USA > Texas > The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1 > Part 110
Note: The text from this book was generated using artificial intelligence so there may be some errors. The full pages can be found on Archive.org (link on the Part 1 page).
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9 | Part 10 | Part 11 | Part 12 | Part 13 | Part 14 | Part 15 | Part 16 | Part 17 | Part 18 | Part 19 | Part 20 | Part 21 | Part 22 | Part 23 | Part 24 | Part 25 | Part 26 | Part 27 | Part 28 | Part 29 | Part 30 | Part 31 | Part 32 | Part 33 | Part 34 | Part 35 | Part 36 | Part 37 | Part 38 | Part 39 | Part 40 | Part 41 | Part 42 | Part 43 | Part 44 | Part 45 | Part 46 | Part 47 | Part 48 | Part 49 | Part 50 | Part 51 | Part 52 | Part 53 | Part 54 | Part 55 | Part 56 | Part 57 | Part 58 | Part 59 | Part 60 | Part 61 | Part 62 | Part 63 | Part 64 | Part 65 | Part 66 | Part 67 | Part 68 | Part 69 | Part 70 | Part 71 | Part 72 | Part 73 | Part 74 | Part 75 | Part 76 | Part 77 | Part 78 | Part 79 | Part 80 | Part 81 | Part 82 | Part 83 | Part 84 | Part 85 | Part 86 | Part 87 | Part 88 | Part 89 | Part 90 | Part 91 | Part 92 | Part 93 | Part 94 | Part 95 | Part 96 | Part 97 | Part 98 | Part 99 | Part 100 | Part 101 | Part 102 | Part 103 | Part 104 | Part 105 | Part 106 | Part 107 | Part 108 | Part 109 | Part 110 | Part 111 | Part 112 | Part 113 | Part 114 | Part 115
Mr. Johnson comes from a family of pioneer set- tlers in Collin County, and was born at Mckinney, Texas, November 3, 1879. His father, J. H. Johnson. was a well-to-do farmer, and his mother, who was before her marriage Ellen Searcy, the daughter of T. H. Searcy, who settled in Collin county in 1844 . He graduated from the High School at Mckinney in 1892, and was married in Dallas, January 30, 1907, to Miss Clarie Dewell, daughter of J. P. Dewell ,another Collin county pioneer who for many years operated a business at Mckinney under the firm name of J. P. Dewell Company. They have one son, Homer Dewell Johnson, and the family home is located at 5611 Richmond Avenue.
Mr. Johnson is numbered among the city's most progressive business men. His years of experience "in the fruit and produce business is an asset which adds to the prestige and importance of his firm
450
@ Oneill.
MEN OF TEXAS
daily, and the business shows a healthy and substan- tial growth year after year, evidencing its popu- larity and reputation among the trade to which it caters. Being an enthusiastic believer in the future greatness of Dallas and desiring to render that ser- vice to the city that will help it to grow, Mr. Johnson is affiliated with the Chamber of Commerce and al- days willing to perform any service which that or- ganization requests from its members. He is also a member of the Dallas Athletic Club and interested in its welfare and growth.
ILLIAM ELLIOTT HUNTER, manager of the Dallas branch of the Merry Optical Company of Texas, with home office in Kansas City, Mo., offices in Suite 720, Wil- son Building, came to Dallas from Kansas City, June 1, 1914, where he had formerly been connected with the company as traveling salesman since 1904. He graduated from the Detroit Optical College in 1899, as optometrist, and practiced his profession from the time of his graduation until 1902 at Bowling Green, Ohio. In 1902 and 1903 he traveled out of Cleveland for the Cleveland Optical Company and formed his present connection in 1904.
Mr. Hunter is a native of Maumee, Ohio, born July 28th, 1879. His father, Chas. F. Hunter, and his mother, who was, before her marriage, Miss Ellen Houghton, were Ohioans, and the elder Mr. Hunter was engaged in business at Bowling Green, where the son acquired his education in the public schools of that town, and where he was also mar- ried Jan. 7th, 1901, to Miss Elizabeth Grace McGill, a native of New York, whose father was engaged in the oil business in Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. Mr. and Mrs. Hunter have one son, Chas. McGill Hunter.
