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The enterprise of which Mr. Haynes is the execu- tive head, is not a corporation but an association of interests of various oil operators. It has been very successful in its operations and now las im- portant holdings in the Kemp-Munger-Allen, Blue Ridge and Northwest Extension and Duncan, Okla- homa fields. The Syndicate is interested in about fourteen producing wells and holds approximately three thousand acres of leases situated in various fields. The daily production aggregates approxi- mately 1,000 barrels.
Mr. Haynes is a native of Kentucky and was born at Paducah in 1884. He is a son of J. H. and Melissa (Cook) Haynes, well known residents of Kentucky for many years.
He attended the public schools of Kentucky and at an early age entered the business world. Mr. Haynes was one of the pioneers in the moving picture business and assisted in putting over the first big feature production of the American Feature Film Company. The company was first located at Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee, but later the offices were removed to Chicago. Mr. Haynes was engaged in the producing end of the motion picture industry for seven years prior to entering the oil business.
Mr. Haynes was married at Hittisburg, Missis- sippi, in 1904, to Miss Eva Dobbins, a native of Alabama. They have one son, James Cecil, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Haynes reside at 710 Fillmore Street.
An energetic, enterprising public spirited citizen, Mr. Haynes is keenly interested in all civic matters and predicts a great future for Wichita Falls. He is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Wichita Falls Chamber of Con- merce.
REX CANNON is one of the big drillers in one of the richest oil fields in the United States-located at 704 Commerce Building, Wichita Falls, partner of J. C. Haynes of the Haynes-Cannon Drilling Syndicate. While the aggregate of any industry in the state is attractive, especially so is the oil industry which is a leader in the development and wealth of Texas, and in this in- dustry the most practical and inseparable phase is the drilling business. It is just here that the Haynes-Cannon Drilling Syndicate does big business, bringing in some of the biggest wells of the state as well as bringing in as many wells as any other organization and surpassing most in this respect. The firm was organized in 1917 as drilling con- tractors and oil operators; Burkburnett and the K. M. A. fields have been the scene of their activity and in each field they have a big production of their own. The Texas Chief No. 1 was brought in by the drillers of the Haynes-Cannon Drilling Syndicate on June 2, 1918, at a depth of 1,659 feet and with a yield of 3,700 barrels a day-a Texas Chief indeed. Other examples of work done by this syndicate could be multiplied time over and again.
Mr. Cannon was born in Tom Green County, Texas, in 1889. His father, H. E. Cannon, is a re- tired oil man who has production in the northwest- ern fields. He was schooled in Tom Green County and then he started into the business his father had followed, by beginning as a helper in the Electra field for the Texas Company. For one year he worked in this capacity and then for four years served as a driller. He next entered the contract business with Mr. Haynes which organization, as the Haynes-Cannon Drilling Syndicate, has become a leader in its part of the oil fields. Mr. Cannon also holds considerable real estate in Wichita Falls.
In 1909, at Carlsbad. N. M., Mr. Cannon and Miss Elizabeth Davis were united in marriage; they have two children, Velma and James and the family re- side at 2005 Huff Street.
In the present-day immense activity of the oil fields of northwestern Texas, Mr. Cannon and his syndicate are having a good part and in the bigger future they will be factors in many of the best deals.
IMMONS S. HOPKINS, president and gen- eral manager of the Perfection Oil Com- pany, wholesale and retail distributors of oils and gasoline, Harwood and Conimerce Streets, operates an organization the principals of which are based on the sturdy foundation of long ex- perience and intensive study. His company, six months after its organization, operated four filling stations, employed sixteen persons, and enjoyed a business which taxes its distributing places to the utmost. The main office and filling station No. 1 is located at Harwood and Commerce Streets and the other stations are situated as follows: No. 2, west end of the Oak Cliff viaduct; No. 3, Harwood and Beaumont Streets, and No. 4, 3314 Swiss Avenue. Lack of warehouse facilities at the present is all that prevents the company from expanding its .busi- ness.
The Perfection Oil Company was established Jan- uary 1, 1920, and took for its trade mark "Perfecto Brand." It took just one week to raise the capital with which to finance this active business enterprise. The other officers besides Mr. Hopkins are C. D. Cain, vice-president; L. H. Tinnin, treasurer and John E. Farr, secretary. The company handles dif- ferent types of oil, greases and conipounds used in the lubrication of the motor vehicle.
