New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 150

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

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Mr. Murphy was married at Marshall, Texas, on November 11th, 1902, to Miss Joe Hart, a native of Marion County, Texas, and a daughter of Joe Hart, who was for twenty years Tax Assessor of Marion County. They have one son, W. W. Murphy, Jr. Mr. Murphy is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Blue Lodge, Temple No. 4, of Hous- ton, a member of Arabia Temple Shrine, a member of the Scottish Rite Body of this Order at Houston to the 18th degree and at Galveston to the 32nd degree. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce. Mr. Murphy's family are members of the Presbyterian Church. As Houston is now the largest cotton market in the world, he believes that the Port will in a few years be the greatest shipping Port in the Southwest. Mr. Murphy has, in the three years that he has been in Houston, seen the cotton exports from this city grow from 75,000 bales to 1,000,000 bales, and this alone would make one optimistic as to the future of the South Texas Metropolis, not to take into consideration the many other advantages for continued growth.

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ORRIS C. OLDHAM for the past decade has been identified with the dairy industry at Houston, and has been one of the advocates of higher standards of dairy operation, con- ducting his plant along the most approved lines and supplying an extensive patronage with the best milk possible to produce. Mr. Oldham is proprietor of the Phenix Dairy, which he established the fourth of May, 1914, starting alone, and doing all the work himself. This small dairy, by the consistent applica- tion of his policy of giving only the best, has devel- oped until it is one of the largest retail milk busi- nesses in Houston. He owns his own property, a modern brick building, affording 8500 square feet of floor space, and equipped with the latest and most modern machinery. He sells only pasteurized milk and to retail trade exclusively, all milk being bot- tled under approved conditions and purchased on contract from milk producers.' The business em- ploys eighty operatives and forty-two routes, zoned to cover the city, furnishes dependable service to the patrons. In addition to the dairy building, Mr. Old- ham has a large stable for his horses, 200x300 feet.

Mr. Oldham was born at Springfield, Ohio, in 1886, son of Dr. J. C. and Mrs. Josephine Oldham. He was educated at the Springfield public schools, grad- uating from Wittenberg Academy and attending the Wittenberg College for two years. He then en- tered Cornell University for the four-year course, specializing in dairying and taking the degree of Bachelor of Scientific Agriculture. After his grad- uation, he returned to Ohio and engaged in the milk business for several years. In 1913 he came to Texas, and spent a year and a half selling dairy equipment, starting his present business in 1914.

Mr. Oldham was married at Houston in 1920 to Miss Allene Grauman, whose father is connected with the Southern Pacific Railway in this city. Mr. Oldham is a member of the University Club, the Houston Launch Club, and the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity.

H. JAMESON has been actively identified with the commercial life of the' City of Houston since his arrival here in 1910, and today is one of the best known of the younger cotton factors of this section. Mr. Jame- son is manager of the Houston branch office of Hooper and Day, English cotton merchants, with offices at 1327-8 Cotton Exchange Building. The firm of Hooper and Day, with which Mr. Jameson has been connected for many years, has its prin- cipal headquarters at Liverpool, England, with American branch offices at Houston, Memphis, Ten- nessee, and Oklahoma City. The firm does an exclusive export business, purchasing cotton from interior dealers and f. o. b. men and concentrating it for shipment at Houston. This firm exports approximately 25,000 bales annually and all of this is shipped to their head office in Liverpool.

A native of Tennessee, Mr. Jameson was born at Nashville, on September 23, 1887, and was reared at Jackson, Tennessee, where he attended the public schools and the Jackson High School, preparing for college at the age of sixteen. His grandfather, James B. Jameson, was a prominent land owner, and at one time held thirty thousand acres of land in Texas, acquired through an old Spanish grant.

While still a boy in knee pants, Mr. Jameson

entered the freshman class of Union University, formerly the Southwestern Baptist University, and during his studies there was very prominent in ath- letic circles, making the baseball team of the uni- versity as pitcher, and taking part in various other activities incident to the school's athletic depart- ment. After leaving the university he came to Texas and became connected with the office force of Hooper and Day, at Houston. He has been with this firm continuously since that time and was made manager of the Houston office in 1917.

