New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 111

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1416

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Mr. Wallace was born at Algona, Iowa, the fifth of November, 1886, son of John Wallace, a native of New York, and for many years a resident of Algona where he has extensive dairy interests, and Nancy Reed Wallace, also a native of New York State. The elder Mr. Wallace is a pioneer in the dairying business, in Iowa and the territory west of the Mis- sissippi River, and has contributed a great deal to the advancement of this great industry in that sec- tion. He is also well known as a writer, one of his works, "The Science of Money" being of es- pecial significance. D. J. Wallace began his educa- tion in the public schools of Algona, later attend- ing Ames Agriculture College, where he graduated in 1908, after which he took post-graduate work at the University of Wisconsin. From 1908 until 1912 he was with his father in the dairying business and looked after his interests in Georgia and Alabama. In 1912 he went with the Newport Company, in Alabama and Florida, first in the electrical depart- ment, and later in the welfare and safety depart- ment, of which work he was director for his last four years with the Newport Company. Leaving the Newport Company at the close of the year 1920, Mr. Wallace became head of safety work for the

Humble interests, where his work has already been sketched. One of the first to be attracted to the possibilities in this field, Mr. Wallace has advanced rapidly in his chosen work, and stands at the head of the list.

Mr. Wallace was married at Houston, the eighth of September, 1913, to Miss Mazie Craker, a native of Alabama, and a member of the old Brewton family of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace have one child, a son, D. J., Junior, and make their home at Houston. Mr. Wallace is a member of Judge E. E. Townes' Bible Class, and is an accomplished musi- cian, a talent which affords him recreation and also gives his friends much pleasure. His civic inter- ests center on welfare work and the advancement of Houston along the lines of highest development, and Mr. Wallace has during the years of his resi- dence here been active in this work. He has made hosts of friends, both in Houston and the oil fraternity throughout the state, and these friends combine in predicting for him a career which will rank him among the leading safety workers of the nation.

K. MOORE, pioneer hotel man of the Lone Star State, has in the quarter of a century spent in this business been associated with the management of many of the largest hotels in the State, and formed a wide acquaintance among the travelling public. Mr. Moore is now con- nected with the Texas Hotel at Fort Worth, Texas, the leading hotel of Fort Worth and West Texas.

Mr. Moore was born at Mckinney, Texas, in 1878, son of Dr. W. T. Moore, a native of Mississippi, and for forty-five years one of the best loved of Mc- Kinney's physicians, his death occurred in 1915. His mother, before her marriage, was Miss Kate Keith, also of Mississippi. Mr. Moore was educated in the public schools of his native city, graduating from the high school there, after which he began his business career with a local hotel.

Mr. Moore was president of the Houston Hotel Association and is a member of the State Hotel Association. He has been identified with hotels throughout the State and elsewhere, beginning his career in the hotel business a quarter of a century ago, in 1898, when as a boy he went to work for a hotel in Mckinney, Texas. He later went to Okla- homa City, where until 1903, he was with the Grand Avenue Hotel. In that year he came to Houston, with the old Rice Hotel, remaining here until 1905, and from then until 1908 was with the Brazos Hotel. In the latter year he went to New Orleans, and for one year was with the St. Charles Hotel there, and another year was with the Grunewald Hotel in the same city. In 1912 he went to Dallas, where until 1916 he was with the Adolphus Hotel, leaving this hostelry to take charge of the Morrison Hotel at Chicago. After a year there he went to New York and spent a year with the Bristol Hotel on Forty- eighth Street, remaining there until March, 1919, when he returned to Houston as manager of the Brazos Hotel, remaining with this hotel until 1923, a short time later taking his present position with the Texas Hotel at Fort Worth.

Mr. Moore was married at Ardmore, Oklahoma, the twenty-third of December, 1915, to Miss Ruth Dawson, a native of Iowa, who spent most of her life in Oklahoma.

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LAUDE O. DOOLEY is a member of an old pioneer family which has been actively identified with the history of Houston for more than half a century. He has offices in the Dooley Building where he looks after his real estate and oil interests and also handles the busi- ness of the Dooley estate, which he has been in charge of since the death of his father on May 5, 1905.

