The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1, Part 105

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1204

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ARRY FINDLEY BOYD, proprietor and manager of the Southwestern Mercantile Agency, 200, 201 Gaston building, came to Dallas from Memphis, Tenn., in 1894, as local manager of R. G. Dun & Co., with whom he started in 1885. In 1898 he resigned his position with the Dun Company and went with the Mutual Mercantile Agency as chief clerk, remaining with them until 1901, when he organized his present business.

Mr. Boyd was born in Memphis, Tenn., October 20, 1869. His father, R. R. Boyd, was a native of New Hampshire, and was engaged in the cotton business in Memphis for a number of years. He also resided in Dallas about five years. His mother was from a Pennsylvania family and was a Miss Harriet Black before her marriage. His education was acquired in the public schools of Memphis and Covington, Tenn.

Mr. Boyd's company gives exclusive attention to collections and adjustments for wholesalers and is one of the leaders in this line. Among the companies clients are numbered some of the largest concerns of Dallas, including Western Electric Company. Texas Drug Company, Butler Bros., L. H. Lewis Com- pany, Dallas Paper Company, A. A. Jackson Com- pany, Huey & Philp, Pierce Oil Corporation and others. There are six people in the organization and a corps of travelling adjusters are employed.

Mr. Boyd is married and lives at 3831 Cedar Springs Road, Oak Lawn District. His wife is a native of Texas and was Miss Dora Stoner, daugh- ter of Pete Stoner, a South Texas cattleman. He is a member of the Kiwanis Club, Dallas Wholesale Credit Men's Association, Dallas Auto Country Club and Dallas Auto Club. His church affiliation is with the Westminster Presbyterian church.

Dallas had a population of only 40,000 people when Mr. Boyd first came to the city in 1891. The present outlook for the city, he says, is unusually fine and he expects it to grow more rapidly in the future than in the past.

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C. THRIFT, First Vice-President of the Thrift Hydraulic Casing-Pulling Company, Inc., under the laws of Texas, Wichita Falls and Burkburnett, Texas, by his ingenius mind has invented and patented a device for re- covering casing which has proven so effective that he has crews working in this service in Burkburnett, and surrounding territory, in the Houston and Beau- mont districts, at Walters, Okla., and at Shreveport, La., leading centers in oil territory of three states. It was in August, 1919, that Mr. Thrift came to Burkburnett and established his business here. The other officers of the Company are: C. H. Lane, presi- dent; Fred Thrift, second vice-president and T. H. Grennell, secretary and treasurer.

Mr. Thrift has other patents and other patents pending pertaining to the oil business, and more especially to the casing pulling department. He has improvements in mind which he will make on his various patents from time to time.

Alabama, Calhoun County, has furnished Texas with this citizen; he was born in that state in 1880. His father, W. S. Thrift, deceased, native of Georgia, was a machinist of ability who has patent- ed a number of farm implements, his mother, Sallie E. (Griffin) Thrift ,was a native of Alabama. After completing the public school system, Mr. Thrift took courses in draftsmanship and engineering. At the age of twenty-one, in 1901, he entered the oil in- dustry at Corsicana, Texas, as a helper in rotary drilling. After one year of this type of work, he became a driller and in that capacity has drilled and superintended drilling of wells in every Texas field. As a contracting driller he came to Burkburnett in August, 1919, and on August 5th, 1919, he received his patent, applied for on December 16, 1918, for a Hydraulic Casing-Pulling Device for removing cas- ing. There are a number of these in operation in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana operating on a royalty basis. There are fifteen employees in the Burkburnett section. The company also leases these machines to others on a royalty basis, receiving stated amounts per ton for material recovered.

In 1905, at Beaumont, Texas, Mr. Thrift married Miss Jennie Walston, a native of Alabama. They have two children, Griffin C., age fifteen, and Nona Belle, age ten, both in the Burkburnett schools. The family reside at 639 East Third Street.

