New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 63

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

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Dr. Miller was married at Houston the twenty- fifth of June, 1913, to Miss Edna Katherine P'Poole, whose family came to Houston from Abilene. Dr. and Mrs. Miller have since made their home at Houston, where they take part in the social and civic life. They have two children, George J. Miller, II, and A. L. Miller. Jr. Dr. Miller is a member of the Harris County Medical Society, the Texas Medi- cal Association, and the American Medical Associa- tion. He takes a vital interest in the improvement of industrial conditions at Houston, and has done much to advance the conditions under which the employees of the various industries work. He is also interested in public welfare work and is one of the substantial residents of this city.

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B. SANDERS came to Angleton, Texas, during the early months of 1923 and pur- chased the Angleton Hotel, which he has converted into one of the best hostelries of South Texas. The Angleton Hotel is modern in every particular and contains twenty-five well fur- nished, comfortable guest rooms which can easily accommodate forty people. It has become a center for traveling men and is filled to capacity practi- cally all the time. This is the only hotel in Angle- ton, and would be a credit to towns of much larger size than this little Brazoria County city. Twelve people are employed in the management and opera- tion of the Angleton hotel and from the lobby to the kitchen is a model of cleanliness and neatness. This is made necessary in order to have more room in which to accommodate the traveling public. Auto- mobiles meet all trains here day and night; also operate service cars to the adjoining towns and the oil fields. Prior to purchasing the hotel here Mr. Sanders had been engaged in various lines of busi- ness in different places in Texas, and with Mrs. Sanders has had a wide experience in the hotel business, both of them being active in the manage- ment and giving their close personal attention to all details. In addition to the purchase of the hotel here Mr. Sanders has shown his faith in the future of Angleton and vicinity by investing in a large farm near here, which he is improving all the time.

A native Texan, Mr. Sanders was born in San Jacinto County on April 12th, 1895. His parents, T. A. Sanders and Martha Sanders, were extensive land owners and farmers of San Jacinto County. His education was obtained in the public schools of San Jacinto County, which he left early in order to enter the business world, in which he has met with success.

Mr. Sanders was married at Tom Ball, Harris County, Texas, in 1916, to Miss Viola Stokely, a native of the Lone Star State and a daughter of R. R. Stokely, well known merchant, farmer and cattle man of South Texas. They have two chil- dren-Clyde Raine, and Virginia. Since coming to Angleton Mr. Sanders has made many friends here and with Mrs. Sanders is popular with the traveling public, many of the traveling men having known them in other hotels of the country.

HOMAS H. STEVENS, of the firm of Stevens and Stevens, own and operate Pecanway Place, Alvin, Texas, and since coming here ten years ago has specialized in the raising of pecans, cape jessamines and bulbs of various kinds. Planted at Pecanway Place are six hundred and forty pecan trees of the paper shell variety, and six thousand bushes of the fra- grant cape jessamine, which they own, and also use the output from ten thousand bushes owned by others. Stevens and Stevens are also large growers of the popular Chinese sacred lily, and ship more than fifty thousand of these fragrant and delicate lilies each year. They also grow the paper white narcissus bulbs for market, and ship from twenty thousand to thirty thousand of these favorites annually. In addition to the flowers and bulbs they are also large growers of tube roses, and have one of the fine places in Alvin and have been suc- cessful in their work here from a monetary stand- point. Stevens and Stevens are the largest growers of pecans in Alvin, and also the largest growers of

bulbs and flowers here, and are numbered among the three largest shippers of cape jessamines from this place. Mr. Stevens was for many years engaged in the live stock commission business-buying and selling horses and cattle; at the same time he owned and operated several large farms and was also active in the several lines of farming and stock raising. His health failed and he came to Texas in 1907 and for a period of three years traveled for his health in this State, at the same time looking for a loca- tion. He decided that Alvin was the right place to regain his health and at the same time to make money, and since locating here, his theory has proved to be entirely correct. Mr. Stevens' daugh- ter, Miss Lotta Stevens, has assisted him greatly in his undertaking here, and is the able supervisor of all work in the gardens and in reality runs the business. He feels safe in depending upon her, as she has developed into a capable, business woman, entirely able to care for the business of Pecanway Place.