Mr. Dooley's father, Henry H. Dooley, was born in New York State and came to Texas before the Civil War. During the conflict between the North and South he had charge of a pistol factory at An- derson in Grimes County and later removed to Hous- ton where he reared his family. The elder Dooley was married to Miss Frances F. Bowman who was born in a house where the Southern Pacific Railway general office buiding now stands.

During middle life Mr. Dooley's father accumu- lated a vast estate and had extensive landed interests in many parts of Texas. At his death in 1905 the affairs of his estate were in such complicated con- dition that trust companies refused to act in an ad- ministrative capacity and it fell to the lot of Claude O. Dooley to take his father's place and develop the properties he had left to his wife and children. In this work Mr. Dooley has been very successful and he has brought the estate to a valuation many times in excess of what it was at his father's death and is now liquidating and distributing the proceeds among the various heirs of his father and mother. His mother died February 17, 1917, and December 19, 1923, he was made administrator of her estate. The other surviving children of the family besides Claude O. Dooley, are William B., Mrs. C. W. Ca- hoon, Fred M., Edward A., all of Houston, and J. Arthur Dooley of San Francisco.

Claude O. Dooley was born in Houston on Novem- ber 9, 1884, on the site of the present Dooley build- ing. This property has been in the family for more than eighty years, coming to them through their mother.

Mr. Dooley was educated in the public schools of Houston and at various times has been engaged in banking, oil, dry goods and the wholesale lumber business. He owns extensive oil interests and this, with the work of looking after the estate, occupies his entire time and attention now. One tract of land owned by the Dooley interests at Pierce Junc- tion is conservatively expected to produce from five to fifteen million barrels of oil and some of the most interesting chapters in the history of oil de- velopment in the coastal fields of Texas have been written around property owned by the estate. One of the most interesting features of this development was the sensational action of a well known as Old Methuselah, which for many months produced only gas and then developed into about a three hundred barrel well and about April 5, 1923, blew itself in as a three thousand barrel gusher, definitely proving up territory that had previously been condemned as dry and causing a mad scramble for acreage on the part of the big companies in the immediate vicinity of the well. This well was one of the greatest sur- prises of the gulf coast fields and its action has never been explained, the wise oil men merely shak- ing their heads and admitting they do not under- stand it. While this well is not on the Dooley land, it is right near the line and unquestionably attests

the statement with reference to the prospects of the Dooley land.

Mr. Dooley has achieved a splendid success as a business man, financier and oil man and is very pop- ular in Houston and other sections of South Texas where he is equally well known.

P. BULKLEY is one of the young business men who a few years ago saw the un- limited possibilities of Houston as the ship- ping center of the Southwest and decided to cast his lot with those who were building here the future metropolis of Texas. He came to Hous- ton from New York in 1917 and since that time has been identified with the industrial and commercial life of this city.

Mr. Bulkley is secretary-treasurer of B. H. Elliott, Inc., one of the large ship building concerns of Hous- ton with plant and offices located at Harrisburg on the ship channel a few miles south of the city. The present business was established in 1920 and is engaged in ship construction, building yachts, tug boats and barges. Officers of the company are B. H. Elliott, president; I. D. Hall, vice president, and Mr. Bulkley, secretary and treasurer. The company owns 420 feet of water frontage on the ship chan- nel and has a thoroughly modern plant equipped with marine railways and complete shops for wood, iron and machine work. Besides the construction of small craft the company does a general business of ship repairing and from 250 to 300 boats are handled through the plant each year. From thirty to thirty-five skilled mechanics and laborers are employed the year round.

Mr. Bulkley was born at Brewster in New York state on July 1, 1884 and is a son of W. P. and Anna (Corlette) Bulkley. His father was engaged in the retail lumber business and Mr. Bulkley attended the public and high schools of Brooklyn and later en- tered Pratt Institute where he studied for three years, doing two years of engineering work and one year in commercial accountancy.

After completing his studies at Pratt Institute, Mr. Bulkley became connected with J. D. White and Company in New York City, the largest firm of consulting engineers in the world. He did engineer- ing work with this firm for six years and then was engaged in marine engineering in New York city until 1914 when, in conjunction with Mr. Elliott, he established a ship yard in Brooklyn at the foot of Twenty-fifth Street. They continued the business there until 1917 when they came to Houston to build ships for the government during the war. Upon completion of his work with the government Mr. Elliott established his present business and Mr. Bulkley continued with him. Mr. Elliott has been engaged in ship building all his life.

