W. Buster, now Mayor of Weatherford, Adjutant. The late Colonel John M. Stemmons of Dallas was also an officer of that regiment. Major Lem- mon participated in the battles of Oak Hill, where his horse was killed under him; Dry Wood and the skirmishes and siege of Lex- ington. His regiment being six-months troops, in the winter of 1861-'62, he re- eruited and organized a company for the regu- lar Confederate service, and was chosen its Captain and assigned to the Confederate re- erniting corps at Springfield, then under command of Colonel Henry Little, and sub- sequently transferred to the recruiting foree
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under command of General Slack, who was killed at the battle of Pca Ridge; after his death, the brigade was commanded by Gen- eral Frank M. Cockrell, and did service in the Trans-Mississippi department, Colonel James McCown of Warrensburg being the Colonel. In the battle of Corinth, October the 4th, the subject of our sketch lost his right arm while gallantly charging the enemy's breast-works, and was subsequently assigned to the com- mand of the military post at Montevallo, Alabama, which position he held until the surrender.
After the war he was engaged in the mer- cantile business at Montevallo, Alabama, for three years. From that time until October, 1889, when he came to Dallas, Texas, he was variously engaged at different places. In 1869, he returned to Polk county, Missouri, where he taught school and farmned; was principal of the schools at Bolivar, Missouri, Connty Clerk for five years; Commissioner of Schools one year, and Revenue Clerk in the State Anditor's office at Jefferson City, Missouri, four years; President of the West- ern Boot and Shoe Manufacturing Company, at Jefferson City; has devoted mnch time to newspaper work, having been a regnlar cor- respondent for the Kansas City Times, and St. Louis Post Dispatch, and local editor of the Jefferson City Daily State Times. He was elected official Reporter of the State Senate of Missouri, in 1887, and re-elected at the special session of the Senate in June following, and again re-elected in 1889. He has always been identified with the Demo- cratic party, and has ofttimes been delegate to State, Congressional and other conventions of the party.
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