New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 107

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1262

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Walter A. Martin was born in Walker County, Texas, the fifth of December, 1871. His father, R. W. B. Martin, well known octogenarian of Walker County, was brought to this state as a child from his home in Alabama, and has lived here since that time, and has been for many years a planter and merchant of Walker County. His mother, whose maiden name was Miss Sarah Dunlap, is a native of Walker County, and has lived there throughout her life. As a boy Mr. Martin attended the public schools of Trinity, the town of his birth, and his father's residence. Later, after finishing his educa- tion, he went to Beaumont, and began work there as a bookkeeper. After several years at Beaumont he went to Nona, Texas, and was in the lumber busi- ness in that city for the ensuing fourteen years. He then went to Fullerton, Louisiana, and was with the Gulf Lumber Company there for three years, after which he returned to Beaumont, and was with the Kirby interests for three years. He then went to Merryville, where he spent a decade in busi- ness, and after which he came to Port Arthur, in 1922, and bought out the lumber yard of E. A. Laughlin, which he has since operated.

Mr. Martin was married at Beaumont the thir- teenth of September, 1903, to Miss Fannie Stewart of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have two children, W. S., secretary and treasurer of the Martin Lum- ber Company, Inc., and who is married, and Verne, wife of R. R. Stafford, vice president of the Martin Lumber Company, Inc., and who has one child, Verne Stafford. The family reside at 2222 Procter Street. Mr. Martin is a member of the Lumber- man's Club of Houston, and the Port Arthur Country Club. He is a progressive, interested member of the community, and is interested in all that concerns the development of Port Arthur.

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UBE T. McMULLEN, during the decade of his residence at Port Arthur, has attained a commendable reputation for his activity in drug circles, and is one of the most pro- gressive of the younger business men of the city. Mr. McMullen is a member of the firm of McMullen and Glass, operating one of the most complete and up-to-date drug stores in Southeast Texas. The McMullen and Glass Drug Store occupies a modern building, at 515 Procter Street, equipped with the best fixtures. The stock carried is complete in every respect, and with a force of fifteen employees, three of whom are registered pharmacists, the pub- lic is assured a maximum of service. Special at- tention is given to prescription work, and the purest drugs and utmost care used in filling each individ- ual prescription. Associated with Mr. McMullen is his partner, W. W. Glass, who also takes an active part in the management of the business.

Mr. McMullen was born at Angelina, Texas, the eighth of October, 1881, the son of W. T. McMullen, a Baptist minister, now of Huntington, Texas, and who, although past the allotted three score and ten years, is still active in his ministerial duties. After finishing his work in the Angelina public schools Mr. McMullen studied pharmacy, and after passing the board in 1904, began in the drug store at Angelina, later removing to Houston, where he remained for two years. He came to Port Arthur in February, 1916, buying the Keith Drug Store, and has since been in business here.

Mr. McMullen was married at Port Arthur the eighth of August, 1918, to Miss Mittie Arthur. They reside at 1535 Procter Street, and have one child, Loraine. Mr. McMullen is a Knight of Pythias, an Elk, and takes an active part in civic affairs in his city.

ENRY EARL MacBRIDE became identi- fied with the progressive city of Port Ar- thur several years ago, and since his advent here has been one of the most enterprising representatives of the printing business in the city. Mr. MacBride is owner and manager of the H. E. MacBride Company, one of the largest printing plants in the city, and which he established here in 1920. The plant was built on the nucleus of the old Port Arthur Printing Company, organized many years ago, and which Mr. MacBride bought in 1920, reorganizing the business, and changing the name to the H. E. MacBride Company. Mr. MacBride does a general printing business, with special attention to fine printing. The equipment of the plant is all of the most modern type, with facilities for hand- ling a large volume of business, and turning out the highest type of work. A force of ten operatives, all trained men, are in the plant. Mr. MacBride personally supervises all work, and patrons are assured that work bearing the imprint of the Mac- Bride plant is the best possible. The plant is located at 413 Fifth Street.