The oil fields of western and northwestern Texas are ranked with the richest oil territories in the world and operation in these fields has placed Texas in the fore front with Uncle Sam's big oil producers. Though the output from these fields is enormous already, the development is only in its beginning. Hundreds of thousands of acres in each section tapped are yet to be developed, and in the drilling of the wells and in the casing industry of these sec- tions of Texas, Mr. Thrift and his organization will have a good part.

L. DELAHOUSSAYE, oil operator, has been associated with the larger oil companies of the West and Southwest for many years and has shown himself an authority on oil matters.

Of French extraction, Mr. Delahoussaye was born in New Orleans on June 9, 1879. His father, O. Delahoussaye, was prominent in political circles of that state and widely known through his services while holding public offices. The family had orig- inally come to the United States as emissaries of

the French government, and members of both sides of his immediate family are conspicuous in the his- tory of Louisiana. His mother was Miss Angele de Blanc. He received his education in the public schools of Louisiana in Alexandria and later in New Orleans. For twelve years after completing his education he represented the Singer Sewing Ma- chine Company, and had charge of the central Louis- iana business for this concern with headquarters at Alexandria. This business eventually took him to Beaumont where he became interested in oil and accepted a position with the Sun Company in that city. In 1916 he was sent by them to the North- western territory for the purpose of buying up leases and attending other duties of the land de- partment. Previous to this he had had experience in the Southern Louisiana fields and the oil lands about Beaumont and Southern Texas. In 1918 he decided to organize his own company and operate independently.

Mr. and Mrs. Delahoussaye have one daughter, Veronica, at present attending college.

Mr. Delahoussaye is a member of various clubs and the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association. He believes that Southwestern Texas is making wonder- ful progress, and that Dallas, as the financial center of this district, has a great future.

E. ATTAWAY, manager of the Coca- Cola Bottling Company, 1101 Second Ave- nue has grown up with Dallas and while the town he came to when a child has developed into a big busy, thriving city, he has likewise de- veloped into a big, progressive young business man. prominently identified with the business life of the city, and connected with a concern that is known all over the world for the products it puts out. The business over which he presides as manager was established in 1904 at 1802 Wood street, and oc- cupied a floor space of 25x40 feet. In 1908 the place was enlarged to 50x125 feet, and outgrowing these quarters, the business was moved to its present lo- cation January 1, 1920, where 30,000 cases of Coca- Cola are bottled and distributed every day. The full capacity being 6,300 cases. The company operates thirteen branch plants in North Texas and 13 coun- ties in Oklahoma, uses twenty-one trucks for mak- ing deliveries, employs 36 people in the Dallas plant and 175 in all the sixteen plants, and puts out 1,160,000 cases of Coca-Cola per year, the business of 1920 being 60 per cent over that of 1919. T. C. Lupton is president of the company.

Previous to going with this company Mr. Attaway was connected for 14 years with the Liquid Car- bonic Company, first as chief clerk and later as as- sistant manager. He took his present position March 1, 1920. He owns stock in several oil com- panies, the Dallas Power and Light Company and the Dallas Labor Temple Assn.

Mr. Attaway is a native of Mississippi, but came to Dallas with his parents, H. W. and Ann (Haw- kins) Attaway, when he was a small child. His. father left Dallas in 1900 and is now engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Durant Okla. His mother was a native of Bonham, Texas. He attend- ed the public schools of Dallas and spent two years at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was married in Dallas to Miss Gossett Dove, daughter of D. W. Dove, retired attorney, and they have one child, W. E. Jr. The family home is at 3204 Elihu street. He is a member of the Elks' Lodge.

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his education. He received the degree of LL. B. from the University of Colorado and for twenty years he practiced law in that state. He specialized in corpo- ration practice. Throughout his law career, he also carried on business in oil as from infancy the oil business was a thing familiar to him as his father's work. In 1918, he yielded to the call of the Lone Star State and came to Texas, locating in Fort Worth.

