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He is secretary and treasurer of the South Central Gas Association. He is a member of the Knights of Columbus and Lodge No. 71 B. P. O. E. Socially he is affiliated with the City Club, Rotary Club, Dal- las Ad League, and the Dallas Automobile Club. He is also a member of the Sales Managers Asso- ciation and the Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
OHN W BILLUPS is a native of Dallas, born in 1891, son of H. Walter Billups who was reared in East Texas. His mother was Maggie Gault of Franklin, Tenn. He was educated in the Dallas schools and a military college here. On leaving school he went to work for Louis Young Grocery Co. and after two years he was em- ployed by Boren- Stewart Co. and stationed at Cleburne, Texas, where he had charge of the shipping and receiving for that company's branch there. He was transferred to Dallas where he remained with the company in different capacities for about five years. He also spent some time with the Simmons- Newsome Company. He ventured into the automo- bile business, buying and selling cars until January 1920 when he joined D. D. Harris at 1316 Commerce street. Later he became a partner in the firm of Billups and Simmons and conducted a garage at 1316 Commerce Street. At this writing he is traveling out of Dallas and considers this city as his head- quarters.
Mr. Billups married Miss Wittur W. Ragland, daughter of B. A. Ragland, newspaperman of Dallas, in 1916. Miss Ragland attended a girls college in St. Louis.
Mr. Billups is a member of the Dallas Automobile Club and takes an active interest in other civic organizations in Dallas. He always works for the upbuilding of this city and believes that Dallas is destined to become the metropolis of the South.
K H. McDANIEL distributor of Ediphone, 214 Browder Street, has introduced into the leading firms and offices of Dallas an ap- pliance which, it is predicted, will shortly beconie indispensible to commercial and industrial efficiency. The Ediphone, which is an invention of Thomas A. Edison, is used for dictating purposes, and Mr. McDaniel has already installed the system in over one hundred of the largest firms in Dallas and Fort Worth.
Mr. McDaniel took over the agency of the Edi- phone in 1911. In view of the fact that this was a
new invention, and its commercial suitability as yet untested in the South, Mr. McDaniel's work was largely pioneering at first. Needless to say, the big men were the first to grasp its significance, and order their offices equipped with this latest and most useful of all the Edison inventions, and since the installa- tion of the first machine the swing of public favor has been most gratifying and sales have increased to a surprising extent. Mr. MeDaniel now has several men working Northern Texas territory, with Dallas, Fort Worth and Waco as the three distributing centers. Mr. McDaniel makes it his business to keep well posted on all the latest office appliances and makes a trip East each year for the purpose of studying developments in office equipment. At present he is putting out approximately . $25,000 worth of machines a year, and anticipates an annual increase of fifty per cent.
Born at Carthage, Texas, November 13, 1888, Mr. McDaniels, with his parents, Horace and Frances Walton McDaniel, early moved to Panola County, Texas, and it was in the public schools of Carthage that he began his education. He supplemented his public school work by taking a course of study at the Dallas Commercial College and the Sheldon School of Salesmanship of Chicago, from which he received a diploma. He has built up an extensive library along the lines of direct mail advertising and selling salesmanship and correspondence supervising which is invaluable to himself as well as his organi- zation. For a number of years after entering the business world he was engaged in office work in varied capacities. His experience here and the thor- oughness of his business training have proved a de- cided advantage in his present work, and he is recog- nized as a salesman of the first magnitude.
Mr. McDaniel makes his home at 120912 South Ervay Street. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Junior Chamber of Commerce, the Better Letters Association and is at present chair- man of the publicity committee of the Kiwanis Club. The fact that he has to be enthusiastic about an article before he attempts to arouse enthusiasm in a prospective customer constituted the key-note of his success.
G. MARLOW, proprietor of E. G. Marlow Company, 1807 Main Street, plays no small part in supplying the business section of a city with its office accessories, stationery, kodaks and amateur photographic supplies. Mr. Marlow has been engaged in this field of business in Dallas for the past twenty-two years.
Mr. Marlow is a native of Missouri, born in 1873. Since 1892, when he came from Sherman, Texas, he has been a citizen of Dallas. Professor Grove's School proudly claims him as a student. For twelve years, Mr. Marlow followed the drug business. Later, becoming associated with C. Weichsel Company, he founded the retail division of this firm in 1900 and was identified with the company until a recent date, when he entered business on his own account.
