New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 20

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

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Mr. Dionne was married at Orange, Texas, in 1907 to Miss Maude Renfro, daughter of a native of the Lone Star State and a resident of Orange. They have three children, Dorothy, Katherine and Betty Ann. The family live at 119 West Alabama Ave- nue. Mr. Dionne is a member of the Hoo-Hoo's, a fraternal organization of lumbermen, the Houston Country Club, the Houston Club and is secretary of the Lumbermen's Association of Texas and a mem- ber of various civic organizations.

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ILL F. MILLER since coming to Houston, January 1, 1920, has become well known in banking and business circles of South Tex- as. Mr. Miller is active president of the

Bankers Mortgage Company. Since 1908 he has given his time and talents to the banking profes- sion, and by attention to his duties has risen to an enviable position for a man of his years. The Bankers Mortgage Company has a capital stock of $2,000,000.00 and a surplus fund of $600,000.00. Oth- er officers of the Bankers Mortgage Company are: Jesse H. Jones, president and chairman of the board; N. E. Meador, J. M. Rockwall and F. J. Heyne, vice presidents and W. W. Moore, secretary and treasurer. The directors of the Bankers Mort- gage Company are the representative business men of Houston.

A native Texan, Mr. Miller was born in Colorado County, Texas, July 13th, 1884. His father, F. G. Miller, was also a native of Colorado County, where he lived all his life and was engaged in farming and stock raising. He died at the age of fifty-nine years. Mr. F. G. Miller's father, Fritz Miller, came to Texas as a young man, from Germany. His mother was prior to her marriage, Miss Helen Bar- tels, a native of Germany, and is now residing at Columbus, Texas. His education was obtained in the country schools of Colorado County, where his opportunities for securing an education were lim- ited. Later, he attended a business college at Tyler, but after six months there, was called home in order to assist his father, and the liberal educa- tion which he obtained in later years, was entirely through self help. Mr. Miller started his business career in 1908, with the First State Bank of Weimar, Colorado County, Texas, as a bookkeeper and work- ed in all the departments of this bank, and laid the foundation for his future success in the financial world. At the time Mr. Miller entered the Weimar Bank, Mr. Ross S. Sterling was president. In 1911, Mr. Miller was made cashier of the First State Bank of Weimar and in 1914 was elected president to succeed Mr. Sterling, and remained as the execu- tive head of this institution until he came to Hous- ton in 1920 to accept his present position. In addi- tion to his interests in the Bankers Mortgage Com- pany, Mr. Miller holds directorates in the National Bank of Commerce, Houston, the First State Bank of Weimar, Texas, and the First State Bank of Columbus, Texas, and is president of the State Guaranty Bank of Goose Creek, president of the Guaranty State Bank of Ganado.

Mr. Miller resides at the Rice Hotel in Houston, and is a member of the Houston Club. Since com- ing to Houston he has been a constant worker for the advancement of his city.

R. H. F. ESTILL, president of Sam Houston State Teachers' College, at Huntsville, Texas, is known and valued as one of the leading representatives of the pedagogic profession in Texas. Dr. Estill has been president of this college since 1908 and has built up the college under conditions and demands of modern educational policy and has done much to increase the standing of the institution as an educational center. Dr. Estill is a man of high intellectual attainments, and as an executive has shown a splendid discrimination, his educational ideals being the ripened result of a

long period of years spent in educational work. He makes each student a special problem, and is the true friend of every student on the campus. Sam Houston State Teachers' College, located at Hunts- ville, was established for the definite purpose of preparing competent teachers for the public schools of the state, the legislative act creating the college being signed by Governor O. M. Roberts in 1879, in April, the school opening the following October. Since that time the institution has stood for three essentials in the teachers' preparation: a high grade of scholarship, the study of education as a science, and practice in teaching under expert supervision. The college offers four years of standard college work, emphasizing those special subjects which will best prepare the student for the pedagogic pro- fession. In addition, for the benefit of those teach- ers and other students with limited educational preparation, who plan to teach in rural schools, one year of sub-college work is offered.

The plant of the Sam Houston Teachers' College includes the Main Building, the Industrial Arts Building, the Library Building, the Stephen F. Aus- tin Building, also known as the Social Center Build- ing; the Women's Gymnasium, the Men's Gym- nasium, the Science and Administration Building, and the Training School Building, and in addition to this the president's residence, the greenhouse, cafeteria, model dairy barn, central heating plant, amphitheatre and a well equipped college farm with various farm buildings. Every provision is made for the students' comfort, as well as their scholastic advancement and athletics are encouraged. High moral standards prevail and the students are at all times under the benign influence of the faculty, men and women of high religious and moral char- acter. The faculty and corps of instructors include some fifty-seven men and women, selected with dis- crimination, and a high standard of scholarship is maintained in each department.