In 1898, Miss Burda V. Glauer became the bride of Mr. Lang. They have four children: J. Oliver, who is in the University of Cincinnati, in the Engi- neering Department. Margery, who is a Senior in the University of Michigan and Josephine, who is a Sophomore in the same institution, and Willard G., who is in the Kentucky Military Institute.

Mr. Lang has been reared in the oil business; it was the only business of his father before him, and by training and by experience in various oil fields, he is acquainted thoroughly with all phases of the work. His skill as an attorney is a strength to his company in its organization, contracts, leases and in fact all of its business transactions.

ALVIN NORTON, manager of the Dallas branch of A. C. Spalding, 1518 Main Street, has for nearly ten years been actively identified with the business interests of Dal- las. In 1911 Mr. Norton came to Dallas from Den- ver, Colorado, where he was connected with the same company. The A. C. Spalding Company, which handles athletic goods exclusively, occupies a three- story building covering a space twenty by one hun- dred feet. It does both wholesale and retail business and is the only branch office in Texas. Two-thirds of Texas comprises the territory over which Mr. Norton has complete supervision. This Dallas branch, which was established in 1910, employs fifteen men, including two traveling salesmen.

Mr. Norton was born in Yellowstone National Park on December 2, 1888. His father was John T. Norton and his mother's maiden name was Sarah Carson, a relative of the famous western Indian fighter, Kit Carson, and a direct descendant of Ethan Allen, the American hero of the Revolutionary war. Mr. Norton attended the public schools of Denver, Colorado and lately the University of Colorado at Boulder. While attending school in Denver he first became connected with the A. G. Spalding Company, working during his spare time and vacation periods, and after graduating from college occupied a perma- nent position with the firm.

In 1914 he married Miss Edith Mitchell, of Wash- ington, D. C., at Fort Worth. They are the parents of two children, Helen and Edith. The family re- sides at 734 Woodlawn.

Mr. Norton is a member of the Cedar Crest Coun- try Club.

ANIEL G. BECKNELL, district manager of the Royal Typewriter Company, 204 Soutli- western Life Building, came to Dallas from Butte, Mont., in Feb. 1918 and in less than three years time has built up one of the largest agencies for this company in the South. He has placed more than six hundred Royal machines in the city of Dallas alone and during 1919 while the oil boom was at its height, delivered over one hun- dred machines a month in the Fort Worth district, embracing Wichita Falls and other towns of the West and North Texas oil fields.

With a factory output of four hundred machines a

day, which on September 1st was increased to five hundred, the Dallas office has found it difficult at times to secure a sufficient number to enable them to make prompt deliveries in the trade territory ad- jacent to Dallas. With the increased production it is expected that shipments will be made more promptly and customers will receive their machines with a minimum of delay.

Mr. Becknell was born at Milford, Indiana, May 13. 1888, a son of D. W. and Nina Becknell. His father was for many years a well known rancher and druggist in Idaho.

After attending the public schools and the high school at Milford, Mr. Becknell was connected with his father in a ranching enterprise in Idaho from 1902 to 1906, when he removed to Ft. Wayne, Indiana and worked as a salesman for a typewriter concern until 1908. From 1908 to 1909 he was manager of the Wm. A. Welty Company, at Waterloo, Iowa and then was on a ranch in Idaho until 1912. From 1913 to 1916 he was manager for the Royal Typewriter Company at Colorado Springs and Pueblo, Colorado, having charge of the Southern Colorado and New Mexico territory. In 1916 he was made state mana- ger for the Royal and stationed at Butte, Montana, remaining there until transferred to Dallas in 1918.

Mr. Becknell is a Royal Arch Mason and a mem- ber of the University Club. He is treasurer of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Dallas.

