New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 151

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

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MEN OF TEXAS

REDERICK H. FARWELL of Orange, Texas, is one of the pioneers in the lumber industry in Texas, having been engaged in this field of activity throughout his career in the business life of the Lone Star State, which he began as a very young man. Mr. Farwell is vice president and general manager of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company, which is chief among the great industries of Orange. This company own and operate two mills in this city, which have a capacity of 400,000 feet of lumber per day, and one mill at Lunita, Louisiana, with a capacity of 50,000 feet each day. Great sheds and wharves have been constructed for the important export business which this company has built up, and at times as many as half a dozen trans-oceanic and coastwise steam- ships, schooners and barges may be loading at the company's wharves. Besides the vast amount of lumber shipped to practically every state in the Union from the Lutcher and Moore plants, there is a large trade with Central and South America, Cuba and the West Indies, and it is a known fact that the "Lutcher-Orange" trade mark has for many years been a familiar sight on the docks of Liver- pool, Southampton, Rotterdam, Amsterdam, Ant- werp and Havre, and from Capetown to Cairo. The mills are equipped with the most modern and effi- cient machinery, including electrically driven plan- ers with individual motors, and there is a monorail delivery at the lower mill direct to the municipal slip. There is a storage space of 20,000,000 feet of sawn timbers and dry kiln capacity of 300,000 feet each day. The planers have a capacity of 350,000 feet daily, and there have been loaded twenty-five carloads a day of finished lumber for interior ship- ments. With more than one thousand names on its payroll, and its actual cut of more than a million feet of lumber each week, even when not running to full capacity, the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company has been for years pouring a vitalizing stream of wealth into this community, and with its large acreage of timberland in the watershed of the Sabine in Texas and Louisiana, a further long life of activity is before it. A peculiarly intimate re- lationship exists between the development of Orange and those who have guided the destinies of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company. Coming from Pennsylvania in 1877, H. J. Lutcher and G. Bedell Moore, lumber men, who thought they saw in South- ern pine an opportunity for a development impossi- ble in the well-cut timber lands of Pennsylvania, became pioneers in the pine lumber industry of the South. Up to that time, cypress had been the main product of the mills in this section, and pine had not yet taken its place. Locating at Orange and establishing a mill here, H. J. Lutcher gave full vent to his conviction that there was a great fu- ture in Southern pine, and money and credit were used to the utmost to secure holdings of pine lands. Fighting his way through every difficulty, Mr. Lutcher built up a business with enormous assets, and which has made rich men of all who had hold- ings in the company. Henry J. Lutcher died in 1912, after a period of thirty-five years spent in the de- velopment of Orange and the great lumber industry of the Southwest. In the history of the great South- west there is no chapter that contains more of in- terest than that one which relates to the activities of this progressive and public-spirited man, wbose

influence for good was felt and known throughout the time when he lived and worked for the good of Orange, and his community and state. Prior to the death of Mr. Lutcher, Mr. Moore had retired with a competence and removed to San Antonio, Texas, where he died. After the death of Mr. Lutcher, Mr. W. H. Stark, who was Mr. Lutcher's son-in-law, became president of the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company, and his son, H. J. Lutcher Stark, is secretary and treasurer, and is a leader among the younger business men of Texas, keenly interested in business, in community affairs, church work, civic matters and everything having for its object the progress and advancement of his city and state. In keeping with the Lutcher traditions, Fred- erick H. Farwell, following a training in the ranks, became general manager of the company and is a forceful factor in holding the business to the high- est degree of efficiency and also in furthering every public undertaking having the interest and advance- ment of the community at heart. Mr. Farwell is credited by the president of this company as being one of the main builders of this large organization, and in shaping its destinies. It was largely, if not wholly, through Mr. Farwell's efforts that the trade with the southern countries was established, and the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company for many years have been the largest shippers of lumber into these countries. The general offices in Orange are housed in a modern, steam-heated and air-cooled building that is more like a banking house than a lumber office. While building up one of the larg- est lumber companies in the Texas-Louisiana timber region, the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company have never overlooked an opportunity to do some- thing for Orange. There is not an industry of any magnitude in this city that is not financed wholly or in part by this company or some of its officials. Mr. Farwell was one of the organizers of the Orange Yellow Pine Paper Mills, and through his efforts this organization has been successful. He has also assisted in the organization of many of the larger and most successful institutions in this city, where he is active and prominent in the business and social life. Mr. Farwell is vice president of the First Na- tional Bank of Orange, and is a stockholder and director in many other of the city's financial insti- tutions. His business career began in Orange with the Lutcher and Moore Lumber Company in the position of assistant bookkeeper and soon there- after was made bookkeeper, and still later he be- came office manager. A few years later, he became assistant general manager and then manager and vice president, which position he has held since that time. For many years he has been manager of this vast lumber company, and his position has grown in magnitude each day, although with the same official title, and largely through his efforts, which are untiring, this establishment has grown to be one of the leading and most successful of its kind in the Southwest.