Mr. Stevens was born at Hillsdale, Michigan, on April 22nd, 1850. His father, Thomas Stevens, was a well known stock man of Michigan, originally from Yorkshire, England. His mother was Miss Mary Felton, a member of a prominent family of Yorkshire, England. His education was obtained in the public and high schools of his native State.

Mr. Stevens was married at Reading, Michigan, in 1880, to Miss Jennie Stout, a daughter of Jefferson Stout, a well known farmer, land owner and money lender of Michigan. They have one daughter, Miss Lotta L. Stevens, who is well versed in horticul- ture and has been a valuable asset to her father's business in Alvin. Mr. Stevens believes that the fruit and flower industry in the South Texas coun- try will continue to grow, until it will rival any State in the raising and shipping of fruit, flowers and bulbs.

G. KIMBROUGH, for several years asso- ciated with the automobile industry in Houston, established the L. G. Kimbrough and Company in June, 1922, distributors for the Stephens Auto.

Mr. Kimbrough was born in Linden, Alabama, Sep- tember 30th, 1888. His father, W. L. Kimbrough, was also a native Alabaman, and a well known busi- ness man of that state. His mother was Miss Jen- nie Nelms, a native of Alabama and a member of a prominent family of that state. His early education was obtained in the public and high schools of Ala- bama, after which he studied medicine for three years.

Soon after leaving college, Mr. Kimbrough pur- chased a drug store in Linden, Alabama, which he operated for seven years. He came to Houston in June, 1915, as a salesman for an automobile agency for the wholesale trade and soon after was made sales manager, and continued in this capacity until he became distributor for the Stephens automobile. Mr. Kimbrough was married in Houston in July, 1922, to Miss Jessie Billings, a member of a well known Texas family. They have on child, Cecil Aileen Kimbrough. In fraternal organizations, Mr. Kimbrough holds membership in the B. P. O. E. and the K. of L. S. Mr. Kimbrough is popular in the business circles of Houston, where he has been successful.

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H. BOGAR for the past decade has taken an active part in the devlopment of Hous- ton, where for four years he has operated one of the leading drug stores of the city, prior to that time devoting his energies to enter- prises of a commercial importance. The Court House Pharmacy, Incorporated, of which Mr. Bogar is president and general manager, was organized by him in 1919 and has since occupied the building at the corner of Congress and Fannin Streets. The Court House Pharmacy caters to the best trade in the city, operating one of the finest drug stores here. They have a floor space of thirty-five by one hundred and fifty feet and employ fifteen clerks. The equipment is modern throughout and of the best quality. The prescription department, in charge of a competent, registered pharmacist, makes a spe- cialty of filling prescriptions in strict accordance with the doctor's prescription and compounded of the best and purest of drugs. They also operate an excellent fountain, making a point of service, and have built up an extensive trade in this line. The Court House Pharmacy also carries a complete line of proprietary drugs and sundries, stocking the bet- ter lines of toiletries and candies. Mr. Bogar is president and manager of the corporation, E. R. Campbell, vice president and P. E. J. Scully, sec- retary-treasurer.

This corporation has forty people to whom they give employment all the year around. Mr. Bogar was born in the central part of Illinois the ninth of July, 1886, and was educated in the public schools of his native state. In 1908 he came to Texas and for the ensuing four years was on a ranch near Amarillo. He then came to Dallas and went with the Automatic Music Company as salesman on the road in Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. During this period much of his time was spent at Houston, where he maintained his headquarters for four years. Later he went with a retail liquor house where he spent one year. At the time the nineteenth amendment went into effect he established his pres- ent business.

Mr. Bogar was married at Houston, in 1921, to Miss Margurette Hilton. They make their home at 818 Elgin Street.

L. HOFFMAN, who has recently allied him- self with the business life of Harrisburg, has since establishing his headquarters here become a factor in the drug trade, a business in which he has previously had a success- ful experience covering a period of four decades. Mr. Hoffman is President and Manager of the Har- risburg Drug Company, Incorporated, one of the finest and largest drug stores in Harris County, and which he took over the first of January, 1923. Since that time the store has been completely reorganized, along distinctive lines, and every phase of the busi- ness carefully thought out and developed in keeping with the demands of a high class trade. Mr. Hoff- man has an excellent location, on the Harrisburg Boulevard, and occupies a modern building, thirty- five by sixty feet. His stock is carefully selected and arranged, and a full line of drugs and drug sundries is carried. The store does a large pres- cription business handling approximately seven thousand prescriptions per annum. This part of the business is handled exclusively by Mr. Hoffman.