In 1915 Mr. Bulkley was married in New York City to Miss Clara Elliott, daughter of B. H. Elliott. They have three children, Edith, six; Joan, four, and William, a baby a little more than a year old. The family home is at 4737 Park Drive.

Mr. Bulkley is a 32nd degree Mason and a mem- ber of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Royal Arcaneum and the Rotary Club. He is a very capable man, quiet and unassuming, a splen- did business executive and very popular with his associates and employees.

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W. FRALEY, expert sales director and all round oil man, has been a resident of Hous- ton for twelve years or more, having come here in 1911 in charge of the business of one of the large oil companies operating in the coastal fields. He is now vice president in charge of sales for the Mexican Sinclair Petroleum Corpo- ration, with offices at 816 Chronicle Building, and also holds the position of vice president of the Sin- clair Refining Company of Louisiana.

The Mexican Sinclair Petroleum Corporation is one of the largest distributors in the South of the heavy, twelve gravity Mexican crude, which is brought from the Tampico and Panuco districts in the company's own tank ships and then handled by barges from Houston. This oil is in great demand by large industrial concerns who are heavy users of fuel and sales of this as well as other products of the company are all handled out of the Houston of- fice under the direction of Mr. Fraley, most of the sales to the larger users being handled by him per- sonally.

Mr. Fraley has been engaged in the oil business in Louisiana and Texas for the past twenty years or more. He is a native of Texas, and was born at Mar- shall on January 16, 1873, a son of John U. and Mary (Bassano) Fraley. His father, a former merchant and railroad man, was a native of Philadelphia but came to Texas before the Civil War and served through- out this struggle in the Confederate Army. His mother came with her family from Birmingham, England, in the early days when sailing vessels were the vogue for trans-Atlantic transportation. The family came by sailboat to New Orleans and then up the Mississippi and Red Rivers by steamer to Caddo Lake and landed about fifteen miles from where Mr. Fraley was born.

After receiving his education in the public schools of Marshall, Mr. Fraley when sixteen years of age began working for the Texas and Pacific Railroad at Marshall in the telegraph department, working in various capacities, including operator of the pony wires. After twelve years service with the railway company, he became identified with the Waters- Pierce Oil Company and remained with this com- pany and its successors for seventeen years. Dur- ing a considerable portion of this time he was in charge of this company's business in Louisiana and South Texas. He was with the Texas Company for a short while in 1918 and in 1919 became identified with the Sinclair interests as sales manager, later accepting the position of vice president of the Mex- ican Sinclair Petroleum Corporation and the Sin- clair Refining Company of Louisiana. In addition to the heavy Mexican crude handled from the Hous- ton office, all other products of the company are also sold from here, including roofing, paving asphalt and road oils. The company's plant for manufac- ture of exclusive asphalt products from the Mexican crude is located near New Orleans.

In 1895 Mr. Fraley was married at Marshall to Miss Ethel Mccutcheon, a native of Gregg County and a daughter of Dr. W. S. Mccutcheon, pioneer physician of Longview. They have four children, the eldest, Mary, now Mrs. R. C. Cooley, of Houston; F. W., Jr., with the Sinclair Company in his father's office, and Misses Ethelena and Florence, at home.

During his twenty years experience in the oil bus- iness Mr. Fraley has become well and favorably known in oil circles and especially among the trade reached from the Gulf. He is an expert sales man- ager and is thoroughly versed in handling not only fuel oil but other petroleum products as well and has also had a wide experience in cotton seed oil. He was one of the organizers of the Houston National Bank of Commerce but is no longer connected with this institution. He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Houston Club and is a Scottish Rite Mason.

E. BREEDING, oil operator, after prac- ticing law before the Texas bar for a period of twelve years, gave up the practice of his profession in 1906 in order to devote his entire attention to the oil industry. Mr. Breed- ing buys and sells oil properties and confines his operations practically to the coastal fields. In 1915, Mr. Breeding organized the Southern Petroleum Company which he sold the following year. This company was originally incorporated for $10,000.00 and sold for $350,000.00; at one time they had a production of 4,000 barrels daily. One hundred acres out of the Landslide tract made up the prin- cipal part of the Southern Petroleum Company, which made much money for its stockholders. Mr. Breeding maintains his office at 207 Mason Building, and has met with the same success as an oil operator as he did as an organizer and producer.