Dr. H. F. Estill was born at Lexington, Virginia, the twelfth of August, 1861, son of Charles P. Estill and Katherine (Fishburne) Estill, both natives of Virginia, and both deceased. Charles P. Estill, a captain on General Hood's staff, during the Civil War, was an educator in Virginia. Later, in 1871, he came to Texas and was superintendent of public schools at Brenham, Texas, for a time. Later he became a professor at Texas A. and M. College, then known as Sam Houston Normal, remaining there until his death. Dr. H. F. Estill attended the public schools of Mexia and Brenham during his early years, later entering Austin College, at Sher- man, Texas, still later entering Sam Houston State Normal College, where he was a classmate of Mrs. Percy V. Pennybacker and Dean T. M. Taylor. In 1885 he became a member of the faculty and in 1908 was made president of Sam Houston State Normal College, and has since held this office.

Dr. Estill was married at Marshall, Texas, the third of August, 1892, to Miss Loulie Sexton, a native of Texas, and the daughter of Frank B. Sex- ton, a member of the Confederate Congress and one of the South's most prominent statesmen. Dr. and Mrs. Estill have five children-Frank Sexton, A. B., B. B. A., University of Texas, and now a resident of Beaumont; Katherine, now Mrs. A. K. Asbury, A. B., Columbia University and University of Texas, and now residing at Beaumont; Miss Mary Estill,

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a graduate of Sam Houston State Normal College, and A. B. of Columbia University, now a teacher at Marshall, Texas; Harry Estill, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and now liv- ing at Dallas, Texas, and Miss Ruth Estill, A. B., Columbia University, and now teaching in the high school at Marshall, Texas. Dr. and Mrs. Estill make their home at the president's residence on the cam- pus, at Sam Houston State Teachers' College. Dr. Estill is a Mason, Blue Lodge at Huntsville, Knight Templar, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine at Houston. He is listed in Who's Who in America, and is recognized as one of the foremost educators in the country.

ILLIAM WILLARD MOORE, well known in the banking, railroad and business circles of the State, was for several years secre- tary of the Bankers Trust Company, and when this company was reorganized and the name changed to the Bankers Mortgage Company in 1920, he was again made secretary, with the office of treasurer added. The Bankers Mortgage Company has a capital stock of $2,000,000.00, surplus fund of $600,000.00, and undivided profits of $205,172.90. Other officers of the Bankers Mortgage Company are: Jesse H. Jones, president and chairman of board; N. E. Meador, J. M. Rockwell, Will F. Miller and F. J. Heyne, vice presidents. The offices of the Bankers Mortgage Company are located on the second floor of the Bankers Mortgage Building, Houston, Texas.

A native Texan, Mr. Moore was born in Jackson County, January 22nd, 1885. His father, William M. Moore, was brought to Texas from Murray County, Tennessee, by his parents, who first settled in Cherokee County, and later removed to Jackson County, where he grew to manhood, and for many years was engaged in farming, but for the past twenty-four years has been county and district clerk, and is still a county officer. His mother was Miss Triphine Elizabeth Laughter, a native Texan and a member of a pioneer family of the Lone Star State (now deceased). His education was obtained in the public schools of Jackson County and later attended a business college. When quite a young man Mr. Moore came to Houston and entered the office of Lewis and Austin, attorneys, as a stenographer, where he remained a short while, when he became associated with the Houston Belt and Terminal Railroad. He remained with this railroad for a period of two years, when he went with the Saint Louis, Brownsville and Mexico Railroad and was stationed at Kingsville, Texas, and later went into the Republic of Mexico, where he remained from 1909 to 1914, with the Tehuantepec National Rail- way Company. In 1914 Mr. Moore returned to Houston and became associated with the Texas Company, but remained with this company but three months, when he went with the Bankers Trust Company, and remained with this company until the reorganization. Mr. Moore is interested in many of Houston's large enterprises, and in addition to his banking interests is an executive in the fol- lowing: secretary-treasurer and general manager Jones Company; secretary of Jesse H. Jones & Com- pany; secretary-treasurer and director of the Hous- ton Terminal Land Company, and various other of the city's financial and industrial concerns.

