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JAMES W. THROCKMORTON-Eleventh gov- ernor of Texas, 1866-1867, came to Texas in 1841 from the state of Tennessee where he was born in 1825. In 1851 he was elected to the legislature where he served for several terms; he opposed seces- sion but was firm in standing by his state and was a faithful soldier in the Confederate army. He was rendering invaluable service to the state in recon- struction days when General Sheridan, the military commander of the district Texas was in, suddenly removed him from the governor's chair. In 1874- 78, he served as congressman. He died in 1894 at his home in Mckinney, Texas.
ELISHA M. PEASE-Twelfth governor, 1867- 1869, was fourth governor also, in which order his sketch is given.
EDMUND J. DAVIS-Thirteenth governor of Texas, 1870-1874, a native of Florida, began his residence in Texas in 1848 and held various offices of trust until 1861 when he entered the Union army. In 1869 he was elected governor. At the expiration of his second term of office he resumed his law practise at Austin where he died in 1883.
RICHARD COKE-Fourteenth governor of Texas, 1874-1876, was born in Virginia in 1829; in 1850 he located near Waco, Texas, and was soon chosen as a district judge. He entered the Southern army as private, came out as captain. In 1866 he became associate justice of the Supreme Court but was re- moved as impediment to reconstruction. In 1876 he was elected United States senator, an office he held for eighteen years. In 1895 he refused a further candidacy, retired to private life and died at his Waco home in 1897.
RICHARD B. HUBBARD-Fifteenth governor of the Lone Star State, 1876-1879, after graduating from Mercer University of Georgia, his native state, the University of Virginia and Harvard University with literary and law degrees, came to Texas in 1853 and settled at Tyler where his eloquence soon won for him the title of "Young Demosthenes." In 1856 he was a member of the National Democratic Convention, soon afterwards was made United States attorney for western Texas, then entered the legis- lature. In the Civil War he was a Confederate colonel. In 1873 he was elected lieutenant governor and upon the resignation of Governor Coke he suc- ceeded to the governor's chair. Governor Hubbard was one of the most celebrated speakers of his day, his ability as such being in demand throughout the nation, in campaign speaking, as well as in his own state. In 1885 he was appointed minister pleni- potentiary to Japan. He died at Tyler, Texas, 1901.
ORAN M. ROBERTS-born in South Carolina, 1815, came to Texas in 1841 and from 1879 to 1SS3 served as our sixteenth governor. He had previously · held the offices of district attorney, district judge, justice of the Supreme Court-prior to the Civil War-colonel in the Confederate army, chief justice of Texas, 1864, United States senator, 1866, and in 1874 again made chief justice. From this latter position he resigned to become governor of Texas. After his governship expired he was chosen pro-
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JOHN IRELAND-Seventeenth governor of
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LAWRENCE S. ROSS-Eighteenth governor of Texas, 1887-1891, came to Texas in 1839 from Iowa store he was born in 1838. In early youth, during , ammer vacations from college, he won far-reaching fame as a fighter of Inlians, subduing the Com- ar hes some years later. He was a member of the constitutional Convention of 1875, was elected to the state senate in 1881 and chosen governor in :** and in 1888. At the expiration of his second torni he was made president of the Texas A. & M. College, at Bryan, where he died in 1898.
JAMES STEPHEN HOGG-Nineteenth governor { Texas, 1891-1895, was the first native of Texas fill the governor's office. He was born in 1851, 4: Rusk, left an orphan at the age of twelve, was ... If-made, became a publisher and editor of ability and in 1875 took up the practice of law. The suc- ressive offices of justice of the peace, county at- torney, district attorney, attorney-general and then governor, indicate his rise in state services. His constructive policies as governor met with sharp opposition and he was perhaps the most criticised rwcutive of the state in certain circles in the term of his o fce. But he was a true statesman and when he died in 1906, his remains were taken to the senate chamber where they lay in state and leaders from every section attended the funeral.
CHARLES A. CULBERSON-Twentieth governor of the state, 1895-1899, was born in Alabama in 1855. His father, Hon. David B. Culberson, moved to Texas 11 1>57 and for many years was a leading member of congress and one of the most able jurists of our country. Charles A. Culberson, after serving as rounty attorney of Marian County, moved to Dallas : 1888, was attorney-general from 1891 to 1895, governor for two terms and in 1899 was elected United States senator in which capacity he serves :, this day. He has the honor of having won in · very contest before the people in his many years { service and is yet at the forefront in state and ·ational service.