Mr. Hopkins was born in Leon County, Texas, in 1882. His father, Dr. S. S. Hopkins, practiced medi- cine in East Texas for forty years and was one of the best known men in that community. He died in 1905. Mr. Hopkins' mother is still living on the old homestead in Leon County
Mr. Hopkins received his education in the public schools at his home. Finishing school he took up farming and followed it until he moved to Dallas in 1912, when he went to work for the Oriental Oil Company. He opened up the first gasoline filling station in this city on Commerce Street just west of Ervay Street. He stayed there only two months for the company put him in charge of a new station . on Lane Street, where he remained two and a half years. He was later transferred to another station and then made city salesman. His progress is rapid at that time and he was soon placed in charge of all the filling stations operated in Dallas by his company. He resigned from the Oriental Oil Com- pany to organize the Perfection Oil Company.
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Mr. Hopkins was married to Miss Ethel Johnson, of Denison, in 1919, the ceremony being performed in Dallas. He is a member of the Dallas Automo- bile Club, the Chamber of Commerce and Manufac- turers' Association and the I. T. A. With the ex- perience that he has had, Mr. Hopkins bids fair to build one of the largest businesses of its kind in Dallas. He has shown his ability at organization and it is recognized throughout the eity.
HOMAS COOK, independent oil operator and head of the Thomas Cook Oil Company, American National Bank Building, has been an active figure in the oil development of North Texas since his arrival in Wichita Falls in 1918. He is interested in development work in vari- ous parts of the Mid-Continent field and has an aver- age daily production of seven hundred barrels of oil.
For the past fifteen years M. Cook has been in- terested in oil properties throughout Oklahoma, Texas and Louisiana and has contributed much to the development of various sections in these states. He has been remarkably successful and oil operators have great confidence in his judgment. He has very large holdings in various proven territories and a great deal of property in localities where very little development work has as yet been done.
Mr. Cook is a native of Kansas and was born at MePherson on February 19, 1887, son of Phillip and Mary (Severtson ) Cook. The family moved to Texas in 1897 and located at Miami. Mr. Cook was educated in the public schools of Kansas and his early business efforts were in ranching and banking enterprises, in which he was quite successful. He is engaged in these lines in both Texas and Okla- homa.
In 1907 Mr. Cook was married at Miami, Texas, to Miss Jennie W. Klingman, a native of Missouri. They have one son, Verne.
Mr. Cook takes an active interest in civie affairs and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Elks Club and the Wichita Club. He is a man of pro- gressive business ideals and an enthusiastic booster for Wichita Falls.
B. MASHBURN, proprietor of the Marion Hotel, 623 Eighth Street, has been actively connected with the commercial interests of Wichita Falls since 1918 at which time he came to this city and engaged in the oil business, handling and developing leases. He became inter- ested in the hotel on January 15, 1921, and in No- vember of that year purchased the other interests and sinee that time has conducted it alone. The Marion has fifty-four rooms and affords excellent serviee to its patrons and by reason of its location, one and one-half blocks from the depot, is very popular with traveling men. The staff comprises seven employees.
Mr. Mashburn is a native Texan and was born in Hunt County, July 29, 1880. He is a son of J. F. Mashburn who came to Texas from Georgia in an ox wagon in 1866.
The early life of Mr. Mashburn was spent on a farm and cattle ranch. He attended the public schools and resided for a tinie in McLennan County, later removing to Hunt County and then to Collin County, 1905, and in 1909 going to Burkburnett where he operated a livery business and team con- tracting business until his removal to Wichita Falls
in 1918. He still has oil interests in the Burk- burnett field.
On April 19, 1903, Mr. Mashburn was married to Miss Lalla Lair, member of a well known Grayson County family. They have two children, Janice and Ruby Fern. The family resides at 1809 Eleventh Street.
Mr. Mashburn is a Mason and was the first Master of Burkburnett Lodge No. 1027, at Burkburnett. He also served as Junior Warden and was active deputy for three years. He is one of the charter members of Charter Junior Warden of the Faith Lodge of Wichita Falls. He is a member and di- rector of the Lions Club and an enthusiastic Wichita Falls booster.
