New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 86

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

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While perhaps better known as a leader of indus- trial activities and a business man familiar with the highest of business ideals, Mr. Street also took an active interest in agricultural progress and spent a great deal of time in overseeing the work at his beautiful farm of three hundred and twenty acres just outside of Houston. This suburban home, just six miles from the court house, is one of the most efficiently operated and managed estates in Harris County, and consists of many acres of carefully tilled farming land, a dairy herd of fifty cows, a flock of carefully selected sheep, and pure bred hogs. All of Mr. Street's stock is of the finest strains, cared for under the most modern conditions, and represents the highest achievement in the stock raising industry. This farm has many times been the objective of those city builders ever on the alert for a tract of land to open a new addition, and Mr. Street has had many flattering offers for this property. The land, located on an interurban, a piked highway, and with all city conveniences, would make an ideal addition, and with the many trees already on the property, would be one of the most beautiful. In addition to this fine suburban home Mr. Street also owns many hundreds of acres of land in Harris County.

Gus C. Street was born at Charleston, South Car- olina, the twenty-fifth day of May, 1853, son of Gustavus and Mary Calder Street, the father a member of the firm of Street Brothers, established in Charleston in 1832, and engaging in a shipping and commission business. Mr. Street was educated in the public schools of his native city, later attend- ing the University of Louisiana, at Baton Rouge, now called A. and M. College of Louisiana. After finishing his education, he turned his attention to business, and in 1872 went with the Union Oil Com- pany, a corporation engaging in the cottonseed oil business at New Orleans. He remained with this firm until coming to Houston in 1876. His career thereafter having been as outlined in the opening of this article.

Mr. Street was married at Houston in 1883, to Miss Ella R. Richardson, daughter of Alfred S. Rich- ardson, who was a very prominent railroad man,

connected with the H. & T. C. Railroad and actively identified with Masonic activities. Mrs. Street died in 1890, leaving three children, G. C. Street, Jr., LeRoy R. Street, and Mrs. James L. Sheppard. Mr. Street was married the second time at Houston in 1914 to Miss Emily Speed, daughter of Captain John Speed, and by this marriage had three chil- dren, Mary Virginia, Loise Emily, and Elizabeth. Mr. Street is a thirty-second degree Mason, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine. He is a life member of the Elks, and honorary member of the order of Hoo-Hoos, and a member of the Houston Club. At the age of 70, he is as active as a man of 45 or 50, and takes a prominent part in the civic and social affairs of his community. He is a man of striking personality, and has many friends throughout the state.

HARDY HORN, pioneer oil man of Texas, and for upwards of a decade identified with mercantile circles at Houston, has been associated with sporting goods mer- chandising for the greater part of this time. Mr. Horn is manager of the Texas Sporting Goods Com- pany, Incorporated, established in 1921 and incor- porated at the same time. This is one of the largest exclusively sporting goods houses in the city, operat- ing both wholesale and retail departments. They are well located at 807 Fannin Street, where they have a well planned and arranged building, with forty-six by sixty feet of floor space. They handle all kinds of sporting goods equipment, salt and fresh water fishing tackle, guns, baseball, football, golf and tennis goods, and have a repair department, making expert repairs on guns and fishing tackle. Mr. Horn has found success in large measure in this business, and has a patronage from among the best known sportsmen in the city. J. B. Clay is Presi- dent of the Company, E. F. Woodward, Vice-Presi- dent and Louis Cambeilh, Secretary and Treasurer.

Mr. Horn is also well known in oil circles of the State. He was in the Corsicana field when the first well was brought in, later going to the Beaumont fields, and was there when oil was first discovered. He then went to the Sour Lake and Batson fields and until some fifteen years ago took an active part in developing the oil resources of the State. In 1908 he went with the Bering Hardware Com- pany, remaining with that firm for eight years. He then went with the Phillipi Sporting Goods Com- pany, for two years, after which he, with others, bought out the Houston Sporting Goods Company, which he operated until it was incorporated. He then opened the present establishment.

Mr. Horn was born in Navarro County, Texas, son of W. F. Horn, who came to this county as a boy. He is a pioneer resident of that county, and is still, at an advanced age, actively engaged in farming. His mother, before her marriage, Miss Arilia Hammett, is a native of Navarro County. Mr. Horn was edu- cated in the public schools near his home and after finishing his education engaged in oil operations until going into the mercantile business.

