New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 39

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

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Mr. Scott was married at El Paso the 6th of September, 1921, to Miss Sadieruth Aldridge, the daughter of W. H. Aldridge and Frances Wooten Aldridge. Mr. Aldridge was a well known lumber- man of East Texas, who moved to El Paso in 1916. Mr. and Mrs. Scott live at No. 4 Waverly Drive, and have one child, Elizabeth Aldridge Scott. They are members of the First Methodist Church, where Mr. Scott is serving on the official board.

Mr. Scott takes a live interest in the development of Houston, and is connected with a number of new business enterprises of this city, among them the Houston Dispatch, of which he is Secretary, Damon Wells Company, Wademan's, Rettig's, The Gables, and Castor Oil Products Company, of which organi- zations he is a director. He is past President of the Glenbrook Country Club, a member of the Houston Country Club, and the River Oaks Country Club. He is President of the Exchange Club of Houston, Vice- President of the City and County Club, and a mem- ber of the University Club, where he served as Treasurer and Director for several years. Mr. Scott is a member of the Kappa Sigma, Phi Delta Phi and Sigma Delta Chi, college fraternities, the Harris County Bar Association, the Texas Bar Association and the American Bar Association; a Mason, being affiliated with Holland Lodge No. 1, Washington Chapter No. 2, Ruthven Commandery No. 2, and Arabia Temple Shrine; and an Elk, belonging to Houston Lodge No. 151.

During the World War Mr. Scott served at home and overseas as a First Lieutenant with the 344th Field Artillery, 90th Division. In May, 1919, he was detailed with the British University Detachment, where he attended the University of Edinburg, and was discharged from the service in August, 1919. Mr. Scott is a member of the American Legion and of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and holds a Re- serve Commission in the Judge Advocate General's Section, O. R. C.

Mr. Scott is recognized as a leader of the young men of the city, and believes in Houston as "The city of opportunities for the young man."

TIS MEREDITH. Mr. Meredith is a member of the firm of Carlton and Meredith, an association which was formed in 1919, shortly after Mr. Meredith entered the bar. The firm is composed of Mr. Meredith and L. A. Carlton, one of the foremost oil attorneys of Texas, and has offices in the Humble Building, at Hous- ton. The practice handled by the firm is chiefly limited to oil matters.

Mr. Meredith was born at Hillsboro, Texas, the third of June, 1894. His father, W. J. Meredith, died when he was a small boy. His mother, who was Miss Carlton before her marriage, and a sister of L. A. Carlton, Mr. Meredith's associate in his law practice, lived subsequently at Beaumont and Hous- ton, and Mr. Meredith received his early education in the public schools of these cities. After finish- ing at the Houston High School, he entered the Uni- versity of Texas, in 1912, attending at intervals until 1917, when he enlisted in the Naval Air Service, vol- unteering in June of that year. He was sent to Seattle, Washington, and later Key West, and served for one year after the close of the World War as a naval reserve officer. Mr. Meredith then re-en- tered the University of Texas, in the law depart- ment, taking his L. L. B. degree in 1919, after which he came to Houston and formed the partnership with L. A. Carlton, with whom he has since been asso- ciated.

Mr. Meredith was married at Brenham, Texas, the twenty-second of March, 1922, to Miss Mary Wil- kins, a native of Galveston. They reside at 909 Branard Avenue, and have one child, Mary Meredith. Mr. Meredith is a leader among the younger attor- neys at Houston, and is active in the civic life here.

HOMAS B. BLANCHARD, attorney at law, has for the past decade practiced his pro- fession before the bar of Houston, and has been identified with some of the most prom- inent cases that have come before the courts of South Texas. Mr. Blanchard is a member of the firm of Wolters, Blanchard, Woodul and Wolters, one of the leading law firms of Houston, and per- sonally looks after trial work. He came to Hous- ton in 1913 and since that time has been engaged in a general practice .î law, with office located at 818 Chronicle Building. The firm of Wolters, Blan- chard, Woodul and Wolters represents the Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad in several counties, the Texas Company in various matters, the Pullman Company, Houston Chronicle and various other industries, companies and local concerns and indi- viduals.

