The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1, Part 55

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1204

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Dr. Hudgins is identified with the American Medi- cal Association, the North Texas Medical Society and the State and County Medical Societies, is a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Auto Club and attends religious services at the Methodist Church, with which body he is affiliated.

He holds Dallas to be the logical place for a great medical center for the entire Southwest, and says it will eventually become that. More hospitals are needed in Dallas he says, and the continued growth of the city is making the need more impera- tive every year.

R. J. M. MARTIN, specialist in X-Ray work and Electro-Therapeutics, Radio-Therapy and diagnosis, came to Dallas from Hillsboro in 1906 to accept the chair of electro-thera- peutics and x-ray methods at Baylor University Med- ical Department. At that time Dr. Martin was the only physician west of Chicago doing this class of work and today he is one of the recognized authori- ties in this line and his book on this subject, one of the first to be published on Practical Electro-Thera- peutics and X-Ray Methods, is still used as a text- book by many leading medical schools and colleges. He is now preparing to publish another book which the medical profession is looking forward to with a great deal of interest.

Dr. Martin was born in Phelps County, Missouri, December 11, 1867, his parents being C. M. and Valeria Simpson Martin. He was raised on a farm and attended the public schools of Phelps County and later took a general preparatory course at the University of Indiana at Valparaiso. ' He graduated at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Saint Louis in 1892 and began practice in Hill County, Texas. He was married at Hillsboro, January 6, 1893, to Miss Emma Auerbach of Missouri. They have one son, Dr. C. L. Martin, who is a graduate of Harvard Medical College and of the University of Texas and is associated with his father here.

Besides his work with Baylor University, Dr. Martin is a member of the exceutive staff of the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium and is radiographer `for this institution and for Parkland Hospital as well. He is a member of all the recognized medical societies and associations, state, national and county, the State X-Ray Association and National Roentgen Ray Society. Ile is a thirty-second degree Mason. a member of Hella Temple at Dallas and a member of the City Club and Cedar Crest Country Club.

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OL. C. C. SLAUGHTER. Out of the spirit of the pioneers of yesterday, men of loyal devotion, energy and progressiveness, has emerged the Lone Star State of today with its immense activities. To these builders of yester- day, who laid foundations, is due much of the success of the present and future eras. In the list of cap- able pioneers of the state, no name stands out with greater prominence and none is more worthy of hon- orable mention, not simply as one of the makers of Texas, but as a leading spirit of the Southwest than is the name of Col. C. C. Slaughter, deceased since January 25, 1919. He was known and esteemed by three generations as King of Cattlemen, Finan- cier and Christian Philanthropist.

Christopher Columbus Slaughter was born in Sa- bine County, Texas, February 9, 1837, and has the distinction of being the first child of American parentage born in the Republic of Texas. His father, George Webb Slaughter, native of Mississippi, a graduate of Bush College, was an itinerant Baptist minister and used by General Sam Houston as courier and chief of scouts. The mother was Sara (Mason) Slaughter of Alabama, daughter of Jno. Mason and related to J. Y. Mason of Mason-and- Dixon Line fame. As a youth, he was brought up under careful moral tutelage and imbibed the price- less influence of good home surroundings. His busi- ness career began with his buying interest in his father's herd of cattle for $520, which sum he had cleared as the result of a three months trading tour made in an ox-wagon. From that humble beginning came the greatest individual land owner of the world, a pillar in many financial institutions of the Southwest and the founder and endower, to the ex- tent of over a million dollars, of Christian colleges and benevolent enterprises. For two years in the earlier days, he and his father were leaders in the mercantile business in Palo Pinto, buying goods in New York on their trips to the big markets and bringing them to Texas where they were greatly needed. In 1873 he, with associates, organized the City National Bank of Dallas, having definitely chosen Dallas as his residence in the early '70's. Later he served the City National Bank as presi- dent. In 1884 he aided in launching the American National Bank which later was consolidated with the National Exchange Bank and then became known as the American Exchange National Bank, one of the strongest financial institutions in the South. He was first vice-president of this bank until his death. While in the days that Dallas was a village, Col. Slaughter says he could have purchased for $500 the block on which now stands the City Na- tional Bank, it was not until about 1900 that he began to invest extensively in Dallas realty hold- ings; these today are extensive, chief among which is the seven story office building known by his name.

