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In 1912, at Ft. Worth, Texas, Mr. Corridon married Miss Emma Kate Uhrback, from Goldthwaite. They have one daughter, Nelda Boyd Corridon. The family church affiliation is with the Christian Church. Mr. Corridon is a Knight of Pythias.
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R OBERT E. HUFF, chairman of the board of the First National Bank and attorney at law, has been identified with the conmer- cial and professional interests of Wichita Falls for a number of years and is generally looked upon as one of the city's foremost citizens and largely instrumental in the growth and development of the city. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and began the practice of law at Shelbyville, Tenn. In 1882 he located at Wichita Falls and when the county was organized he was elected the first county at- torney and was re-elected for the full term. He also served as one of the first aldermen of the city and for eleven years was president of the Chamber of Commerce, during which time the city had its great- est period of development, 1909 to 1920. In Sep- tember, 1888, he was elected president of the Pan- handle National Bank, which name was changed to the First National Bank in 1903, and he held this position until January 19, 1921. Mr. Huff has four times been elected as a delegate from Texas to represent the Democratic national convention (1904, 1912, 1916, 1920), also having the pleasure twice in assisting in the nomination and election of a Denio- cratic president.
Mr. Huff was born in Lebanon, Virginia, July 31, 1857, and moved with his parents, Wm. E. and Martha E. (Johnson) Huff, to Tennessee in 1866, where he attended the Tennessee public schools and later the Cumberland University, graduating in law in 1879. His mother is now a resident of Wichita Falls.
Mr. Huff married Miss Elizabeth Burroughs, a Texas girl, at Bowie, Texas, in 1885, and they have three fine sons, Wm. E., treasurer State Trust Co .; Arthur B. and Robert E., Jr., a dentist. The family home is located at 1100 Brook Street, and their church affiliation is with the Baptist faith. Mr. Huff is a member of the Wichita Club.
M. McGREGOR, president of the First Na- tional Bank, has been identified with the growth of Wichita Falls since 1885, and has been engaged in the banking business prac- tically ever since he came to the city. He is a man of large affairs, sound business judgment and a builder who has contributed generously to that spirit which is making Wichita Falls one of the lead- ing commercial and industrial centers of the state. The institution with which he is connected is one of the largest in this section of the state, having a capital of $800,000, a surplus of $1,000,000 and a corps of sixty employes.
Mr. McGregor came to Wichita Falls from Austin, and in 1888 became associated with the Panhandle National Bank as bookkeeper. In 1892 he was elected cashier, holding the position for ten years. In 1910 he was elected vice-president and was, at the time of his election to the presidency, the oldest active vice-president of a bank in the city. In addition to his' banking interests he is also inter- ested in the northwest oil fields.
Mr. McGregor is an Alabamiian by birth, born at Taledega, July 31, 1868. His parents were W. M. and Emnia (Cousins) McGregor, and his father was a lawyer. The family moved to Texas in 1874 and located in Austin, where Mr. McGregor attended the public schools of that city. He was married at Fort
Worth, July 24, 1890, to Miss Kate Potter, whose father is a prominent stock man of Palo Pinto and the first president of the Texas Cattlemen's Asso- ciation. They have three children, Carter McGregor, cashier of the First National Bank; Mrs. L. T. Burns. The McGregor home is located at 1310 Tenth Street. Mr. McGregor is a Shriner and Knight Templar, and a member of the Wichita Club, the Elks, the Wichita Falls Golf Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Episcopal Church. He is deeply interested in the upbuilding of Wichita Falls and Wichita County and has always been one of the important factors contributing to its general welfare. *
HARLES E. MCCUTCHEN, vice-president of the First National Bank, Wichita Falls, capitalist and financier, is one of Texas' most able bankers. Having begun the business at the very bottom. as a bank clerk, he has worked up through every intermediate position to the vice-presidency which he holds today, and be- sides, as a state bank examiner for three years, he personally has studied the systems used by nearly every bank in the state, its failures and why, its successes and why, and therefore, from the view- point of training, is a star of the first magnitude as a banking official.