Mr. Horn was married at Waco, Texas, in 1902, to Miss Mattie Hale, a native of McLennan County. They live in Houston at 1220 Milby Avenue, and have four children, Lillian, Curtis, Katherine and Ivalice. Mr. Horn is a T. P. A., an Elk, and a mem- ber of the Houston Hunting and Fishing Club, the Houston Pistol and Rifle Club and the Rotary Club.

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G UY Mac LAUGHLIN, South Texas manager of the Franklin Life Insurance Company, with his home and headquarters at Hous- ton, has in the twelve years that he has directed the business management of this company, become recognized as a factor in insurance circles of the State and Nation. He has devoted the larger part of his life to the study of his profession and today he is in fact an expert in his field, a coun- sellor of life insurance. He is frequently called upon by individuals to give his expert opinion as to their life insurance needs, as well as by leading lawyers who desire advice as to their clients' cov- erage when wills are drawn. His territory covers some fifty counties, is well organized, and his rep- resentatives are high-class men doing a high-class business. His ability and his knowledge of life insurance has brought Mr. MacLaughlin national recognition and he is now serving as chairman of the most important committee of the National As- sociation of Life Underwriters, namely the Agency Nomenclature Committee. Mr. MacLaughlin, in ad- dition to looking after his many interests and du- ties, personally writes a large volume of insurance annually. He is one of the star men of his com- pany, winning first place in the handicap races in the summers of 1923 and 1924, among representa- tives of his company throughout the United States. While serving his company well and achieving suc- cess for himself, he has also been a good citizen, alive to the best interests of his community, giving of his time and means to all worthy causes.

Guy MacLaughlin was born at Galveston, Texas, the eleventh of March, 1873, being the eldest of the nine children of Chatham and Rowena (Terhune) MacLaughlin, the elder Mr. MacLaughlin being one of the prominent newspaper men of Texas prior to his retirement. Guy MacLaughlin attended the pub- lic schools of Austin, Texas, later the University of Chicago, where he took some special work. As a boy he sold' newspapers, later clerking in a law office and in a hotel, and also worked as a tele- graph messenger boy, and also delivered special delivery letters for the post office. Later he sold typewriters in Austin, and was also connected with a real estate company for a time, and still later be- came advertising solicitor on the "Rolling Stone," the weekly paper edited by Will Porter, before he became famous as the author of the O. Henry sto- ries. During the Spanish-American war Mr. Mac- Laughlin was a non-commissioned officer of volun- teers, being detailed for duty as Chief Clerk of the First Division, Seventh Army Corps, serving under Benjamin Alvord, Adjutant General, who later was Adjutant General of the American Expeditionary forces under General Pershing. In the World War, he was made Chief Registration Officer for the City of Houston, and carried out this important duty with distinction. He was also identified in a prominent way with the Red Cross drives, War Sav- ings drives, and served on the staffs of the army information department, the Bureau of Investiga- tions, Department of Justice, as well as on the staff of Law and Enforcement Division. During the Spanish American War he also represented the Houston Post, returning to Houston at the close of the war. In January, 1913, he became manager in South Texas for the Franklin Life Insurance Company, after a number of years selling insur- ance in Houston, and has since held this office.

As chairman of the Publicity committee of the Houston Chamber of Commerce he has given his City and State advertising of the better class. Whether at home or in travel, in this Country or abroad, he has used his unusually clever style of writing to tell interesting things about Houston. For "Screenland," a movie magazine, he wrote a story about the making of "North of 36," near Hous- ton in 1924. He is called upon frequently to wield his pen for or against some important civic mat- ter, and he leaves no doubt as to where he stands as to said matters.

Mr. MacLaughlin was married in Chicago, Illi- nois, November, 1900, to Miss Fannie Clemow, a native of Houston. They reside at 405 Stratford Avenue, and have five children, Margaret, Frances, Donald, Rowena and Guy MacLaughlin, Jr. Mr. MacLaughlin is a member of the Houston Club, and of the Houston Light Guard Veterans Association. He was a member of the Building Committee of the latter organization that erected their beauti- ful Armory and Club House and to him is given much of the credit for the artistic exterior of the building. He has always taken a leading part in all progressive activities in his City and State, and has been a good citizen as well as a leader in in- surance circles. He organized the Auto Club of Houston and served as its first secretary and treas- urer.