Mr. Blanchard was born at Boyce, Louisiana, February 2nd, 1889. His father, F. A. Blanchard, belongs to a well known Virginia family and is a planter, residing at Boyce, Louisiana. His mother was Miss Sarah D. Barrett, a native of Nacogdoches, Texas, and a member of a pioneer Texas family. His early education was obtained in the public and high schools of Boyce, Louisiana, graduating from the latter in 1907. He then became a student of the Louisiana State University and later the University of Texas in a pre-legal course, and graduated from this institution in the class of 1913 with the degree of L. L. B. During the same year of his graduation from college, Mr. Blanchard came to Houston and began the practice of his profession with the firm

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of Lane, Wolters and Storey, and has continued through the changes in the personnel of this firm, and the present firm was organized in 1925.

Mr. Blanchard was married at Boyce, Louisiana, December 16th, 1918, to Miss Edna I. Kelsoe, a native of Boyce and a daughter of E. H. Kelsoe, a pioneer merchant of Boyce, Louisiana. Mr. and Mrs. Blan- chard reside at 1421 Hawthorne Avenue. Mr. Blan- chard is a member of the York Rite body of the Ma- sonic fraternity, the Houston Club, Texas Bar Asso- ciation and the Harris County Bar Association. He is a consistent member of the Episcopal Church. The name of Blanchard has been familiar to several generations in Louisiana, where the several members of this family have won distinction and honor. His uncle, Newton C. Blanchard, held various offices in Louisiana up to the United States Senate, having served as congressman, governor of the state, jus- tice of the Supreme Court of Louisiana, both houses of the state Legislature and died in 1922, and his memory will be honored by the citizenship of the state of Louisiana for many generations to come. Other members of the Blanchard family have been active in the political, social and business life of Louisiana. While yet a young man, Mr. Blanchard has gained considerable prominence as a lawyer, and is also one of the ranking orators of the state.

OY L. ARTERBURY, Attorney at Law, of Houston, Texas, has been a member of the well known law firm of Garrison and Wat- son of this city since 1921, and does much of the work connected with the trial of cases handled by the firm, which is composed of John I. Garrison and Q. U. Watson. With offices located in the State National Bank Building, this firm is engaged in a general practice of law, and a large portion of their work is along the various classes of railroad prac- tice. Mr. Arterbury was admitted to the bar in 1920, and shortly afterwards located in Houston, where he began the practice of law with the firm with which he is now connected.

A native Texan, Mr. Arterbury was born at Bon- ham on October 10th, 1892. His father, John E. Arterbury, a native of Mississippi, came to Texas in 1881, and is a resident of Fort Worth, where for many years he has been engaged in the contracting business, and is one of the leading contractors of his city. His mother was Miss Ellen Jones, a mem- ber of a prominent family of Pennsylvania. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Bon- ham, Texas, after which the family removed to Fort Worth and he became a student of the high school there and is a graduate of that school. He then en- tered Vanderbilt University and was a student of that famous institution from 1912 to 1917, where he pursued a straight academic course. He then re- turned to Texas and entered the Law Department of the State University and graduated from that in- stitution in 1920 with the L. L. B. degree, when he began the practice of his chosen profession, and in which he has been successful.

Mr. Arterbury was married at Austin, Texas, on August 3rd, 1918, to Miss Hazel Platt, a native of Trinity County, Texas, and a daughter of B. A. Platt of that county, who is one of best known and beloved citizens of that portion of the State. They have one son, Bryant Platt. Mr. and Mrs. Arterbury reside at 1113 Kenwood Avenue. Mr. Arterbury is a member of the Knights of Pythias and is active in

this organization. He is also a member of the various social organizations of Houston, in which he is very popular. Among the younger lawyers of Houston, there are none who take a more active in- terest in their city, than does Mr. Arterbury, who gives of his time and means to every project having as its object the civic improvement and betterment of his city. In his work as a lawyer he is recognized as one of the coming young men in his profession.

ALACE HAWKINS, one of the younger re- cruits to the legal profession, has attained an enviable reputation as a trial lawyer. Mr. Hawkins is connected with the legal depart- ment of the Magnolia Petroleum Company at Dallas, recently going there from Houston, where he was a member of the firm of Campbell, Simmons and Hawkins, one of the strongest legal firms of Hous- ton. Mr. Hawkins specialized in trial work and achieved the reputation of being one of the best trial lawyers in the city.