Mr. Hunter is a 32d degree Mason, member of Dallas Consistory No. 2, Hella Temple Shrine, Rotary Club, Dallas Athletic Club, Lakewood Coun- try Club, and his company belongs to the Chamber of Commerce and the Dallas Open Shop Association.
The Merry Optical Company has branches in Ft. Worth, Houston and San Antonio, in Texas. with sixteen other branch houses in the central west, and enjoys a large business throughout this state. Twen- ty-five people are employed in the Dallas branch, where all kinds of optical goods are handled and the manufacture of glasses is made a specialty, pre- scription work being a feature of the business re- ceiving special attention. During 1919 the four Texas branches manufactured about 1,000 glasses a day, the Dallas house turning out about 350 a day. The company does a general jobbing business. The business has enjoyed a rapid growth since Mr. Hunter has been in charge of it.
Mr. Hunter is an enthusiastic booster of Dallas, and says the city is sure to become the leading medical center of the great Southwest.
ENRY H. HORR, president and treasurer of the American Machinery and Supply Com- pany, 1515 Jackson Street, is at the head of one of the largest machinery distributing houses in the country. The other member of the firm is George H. Ford.
The American Machinery and Supply Company was established in 1919 by Mr. Horr and represents northern manufacturers of standardized products, four-fifths of all machinery handled being used in oil field work. The famous Brennan Boilers and American Ajax Engines, both used in drilling and
pumping, and an extensive line of pipe, casing and tubing from the Cincinnati Iron and Steel Company are kept in stock. Engines and boilers, and pumps of various kinds from the Houston, Starwood and Gamble firm of Cincinnati, are carried, and also a line of air compressors, tanks and stills from the Stacey Bros. Gas Construction Company of Cin- cinnati. An extensive stock of well supplies and machinery for oil mills and cotton gins form a regu- lar part of the stock. Nine persons are employed in this organization, including three salesmen, and the firm is turning out over a million dollars worth of trade a year.
Mr. Horr was born in Norwalk, Ohio, on Decem- ber 27, 1869. His father, Ralph Horr, was for twenty-one years connected with the American Ex- press Company in Ohio and is well known in Cleve- land, Akron and Norwalk. His mother was Miss Martha W. Barker, of an old Massachusetts family. Mr. Horr attended the Akron and Cleveland public schools and the Buchtel College at Akron. Upon finishing school he was employed by the Standard Oil Company for four years, at the end of which time he went to Chicago as a member of the Troy Laundry Machinery Company. For fourteen years Mr. Horr devoted his energies toward the success of this company, leaving them to assume manage- ment of Alden-Spears and Sons Company of Chi- cago. The Sinclair Laundry Machinery Company succeeded in persuading Mr. Horr that an affilia- tion with them would mean a good thing. He ac- cepted the position of treasurer of this corporation, successfully managing this department of the firm for eight years. In 1911 he came to Dallas and formed an association with the South Engine and Boiler Works of Texas, and in 1919 organized and established his own business.
He was married to Miss Bertha Wright, of Chi- cago, in 1889. Mrs. Horr's father was Charles L. Wright, who for twenty-three years was in the post- office department of Chicago. The Horr's home is at 418 North Rosemont, and they have two daugh- ters, Mrs. George Webster, who is advertising man- ager of the Dallas World, Fort Worth Tribune and the Houston Times, and Miss Dorothy Horr.
Mr. Horr is a Knight Templar, a member of Me- dina Temple Shrine, Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, and the Automobile and Cedar Crest Country Clubs. Mr. Horr knows machinery. He has given thirty years of exclusive study to it and there is not a man in the country today who is better informed on this subject.
ATTHEW PAYNE, vice-president and man- ager of the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories of Texas, with offices and laboratory at 1505-8 Praetorian Building, Dallas, Texas, is directing a Texas organization that has increased its business wonderfully since his appointment as manager from the main office of the firm at Pitts- burgh, Pennsylvania. Mr. Payne is a chemist of wide experience and started at the bottom of the ladder for the Pittsburgh Testing Laboratories, that analyze building material, road material, paving ma- terial, pavements, cement, steel, aggregates, gen- eral chemical work and all kinds of plain and creo- soted lumber. He is a successful business man and friend.