Mr. Farwell was born in Kansas in August, 1870. His parents were well known and highly esteemed citizens of that state. His early education was ob- tained in the schools of his native state but the liberal education which he secured later in life was largely through self-help, and he has taken his rightful place among the most competent and efficient business men of the country.

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Mr. Farwell was married in Kansas to Miss Fan- nie Barber, also a native of Kansas, and a member of a well known family of that state. They have one daughter, Constance Farwell, who is a graduate of the Orange high school and attended a select girls school of New York City, where she pursued special work. She is accomplished in many lines, especially music. Mr. and Mrs. Farwell reside on Green Avenue, and their home is one of the most beautiful and palatial in Orange or vicinity. Mr. Farwell is a member of the Rotary Club and the Orange Country Club, is an elder of the Presby- terian Church, and is active in all the social and civic organizations of the city. He never loses an opportunity to speak a good word for Orange, which with ample facilities for concentration of all classes of cargo, an ideal port for the cencentrating of timber, two trunk line railroads, low rail rates and many other advantages, is destined to become a great city.

W. ANDERSON, who for more than a dec- ade has been active in the business world at Orange, has established one of the larg- est insurance agencies in the city, and is well known in insurance circles as a real producer. Mr. Anderson is the head of the firm of E. W. Anderson, insurance, which he established at Orange in 1914, two years after his arrival in the city. The business has met with a gratifying success, developing rapidly along progressive lines, and is one of the largest and best organized insurance agencies at Orange. Offices are maintained in the Stark Building, with an office force of three as- sistants. Mr. Anderson represents twenty-eight of the leading insurance companies of the country, handling a general insurance business. Of the com- panies represented, twenty-two are fire insurance companies, two are casualty, two bonding, one life, and one boiler. Mr. Anderson handles the insurance for most of the principal business concerns of Orange, including the manufacturing plants, banks and merchants.

E. W. Anderson was born in Wilkes County, Georgia, the second of March, 1859, and received his early education in the schools of that county. Later he attended college at Oxford, Georgia, tak- ing the A.B. degree in 1880. Following this he spent four years in educational work, after which he entered the railroad business and was active in railroad work, in the traffic department, for twenty- three years. During this time he was in various cities, among them Chattanooga, Tennessee, where he spent eight years; Atlanta, Georgia, and Texar- kana, Arkansas, at each of which he spent one year, and at Monroe, Louisiana, where he was with the Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain Railroad as commercial agent from 1894 to 1907. In that year he became secretary of the Chamber of Commerce at Monroe, holding that position until 1912, when he came to Orange, as secretary of the Chamber of Commerce here. Two years later he organized the insurance business which he now operates.

Mr. Anderson was married at Atlanta, Georgia, the sixth of December, 1883, to Miss Mary Ella Bar- nett, a native of Georgia, and the daughter of N. C. Barnett, for fifty years the secretary of the state of Georgia, and a very prominent man. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson have one child, Barnett Anderson, who is associated in business with his father, and

who married Miss Theta Sholars, of Orange. E. W. Anderson is a Mason, a member of the Blue Lodge, Chapter of Orange, the Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Country Club. He is deeply interested in all civic work, and has done much for the commercial advancement of Orange.