Walace Hawkins was born at Brookhaven, Texas, the twenty-fourth of July, 1896, son of W. P. Haw- kins and Mattie (Meek) Hawkins. W. P. Hawkins, a native of Mississippi, came to Texas in the early '80s, settling in Goliad County, and later removing to Runnels County, where he has since been engaged in the mercantile and banking business. Mrs. Haw- kins is a native Texan. Walace Hawkins attended the public schools of Runnels County, later enter- ing Stamford College, and still later the University of Texas, following his work there with post-gradu- ate work at Ann Arbor, Michigan. The following two years he was principal of the Dublin, Texas, high school, resigning this position on his election to the thirty-fifth legislature. While serving as legislator the United States entered the World War and Mr. Hawkins resigned his place and entered the army in August, 1917, attending the First Officers Train- ing Camp at Leon Springs, where he was commis- sioned second lieutenant. He was sent to Colum- bus, New Mexico, attached to the Twenty-fourth Infantry, Regular Army, and commissioned lieuten- ant, and later transferred to Oklahoma, and still later to Georgia, where he was engaged in training men and companies until he was demobilized in February, 1919, ranking as captain at that time. He then returned to Austin, attending the Univer- sity of Texas, where he took his LL.B. degree in 1920. He was made assistant attorney general un- der Attorney General Cureton, holding that office from January, 1920, until 1924. During this time much of the work handled in the attorney general's office was banking and insurance, and also the fa- mous Red River boundary case, on which Mr. Haw- kins spent one year and a half. In 1924 he resigned his position as assistant attorney general and came to Houston, joining the law firm of Campbell, Myer, Simmons and Hawkins at that time being organized, remaining with this firm until making his present connection with the legal department of the Mag- nolia Petroleum Company at Dallas.

Mr. Hawkins was married at Austin, Texas, the fifth of August, 1921, to Miss Frances Booth, a native of Austin. Mr. and Mrs. Hawkins have two children, Patricia and Harriet Hawkins. Mr. Haw- kins is a member of the Dallas County Bar Asso- ciation and the Texas Bar Association, and is re- garded as a young attorney with a very bright future.

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ALVIN B. GARWOOD, one of the very able members of the Houston Bar, is associated with the law firm of Baker, Botts, Parker and Garwood, the largest law firm in the South. He joined this firm shortly after being ad- mitted to the bar in 1920 and is associated in the railroad department. The firm of Baker, Botts, Par- ker and Garwood occupies the sixth floor of the Commercial National Bank Building and has in addition to the four members of the firm a staff of highly trained legal specialists, and is not only the strongest in the South, but one of the most prom- inent law firms in the entire country.

Calvin B. Garwood was born at Bastrop, Texas, the twenty-sixth of March, 1894, the son of Judge H. M. Garwood, a member of the law firm of Baker, Botts, Parker and Garwood, and one of the foremost attorneys of Texas. Judge Garwood contributed the interesting sketch of the bench and bar of Houston appearing in this work. Mr. Garwood received his early instruction at St. Thomas School at Hous- ton, later entering Georgetown College, at Washing- ton, D. C., and later the University of Texas, in the department of law. He left college in 1916 to enter military service, volunteering as a private in the infantry, with the Second Texas National Guard. He was later commissioned second lieutenant in this or- ganization, and, after the Second Texas National Guard was made a part of the 141st Infantry, U. S. A., he went to France with them, serving overseas until 1919. He was discharged the fifth of July, 1919, as first lieutenant, and is now major of the Fifty-sixth Machine Gun Company, Texas National Guards. Returning from overseas, Major Garwood re-entered the University of Texas, in the law de- partment, taking his L. L. B. degree in 1920. He then came to Houston, going with his present firm.

Mr. Garwood was married at Houston, the twenty- ninth of June, 1921, to Miss Christie Moore, a native of San Antonio, and the daughter of U. C. Moore, of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Garwood reside at 901 Rosalie Street, and are leaders among the younger social set. Mr. Garwood is a member of college fraternities, and belongs to the University Club, and the American Legion, and is one of the most prom- ising of the young attorneys at Houston.

EORGE A. HILL, JR., has been engaged in the practice of law since his admission to the bar in 1911 and today is one of the best known members of the legal profession in Southern Texas. His office is at 906 Scanlan Build- ing, where he is a member of the law firm of Ken- nerly, Lee and Hill, one of the strongest firms of legal talent in Houston. He became identified with this firm in 1917 when the style of the firm was Kennerly, Williams, Lee and Hill. Judge Williams retired from the firm in 1921 when the name was changed to Kennerly, Lee and Hill. The firm does a general civil practice in both the state and federal courts and appears as counsel for some of the lead- ing concerns of the South.

