New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 46

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

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Mr. Neeld is a member of the I. O. O. F. and takes an active interest in this organization. Although he is one of the younger members of the legal fra- ternity of Houston, he has taken his place among the able, seasoned advocates, who already have made their marks. Since coming to Houston Mr. Neeld has been active in all matters having as their object the betterment and advancement of this city, where he is regarded as one of the most progressive lawyers of the generation to which he belongs.

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AVID BALL, attorney at law of Houston, inherited his taste and talent for the legal profession, and is a member of the legal department, and associated with the Labor Bank and Trust Company. He represented the trustees of the bank during its organization, and with Senator Charles Murphy takes care of all legal matters for the bank. The Labor Bank and Trust Company was opened for business on No- vember 16th, 1925, with a capital and surplus of $110,000.00, and has since that time made rapid strides and is destined to become one of the leading financial institutions of the city.

A native Texan, Mr. Ball was born at Huntsville on March 21st, 1894. His father, Col. Thomas H. Ball, in addition to being one of the foremost law- yers of Texas, was for many years a member of congress, one of the real builders of Houston, and is counsel for the Houston Port Commission and many other of the city's largest and most important activities. His early education was obtained in the public schools of Houston, after which he attended the Rice Institute in this city. He later entered the University of Texas, but did not graduate from that institution, but gained his admission to the Texas bar through examination. Mr. Ball's World War service was with the United States Marine Corps, and he spent one year in this branch of the service in the North Sea, attached to U. S. S. Wyo- ming. He was commissioned a second lieutenant at Quantico, Virginia, July 16th, 1918, and was assigned to the U. S. S. Frederick, where he re- mained until his discharge on December 7th, 1918, when he returned to Houston. He then began the practice of his profession with his father, Col. Thomas H. Ball. Before the expiration of a year he moved to Breckenridge, Texas, where he became active in financial and business circles, serving as vice president of the Breckenridge State Bank and director of the Guaranty State Bank. He was sec- retary-treasurer of the Gonzales Creek Oil Com- pany, which paid its stock holders nineteen for one, and the Cedar Creek Oil Company, which paid three for one. Returning to Houston again he be- came a member of the law firm of Ball, Merrill and Ball, with whom he remained until January, 1924, at which time he opened offices alone in the State National Bank Building.

Mr. Ball was married at Washington, D. C., on July 16th, 1918, to Miss Gladys Martin, a native of Minnesota and a member of a prominent Min- neapolis family. They have two children, Dorothy Elizabeth and David Ball, Jr. Mr. Ball is a member of various social and civic organizations of Hous- ton, where he is popular and respected in social, civic and professional circles.

RANK S. ANDERSON, attorney at law, with offices at 711 American National In- surance Company Building, Galveston, Tex- as, came to this city in 1913 and is engaged in a general practice of civil law. During the period in which he has been practicing his pro- fession in Galveston, Mr. Anderson has been identi- fied with some of the most important cases which have come before the courts of South Texas. He came to Texas on legal business in 1911 for clients from his home in New York State, and after viewing Texas and becoming acquainted with the citizenship, he decided to make his home here. Mr. Anderson

was admitted to the bar in New York State at Binghampton in 1892 and practiced law there and at Callicoon until coming to Texas, and was a well known and successful lawyer of the Empire State. He was admitted to the Texas bar in 1912 and the following year began the practice of his profession in this city, where he has built up a large practice in his chosen branch-civil law. After locating in Galveston it was not long before his broad views and grasp of public affairs became known to the public, and in 1919 he was elected city attorney of Galveston and served in this office until 1923, and his administration was one of great accomplish- ment.

Mr. Anderson was born at Callicoon, New York, on July 11th, 1869. His early education was ob- tained in the public schools of Callicoon, and later he took a course at the Delaware Literary Insti- tute at Franklyn, New York, after which he read law until he was admitted to the bar of his native state.