Mr. Boyd's company gives exclusive attention to collections and adjustments for wholesalers and is one of the leaders in this line. Among the companies clients are numbered some of the largest concerns of Dallas, including Western Electric Company, Texas Drug Company, Butler Bros., L. H. Lewis Com- pany, Dallas Paper Company, A. A. Jackson Com- pany, Huey & Philp, Pierce Oil Corporation and others. There are six people in the organization and a corps of travelling adjusters are employed.

Dallas had a population of only 40,000 people when Mr. Boyd first came to the city in 1894. The present outlook for the city, he says, is unusually fine and he expects it to grow more rapidly in the future than . in the past.

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C., THRIFT, First Vice-President of the Thrift Hydraulic Casing-Pulling Company, Inc., under the laws of Texas, Wichita Falls and Burkburnett, Texas, by his ingenius mind has invented and patented a device for re- covering casing which has proven so effective that he has crews working in this service in Burkburnett, and surrounding territory, in the Houston and Beau- mont districts, at Walters, Okla., and at Shreveport, La., leading centers in oil territory of three states. It was in August, 1919, that Mr. Thrift came to Burkburnett and established his business here. The other officers of the Company are: C. H. Lane, presi- dent; Fred Thrift, second vice-president and T. H. Grennell, secretary and treasurer.

Alabama, Calhoun County, has furnished Texas with this citizen; he was born in that state in 1880. His father, W. S. Thrift, deceased, native

of Georgia, was a machinist of ability who has patent- ed a number of farm implements, his mother, Sallie E. (Griffin) Thrift ,was a native of Alabama. After completing the public school system, Mr. Thrift took courses in draftsmanship and engineering. At the age of twenty-one, in 1901, he entered the oil in- dustry at Corsicana, Texas, as a helper in rotary drilling. After one year of this type of work, he became a driller and in that capacity has drilled and superintended drilling of wells in every Texas field. As a contracting driller he came to Burkburnett in August, 1919, and on August 5th, 1919, he received his patent, applied for on December 16, 1918, for a Hydraulic Casing-Pulling Device for removing cas- ing. There are a number of these in operation in Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana operating on a royalty basis. There are fifteen employees in the Burkburnett section. The company also leases these machines to others on a royalty basis, receiving stated amounts per ton for material recovered.

L. DELAHOUSSAYE, oil operator, has been associated with the larger oil companies of the West and Southwest for many years and has shown himself an authority . on oil matters.

Of French extraction, Mr. Delahoussaye was born in New Orleans on June 9, 1879. His father, O. Delahoussaye, was prominent in political cireles of that state and widely known through his services while holding public offices. The family had orig- inally come to the United States as emissaries of

the French government, and members of both side of his immediate family are conspicuous in the hi -- tory of Louisiana. His mother was Miss Angele ... Blanc. He received his education in the public schools of Louisiana in Alexandria and later in New Orleans. For twelve years after completing his education he represented the Singer Sewing Ma- chine Company, and had charge of the central Louis- iana business for this concern with headquarters at Alexandria. This business eventually took him to Beaumont where he became interested in oil and accepted a position with the Sun Company in that city. In 1916 he was sent by them to the North- western territory for the purpose of buying up leases and attending other duties of the land de- partment. Previous to this he had had experience in the Southern Louisiana fields and the oil lands about Beaumont and Southern Texas. In 1918 he decided to organize his own company and operate independently.

Mr. and Mrs. Delahoussaye have one daughter, Veronica, at present attending college.

E. ATTAWAY, manager of the Coca- Cola Bottling Company, 1101 Second Ave- nue has grown up with Dallas and while the town he came to when a child has developed into a big busy, thriving city, he has likewise de- veloped into a big, progressive young business man. prominently identified with the business life of the city, and connected with a concern that is known all over the world for the products it puts out. The business over which he presides as nianager was established in 1904 at 1802 Wood street, and oc- cupied a floor space of 25x40 feet. In 1908 the place was enlarged to 50x125 feet, and outgrowing these quarters, the business was moved to its present lo- cation January 1, 1920, where 30,000 cases of Coca- Cola are bottled and distributed every day. The full capacity being 6,300 cases. The company operates. thirteen branch plants in North Texas and 13 coun- ties in Oklahoma, uses twenty-one trucks for mak- ing deliveries, employs 36 people in the Dallas plant and 175 in all the sixteen plants, and puts out 1,160,000 cases of Coca-Cola per year, the business of 1920 being 60 per cent over that of 1919. T. C. Lupton is president of the company.