Upon completion of his studies at the Univer- sity of Texas in 1911, and receiving his license as a member of the bar, Mr. Hill engaged in general prac- tice until 1917 when he was appointed assistant gen- eral attorney for the International and Great Nor- thern Railway Company. For a few months of the same year he was connected with the law firm of

Bryan, Hill and Bryan before making his present connection.

Mr. Hill is a native of Texas and was born at Cor- sicana on January 12, 1892. He is a son of George A. and Julia (McHugh) Hill and received his pre- liminary education in the public and high schools of Austin and Houston. From 1903 to 1905 he attended the West Texas Military Academy and from 1907 to 1911 was a student at the University of Texas, at Austin, doing two years of academic work and two years in the law department.

Mr. Hill comes of a family of prominent Texans. His father, a native of the state, now retired from active business, is a son of James M. Hill, who was in the battle of San Jacinto, the conflict that won for Texas its freedom from Mexico. He later was chairman of the commission that purchased the famous battle grounds for the state of Texas and made possible beautiful San Jacinto Park, a few miles from the city of Houston.

James M. Hill, with his father and brothers, came to Texas from Georgia, about 1828 or 1830, and set- tled in Washington County, where they played im- portant parts in the early history of the state. Ben- jamin Harvey Hill, a member of the same family, was a member of the Confederate cabinet and later was United States Senator from Georgia.

George A. Hill, Sr. was for many years engaged in the cotton business in Galveston and was also in the wholesale grocery business in Corsicana. He was president of the Austin Dam and Suburban Railway Company, manager of the Hogg-Swayne Syndicate and later land and tax commissioner for the B. S. L. and N. Railway and president of the Houston Trans- fer and Carriage Company. He is now retired and living in Houston.

On June 24, 1916, Mr. Hill was married at Vic- toria, Texas, to Miss Mary Vandenberge, daughter of J. V. Vandenberge, president of the Levi Bank and Trust Company and a member of the well known law firm of Proctor, Vandenberge, Crane and Mit- chell, of Victoria. Mr. and Mrs. Hill are the par- ents of two interesting children, Joanne Vandenberge and George A., III.

In 1918 Mr. Hill entered the United States army as captain of Troop C of the Seventh Regiment Texas Cavalry and received his training at Leon Springs. He served with the Seventh Texas during the war.

While doing a general civil practice, Mr. Hill has specialized in federal tax matters and has a large clientele which he represents in matters pertaining to federal taxes. His clients include Sanger Broth- ers and the Perkins Dry Goods Company. two of the largest wholesale concerns of Dallas. He has re- cently been named by Judge Hutcheson of the Fed- eral District Court as attorney for the receiver for the Wilson-Stewart Farm Mortgage Company, the W. E. Stewart Land Company, Edinburg Irrigation Company and the Rio Bravo Irrigation Company. Between 300 and 400 cases are involved in these various receiverships and the properties in control of the receiver aggregate in value four million dollars.

Mr. Hill is a member of the American Bar Asso- ciation, State and County Bar Associations, Houston Country Club, Houston Club, University Club, Kappa Alpha and Dhi Delta Phi fraternities. He is a com- municant of the Episcopal Church.

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ILLIAM FULTON TARVER, attorney at law, has for almost a quarter of a century practiced before the Houston bar, and dur- ing this period has been identified with many of the most prominent cases which have come before the courts of South Texas. Mr. Tarver was admitted to the bar in 1900 and immediately became associated with the law firm of Burt and Griggs of Houston, which was composed of Col. F. S. Burt and George B. Griggs, and remained with this firm for one year, after which he became a member of the firm and the name was changed to Burt, Griggs and Tarver. A year later, Mr. Griggs retired, and the firm became Burt and Tarver, which continued until the death of Col. Burt in 1910. Since that time, Mr. Tarver has practiced his profession alone. He has well appointed offices in the West Building, and was the first tenant to occupy offices in this build- ing after its construction by Mr. D. R. Beatty.