Mr. Anderson was married at Houston, Texas, on January 6th, 1913, to Helen R. Pettit, a native of Houston and a member of one of the oldest and best known families of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Anderson reside at 3414 Avenue I. Mr. Anderson is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with member- ship in a New York lodge, where he is a member of both the York and Scottish Rite bodies of this order. He says that in his opinion the future of Galveston depends upon the new industries that may be located here, and that the Galveston people get these by their own efforts. The growth of this city has been very noticeable to him since coming here, and he expects Galveston to continue its steady, consistent growth and is looking forward to an era of great business prosperity in all lines. Mr. Anderson says that the principal thing needed for the development of the Lone Star State is advertising, that little of this great state's resources are known beyond its own environs. When Mr. Anderson came to Galveston in 1913, he added an element of strength and purpose of fine capacity, and also of wide experience to the upbuilding legal forces of this city, and he at once took his place among the men whose activities are advancing the city's importance.

HOMAS LEWIS FOSTER, lawyer, oil man and citizen of Dallas, has attained the high- est esteem of his associates, and advanced to a position among the foremost oil at- torneys of the State. Mr. Foster is general attorney for the Sun Company, one of the leading oil com- panies operating in Texas. Mr. Foster served as general attorney for the company in the South Texas and Louisiana fields from 1917 until a recent date when he was transferred to the Dallas office of the company. He is an expert in all fields of oil litigation, and well equipped to cope with legal prob- lems incident to the operation of a major company. He has a very large and complete law library, and one that is extraordinary in many respects.

Mr. Foster was born at Anderson, in Grimes County, Texas, the sixth of March, 1875. His father, Dr. O. O. Foster, was during his early years a physi- cian and surgeon, later becoming postmaster under President Cleveland. He was also a well known educator, and one of the prominent men of his day.

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Mr. Foster's mother was before her marriage, Miss Sophie Lewis. Mr. Foster received his early educa- tion in the public schools of Montgomery, graduat- ing from the high school there. He then entered a junior college, Patterson Institute, at Hillsboro, and later the University of Texas, where he graduated in law in 1901 with the LL. B. degree. He began his legal practice at Lufkin, Texas, remaining there a short time, after which he went to Fort Worth, where he spent one year, with the firm of Bomar and Bomar, and also with Charles K. Lee. In 1902 he removed to San Augustine, where he spent twelve years, and was a member of the firm of Foster and Davis. He was during this time a member of the Thirty-third State Legislature, from San Augus- tine. He came to Beaumont in 1914, and associated with the law firm of Carlton, Townes and Townes for one year, after which he was with the firm of Townes, Foster and Hardwicke for three years. He then went with the Sun Company, as general at- torney with headquarters in Beaumont.

Mr. Foster was married at San Augustine, in October, 1903, to Miss Laura Burrus, daughter of Felix A. Burrus, for the past two decades a lumber- man of the Lone Star State, and Annie Burrus. Mr. and Mrs. Foster have one child, Louise, and live at 2095 Broadway. They attend the Methodist Church. During his residence in Beaumont he was a member of the Beaumont and Beaumont Country clubs, and is a Macabee. He has taken a sincere interest in the communities in which he has resided, and has found time from his busy professional career to actively support the various movements for civic and commercial advancement of his native State.

JARL G. AINSLIE, senior member of the firm of Ainslie, Ballard and Gilchrist, ac- countants and auditors of Houston, has become well known and successful in this line of activity since entering the practice of ac- countancy. The firm of Ainslie, Ballard and Gil- christ was established by Mr. Ainslie in 1921, as Ainslie and Company, and later, after Mr. W. M. Ballard and Mr. V. T. Gilchrist became partners the name was changed to its present form. Offices are in the Cotton Exchange Building, and a general practice of accountancy is handled. Mr. Ainslie is known to business men of Houston as an accountant whose analytical and interpretative faculties make his services especially desirable, and his reports show a clearness of thought and precision of criti- cism, as well as accuracy, affording his clients a comprehensive account of the financial aspects of their business.

Earl G. Ainslie was born at Poplar Bluff, Mis- souri, the eighth day of November, 1893, and is the son of the late M. S. Ainslie and Sophia (Grafe) Ainslie, the former, a native of New York State, the latter of St. Louis, Missouri. Earl G. Ainslie was brought to Houston by his parents in 1895, and was reared in this State, obtaining his educa- tion in the public schools of Texas. After leaving school Mr. Ainslie went with the wholesale dry goods firm of Hogan-Allnoch Dry Goods Company, spending five years with that firm. He then spent a year and a half with Armour & Company, and three years in the cotton business, entering his present field at the expiration of that time.

