The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1, Part 106

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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the Duncan, Oklahoma field. By controlling the flow of natural gas from his wells he was able to secure a large royalty from the sale of gas as well as the oil.

Mr. Hecht was born in Czecho Slovakia, and raised and educated in England, coming to America in 1913. He worked as an interpreter in the United States land office in Montana and North Dakota and in 1916 came to Oklahoma and engaged in the oil husiness. After two years there he came to Dallas and began operating at Desdomona and other points in the West Texas fields.

ESSE DE WITT KUGLE, attorney at law, 1103-4 Great Southern Life Building, Dal- las, has specialized in the practise of land litigation and civil law. In this branch of the profession Mr. Kugle has had an extensive oil and gas practise. Coming to Dallas in 1916, he brought with him experience gained as district at- torney of Johnson County for two years and since his arrival here has devoted his time exclusively to his civil practise. Since 1918 Mr. Kugle has prac- tised alone and has been very successful in the estab- lishment of a large clientele, including several large Texas corporations.

Born in Cleburne, Texas, August 15, 1880, Jesse DeWitt Kugle is a son of William H. and Martha G. (Burdette) Kugle. He was educated in the public schools of Johnson County and in the year 1901 graduated from Burnette College, with the degree of bachelor of literature. His legal training was se- cured by study in the law offices of Poindexter and Padelford, where he remained for two years, during which time he was admitted to the bar. He then formed a partnership with J. E. Warren under the firm name of Kugle and Warren, which firm con- tinued until 1907 when he was elected district at- torney of Johnson County. After the expiration of his term of office he resumed his private practise as the senior partner of the firm of Kugle and War- ren. In 1916 he moved to Dallas and became the partner of W. B. Harrell, which partnership con- tinued until 1918, at which time Mr. Harrell became Assistant U. S. District Attorney and Mr. Kugle began to practise independently. He has been very active in gas and oil matters for the past several years and has had a great amount of experience in those lines.

In 1903 Mr. Kugle married Miss Lulu L. Barnes and they are the parents of four children, Jesse DeWitt, Jr., Williard H., Burnetta and Charlotte. Their home is situated at 101 North Mont Clair Street, Oak Cliff.

In fraternal orders Mr. Kugle is well known throughout Texas and is a member of the Masonic Order, the Knights of Pythias, the I. O. O. F. and the Woodmen of the World. On coming to Dallas he became a member of the Dallas Bar Association.

J. CORTINES, president of the Cortines Supply Company, wholesale and retail job- bers of bicycles and sporting goods, 1909 Main street, has built his success upon twenty-four years of experience in the bicycle busi- ness. J. S. Cortines, a son is secretary of the firm, and Walter L. Sykes is sales-manager.

The Cortines Supply Company was established in 1912. The company is distributor for Oriental Bi- cycles, and for Goodrich and United States Tires. Mr. Cortines looks after the wholesale line of the

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business, and is manager of the salesmen out on the road. A'n extensive wholesale business is en- joyed in every quarter of Texas. The retail house in Dallas also boasts an immense amount of trade, this department selling from 500 to 800 bicycles per year. The firm has recently purchased a new and very desirable location on Elm street, and after the expiration of the lease which the present tenant holds, will move into the new structure, which is to be remodeled extensively and promises four times the amount of space than the present location af- fords.

Born in San Antonio, Texas, 1871, Mr. Cortines was the son of H. Cortines, and a descendant of the fanious Spanish family Cortez. His father died when he was two years old, and as a boy he was forced to hustle for himself, getting what education he could after work hours. His brother, Victor H. Cortines, was in the sporting goods business in Gal- veston, and Mr. Cortines went there where he worked for twenty years. About this time the Pope Manu- facturing Company, auto and bicycle people, offered. him the position of district manager; Mr. Cortines accepted the place and for seven years travelled all over the southwest in the interest of the firm. He left them to take the district management of the Miami Cycle Manufacturing Company and for an- other seven years travelled over the same territory with Waco as headquarters. He left Waco in Feb- ruary 1912, and came to Dallas to establish his own business.

On February 14, 1894 he was married to Miss Martha M. Sinclair, daughter of John S. Sinclair, leather dealer of Waco, the wedding being celebrated in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Cortines have one son, J. S. Cortines, in his father's business, and who is southwestern District Mgr. of the Gainaday Electric Co., and during the war serving in the secret service department of the navy.