Col. Slaughter was the greatest promoter and or- ganizer the cattle business has ever had. It was he who initiated the move that replaced the poor- bred, long-horn with blooded animals. In 1897 he bought 2,000 fine Herefords. Two years later, he purchased Ancient Briton and later Sir Bredwell.

the famous Hereford bull, for $5,000 at public auction in Kansas City. This was a record price for a bull at public auction at that time, and among Col. Slaughter's competitors in bidding was Mr. Armour. Sir Bredwell made history in many stock shows of the Southwest after coming to Texas. The value of good breeding in the earlier days was hardly appreciated, and it is to Col. C. C. Slaughter that the Southwest is indebted for better stock for not only a higher grade began to roam his thousands of acres, but his influence and example were fol- lowed by many other cattlemen later. Colonel Slaughter was an organizer of the Cattlemen's As- sociation of Texas, the largest in the world and which has contributed immeasurably to the welfare of the industry. Without an association, Texas would never have reached her pre-eminence in this realm. The range inspectors distributed over the district by the association were cattle and brand experts trained on the ranches. They knew at sight the 6,000 brands of the members of their organiza- tions and brands of others as well. Through their vigilance theiving or carelessness with the lasso and branding iron has been greatly diminished and thousands of cattle, horses and mules of the mem- bers of the association have been recovered each year, and hundreds of hides of Texas cattle that were stolen in Texas and butchered in Mexico.

In 1861, Cynthia A. Jowell, of Palo Pinto, Texas, and Col. Slaughter were united in marriage. Of this union five children were born: George M., Minnie, Dela, Robert Lee and Edgar Slaughter. His first wife having died in 1876, Col. Slaughter married Miss Carrie Averill, daughter of Reverend Alexander M. Averill, well known to Texas, the west and the New England States as a minister of great learning and ability. C. C. Jr., Alex A., Carrie R., and Nellie L., are their children. The family residence is at 3506 Worth Street. He is survived by his widow, four sons, named above and his daughters, now Mrs. Geo. T. Veal, Mrs. G. G. Wright, Mrs. John H. Dean and Mrs. Ira P. DeLoache, all of Dallas.

Col. Slaughter has been pronounced the greatest Christian philanthropist the state of Texas has ever known. His life motto was voiced in a prayer that he prayed often, that the Master give him a hand to get and a heart to give. His Creator granted that prayer; he came to own 500,000 acres of land and more cattle have been sold from his ranches than from the rest of Texas. On the other hand, he de- vised the correlated school system of the Baptist denomination of today, with a score of junior col- leges and academies led by Baylor University, the oldest educational institution of the Southwest, and the life of which was saved by his gifts; the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium was his creation; hun- dreds of inen and women in the state today are in- debted to him for their education. Thus through men and institutions, "he being dead yet speaketh." Through his sons and daughters not only is the family name perpetuated but the characteristics of this mighty Texan and they will be prominent among the chief citizens of Texas for the coming genera- tion as was the father from the days of the Republic.

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HARLES R. MOORE, president of Austin Brothers Bridge Co., Dallas, Texas, has been a potent factor in building up that or- ganization which has built more bridges and tione more constructing engineering work than any other institution of its kind in the Lone Star State and in the management of this company has had the direction of a large number of crews consisting of hundreds of men engaged in constructive work throughout the entire Southwest. Other officials of the Austin Brothers Bridge Company are: W. J. Wyatt, vice-president; Frank E. Austin, treasurer, and J. D. Templeton, secretary.

The Austin Brothers Bridge Company, Incor- porated, are contractors and builders of steel, con- crete and pile bridges and culverts. From twenty to thirty crews of bridge builders are kept at work in Texas where the company has contracts in forty counties. Among the notable achievements of the company are the Miller's Ferry Viaduct, two miles south of Dallas, all bridges of the Dallas-Waco-Cor- sicana Interurban, several long bridges across Red River, and the Corpus Christi Causeway, nearly two miles long, costing $300,000. Formerly this concern took over contracts for bridges in Oklahoma, Louis- iana and Arkansas, but now ninety per cent of their work is done in Texas, and it is a safe estimate to state that two-thirds of all bridge work done in Texas is handled by them.