Miss Olyvia Asbury, daughter of a Mckinney busi- ness man, became the bride of Mr. Marlow in Dallas in 1902. There is one child-Lawrin, and the family reside at 5627 Richard Avenue.
Mr. Marlow is a member of the Rotary Club and the Grace Methodist Church. During the three decades of business at the heart of a city, he has won a host of patrons and many friends.
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B J. SHAW, Kahn Building, Wichita Falls, as manager of production for the Wichita dis- triet of the Panhandle Refining Company, whose head office is at Dallas, Texas, and as an active factor with seven other companies of splendid rating, is one of the big oil men of the northwest territory who is actively engaged on the field. The Panhandle Refining Company was or- ganized in 1915, and in its six years of operation to date, own an immense oil output, valuable leases, and one of the best refineries in the oil country, two miles from Wichita Falls, whose daily capacity is 6,000 barrels. The production of the owning company amounts to about 4,000 barrels per day. Other officials with the Panhandle Refining Com- pany, are Roy B. Jones, president; J. A. Germany. vice-president; L. C. MeClure, secretary, and M. A. Chambers, treasurer, all of Dallas, where, on Royal Street at Browder, the main office is located. There are 227 employees of this company in Wichita County where they own eighty-three miles of pipe line in addition to one of the largest refineries of the state and a heavy production. Mr. Shaw took charge of his activities with the company in 1919.
Mr. Shaw was born at Cattarugas County, New York, in 1874. As the family moved to the Quaker State during his childhood, he was educated in the public schools of Warren, Pennsylvania. This state has long been active in oil production and perhaps it was because of this fact that Mr. Shaw, influenced by his daily environment, entered the oil world at the age of fifteen in his home town, starting as a helper in the fields. From that beginning he has been schooled by personal experience in every detail of the oil business-pipe lines, tool dressing, drilling, production, in Pensylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Texas. He is one of the most efficient business men in the oil business because he has a life that has been dedicated to the work and he is master of all phases of the industry.
In 1897 Mr. Shaw was united in marriage with Susie E. Arnold of Montpelier, Ind. They have one son, H. A., and two daughters, Mabel and Roberta, and the family reside at 705 Huff Street. His son is with the Prairie Oil & Gas Company, at Drum- wright, Okla., and formerly was with the Panhandle Refining Company.
Mr. Shaw is a 32d degree Mason, of the Scot- tish Rite, a Knight Templar of the York Rite and a Shriner of the Maskat Temple. He is a leading factor in the companies of Morrissey & Shaw, Hey- drick & Shaw, Sheets Oil Co. of Illinois, the Rath- kery Drilling Co., Heydrick 6666 Oil Co., Shaw & Kell Co., Dunavan Oil Co., director of Wichita State Bank and the Bond Drilling Company, and the Pan- handle Refining Co. Mr. Shaw is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Wichita Golf Club, the Wichita Club and the University Club. He has, . and will continue to have, a place of leadership in the oil industry.
R ISTA H. FRIZZELL, president of the Frizzell Oil ompany, oil operators, came to Wichita Falls in 1917, for the purpose of engaging in the oil business and organized the com- pany which bears his name. Other officers of the corporation are Dr. T. D. Frizzell, vice president, and H. C. Frizzell, secretary-treasurer.
The company is operating principally in the North- west Texas field and has two producing wells. They
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have an interest in over 300 acres of leases in Wichita County, and about 10,000 acres of leases in Hardeman County, where they are drilling at this time. They have a Rotary rig and one string of tools, and Mr. Frizzell believes that Hardeman County will be the banner oil county of the State. Mr. Frizzell began drilling operations in 1917.
Mr. Frizzell is a native of Henderson County, Texas, born at Athens, November 18, 1882. His father, P. F. Frizzell, came to Texas at the close of the civil war, and his mother, who was Nettie Thomp- son, was the daughter of a big slave owner who set. tled in Texas before the war. Their son's education was secured in the Pine Grove country schools.
In his early manhood he became a clerk in a mer- cantile establishment and followed this vocation for seven years. He then engaged in the hardware bus- iness on his own account under the firm name of Frizzell-Hawn Hardware Company. This partner- ship was continued until 1912 when he quit the hard- ware business and went into the real estate business, which he followed for two years at Athens. Novem- ber, 1915, he went to Quanah as immigration agent of the Quanah Acme and Pacific Railroad Company, re- maining in that capacity until December, 1917, when he went to Wichita Falls.