Mr. MacBride was born in Pike County, Missouri, the eleventh of December, 1885, the son of E. L. MacBride, a native of that state, and now a resident of Louisiana, Missouri, where he is in the cattle business, and Flora May MacBride. Mr. MacBride was educated in the public schools of Pike County, and after leaving school took up civil engineering, following this profession in Missouri for a number

of years, and later going to Oregon and the state of Washington. In later years he began in the print- ing business, at Portland, Oregon, and was manager of the stationery department of Woodard-Clark and Company for four years, later going for a year with the Dennison Manufacturing Company as a sales- man in Southern California, after which he went to Chicago, and was floor man with S. D. Childs and Company for one year. He then spent one year as salesman for Skinner and Kennedy, at St. Louis, and one year as salesman for Stewart and Scott, also of St. Louis. He then went to Houston, Texas, and was with Cargill Company, and later with W. H. Coyle and Company. After nine years at Houston he came to Port Arthur, establishing the present business.

Mr. MacBride was married at New Orleans, the twenty-sixth of December, 1914, to Miss Elizabeth Seward, a native of the Lone Star State, and the daughter of the late Captain Seward. Mr. and Mrs. MacBride have two children, Thomas L. and Henry Earl, Jr., and live at 2647 Fifth Street. Mr. Mac- Bride is a Knight of Pythias and a member of the D. O. K. K. He is interested not only in the com- mercial and civic advancement of Port Arthur, but in the general welfare of the community.

S E. SCHMINK for more than a decade has been a factor in the commercial advance- ment of Port Arthur, where as one of the leading business men and office supply dealers of the city he fills a definite place in the business world and enjoys the highest esteem of his fellow citizens. Mr. Schmink is the proprietor of the Schmink Office Supply Company, a business which he established the first of August, 1921, to meet the constantly growing demand for a high class office supply house, and which has since met with the assured success his pregressive business methods deserve. Mr. Schmink carries a complete line of high grade office furniture, including desks, filing cabinets, and like equipment, acting as dis- tributor for many of the better known manufac- turers, and also has a large and complete line of stationery and supplies of this class. The Schmink Office Supply Company occupies a modern struc- ture at 631 Procter Street, conveniently located with regard to the business center, and enjoys a large patronage from the business men of the city. Mr. Schmink is the sole owner of the business.

Mr. Schmink was born in Vermillion County, Illi- nois, the twenty-third of February, 1873, the son of George F. Schmink, now of that state. He was edu- cated in the public schools of his native state, gain- ing his first business experience there in a newspaper office at Decatur, where he began in 1891. In 1911 he came to Port Arthur and after two and a half years, during which time he had charge of a local printing office, he bought the Lone Star Press, which he operated, editing the paper issuing from this press until 1921, when he sold this interest and went in his present business.

Mr. Schmink was married in Illinois, the fourth of April, 1894, to Miss M. Elizabeth Dixon, a native of that state. They now make their home in Port Arthur, having an attractive residence at 3215 Sixth Street, and are popular members of the Port Arthur social set. Mr. Schmink has taken a deep interest in civic development at Port Arthur since coming to this city, and is interested in everything

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that makes for the advancement of this community, either from a commercial or a civic standpoint. He served two terms as secretary and treasurer of the Rotary Club, and is a member of the Port Arthur Chamber of Commerce, and the Retail Merchants Association, working with these organizations for the welfare of the city.

P. TEEL, although a comparatively recent addition to the business circles of Port Arthur, Texas, has entered into the spirit of this progressive city, and has been a factor in building up a profitable business. Mr. Teel is a partner in and manager of the City Drug Store which is located at the corner of Procter and Austin Streets and is the most complete drug store in this city. The City Drug Store was taken over by Mr. Teel in September, 1923, he having at that time purchased the interest of the former partner of Dr. John R. Bevil, who remains a partner in the business, but is inactive. This large, downtown drug store carries a full and complete line of drugs and druggists' sundries, school supplies, toilet articles, tobaccoes, cigars, and in fact everything to be found in a modern city drug store. It also maintains a prescription department which is presided over by careful and painstaking registered pharamacists, who accurately fill prescriptions day or night. This drug store also has a large, ornate and sanitary soda fountain, where all kinds of drinks and ice cream are served in season. Seven experienced peo- ple are employed in this establishment which would be a credit to towns much larger than Port Arthur. Mr. Teel began his business career as a salesman in a drug store in Batson, Texas, on August 1st, 1910. He later attended a school of pharmacy, and also studied in drug stores under others. He was en- gaged in the drug business there for a period of seven years, and left Batson in order to become a partner of Dr. Bevil in a drug store at Goose Creek, Texas, and remained there for one year, when he returned to Batson, and remained there for four years, and during this period he was engaged in the drug business again, making eleven years he spent at Batson during his first and second business ventures there. After leaving Batson, he came to Port Arthur in September, 1923, and entered his present business with Dr. Bevil again as a partner.