Mr. Ainslie was married at Amarillo, Texas, the

fifteenth of May, 1921, to Miss Daisy M. Davidson, a native of Michigan. Mr. and Mrs. Ainslie reside at 1728 Richmond, and have one child, Gladys May Ainslie. Mr. Ainslie is a Mason, a member of Arabia Temple Shrine, an Elk, and a member of the River Oaks Country, the Glenbrook Country, the Houston, the Lumbermen's and the Salesman- ship clubs, the Houston Turnverein, the Houston Chamber of Commerce, and the Second Presbyterian Church.

RALPH PORCH, while comparatively a re- cent addition to the ranks of the oil men of Houston, is rapidly attaining a well de- fined position among men of South Texas, who are determined to make Houston the real cen- ter of the oil business of the nation. Mr. Porch is secretary and treasurer and general manager of the Baker Oil Company, Inc., with offices at 828 Chronicle Building, and has been in charge of the company's business since 1922. B. Shields Winston, of Houston, is president of the company.

This company was organized in 1919, and in March of 1922, was incorporated, Mr. Porch and his father taking over the direction of its affairs at that time. The company is at this time operating in the Spin- dle Top field only, and has seven producing wells there, with a total production of approximately twenty-five hundred barrels monthly. The leases owned by the company at Spindle Top are all de- veloped and it is probable that later, when condi- tions are considered favorable, that the company will extend its operations into other coastal fields.

Mr. Porch was born at Johnstown, Pennsylvania, on December 29th, 1896, and is a son of W. W. and Lydia (McClelland) Porch. He attended the public schools and graduated at the Johnstown High School in 1914, and then was a student at Haver- ford College, at Philadelphia, for two years. At the outbreak of the war with Germany he left his studies and enlisted in the reserve corps of the ordnance department, and, in October, 1917, was mustered into service. He was with various depot companies and about the time the Armistice was signed landed in Vladivostok and was kept on duty in Siberia for a year and four months, receiving his discharge on December 27, 1919.

After receiving his discharge Mr. Porch returned to Johnstown, where he engaged with his father in the music business until 1922, when he came to Houston to take over the active management of the Baker Oil Company, in which his father had acquired a controlling interest. The elder Porch was one of the original stockholders of the Baker Oil Company, but was not elected president until later. Mr. Porch, the elder, has recently retired from his music store, which he operated in Johns- town for thirty-six years.

Since taking over the direction of the Baker Oil Company, Mr. Porch has made a splendid record for conservative handling of its properties and has developed a large circle of acquaintances among the oil men of Houston and vicinity, by whom he is held in the highest esteem. He is deeply interested in anything pertaining to the oil industry and is a member of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Associa- tion. He also is a Mason, a member of a Blue Lodge at Johnstown, Pennsylvania. Mr. Porch is unmar- ried and resides at 1517 San Jacinto Street.

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R. EDWARD H. CARY, chairman staff, faculty and advisory board of Baylor Med- ical College, ex-president of the Southern Medical Association and one of the fore- most eye, ear, nose and throat surgeons in the South- west, has been a prominent figure in medical circles of Dallas and Texas, since his arrival here in 1889. Dr. Cary came to Dallas first to be associated with his brother, the late A. P. Cary, in the conduct of surgical and dental supply business, which bears his name, and which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the South.

After remaining with his brother until 1895 he re- turned to New York and took up the active study of medicine, graduating from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898. Upon completing his medical studies Dr. Cary accepted an interneship at Bellevue, 1898-9, and for 18 months was interne of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and house surgeon. He lo- cated in New York where he remained until the death of his brother in April, 1901, when he returned to Dallas permanently in July, and began the active practice of his profession here. He was therefore forced to resign important clinical positions at Belle- vue Medical College, as well as the Post-Graduate School of Medicine, "The Polyclinic," to which he had been appointed before leaving.

Returning to Dallas he organized his brothers' business as guardian for his children and placed it on a substantial business basıs. In October, 1901, he opened an office in this city and in 1902, became dean of the medical department of the University of Dallas. This school was later merged with and be- came a part of Baylor Medical College and Dr. Cary was continued as dean of the combined school, a position he held until 1920 when he became chairman of the staff faculty and advisory board. He also served the school as chief of the eye, ear, nose and throat division. To his untiring efforts, energy and determination is attributed much of the success achieved by Baylor Medical School and the elevation in 1915 to its present rank as a class A institution.

