New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 113

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

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Mr. Myers was married at Gainesville, Texas, in

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1896, to Miss Edna Galatian, daughter of M. Gala- tian, chief engineer of the Gainesville Water Works Company. Mr. and Mrs. Myers have five children, Mrs. George T. Yost, Walter F., Scott W., Frank, and Clara M. Meyers, and reside at 780 Pennsylvania Avenue. Mr. Myers is president of the Sanacosa Oil Company, vice president Tyrell Hardware Com- pany and is a director of the Beaumont Iron Works Company. He is a past president of the Jefferson County Open Shop Association, a former member of the board of city equalization, and is active in civic work. Fraternally he is a Mason, York Rite and member of El Mina Temple Shrine at Galveston, and a Woodman of the World.

RAYMOND of Galveston, Texas, began his career in the oil industry when sixteen years of age, and has been engaged in the various branches of this field of activity since that time. Mr. Raymond is Superintendent of the Texas terminals of the Texas Company, and has complete charge of the terminals' fuel oil business for the Texas Company. He looks after the supply- ing of the local industries' marine fuel oil, and many customers located in the towns of the mainland. The storage capacity of the Texas Company termi- nals' two tanks are 65,000 and 55,000 barrels fuel oil. Mr. Raymond became associated with the Tex- as Company in February, 1919, at Aransas Pass, Texas, and came to Galveston in August of that year to accept the position with the Texas Company which he now holds. His office is located at Pier "C" where ten people are employed. Mr. Raymond began his career in the oil industry at Cygnet, Ohio, in the pipe line department. From Ohio, he came to Spindle Top, Texas, and from that oil field went to Batson, where he remained for some time and then went to Bakersfield and Coalinga, California, where he remained for seven years. At the end of this period, many changes took place in the oil business of California and he returned to Texas, and became associated with the Gulf Company, and later went with the Charles Martin interests as inspector. He left this oil company in order to enter the World War, and his work in the oil industry did not cease with the World War experience, for he was made chief inspector of the Army Fuel Oil Storage Divi- sion, with headquarters at Houston, Texas. Mr. Raymond has the distinction of being one among two hundred men in the United States who were regarded as being capable for this service, which he began in 1918. In April, 1924, Mr. Raymond was transferred from Galveston terminals to Port Arthur terminals as assistant to the superintendent.

A native of Ohio, Mr. Raymond was born on April 2nd, 1884. His father, J. A. Raymond, also born and reared in Ohio, has spent his entire life in the oil industry. He is now located at Humble, Texas, and is associated with the Texas Company at that point. Mr. Raymond's education was obtained in the public schools of his native state, which he left at an early age in order to engage in the oil busi- ness, which he has largely inherited from his father, and was reared in an atmosphere of this industry.

Mr. Raymond was married at Houston, Texas, on January 9th, 1910, to Miss Anna Barton, a native of California and a member of a well known family of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Raymond reside at

1513 14th Street. Mr. Raymond is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in the Blue Lodge of Port Arthur, Texas. He is also a member of the Scottish Rite Consistory No. 1, and El Mina Shrine of Galveston. Mr. Raymond has had ex- perience in every branch of the oil business, and is regarded as one of the best posted men along the various lines of this industry in South Texas. Since coming to Galveston, he has made a host of friends in both the business and social circles of the Island City and South Texas.

H. LIDEEN came to Galveston, Texas, from California during the latter part of 1919 in order to build the local plants for the Mexican Petroleum Corporation, which are regarded as the most modern and best equipped plants of their kind in the country. Mr. Lideen is superintendent of the Galveston Terminals and Texas representative of the Mexican Petroleum Cor- poration, and while his headquarters are maintained in this city, he is in charge of all the Texas business of this company, with offices in the American Na- tional Insurance Building. The business of this company consists largely of oil shipments to Gal- veston and Houston from the Mexican fields of the company. They supply the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad and many industrial plants with crude oil. The East End plant of the Mexican Petroleum Corporation has six tanks with a capac- ity of 55,000 barrels each, and the West End plant has additional storage capacity. The number of employees of this company at the local plant nor- mally numbers about fifty, but at times reaches more than one hundred men. Mr. Lideen became associated with this company in 1914, and with the exception of a period during the World War, has been with them since that time. The greater part of Mr. Lideen's experience in the oil industry prior to coming to Galveston, was gained in and around the Los Angeles oil fields. He has centered his entire attention on this field of activity and is re- garded as one of the best posted men engaged in this business.