Mr. Payne is strictly a Texas product, being born at Corsicana on April 18, 1885. His parents are J. S. Payne, a farmer living near Corsicana since
451
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TEXAS
1850, one of the oldest Texas pioneers, and Rebecca (Ward) Payne. He was educated in the public schools of Texas and attended the S. W. State Normal at San Marcus between 1905-7 and the Uni- versity of Texas between 1907 and 1913.
In 1913 he accepted a position in Old Mexico with the Hildalgo Portland Cement Company, Monterey, Mexico. After a short time in Mexico he accepted a position with the Pittsburgh laboratories and soon after was made manager for the state of Texas and vice-president of the organization.
He is a member of the Technical Club of Dallas, and the Dallas University Club and lives at 220 East Sixth Street, Dallas, with his mother. Matthew Payne predicts a great future for Dallas and the surrounding country because of the natural re. sources of that district.
ILLIAM E. TIMBLIN, drilling contractor and independent oil operator, 901 American National Bank Bldg., is one of the pioneers of the Wichita Falls territory, having come here in the early days of the oil development at Electra. He has some valuable holdings in the Electra field and other localities and has been in- terested in drilling some fifteen or twenty wells in the Wichita Falls district. He occasionally buys producing wells, works them over and sells them.
Coming to the Oklahoma fields in 1909, Mr. Timblin remained there eight months and in 1910 from West Virginia Oil Fields, came to Wichita County which has been the scene of his operations ever since.
In 1918 he was married to Miss Urcie Horn of Alabama. They have one daughter, Sue Anne. Mr. and Mrs. Timblin reside at 1206 Tenth Street.
HEO E. TACK, oil operator, Wichita Falls, as manager of the Texas business of the Ryan Consolidated Petroleum Corporation, is interested in various producing fields and the development of 75,000 acres personally on which he holds leases in Texas alone.
Mr. Tack was born in Titusville, Penn., where is located Drake's first oil well of that state. His father, Theo Tack, was one of the original oil pro- ducers in the Pennsylvania fields. His mother was Mary Cosgrave Tack. The son was educated in private schools of New York City and later received his A. B. degree from the St. Francis Xavier College of that city, in 1902. He began his business career as a Broker in Stocks and Bonds in Wall Street with the Guarantee Trust Company. He served in this capacity for six years. In 1910, he began the oil business with his father. For six years, from 1911 until 1917, they were in the Tulsa fields. In 1917, he returned to Eastern fields, operating in West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois with the American Oil Development Company, as Assistant Manager. In July of 1919, Mr. Tack came to Wichi- ta Falls, Texas, with the Ryan Corporation as Texas Manager. . As such, he has been operating in the Northwestern Extension and the K. M. A. fields. He has just finished drilling the deepest Texas well, to a depth of 5,910 feet, that required a little over a year to complete.
In 1913, at Tulsa, Okla., Miss Mary Ellis Leake of New Orleans became the bride of Mr. Tack. Katherine and Mary Ellis are their two children. The mother has been deceased since 1917.
Mr. Tack is a member of the B. P. O. E., Knights of Pythias, Wichita Club and Catholic Church.
LLEWELLYN JONES, owner of the Jones Electric Company, 1719 Live Oak Street, and 1714 Pacific Avenue, has built his pres- ent successful business upon years of ex- perience. Mr. Jones has spent his life in the elec- trical construction business, and is thoroughly con- versant with every phase of the work.
The Jones Electrical Company was established July 1, 1914, at its present location which fronts on Live Oak Street running through to Pacific. An extensive stock of electrical construction fixtures and lighting fixtures are carried. Mr. Jones keeps in close touch with everything that is modern and up-to-date in electrical fixtures, and has introduced in Dallas many of the latest scientific mehods of lighting hotels, theatres and churches as well as private residences. Besides the Dallas store, Mr. Jones owns the Strawn Electric Company of Strawn, Texas, which he established in 1919.