JOSEPH D. SAYERS-The twenty-first governor { Texas, 1899-1903, came to Texas in 1851 from Mississippi at the age of ten. He was soldier, school bacher, lawyer. In 1873 he was elected state whator; in 1879 and 1880 he was lieutenant-gov- .: nor; from 1884 to 1899 he was in congress, serving ' r twelve years upon the committee of appropria- : ons and part of the time chairman of the com- mittee.
S. W. T. LATHAM-Twenty-second governor of Texas, 1903-1907, born in South Carolina, July 4, *%, came to Texas in 1866. He was a self-made san, having his first and only teacher when he 4 : fifteen and to whom he never tired in pay- tributes. In 1869 he was admitted to the bar; Ar became district attorney and then served as con- ₹:rssman for sixteen years, doing valuable work on
the judiciary committee. At the expiration of his terms as governor, 1903-1907, he retired to his home at Weatherford where he died in 1908.
THOMAS MITCHELL CAMPBELL-Twenty- third governor of Texas, 1907-1909, the second native Texan to rise to the office of governor, was born in 1856 at Rusk, Texas. In 1878 he began the practise of law; in 1891 he was made receiver for the I. & G. N. Ry. and moved to Palestine, Texas; two years later he was made general manager of this railway but resigned in 1897 to resume his law practise. He enjoys the distinction of being the first Texan who never held any public office until chosen governor of the state.
OSCAR BRANCH COLQUITT-Twenty-fourth governor of Texas, 1910-1913, was a native of Georgia where he was born in 1861. He came to Texas in 1878 and began his career as an employee of a railway, then in the manufacturing business, next in the banking world and then as editor and publisher. After being admitted to the bar he was elected as state senator from Kaufman, Navarro and Henderson counties, then was made railroad com- missioner and in 1910 and in 1912 was elected to the governor's chair. He now resides at Dallas.
JAMES E. FERGUSON-The twenty-fifth gov- ernor of Texas, 1914-1917, was born near Temple, Texas, in 1871. He was inaugurated governor of Texas in 1914 and in his second term had twenty- one charges of malfeasance and corruption in office laid to his charge; the senate sustained ten of the twenty-one charges, mainly by a vote of 27 to 4, September 22, 1917. The expulsion of Governor Ferguson from office forever disbars him from hold- ing office in this state again.
WILLIAM PETTUS HOBBY-Twenty-sixth gov- ernor, 1917-1921, was born in Polk County, Texas, in 1878. Soon after affiliating himself with the Houston Post he attained leadership in the news- paper world. In 1913 and in 1915 he was chosen lieutenant-governor under Mr. Ferguson as governor and upon the latter's impeachment succeeded to the governor's chair September 1, 1917, and at the expiration of that term was elected governor.
PAT MORRIS NEFF-Twenty-seventh governor of Texas, 1922-, is a native Texan, born in Mc- Gregor, November 26, 1871, son of Noah and Isa- bella (Shepherd) Neff, both deceased. His educa- tion was received in the public schools of his native town and Baylor University of Waco from which he graduated with the degree of bachelor of arts with the class of 1894. He then attended the law department of the University of Texas, receiving the degree of bachelor of laws in the class of 1897. He received the degree of master of arts at the Baylor University in 1898. In 1921 the degree of doctor of laws was conferred upon him both by Baylor University and Howard Payne College. He began the practise of law at Waco in 1898.
He served in the lower house of the Texas legis- lature, representing McLennan County, 1901 to 1905, and in 1903 to 1905 he was speaker of the house. He is the youngest speaker that ever pre- sided over the Texas house of representatives. In 1906 he was elected prosecuting attorney of Mc- Lennan County and served continuously until 1912.
Mr. Neff was married May 31, 1899, to Miss Myrtle Mainer. They have two children, Hallie Maud and Pat, Jr. He has been president of the board of trustees of Baylor University since 1903.
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S AMUEL POYNTZ COCHRAN, veteran in- surance man with nearly half a century of aetive, continuous work to his credit, mem- ber of the well known firm of Trezevant and Cochran, 1821 Young Street, with which he has been connected since July 1, 1883, has oeeupied a pietur- esque place in the history of the eity of Dallas.