Dr. Cary is a native of Alabama and is a native of Union Springs, where he was born February 28, 1872. He is a son of Major Joseph Milton and Lucy Janette (Powell) Cary who were of Virginia families and prominent figures in the ante bellum history of Alabama and during the trying period of the recon- struction days following the Civil War.

The academic education of Dr. Cary was received at the Union Springs Academy and his medical training at Bellevue and other of the prominent clinics of the country.

In April, 1911, Dr. Cary was married to Miss Georgia Fonda Schneider, daughter of Jules E. and Florence (Fonda) Schneider of Dallas. Mr. Schnei- der had been for many years a well known whole- sale grocer and capitalist of Dallas. They have three children: Georgie, Edward, Jr., and Florence. The family resides at 4712 Lakeside Drive, Highland Park.

Dr. Cary has been a leading figure in making Dal- las a great medical center and has been tireless in his efforts to forward and bring to a successful termination this great humanitarian movement. Largely through his efforts also the present compre- hensive building program for the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium, involving an expenditure of several hun- dred thousand dollars, was undertaken. To further

strengthen this city as a medical center, Dr. Cary has made arrangements to build an eighteen-story building for the medical and dental professions.

During the World War he was chairman of the Fourteenth District Medical Advisory Board and was a member of the Council of National Defense. He organized the Baylor Hospital Unit, comprising twelve doctors, twenty-five nurses and fifty enlisted men which went to France in 1918. After this unit had sailed Dr. Cary organized a smaller group which was trained at the base hospital at Fort Worth from whence they went abroad into the service.

Dr. Cary has one of the largest operative clinics in the South, doing from four to six hours' surgery each day. He is a recognized authority on the eye, ear, nose and throat and difficult cases are referred to him by physicians from not only Texas but many other states as well. He has contributed many papers of scientific merit to the American, Southern and State Medical societies.

Dr. Cary is a member of the National, Southern and Texas Medical associations, the North Texas and Dallas County Medical societies and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1910-11 he \ was president of the Dallas County Medical Society, in 1917-18 he was president of the Texas State Med- ical Society, in 1919-20 served as president of the Southern Medical Association, comprising sixteen states of the South. In 1916 Baylor University con- ferred the degree of doctor of laws upon Dr. Cary.

Although intensely devoted to his profession and the movement for making Dallas a great medical center, Dr. Cary is a member of clubs and fraternal organizations in which he finds social enjoyment and recreation from the arduous duties that devolve upon him from day to day. Among others he is a mem- ber of the Idlewild and Dallas City and County clubs and the University Club. At college he was a mem- ber of Alpha Chapter of Phi Alpha Sigma. He is a 32nd degree Mason, a member of the Shrine and Knights Templar bodies.

R. J. W. GARTH, for the past decade an in- fluential member of the medical profession at Beaumont, and a vital force of progress in this city, is a recognized leader in the field of ophthomology, otology, rhinology and laryngology. Dr. Garth came to Beaumont in 1913, and since that time has specialized in eye, ear, nose and throat work, and has established one of the largest practices here. He has made a splendid professional record, enjoying the highest esteem of his confreres, and is a leader in all medical advance- ment. Dr. Garth has his offices in the San Jacinto Life Building, and has at his disposal all the facili- ties of the modern practitioner.

Dr. Garth was born at Jackson, Iowa, the seventh of July, 1867, the son of Thomas Garth, a native of England, who came to the United States at the age of seventeen years, and was a very prominent citizen of Iowa until his death, at the age of seventy. His mother, whose maiden name was Mima Johnston, was a native of Ireland. Dr. Garth attended the public schools of Iowa and Chicago, then entered the University of Illinois, in the medical department at Chicago, where he took his M. D. degree in 1899. He began his practice at Clarion, Iowa, where he remained until coming to Port Arthur in 1910, prac- ticing in that city until 1913, when he came to

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Beaumont, where he has since engaged in practice. Dr. Garth has taken post-graduate work at the med- ical centers of Chicago, New York, New Orleans and at Rochester, Minnesota, and is equipped to meet any professional demands.