On June 20, 1919, Mr. Jameson was married at Houston to Miss Florence McAllister, of Tulsa, Oklahoma, daughter of C. E. McAllister, prominent oil man, formerly with the Sinclair Company and now identified with the Badger-McAllister Company. Mr. and Mrs. Jameson reside at 5419 Jackson Street. They have three children, Jane, William and Ben- jamin.

While an enthusiastic booster for Houston and Texas, Mr. Jameson is also intensely loyal to the traditions of Tennessee. He points with pride to the fact that W. L. Clayton, the South's greatest cotton factor, came from Jackson, Tennessee, and that this little town has furnished many of the really big men now identified with the cotton in- dustry in Texas and throughout the South. He believes that Houston will eventually become the principal market and shipping point for cotton of the entire world.

Mr. Jameson is an active member of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, University Club, Texas Cot- ton Association, the Houston Cotton Exchange and the Houston Country Club. His college fraternity is the Kappa Sigma. He is interested in the de- velopment of Houston and participates actively in the civic affairs of the city.

ACOB V. DEALY, pioneer resident of Hous- ton, has for more than half a century been associated with history-making events in this city, taking a large part in the progress of his community, both in a civic and business way, and taking his place among the men Houston is. proud to claim as citizens. In 1877 Mr. Dealy es- tablished the J. V. Dealy Bookbinding Company, a firm he has since been at the head of, devoting his energies to building up the plant to that of a busi- ness that compares favorably with the big firms of the city. The years of operation, covering a period of almost half a century, have seen a number of changes in the personal of this firm, but always it has been Mr. Dealy who has guided the destinies of the plant. Known successively as the J. V. Dealy Company, Smallwood-Dealy and Baker, the Dealy- Baker Company, the Dealy-Adey-Elgin Company, the business has now been incorporated and is known as the Dealy-Adey-Elgin Company, Incorporated, with Mr. Dealy as President, R. W. Elgin, Treasurer, and J. C. Kidd, Secretary. This firm, devoted ex- clusively to fine printing, bookbinding, and station- ers supplies, has a record of conservative progress, and for the past thirty years has occupied the same building, at 211 Fannin Street. This building, twen- ty-five by one hundred feet, and with three floors, is devoted entirely to the plant of the Dealy-Adey- Elgin Company, and is modernly equipped through- out. A force of twenty-five employees is maintained in the plant, and two salesmen are on the road.

A boy of ten, Mr. Dealy began as route carrier for

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the Houston Union, a Republican paper at that time, and a little later entered the printing shop of the A. C. Gray Company, a printer-bookbinder and ruler, of early Houston days. In 1877 he established his own business, a business that has prospered as Hous- ton has prospered, and kept pace with the develop- ment of the village until it has become the city of today. Besides his activities in a business way Mr. Dealy has been interested in every phase of Hous- ton's progress, giving freely both of time and means, to further this growth. He is a Trustee of the Bay- land Orphans Home, was at one time President of the Houston Lyceum, and for twenty-five years Director of the Young Men's Christian Association, of which he is a past President.

Mr. Dealy was born at Houston, the fourth day of April, 1859, son of E. C. Dealy, who was born at sea as his parents were coming to this country from Ireland. Mr. Dealy's father was reared in Louisiana, and in 1852 came to Houston, where for many years he was a school teacher. His mother, before her marriage, was Miss Lucretia Valentine, a native of Louisiana. Mr. Dealy attended the Houston schools for a time, but his school days were not many, and he has acquired most of his real education himself, as a boy, studying at night, after his day's work was over.

Mr. Dealy was married the fourteenth of Novem- ber, 1894, at Houston, to Miss Estelle Gayle, daugh- ter of W. H. Gayle, who with his family came from his native home in Louisiana, where Mrs. Dealy was reared. Mr. and Mrs. Dealy make their home at 3007 Morrison Street.

KOFAHL, JR., became identified with business activities at Houston more than two decades ago, since that time actively engaging in the petroleum industry, and more recently has established a floral business that is one of the finest in the city. The Q. and S. Flo- rists, established by Mr. Kofahl, and owned by him, operates one of the largest greenhouses in the city, with more than five thousand square feet under glass. In the large greenhouses a variety of fine potted plants are grown and fine blooming flowers to supply the extensive demand for the exquisite cut flowers in which the firm specializes. The Q. and S. Florists give careful attention to decorations for weddings, funerals, and other occasions, and can furnish anything in the floral line. They have had charge of the decorations for many of the most exclusive social events at Houston, and also supply a large clientele with the best cut flowers procur- able. While most of their trade is centered in Hous- ton, they are, through their affiliation with the Florists Telegraph Delivery Association, in a posi- tion to arrange for delivery of flowers to any part of the United States as well as foreign countries.