He was married in 1914 to Miss Catherine Hawn, who was born and reared at Athens, and they have two children, R. H., Jr., and Catherine Hawn. The family resides at 1617 Tenth street.
Mr. Frizzell is a Mason and a member of the Wichita Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His church affiliation is with the Christian church.
EAGAN McTIER WASKOM, secretary- treasurer of the Dallas Transfer Company, while not a long resident in Dallas is a true Texan, born and bred, and his unusual business efficiency has already proved a valuable addition to the staff of one of Dallas' most thriving enterprises.
The Dallas 'Transfer Company is not only the oldest in the city but is the largest in the South. It was established in 1875 with three wagons for its rolling stock. It now uses about seventy-five wagons, trucks and automobiles. It employs 240 persons and maintains offices at the Adolphus Hotel, the Southland Hotel and at Poydras and Young Streets with general offices at Young and Austin. They operate a private telephone exchange and own and operate their own paint shops, blacksmith shop. woodwork and body shop, harness shop and stables and garage. Baggage is checked from train to resi- dence or from residence to destination. The capital stock is $200,000.
Mr. Waskom was born in Terrell, Texas, August 2, 1890. His father was the late S. E. Waskom, of Dallas, and his mother was Maria G. Waskom, of Marshall. He was educated in the public schools of Texas and also took a commercial course. In 1904 he went to New Mexico and was for six years en- gaged in the production of apples and alfalfa. Re- turning to Texas in 1910 he became interested in farming and stock raising. When he later decided to give up that line of work he investigated several sections of the state but found none quite so at- tractive as Dallas. Going there in 1919 he invested in residence property in Vickery Place and took a position with the Dallas Transfer Company. His own statement is that his business expectations have
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Mr. Waskom is unmarried and lives at 5430 Willis Avenue. He has great confidence in the future de- .elopment of his adopted city and is enthusiastic his work with the Dallas Transfer Company. He , an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and is rapidly coming into a place of prominence the field of local transportation.
EONARD F. RAMMING, Wichita Falls, di- rector in the City National Bank of Com- merce, in the Sunshine State Refining Com- pany as also in the Sunshine Pipe Line Com- rany, and in the Clara Oil Company, is one of the :cading royalty holders in the Wichita oil fields, as the original owner of hundreds of acres of land on which producing wells have been brought in. He wwwus five hundred acres near the city on which krain had been grown up until 1913 when his oil Interests were first discovered and brought in in a small quantity but which has been developed on a large scale since July of 1917. The Magnolia Petroleum Company has brought in already eight wells on the twelve acres it is developing for Mr. Ramming, the Panhandle Refining Company four- :een wells on 165 acres, the Frisno Company fifteen wells on 283 acres they are developing, and the Adams Oil Company eleven wells on the forty- acre tract they have leased. Thus there are already forty-five producing wells, directed by four splendid companies, on Mr. Ramming's property which is only a beginning when the acreage is considered. Mr. Ramming is buying additional land.
Mr. Ramming was born in Minnesota, on May 28, 1873. His parents were Peter Ramming, who came from Germany when he was one year old, and Bertha Schunkee Ramming. The Minnesota public schools gave the youth his schooling and when he was twenty he came to Texas and located on the old Specht Colony which was formed where the oil property is now located in Wichita County. As a youth, he began buying land and continued the prac- tice until he had acquired his present estate. In 1918 he moved into the city of Wichita Falls. He owns 616 acres of farm land seven miles north of Wichita Falls and another 320 acres in Caddo County, Oklahoma.
On August 14, 1900, Mr. Ramming married Miss Augusta Holtzen of Missouri. They have eight children: Lorenz, Erwin, Rinhard, Archie, Almer, Arthur, Martin and Percy. The family residence is at 2707 Ninth Street. The church affiliation is Lutheran.
Mr. Ramming is reaping the rewards of having been a thrifty farmer. No man gets something for nothing. It was thrift and progressiveness that im- pelled Mr. Ramming, long before oil was discovered in his territory, to acquire property by hard work. Today he enjoys the fruits of his labor and is enter- ing now into a larger and newer service which he is beginning for his city in public service.