Mr. Tarver is a native Houstonian, born in this city on September 25th, 1880. His father, Thomas Cary Tarver, a native of Tennessee, was brought to Texas by his parents at the age of five years, and has continued to make the Lone Star State his home since that time, and is essentially loyal to the customs and traditions of his adopted state. For many years he was one of the leading cotton men of South Texas, after which he became associated with the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, and re- mained with this railroad until he retired from active business pursuits in 1903, and removed to Liberty, Texas. His mother was Miss Fannie Ada Fulton, al- so a native Houstonian, and a member of one of the prominent pioneer families of this city. She was born at the old Fulton homestead, at the corner of La Branch and Rusk. His education was obtained in the public and high schools of Houston, where he graduated from the latter. After leaving school Mr. Tarver began the study of law, at spare times while regularly employed by day, and pursuing his law studies at night, and continued his studies along this line until he was admitted to the bar.

Mr. Tarver was married at Austin, Texas, on June 24th, 1908, to Miss Annie Franklin, a native Texan and a member of a well known family of Brenham. Mr. and Mrs. Tarver have adopted two nieces, Margaret and Vivian Tarver, and to whom they have given the parental love and care. Mr. Tarver is known as one of Houston's most active citizens along all civic lines, and never loses an opportunity to speak a good word for the city of his nativity. He regards the legal profession as being peculiarly fitted for service to the public, and his future will be one of service to his city and state.

ALPH W. PLUMMER, well known Lawyer, has been a factor in the business circles of this city for many years, being asso- ciated with Judge K. C. Barkley in the prac- tice of law.

Mr. Plummer was born in Boston, Massachusetts, on August 2, 1886. His father, F. H. Plummer, also a native of Massachusetts, was engaged in the manufacturing business all his life and was for many years in the Chair Manufacturing industry in Arkansas City, Kansas. His mother was Miss El- sie Griffin, a member of a prominent Massachu- setts family. His early education was obtained in

the public schools of Boston, and later studied law for a number of years.

Mr. Plummer came to Houston in 1908 and for several years did accounting work, and was recog- uized as one of the best in his line. Later, he or- ganized the Keystone Tire Company of Texas, and was Vice-President of this company, which was en- gaged in the sale of the Keystone Tires and Tubes at wholesale, and later merged that company with the organization, which was known as the R. W. Plummer Company, Inc. Mr. Plummer was mar- ried in Houston in October, 1913, to Miss Verda Davis, a native of Michigan, and a member of a prominent family of that State. They have two children, Dorothy and Ralph W. Plummer, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Plummer reside at 1312 Willard Street. Mr. Plummer is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Holland Lodge No. 1, of Hous- ton, and is a 32nd degree Scottish Rite of that order, and a member of Arabia Temple Shrine, and for one year was a member of the Arabia Patrol. He has participated in a most substantial and active manner in all moves and enterprises that have had for their object the upbuilding of the city of Hous- ton and its citizenship. Mr. Plummer is popular in both the business and social circles of the city, and is regarded as one of the leading young profes- sional men of the South Texas Metropolis.

LUDLOW CALHOUN, attorney at law of Beaumont, Texas, has for nineteen years been engaged in a general civil practice of law in this city, and is known as one of the beacon lights of the legal profession. Mr. Cal- houn, with offices located at 323-325 V. Weiss Build- ing, has always practiced his profession alone, and has been associated with many of the most prom- inent cases which have come before the courts of South Texas since beginning the practice of law here. He was elected to the office of justice of the peace in Beaumont in 1908 and served in this capacity until 1910, when he was elected to the of- fice of city attorney and held this important of- fice for four years and established an enviable reputation in the manner in which he represented the city, during his regime. Mr. Calhoun has always been a loyal booster for Beaumont, and has con- fidence that this city will eventually be one of the largest of the Southwest, and this belief forms the foundation for loyal and beneficent service to his city and state.

A native Texan, Mr. Calhoun was born at Sandy Point, Brazoria County, on November 23rd, 1882. His father, B. F. Calhoun (deceased), came to Texas from South Carolina in 1866 and was a practicing physician at that time. He first settled in Brazoria County and in 1883 came to Beaumont and con- tinued the practice of medicine here until his death on January 15th, 1922. Dr. Calhoun was one of the most prominent physicians of his day in the Lone Star State, and was a pioneer in his profes- sion in Texas, and was the oldest physician here at the time of his decease, being seventy-two years of age, but active at that time. His mother (also de- ceased), was Miss Mattie Baughn, a native of the Lone Star State and a member of a prominent fam- ily of Fayette County. His early education was ob- tained in the public and high schools of Beaumont, where he graduated from the latter. He then en- tered the University of Texas, where he first pur-

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 39

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