The Q. and S. Florists occupy a new building, beautifully equipped, in the heart of the city, at 1111 Travis Street, where they have seven em- ployees. The delivery service is adequate to care for the needs at all times. Mrs. C. Thomas is Man- ager of the business. She came to Houston in 1908 from Indiana, and has been in the floral business since that time.

Mr. Kofahl was born at Austin, Texas, in 1879, son of C. Kofahl, a well known citizen of that city, and Charlotte Kofahl. He was educated in his native city, graduating from the Austin High School, after

which he came to Houston, entering the petroleum business, with which he has since been connected.

Mr. Kofahl was married to Miss Mabel Moore, daughter of John and Laura Moore. They make their home at 538 Yale Avenue, and have two chil- dren, Mrs. Joe Goerner and Mrs. L. E. Killingsworth. Mr. Kofahl is a Mason, York Rite of Houston. The Q. and S. Florists are member of the Society of American Florists and Ornamental Horticulturists, the Floral Telegraph Delivery Association, and the Texas State Florists Association. Mr. Kofahl is President of the Houston Florists Club and Vice- President of the Texas State Floral Association.

L. JONES, manager and secretary-treas- urer of the Exporters Compress and Ware- house Company, is numbered among the best known cotton men of Texas, where he has been engaged in the cotton business for more than a quarter of a century. His firm, organ- ized in 1923, is engaged in compressing and ware- housing of cotton and the plant, located on a sixty- three-acre tract of land near the Clinton Road, has a 50,000-bale capacity. Up to July 1st, 1925, Mr. Jones conducted a cotton business, under the name of J. L. Jones and Company. He had for several years been a member of the firm of Godwin and Jones. Prior to that, and for twenty years he was associated with Minoprio and Company.

A native Texan, Mr. Jones was born in Houston, September 6th, 1881. His father, J. L. Jones (de- ceased since 1886) came to Texas from Mississippi about three years after the close of the Civil War, in which he was a veteran. His mother was a native of Mississippi, and after they had settled in Texas, they were for many years engaged in farming. His education was obtained in the public and high schools of Houston, after which he attended a Hous- ton business college. When fifteen years of age he entered the cotton business with Bateson Hooper and Company, an English firm, from whom he obtained much valuable experience. In 1901 he started as a classer with Minoprio and Company, of Liverpool, and was located at Weimar, Texas, for nine years as their representative, and came to Houston in charge of this firm's business in 1914.

Mr. Jones was married in Weimar, Texas, in 1905, to Miss Mary Ella Holloway, a member of an old Texas family, and a daughter of R. E. Hol- loway, a farmer and large land owner, who was well known throughout the state. They have one daughter, Dorothy Ella Jones, sixteen years of age. Mr. and Mrs. Jones reside at the corner of Bissonet and Yoakum Streets. Mr. Jones is a member of the Houston Cotton Exchange, and is a member of the arbitration committee of this organization, and is also a stockholder in the Exchange. His family faith is with the Methodist denomination. Mr. Jones' faith in Houston is evidenced by the fact that he recently purchased one-fourth of a block of Texas Avenue property, which is just outside the business center and which he expects to lease for big busi- ness building. He considers Houston a great ship- ping port, whose shipping will increase as fast as wharfage facilities are provided. Mr. Jones is in- terested in everything commercially or civically that has for its purpose the further growth and devel- opment of the city of his nativity, and he is recog- nized as one of its highly regarded and loyal cit- izens.

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EN S. SCOTT, owner of the Bristol Hotel at Houston, has recently become identified with the hotel business here, bringing with him a wealth of experience gained in other lines. Mr. Scott bought the Bristol Hotel in August, 1925, reorganizing the operating plan, and the hos- telry is fast gaining in popularity under his man- agement. The Bristol Hotel occupies a modern, fire-proof structure at 708-712 Travis Street, and has one hundred and thirty rooms, eighty of which have private baths. The Bristol Hotel, although not one of Houston's largest hotels, is operated in accordance with high standards, and in the matter of accommodations compares favorably with other hotels of the city. Mr. Scott is making improve- ments, renewing furniture, putting in new carpets and ice plant, etc., making an especial effort to have his hotel pleasing to the traveling public.