DWARD L. STURM, superintendent of all main lines of the Texas Pipe Line Com- pany, Fort Worth territory, is the head of one of the biggest phases and most practical of the oil business. His work is as essential as is the bringing in of wells and sometimes as romantic. What the express companies are to small packages, what Pullmans are to passengers, what box cars are to freight, the Texas Pipe Line is to oil; it is the means of getting the oil from the producer to re- fineries and consumers. His business therefore is just as gigantic as is the oil business itself, has the same immense possibilities, and instead of being limited to one district as sometimes an oil company is, has no geographical limitation for his company serves all oil fields alike. At present there are about 360 miles of main pipe lines in operation by the Texas Pipe Line Company. Mr. Sturm has 100 men working under his personal supervision. The officers of the company are Judge Robert A. Johns, presi- dent; J. L. Dowling of Houston, vice-president, and J. C. Colligan, superintendent of the Dallas division. The company's headquarters are in the Texas Com- pany Building, at Houston, Texas. Mr. Sturm re- sides in Fort Worth.
Mr. Sturm was born in Mannington, West Vir- ginia, on February 18, 1885. He was educated in the public schools of West Virginia. His parents were James A. and Idella (Ryan) Sturm. In 1902 Mr. Sturm came west, stopping in Kentucky. His first experience in the oil business was with the Salem Eureka Pipe Line Co., in his native state. In 1902 he entered the employ of the Cumberland Pipe Line Company; in 1904 he came to Independ- ence, Kansas, where he remained for four years. In 1908 Mr. Sturm became associated with the Texas Company at Tulsa, Okla., as construction foreman, in which capacity he served until 1912 when he be- came district foreman of the Wichita division. In 1913 he came to Dallas as distriet foreman. In 1917 he was chosen as superintendent of all lines of the Dallas division and was transferred to his present position on June 1, 1920.
In 1916 Miss Ina Henley became the bride of Mr. Sturm. They have residence now at 21 Hemphill Street, Fort Worth. Mr. Sturm is a member of the Elks of Oklahoma and of the Mid-Continent Oil &- Gas Association. As one who has served in every department of pipe line work with some of the big- gest pipe line companies of the United States, Mr. Sturm is the proper man to superintend this im- portant phase of the oil business for the Texas Pipe Line Company.
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ENRY HOBBS, capitalist, oil operator, pres- ident of the Texas Chief Oil & Gas Com- pany, president of the Hobbs Oil Company and a leading spirit in other oil enterprises, has had a remarkable career in this field of en- deavor. Beginning without capital, less than four years ago, he is today considered in the millionaire class. He is today backed by unlimited capital sur- rounded by associates that have implicit confidence in his judgment and integrity. The Texas Chief Oil & Gas Company has already paid seven hundred and twenty-five per cent dividends and is still a heavy producer. The Hobbs Oil Company is a sub- sidiary of the Middle States Oil Corporation and operates in Texas, having a production at this time of over five thousand barrels per day. The other interests of Mr. Hobbs include an 80,000 acre ranch in Dallam County, a thirty acre orange grove that produces in the neighborhood of 10,000 boxes of oranges annually, located near Los Angeles, in Orange County and the W. R. B. Machine Tool Com- pany of Wichita Falls. He is a director of the Security National Bank of Wichita Falls.
Mr. Hobbs was born in Stephens County, Texas, on May 26, 1884. His father, W. M. Hobbs, was a Georgian whose parents brought him here when he was a boy. His mother, who was Miss S. A. Harris, was a native of Texas. They both had many personal experiences in Indian fights in pioneer Texas days. The parents located in Stephens County and later moved to Motley County where Henry Hobbs was educated. After his schooling, he began the cattle business with his father which connection he continued until 1918 when he came to Wichita Falls. After a six months stay in Wichita, Henry Hobbs decided to get thoroughly into the oil busi- ness. He began by borrowing $20,000 from friends and invested in 160 acres on Block 97 of the North- west Distriet. From that beginning made by bor- rowings, Henry Hobbs has risen until he heads, as president, a $6,000,000 company which from its seventy-three wells renders a monthly output of nearly a quarter of a million dollars and pays an annual dividend of 18 per cent on all investments.
On July 29, 1903, romance held sway and Miss Teck Hand became the bride of Mr. Hobbs in Motley County. They have two children, Melvin and Alta. The family residence is at 1200 Kemp Boulevard. The church affiliation is Baptist.
Youthful, talented, successful, romantic, head of one of Texas' biggest oil companies, Mr. Hobbs is really one of Texas' big men. He and his interests will be leaders for the next generation.