Mr. McCutchen is a native Texan. He was born in Parker County, on November 15, 1884. His parents, J. S. and Allie Morgan Mccutchen, came to Texas in 1870. After completing the public school system of his home town, Mr. Mccutchen at- tended Polytechnic College of Ft. Worth from which he graduated and where he was a classmate of Tris Speaker, king of the American national sport. Im- mediately after his college course, he began as a bank clerk in 1907 in the First National Bank of Munday, Texas, where he remained for six months, and then, in 1908, became assistant cashier in the First National Bank at Olney, Texas, where he con- tinued for two years. In 1910 Mr. Mccutchen or- ganized the First State Bank of Megargel. Texas. and was elected president of the institution. He served in this capacity for two years. From 1912 until 1915 he was state bank examiner under B. L. Gill, commissioner of banking and insurance, who now is vice-president of the Seaboard National Bank of New York. In 1913 Mr. Mccutchen came to Wichita Falls as assistant cashier with the First National Bank; in 1917 he served as cashier for three months and then was chosen as an active vice- president of the bank. He is director in the First National Bank at Munday, Texas, as well as of the Farmers' State Bank at Vernon, Texas.
In December of 1913, at Austin, Texas, Miss Bessie Newsom of Austin, Texas, became the bride of Mr. Mccutchen. They have one son, James William. The family resides at 1715 Tenth Street.
Mr. Mccutchen is popular not only in business but in the social circles of his city. He is the . Ceremonial Master at the Maskat Shrine, a thirty- second degree Mason, a member of the Wichita Club, of the Athletic Club of Dallas, and by church affiliation is a Presbyterian. In training and in natural ability, Mr. MeCutehen will hold a place prominent among Texas bankers for a generation to come.
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C. CABINESS, active vice-president of the . educated in the public schools and at Polytechnic Security National Bank, Wichita Falls, is College. a leader among the financiers of North Texas and in Oklahoma where he also has banking interests. He is also vice-president of the First National Bank of Burkburnett.
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Mr. Cabiness is a native Texan. He was born in the southern part of the state, on January 16, 1884, son of Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Cabiness. Mr. Cabi- ness, senior, was a native of Texas. His education has been obtained from the schools of Texas and Oklahoma. He began his business career as a book- keeper in a mercantile establishment in Oklahoma. In 1905 he began banking as a bookkeeper in the First National Bank of Sayre, Oklahoma. He worked up to the position of assistant cashier in this institu- tion, and in 1913, he became active vice-president and manager of the First National Bank of Erick, Oklahoma, where he remained for four and a half years. While manager of the First National Bank of Oklahoma the bank paid dividends of from thirty to seventy-five per cent in cash every year while he had charge of the bank. In 1918 he came to Burkburnett as active vice-president and manager of the First National Bank of that city. While man- ager of this bank, during the boom, he successfully conducted its affairs through the period of its great- est prosperity. During this time he handled more escrow deals than any man in Wichita County in a similar period. In July of 1920, he came to Wichita Falls as one of the organizers of the Security Na- tional Bank of which he is now vice-president. Be- sides his banking interests in Texas and Oklahoma, Mr. Cabiness has oil interests in the Burkburnett district.
Miss Lucile Tyler, a Missourian, in 1915, at Elk City, Oklahoma, became the bride of Mr. Cabiness. They have one daughter, Florence, and the family residence is at 1712 Huff Avenue. Mr. Cabiness is a Shriner of the Maskat Temple, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Wichita Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His church affiliation is Presbyterian. Youthful, energetic and with big banking interests already to his credit, Mr. Cabiness will have a very important place in the immense future of his city.
ACE M. CLIFFORD, cashier of the Se- curity National Bank, came to Wichita Falls in 1908, from Fort Worth, Texas. Previous to becoming a banker he was in the railroad business, serving as joint agent for all the roads out of Wichita Falls. He was in this business for nine years and withdrew to become assistant cashier of the City National Bank, with whom he remained until the organization of the Se- curity National, July 1, 1920. He assisted in the organization of the bank and was elected cashier when it was opened for business. The bank has a capital of $400,000 and a surplus of $100,000. Mr. Clifford started out in the business world as a stenographer and followed the vocation for two years. He then engaged in the railroad business and remained continuously in it until he engaged in the banking business in 1918.
Mr. Clifford is a native of Putnanı, Texas, where he was born May 6, 1886. His father, Geo. H. Clif- ford, was a ranchman and his mother was Belzoni Birdwell Clifford. Both parents are dead. He was
His marriage to Miss Laura Bell, daughter of Dr. J. M. Bell, well known physician and former · mayor of Wichita Falls, was consummated in 1914, and they have one child, Dorothy Bell. The family home is at 1513 Twelfth Street.