Mr. Jones is a native Virginian, having been born in Albemarle County on October 1, 1880. His father, Llewellyn Jones, Senior, owned and operated a large plantation in Virginia. He is now retired and lives at the old family homestead. Mr. Jones was edu- cated in the public schools of his county. Upon com- pleting his schooling he assisted his father with the management of the plantation until 1903, when he came to Texas and accepted a position with the Cramer and Rosenthal Electric Company, of Hous- ton, Texas. After two and a half years with this concern he was offered a place with the W. M. Brooks Electric Company of Dallas. By the end of the year the Union Electric Company had discov- ered his ability and made him a flattering offer which he accepted, remaining with this concern until he went into business for himself.
On July 4, 1906, he was married to Mrs. Claudia O. Hancock, a Michigan girl who had been making her home in Dallas for about three years. Mrs. Jones has one daughter, Mrs. J. E. Reed of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Jones reside in a beautiful country home at Vickery, Texas, which is situated on the Interurban line seven miles from Dallas.
EORGE L. MOORE, secretary and treasurer of the A. P. Cary Company, Incorporated, dental and surgical instruments, 1813 Main Street, operates the largest exclusive dental and instrument house in the South. E. H. Cary, M. D., is the president of this concern and J. N. Cary, of Houston, is the vice-president.
The A. P. Cary Company was organized in 1885 by A. P. Cary, and was the pioneer business of its kind in Texas, proving an invaluable aid to physi- cians who had been compelled to send North for sup- plies. The reputation of the firm spread rapidly and soon physicians and hospitals from every part of Texas were depending on this house for surgical supplies. Now the company handles a state-wide trade estimated at $500,000 annually, and employs five traveling salesmen to take care of the out-of- town business. The management keeps in close touch with the latest scientific inventions and every instrument known to the medical profession is car- ried in stock. A branch office is situated at Houston and the stock carried by the two establishments is valued at $150,000. The company owns its building, known as the Cary building, and has increased the capacity of business 500 per cent in the last twenty years.
Born in Mount Pleasant, Missouri, on November
452
MEN OF TEXAS
4. 1868, Mr. Moore, with his family, moved to Texas when he was but seven years of age, settling at Mckinney. His father, John S. Moore, was a con- tractor of Mckinney and Dallas. . His mother, be- fore her marriage, was Miss Viana A. Cathey, of an old Missouri family. He attended the Mckinney public schools, and when at the age of fifteen his family came to Dallas to live, he entered Sanger Bros. as a cash boy. After two years here he ac- cepted a place with the S. H. McBride Real Estate Company, remaining with them until 1892 when the Parlin and Orendorf Implement Company made him manager of their branch office at Vernon, Texas. His success as an executive manager attracted at- tention, and upon receiving an offer from the A. P. Cary Company, Mr. Moore resigned the management of the Vernon branch office and returned to Dallas to take over the management of the Cary house. In 1901, upon the death of Mr. Cary, Mr. Moore bought an interest in the company and became secre- tary, treasurer and manager. He is responsible for its remarkable growth and the high degree of recog- nition it has received throughout the South.
Mr. Moore was married to Miss Lula F. Hill, daughter of F. M. Hill of Mckinney, who, until his death, was a power among the stockmen of North Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have one daughter, Mrs. Sam P. C. Smith, Mr. Smith being a member of the A. P. Cary firm. The Moore home is at 1912 Park Avenue.
Mr. Moore is a 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason, Knights Templar, Shriner, Oddfellow, a member of the Dallas Country Club and the Chamber of Com- merce.
LETCHER BLACK STOREY, manager Cooper-Storey Company, a partnership in which Paul P. Cooper is the other mem- ber, came to Dallas in 1908 and went with the Ogburn Gravel Company, with whom he re- mained until 1917, when he and Mr. Cooper bought the business and changed the firm name to that of Cooper-Storey Company. The firm deals in gravel and sand and has contracts to supply the Dallas Street Railway Company, the Interurban Company and the city of Dallas with sand and gravel. They have about sixty men employed and operate fifteen trucks moving sand from their pits at Dallas Av- enue and T. & P. railroad, and gravel from their pits on the Hutchins road.