The firm was organized on Mareh 1, 1876, by J. T. Dargan and J. T. Trezevant and operated under the name of Dargan and Trezevant. . Mr. Dargan retired from the business in 1888 and the firm name was then changed to Trezevant and Cochran.
Mr. Cochran came to Dallas in 1881, having prior to that time been engaged in the fire insurance busi- ness with his unele, James W. Cochran, at Lexing- ton, Kentucky, and in his own agency at Covington The first work of Mr. Coehran in the insurance field was in 1873 and was with the surveying eorps em- ployed by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. His work with the National Board was at Cincinnati, Columbus, Dayton and Toledo, Ohio. In 1874 he entered the employment of the general ageney of J. W. Cochran and Son at Lexington, this firm repre- senting the Franklin Fire Insurance Company of Philadelphia. This company was represented by some member of the Cochran family continuously since 1830 until 1910.
The territory embraced in the general ageney of Trezevant and Coehran is Texas, Arkansas, Louis- iana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. When the office was opened in 1876 the firm represented only one company, "The Fire Association," of Philadelphia. In the years that have elapsed since that time, many companies have come and gone and at this time the firm represents, for direet and reinsurance fire business and allied lines, about one-half of the largest companies in the world, their combined re- sources, it is said, aggregating more than one hun- dred million dollars. The Fire Association is still represented by Trezevant and Cochran, their agency with this company now being in its forty-sixth year.
The building owned and occupied by the firm ex- clusively at 1821 Young Street, was erected in 1911 and represents the very latest idcas in the arrange- ment of its interior for the promotion of effieieney in the handling of insurance. The office employees of the firm number 119 and eighteen adjusters and special agents are employed. The firm is known only as a departmental office and does not write any business except through its representatives and agencies.
Mr. Coehran was born at Lexington, Kentucky, September 11, 1855, a son of Colonel John Carr and Samuella Tannehill (Dewees) Cochran. His father held a commission as colonel of the Fourteenth Ken- tucky Volunteer Infantry, United States Army. His ancestors werc of sturdy, American stock and fought in the Revolutionary War and in the War of 1812 and his father served with distinction in the Civil War.
He was edueated in the publie schools of Cjnein- nati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky, and graduated as valedictorian of his class at the Covington high school in 1873, entering the insurance field in July following his graduation. While eondueting his local ageney at Covington, Mr. Cochran was appointed Deputy United States Marshal and served for three years.
Mr. Coehran came to Texas in 1881 as spec .. agent for the Phoenix of Hartford, his territory ... bracing Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. traveled the territory for this company almost er :. tinuously until he became connected with Darga- and Trezevant in 1883. From its small beginn !:... with one company, the business of Trezevant a: Coehran has inereased until the annual volume .: premiums aggregates over three million dollars.
. On July 3, 1883, Mr. Cochran was married at Lex. ington, Kentucky, to Miss Sue Webb Higgins, men. ber of a well known Kentucky family. They reste at 3720 Cedar Springs Road.
Mr. Cochran is one of the most prominent figure in Masonry in the Southwest and has filled perhays more positions of trust and responsibility in ti. order than any other one man. In October, 1903, h .. was elected inspector general honorary and elevat .. to the rank of thirty-third degree. In October, 1911. he was crowned Sovereign Grand Inspector General and became the active member of the Supreme Coun .. cil for Texas. He also is representative of the Su- preme Couneil of France and Past Grand Sovereign. of the Grand Imperial Council of the Order of the Red Cross of Constantine. He is a member of the Masonie Veterans Association of Illinois.
Among the official positions held by Mr. Coch- ran arc the following: . Past Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Texas, A. F. and A. M .; Past Grand High Priest of the Grand Royal. Arch Chapter of Texas; Past Grand Master of the Grand Council of Royal and Seleet Masters of Texas; Past Grand Com- mander of the Grand Commandery Knights Templar of Texas; Past Grand Patron of the Grand Chapter of the Eastern Star of Texas; Past Potentate of Hella Temple, A. A. O. N. M. S. of Dallas.
Mr. Cochran is a member of the Christian Science Church and for many years one of its board of trustees.