Mr. Clifford is both Scottish Rite and York Rite Mason, a member of Wichita Blue Lodge No. 635. He is also a member of the Wichita Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
His church affiliation is with the Methodist Church in which he has served as a steward for the past eight years.
He is a progressive and prominent citizen, am- bitious for his institution and his city, and lends his best efforts to the upbuilding of both institutions.
OHN E. HAYNES, president of the Amer- ican State Bank, Burkburnett, is one of the aggressive financiers in a district of big business. As one who has followed the banking business all of his life and has worked up from the bottom to the place of management in a prominent financial institution, Mr. Haynes is noted for his efficiency and mastery of his calling. The development of a section and its banking business are always most vitally connected, mutually depend- ent each upon the other. The territory of the northwest has enjoyed a growth rapid but perma- nent, and its development in the future because of its riches in natural resources will be prodigious. Mr. Haynes and his institution are right at the heart of this territory and will do an attractive part in its future activity. Associated with him in official ca- pacity are J. W. Gilliland, as vice-president; L. C. Laws, vice-president, and Mr. E. B. Grennell, cashier. The bank was organized in 1919, starting with a capital of $50,000 and increased to $65,000 January 1, 1921, and has eleven employees.
On November 3, 1882, Mr. Haynes was born at Roanoke, in Denton County, Texas. His parents, Marshall J. and Nancy L. (Higgins) Haynes, moved to Oklahoma in 1898 and located at Watonga. This, however, was after the Texas public schools had given Mr. Haynes his training. Oklahoma provided his first commercial and practical education. for he became an employee in the department of the county treasurer in his new location. After two years of service with this department, he began banking as a clerk in the First National Bank, Watonga, Okla. By 1909 he had become assistant cashier but severed his connection to become cashier of the Bank of Eagle City where he remained for eight years. In 1917 the First State Bank of Oilton. Okla., claimed him for vice-president; after two years of affiliation with that institution, in 1919, Mr. Haynes came to Burkburnett as vice-president and manager of the American State Bank, organized at that time, becoming president on January 1, 1921.
Miss Bessie Dunlap, of Missouri, became the bride of Mr. Haynes at Watonga, Okla., on December 23. 1906. Lanette and Hildagard are their two children: the family residence is at 610 East Fourth Street Burkburnett. Mr. Haynes is a Shriner at th : Adkar Temple, Tulsa, Okla. As one who is proficient in his calling and in a territory bankers everywhere might covet for their location, Mr. Haynes is a first rank citizen of his city and will be active in its great future.
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R. EDWARD H. CARY, chairman staff, faculty and advisory board of Baylor Med- ieal College, ex-president of the Southern Medical Association and one of the fore- most eye, ear, nose and throat surgeons in the South- west, has been a prominent figure in medical circles of Dallas and Texas since his arrival here in 1889. Dr. Cary came to Dallas first to be associated with his brother, the late A. P. Cary, in the conduct of surgical and dental supply business, which bears his name, and which is one of the largest concerns of its kind in the South.
After remaining with his brother until 1895 he re- turned to New York and took up the active study of medicine, graduating from Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1898. Upon completing his medical studies Dr. Cary accepted an internship at Bellevue, 1898-9, and for 18 months was interne of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary and house surgeon. He lo- cated in New York where he remained until the death of his brother in April, 1901, when he returned to Dallas permanently in July, and began the active practice of his profession here. He was therefore forced to resign important clinical positions at Belle- vue Medical College, as well as the Post-Graduate School of Medicine, "The Polyclinic," to which he had been appointed before leaving.
Returning to Dallas he organized his brothers' business as guardian for his children and placed it on a substantial business basis. In October, 1901, he opened an office in this city and in 1902 became Dean of the Medical Department of the University of Dal- las. This school was later merged with and became a part of Baylor Medical College and Dr. Cary was continued as Dean of the combined school, a position he held until 1920 when he became chairman of the staff faculty and advisory board. He also served the school as chief of the eye, ear, nose and throat division. To his untiring efforts, energy and determination is attributed much of the success achieved by Baylor Medical School and the elevation in 1915 to its present rank as a Class A institution.