Guy MacLaughlin has won the highest esteem of all who know him, and Houston is proud to number him among the first of its loyal citizens.

OWARD G. FIELDS, for more than twenty- six years identified with the lumber indus- try, has been for about eight years a factor in this line in Houston. Mr. Fields estab- lished the Fields-Lutman Lumber Company, of which he was president, shortly after his arrival in the city in 1918, incorporating the business in 1919. After a reorganization, it became the Howard G. Fields Lumber Company. This is one of the larger lumber corporations in the city, selling general build- ing material. Their yard covers a city block, at 6400 Harrisburg Boulevard, and has railroad front- age. They have thirty thousand feet in lumber buildings, housing their large stocks of all kinds of lumber and building material. The company has one of the finest and most beautiful yards in Hous- ton.

Mr. Fields was born at Paris, Missouri, in 1883, son of Dennis Fields, a lumberman of that state, and Lois Moore Fields, He was educated in the public schools of his native state, graduating from high school, after which he attended the University of Missouri for one year, and Washington University, at St. Louis, for one year. He then went in the lum- ber business in Missouri, later going to Canada, where he operated a ranch for three years. He came to Texas in 1909, and until 1915 operated a lumber business at Aransas Pass. In that year he went to Freeport, where he opened a lumber yard, and in 1918 came to Houston, establishing his pres- ent business.

Mr. Fields was married, at Paris, Missouri, in 1907, to Miss Eva Bolster. They have two children, Jane and Dorothy. Mr. Fields is a member of the University Club, the Lumberman's Club, and fra- ternally he is a Mason, Scottish Rite, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine.

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ANIEL F. BEAMAN has for the past several years been associated with the de- velopment of the petroleum industry at Houston, from a technical standpoint, and is familiar with the entire range of products refined from the crude oil. Mr. Beaman is supervising engi- neer of the sales department, in the Southern ter- ritory, of The Texas Company, a position that cov- ers a large field, and includes research work in the sale of lubricants, and other products. The position is one of the most important in the entire sales department, and calls for an expert knowledge of engineering and refining operations. Mr. Beaman has been with The Texas Company since 1917, when he became engineer in the sales department at Dallas, remaining there until 1919, when he came to Houston as supervising engineer in the sales de- partment, which position he now holds. He has his offices in The Texas Company Building, and has a corps of efficient workers under him.

Mr. Beaman was born at St. Louis, Missouri, the twenty-second of March, 1884, the son of A. C. Beaman, a native of Iowa, who later went to Mis- souri, and now resides in South Dakota. Mr. Bea- man received his elementary schooling in the public schools of St. Louis, after which he entered Wash- ington University, and later Rankin School of Engi- neering of St. Louis, where he received his pro- fessional training. Mr. Beaman then went to Mil- waukee, Wisconsin, with the E. P. Allis Company, now the Allis Chalmers Company, as a student, taking two years training in that immense organ- ization, and going through every department, from the foundry up. He then returned to St. Louis and went with the National Packing Company, of that city, remaining with that organization for four years, in the engineering department. He then went with the Anheiser Busch Company in the capacity of chief engineer for the Geyser Ice Company, a subsidiary of the Anheiser Busch Company. He remained in this position for six years, when he went with The Texas Company, first at Dallas and then at Houston, as supervising engineer in the sales department, which position he now holds.

Mr. Beaman was married at St. Louis, Missouri, the fourteenth of February, 1904, to Miss Lillian Frances Stewart, of that city. They have three children, Helen, Lillian and Beverly C. Beaman, and reside at 1404 Woodrow Boulevard. Mr. Beaman belongs to the Houston Country Club, the Houston Yacht Club, and the American Society of Mechan- ical Engineers. Fraternally he is a Mason, Waco Blue Lodge, Commandery at Waco, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine at Houston. Mr. Beaman is a man of high scientific attainments, well quali- fied for the diverse responsibilities of his office, and is in every way an outstanding citizen of his community.

HARLES L. NEIBEL came to Houston in 1917 from Cincinnati, and in 1919, became interested in the oil business, and in 1921 became Secretary and Treasurer of the United Petroleum Company, which was organized December 31st, 1917. Mr. Neibel, in addition to becoming well known in South Texas as an oil ex- ecutive, is well known in Church and Religious cir- cles throughout the country, where, prior to 1917, he had served as Pastor of some of the most prom- inent Presbyterian Churches. The United Petrol-

eum Company operates at Barbers Hill, Chambers County, and this Company obtained the first com- mercial oil in this field, but before bringing in a well and proving this field, they spent much time and money, but their perseverance has been worth a great deal to other companies and to the State of Texas in development. On July 31st, 1923, Mr. Neibel severed his connection with the United Pe- troleum Company to conduct a business of his own in oil land leases.