OHN STEPHEN BUCHANAN was founder and owner of the Buchanan Furniture Com- pany, one of the largest organizations of its kind in the city of Dallas. In the rapid development from the town stage to the metropolitan period, every business in the city of Dallas has en- joyed a corresponding growth It was with the household furnishing needs that Mr. Buchanan was busied and so well did he understand his business,
so attractive and reliable his service, so permanent his institution, that from a small beginning he built up one of the large businesses of Dallas.
Mr. Buchanan was a native of Mississippi. He was born in Yazoo City of that state, in 1869. His father, Thomas Buchanan, was a farmer and planter and died when his son was a small boy. This mis- fortune did not deprive him of his schooling, how- ever, for he received the best of training offered by the school system of Mississippi. This he finished by way of direct preparation for the business world by taking a course in a business college at Jackson, Miss. At the age of thirty-one, in 1900, he came to Texas and for two years served as a bookkeeper. In 1902 he undertook the furniture business and from a modest beginning he developed the large enter- prise that was his on Elm Street, Dallas-the Buchanan Furniture Company. His death was very unexpected on December 11, 1916, while at his store and apparently in good health, he dropped dead. He had won a large host of patrons and friends in the fourteen years of his endeavor.
It was in 1902, at Terry, Mississippi, that Miss Susie Dear became the bride of Mr. Buchanan; she was the daughter of A. L. Dear, deceased, of Missis- sippi. The family residence until 1917 was at 4316 Junius Street and from that day is located at 4323 Worth Street. Mr. Buchanan is survived by his widow and two daughters, Eva, a student at C. I. A. at Denton, and Ivy Lee, in the Bryan high school. Mr. Buchanan was an Odd Fellow and a member of the John G. Good Lodge. His church affiliation was Baptist, as is his family's.
Mr. Buchanan was zealous not only in affairs commercial in the life of his city, but gave his in- fluence and energy to every worthy move for the social and civic betterment of Dallas. He was con- genial with all and the weight of his influence still remains a beneficent factor in Dallas life.
D. BARBER was a native of Georgia, born in Polk County on the 5th day of October, 1883. He is a son of W. C. Barber, a well known planter and politician of that state. The younger Mr. Barber received his early educa- tional training in the public schools of Birmingham, Georgia, which training was supplemented by a course of study at the Piedmont Institute, located at Rockmart, that state. In 1911 he began his busi- ness career in the insurance and loan business, at Atlanta, and he continued in this line until 1916, at which time he moved to this state, locating at Dallas.
In 1916 Mr. Barber became associated with Geo. Pace in the Barber Pace Company and were fiscal agents for a number of successful business organiza- tions of Texas. Since the termination of this com- pany, Mr. Barber has engaged in investments and dealt extensively in oil.
On the 25th of August, 1915, Mr. Barber married Miss Ethel Ballred, daughter of J. C. Ballred, a descendant of English aristocracy who settled in North Carolina in the early days. His wife was a daughter of Colonel Hamlin, a hero of the Civil War, who is also of aristocratic English blood.
In the four years that Mr. Barber has spent in this city he has acquired the true Dallas spirit and is one of its most ardent and enthusiastic supporters, in both civic and business affairs. Dallas was truly fortunate in securing such a man in her rolls of citizenship.
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URWARD McDONALD, president and gen- eral manager of the Pioneer Oil Corpora- tion, offices in American National Bank Building, Wichita Falls, has been in the oil business since 1913. He came to Wichita Falls and organized the Pioneer Oil Corporation in October, 1919. The Pioneer Oil Corporation has over sixty producing oil and gas wells in North Texas and South Oklahoma, with a production of between 600 and 700 barrels per day, and about 125 million feet of gas sold to Loan Star Gas Company. The company operates one standard and three rotary drilling rigs. Before entering actively in the oil business Mr. McDonald practiced law for ten years and still retains a private office in the Texas State Bank Building at Fort Worth. He was admitted to the bar in Fort Worth in 1910 and practiced there for ten years. In 1913 he became interested in oil on the side and continued in it until 1921 when he gave up his law practice and engaged in the oil business exclusively.
Durward McDonald was born in Bowie, Texas, August 7, 1889. His father, L. A. McDonald, was a lawyer of note; the mother was Frances Bray McDonald; both parents were Georgians. The public school system of Bowie ind the law offices and lawyers of northern Texas provided the education general and technical for Mr. McDonald. He num- bers among his intimate friends some of the most able lawyers of the state under whom he studied. On Deeember 26, 1909, he chose Fort Worth as his place of residence and from that date he has been identified with the successful men of that city.