Mr. Breeding was born in Louisville, Kentucky, November 29th, 1869. His father, James A. Breed- ing (deceased), came to Texas in 1883 and prac- ticed law here from that time to 1915 and was one of the leading lawyers of the state at that time, and was a member of a prominent Kentucky fam- ily. His mother was Miss Hattie Mullen, a mem- ber of a well known family of Kentucky. His edu- cation was obtained in the public and high schools of Houston where he graduated from the latter in 1888 and began the study of law under his father. Mr. Breeding was admitted to the bar in 1894 and became associated with his father in the practice of law, which he continued here until 1903 when he removed to Sour Lake, Texas, and practiced his pro- fession there, together with operations in oil from that time until the latter part of 1906 when he re- moved to Humble and entered the oil business, gave up his law practice, and commenced to devote his entire time to the oil industry. He had production at Humble when he organized the Southern Petro- leum Company, which was among the successful companies of that time.

Mr. Breeding was married at Beaumont, Texas, on October 31st, 1906 to Miss Eddie Whitfield, a native of Austin County and a daughter of Captain Whit- field, who was a captain in the Confederate army and came to Texas from Tennessee in 1853. They have two children, James A. Breeding and Virginia. Mr. Breeding is a member of the B. P. O. E. The family are of the Presbyterian faith. He has great faith in the future of Houston which he has seen grow from a village to the busy, thriving city of today, having resided here since 1883. Mr. Breeding is a conservative, careful oil operator, highly re- spected and popular among the oil men of the coastal fields, where he is known to all the oil fraternity.

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ARGIA MANNING, for two decades a fac- tor in the oil industry in the Lone Star State, and whose headquarters for the past several years have been in Houston, knows oil production from every angle and has supervised many important developments in the coastal fields. Mr. Manning, known to his many friends in the oil industry as "Buck" Manning, is production superin- tendent of the Coastal Division of the Humble Oil and Refining Company, and has maintained his of- fices in Houston since 1920, athough for the past two decades he has been in and out of the city. He has the supervision of all drilling and production in Texas and Southern Louisiana. Mr. Manning, whose knowledge is not mere theory, but is backed by years of experience, is considered an expert in his line and is consulted about many of the matters pertaining to field operation, especially those times when a well gets away from the driller and operator. Mr. Manning has an expert knowledge of all the fields throughout the Coastal District and has had the honor of bringing in some of the largest wells in the Texas and especially in West Columbia fields. He is an executive of ability, and in the handling of men and large affairs has met with success. His position with the Humble Oil and Re- fining Company involves heavy responsibilities, and he is held in high esteem not only by the officials of his company, but by the rank and file of men who work in the fields. There are over 500 men em- ployed in his departments.

Mr. Manning was born at Amory, Mississippi, the fifth of April, 1888, son of John W. Manning, a farmer and planter of that state, and Martha (Edwards) Manning. He attended the public schools of Amory. There followed a period spent in coal mining, when Mr. Manning applied himself diligently to mastering the details of this industry and made rapid progress in this line. He was in charge of the coke ovens in the mines there for a time, the young- est man in Alabama who had charge of the burning of coke. After four years there, he went into the railroad business for three years, and in 1904 came to Texas, and Humble, where he spent one year. In 1905 he went to Cincinnati, remaining to the close of 1907, when he returned to Texas. In 1908 he went to the Gulf Production Company, at Saratoga, and until 1917 was stationed there and was a factor in production and drilling activities throughout South Texas and Louisiana. In 1917 he became asso- ciated with the Humble Oil and Refinery Company, and since 1920 has been superintendent of produc- tion in the coastal division. In 1925 he became also superintendent of drilling for this division.

Mr. Manning was married at Winchester, Ken- tucky, August 18th, 1909, to Miss La Belle Rice, daughter of John Rice, a well known road contractor of that state, and Amanda Rice. Mr. and Mrs. Manning have made their home in Houston since the demands of Mr. Manning's business have neces- sitated his presence in this city, and live at 4310 Greeley Avenue. Mr. Manning is a Mason, Scottish Rite, a member of Arabia Temple Shrine, of Hous- ton, a director of the First Capitol State Bank of West Columbia and a member of the standardization committee of the American Petroleum Institute. He has attained a statewide prominence as an authority on production and drilling matters, in which he has had a wide experience. He has watched the various

fields in the coastal district and has been active in developing those fields. His career represents a success won entirely by his own efforts, and he has a future which promises much.