A native Texan, Mr. Teel was born December 12th, 1891, in Guadalupe County. His father, T. L. Teel, a native of Georgia, has resided in Texas for many years and is now a resident of Batson. His education was obtained in the public schools of Guadalupe and Washington Counties, but the lib- eral education, which Mr. Teel obtained later in life was entirely through self-help.

Mr. Teel was married at Luling, Caldwell County, Texas, on July 21st, 1915, to Miss Alma Wyatt, a native of the Lone Star State and a member of an old Texas family. Mr. and Mrs. Teel reside at 1120 Fifteenth Street. Mr. Teel is a member of the Knights of Pythias, with membership at Batson, and also a member of the Port Arthur Chamber of Com- merce and the Civitan Club. Mrs. Teel is one of the few women in Port Arthur who take an active in- terest in their husbands' business and she devotes much of her time and energy to actual co-operation in the enterprise. Mr. Teel is popular in the busi- ness circles of Port Arthur, and is regarded as a valuable acquisition to the citizenship of this city.

B. ROSE came to Port Arthur a number of years ago, since which time he has entered into the industrial advancement of the city in a constructive way, and has established one of the most modern machine shops here. Mr. Rose is a member of the firm and manager of the Canal Machine Works, an enterprise established the twenty-third of November, 1922, since which time a prosperous machine business has been built up. The other member of this firm is Mr. C. Car- lisle, who came to Port Arthur in 1920, and who has an extremely thorough knowledge of machine work. He joined Mr. Rose in 1924, previous to that time having been superintendent of the Port Arthur Marine Engineering Works. The Canal Machine Works is equipped to handle machine work of all classes, including heavy and light marine work, boiler work, and other machine work. The shop also handles all classes of repair work in this field, and does a large business of this kind. The marine work done in the shop is of especial importance in view of the increasing number of ships docking at Port Arthur, and is one which this concern is un- usually well qualified to handle, since both partners are skilled marine engineers. They have a completely equipped shop, using the most modern type of machinery, and employ a force of trained machinists, who work under their direction. A very high stand- ard for all work turned out is set, and this, with the promptness and service for which the Canal Ma- chine Works is known, has been a factor in the rapid development of the business.

Mr. C. Carlisle was born in Birmingham, Ala- bama, the son of George and Martha (Martin) Carlisle. He attended the public schools of Birming- ham and started his business career in a machine shop there. Since then he has followed this line of business and the last few years devoting his whole time to marine work, his last position prior to joining Mr. J. B. Rose being superintendent of the Port Arthur Marine Engineering Works, as out- lined above. Mr. and Mrs. Carlisle have their own home at 1035 Richmond Avenue, Port Arthur.

Mr. Rose was born in Polk County, Tennessee, the the eighth of February, 1885, the son of E. L. Rose, a native of that state, and a pioneer saw mill operator, who now makes his home at Old Fort, Tennessee, and Caroline (Curbow) Rose, who is deceased. Mr. Rose was educated in the public schools of Polk County, and as a boy began with his father in the saw mill. Here he learned a great deal about machinery, and later, in railroad machine shops, rounded out this knowledge, becoming an expert machinist. Still later he began in the marine busi- ness as marine engineer, and spent a number of years in Galveston in this work. He came to Port Arthur in December, 1917, served as marine engineer until the fall of 1922, when he established his present business.

Mr. Rose was married at Brenham, Texas, the twenty-sixth of April, 1913, to Miss Emma Town, a native of Germany who came to the United States with her parents as a child, and was reared in Tex- as. Mr. and Mrs. Rose reside in Port Arthur at 2620 Eighth Street, and have two children: Caroline and J. B., Jr. Mr. Rose takes a deep interest in the advancement of Port Arthur, particularly as a port city, and is well known here for his construc- tive interest in marine development measures.