Mr. Storey is a native of Mexia, Texas, born on November 3, 1889, and educated in the public and high schools of that town, augmented by a business course at a commercial college in Dallas. His parents and his grand parents were pioneers and quite prominent in Freestone County, the town of Cotton Gin, now extinct, having been founded by them. His father, W. F. Storey, was a banker at Mexia, and a son of Capt. Storey, a pioneer of Free- stone County, who lived at Cotton Gin. His mother. Belle (Johnson) Storey, was the daughter of Dr. E. J. Johnson, another Freestone County pioneer who also lived at Cotton Gin.
-
Mr. Storey was married in Dallas, December 3, 1913, to Miss Steva Birdsong, daughter of W. D. Birdsong, of Denton, Texas. He is a Knight Templar Mason, a 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason and men- ber of Hella Temple Shrine, is affiliated with the Dallas Auto Club, the Kiwanis Club, the Retail Credit Men's Association, the Dallas Auto Country Club and Chamber of Commerce. He is a young
man, progressive and ambitious and is building up a business which reflects credit on himself and his associate. Like other Dallas live wires, Mr. Storey is a booster for his city and is always interested in all movements which are promoted for the purpose of making Dallas a greater and a better city.
OUIS ROSENBERG, president of the South- ern States Chemical Company, came to Dal- las from Cleveland, Ohio, in 1906 and today is regarded as one of the leading chemists of Texas and the Southwest. The Southern States Chemical Company specializes in the manufacture of chemicals for sanitary purposes, their principal pro- ducts being soaps, metal and furniture polishes, floor dressings and floor sweeping compounds. These pro- ducts are all manufactured in Dallas and are sold to wholesalers and jobbers throughout the Southwest.
Mr. Rosenberg is a native of Kentucky and was born at Louisville, December 4, 1884. He is a son of J. Rosenberg, a retired Louisville merchant, and received his academic education in the public schools and the Cleveland high school where he graduated in 1901. He then attended the Case School of Ap- plied Science and graduated with the degree of bachelor of science in 1905. He did special graduate work in chemistry at the University of Texas and in 1911 was given the degree of electrical engineer, in 1912 taking his master's degree and in 1914 receiving the degree of master of science.
From 1912 to 1915 Mr. Rosenberg was head of the chemistry department of Southern Methodist Uni- versity and then had the department of chemistry at Baylor University from 1915 to 1919. Since 1919 he has devoted his entire time to the business of the Southern States Chemical Company.
On January 18, 1910, Mr. Rosenberg was married at Dallas to Miss Olive Rosenfield, daughter of Max J. Rosenfield, manager of the credit department for Sanger Brothers. They have one son, Louis R., Jr.
Mr. Rosenberg is deeply interested in all matters pertaining to the advancement of his profession and is a member of the American Chemical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a member of the Columbian Club, the Lakewood Country Club and is secretary of the congregation of Temple Emanu-El.
A master of his profession, Mr. Rosenberg also possesses the ability to apply in a practical, business way the knowledge gained from intensive, scientific study,
JOHN P. VAUGHAN, secretary of Council No 151, of the Praetorians, has been a resi- dent of Dallas since 1882 and was for many years well known in educational circles of the city, having taught in the city schools for several years and serving for four years as principal of one of the grammar schools.
Mr. Vaughan was born at Huntsville, Missouri, on August 27, 1855, and is a son of John and Addie (Dameron) Vaughan. After attending the public and high schools of Missouri he entered the Uni- versity of Michigan where he graduated in the law department with the class of 1882, receiving the degree of bachelor of laws. Coming to Dallas fol- lowing his graduation, he was admitted to the bar and practiced law for a couple of years, later turn- ing his attention to teaching. He was also in the real estate business for several years and in 1912 became identified with the Modern Order of Prae- torians, serving as secretary of one of the local
453
ENCYCLOPEDIA OF TEXAS
councils and aiding materially in building the mem- bership to a commanding position among the fraternal organizations of the city his counsel at- taining a total membership of over fifteen hundred.