Mr. Cortines himself has had extensive military training. For ten years he was a member of the State Guards, starting as private and being com- missioned captain. He is a member of various so- cial and civic clubs, and is known at the Rotary Club as Peanut Joe, through his inimitable dialect stories which have won him as much local fame as his sleight of hand performances. He is much in demand as an entertainer at Charity affairs, and all ama- teur theatricals given for benevolent purposes. Mr. Cortines is always willing and glad to offer his services in the interest of charity, and recently help- ed raise $3,000 for the Salvation Army.

ILLIAM E. SHARPE, well known business man of Dallas whose name for many years has been closely connected with the seed and floral business and more recently in the oil business, is interested in every movement, going to the growth and development of his native city, Dallas.

Mr. Sharpe was born in Dallas, Sept. 5, 1883, and is the son of Elam Hayne Sharpe a Dallas Con- tractor and Mary A. (Coker) Sharpe. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe are pioneers of Dallas, coming here in 1871 in a canvas covered wagon pulled by oxen.

William E. Sharpe received his earl training in the Dallas Public Schools and at the age of fourteen, went to work for the Texas Seed and Floral Com- pany, then situated where the Wilson Building now stands. After seven years with this company, he

became connected with the David Hardie Seed Com- pany, with whom he was identified for eleven years. becoming superintendent of the mail order depart- ment of the firm. In 1917 he went with the Lang Floral and Nursery Company and was manager of the seed department. With the coming of the great oil development in Texas recently when so many peo- ple turned from the ordinary pursuits, Mr. Sharp -- entered this field of endeavor and is destined to be- come as successful in this line as he was in his earlier field.

In 1912 Mr. Sharpe was united in marriage with Miss Amber E. Patterson. Mr. and Mrs. Sharpe are the parents of one child, Mary Elizabeth. Naturally being a native of not only Texas but of Dallas, Mr. Sharpe is greatly interested in the development of his home city and state. He believes Dallas is rapidly becoming the center for the oil activities of the Mid- Continent Oil Fields.

ENNRY F. OWSLEY, 1100 Canton street. Dallas, as president of the Crystal Ice Cream Company, a wholesale ice cream con- cern, directs the largest ice cream estab- lishment southwest of St. Louis and from his biggest plant in the southwest he does the biggest business of any one concern in his territory. The Crystal Ice Cream Company was established in 1914 by Mr. Owsley and Mr. J. N. Graves, but as the latter sold his interests to the former, Mr. Owsley is the owner and directing manager of the plant and its business. The two slogans of the company known to Dallas are "Quality, Service and Satisfaction," and "Always Good." As the producer of food, clean, whole- some and nutritious in frozen form, the Crystal Company leads. According to the head chemist of Columbia University, the food value of one pint of whole milk is equivalent to that contained in four eggs or one pound of chicken or steak. The public through the service of their universities and welfare workers are coming to realize the unexcelled nutri- ment of Ice Cream and this means an increased de- mand for this product.

Mr. Owsley is a native of Arkansas. He was born at Magnolia of that State in 1877. His parents were Mr. and Mrs. Jas. R. Owsley. As the family moved to Texas during the childhood of their son, the Texas public schools gave the youth his educa- tion. He then devoted the first fifteen years of his business career to the insurance field where he was successful. But as he longed for a bigger business where he might have wholesale transactions rather than serving the individual one at a time, in 1914 he came from Oklahoma City to Dallas and began his present day establishment.

In 1908, in the city of New Orleans, Mr. Owsley and Miss Ruby Anderson of that city were united in marriage. They have one son, Henry F. Jr., and the family reside at 3514 Harvard Avenue, in Highland Park. The church affiliation is Episcopal.

Mr. Owsley is a Scottish Rite Mason and has mem- bership in the Trinity Valley Lodge 1048 and is a Shriner at the Hella Temple. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Kiwanis Club, the Auto- mobile and the Automobile Country Club and of the Men's Ad League.

