New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 145

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

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gaged in the general contracting business. Mr. Woodruff was married in Georgia in 1887 to Miss Ella Thompson, a member of an old Alabama fam- ily. They have eight children, Paul W. Woodruff, Mrs. Arsa Davidson, Mrs. Ida Davidson, H. E. Wood- ruff, Mrs. Mary Schmidt, Miss Kate Woodruff, Mrs. Myrtle McMillan, and Miss Ella Frances Woodruff. Mr. and Mrs. Woodruff reside at 3201 Virginia Street. The two sons, H. E. and Paul, are engaged in business with their father, and both are members of the Masonic fraternity. Mr. Woodruff is a Scottish Rite Mason and a member of the Arabia Temple Shrine. He is also a member of the Build- ers' Exchange and the Houston Civic Council. Mr. Woodruff has great faith in the future of Houston, and is one of the best workers in the city for the progress, advancement and civic improvement of the city of his adoption.

AMES W. INGOLD has for two decades been held in high esteem for his activities in commercial circles at Houston, where he is the representative of one of the leading news service companies in the country. Mr. Ingold is General Superintendent of the District office of the Van Noy Interstate Company, Incorporated, operating a railroad and hotel news service. Mr. Ingold has held this position since July, 1904, in which year he came to Houston. The Van Noy In- terstate Company operates news stands in hotels, depots and on trains, and have charge of the news service on the Southern Pacific Lines, the San An- tonio and Aransas Pass, International-Great North- ern, San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf, and Gulf Coast Lines. Mr. Ingold has been in large measure re- sponsible for the rapid development of this busi- ness, and has now in his employ more than seventy operatives on the various trains and in hotels and depots. The officers of the Van Noy Interstate Company are H. C. Leighton of New York, Presi- dent, and Mr. H. C. Koehler of Kansas City, Vice- President. Mr. Ingold is also interested in other enterprises of commercial importance at Houston, and is Vice-President of the Texas Hotel Supply Company.

Mr. Ingold began his business career in Kansas City, Missouri, more than a quarter of a century ago, as a railroad man. In 1896 he went in his present business, and was one of the founders of the Van Noy Interstate Company, organizing the business as a partnership in that year. The firm was then known as the Ingold-Brown News Service Company, under which name it was operated until 1899, when the corporation became known as the Brown News Company. Mr. Ingold came to Hous- ton in 1904 to open the office here, as Superinten- dent of this District, and has so continued. In 1915 the business was reorganized and at that time the name changed to the Van Noy Interstate Company.

Mr. Ingold was born in Chicago, Illinois, the twen- ty-seventh of July, 1873, son of W. A. Ingold, a native of North Carolina, who spent most of his life in Illinois and Missouri, retiring and coming to Houston in 1906. He is now deceased. Mr. Ingold was educated in the public schools of Chicago and Kansas City and after finishing his education en- tered the business world.

Mr. Ingold is a Mason, Gray Lodge No. 329, Thir- ty-Second Degree, Scottish Rite, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine.

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M. P. Cathing ham

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ESLEY P. COTTINGHAM for upwards of three decades has been a prime factor in industrial activities at Houston, where his name is of special significance in the blue print and drafting business. Mr. Cottingham is president, treasurer and manager of the Texas Blue Print and Supply Company, one of the largest firms of this kind in the city. The business was established by Mr. Cottingham in 1909 and has since that time engaged extensively in the making of blue prints and as dealers in all kinds of architectural supplies. Mr. Cottingham is well equipped for the management of such a business, having had care- ful training in this work, and has attained the reputation of one of the best blue print experts in this section of the state. He gives his personal supervision to all the work turned out by his plant and has a large patronage drawn from the best architects and builders in Houston. Mr. Cottingham has his offices at 420 Fannin Street and employs five men in his plant. R. C. Watkins is vice pres- ident and G. R. Cottingham secretary of the cor- poration.

Mr. Cottingham was born in Refugio County, Texas, in 1871, son of J. I. Cottingham, a native of Mississippi, who came to Texas in the sixties, and Marguerite Wallace Cottingham, a native of South Carolina. He was educated in the public schools of De Witt County and after finishing there went to Texas A. & M. College, where he graduated in 1892 with the degree B. C. E. He came to Hous- ton shortly after his graduation and went with the Southern Pacific Railroad as civil engineer, holding this position until 1907. He was with the Kansas City Southern Railroad as civil engineer from then until 1909, in which year he established his present business.