In 1883 Mr. Vaughan was married to Miss Nellie M. Drake of Ann Arbor, Michigan. They have five children, Chas. P., John G., Wm. D., and Lyda, now Mrs. J. B. Glass of Paris, and Albert S. The family home is at 4510 Cole Avenue.
Mr. Vaughan has been active in the civic affairs of Dallas and all during his residence here has been ever ready to aid in any enterprise for the advancement or upbuilding of the city.
0. HARVEY, City National Bank Building. Wichita Falls, as cotton buyer and exporter and petroleum producer is one of the big men of his city of big men. As petroleum producer he is drilling wells all of the time in Wichita County, Eastland, Erath and Commanche counties, and will soon begin developments in Stephens County. He has a good interest in the daily production of 1,200 barrels a day. All of this development is accomplished by associations rather than by companies. He is a director and vice- president of the City National Bank of Commerce as well as a director of the Empire Mortgage Co. He is among eight who built the Kemp Hotel, a structure with its furnishings costing one and a quarter million dollars, and he is one of the four largest stockholders in the same.
Mr. Harvey was born at Centerville, Iowa, No- vember 27, 1881. His father, S. L. Harvey, was a newspaper man of that state and later of Oklahoma and Ohio. His mother was Alice Osborn Harvey, a native of Missouri. Centerville and Oklahoma schools, and later Honey Grove. Texas, gave the youth his schooling. From 1900 to 1905, young Harvey served as a telegraph operator, but while so engaged he learned the cotton business, in Okla- homa, Chicago and Kansas City. In 1905 he located at Dallas but soon changed his headquarters to Honey Grove, Texas. From 1908 to 1912 he was in the cotton business at Seymour, Texas, and in 1912 he opened his cotton office in Wichita Falls. Three years later he entered the oil business.
On October 10, 1907, Miss Chloe Blocker, daugh- ter of Eugene E. Blocker, cotton man of Honey Grove, became the bride of Mr. Harvey. They have four boys: R. O., Jr., Eugene, Chester and Frank. The family resides at 1629 Tenth Street.
Mr. Harvey is a member of the New Orleans Cot- ton Exchange, is president of the Maskat Shrine Patrol, a thirty-second degree Mason, a Knight Templar, a member of the Wichita Club, of the Wichita Country Club, a director of the Chamber of Commerce and is usually made a director in all city campaigns. He is a trustee of the Presbyterian interests of his city. He is also chairman of the board of directors of the Wichita Falls Baseball Association, Texas League.
Wichita Falls will remain a leader in agricultural products and in oil producing. Mr. Harvey in align- ing himself with these two permanent and growing industries will continue as a leader in business trans- actions of his section as he already is today.
ANDON H. CULLUM, partner and one of the organizers of the R. O. Harvey Account, 1001-3 City National Bank Building, is one of the best known oil men in Wichita Falls. He came here in 1912 and has been very active in
the oil business and has aided materially in the development of the fields of North and Central West Texas.
Besides Mr. Cullum, the leasing organization is composed of R. O. Harvey, Frank Kell and J. J. Perkins and was organized in August, 1917. The business of the organization is buying and develop- ing leases and has been very successful, the account having operated in the Burkburnett, Electra, Ranger and Desdemona fields. They have men in each of these fields watching developments at all times and the company has been very active in the buying and development of leases in each field.
Mr. Cullum is a native Texan and was born in Dallas on February 25, 1889. He is a son of J. D. and Eudona (Haynes) Cullum and was educated in the public schools of Dallas and the University of Texas. His father has been a prominent resident of Dallas for many years and has taken an active part in the civic and commercial life of the city.
After completing his education Mr. Cullum began work in the engineering department of the Houston and Texas Central Railway Company where he worked for a year and then became connected with the Texas Electric Railway Company in the con- struction of the Dallas-Waco Interurban line. He then went with the Gulf Production Company at Beaumont as engineer and field man and later was sent by this company to Wichita Falls.
Need help finding more records? Try our genealogical records directory which has more than 1 million sources to help you more easily locate the available records.