EORGE BANNERMAN DEALEY as vice- president and general manager of the A. II. Belo & Company, publishers of the Dallas and the Galveston Morning News and The Dallas Evening Journal, is well known to the thous- ands of Texas and the Southwest as publisher and philanthropist.
He was born in England, September 18, 1859, a: Manchester, the son of George and Mary A. Dealey. He was edueated in the schools of Liverpool, Eng- land, and Galveston, Texas, having reached the Lone Star State in 1870. At the age of twenty-five, he married Olivia Allen of Missouri.
Mr. Dealey's eareer in the newspaper world be- gan on October 12, 1874 as offiee boy for the Ga !- veston News. His promotion was rapid; from 18-7 to 1906, he served as business manager for The Dallas News. Since 1906, Mr. Dealey has been vice- president and general manager for A H. Belo & Company. The Dallas News is one of the pioneer dailies of the State and enjoys one of the most extensive circulation lists of any paper in the South- west. Its editorials and opinions are frequently quoted over the Nation.
Mr. Dealey is active in all progressive moves vi his home city, Dallas, where he has attained leader. ship in organized charitable work and in effort. to better general conditions of living. He has served or is serving as president of the United
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"srities of Dallas, a director of the Chamber of "merce, honorary vice-president of the National Lung Association, vice-chairman of the Dallas and Improvement League. He is an Inde- " Jent Democrat, a thirty-third degree honorary .. !! ish Rite Freemason and a member of the Red 1% of Constantine. He belongs to the Dallas Antry Club and the Critics Club. Mr. Dealey is member of the Presbyterian Church.
0. CONNOR, president of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company has been for a number of years, through his connection with one of her leading mercantile estab- :. , on the inside of Dallas financial affairs and hugh he has been actively engaged in banking for ·ty a short time, he brought to the responsible po- t.bon which he holds a store of valuable knowledge and an unusually wide experience.
Mr. Connor was born at Hamburg, Hardin County Tennessee, and at an early age came with his par- e :. ts, William J. and Julia (Hynes) Connor, to Jef- feron, Texas where the family was located in : - 63. When he was still small his father died and as a result his education was limited to that offered by the schools of Jefferson. In 1868 he came to Dal- iss where he has since remained. In 1880 he be- came associated with Sanger Brothers and after be- .rx on the road as a salesman for a year he took charge of their credit department. Not the least factor in the development of this well known firm was the enterprising genius and industry of Mr. Connor. After forty years of continuous service in tas credit department it is not surprising that Mr. Connor has the reputation of being the best posted man on credit rating in Dallas. He is still one of the Frectors of the Sanger Bros. Corporation and holds several other minor directorates. In 1920 when a man was needed for the presidency of the Guaran- ty Bank & Trust Company after looking over the eure field, no man could be found who, on ac- count of his varied experience and long association with financial affairs, quite so completely met the demand as did Mr. Connor.
To Mr. and Mrs. Connor, who was formerly Miss Lulu J. Mays, of Dallas, three children were born, Eugene C., Brevard M. and Dorothy Jane. The Connor residence is at 4009 Armstrong Avenue, Highland Park.
In the promotion of municipal affairs, Mr. Con- for has taken a conspicuous place. He was the first Mayor of Highland Park. He served on the first Park Board of the City of Dallas during two ad- ministrations. His chief service in the advance- nant of Dallas commercial development was the or- ganization of the Trade League of which he was the first president. This organization was instrumental ." getting the jobbers of Dallas to pay the trans- fortation of merchants to the city and has thus been great factor in building up Dallas as a whole- sale center. Mr. Connor also served for a number v! years as a Director of the original Chamber of Commerce. He is a thirty-second degree Mason with the Scottish Rite and a Shriner, member of Hella Temple. His church connection is with the Episcopal Cathedral of Dallas. During a residence la Dallas of more than half a century Mr. Connor has witnessed the development of Dallas from a
village of 600 people to a modern city and into al- most every fabric of which has been woven his wise counsel and beneficent influence.