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UGENE W. RAYBURN, since coming to Port Arthur several years ago, has been a factor in the merchandising business, and through his progressive business poli- cies, has built up a tire and sporting goods busi- ness that is a distinct asset to the city. Mr. Ray- burn is manager and a member of the firm of the Port Arthur Tire and Sporting Goods Company, one of the leading dealers in tires and sporting goods in the city. The business was established in 1909 as the Port Arthur Tire Company, and a little later was taken over by the present owners, when the name was changed and the scope of the business broadened. The firm handles a wholesale and retail business, acting as local dealers for Kelly-Spring- field tires, General tires, and Willard batteries, and also have a complete line of sporting goods. In connection with the tire and battery departments a service department is maintained, with the usual road service and battery service. A good line of accessories is also carried. The sporting goods de- partment is unusually complete. Mr. Rayburn is himself a well known sportsman, and finds this no small factor in the success of this department. In his merchandising he finds that to be successful the dealer must buy and sell intelligently, keeping slow movers off the shelf as much as possible. The re- sult of this policy is that the stock of the Port Arthur Tire and Sporting Goods Company is care- fully selected, chosen with a view to selling in this particular locality, and a gratifying profit is no- ticed in all departments.

Mr. Rayburn was born at Lovelady, Texas, the twenty-second of April, 1896, the son of L. M. Ray- burn, a native of Mississippi, and now a resident of Longview, Washington. Mr. Rayburn was edu- cated in the public schools of Houston. Before fin- ishing school he began work during the summer months for the Kirby-Bonner Lumber Company of Houston, advancing from office boy to department manager in a decade. He left that firm to come to Port Arthur in 1919.

Mr. Rayburn is a member of the Elks Club, the Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Lions Club and the Tarpon Club, and is a social leader among the younger set. He is particularly active in all civic work, and has taken an interest in all development movements inaugurated since he came to Port Arthur.

USSELL L. SCHUH of Port Arthur, Texas, became associated with the Pekin Cooper- age Company soon after leaving college and has spent his entire business life with this company in various portions of the country. Mr. Schuh is manager of the Texas branches of the Pekin Cooperage Company, the local office located at the corner of West Eleventh Street and Wash- ington Boulevard, He also directs the company's plant at Beaumont, Texas. This company estab- lished the large branch here in 1917, and in 1921 Mr. Schuh was sent here as manager, and the success which this business has attained is largely due to the splendid management of Mr. Schuh, and his capable assistants. The Pekin Cooperage Company is the largest plant of its kind in the Lone Star State, and occupies ten acres of ground. All classes of barrels up to sixty gallons capacity are manu- factured here, and an average of one hundred

people are employed in the Port Arthur plant. Mr. Schuh began his business career with the Pekin Cooperage Company at Jonesboro, Arkansas, and remained with the company there for one year. He then went to Guion, Arkansas, with the plant at that place, where he remained for four years, after which he was sent to Helena, Arkansas, for one year, then to Greenwood, Arkansas, for one year, after which he was sent to New Orleans. After a short time spent in the Crescent City, Mr. Schuh was sent to Beaumont as manager of that Texas plant in 1919, and after a short time there, he was made general manager of the Texas branches of the com- pany, and removed to Port Arthur.

Mr. Schuh was born at Quincy, Indiana, on No- vember 8th. 1889. His father, C. L. Schuh, was a well known lumber man of Illinois and Indiana, and for fifteen years was engaged in this industry in Arkansas, and died at Pine Bluff. His mother was Miss Mary V. Lancaster, a native of Indiana and a member of a prominent family of that state. She is now residing at Paragould, Arkansas. His early education was obtained at the public and high schools of Paragould, Arkansas, where he graduated from the latter. He then became a student of the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, and along with the academic course, he took courses in mechanical engineering, which has been of untold value to him in his chosen field of activity.

Mr. Schuh was married at Little Rock, Arkansas, on December 24th, 1926, to Miss Mabel J. Cardwell, a native of Arkansas and a member of a well known family of that state. They have two children: James Louise and Mary Frances. Mr. and Mrs. Schuh reside at 3008 Fifth Street. Mr. Schuh is a member of the A. F. and A. M. with membership in Beaumont Lodge No. 286. He is also a mem- ber of the Rotary Club and the Port Arthur Cham- ber of Commerce in both of which he takes an active interest. In devoting his life to the cooperage business, Mr. Schuh has mastered every detail of this business, and knows cooperage as few men in the entire country know it. Mr. Schuh, since removing to Port Arthur, has been active in the business, social and general community life of this city, where he has made a host of friends, and where he is known as one of Port Arthur's most progres- sive young citizens.