Mr. Cottingham has been twice married, his second marriage, to Miss Edna Barnhart, occurring in California in 1915.

The family reside at 2406 Jackson Avenue. Mr. Cottingham is a member of the Light Guards, since 1896.

HILIP A. MCKENZIE, Investor, has for al- most a quarter of a century been engaged in the construction and contracting business in Houston, and during this time has built and sold hundreds of homes. Mr. Mckenzie builds and sells houses, buys and sells property of all kinds, and does some general contracting, but his busi- ness consists largely of building the houses which he sells. Mr. Mckenzie's office is located in the State National Bank Building, and by his fair deal- ing with the public, his business has grown since the beginning, and he is the owner of much valuable property in the city.

A native Texan, Mr. Mckenzie was born in Tyler County, September 17th, 1860. His father, Daniel Jackson Mckenzie, entered the Civil War at the beginning of this struggle and lost his life during the conflict. His mother was Miss Mildred Wil- liams, a member of a well-known Texas family. His opportunities for securing an education were limited, but he attended the Huntington Institute at Woodville, Texas, where he was a classmate of John H. Kirby, and a friendship sprang up between these men at that time which has lasted, and grown stronger as the years have passed.

Mr. Mckenzie began his business career in the

lumber business and was engaged in the shipping branch of this industry for about four years at Warren, Texas, and has had experience in every part of this great industry from the lumber camp up through all the branches. He is regarded as one of the best posted lumber men in Houston, which has been his life's work, and is also an expert lum- ber grader; all of which has been of great value to him in the building and contracting business.

Mr. Mckenzie was married in Houston, in 1896, to Miss Alice Hannon, a native Texan, and a mem- ber of a well-known South Texas family. They have four children-Ruth, twenty-three years of age; Edith, aged twenty-one; Harold, eighteen years old, and Louis, aged fourteen years. Mr. Mckenzie is a member of the Praetorians and takes an active interest in this organization. Mr. Mckenzie has great faith in the future of Houston and believes that this city will soon become the Metropolis of the Southwest. He is regarded as one of the city's most progressive citizens and has had much to do with the building of homes here, which he has sold to people of moderate means, mostly, there- by providing a way in which these people could be- come home owners, and better citizens.

AMES FITZGERALD, who has spent most of his life in the city of Houston, has been variously identified with business enter- prises in this city, and for the past five years has been active in the manufacturing indus- try. Mr. Fitzgerald is general manager of the Lloyd Metal Company, established in Houston in 1910, and owned by the Lloyd Estate. The com- pany manufactures sash-weights, manhole frames and covers, catch-basins, inlets, street plates, and municipal castings, especially the various Lloyd De- signs of water meter boxes and Lloyd Design of street sign posts, all cast and raised letters. One of their principal products is sash-weights, of which they turn out around three thousand daily, weigh- ing in the aggregate eight tons. The Lloyd Metal Company has a modern foundry with the best of equipment, the plant being located at the corner of Carr and Opelousas Streets. They employ thirty men, have their own tracks on the I. & G. N. R. R., and ship their product throughout this and adjoining states.

Mr. Fitzgerald was born at Houston, Texas, the 21st of March, 1870, son of Wm. and Mary Fitz- gerald. His father, who had been for many years in the railroad business, died when Mr. Fitzgerald was a child of three. Mr. Fitzgerald was educated in the public schools of Houston, and after leaving school was for four years connected with the print- ing industry. At the expiration of this time he entered the railroad business, and for the ensuing sixteen years was connected with various roads. After this, clerical work engaged his attention until December, 1918, when he came with the Lloyd Metal Company as general manager.

Mr. Fitzgerald was married at Houston in 1899, to Miss Laura Lyons, whose father is well known in Houston railroad circles. Mr. and Mrs. Fitz- gerald have made their home in Houston, their residence being located at 2403 North Main Street. They have two children, William J. and E. T. The family are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. Fitzgerald is a Knight of Columbus, and a Knight of Pythias.