Dr. Garth was married at Beaumont, the twenty- fourth of November, 1892, to Miss Estelle L. Tyrrell, daughter of Capt. W. C. Tyrrell of Jefferson County, and a foremost capitalist, who has perhaps done more for the advancement of this section than any other one citizen. Dr. and Mrs. Garth make their home at 1347 Calder Avenue, the old Captain Tyr- rell home, and have four sons: Thomas, James, Tyrrell and LeRoy, who is married and has two chil- dren. Dr. Garth is a member of the Lions Club, and is an Elk, a Knight of Pythias, and a Mason, Blue Lodge Chapter and Royal Arch. He belongs to the Jefferson County Medical Society, the Texas Med- ical Association and the American Medical Asso- ciation, and is one of the most enthusiastic rep- resentatives of the medical profession at Beaumont.

R. CHAS. M. ROSSER, senior member of the medical and surgical partnership of Rosser, Rosser and Carter, came to Dallas in 1889 from East Texas and today is one

Southwest. He is senior surgeon at the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and was the founder of the Good Samaritan Hospital on the grounds of which the Baptist Sanitarium now stands. Dr. Rosser also established the first medical school in Dallas and this school later became the Baylor University College of Medicine. For eighteen years Dr. Rosser has been professor of surgery in this college, and many prominent surgeons today had their first training under him.

Dr. Rosser was born near Cuthbert, Georgia, December 22, 1862, a son of Rev. M. F. and Amelia (Smith) Rosser. His father was a well known Methodist minister and during the Civil War served as chaplain of the 41st Georgia regiment. He came to Texas folowing the close of the war in 1866 and located in Camp County.

Dr. Rosser received his preliminary education at the East Texas Academic Institute under the noted Professor John M. Richardson and studied medicine at the University of Louisville, graduating there with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1888.

Before taking up the study of medicine Dr. Rosser taught school in East Texas from 1881 to 1884 and following his graduation began practicing at Waxa- hachie, removing to Dallas one year later. In 1891 he was elected city health officer, serving one term, and from 1895 to 1897 was superintendent of the North Texas Hospital for Insane at Terrell, hav- ing been appointed by Governor (now United States Senator) Chas. A. Culberson. He returned to his private practice at Dallas in 1897.

On September 11, 1889, Dr. Rosser was married to Miss Elma Curtice of Eminence, Kentucky, a member of a well known Kentucky family. They have two children: Dr. Curtice Rosser who is asso- ciated with his father, and Mrs. George McBlair of New York.

Dr. Rosser is a forceful writer and an eloquent speaker. His addresses before medical bodies have attracted wide attention and his papers have re- ceived prominent places in magazines and other pub- lications devoted to the profession. During the late

war he spoke for five months in the interest of gov- ernment war work and occupied 65 pulpits, preach- ing the doctrines of loyalty and of thrift and savings. In this work Dr. Rosser was personally invited to take part by Wm. G. McAdoo.

For three years Dr. Rosser has been chairman of the committee to secure for the medical profession a building which is about to be erected and will prob- ably be 18 stories. He was appointed to this work by Dallas County Medical Society.

A Fellow of the American College of Surgeons and member of all the recognized medical bodies, Dr. Rosser has been honored several times by elec- tion to offices in different organizations. He is a member of the Dallas Country Club.

ULIUS J. GOUDCHAUX, although a resi- dent of Beaumont but a comparatively short time, has been a factor in the com- mercial advancement of this city, and is well and favorably known to the drug trade. Mr. Goudchaux is the owner of the Service Drug Store, a business which was established a number of years ago, as the Caswell-Preston Drug Company, and operated under that name until 1918, when Mr. Goudchaux bought out the business and changed the name to the Service Drug Store. Under his management the business has been increased around five hundred per cent, and has built up a very large trade. The Service Drug Store is well located in the down town district, at 516 Pearl Street, where a modern building is occupied. The interior is one of the most attractive in Beaumont, the tile floor, fine fountain and fixtures combining to advantage. The stock is complete and includes everything that one would expect to find in a drug store. A force of fifteen employees assist Mr. Goudchaux in rendering the many patrons of the store a real service. The prescription department, where every care is used in the compounding of prescriptions, has been very successful, the serial number on prescriptions run- ning well over five houndred thousand. Mr. Goud- chaux has to a large extent eliminated delivery troubles through the adoption of a percentage basis of payment, and finds that the boys, thus encouraged to increase their earnings, are more alert and take more interest in their work.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 46

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