Dr. Cary is a native of Alabama and is a native of Union Springs, where he was born February 28, 1872. He is a son of Major Joseph Milton and Lucy Janette (Powell) Cary who were of Virginia families and prominent figures in the ante bellum history of Alabama and during the trying period of the recon- struction days following the Civil War.
The academic education of Dr. Cary was received at the Union Springs Academy and his medical .train- ing at Bellevue and other of the prominent clinics of the country.
In April, 1911, Dr. Cary was married to Miss Georgia Fonda Schneider, daughter of Jules E. and Florence (Fonda) Schneider, of Dallas.
Mr. Schneider had been for many years a well known wholesale grocer and capitalist of Dallas. They have three children, Georgie, Edward, Jr., and Florence. The family resides at 4712 Lakeside Drive, Highland Park.
Dr. Cary has been a leading figure in making Dal- las a great medical center and has been tireless in his efforts to forward and bring to a successful . termination this great humanitarian movement. Largely through his efforts also the present compre- hensive building program for the Baptist Memorial Sanitariuni, involving an expenditure of several hun- dred thousand dollars, was undertaken. To further strengthen this city as a medical center, Dr. Cary
has made arrangements to build an eighteen story building for the medical and dental professions.
During the World War he was chairman of the Fourteenth District Medical Advisory Board ' and was a member of the Council of National Defense. He organized the Baylor Hospital Unit, comprising twelve doctors, twenty-five nurses and fifty enlisted men which went to France in 1918. After this unit had sailed Dr. Cary organized a smaller group which was trained at the base hospital at Fort Worth from whence they went abroad into the service.
Dr. Cary has one of the largest operative clinics in the South, doing from four to six hours' surgery each day. He is a recognized authority on the eye, ear, nose and throat and difficult cases are referred to him by physicians from not only Texas but many other states as well. He has contributed many papers of scientific merit to the American, Southern and State Medical Societies.
Dr. Cary is a member of the National, Southern and Texas Medical Associations, the North Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies and is a Fellow of the American College of Surgeons. In 1910-11 he was president of the Dallas County Medical Society, in 1917-18 he was president of the Texas State Med- ical Society, in 1919-20 served as president of the Southern Medical Association, comprising sixteen states of the South. In 1916 Baylor University con- ferred the degree of doctor of laws upon Dr. Cary.
Although intensely devoted to his profession and the movement for making Dallas a great medical center, Dr. Cary is a member of clubs and fraternal organizations in which he finds social enjoyment and recreation from the arduous duties that devolve upon him from day to day. Among others he is a member of the Idlewild and Dallas City and Country Clubs and the University Club. At college he was a mem- ber of Alpha Chapter of Phi Alpha Sigma. He is a 32d degree Mason, a member of the Shrine and Knights Templar bodies. He has extensive inter- ests in several corporations, which have his advise and council and to the success of which he has largely contributed. His church affiliation is with the Baptist Church.
A man of pleasing personality and wonderful surg- ical skill, Dr. Cary has achieved a remarkable suc- cess and is believed by his friends to be just enter- ing the period of his great activity and usefulness.
R. BACON SAUNDERS, well known physi- cian and surgeon, with offices on the seventh floor of the Flatiron Building, has been an active figure in Fort Worth medical circles for nearly thirty years, having come here from Bonham in 1893. Prior to that time he had been engaged in the practice of his profession at Bonham for sixteen years, giving Dr. Saunders an unbroken record of forty-four years' service in alleviating the ills of suffering humanity.
For a number of years Dr. Saunders has special- ized in surgery and his ability in this line of the medical profession was attested by his selection as professor of surgery in the medical department of Baylor University at Dallas. A man of wonderful personality and rare skill as a surgeon, Dr. Saunders has developed a practice and achieved a reputation which is more than state wide.
A native of Kentucky, Dr. Saunders was born at Bowling Green, January 5, 1855, a son of Dr. Jolin S. and Sarah Jane ( Claypool) Saunders, both natives
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.! Kentucky. 'His father was a well known physi- .ian of Kentucky in the early days.
Dr. Saunders received his academic education at Carlton College at Bonham and then entered the mtvical department of the University of Louisville, ,raduating there in 1877.