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EORGE H. COLLINS, President of the Houston Lumber and Building Company, Inc., has been identified with the business world at Houston for twenty years. The company he now heads was incorporated in 1919, and has since engaged in a retail lumber business, and a building business, the latter including the buying, wrecking and reselling of all kinds of build- ings, remodeling old buildings, and the promotion, through residence building, of new additions. The company also does a big business salvaging saw mills, towns and army camps, this business being done all over Texas and Louisiana. Since the es- tablishment of the business more than five hundred new homes have been constructed and sold, count- less buildings been remodeled, and a volume of new building material of all kinds sold. The cor- poration is located at 3120 Washington Avenue, and officers, in addition to Mr. Collins, the Presi- dent, are: Thomas Collins, Vice-President, and M. L. Wallace, Secretary.

George H. Collins was born in Bee County, Texas, the fifteenth of March, 1883, son of Thomas Collins and Laura (Richardson) Collins. Mr. Col- lins, Sr., a native of Matagorda, Texas, is Vice- President of the company his son heads. Mrs. Col- lins is a native of Alabama. George H. Collins was educated in the Houston schools, and gained his first business experience here, engaging in the general contracting business for fifteen years prior to establishing his present business.

Mr. Collins was married at Houston, the seven- teenth of June, 1908, to Miss Pearl Hecox, a native of Arkansas, and daughter of John Hecox and Kate (Drake) Hecox, of that state. Mr. and Mrs. Collins have one son, George H. Collins, Jr., and re- side at 2617 Baldwin Street. Mr. Collins is an Elk and a Knight of Pythias.

EED F. CRAWFORD, one of the younger members of the business fraternity of Hous- ton, has been active in commercial and social circles here for the past six years. Mr. Crawford is sales manager of Horton and Hor- ton, one of the leading building material firms of South Texas. Horton and Horton do a large busi- ness in gravel, sand and shell. They have all facili- ties in handling these materials, including a fleet of barges that bring same up the bayou to the city proper. The general sales office and warehouse of the firm is located on Mckinney Avenue at the cor- ner of Velasco, and the sand, gravel and shell bins are located on Baker at the corner of Walnut.

A native Texan, Mr. Crawford was born at Cam- eron in 1895. His father, Frank Crawford, died when Mr. Crawford was an infant. His mother later married Mr. J. B. Smith, a business man of Chi- cago, who reared and educated Mr. Crawford. His education was obtained in the public schools of Cameron, and public and private schools of Chicago and the Northwestern University of Illinois. After leaving college, Mr. Crawford enlisted in the army in June, 1917 and was assigned to the Ambulance Corps. He remained in this branch of the service until November, 1917, when he was transferred to the Air Service and entered the ground school of Ohio University, and was later sent to the ground school at Berkeley, California. The next place was the flying field and he was sent to Rockwell Field, California. He received his commission in May, 1918,

and was sent to Camp Dick, Dallas. After a short time spent at that field, Mr. Crawford was sent to Dayton, Ohio for gunnery instructions and then re- turned to Camp Dick, at Dallas. After a short stay at Camp Dick, he was sent to France. He returned to the United States and received his discharge in February, 1919, and immediately came to Houston. He soon entered the army goods business under the name of Crawford and Orand, the store being located at 906 Franklin Avenue. He continued in this line for several years. On March 1st, 1924, he went with Horton and Horton.

Mr. Crawford was married in Houston in 1920 to Miss Emrette Parker, a native Texan and a member of a well known Ennis family. They have one daugh- ter, Mary May Crawford. Mr. and Mrs. Crawford reside at 1016 West Alabama Street.

Mr. Crawford is a member of the A. F. & A. M. with membership in Gray Lodge No. 329 of Hous- ton. He is also a member of the Houston Country Club and the Y. M. C. A. Mr. Crawford is of the opinion that the future of Houston is one of un- limited possibilities for continued growth.

H. WEAVER, for almost two decades iden- tified with the nursery business at Hous- ton, has during this time devoted his energies to the growing of fine nursery stock, and has built up a business of national scope. Mr. Weaver came to Houston in 1906, and in that year established the S. H. Weaver and Company Nurseries. He continued to operate this business until 1922, when a reorganization was effected at which time the name was changed to the Consoli- dated Nurseries, with W. C. Weaver as owner of part of the company. Mr. S. H. Weaver has been general manager since the reorganization. The Con- solidated Nurseries are among the largest sellers of nursery stock in Texas, offering every known kind of fruit, berries, semi-tropical fruit and green- house products, ornamental trees and shrubs, roses, hedges and garden flowers of all kinds. They have a complete nursery stock, owning and controlling over five hundred acres of rich land, devoted to the raising of nursery stock. They employ one hundred gardeners and other employees. The city office of the Consolidated Nurseries is located at 1611 Main Street, where the general business of the firm is handled. They have a large volume of mail order business, their catalogue, compiled by Mr. Weaver, going to customers throughout the United States and to Canada. They ship a large volume of stock annually, much of their choicest nursery stock go- ing to California, Canada and Mexico. The Con- solidated Nurseries, while concentrating their prin- ciples efforts on mail order trade, also handle an extensive local business.