He has a force of five employees, co-operating with him in giving a large patronage the real service that goes far toward the success of a business. His daughter, Miss Susie Hoffman, is Secretary and Treasurer of the Harrisburg Drug Company, In- corporated, and with her father, takes an active part in the management of the business, and has been no small factor in its success. The business of the company has increased thirty per cent in the year it has been under Mr. Hoffman's management.

Mr. Hoffman was born in Oceana County, Mich- igan, in 1865, the son of Henry Hoffman, who spent his entire life in that State and was a well known attorney and county official. Mr. Hoffman attended the schools of his native State, and as a boy of seventeen years of age began to work in a drug store there. In 1910 he came to Teaxs, going first to Beaumont, where he spent some time with the Dunlap Drug Company. He then went to College- port, where he operated a drug store for more than half a decade, after which he went to Blesssing, and for almost five years was in the drug business there. The first of the year of 1923 he traded his store in Blessing for the one in Harrisburg, and removed to this city, which has since been his home.

Mr. Hoffman was married in Michigan, the thir- tieth of December, 1890, to Miss Lena Nuoffer, a native of that State. They have two children, Miss Susie, who is with her father in the drug business, and W. Leo Hoffman, of San Francisco, California. The family make their home in Harrisburg. Mr. Hoffman is a Blue Lodge Mason, Blessing, Texas, No. 411, to which he was transferred from Lodge No. 289, in Michigan. He has in the short time of his residence at Harrisburg become an integral part of the business world there, and has made many friends, both in the business and social life. He also takes a deep interest in civic activities, and is greatly interested in the development of Harrisburg.

J. McRAVEN, who for the past fifteen years has made Houston his home and busi- ness headquarters, has since 1916 been iden- tified with the printing and bookbinding business, having attained enviable reputation there- in, the books and catalogues bearing the imprint of his press being recognized as of highest quality. Mr. McRaven is secretary and assistant treasurer, as well as manager of the Hercules Printing and Book Company, Inc. The Hercules Company, suc- cessors to the Rein and Sons Printing Company, was incorporated in May, 1916, and has since that time built up a rapidly increasing business. The plant of the Hercules Printing Company is equipped with the most modern equipment, electrically operated, and with facilities to care for the highest class of trade. They are makers of fine catalogues, pam- phlets, school books, and also manufacturers of di- rectories and telephone books. Eighty operatives are employed. John H. Kirby is president of the com- pany and B. F. Bonner, vice president.

Mr. McRaven was born at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in 1878, son of D. J. McRaven, a native of that state, and a well known cotton man, and Rosa McCaul McRaven, a native of Virginia. He was educated in the public schools of his native state, and after finishing his education he began his business career with a railroad. His railroading experience took him over the entire country, there being few states in

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which he has not been, from coast to coast and from Texas to Maine. In 1908, he came to Texas, at that time being still engaged in railroad work, and located in Houston. In 1910 he gave up this work and spent the ensuing two years with the Kirby Lumber Company, following this by a year in San Francisco, again with a railroad, after which he returned to Houston and again entered the lum- ber business with the Kirby Lumber Company. He resigned his position there in May, 1916, to assume his connection with the Hercules Printing Company.

Mr. McRaven was married in Tennessee, in 1908, to Miss Mamie Davis, a native of that state. They make their home in Houston at 1405 Oxford Street. Mr. McRaven is a Blue Lodge Mason, Temple No. 1, Thirty-second Degree Scottish Rite, and a mem- ber of Arabia Temple Shrine. He also belongs to a number of social and civic organizations, such as the Glenbrook Country Club, the Lions Club, of which he is a past president, and Auto Association of South Texas, the Kiwanis Club, the T. P. A. and the Elks.