A native of Iowa, Mr. Lideen was born at Bur- lington, on February 7, 1888. His academic educa- tion was obtained at the public and high schools of Burlington, and later entered the University of Iowa and was graduated from that institution in the class of 1910 with the B. A. degree. He later studied law at the same institution, and completed the course in 1912, and it is to Mr. Lideen's credit to say that he worked his own way through the University. At the university Mr. Lideen was a member of Kappa Sigma and Phi Delta Phi fraternities. He has never practiced law, but after finishing the course, he went to the Los Angeles oil fields; however, his knowledge of law is of value to him in his chosen line of activity.

Mr. Lideen is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Sunset Blue Lodge of Los An- geles No. 353, and is also a member of the Texas Consistory No. 1 at Galveston. He is a member of the Artillery Club, Rotary Club and the Galveston Chamber of Commerce, in all of which he takes an active interest. Mr. Lideen resides at 1520 Avenue O. Since coming to Galveston he has made a host of friends, not only in this city but throughout the state, where he is popular in the business and social circles.

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ENRY CATHRINER came to Humble, Tex- as, in 1913 and has been an active figure in the business circles of this prosperous Harris County town. He was the owner of the firm bearing his name, dealing in Ford and Lincoln cars and Fordson tractors. This business he recently sold. He established this business in 1913 and in 1917 built a splendid plant with a floor space of 6,500 square feet. He still operates the Ford agency at Goose Creek, where fifteen people are employed and where he owns a splendid, mod- ern plant. Mr. Cathriner also has a branch house at Crosby, Harris County, where two people are employed. He has built a successful business and has made a host of friends in South Texas, and this in a measure accounts for the rapid growth of his agencies. Mr. Cathriner started his career in the business world in the oil fields, and was active during the boom days of the various Texas oil fields. He first learned the machinist's trade at Brenham, Texas, and from there went to Corsi- cana, and after a short time there he went to Austin, Texas, and after spending seven months here, the big oil boom came at Spindle Top and he went to this oil field. He remained in Spindle Top for some time and then went to Beaumont, Texas, where he was associated with the Neches Iron Works Com- pany, and went from Beaumont to Batson during the boom days of that oil field. From Batson he came to Humble during the oil boom days here, and later engaged in the automobile business. His career in this field of activity has been indeed successful and he has made a small fortune in his automobile ventures.

A native Texan, Mr. Cathriner was born in Austin County, on March 19th, 1880. His father, Marcus Cathriner, a native of Louisiana, came to Texas as a young man, and for many years was a leading farmer of Austin County and later removed to Brenham, Washington County, Texas, where he now resides. His mother, Mrs. Mary (Stanek) Cath- riner, a native of Germany, came to the United States as a child and was reared and educated in Texas. His education was obtained in the public schools of Brenham.

Mr. Cathriner was married at Beaumont, Texas, on October 10th, 1905, to Miss Julia R. Tinch, a native of Alabama and a member of a well known family of that State. They have two children: Edwin Henry and Albert Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Cathriner reside at 412 Avondale Avenue, in the beautiful Montrose Addition of Houston. He is a member of the A. F. and A. M. in Humble, is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite Mason and is a Shriner of Arabia Temple, Houston. Mr. Cathriner, while making his home in Houston, is none the less interested in the civic improvement and betterment of the commun- ities in which his business interests are located, and gives of his time and means to all projects having as their object the advancement of these cities.