D. SLOAN came to Houston in 1921 and brought with him a knowledge and prac- tical experience gained through almost a score of years spent in the different branches of the oil industry. Mr. Sloan is vice pres- ident of the Sinclair Texas Pipe Line Company, with office at 701 Chronicle Building. The main pipe line of this company is sixty miles in length, with about twelve miles of gathering lines, and ex- tends from the oil fields of Damon Mound, Blue Ridge and West Columbia to the refinery located on the ship channel. About fifty men are regularly employed by the Sinclair Texas Pipe Line Company, and this number is frequently doubled.

Mr. Sloan was born at Marietta, Ohio, February 5th, 1877. His father, Dr. Elias Sloan (deceased since May, 1918) was prominent in his profession in Ohio. His mother was Miss Sarah Cline, a mem- ber of a well known Ohio family and now living in Marietta. Mr. Sloan was educated for a career as a professional man, but after obtaining his edu- cation and practicing his profession for five years, deserted the professional life for that of a business, and chose the oil industry as the vehicle to the bus- iness world. Mr. Sloan's early education was ob- tained in the public schools of Marietta, Ohio, after which he was a student of the Marietta Academy, and still later attended Marietta College. He then took a business college course in Marietta, and then entered the Cincinnati Dental College, and graduated from that institution in the class of 1899 with the D. D. S. degree. He immediately established his office in Marietta and practiced dentistry there until 1904, when he went into the Macksburg and Warner oil fields, where he and his father operated exten- sively, and at one time had good production. In 1907 he went to Bartlesville, Oklahoma, and was with the Prairie Oil and Gas Company in the Pipe Line Department for one and one-half years, when he was transferred to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for the same company and about one year later he went with the Prairie Pipe Line Company at Tulsa, and re- mained until 1919. He was district foreman of the pipe line department at the time he left the service of this company. He then came to Fort Worth, Texas, where for one year he was with the United Producers Pipe Line Company and built the line from Ranger to Fort Worth for this company. In 1920 Mr. Sloan went to Muskogee, Oklahoma, as superintendent of the Sinclair Pipe Line Company and in 1921 came to Houston as vice president of the Sinclair Texas Pipe Line Company, and has since that time remained in this official capacity with this well known pipe line company.

Mr. Sloan was married at Marietta, Ohio, Octo- ber 15th, 1901, to Miss Florence Mckinney, a mem- ber of a well known Marietta family. They have three children-Jackson, Herbert and Charles. Mr. and Mrs. Sloan reside at 816 Marshall Street. Mr. Sloan is a member of the River Oaks Country Club, and of the A. F. and A. M .; is a 32nd degree Scot- tish Rite Mason, and a Shriner of Akdar Temple of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The religious faith of Mr. Sloan's family is with the First Presbyterian Church. Mr. Sloan is optimistic as to the future of Houston.

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C. McKALLIP, JR., pioneer oil man, has been engaged in this industry during all of his business life, and is the executive head of one of the leading oil companies of South Mr. McKallip's father, with his brother, un- der the name of McKallip Bros., were among the early operators in South Texas, where they were active soon after Spindle Top came in. They were pioneers in Damon Mound in 1901-02, and also in Sour Lake, where they drilled under contract, and obtained production in several South Texas fields, and the Clarion Oil Company, of which Mr. Mc- Kallip is President, took over the McKallip Bros. interests in 1911. The Clarion Oil Company is drill- ing in Oklahoma, mostly in the Okmulgee field, where they have production, and are also interested in some drilling in Harris County. They have roy- alty interests in West Columbia and in other fields, and leases in Mexia, Powell and other Texas fields, where there is production and development. They have a tank farm on the Ship Channel and have docks for ships to load oil there; their tank farm consists of about one hundred and seventy acres, with a storage capacity of one hundred and sixty thousand barrels; they own the oil and do their own marketing and shipping. The office of the Clarion Oil Company is located at 332 Humble Building.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 111

Author: Davis, Ellis A. Publication date: 1926 Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?] Number of Pages: 1416

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1416