HARLES C. YOUNG has for more than a score of years been associated with the printing industry of Houston, and the print- ing establishment at 110 Main Street, bear- ing his name is one of the oldest and best in the city. Mr.Young is president and manager of the C. C. Young Printing Company, Inc., which was estab- lished in Houston in 1865 by A. C. Gray, and con- tinued under this name until 1904 when Mr. F. L. Dillaye became connected with the firm which con- tinued under the name of Gray and Dillaye until Mr. Young became a member of the firm in 1908 and the name was at that time changed to Gray, Dillaye and Young. In 1918 the name was changed to C. C. Young Printing Company, and was incorporated un- der this name in 1922. This company is engaged in printing and book binding especially books and pamphlets of all kinds. The C. C. Young Printing Company, Inc., does the largest business in legal printing in Houston. They have five thousand square feet of floor space, and have been in the same location for the past thirty years. They em- ploy fifteen experienced printers and book binders. Other officers of the C. C. Young Printing Company, Inc., are Paul M. Slater, vice president, and Henry G. Bastian, secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Young was born in Wellsville, Ohio, May 4th, 1881. His father, D. C. Young, was a printer and newspaper man, and his grand-father was a printer. His mother was Miss Cora A. Price, a member of a prominent Ohio family. His educa- tion was obtained in the public and high schools of Springfield Missouri. Mr. Young grew up in the atmosphere of the printing business. When he began to work in his father's printing establishment, he was so small that it was necessary for him to stand on a box in order to feed the press. Later, he went with the Springfield Republican (newspaper) as reporter to the city editor, and continued in news- paper work for some years. He came to Houston in 1902 with the Miller and Orem Typesetting Com- pany and remained with this company for a period of six years. He resigned his place with this firm in order to become a member of the present firm, which was conducted under the name of Gray and Dillaye.

Mr. Young was married in Springfield, Missouri,

in 1901, to Miss Ophelia J. Nelson, a member of a well known Missouri family. They have four chil- dren-Fletcher C., Beryl, Charline and Adelaide. Mr. and Mrs. Young reside at 816 Kipling Street. Mr. Young is a member of the A. F. and A. M., with membership in Reagan Blue Lodge. He is a mem- ber of the Scottish Rite body of this fraternity to the 32nd degree, and is a Shriner of Arabia Temple. During 1922 and 1923 Mr. Young was president of the Master Printers' Association, the Houston Ty- pothetae. Mr. Young has great faith in the future of Houston and believes it is destined to be the greatest city in the Southwest.

RANK B. McCURDY, veteran printer, of Houston, has for the past three decades been engaged in this work, building up one of the largest and finest commercial prin- teries in the city. The Frank B. McCurdy Company, of which Mr. McCurdy is the sole owner, was es- tablished in 1911, and has since that time enjoyed a very successful business, constantly expanding to meet the increasing demands made by a rapidly growing city, and looking forward to an assured future of growth and progress. The Frank B. Mc- Curdy Company is located at 11161/2 Prairie Ave- nue, where they have more than five thousand square feet of floor space, with a modernly equipped plant, well arranged and employing eigh- teen operatives. The McCurdy Company special- izes in fine commercial printing, and has an ex- tensive patronage drawn from among the big busi- ness men of the city. They do all classes of com- mercial printing, and, in addition to the local trade, have three salesmen who look after their interests in towns located near Houston. Mr. McCurdy man- ages every detail of the business himself, and per- sonally supervises all the work turned out by the plant.

Mr. McCurdy was born at Galveston, Texas, the eighth of September, 1876, son of G. A. McCurdy, a native of Georgia, who has lived in the Lone Star State for the past sixty-five years, and is now re- tired and living at Conroe, Texas. His mother (deceased), prior to her marriage, was Miss Ida Brown, was also a native of Texas. Mr. McCurdy was educated in the public schools, later attending that famous old pioneer college, Parker College, where some of the greatest men of the Lone Star State have received their education. After graduating from this institution Mr. McCurdy went to Hearne, Texas, with the Hearne Advocate, and learned the printing business from the ground up. He then came to Houston in 1893, and was for three years with Dealy & Baker, then with the Franklin Printing House, until that business was sold to the Dorsey Printing Company. He was made general manager of the reorganized company, holding this position until 1911, when he established his own business.

Mr. McCurdy was married at Houston, in 1897, to Miss Marguerette Curtin, a native of this city. They make their home on Bellaire Boulevard. Mr. Mc- Curdy is an Eagle, past Worthy President, and President the past three terms, and is chairman of the Board of Trustees. He also belongs to the Elks, the Turnverein Club, the Salesmanship Club, the Advertising Club, the Automobile Association and is a director of the Red Roosters.