P ERRY McFADDIN, for many years a resi- dent of League City, and a factor in the prosperity of this section, has for about a quarter of a century occupied a position of leadership in the cattle industry, and has con- tributed in a constructive way to its development in Southeast Texas. Mr. McFaddin has for many years made his headquarters on his ranch in Galves-

ton County, some seven miles from League City, and has developed one of the finest ranch interests in this section. He has a fine herd, numbering some forty-five hundred head, of which about eighteen hundred head are steers, and the rest cows. He ranges his cattle on pasturage, either leased or owned, in Galveston, Harris and Brazoria Counties, his winter range being in the last named county. Mr. McFaddin buys stock from time to time, and has been for some time past taking an active in- terest in increasing his cattle holdings in antici- pation of a renewed interest in this industry. He has for some years past found it especially profitable to sell off his young stock, but also sells some old stock, particularly when market conditions are such as to make this profitable. In addition to his cattle interests Mr. McFaddin also has about four hun- dred head of horses, and raises cow ponies, both for his own use and for the market, the McFaddin ponies being well known in this section. He also raises mules, supplying a number of head annually to the market. Mr. McFaddin has associated with him in the cattle business his two sons, Norman McFaddin and A. P. McFaddin.

Perry McFaddin was born in Harris County, Tex- as, the thirteenth of April, 1882, the son of Josh Mc- Faddin, one of the pioneer cattlemen of the Lone Star State, and a member of the McFaddin family, which for many years has been prominent in the development of Southeast Texas. He is the cousin of Perry McFaddin, well known Beaumont rice man, for whom he was named. Mr. McFaddin came to Galveston County at the age of two years, at which time his father removed here from Harris County, and was reared on the ranch here. As a boy he at- tended the public schools of League City, helping about the ranch, and at an early age acquiring a practical knowledge of the cattle industry. After a number of years, during which he was associated with his father in the cattle business, he began for himself, building a cattle business that is one of the largest in Galveston County.

Mr. McFaddin was married at Bay View, Texas; the eighth of January, 1892, to Miss Mabel Gordy, the daughter of John Gordy, a farmer and stock- man of Bay View. Mr. and Mrs. McFaddin have for many years made their home at League City, where they have a fine two-story home. They have four children, Al P. McFaddin, Miss Lela May Mc- Faddin, Norman McFaddin and Percy John Mc- Faddin. Mr. McFaddin is a member of the Cattle- men's Association, and is known throughout the Lone Star State for his progressive interest in the advancement of this industry. For a number of years past he has given special attention to study- ing the problems which confront the cattle raiser of today, and has been particularly interested in watch- ing the results of dipping. This he finds, while productive of results, has not achieved any radical improvement. Mr. McFaddin is also interested in the efforts being made to stabilize the cattle market and bring the industry to its once former plane, and has done much to further this end through his belief in the future of the cattle industry, and his constructive efforts in behalf of its advancement. As a citizen of League City he has been vitally in- terested in all that concerns the development of this community, and has contributed freely, both of his time and his means, for the advancement of this city.

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B. STERLING for a quarter of a century has been identified with various enterprises of importance to the development of South Texas, and has for almost two decades been a factor in the life and progress of Dayton, where he is a leading merchant and cattle raiser. Mr. Sterling is president of the Dayton Mercantile Com- pany, a company which he established in 1910, at Dayton. At that time there was only one small store and some half a dozen houses here, and little to indicate that this would in a few years be a thriving city in the heart of a rapidly developing oil field. At the time of opening the store Mr. Sterling built a two-story brick structure, one hun- dred by one hundred feet, and the first modern store building to be constructed in Dayton. Since that day the Dayton Mercantile Company has met with rapid growth, and with the coming of the oil inter- ests the volume of business has mounted to an annual figure of above twenty-two thousand dollars. A gen- eral line of merchandise is carried, with particular attention to stocking those items most in demand in the oil fields. Mr. Sterling takes an active part in the management of the store. J. Frank Mathews, also well known in the business world of Dayton, is secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Sterling for many years has been one of the leading cattle raisers of Liberty County. He has at the present time about six hundred and fifty head of cows, principally stock cattle, and runs his herds on pasturage near Dayton. He has three pas- tures, of fifteen hundred, one thousand and six hundred acres, respectively, all well located and close to Dayton, where he makes his headquarters. All pastures are fenced. Mr. Sterling has placed his ranching interests on a business-like basis and gives careful attention to those factors which make for success in this as in any other business. He has studied the problems of the cattle raiser in the coastal district, and has taken steps to cope with these problems in an intelligent way, and for him the difficulties in which many stock raisers are finding themselves do not exist.