Mr. Neibel was born at Dayton, Ohio, March 24th, 1874. His father, Joseph H. D. Neibel, is a native of Ohio, also, and is engaged in the insurance busi- ness at Dayton, where he has been located for many years, and is well-known in the business circles of his home State. His mother was Miss Ellen J. Hooper, a member of a prominent Virginia family. His early education was obtained in the public and high schools of Montgomery County, Ohio, after which he attended Antioch College, and still later became a student of Princeton University, and in 1900 received the A. B. Degree from this Institu- tion, and in the fall of 1900 he entered Princeton Theological Seminary and for two years pursued the seminary course and also pursued the post-grad- uate course in the University, receiving the degree of A. M. from the University in 1902 and graduated from the Seminary in 1903. Immediately after graduation from the Seminary he was ordained to the Presbyterian ministry by the Presbytery of Dayton, Ohio, and then became assistant pastor of the East Liberty Presbyterian Church, of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. From 1908 to 1912 he was pastor of the Eastern Presbyterian Church at Washington, D. C. and from 1912 to 1917, Mr. Neibel was Pas- tor of the University Church, called Mount Auburn Presbyterian Church of Cincinnati. During the World War, Mr. Neibel was active in the welfare service, and was General Secretary of the Army Y. M. C. A. and director of Religious work at Camp Logan, Houston, for six months, and later at Camp Travis, San Antonio, as a War work lecturer in the training school of the National War Work Coun- cil. After the signing of the armistice, he was Executive Secretary of Training Institutes for de- mobilized troops at San Antonio, Texas, for the Southern States, and, after the close of the World War, Mr. Neibel became interested in the oil busi- ness.

Mr. Neibel was first married in 1904 to Mary Pierce Nevin, of Princeton, New Jersey, who died in Cincinnati in 1914. On June 26th, 1919, he was married again to Miss Josephine L. Dickinson, of Houston, a daughter of A. L. Dickinson, at one time associated with the United Oil Company, but now prominent in the real estate and business circles of San Antonio. They have one son, Charles D. Nei- bel, born July 10th, 1920. Mr. Neibel is a member of the River Oaks Country Club, the Princeton Club, of Houston and the Washington Chapter Sons of the American Revolution. Mr. Neibel is a tennis enthusiast, in which he is an expert, and played in the National Championship in 1911 and 1912 at Newport. Since coming to Houston, Mr. Neibel has made many friends, in the business and Church circles here, and is popular with all classes, and is frequently called upon to fill the pulpit in the various churches of the City. Mr. Neibel is en- thusiastic as to Houston and her future.

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E C. BARKLEY started his career in the banking business twelve years ago as a bank clerk, and has worked up through every intermediate position to the vice- presidency and cashiership of one of the large trust companies of Houston. Mr. Barkley came with the San Jacinto Trust Company as vice-president and cashier, on September 6th, 1921, which position he now holds. In addition to his banking experience, Mr. Barkley was for many years employed in the various branches of the railroad service, and con- tinued in this line of endeavor until he entered the banking business in 1913.

A native Texan, Mr. Barkley was born at Gon- zales, August 18th, 1888. His father, R. U. Bark- ley (deceased), was a native of Fayette County, Texas, where he grew to manhood, and later re- moved to Gonzales, Texas, where he was for many years well known as a farmer, merchant and edu- cator, being one of the pioneers of Texas in the latter profession. He was a citizen of the Republic of Texas. R. U. Barkley's father, R. U. Barkley, came to Winchester, Fayette County, from Missouri, in 1828. His mother was Miss Julia McClellen, a native of Tennessee, and a member of a well known and pioneer family. His education was obtained in the public schools of Harwood and Gonzales, Texas, and in private schools of the Republic of Mexico.