In 1915, in Fort Worth, Miss Carrie May Scott became the bride of Mr. McDonald; Durward, Jr., Elaine and Scott are their three children. The family residence is at 1905 South Adams Street.
Mr. McDonald is a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Elks, a Mason and Shriner of Moslar Temple. His church affiliation is Methodist.
OSEPH SEIGLE, oil operator, was for a number of years identified with the oil development of Texas. He was born in Saint Louis March 31, 1893, a son of L. Seigle, well known business man who engaged in the mercantile business for many years. Educated in the public schools of Saint Louis, his first venture in the business world was in the employment of the Waters- Pierce Oil Company in Saint Louis. After leaving the Waters-Pierce he went with the Laclede Gas Light Company in Saint Louis and continued with them until 1918 when he came to Dallas, Texas, and engaged in the oil business for himself, and organized a number of oil companies operating in the North Texas fields.
Mr. Seigle since coming to Texas, has been an en- thusiastic booster for Dallas and for Texas generally and expects the wonderful oil development to con- tinue, predicting that many additional fields will be opened up and the potential production of the state vastly increased.
HOMAS D. ROSS, president of the Ideal Mattress Company, 1009-1013 South Lamar Street, has established a busy and paying industry which supplies most of the cities and towns of Texas and Oklahoma. This company specializes in the renovating of mattresses and rugs, and its success is due to the thoroughness of its work and the promptness with which orders are turned out.
The company has a capacity of manufacturing six mattresses a day.
The Ideal Mattress Company was established in March of 1910 under the name of the Ideal Reno- vating Company and occupying a 16 by 24 foot space. at the corner of Santa Fe and Powhatan. At the expiration of the first year the concern had out- grown its quarters and the present factory site was obtained. The building has a floor space of 90 by 150 feet and a renovating capacity of fifty mattresses and fifty rugs at one time. Twelve employees are at work in the plant and one man is kept on the road, covering all of Texas and Oklahoma.
Mr. Ross is the inventor of the Ideal Cleaner, a combination of bedding and lint reclaiming ma- ehine. This machine is used by the Ideal Mattress Company. It can be used in mattress manufactur- ing as well as in renovating of linters, and is now being put on the market, being manufactured by the Mosher Manufacturing Company of Dallas.
Born in Alabama in 1865, Mr. Ross came to Texas with his parents at the age of five years and settled in Fannin County where he attended the county schools. His father is now deceased but his mother is living and at present resides with a son at Flint, Michigan. Upon leaving school Mr. Ross engaged in the farming industry, continuing at this until he was forty years old. At this time he moved to Durant, Oklahoma, and entered the furniture busi- ness for himself. After a few years he went to Greenville, Texas, and formed an association with the Duke Harrison Furniture Company, leaving them a year later to establish his present factory.
He was married in 1890 to Miss Margaret Ann Stone, a native Tennessean, but who had spent prac- tically all of her life in Fannin County, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Ross have two sons, R. R. Ross, who travels for the company, and T. M. Ross, who assists his father in the plant. Their home is at 1225 South Lamar.
Mr. Ross is a member of the Traveler's Protective Association, the M. W. A. and the Methodist Church.
UTHER ERVIN WILSON, manager of the National Candy Company, Dallas, has de- veloped a wide acquaintance among con- fectioners and candy men throughout all of the states of the southwestern group where he has traveled for fifteen years. In his present capacity he sells the output of his factory to the trade in the Star of Texas and, in addition, is authorized as exclusive selling agent for the "Lowney" line of candies.
Although he has spent most of his life in Texas, he is a native of Tennessee. At the time of his birth, March 17, 1882, his parents, M. H. and Sarah Anne (McLennahan) Wilson, were living at De- caturville, Tennessee, engaged in farming. They removed to Texas, however, and made their home in Van Zandt county where the younger Wilson re- ceived his schooling.
Later he found employment in Dallas with the firm of Swope and Mangold (wholesale) and after leaving their employment, worked for N. Nigro and Company for three years, 1905 to 1908. It was then that he made his first connection with the Na- tional Candy Company and traveled for them 15 years in Texas, Colorado, New Mexico and Louis- iana. His duties were then transferred to the Dal- las branch and on June 15, 1920, he was made man- ager of this factory.
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