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OSEPH M. CARY has for more than a score of years been an active figure in the finan- cial and business circles of Houston, where he is vice president and general manager of the A. P. Cary Company, Inc. This company was founded by Mr. Cary's brother, the late A. P. Cary, and is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the South. It was established in Dallas in 1884 and the Houston house was opened in 1902 for the purpose of more conveniently supplying this portion of the state. The A. P. Cary Company, Inc., are whole- sale dealers in dental and surgical instruments and supplies, and hospital equipment of all kinds. The Houston house of the company has ten employees and three traveling representatives who cover all of South, Central and West Texas, and a portion of Louisiana and the Republic of Mexico. The head- quarters of the company were recently moved to the eighth floor of the new Keystone building. The offices have been fitted out with beautiful furni- ture and with complete and modern equipment throughout. The company has equipped many of the hospitals in South Texas, among which are the Southern Pacific, Methodist, Sugarland Industrial and the Mercy Hospital at Brownsville.

Mr. Cary is a native of Alabama. His father, Major Joseph Milton Cary, and his mother, who was Miss Lucy Jeannett Powell, were members of well known Virginia families who figured prominently in the ante-bellum history of the State of Alabama, and during the trying period of reconstruction fol- lowing the Civil War. Mr. Cary is a brother of Dr. E. H. Cary, one of the foremost physicians and sur- geons of Dallas. The public schools of Alabama supplied the foundation for Mr. Cary's education, after which he was a student at the A. & M. College of Alabama; later attending Georgetown University at Washington, D. C., where he graduated with the L. L. D. degree, receiving the L. L. M. degree one year later. Before graduating from college, how- ever, he had an unusual honor bestowed upon him. The governor of Alabama appointed him as one of the Alabama commissioners to the Paris Expo- sition. This gave him the opportunity to spend the summer of 1889 in Europe, where he had the pleas- ure of meeting many of the interesting and leading people of England and the continent. After his graduation, Mr. Cary practiced law for a period of five years in Dallas. He left the practice of law in order to engage with his brother in the present busi- ness at Dallas, where he remained until he came to Houston in 1902. During his residence in Dallas Mr. Cary became popular in social as well as in business circles. His leadership in society was evi- denced by his election to the prominent social posi- tion of president of the Bachelors' Cotillion Club.

Mr. Cary was married in Galveston in 1909 to Miss Vanita De Milt, a native Texan. They have one daughter-Vanita De Milt Cary. The Cary residence, one of the most attractive in the city, is located at 208 Westmoreland. In social organiza- tions, he is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Col- lege fraternity, the Houston Country Club, the Houston Club and the University Club. For a pe- riod of three years he served as president of the old Z Z Club, during which time he was especially active as one of the leaders in Houston society. Mr. Cary has done much toward the advancement and progress of Houston.

0. JARRELL has been engaged in the insurance business for the past eleven years, during which time he has been asso- ciated with the oldest and largest insurance concerns of this city. Since 1919 Mr. Jarrell has been a member of the firm of Shelton and Jarrell, and the business is conducted under the names of S. O. Cotton and Brother and Shelton and Ames; the former being fire insurance and the latter surety and casualty insurance. The firm of S. O. Cotton and Brother was established in Houston in 1875, mostly fire insurance, by S. O. and J. M. Cotton, which has been sold several times since then, and was purchased by Shelton and Ames sev- eral years ago, and is now owned by Shelton and Jarrell. This firm has ten experienced people in their employ. They started out at one time as general agents for several of the larger companies, but now only direct their own business, which has been increased each year, until now it has reached wonderful proportions. This firm has the distinc- tion of being the only firm in the state who have been agents for one company for one-half a century, the company being the Royal Insurance Company of Liverpool, England. Mr. Jarrell started his bus- iness career at Corsicana, Texas, as a bookkeeper for the McCammon-Lang Lumber Company, where he remained for a period of eight months and then became associated with the City National Bank, where he remained for about six months and then entered the insurance business, with W. Burgess and Company of that city, where he remained for several years. He then went to Austin with the State Insurance Department and after remaining there for a few years came to Houston and became associated with the insurance firm of Cravens and Cage, where he remained for two years and then went with his present firm. During the World War Mr. Jarrell was cashier of the Universal Ship Building Company of Houston.

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New encyclopedia of Texas, volume 2, Part 63

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