Mr. Weaver was born at Beaumont, the second of June, 1882, son of W. F. and Julia Decker Weaver, his father being a farmer there. His education was received in the schools of Beaumont, and at the age of eighteen he began in the nursery business to which his entire business career has been devoted. In 1906, Mr. Weaver came to Houston, with the view of making this city his permanent headquarters, and has continued the business here since that time.

Mr. Weaver was married at Galveston, in 1912, and has one child, Edith. He makes his home at 1611 Main Street.

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W. WARREN has had much to do with supplying equipment for plumbing, heating and ventilating to many of the large build- ings of Houston since becoming established in this city in 1914. Mr. Warren is president of the Warren Company, Inc., Plumbing and Heating Contractors, with offices at 1214 Mckinney Avenue Among the large buildings in Houston which the Warren Company has supplied with plumbing, heat- ing and ventilating equipment are the Gulf Building, Federal Reserve Bank, Bankers Mortgage Company, Hermann Hospital, Scottish Rite Cathedral and two Rice Institute buildings. This company does a large business in residence work in all parts of Houston and its suburban residence districts. The Warren Company carry a stock valued at $30,000.00 and employ twenty people in their establishments, which consists of two stores, one at 1214 Mckinney, which runs through the block to Caroline and forms the second store of this company, which fronts on that street. Other officers of the Warren Company, Inc., are J. W. Phillips, vice president and B. Bruecher, secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Warren was born in Charlotte, Michigan, in 1872, but came to Texas with his parents when two years of age. His education was obtained in the public and high schools of Sherman. After leaving school, Mr. Warren engaged in farming, and con- tinued to farm until he was eighteen years of age. He came to Houston in 1897 and learned the plum- ber's trade here, after which he went with the Keithly Company, where he remained for several years, during which time he was advanced until he had become vice president of the Keithly Com- pany. He held this position, in addition to being a large stock holder in this organization, at the time he severed his connection with this company in 1914 in order to start his present business, which has grown rapidly from the beginning.

Mr. Warren was married in Houston in 1903 to Miss Ethel Blondeau. They have two daughters- Aleen, now Mrs. DeWitt Morrow, and Inez, twelve years of age. Mr. Warren is a member of the Scottish Rite Body of the Masonic fraternity and is a member of Arabia Temple. He has been closely connected with the commercial interests of Houston for many years, and is interested in all movements tending to promote the growth and importance of his city.

D. BURRESS, for a number of years a factor in highway, railway and levee con- struction work at Houston, has recently entered the ice manufacturing business, at- taining a commendable reputation for his activities in this important industry. The Burress & Rogers Ice Company, which Mr. Burress, with J. E. Rogers, veteran grain man of Houston, established in 1922, occupies a new and modern plant with a one hun- dred ton capacity. This plant, constructed under Mr. Burress' direct supervision, represents the lat- est and most modern improvements in plant con- struction, is built of reinforced concrete and steel, with electric equipment throughout. The company owns their own property, and also has their own wells, assuring absolute purity of the manufactured product. Their location, at 1220 Washington Ave- nue, is ideal for their requirements, and occupies a lot seventy-two by two hundred and eight feet, the building covering the entire property. They

sell both wholesale and retail in the city, providing loading platforms for both classes of trade, and also sell in carload lots. Mr. Burress is the active manager of the plant, and with Mr. Rogers, owns the establishment.

Mr. Burress was born at Baldwyn, Mississippi, in 1886, son of L. R. and Annie Burress. Mr. Bur- ress received his rudimentary education in the pub- lic schools of his native state, graduating from the high school there. He then entered Mississippi Heights Academy, at Blue Mountain, as a special student, remaining there two years, and then at- tended Mississippi College, at Clinton, Mississippi, for a period of two years. Mr. Burress came to Texas in 1907, a year later entering the construc- tion contracting business, building railroads, high- ways and rice levees, continuing in this business until 1922 at which time he established the present ice manufacturing business.