J. B. Sterling was born in Chambers County, Tex- as, the twenty-eighth of September, 1878. His father, B. F. Sterling, a native of Mississippi, was one of the pioneer settlers of this county, and came here from his native state in 1848. His mother be- fore her marriage was Miss Mary Jane Bryan, and is a native of Texas, her marriage to Mr. Sterling occuring at her home at Liberty. As a boy Mr. Sterling attended the schools near his home and after leaving school began running a boat, the Sterling, from Double Bayou to Galveston. This boat, the fastest sail boat on the river, carried freight, provisions, cattle and horses. The Sterling was in the 1900 storm at Galveston, and was one of the Mosquito fleet to come through. Mr. Sterling was on this boat from the time he was fourteen, until he was twenty-one, and remained in Chambers County until 1901. He then went to Sour Lake, where he worked for his brother, R. S. Sterling, until 1905, and in 1906 came to Dayton, where he has made his home until the present time.

Mr. Sterling was married at Orange, Texas, the seventeenth of December, 1913, to Miss Ophelia Dodd, daughter of R. A. Dodd, who came to Texas as a boy, and has been in the saw mill business for many years. Mr. and Mrs. Sterling have one child,

J. B. Sterling, Jr., à lad of unusual intelligence, and who is his father's constant companion. The family make their home in Dayton, and attend the Metho- dist Church, where Mr. Sterling is president of the board of stewards. Fraternally he is a Mason, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine at Houston. Mr. Sterling is active in promoting the civic ad- vancement of Dayton, and has done much to en- courage progress here. He is ever ready to con- tribute, either of his time or his means, to any cause that will be of benefit to the community, and is known as one of the most generous, public spirited men of this city.

E. SELLMAN, President and General Man- ager of the Sellman-Richardson Motor Com- pany, Inc., located at Harrisburg, Texas, on the Boulevard, is well known in the busi- ness and financial circles of Houston, where prior to establishing his present business in 1921 he was for several years engaged in the wholesale and re- tail burlap bag business. When this firm was first established, it was conducted under the name of the Harrisburg Motor Company and in 1923 was changed to the present name, although the ownership has remained the same. They are distributors for the Ford, Fordson and Lincoln cars, and in their modern and attractive building they have a floor space of one hundred and twenty feet by fifty feet, where they have in addition to their show rooms, sales, service and parts departments. Twenty people are employed by this firm, who have made the cars which they sell very popular in their territory, and their business, which was started on a small scale, has grown to large proportions. Other officers of the Sellman-Richardson Motor Company are G. W. Richardson, Vice-President, and T. E. Martin, Sec- retary and Treasurer, both of whom are well known in the business circles of Houston and South Texas.

A native Texan, Mr. Sellman was born in Harris County in 1886. His father, F. Sellman, came to the United States and to Harris County from Germany at the age of fourteen years and is now retired from active business and is residing at Harrisburg, Texas. His mother was Miss Addie Haddin, a native of the Lone Star State and a member of a pioneer family. His education was obtained in the public schools of Harris County. In his youth and early manhood, Mr. Sellman was employed in many capacities in various kinds of business and in 1917 entered the burlap bag business for himself, and was very successful in this line of endeavor, and sold to the wholesale and retail trade. He continued in this business until 1921, when he organized the present company, which is among the largest Ford dealers in Harris County.

Mr. Sellman was married in Houston in 1918 to Miss Linnie Clark, a native Texan and a member of a well known family of the Lone Star State. Mr. and Mrs. Sellman reside at Harrisburg, Texas. Mr. Sellman is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Gray Lodge, Houston, where he has attained to the 18th degree in the Scottish Rite body of that order, and to the 32nd degree in the lodge at Galveston. He is also a Shriner of Arabia Temple, Houston. Mr. Sellman is regarded as a leader among the younger business men of Houston and Harris- burg, where he has a host of friends, and has suc- ceeded in building up a profitable business in his line.