HE plant of the Gulf Refining Company, the largest petroleum refinery in the world, was the first oil refining industry in Port Arthur. The business originally was start- ed by the Guffey Oil Company and subsequently ac- quired by the Gulf Refining Company. Its steady, continuous growth to its present huge proportions is an outstanding feature in the industrial world as well as a tribute to the genius and energy of its managers and directors.

Begun in 1901 on a small scale, it had grown in 1903 to a refinery with a capacity of 6,000 barrels a day, employing 300 men, and operating its own fleet of seagoing vessels of 13,063 net registered tonnage and 176,658 barrels capacity.

By 1923 these figures had increased as follows: Capacity, 103,000 barrels a day; employees, 8,000; fleet, 82,359 net registered tonnage, 1,330,506 barrels.

In addition to the oil refinery proper, in which all petroleum products from gasoline to coke are

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produced in vast quantities, the Gulf Refining Company operates large machine and boiler shops, and various other mechanical shops, so that it is prepared at short notice to quickly handle any work that may be necessary or desirable for continuous operation-from the heaviest to the lightest classes of work-from building a large tank or forging a ship's rudder post, to stitching muslin sacks on a sewing machine or repairing the delicate clockwork of expensive recording devices. Practically every mechanical craft is represented on the company's pay rolls. This refinery is operated twenty-four hours a day, and during the past twenty years or more has not been shut down for a minute. "Prog- ress" is the watchword of this concern.

The company maintains its own hydraulic dredg- ing apparatus, and at its own expense dredged a special 30-foot depth channel from the ship channel to its refinery where it maintains a modern con- crete wharf 3,000 feet in length, where oil carry- ing vessels from the smallest to the largest are handled with great dispatch, both in loading and dis- charging.

In the years 1923 and 1924 millions of dollars were spent in improving and enlarging the plant, but even this has not sufficed, and the company has now started additional improvements and has ac- quired 550 acres of additional land, making a total of 4,000 acres, preparatory to the expenditure of several millions of dollars for extended facilities.

This is truly a leading Texas industry, the prod- ucts of which are distributed over the entire world. ENRY O. MILLS, who became identified with the progressive city of Port Arthur several years ago, has been a foremost figure in the industrial and manufacturing world, and as one of the leading ice distributors of this city has taken an important place in the life of the community. Mr. Mills is manager of the Port Arthur Ice Company, a business established in 1901 by J. A. Young. The new plant is one of the largest and most modern in this section, with the most approved type of machinery and equipment, and has a capacity of one hundred and fifty tons per day. Mr. Mills has charge of the sales and distribution of ice in the city, and has a fleet of twenty wagons and trucks, selling both to the whole- sale and retail trade. Mr. Mills has also found that the icing of the ships docked at the port is very profitable, and he handles a large volume of this trade, icing many of the ships that put in here. A number of the trucks operated are used to take care of the large volume of retail trade, and the city is completely covered daily, a carefully worked out routing system greatly expediting delivery. The present efficiency of the delivery service is largely a reflection of Mr. Mills' executive and sales ability, and under his management the business has de- veloped rapidly.

Mr. Mills was born at Lawrence, South Carolina, the twenty-sixth of September, 1890, the son of John D. Mills, a native of South Carolina, and now a resident of Phoenix, Arizona, and Alpha Virginia (Martin) Mills, also of South Carolina. Mr. Mills was educated in the schools near his home and after finishing his education entered immediately on his business career. He came to Port Arthur in 1909 and in 1917 took charge of the management of the Port Arthur Ice Company, and in addition to this

position is also manager of the John A. Young estate.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 107

Author: Davis, Ellis A. Publication date: 1926 Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?] Number of Pages: 1262

Author: Davis, Ellis A.
Publication date: 1926
Publisher: Dallas, Tex. : Texas development bureau, [1926?]
Number of Pages: 1262