Ben S. Scott was born in Newton County, Texas, the twenty-eighth of October, 1890, son of S. R. Scott, and Johnnie (Alley) Scott. Mr. Scott, Sr., now deceased, was a native Texan, and for many years was a factor in the timber business in the state. Mrs. Scott, also a native Texan, now resides in Houston. Ben S. Scott attended the Texas pub- lic schools, graduating from High School. His first business experience was with the Kirby Lumber Company, and, after leaving that company, he engaged in the oil business for about five years with the Texas Company and E. F. Simms. During the World War Mr. Scott was in military service for a year and a half, serving in France for one year.

Mr. Scott was married at Orange, Texas, the twentieth of January, 1920, to Miss Marian Hagen- doorn, daughter of F. J. Hagendoorn and Idabelle (Head) Hagendoorn, both of whom are natives of Louisiana. Mr. Hagendoorn is engaged in the dairy business. Mr. and Mrs. Scott reside at the Bristol Hotel, and have one child, a daughter, Sidney Scott. Mr. Scott is a Mason, Scottish Rite, at Houston, Blue Lodge at Kirbyville, and belongs to the Meth- odist Church.

S. MARSHALL, since becoming general manager of the Rio Grande Valley Ice Com- pany of Houston, in 1919, has had an im- portant part in increasing the business and shaping the destinies of that industry. The plant of the Rio Grande Valley Ice Company, located at 2715 Mckinney Avenue, was built in 1919 and the company was incorporated in 1920. In November, 1922, this plant was purchased from the original owners by R. W. Morrison and McCall, well known as large public service owners of ice plants, electric power plants, street railway companies, etc. The Rio Grande Valley Ice Company has a daily capacity of one hundred tons and sell to both the wholesale and retail trade of Houston. Their building occcupies one-half of a city block on the Houston Belt and Terminal Railroad, where they have a delivery plat- form two hundred feet in length. The Rio Grande Valley Ice Company's business is augmented by hav- ing the icing of all cars, vegetables and fruits com- ing through Houston from the Rio Grande Valley. This company supplies the wholesale customers by the use of seven two-ton trucks and one four-ton truck and their retail trade is cared for by five two- horse wagons. The Rio Grande Valley Ice Com- pany's plant is equipped with electricity only and

runs to full capacity during twelve months each year and employ fifty people.

A native of Virginia, Mr. Marshall was born in Lancaster County in 1892. His father, W. W. Mar- shall, was a well known oyster grower, shipper and packer and was also engaged in raising truck. His mother was Miss Hattie E. Coulburne, a member of a prominent Virginia family. The public and high schools of Lancaster County supplied the foundation for Mr. Marshall's education, after which he attended a business college in Baltimore for one year and special courses for two years. After leaving col- lege, Mr. Marshall began his business career in Chicago with the firm of Sangster and Matthews, accountants. He remained with this firm for three years, when he volunteered for service in the World War in June, 1917, and was sent to Camp Rich, an aviation camp at Waco, Texas, and in June, 1918, was commissioned a second lieutenant in the signal corps. He was later removed to Love Field, Dal- las, where he remained for ten months and was transferred to Fort Sam Houston, San Antonio and was discharged from that camp in February, 1919. After his discharge from the army, he came to Hous- ton and was employed by Hugh Hamilton in special accounting work and was made manager of the Rio Grande Valley Ice Company in 1919.

Mr. Marshall was married at Dallas in 1918 to Miss J. Belle Pope, a native of Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Marshall reside at 3001 Chenevert Street. He is a member of the York Rite body of the Masonic fraternity and is a Shriner of Arabia Temple, Hous- ton. In commercial and social organizations, Mr. Marshall is a member of the Traffic Club, the Lum- bermen's Club, the Conopus Club, the Houston Club and Glenbrook Country Club. Mr. Marshall finds opportunity to give his time and assistance to many movements of a public nature, and is interested in all projects tending to the progress and civic ad- vancement of Houston.