H. WILLIAMS, vice president and general manager of the Four State Oil and Refin- ing Company, is one of the successful oil men of Texas and has had splendid success with the Four States Company and the Clover Leaf Pro- duction Company as well, both of which he organized. Associated with Mr. Williams in the Four States Company are Thomas R. McLean, president, who is president of the First National Bank, of Mount Pleas- ant, and Harry Smith, secretary, formerly cashier of the First State Bank at Big Sandy, who resigned his position with the bank to go with the oil company.
The company has a refinery under construction at Quanah, Texas, with a capacity of 2,000 barrels per day and is erecting' filling stations in various towns of the state. They expect to obtain their production
from proven acreage owned by the company in well defined oil territory.
Mr. Williams was born in Hardaman County, Ten- nessee, October 8, 1877. Both his father and grand- father were well known lawyers of Tennessee and Arkansas and he was trained as a lawyer and prac- tised in Oklahoma for fourteen years. His education was received at Cumberland University and the Ten- nessee Law School where he graduated in 1898. In 1912 he engaged in the oil business in Louisiana and came to Dallas in 1918 and organized the Clover Leaf Production Company and Four States Oil Company. The last named company has a capitalization of two million dollars and was successful in floating a bond issue of three hundred thousand dollars for erecting its refinery and developing some of the acreage owned by the company.
ILLIAM A. TURNER, Dallas, oil operator and oil well contractor, is a pioneer driller in Texas fields who has acquired valuable holdings in wells and leases in Northern Texas. He operates in the Texhoma fields and holds interests in nfteen wells and attractive leases to the extent of 500 acres. Mr. Turner develops leases and sells production. He is a pioneer in the shallow wells of the Texhoma district and drilled over 300 wells in this country.
Since the discovery of the newer fields in Central Texas, Mr. Turner has been operating here.
Mr. Turner is a native Texan. He was born in Parker County, on October 31, 1873. His parents, Al Turner and Virginia Simmons Turner, came to Texas in their childhood. The father was a cattle- man. They left Parker County after a few years stay for residence in Baylor County, and thence moved to Plainview. The Panhandle gave the youth his education, first in books and after completing public school, in cattle raising and the oil business. After living a while in Texhoma, on the Texas side of the line, where he continued stock raising, in 1908, Mr. Turner sold all his cattle interests and began the real estate business. In 1910 he went to Lubbock where for two years he did drilling con- tracting for the Santa Fe. Later he became con- nected in a larger way with the oil wells of the Santa Fe, and in 1911 he moved to Wichita Falls and began contracting for the drilling of shallow wells. He found the field so profitable that in 1914 he began operating for himself in shallow wells.
In 1900, at Goodnight, Texas, Mr. Turner married . Miss Ina Vaughan, a niece of Col. Goodnight. They have three children, Marshall, Marcile and J. W., Jr. The family resides at 3504 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, Texas. Mr. Turner is a member of the I. O. O. F. He knows the West, is a native of it, and is linked up with its present golden development in one of the biggest industries of Texas. He is doing his part which is a good one.
RA L. ALLEN, secretary-treasurer, Brown Cracker and Candy Company, 603 Corinth street, came to Dallas in 1905 from Fort Worth, Texas, where he had represented the National Biscuit Company for two years. His company is one of the largest of its kind operating in the Southwest, manufacturing biscuit, crackers, confections and candies, and its products are sold throughout the entire State. Distributing offices are located at Amarillo, Austin, El Paso, Fort Worth, Houston and San Antonio, and the company does a volume of business that runs into millions of dol-
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lars annually. "They manufacture a high grade of products and it is doubtful if there is a town in the enfire State where its goods are not known and sold.
Mr. Allen's connection with the company as sec- Re:ary-treasurer was made in 1905. His first busi- Wass experience was gained in Atlanta, Ga., where he worked for several years for the wholesale gro- Cery firm of Oglesby & Meadows. Quitting the grocery business he went with the Aetna Furnace Company at Aetna, Ga., near Rome, and after re- emning with them for several years he returned To the grocery business and worked for Reunsvill A Bro., wholesale grocers and cotton men at Rome, Qa Later he went with the National Biscuit Com- pray and represented that concern at Fort Worth from 1903 until he came to Dallas and accepted his arsent position.
l'e is a native of Rome, Ga., born July 4, 1869, :"I was educated in the public and high schools of that city, later taking a commercial course at an ulanta, Ga., business college. His father, W. C. Allen, was a farmer and merchant, and a pioneer .t.zen of Rome, Ga. His mother, before her mar- rage, was Louisa Loveless, a native of Georgia. Mr. Allen was first married to Miss Laura Gay of Rome, Ga., September 14, 1893. His second wife, to whom he was married in Dallas, September 20, !! 14 was Miss Anna Dale, daughter of J. W. Dale, fairyman of South Texas. He has eleven children, Alfred E., Wm. Calvin, Frederick S., Ira L., Jr., Mrs. Ruth Pearce, Linnie, Margaret, Laura, Mary Dell, Harold Dale and Paul, and his four eldest sons served in the army during the late war, one in the 42nd Division, one in the 36th Division, one as a canner on a transport, and one as a boatswain.