As the head of the largest business in the South- west of its kind, and as one active in the social and civic life of his city as well as in affairs commercial, Mr. Owsley is a man of big business. -

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ILLIAM BRISTOW was born in Denver, Colorado, in 1887, where his parents had removed after spending their earlier days in the state of Iowa. He received his educa- tion in the public schools of Denver, Colo. After leaving school he started learning the plumbing trade. In following this voeation he "covered" every state west of the Mississippi River and some of the states east, moving from state to state until the fall of 1911 when he came to Dallas and decided to re- main here.

This decision was prompted, no doubt, by the fact of his marriage to Miss Katie Zink, in Oklahoma City in 1910, making it desirable to settle in the locality which, in his opinion, offered the best op- portunities. By reason of his extensive travels, Mr. Bristow felt that he was an authority on the com- parative merits of western American cities and it is interesting to note that he pinned his faith to Dallas and made his home there. Mr. and Mrs. Bristow now reside at 5307 Miller Avenue, Vickery Place, Dallas, and they have one child, a son named Edward who is nine years old and is attending the Dallas public schools.

Soon after coming to Dallas Mr. Bristow secured employment in a plumbing shop where he worked for six months and then feeling sure that his choice of location had been wisely made, started in business for himself. He conducted this business successfully until June, 1920, when there appeared greater op- portunities in the tire rebuilding business and he abandoned plumbing for his present pursuit.

Before ever coming to Dallas Mr. Bristow said that he had often heard a great deal about it in a favorable way, but found, after becoming a citizen, that realities surpassed the reputation. He believes it to be America's inland metropolis.

OBERT CRAIG DUNLAP, manager and one of the owners of the Weichsel Barber Sup- ply Company, 1105 Jackson Street, came to Dallas with his parents from Tennessee in 1887 and has been identified in various capacities with the Weichsel Company for nineteen years, starting in with the organization in 1901 as order clerk and filling every position up to that of general inanager.

From a small beginning the concern has come to be the largest concern of its kind in the South, handling barber chairs and fixtures, barber supplies of all kinds, beauty shop equipment and supplies and toilet articles of various kinds, particularly hair tonics and face creams. Including the factory, laboratory and store rooms, the company occupies four full floors of the building at 1105 Jackson Street with a total floor space of ten thousand square feet. Sales will aggregate more than two hundred thou- sand dollars annually and five salesmen are kept busy covering the trade territory, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. The local office force numbers eighteen people.

The Weichsel Company manufactures a great many of the toilet articles found in high class barber shops and beauty parlors, having a very complete equipment. Their laboratory has developed many original odors in talcum powders, facial creams and hair tonics. They are now preparing a complete line of toilet preparations for the retail trade.

Mr. Dunlap was born in Smithville, Tennessee, January 26, 1880, a son of J. S. and Emma (Ken-

nedy) Dunlap. His father has been active in the business life of Dallas for many years. He was educated in the public schools of Dallas and after a few years in various lines entered the organization of C. Weichsel and has remained there since. In 1910 he was married at San Antonio to Miss Emma Smith, daughter of Rev. J. A. Smith, a well known minister. They have three children, Katherine, Robert C. Jr., and Emma V.

Deeply interested in all civic matters and a great booster for Dallas, Mr. Dunlap is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Ad League, Dallas Athletic Club and is found on the rolls of the Trinity Valley Blue Lodge and Dallas Consistory No. 2, Scottish Rite and is a steward in the Oak Lawn Methodist Church. He believes Dallas to be the logical distributing center of the Southwest and expects it to become a city of half a million people. W. JENKINS president of the J. W. Jenkins Shoe Co., 1209-11 Commerce Street, whole- sale dealers in boots and shoes, is another successful Dallas business man who in spite of his short residence in the city, has entered so heartily and enthusiastically into his field that he has already built up a remarkably large patron- age.

The firm of which Mr. Jenkins is the head really 'had its birth in Shreveport, Louisiana, where in 1914 the first house was established which is still main- tained. In August, 1919, the Dallas house was established, occupying two stories of a building 50 by 90 feet. Salesmen are on the road in Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. Ten local em- ployees are in the Dallas house and eight at Shreve- port. A fine line of men's dress shoes are handled, made by the E. E. Taylor Company. The men's work shoes are manufactured by the Chas. W. Dean Shoe Company and the women's shoes by the Brophy Bros. Company. Children's shoes manufactured by the Curtis-Jones Co., and fine rubbers made by the Apsley Rubber Company complete the stock.