On October 30, 1877, Dr. Saunders was married >: Bonham to Miss Ida Caldwell, member of a well known North Texas family. They have two children, Dr. Roy F. and Linda Ray. Dr. Roy F. Saunders is associated with his father in the practice of medicine.
Besides the various national, state and local medi- cal associations and societies, Dr. Saunders is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Odd Fellows, Fort Worth and Rivercrest Country Clubs and the Chamber of Commerce. Dr. Sanders is ex-president of the State Medical Society, ex-president of the Southern Surgical Association, and is one of the two Texas founders of the American College of Surgeons and at this time is president of the Texas section of this organization. He is a director of the F. and M. Bank of Fort Worth. Deeply interested in edu- cational matters, he is a trustee and member of the executive committee of Texas Christian University. R. RALEIGH WILLIAM BAIRD, senior member of the professional firm of Baird, Doolittle, McBride and Flynn, 704-11 Wil- son Building, has been actively engaged in the practice of medicine in the City of Dallas for twenty years, having come here from New York City in 1900. In the realm of internal medicine and diagnostics he is considered one of the leading men not only of Texas but of the entire Southwest.
Besides looking after a large practise, Dr. Baird is professor of clinical medicine at the medical depart- ment of Baylor University, is a member of the medi- cal staff of Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and a member of the visiting staff of Parkland Hospital. He also teaches medicine in the Training School fur Nurses operated in conjunction with the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium.
Dr. Baird is a native of Shreveport, Louisiana, and was born there April 9, 1871. He is a son of M. L. and Mary E. (Law) Baird of Shreveport. His father was a well known merchant and planter of North Louisiana. Dr. Baird's family is of Revolutionary descent, his grandfather having fought in the war of the Revolution and his father in the war of 1812.
The early education of Dr. Baird was secured in the public schools and in the Cleburne High School where he graduated in 1880. He attended South- western University and received his A. B. degree there in 1893, then taking up the study of medicine a: the University of New York (Bellevue Hospital) and graduating there with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1896. He served as interne at Bellevue Hospital from his graduation until 1898 and then went abroad where he spent two years in the special study of internal medicine in the clinics of Paris and London, returning to America in 1899.
Dr. Baird was married in 1900 to Miss Linie Bishop « ! Waxahachie, member of a prominent Texas family. They have four children, Sarah, Eleanor, Billie and Horace, the last two being twins.
Dr. Baird is a member of the American Medical Association, Texas and Dallas County Medical Socie- Les, the Dallas Country and City Club, Chamber of Commerce and the University Club. He predicts a Treat future for Dallas and predicts that the city
will in the near future become the medical center of the Southwest.
E. MILLIKEN, M. D., Marvin Building, came to Dallas from New York City in 1897 S following a period of ten years training in the best hospitals of the east and began the general practise of medicine and surgery, specializ- ing in the latter branch. He is now attending physi- cian at St. Paul's Sanitarium and lecturer on ortho- pedic surgery in Saint Paul's Training School for Nurses. Before coming to Dallas Dr. Milliken did a great deal of writing on surgery and allied topics.
A native Texan, Dr. Milliken was born at Mans- field in Tarrant County December 2, 1866. His parents were Captain Samuel and Annie Henrietta (Campbell) Milliken who came to Texas just before the outbreak of the Civil War. Captain Milliken was a steamboat captain and built and operated boats on the Mississippi from Paducah, Kentucky, to New Orleans. After removing to Texas he devoted his time to ranching and built the first frame house where Ballinger now stands.
Dr. Milliken was educated at Ad Ran College, now Texas Christian University, which was then located at Thorpe Springs. He studied medicine and grad- uated from the medical department of the University of Louisville in 1887. He served as interne in Saints Mary and Elizabeth hospitals at Louisville in 1887 and 1888 and then became house surgeon in the Hospital for Ruptured and Crippled in New York City, being made assistant surgeon for the same hospital in 1889 and remaining there until 1892 when he was made lecturer on surgery for the New York Polyclinic School and Hospital for postgraduates. From 1894 to 1897 he was attending surgeon to Ran- dell Island Hospitals and in 1897 came to Dallas. For a while Dr. Milliken was professor of surgery at Baylor Medical School and he also operated a private sanitarium in Dallas for 20 years. He was a member of the Board of Health in Dallas for two years.
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