Mr. Allen is a Knight of Pythias, a Maccabee and a Charter member of the Cedar Crest Country "lub. He is president and treasurer of the official board of Trustees of the Central Baptist Church, and also a member of the Board of Deacons.
AUL ALEMETH TURNER is known to all business circles in Texas and Oklahoma as president and general manager of the Southern Advertising Corporation and also The first time he trod upon the American soil was in the year of 1880, but with undaunted ambitions he taught school in a little country school house in Chamois, Missouri, and in the year of 1885 married Eliza Hubler, of Chamois, on October 29. Four stal- wart sign painters on the Zimmerman staff are com- prised of the four stalwart sons of Mr. and Mrs. James Zimmerman and have caused the firm to be changed to Zimmerman Sons. of the Dallas Pressed Steel Sign Company, business concerns which cover the Southwest for the inter- e'ts of other always than themselves. Other mem- bers of the firm are E. B. Guthrie, W. M. Williams and John W. Turner. The business was organized December 7, 1918, incorporated in June of 1919 for 250,000 and on January 1, 1921, this capitalization was increased to $125,000 for the Southern Advertis- ing Corporation and the separate company launched, Wichita, Kansas, first remembers James Zimmer- man as a sign painter in 1898, when he opened his shop for the first time, but eager for new business experience he took up a position with the Santa Fe Railway at Cleburne, Texas. In 1920 Mr. Zim- merman was injured in a railroad accident and while crippled he opened up a fruit and cigar busi- ness in the city of Dallas, which he continued for one year. He then entered the sign business in Dallas which was a new and undeveloped section the Dallas Pressed Steel Sign Company, with a capital of $15,000. The organizations are operators of mile-post sign service throughout the southwest and also manufacturers of "Paint-Printed" metal øns in quantities for outdoor advertising. The fac- tory started in September, 1919, being a pioneer factory and only one of its kind south of St. Louis. The present business annually surpasses the $100,000 mark, with fifteen employees and three salesmen. An immense mail order business comes to their Dal- . as far as sign painting is concerned. He found las offices independent of salesmen, and agencies, entioned throughout the country.
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Mr. Turner is a native Texan, he was born at Hillsboro, on August 2, 1888. His father, Edward M. Turner, was an Alabamian, his mother, Julia M. " Williams) Turner, a native of Mississippi. The Hillsboro public schools and the University of Texas
provided young Turner with his education. Banking and hardware was the business of his father at Hillsboro; in 1907 the father moved to Dallas to organize the Commonwealth National Bank which later became the Security National Bank of today. Mr. Turner was shipping clerk for the W. O. Brown Buggy Company, Dallas, Texas, then with the Fed- eral Life Insurance Company of Chicago. After a residence in Fort Worth as agent for the Overland Automobile, Mr. Turner returned to the insurance company which was superceded by his becoming publisher of county directories for one year prior to his big business of today.
On February 4, 1911, Mr. Turner and Miss Willie V. Bentley, daughter of W. V. Bentley of the Fed- eral Reserve Bank at Dallas, were married; they have residence at 6241 Aqueduct Street, Lakewood Heights.
Mr. Turner is, a member of the Elks, the Dallas Ad League, the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers Association, of the Nu chapter of the Chi Phi at the University of Texas, and is a Metho- dist in his church affiliation. His service is south- west-wide and will occupy a big place in the future.
AMES F. ZIMMERMAN, of Zimmerman & Sons, sign painters, Preston and Cabell Streets, Dallas. The definition of the word successful, which ordinarily is hard to de- fine, lies directly behind the foot prints of James F. Zimmerman, a man entering our magnificent coun- try as a foreigner from Switzerland with the same possibilities lying before him as a man cast upon a desert isle. For is it not that feeling that comes over one when landing upon strange soil among strange tongues and people. It is for this reason that James Zimmerman, master sign painter, is termed successful.
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