Mr. Jenkins was born in East Bend, North Caro- lina in 1877. His father, J. H. Jenkins, was a promi- nent tobacco manufacturer of East Bend, North . Carolina. Mr. Jenkins completed his education in Gilford College of his native state. He entered the shoe business as a young man, beginning as a sales- man for the Craddock-Terry Company of Lynch- burg, Virginia. In 1899 he came to Shreveport, fifteen years later he began the wholesale shoe busi- ness in that city. Few men of the South have a more intimate familiarity with the shoe trade than has Mr. Jenkins. He knows the "game" from the ground up and understands the shoe-making process from the tan-yard to the finished product. It is to this detailed knowledge that his success is largely due.

On July 19, 1915, Mr. Jenkins was married to Miss Vernon Lively, daughter of Dr. J. W. Lively, a distinguished Methodist minister of Marshall, Texas.

Mr. Jenkins is an active member of the Chamber

. of Commerce, the Credit Men's Association and of the Travelers' League. He recognizes clearly the possibilities of his adopted city as a distributing center and has already done much to attract buyers from all parts of the Southwest. Despite the brevity of his residence in Dallas, he has already gained the admiration and high esteem of a large group of friends.

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DWARD C. D'YARMETT, president of the Settled Production Company, City National Bank Building, Wichita Falls, has a long oil career in both Texas and Oklahoma. Associated with him in an official capacity are C. F. Spencer, vice-president, and O. D. Judd, secretary and treasurer. The Settled Production Company operates in Burkburnett and the Northwest Exten- sion.

Mr. D'Yarmett, apart from the above company, has personal interests in other oil properties in Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Louisiana and other western fields. Ohio is the native state of Mr. D'Yarmett, where on February 29, 1876, he was born at Cambridge. His parents were C. H. and Eunice A. Victor D'Yarmett. The public schools of Ohio gave Mr. D'Yarmett his start in education and it was finished by the Baltimore Polytechnic College where he was graduated from the engineer's course. From 1893 for the ten years following, he was a mining engineer in Virginia. After this he came to Louisiana to build Myles Salt Company's plant at Weeks Island. The company he was working for rented to Col. Lucas the rotary rig with which he brought in the famous Spindle Top oil fields. In 1903 Mr. D'Yarmett began the oil business at Bartlesville, Oklahoma, on the Osage Reservation. He continued operating there until 1909; in that year he sold out everything except his royalty in- terests which he held until 1913. For one year then he "wild-catted;" in 1914 he went into the gasoline business and built a casing head gasoline plant at Muskogee; he also opened up a pool in Boch Sand. The six wells he drilled were big pro- ducers, two of them bringing him 1,000 barrels a day each. In 1916 he built another gasoline plant; in the following'year he sold both of his gasoline establishments but in 1918 he put up a special process gasoline plant at Muskogee which he ope- rated until he ran out of gas. In 1918 he began buying production for the Middle States Oil Cor- poration. which production he superintended. At Muskogee he put down fourteen wells, eleven of which were brought in as producers. Wichita Falls became his headquarters in 1919 where, though he still buys producing properties for the Middle States Oil Company, he operates independently.

Mr. D'Yarmett has completed a method after many years of experimental work, a process for combining natural gas with low grade oils under pressure and making a process gas line, thereby utilizing waste gas and cheap residual oils. A patent upon this process for making gas alone was issued May 3, 1920. Mr. D'Yarmett, through his engineering and long experience in the many dif- ferent cil fields has become one of the most efficient appraisers of value on oil producing properties in the Southwest.

Mr. D'Yarmett and Miss Ann H. Foster were mar- ried at San Antonio, Tex., in 1905. Their residence . graphing and mailing, employs a force of seventeen address is Muskogee, Okla. He is a member of the American Society of Mining and Metalurgieal Engi- neers. As one who is a pioneer in the oil industry, who knows every phase of the business from per- sonal experience of years, with an able company at his direction and with attractive personal holdings, Mr. D'Yarmett is doing an attractive business in the Texas oil fields and in the big development of them in the future he will have a big share.