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OHN GAILLARD, one of the most honored pioneers of Goose Creek, although now re- tired from active life, was for many years associated with every activity incident to the progress and development of this community, until it became the center of a great oil district, and few men have taken a more vital part in the life of their community. He was closely identified with every activity whose purpose has been for the development and betterment of his community, and his influence has been felt? in many enterprises which have been fruitful. In the years gone by there have been few resources which he has not been in- strumental in developing, and the entire country around Goose Creek has been benefited by the diversity of his interests.

John Gaillard was born at Natchez, Mississippi, the sixth of October, 1861, son of Thomas Benjamin Gaillard, and Mary Martha Gaillard, nee Foster. His father, a very highly educated man, and a grad- uate of the Harvard Law School, was wealthy prior to the civil war, but as did so many Southerners lost most of his fortune at that time, and after this conflict sold his land and came to Texas, when the subject of this sketch was a boy of six. The family was thereafter prominently identified with farming and stock raising activities in Harris County. A son, older than the subject of this sketch, was drowned in Goose Creek Bay. Miss Linna E. Gaillard, a daughter, taught the first public school in this part of Harris County.

Mr. Gaillard attended the rural schools near his home until he was fifteen, at which time his father's health failed and on him devolved the duty of pro- viding for the family. He followed his father in the farming and stock raising industries, and was exceptionally successful for one of his years. The years which followed saw his rapid advancement, and were marked by the acquirement of large land holdings in Harris County, until he became known as one of the largest land owners in the county. At one time he owned Hog Island, in the bay, near Goose Creek. He also owned hundreds of head of cattle and was for many years a factor in the cattle industry.

In 1905 the first well drilled in the Goose Creek field was drilled on a two hundred and sixty-two acre tract of land, at the mouth of the east side of Goose Creek, belonging to Mr. Gaillard. This was followed in 1908 by the completion of the first pro- ducing well in this field, also on the same tract, and in 1916 by a real gusher in the deep sand on this same tract. In 1917 this acreage was sold to the Gulf Production Company and many big wells have since been brought in here.

Mr. Gaillard was married at Goose Creek, the fifth of January, 1900, to Miss Mary Beazley, daughter of Jack Beazley, a land owner and boat operator on the bay, and Mary E. Beazley. Since selling the old home place in 1917, Mr. and Mrs. Gaillard have made their home on a two hundred and fourteen acre tract of land, near Goose Creek, and where he has built a fine home. Although he has sold all his oil property and royalties, Mr. Gaillard has by no means lost his interest in the development of Goose Creek and is one of the most generous contributors to all movements directed to- ward progress. During the years of his business career he was regarded as one of the most versatile

business men in this section, with a ready knowl- edge and broad experience of the agricultural, stock, and oil resources of his section. While a man of outstanding success in the business world Mr. Gaillard has not sacrificed friendship to business, but in an unostentatious way has given of his time and his means for the development of the resources of his community, and Goose Creek can boast no truer, more generous citizen. He has accounted well for himself in the world, and his life is an inspira- tion to all who know him.

D. ERWIN, for about two decades a resi- dent of Houston, is well known in two major industries, namely: cattle and oil. Mr. Erwin came to Houston as a young man, in 1905, at which time he had already won recognition in the cattle business. He has since that time been closely allied with the cattle business in this section, and at the same time has contrib- uted to the oil development here. For many years he was associated with Bassett Blakely. At the present time Mr. Erwin deals extensively in cattle and oil properties, and owns in fee, oil lands at Blue Ridge, and has other holdings in various parts of the State. Mr. Erwin has also acquired much valuable farming land and has a large farm under cultivation in Brazos County, devoted largely to the growing of cotton. In 1921 Mr. Erwin was appointed trustee for the Turnbow Oil Corporation, and for one year he successfully handled the prop- erties of the company.

C. D. Erwin was born in Bryan, Texas, Brazos County, the nineteenth of March, 1883. His father, Dr. T. T. Erwin, a native of Mississippi and a grad- uate of Tulane University, was for many years a physician at Bryan, where his death occurred in 1902. Dr. Erwin gave to his profession an un- swerving devotion, and was one of the most be- loved physicians of Bryan. Mr. Erwin's mother, before her marriage to Dr. Erwin, was Miss Ella Campbell, a native of South Carolina, who resides in Hempstead.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 113

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