L. (JACK) PARKER, of Houston, Texas, has had a wide and varied business career, and in 1921 engaged in the insurance busi- ness in this city, where he has built up a large and profitable business. Mr. Parker is a member of the insurance firm of Krahl and Parker, with offices on the eighth floor of the Bankers Mortgage Building. The other member of the firm is DeWitt D. Krahl, well known in the business and insurance circles of Houston and South Texas. Al- though Mr. Parker has been a resident of Houston for more than twelve years, the present firm was established four years ago, and since that time they have specialized in life insurance, representing the National Fidelity Life Insurance Company and their business has grown to large proportions. Mr. Parker began his career in the world of business as a traveling salesman, and for a period of six years traveled all of the Lone Star State for a large Eastern dry goods house. He then became as- sociated with the Houston Post in the advertising department, and remained in this position for three years. He then went with the Houston Chronicle, and remained with this newspaper in the advertis- ing department for a period of three years, after which he became associated with the Gulf State Bank, where he was employed until he entered his present business.

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A native of Arkansas, Mr. Parker was born at Waldo on May 6, 1885. His father, S. R. Parker, a native of Georgia, came to Arkansas when a young man and later removed to Texas, where he has re- sided continuously for the past thirty years. He first located in Hopkins County, and for many years was one of the leading merchants of Sulphur Springs, Texas, where he is now residing, but has retired from active business pursuits. His mother was Miss Lucy Parkham, a member of a prominent Georgia family. His education was obtained in the public schools of Winnsboro, Texas.

Mr. Parker was married at Houston on August 20, 1923, to Miss Katherine Dalton, a native of De- troit, Michigan, and a member of a well known family of that State. Mr. and Mrs. Parker reside at 4547 Clay Avenue. Mr. Parker is one of the or- ganizers of the Kiwanis Club here, and is a member of many of the social and civic organizations of the city, in which he takes a keen interest. Mr. Parker is enthusiastic as to the future of Houston and be- lieves that this city will soon become the Metropolis of the Southwest. He is ambitious for his firm and his city and is an ardent worker for the progress and advancement of both. He believes that the only method of success in any line of business is through close attention to the details of the business and fair dealing with the public. Both Mr. Parker and his partner are well known in the business circles of South Texas and their reputation as men efficient in their line of work was established here before entering their present business, where they are ren- dering a real service to the public.

EORGE C. SCOTT well and favorably known to business interests in the Lone Star State, is now identified with hotel enterprises in Houston, Dallas and Waco. The Tennison Hotel, one of Houston's newest hotels, was built in 1922, and has since been operated by him. This hotel, a modern, fireproof, seven story structure, fifty by one hundred and four feet, represents the latest in hotel construction. There are one hundred and ten rooms in the building, each furnished with every modern convenience, including ceiling fans, steam heat, and the best of furnishings. Accommo- dations are provided with rates from one dollar and a half to two dollars and a half, the hotel being operated on the European plan. The Tennison Hotel has thirty-two employees. Mr. Scott has other hotel interests, and owns and operates the Waco Hotel, at Waco, Texas, a modern four-story building, with seventy-five rooms and twenty-five employees. This hotel is recognized as one of the finest in that city. In October, 1925, Mr. Scott opened the Scott Hotel in Dallas. This is a ten-story building with 160 guest rooms, each with private bath.

Mr. Scott came to Houston shortly after leaving school, and entered the law office of Carlton-Townes and Townes, where he was employed for a time, and also acted as court reporter. In 1914 he was ad- mitted to the bar in Houston, and for the en- suing five years engaged in the practice of his profession, in association with Judge Roy F. Camp- bell. In 1919 he removed to Dallas, where for a period of several years he engaged successfully in the oil brokerage business. When Ranger be- came the center of the oil boom he went there, and bought the De Groff Hotel which he operated until May, 1920. He then sold this interest, and bought

the Waco Hotel, at Waco, and later leased the Tennison Hotel, when it was completed. Mr. Scott is a typical hotel man, kind, genial, friendly and has a way of making his guests feel at home in his hotels. He has schooled his employees in giving service, and the atmosphere is always friendly and homelike at the Tennison and the Waco.

Mr. Scott was born at Newton County, Texas, March 27th, 1886, son of S. R. Scott, a native Tex- an, and until his death one of the well known lum- bermen of East Texas. His mother, before her marriage, Miss Jonnie Alley, is also a native of Texas. Mr. Scott was educated in the public schools at Newton County, later attending the Baylor Uni- versity. After leaving college he came to Houston.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 150

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