C. SWEETON, manager of the Monar- Petroleum Company, is one of the mo .. prominent figures connected with the oil in .. dustry in Dallas. His company was organ .. ized July, 1919, with an authorized capital . : $2,000,000, and $750,000 worth of the capital stoer has been sold. The remainder of the stock is bein ... placed in the East and is meeting with a ready sal . investors considering it exceptionally safe and su ... to pay good dividends. The company is establishing jobbing distributing stations throughout Texas and now has forty stations established and under con- struction, and contemplate having at least 200 in the state. At the present time the company is sup- plying jobbing stations with oil from four other re- fineries who own stock in the Monarch Company. In addition to his interest in these companies. Mr. Sweeton is interested in several other oil companies.

Mr. Sweeton came to Dallas in 1914 from Wichita Falls, and has been in the oil business ever since the Electra field was opened up. Prior to entering the oil business he was in the gent's furnishing business at Wichita Falls two years. He sold out his busi- ness there and began trading in leases and followed the oil field development in Oklahoma and Louis- iana, and since coming to Dallas was engaged for a short time in the stock brokerage business. He is a native of Greenville, Texas, born January 26. 1888, and educated in the public schools of that city and at the Southwestern University at Georgetown. Texas. His father, Rev. J. M. Sweeton, was a min- ister for twenty years. His brother, C. A. Sweeton. was assistant attorney general of Texas for six years and is now a well known attorney of Green- ville. He predicts that Dallas will be a city of half a million people within the next five years.

REED MAY, proprietor of the Dallas Mai !- Company, is a man of ideas-ideas that he has always been able to successfully apply to business of all kinds and thereby make two dollars roll in where only one rolled in before. And he is well fitted to operate a business such as he has established in Dallas, being a college man. a good mixer and holding the friendship of "men worth while." For five years he was connected with the Ferguson-Mckinney Dry Goods Company of St. Louis, Mo., as street buyer, mail clerk and division secretary, and while thus engaged he came in contact with men who were doing things and profited by the study he made of them. He looked into the textile industry at Fall River, Mass., later went into the manufacturing business and has traveled almost all over the United States and has sold merchandise in practically every county in Texas.

Mr. May knows how to get the business, and through the Dallas Mailing Company he is selling that knowledge to a large clientele of satisfied cus- tomers and helping them to greater business success. He prepares all kinds of advertising matter, multi- people and keeps them all busy. His equipment con- sists of typewriters, folders, power sealer, type ma- chines and one printing machine, the whole consti- tuting one of the largest plants of its kind in the Southwest.

Mr. May is a native of Clarksville, Ark., born June 23, 1885, the son of C. W. May, a prominent Clarksville merchant for the past sixty years. He was educated at Cumberland and Hendrix Colleges. the University of Arkansas and Kentucky Univer-

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sity, and in August, 1911, was married to Miss Alice Boren, daughter of J. E. Boren, a well-known real estate man of St. Louis, Mo. He is identified with the Rotary Club, the Texas Chamber of Commerce, is secretary of the Dallas Advertising League and a director in the Civic Club.

Mr. May believes that within the next ten years Dallas will show more progress than any other American city. There are more opportunities here for individuals, he says, than in any other state in the United States, and failure is not possible with ambitious and progressive people.

F. GREVE, owner of the Dallas Floral Company, 1809 Ross Avenue, has been in the floral business in Dallas for more than twenty years and as a result of his careful management and close application to the industry, he has built up a patronage which, in its demand for the most select and artistic floral decorations, is not surpassed in the South.

The Dallas Floral Company was organized in 1905 by Mr. Greve and Mr. Robert Nicholson with a store at 367 Main Street. A year later the place of busi- ness was moved to Main and Akard. After eight years here the partnership was dissolved and Mr. Greve began business alone at 1612 Main Street for three years, then to his present stand on Ross Avenue. The company handles cut flowers, pot plants and floral decorations of all kinds and for all occasions. There has been an enormous increase in business during the last eight years, particularly during the last three. No landscape work is done, practically all the flowers being hot-house plants.

Mr. Greve was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1880, and was educated in the public schools of that city. When he was twenty years old he came to Dallas and took a position with the Texas Seed & Floral Company. Four years later he entered a partner- ship with Mr. Nicholson in the Dallas Floral Com- pany in which he remained for six and one-half years, as partner, then established a business for himself. The growth of the present enterprise shows how well the experience of the past years has been valuable.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1, Part 106

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