Mr. Moore was married at Laredo, Texas, in 1912, to Miss Mabel Cecilia Smith, a native of New York State. They have three children: Jewel Elizabeth, Dorothy Regina and William Willard Moore, Jr. Mr. Moore has a host of friends, both in the social and business circles of the city, who regard him as one of the city's most enterprising citizens.

J. CASPERSEN left a profitable profes- sional business, for which he was educated, and in which he was highly proficient, in order to become assistant general manager of the Crystal Ice and Fuel Company, Houston, where he has been successful in augmenting the bus- iness of this company. The Crystal Ice and Fuel Company, Inc., located at the McKee Street Bridge, was started thirty-three years ago, and all stock is owned by the family, who also own and operate the Texas Ice and Fuel Company, Houston, a plant with a capacity of sixty-five tons per day. The Crystal Ice and Fuel Company, Inc., has a daily capacity of one hundred tons, and sells to both the wholesale and retail trade, most of which is in the city. This plant manufactures ice only, is operated with crude oil fuel, and uses only the absorption system and all their ice is made with distilled water. The Crystal Ice and Fuel Company, Inc., operate three large trucks, and seven horse-drawn wagons. and employs thirty people in their plant. Other of- ficers of the Crystal Ice and Fuel Company are: C. A. Zilker, president; A. J. Zilker, vice president, and N. L. Caspersen, secretary and treasurer.

A native Texan, Mr. Caspersen was born in Hous- ton in 1891. His father, N. L. Caspersen, has been engaged in the ice business in Houston for the past thirty-three years and is well known in the busi- ness circles of the city. His mother was Miss Annie Zilker, native of Indiana. Mr. Caspersen's prelimi- nary education was obtained in the public and high schools and private schools of Houston, after which he attended the Texas Dental College for three years. He then went to Harvard University for one year, graduating from that institution in 1913 with the degree of D. D. S. In the same year of his graduation Mr. Caspersen began the practice of dentistry, which he continued until he enlisted in the World War in September, 1917. He was sent to Camp Travis, San Antonio, as a first lieutenant, and was later transferred to Camp Greenleaf, Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, where he remained until he was discharged in December, 1918. On his return to Houston, he became associated with the Crystal Ice and Fuel Company, Inc., as assistant manager. Mr. Caspersen is also treasurer of the Texas Ice and Fuel Company.

Mr. Caspersen was married in 1920 to Miss Clara Carter, a daughter of C. L. Carter, a well known attorney of Houston, and a member of the law firm of Baker, Botts, Parker & Garwood. Mr. and Mrs. Caspersen reside at 902 Hadley Avenue. In frater- nal and social organizations Mr. Caspersen holds membership in the B. P. O. E., the Houston Club, and the Lumberman's Club. Dr. Caspersen has made a name among business associates for his straightforward business methods and keenness of judgment, and with character, perseverance and foresight the dominant factors in his daily life, the future is bright for this young man, who is still in the morning of life.

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CLIFTON WILSON, whose home and busi- ness are located at Houston, has in the last five years directed his energies toward the organization and operation of a printing and stationery business that ranks well toward the top of the list of such industries in this city. The Wilson Stationery and Printing Company, Incorpo- rated, was established and incorporated in 1918, the outgrowth of a business started in 1917, and then known as Cummings and Sons. The business con- tinued under this name until 1920, at which time Mr. Wilson effected a change in name. Mr. Wilson has been President and General Manager of the Wilson Stationery and Printing Company since acquiring the business in 1918, and under his capable direction the plant has done a constantly increasing business. The plant occupies a modern building, at 508-10 Fan- nin Street, using all three floors, and having fifteen thousand feet of floor space. They handle a gen- eral stationery and printing business. Mr. Wilson has sixty employees in the plant, with five city sales- men, and one man on the road, covering South Texas. A. A. Tomlinson is Secretary and Treasurer of the Corporation.

Mr. Wilson was born at Houston the thirteenth of July, 1891, son of T. W. Wilson, and Leila Blake Wilson, both of whom are also natives of Houston. The Blake and Wilson families came to Houston in the early days, and are numbered among the oldest in this city. The elder Mr. Wilson is Vice-President of the Wilson Supply Company of Houston, a firm handling extensive oil supply business. E. Clifton Wilson was educated in the public schools of Hous- ton, and after finishing his education entered upon his active business career with the Kirby Lumber Company, being but sixteen when he took the posi- tion with this firm. After four years, during which he made rapid progress, he took a position with the Thompson-Tucker Lumber Company, remaining here two years. He then went with the W. H. Coyle and Company, Printers, as Secretary and Treasurer, holding this position for the ensuing five years, and resigning it to buy the present business. Mr. Wil- son is also a Director of the Wilson Supply Com- pany and the Houston Stamp and Stencil Company.