LIFFORD DOUGLASS came to Orange, Texas, in 1917 and since that time has been an active figure in the business circles of this city. Mr. Douglass is secretary, treasurer and general manager of the Orange Fur- niture Company, Inc., which was organized in Feb- ruary, 1923, and is the successor to the Phoenix Furniture Company, for many years the leading establishment of its kind in this city. The Orange Furniture Company carried a full and complete line of the very finest period and over-stuffed furniture, carpets, draperies and everything of a high class nature for the complete furnishing of modern homes. They also carry a full line of Victor Talking Ma- chines and are the leading radio dealers here hand- ling the Radiola, Crosley and Freed-Eiseman lines. This firm has not overlooked the public who desires the moderate priced furnishings, and in addition to their fine establishment located at 506 Front Street, they are also the owners of the Gulf Furniture Company, a smaller store, where cheaper and used furniture is sold. The Orange Furniture Company occupies three floors in their building, which is thirty-four feet by one hundred and thirty feet in size, and employ eleven courteous and experienced people. Other officers of this company are, H. L. Cohenour, president, and H. J. Lutcher Stark, vice president.

A native Texan, Mr. Douglass was born in Cald- well, June 11th, 1884. His father, W. L. Douglass (deceased), was brought to Texas by his parents from Tennessee as a small boy, and was reared and educated in this state, and for many years was engaged in the mercantile business at Caldwell. His education was obtained in the public schools of Cald- well, and he began work in a general mercantile store as a boy, which he continued until 1909. Dur- ing this year he decided to engage in the furniture business, and became associated with a furniture establishment in his home town, where he remained for some time, and then went to Rosebud, Texas, with a furniture establishment there. He remained in Rosebud until coming to Orange to become asso- ciated with the Phoenix Furniture Company of this city as manager. He remained in this capacity until February, 1923, when the present firm was organ- ized, and he was made secretary, treasurer and manager.

Mr. Douglass was married at Caldwell, Texas, on November 9th, 1909, to Miss Susie McDonald, a native of Texas, and a member of a well known family of Burleson County. They have two children, Carmen and Glenda Margurete. Mr. Douglass is a director of the Orange Chamber of Commerce and is a member of the Rotary Club and the Knights of Pythias. Since locating in Orange, Mr. Doug- lass has identified himself with the business and social life of the city, and is popular in all circles. The success of the business of which he is the man- ager, speaks eloquently for his ability, and the number of friends which he has drawn to himself in- dicates his popularity in the community which is his home by choice and adoption.

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O. SIMS, directing head of one of the largest financial institutions at Orange, is prominently identified with commercial and industrial enterprises, and is firmly estab- lished as a business man whose influence makes itself felt in every walk of life. Mr. Sims is active vice president of the First National Bank of Orange, which was established in 1889, by the late Henry J. Lutcher, who was president of the institution until his death, when he was succeeded by W. H. Stark, his son-in-law, who is now president of the bank. At the time of its organization the bank was cap- italized for fifty thousand dollars, which has since been increased to one hundred thousand dollars, while the total assets of the bank are more than five and one half million dollars. The First National Bank has made a splendid record, enjoying at all times the highest confidence of the public, and is one of the strong and capably directed financial in- stitutions of Orange. The bank occupies a modern banking home at the corner of Fifth and Front Streets, and has a force of nineteen employees. The officers are: W. H. Stark, president; J. O. Sims, active vice president; H. J. L. Stark, L. F. Benken- stein and F. H. Farwell, vice presidents; E. E. Mc- Farland, cashier, and L. Wall, W. A. Sims and A. M. Wilson, assistant cashiers. The directorate is com- posed of W. H. Stark, president of the bank and one of the most prominent men of Orange; J. O. Sims, who has been the active head of the bank since 1906; H. J. L. Stark, vice president, and prominent in state affairs; F. H. Farwell, vice president of the bank, and also of the Lutcher-Moore Lumber Company; E. E. McFarland, cashier of the bank for about three decades; L. F. Benckenstein, oil man and cap- italist of Orange, and R. M. Hill and D. A. Pruter.