As a very young man, Mr. Barkley started his business career with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad at Wichita Falls, Texas, where he remained for eighteen months. He then came to Houston and became associated with the Southern Pacific Railroad, and later with the Houston Belt and Ter- minal Railway, and spent five years in the employ of these two railroads. He then entered the em- ploy of the Bankers Trust Company in 1913, and remained with this institution as a clerk from that time to 1918, when he went with the Guardian Trust Company as assistant secretary and treasurer. He remained in this position until September 6th, 1921. The assets of the San Jacinto Trust Company at that time were $328,000 and today are over $3,000,- 000. Mr. Barkley has made many friends since coming to Houston and is considered one of the leaders of the younger bankers of this city. He has other financial interests in the city, and is a director, secretary and treasurer of the Blodgett Development Company, a company engaged in the development of residential sub-divisions.

Mr. Barkley was married in San Marcos, Texas, on April 8th, 1913, to Miss Charlotte Brown, a native Texan and a daughter of O. T. Brown, for many years a resident of San Marcos, Texas, where he is well known in the business circles. They have one daughter, Charlotte Barkley. Mr. and Mrs. Barkley reside at 1914 Dunston Road. Mr. Barkley is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and takes an active interest in all civic matters having to do with the progress and advancement of Houston.

DI R. HUGH S. DEW, for seven years one of the leading physicians of South Texas, severed his connection with the medical fra- ternity and, with his brothers, has for a number of years been engaged in rice farming, cat- tle raising, general farming and marketing and oil lands. Dew Brothers is the style of the partnership and is composed of George L. Dew, DeWalt, Fort

Bend County; Henry Dew of Chambers County, Frank Y. Dew of Devers, Liberty County, and Dr. Hugh S. Dew, the subject of this sketch. They all have a particular branch of the business, and dis- tinct duties to perform in connection with their various interests. Dr. Hugh S. Dew is, for the most part, engaged in cattle breeding and raising, all of which are grades. It is his belief, founded on ex- perience and observation in the business, that grade cattle and hogs do better in this climate than high bred stock; however, he is experimenting with some high grade stock in Ft. Bend County. Practically all of the Dew Brothers cattle run in Liberty Coun- ty, where it is nearly all open range from old rice acreage, and supports about one cow for every five acres. In Fort Bend County their business is man- aged by George L. Dew, where farming is the prin- cipal activity with some hog raising in connection. He manages the Brazos Valley Farming Company, and has some additional land interests there. Their oil lands are in and around Blue Ridge. About twen- ty years ago they bought five acres very cheap that were leased to the Humble Oil and Refining Company for a large sum, when the Blue Ridge field came in as a producing field. Dr. Dew put on about one-half of the West Edgemont Addition. This prop- erty is located in the most beautiful part of the city, lying southwest of the Montrose district.

Dr. Dew was born in Mississippi, August 18th, 1869, but came to Lavaca County, Texas, with his parents when only two years of age, and has always considered Texas his home State. His father, T. T. Dew, was a large cotton planter in Mississippi, before the Civil War, which swept away all his wealth, and he came to Lavaca County shortly after the close of the war, and for many years was en- gaged in sheep raising. He was a captain in the Civil War and died at the age of seventy-seven years. Dr. Dew's early education was obtained in the public schools of Lavaca County, after which he attended Baylor University at Waco and grad- uated from that institution with the A. B. degree. He then attended Tulane University at New Orleans, and later the Louisville Medical College at Louis- ville, Kentucky, from which he graduated in the class of 1899 with the M. D. degree. After com- pleting his education he began the practice of his profession at Edna, Jackson County, where he re- mained for ten months, when he removed to Thomp- son, Fort Bend County, and engaged in a general practice of medicine for six years, when he quit the profession and entered the business of cattle rais- ing and farming, which he has continued since that time; he came to Houston in 1917.

Dr. Dew was married at Hallettsville, Lavaca County, in January, 1896, to Miss Mantie Veal, a na- tive of Lavaca County and a daughter of Fred Rich- ard Veal, a well known farmer and cattle man of Lavaca County and a member of an old Texas fam- ily, his forebears being among the pioneer settlers of Texas. They have one daughter, Lillie Veal Dew. Dr. and Mrs. Dew reside at 803 Lovett Boulevard, Montrose. Dr. Dew is a member of the Houston Club, Houston Chamber of Commerce, Cattle Rais- ers' Association. His family are of the Methodist faith. Dr. Dew is optimisitic as to the future of Houston and South Texas and is looking forward to an era of great development in both the city and the farming section of the State.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 1, Part 86

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