Mr. Attaway is a. native of Mississippi, but came to Dallas with his parents, H. W. and Ann (Haw- kins) Attaway, when he was a small child. His. father left Dallas in 1900 and is now engaged in the wholesale grocery business at Durant Okla. His mother was a native of Bonham, Texas. He attend- ed the public schools of Dallas and spent two years at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1908 he was married in Dallas to Miss Gossett Dove, daughter of D. W. Dove, retired attorney, and they have one child, W. E. Jr. The family home is at 3204 Elihu street. He is a member of the Elks' Lodge.

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UDGE CHAS. F. SPENCER, City National Bank Building, Wichita Falls, attorney and oil operator, has to his credit the record of having served as a county attorney for four years, a district judge for five, and also is general manager and chairman of the board of di- reetors of the Normal Oil Company, besides being a director in a number of banks.

Mr. Spencer is a native of Kentucky; he was born at Burksville of that state on February 16, 1882. His parents were Judge R. F. Spencer, lawyer and later the county judge of Wise County, Texas, and Saloma Dixon Spencer, who came to Texas in 1890. Judge R. F. Spencer, now i member of the Supreme Court Commission of the State of Texas, is a brother of Judge Chas. F. Spencer. Texas, therefore, has given to Judge Spencer his education. After finish- ing school, he studied law under the direction of his father. In 1903 he was admitted to the bar and he began his practice at once in Montague, Texas. From 1906 to 1910, he was the county attorney of Montague County; from 1913 to 1918, he was the district judge of the Sixteenth District, composed of Denton, Cooke and Montague counties. In 1918 he ran against Lucian W. Parish for congress but was defeated by 256 votes out of 37,000. In October of 1918, he moved to Wichita Falls. Here he is manager of the Normal Oil Company that operates in the Northwest field and Burk Townsite, having an interest in twenty-nine wells whose daily tribute is 700 barrels. Independent of the company, he personally has an interest in fourteen wells that bring him 125 barrels a day settled production. He is partner in the law firm of Cook, Spencer & Bailey, a director of the City National Bank, of the Farmers State Bank at Burkburnett, of the First State Bank at Iowa Park, and vice-president and a director of the Sunshine Pipe Line Company, and is interested in business properties in several cities in Northwest Texas.

In 1906, at Montague, Texas, Judge Spencer married Miss Myrtle Garrison. They have one son, Jack, age six. Mr. Spencer is a member of the Odd Fellows, of the Knights of Pythias, the M. W. A., the Wichita Club, Wichita Falls Golf Club, Chamber of Commerce, with church affiliation with the Christian Church.

As a lawyer of eminent success and as a business man of large ability, Judge Spencer leads a life of activity and large usefulness.

H. HECHT, well known oil man of the Mid- Continent field, came to Dallas during the height of the oil boom in West Texas and has been prominently identified with de- velopment work in various fields of North and West Texas.

Mr. Hecht was one of the organizers and was elected president of the Peerless Petroleum Produc- tion Company. He was also secretary and general manager of the Continental Petroleum Company. Prior to coming to Dallas he was located in Okla- homa City where he was connected with the De- positor's Oil and Gas Company for two years. .

A successful oil man, Mr. Hecht made good use of his praetical knowledge of the oil business and was very successful in developing the properties of his companies. He drilled several successful wells and accumulated a large amount of acreage in vari- ous parts of the North, West and Central West Texas fields. He also had considerable holdings in

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1, Part 105

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau Number of Pages: 1204

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1204