J. O. Sims was born at Orange, Texas, the fifth of February, 1874, the son of J. O. Sims, a native of the Lone Star State, and Jennie (Ochiltree) Sims. He was educated in the public schools of Orange, and after leaving school began with the First National Bank of Orange, as collection clerk, on the fifth of January, 1891. Mr. Sims has been continually with the bank since that time, holding various positions up until 1906, when he was made cashier and active head of the bank, later becoming vice president, in 1920, and continuing as directing head of the institution. Mr. Sims is also interested in various enterprises, and is treasurer of the Orange Box Manufacturing Company, and secretary and treasurer of the Orange Northwestern Railroad Company and director of the Orange Rice Mill Com- pany.

Mr. Sims was married at Orange the twenty- second of April, 1900, to Miss Alberta Spooner, a native of New York State who came to Texas as a child, and was reared in this state. Mr. and Mrs. Sims continue to reside at Orange, living at 809 Front Street, and have four children: Ruth L., a graduate of the University of Texas, with the A.B. degree; James Leigh, a graduate, class of 1924, of the Virginia Military Institute; Josephine, a grad- uate of the Orange high school, and Bertie, a stu- dent in the Converse College, Spartanburg, South Carolina. Mr. Sims is president of the Orange Ro- tary Club and a member of the Orange Country Club. Fraternally he is a Mason, Blue Lodge at Orange, and past master of the lodge, and is a thir- ty-second degree Scottish Rite and member of Ara-

bia Temple Shrine. He is a man of sound ability, with a genius for financial affairs, and is looked upon as one of the leading bankers of Orange and of the state. He takes a deep interest in civic progress and all welfare measures, and is one of those business men who have made the present development of Orange possible.

GBOURNE D. BUTLER, for a number of years past a resident of Orange, has been a factor in industrial circles through his connection with one of the larger manu- facturing concerns here, and has also taken a con- structive interest in public affairs. Mr. Butler is manager of the Orange Box Manufacturing Com- pany, Incorporated, one of the important industrial enterprises of the city, and one that has contributed to the general prosperity of Orange. The Orange Box Manufacturing Company was established in a small way in 1901, and later, in 1910, reorganized and taken over by the present management, with W. H. Stark as president; L. Miller, vice president; H. J. L. Stark, secretary, and J. O. Sims, treasurer. Since that time the business has grown rapidly, the mill now covering more than three thousand square feet of ground, and the entire plant occupying a three-acre industrial site. The plant manufactures boxes, crates and fruit packages, the larger part of the plant output being citrus crates, and the principal part of all products manufactured being for export trade, going to the West Indies, Porto Rico, Cuba and South America. The company does business direct with the growers, supplying an- nually more than a million pineapple, orange and lemon crates. Mr. Butler has been with the com- pany since 1917, at which time he came here to audit the books, later, in 1918, being made manager, the position he now holds.

Mr. Butler was born in Smith County, Texas, in 1887, and was educated in the schools of that county. Later he entered Toby's Business College at Waco, to equip himself for his business career, and after leaving college went to Tyler, accepting a position with a firm there which he held for more than a year. He then went to Farwell, Lousiania, with the Lutcher-Moore Lumber Company, also a Stark interest, and was bookkeeper there for three years. He then came to Orange and went in the retail grocery business, operating a grocery store for sev- eral years, and following this with a short time at Oakdale, Louisiana, as accountant, returning to Orange to go with his present company.

Mr. Butler was married at Troup, Texas, the sixth of June, 1912, to Miss Vivian Jarvis, a native of Fort Worth, and the daughter of D. P. Jarvis, a member of one of the oldest and most prominent families of Tarrant County. Mr. and Mrs. Butler have four children, Francis Gray, William Jarvis, Ogbourne D., and Jarvis Orr, and reside at Orange. Mr. Butler is a member of the board of Orange Boy Scouts, taking a great deal of interest in his work among the boys at Orange, and belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Rotary Club, and frater- nally is a Woodman of the World. He is active in all civic work, and is the type of business leader who makes for the progress of a city, contributing materially to the advancement of Orange along civic and industrial lines.