Mr. Wilson was married at Houston the ninth of September, 1915, to Miss Miriam Moore, a native of Mississippi, and reared at Palestine, Texas. They make their home at 901 West Alabama Avenue, and have one child, Edward Clifton, Junior. Mr. Wilson is a Blue Lodge Mason, Gray Lodge No. 329, Thirty- Second Degree Scottish Rite, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine, the Glenbrook and River Oaks Country Clubs.

OSEPH S. SMITH has, for the past twenty years, been associated with the Aetna Life and Affiliated Companies. He is district manager for the Aetna Life Insurance Company, of Hartford, Conn., for the Southeastern district of Texas, with offices at 301-2 Gulf Build- ing, Houston, Texas. Mr. Smith first entered the insurance profession in Tucson, Arizona, having made his home in Arizona for many years. Having been born and raised in Texas he was glad to have the opportunity of returning to Texas in 1907 as assistant manager of the South Texas District for the Aetna, holding that position until 1921, when he was promoted to manager, with headquarters in Houston. Before coming to Houston, Mr. Smith

was located in Victoria, Texas, and lived there for several years, during which time he took active part in the welfare of that City. While residing in Victoria, he organized the Rotary Club at Vic- toria, and also the Rotary Clubs at Cuero and Bee- ville. He was an active member and officer of the Chamber of Commerce, and was one of the promoters of the Victoria County Fair. During the World's War Mr. Smith was associated with the Red Cross as vice-president, and also chairman of the finance committee, and member of the Exemp- tion Board of Victoria County. Mr. Smith was born in Austin, Texas, January 6th, 1879. His father, James Baird Smith, native of Scotland (deceased since 1905) was a well-known contractor and build- er of the Capital City. His mother was born in London, England. Mr. Smith's parents came direct to Texas, and located in Austin, in 1868. The old family home, being built from the stone of the old Capitol building, is at present being occupied by Mr. Smith's mothers and sisters.

Mr. Smith's education was obtained in the pub- lic schools of Austin. He began his business ca- reer at the age of fifteen years, and traveled through different parts of Mexico, United States and Canada, before he attained his majority. His business career started in the brokerage and stock business. After the death of his brother in Arizona Mr. Smith entered the Insurance profession, and has made a very careful study of this business for many years, and, since opening the offices of the Aetna Life in Houston, has enjoyed a very lucra- tive business. His territory consists of thirty coun- ties, and he has at present fifteen men connected with the general agency.

Mr. Smith was married at Victoria, Texas, Janu- ary 15th, 1913, to Miss Venie Jones (formerly of Houston, Texas) a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rich- ard Jones. Mr. Jones being for many years divi- sion superintendent of the Victoria Division of the Southern Pacific Railroad. The Smith home at 2602 Whitney Street, is very happy with three children, Joseph, Jr., Margaret Elizabeth and Mary Kings- well. Mr. Smith is a member of the A. F. & A. M., with membership in Victoria Lodge No. 320, also Chapter and Commandery at Victoria, and Arabia Temple, Houston. He is a member of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, City and County Club, Houston Club, and declares that Houston, Texas, will be the first city in the Southwest to have a million population.

AMES E. DALEY, general manager of the Bender Hotel, Houston, is one of the most successful hotel men in Texas, where he is widely known and popular with the travel- ing public. Mr. Daley is also president of the Ben- der Hotel Operating Company, which owns the Ben- der Hotel. This hostelry, located at Walker Ave- nue and Main Street, is among the finest hotels in Houston. The building, a ten-story, modern, fire- proof structure, was completed in 1910 and leased by the Bender Hotel Operating Company in 1915. The Bender Hotel has three hundred outside rooms, all comfortably and elegantly furnished. In the manner of ministering to the needs of the inner man, the Bender Hotel is most luxuriously equipped with dining room with a seating capacity of three hun- dred people, and large grill and lunch room. The

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attractive, well-ventilated ball room has a capacity of accommodating three hundred and fifty people. The Bender Hotel building is one hundred and twen- ty-five feet by one hundred and twenty-five feet, and employs one hundred and seventy-five people. The Bender is not regarded as an expensive hotel, as comfortable rooms may be had from $1.50 and upward. The Bender Hotel Operating Company are interested in the Cotton Hotel of Houston, a hotel of one hundred and seventy-five rooms, and the Crosby House of Beaumont, an attractive hotel with one hundred and eighty-five rooms. Other officers of the Bender Hotel Operating Company are E. H. Coombs, vice president, and L. A. Grevemberg, sec- retary and treasurer.