Mr. Burress was married in DeWitt County, in 1913, to Miss Martha Elizabeth Young, daughter of a prominent landowner of that county. They have two children, Jeanette and Margaret. Mr. Burress is a Mason.

IVIAN W. MOSS, vice president, treasurer and manager of the Randolph Paint Com- pany, Incorporated, has in the short time that he has been at Houston, taken an ac- tive part in retail and wholesale trade activities. The Randolph Paint Company, established by N. Randolph, in 1861, has one of the largest retail stores in the city, occupying a modern building on Texas Avenue, at Milam, and being forty-five by ninety feet. This store sells retail exclusively, carrying a complete line of paints, wall paper and glass. The wholesale business has a separate building, forty- five by one hundred and fifty feet, and handles a large volume of business annually. The Randolph lines of paints and wall papers are chosen for their qualities of dependability and this firm has a record of satisfied customers and reliability covering many years of operation. Fifteen men are employed in the retail department, with three men on the road for the wholesale branch. Earnest T. Trigg, of Philadel- phia, Pennsylvania, is president of the company. Mr. Moss, vice president, treasurer and manager.

Mr. Moss was born at Ackerman, Mississippi, the thirteenth of October, 1887, son of W. A. Moss, a na- tive of that state, and a well known planter, now living at Ackerman, Mississippi. His mother, be- fore her marriage Miss Lou Wood, is also a native of Mississippi. Mr. Moss was educated in the pub- lic schools of Meridian, Mississippi. After finishing his education, he went with C. M. Rubush, as office man, remaining there for a short time. He then went with the Perry Paint and Mantel Company, like the Rubush Company, located at Meridian, and was there for ten years. He came to Houston in May, 1922, as vice president, treasurer and manager of the Randolph Paint Company, Inc.

Mr. Moss was married at Meridian, Mississippi, the fifteenth of June, 1910, to Miss Jodie Rubush, daughter of C. M. Rubush, for many years a general contractor at Meridian. Mr. and Mrs. Moss, since coming to Houston, have made their home at 1501 Branard Avenue. They have two children, Vivian W., Junior and William Austin. Mr. Moss belongs to the Rotary Club, the Elks, the Salesmanship Club and the Houston Club.

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MEN OF TEXAS

H. HABERLEIN, who has recently come to Houston and established his home and business headquarters, is a lumberman of several years' practical experience, and is a factor in the lumber business here. Mr. Haber- lein is president, treasurer and manager of the Home Lumber Company, which was established at Houston the sixth of November, 1922. The Home Lumber Company operates a yard at 4701 Wash- ington Avenue. The company has a large and complete stock of lumber, builders supplies of all kinds, cement, paint, varnish, and like commodities, and has done a large volume of business annually since its organization. There are six people active in the organization and the territory covered in- cludes Harris County as well as the city of Hous- ton. In addition to Mr. Haberlein, the president and treasurer, other officers include W. S. Thorn- ton, pioneer Texas lumberman, vice president, and T. F. Ferguson, secretary.

R. H. Haberlein was born in Inman, Kansas, the nineteenth of January, 1896, the son of the late R. G. Haberlein, a native of Mississipi, who moved to Oklahoma, where he made his home for many years. R. H. Haberlein attended the public schools of Kansas and Oklahoma, and while still attending school began work in a retail lumber yard. Later he came to Texas, in 1912, and at the time of the big oil boom at Ranger, went there and became manager of the Barnes Lumber Company's yard. Later he went to Mexia in a like capacity, and was there during the oil boom at that place. In the fall of 1922 Mr. Haberlein came to Houston, organ- izing his present company, and has since been active in the lumber business here. He is interested in other commercial activities and is vice president of the Southern Planing Mill Company. During the World War he served in the aviation and machine corps.

Mr. Haberlein belongs to the Hoo-Hoo Club, the Lumbermen's Club, the American Legion, the Elks Club at Mexia and is a Mason, Blue Lodge 152, Sentinal, Oklahoma. A young man, he has already gone far in the lumber business and his success in this field is assured.

B. COLLINS, plumbing contractor conduct- ing business under the name of J. B. Col- lins Company, 1409 Preston Avenue, has the distinction of being the oldest plumbing contractor in Houston now in business. Mr. Col- lins is engaged in the plumbing, heating and sprink- ling contracting business and employs twenty peo- ple. He does all kinds of work in his line, either large or small, and has a splendid business which has grown steadily since established.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 145

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