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Index

Page

Beveridge, J. L .. 1816

Bevier, Geo. M. 391

Bidwell, Richard Osborn 1477

Binford, Thos. A. 1361

Binnings, Earl S. 1803

Binyon, W. J. 369

Birdwell, John David 1709

Bishop, Jno. Edwards

1497

Black, Albert H. 630

Black, Harry A 950

Black, Harry G. 950

Black, Lee J. 1049

Black, Roy 1609

Blackadar, Capt. F. S. 979

Blaffer, R. L.

326

Blair, J. M. Dr. 1415

Blake, J. H.

1557

Blake, Thos. W

245

Blakely, Bassett 225

Blakesley, Wm. N. 2092

Blanchard, Thos. B. 1319

Bledsoe, Murff F., Dr 1392

Bleich, M. Nathan. 975

Blieden, Ike 1518

Bliss, Geo. N. 1748

Boettcher, F. A. 269

Boettcher, J. O. 1987

Bogar, M. H.

1456

Boice, A. D. 1566

Bollfrass, Chas. 489

Bond, Edw. J. 1569

Bond, Robt. Alex. 876

Bonner, John S. 558

Booth, F. I. 1661

Booth, John Thos 1697

Boothe, Ross

Booz, Clarence E

1689

Borchers, J. H. 1053

Borsodi, Victor H. 557

Bost, Dr. James R 1391

Bostick, M. H. 590

Botts, T. H.

934

Boudreaux, A. E.

434

Bourk, A. E.

613

Bourland, Jim 2145

Bowers, Geo. D. 1658

Bowden, M. C. 1829

Bowles, W. V.

458

Boyd, James L. 1763

Boyd, Sam

1841

Boyd, Worthy

1827

Boykin, Burwell, Jr 1764

Boykin, L. J. 442

Boyle, Jno. M .. 1194

Boyles, Edward S 1316

Boyles, Dr. James Monroe 926

Boyles, Joe Stuart. 1653

Boysen, August, Jr.

281

Boysen, August H. Sr.

1486

Boyt, Arthur H. 1677

Bozeman, John Fleming 1913

Braden, H. 1977

Bradley, Miss Carrie V

1274

Bradley, Frank. 2176

Bradley, Dr. Raymond L.

1419

Bradlow, Theodore

2107

Brady, Colonel Jno. Thos.

740

Branard, Geo. A. Sr. 1542

Branch, W. 987

Bransford, Jas. G. 350

Breaker, Frank J 1313

Breaux, Fred R.

221

Breeden, Walter K

1985

· Azar, Dr. James A 1454

Abbott, Ellis P. 1610

Abell, A. C. 350

Abell, J. Miles. 1550

Bailey, Henry Cruger 1513

Abercrombie, J. S. 594

Bailey, Jas. Ruskin 221

Abrahams, Manly C. 1840

Baird, Holcomb W 1791

Adam, Geo. A. 581

Baker, J. W

705

Adams, John R 1796

Adams, J. S. 1892

Baker, Roy.

2091

Baker, W. Browne

949

Adamson, L. A. 1302

Agen, Jas. Herman. 913

Ainslie, Earl G.

1367

Alexander, Alfred

Alexander, Dr. Hugh E.

1417

Alexander, J. C.

2165

Alford, John T. 1682

Allen, Judge Augustus C. 914

1637

Allen, R. S. 1125

Allen, S. E. 748

Allen, W. Henry. 1920

Allin, Benj. C ...

282

Allison, Edwin M

1558

Alsworth, Willett

493

Altemus, Edgar David 1869

Alvey, James Perrie 1158

Amerman, Judge A. E. 478

Amundsen, Gus A. Jr. 1833

Anderson, A. E.