Mr. Daley was born in Missouri in 1870 and his early education was obtained in that State.

Mr. Daley began hotel work when seventeen years of age, and since that time has worked in practically every capacity from bell boy to manager. He came to Texas in 1897 and went with the old Hot Wells Hotel at San Antonio, where he remained for a few years and then came to Houston with the old Rice Hotel. He was first steward and buyer for the Rice and later assistant manager. He remained with the Rice Hotel until the building was razed in order to build the new Rice. Mr. Daley was with the Cot- ton Hotel of Houston from 1912 to 1915, at the time he leased the Bender Hotel; however, retaining his interest in the Cotton. Mr. Daley was married in San Antonio in 1909 to Miss Lillian Sanderson, a na- tive Texan and a member of a well known Marshall family. They have four children-Harry, Marcus, James E. Jr. and Hugh. Mr. Daley and his family reside at the Bender Hotel. He is a member of the Houston Country Club, Kiwanis Club and the Texas Hotel Association, in which organization he is a director. Mr. Daley is interested in all agencies working for the greater development and civic im- provement of Houston and gives liberally of his time and assistance to help his city in every way.

LOYD IKARD, although a comparatively re- cent addition to the banking fraternity of Houston, is well known in financial circles of the State, having prior to coming to Houston been connected with several of the State's leading institutions. Mr. Ikard is one of the organ- izers and Vice-President and Cashier of the Federal Trust Company. The company has offices in the Sam Houston Hotel building and has a capital and surplus of $250,000.00. Although opened for busi- ness in May, 1925, it has deposits, including trust funds, of nearly $500,000.00. The officers, other than Mr. Ikard, are Chester A. Bryan, President, and Mur- ray B. Jones, Vice-President. The Directors are made up of a group of leading men of this section of the State.

A native Texan, Mr. Ikard was born in Henrietta in 1886. His father, M. Ikard, came to Texas with his parents when four years of age, and was raised in this State, where he was well known as one of Texas' leading cattle men. Mr. Ikard and his broth- ers have the distinction of having introduced Here- ford cattle into Texas. His mother was, prior to her marriage, Miss Nellie Wait, a native of Alabama. His parents now reside at Ardmore, Oklahoma. Mr. Ikard's education was obtained in the public and high schools of Ardmore, Indian Territory (now the State of Oklahoma), where he graduated from high

school in 1904. After finishing high school, Mr. Ikard attended the Hargrove College at Ardmore.

Mr. Ikard began his business career in the banking business at Ardmore, Oklahoma, when eighteen years of age, where he was employed by the Ard- more Loan and Trust Company. From 1905 to 1918 he was with the Fort Worth and Dallas Commer- cial Banks. In 1918 Mr. Ikard went with the Fed- eral Reserve Bank at Dallas as Assistant Manager of the War Loan Department, and was later made Assistant Cashier of this bank, and in January, 1921, was transferred to the branch of the Federal Re- serve Bank at Houston, as Cashier, and becoming Manager in August, 1921. In May, 1923, he was appointed manager of the Federal Intermediate Credit Bank of Houston, which he served until tak- ing his present position.

Mr. Ikard was married at Fort Worth in 1912 to Miss Beulah A. High, a native of the Lone Star State, and a daughter of J. S. High (deceased), a well known, pioneer citizen of Texas. Mr. Ikard is a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Dallas Consistory No. 2, and a Shriner of Hella Temple, Dallas. In social organizations he holds membership in the Houston Club and the Kiwanis Club. Mr. Ikard is thoroughly trained in his profession, and has al- ready become a leader among the younger bankers of this district.

OURT NORTON, for more than a decade a factor in the tailoring industry at Hous- ton, has during this time established a commendable reputation as a merchant tailor, building up a business of recognized distinc- tion. The Barringer-Norton Company, Incorporated, was established by Mr. Norton in 1909 and incor- porated in 1912. The firm operates an exclusive men's tailoring shop, their work representing the highest achievement of the tailors' art. They occupy two handsomely appointed floors at 410 Main Street, each floor thirty by one hundred feet, and have thirty trained and experienced men in the shop. The Barringer-Norton Company caters to the high- est class of trade, their clientele being drawn from among the best of Houston's citizenry. All the work on garments tailored by this firm is done in their own shop, and in charge of workmen expert in their own line. Mr. Norton is president of the Barringer-Norton Company, Incorporated, and is also treasurer and manager. Bragg Callaway is vice president and Bruce Patterson, secretary.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 20

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