H. POWER, president of Murphy & Bolanz Company, Incorporated, and the Power In- vestment Company of Dallas, came to the city with the Murphy & Bolanz Company in 1897. Mr. Power has devoted his entire business career to real estate achievement, investments and Icans and as president of the above named concerns has gained wide recognition in these fields. Murphy & Bolanz Company was organized in 1874 and has the distinction of being the oldest real estate firm in the state. The company handles general real estate, fire insurance, loans and rental leases and has been the determining factor in a number of the large real estate deals of this city for the past decade, among which are the Union Terminal, Butler Brothers and the Adolphus Hotel sites. The com- pany also publishes Murphy & Bolanz's o ... cial Map of Dallas, which is considered the most accurate map of the city. The Home Lease Department is unique in that it sends out to all subscribers a weekly digest of the real estate conditions of Dallas. This com- pany has laid out and supervised the sale of twenty- seven Dallas additions, 4,200 lots. The present home of the company was purchased by Mr. Power for the company early in 1920 and is located at Commerce and Field Streets. There are twenty-three employed in the organization which does over $1,000,000. in business per year. The company has over three thousand clients in and out of Dallas and have on their books for clients $4,500 on Dallas real estate confined mostly to residential loans. It has always been Mr. Power's hobby to assist people in building and owning their own homes.
The Power Investment Company was organized in 1910 by Mr. Power with a capital of $5,000, which was increased to $100,000 in 1915 and gradually has been increased until now it has a paid capital of $500,000. This company is represented exclusively by the Murphy & Bolanz Company. The business of this concern is to develop residential districts and to build houses and dispose of same to people of moderate means. In 1919 it built one hundred and twenty-five houses and in 1920 about one hundred. During the past five years has erected over five hundred.
Mr. Power is a native son of Texas, being born near Waxahachie, Ellis County, on March 3, 1871. He is the son of J. J. Power, a farmer of that county, and received his early education in the public schools there. After finishing school he continued in the farm work and in 1894 moved to Dallas, ac- cepting a position with Murphy & Bolanz. He worked up from the bottom as a clerk, in 1914 he was elected vice-president and general manager and in 1918 was elected president.
The marriage of Mr. Power to Miss Boyce, a daughter of Captain W. A. Boyce, of Ellis County, was solemnized in 1896 and they are the parents of two children, Mrs. T. V. Stark, of Dallas and Miss Rowena Power. In the civic organizations Mr. Power is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, the Dallas Country Club, the Lakewood Country Club and the Automobile Club.
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OYAL ANDREW FERRIS, for more than 1 R twenty years president of the American Exchange National Bank, holds the distinc- tion of being the oldest banker of promi- nence in the city of Dallas and is one of the chief factors in American high finance. As first officer of one of the strongest banking institutions in the Southwest, Mr. Ferris has not only safeguarded the interests of thousands of depositors but he has stood for years as a solid rock of financial integrity thus doing his full share to furnish that necessary com- mercial element known as "credit" upon which such a large per cent of all business is being conducted. It is now recognized that the security of a bank de- pends not so much upon the strength of its vaults as upon the trust-worthiness of its officers and it is upon the sterling character of men like Royal A. Ferris that Texas prosperity has been based and her future development depends rather than upon her fertile acres and her gushing oil wells.
Mr. Ferris is a native Texan, born in Jefferson, August 8, 1851. His father, J. W. Ferris, was a native of New York state and came to Texas in 1846. He was a lawyer of great versatility, the editor of a newspaper and represented his district in the legislature. Mr. Ferris' mother, Martha (Crowe) Ferris, was a native of Kentucky, Floydsburg being her home.
When their son was only three years old the Ferris family moved to Waxahachie, where they re- mained until the boy was grown. Mr. Ferris re- ceived his early education from the public schools of Waxahachie and having finished this course he attended, for one year, the Kentucky Military Acad- emy, at Frankfort, Kentucky.
When nineteen years old Mr. Ferris had his bank- ing experience as a clerk in a private banking house in Waxahachie, known as Ferris & Getzendaner of which his father was the senior member. Four years later the firm was changed to Getzendaner & Ferris, young Ferris becoming a member. In 1884 this firm organized the Citizen's National Bank of Waxahachie and succeeded to the business.
Mr. Ferris was active in the upbuilding of this section of Texas, being instrumental in building into Waxahachie the Waxahachie Tap railroad, now part of the Houston & Texas Central R. R. Mr. Getzen- daner and Mr. Ferris were partners in the Mark, Latimer & Co., bankers of Ennis, the first bank in the city.
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