1138

Anderson, Allie L.

557

Anderson, Archie R. 1482

Anderson, D. C ... 486

Anderson, Edwin Alex 906

Anderson, Edw. W.

1029

Anderson, Frank S.

1364

Anderson, Guy Sanford

1721

Anderson, Hamilton R

1864

Anderson, James 466

Anderson, Jas. Sylvester 815

Anderson, R. M. 1464

Anderson, Sterling D. 2154

Anderson, Thos. James. 1846

Andres, Chas. S. 477

Andrews, Frank 233

Andrews, Luther Gambrell 2112

Andronis, Dr. N. 1433

Ansley, Wm. O. Jr.

585

Appelbaum, Louis

1486

Appling, J. L. 1772

Archer, Wm. R. 585

Armbruster, Anthony 1209

Armstrong, Abbott E 337

Armstrong, Wm. J.

1330

Arnold, Ed. 2129

Arnold, Geo. Frederick 400

Arnold, Gus. I. 661

Arnold, W. F.

775

Aronson, Joe 1727

Arterbury, Roy L.

1320

Arto, Frederick C.

1444

Ashford, J. G.

2000

Atchison, Deloss

2092

Austin, D. T. 486

Autrey, Dr. Alfred Ransom 1395

Bergstrom, H. O. 1851

Bering, Frank Conrad. 321

Berry, Hugh B. 657

Bertner, E. W., Dr. 1374

Bertron, S. R., Jr.

269

Best, Richard Wm.

1522

Breeding, R. E

697

1987

Bates, C. F. 2031

Bates, Jas. Love 731

Battelstein, Philip 297

Batterson, Clarence K. 2096

Bauguss, M. C. 561

Bayley, Wm. M. 2142

Baylor, Joe N 2111

Beaman, C. R. 1728

Beaman, Daniel F 505

Beard, E. C. 2091

Beard, Norman H. 565

Beard, Stanley 1315

Beaty, Hunter 1726

Beavens, Christopher C 800

Becker, Edward 2141

Becker, Frank J. 341

Beek, James H. 589

Beers, Wm. F.

1800

Belk, Claude E

1561

Belk, Craig 318

Bell, A. C ... 1509

Bell, Chas. C., Jr. 514

Bell, Gov. Peter Hansboro 203

Benckenstein, L. F. 1022

Beneke, Walter C. A. 1073

Bennett, Chas. E 453

Bennett, H. R. 1860

Bennett, Mills

334

Benson, S. F 2004

Berge', Paul 2173

Berger, Anthony A. 2100

Autry, Judge James Lockhart 1011 Aves, Chas. M. Dr. 1379

Aves, Dr. F. W

1375

Barber, Robt. S .. 1669

Barkley, E. C. 506

Barkley, K. C. 1292

Barkley, Mrs. K. C 1292

Barnell, Lorita 1269

Barnett, J. O. 1974

Barngrover, G. W 1686

Barnes, L. J. 1066

Barr, H. A. Dr

1392

Barr, Richard E. Dr 1400

Barrier, N. M .. 1757

Barrow, Sol Elton 882

Barrow, Mrs. Sol Elton 885

Barry, Capt. Tom 1538

Bartell, Herbert

1297

Bartine, Oliver F. 1545

Bashara, J. F. 461

Bass, J. M. 1991

Bassett, Winston 1881

Ball, David 1364

Ball, Munger T.

1735

Ball, Tom H. 2000

Bangard, John L. 1742

Banker, Harry F. 1736

466

Adams, John T. 1309

Baldwin, B. A. 278

Bales, Lawson E 1914

Alessandro, Victor

2171

538

Allen, Geo. W.

Baker, Raymond F.

Babin, Augustine 1705

Bailey, C. E. 1934

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Page

Breihan, E. A

554

Butler, Preston P.

1049

Childress, Wm. Albert

250

Childs, W. L. 946

Chipman, Lloyd L. 1001

Choat, A. Morgan 465

Christensen, Jno. N.

964

Christian, B. H. 350

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 151

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