The firm carries a complete line of road building machinery of standardized type, including graders, scrapers, concrete mixers drainage pipe, rock crush- ers-everything in fact conducive to efficient, eco- nomical road work. Mr. Moore himself is the in- ventor of a road drag which his company handles, selling over a thousand a year. There are eight em- ployees in the office, three men on the road con- stantly and three others who travel part of the time. From twenty to thirty superintendents are in charge of the working crews which consist from five to over a hundred men each. Large warehouses are in Dal- las, owned by the company for handling the tools and machinery. The amount of bridge work done by this company is estimated at a million dollars annually besides the sales of material and ma- chinery.

Mr. Moore was born in McLennon County, near Waco, in 1875, and educated in the Waco schools. His father and mother were also natives of that county and his mother still resides at the old family homestead where she has lived for seventy-three years. As a boy Mr. Moore worked on the farm during the day and spent his evenings and spare moments studying short hand and learning to type- write on a home made keyboard. His first position was with the Morgan Road Construction Company, and it was while working here that he took up and completed a course in engineering with the Interna- conal Correspondence School. With this training to back him he secured a position with Austin brothers as constructive foreman, his particular line of work being the construction of bridges. His pro- "ounced ability soon attracted the notice of execu- ;; ves of the firm and in three years' time he was "'aced at the head of the contracting department, a position of considerable responsibility, requiring & master hand.

Mr. Moore is also a director in the firm of Austin Brothers, officer and director in the Wyatt Metal & Boiler Works, a director in the Southern Wire &

Iron Company, being one of the original organizers of each of these corporations. He is a member of the board of directors of Baylor University, College of Medicine and Baylor Hospital. He is also a leader in and a large contributor to the Central Baptist Church of Oak Cliff, both he and Mrs. Moore spend- ing much time in Sunday School and religious activi- ties.

Mr. Moore was married in November, 1905, to Miss Sadie Cammack of Dallas, daughter of J. C. Cammack, formerly a Louisiana plantation owner. Mr. and Mrs. Moore have two children, Austin D. and Margaret, and reside at 2403 Forest Avenue, Dallas, Texas. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, a Shriner, a Knight Templar and 32d degree Mason. Mr. Moore is one of the big men of the South and his achievements are an inspiration to all earnest, ambitious young men.

A. JACKSON, proprietor of the wholesale fruit and produce business which bears his name, at 901 South Pearl Street, is one of the pioneer business men of this city, having removed to Dallas fron his native state, lowa, in 1878. - He has been actively identified with the city's commercial life since that time and now, besides his wholesale fruit and produce business, is heavily interested in a number of other enterprises as well.

Under the direction of Mr. Jackson the business of his company has been expanded until now it ranks among the largest of its kind in the state. The present building, two stories and basement, was erected in 1911 and every bit of the 40,000 square feet of floor space is utilized in caring for it. Fruit and produce is imported from all sections of the country and distributed in the territory imme- diately surrounding Dallas. Forty-five people are employed by the concern.

Mr. Jackson spent his early days on a farm, his father, Joseph Jackson, having been one of the best known farmers of Central Iowa. Young Jackson received a good common school education and early in life became actively engaged in business for him- self.

For twenty years Mr. Jackson was engaged in business on Elm Street near Akard and erected the building now occupied by Cullom and Boren. He still owns the building.

In connection with his wholesale fruit and produce business, Mr. Jackson has a storage plant with a capacity for twenty cars. He is vice-president of the Pure Ice and Cold Storage Company and a director of the American Exchange National Bank, Dallas Hotel Company (The Adolphus), Dallas Power and Light Company and the Southwestern Life Insur- ance Company.

Mr. Jackson was married in 1894 to Miss Mary D. Williams, of New York. They have two children, a son, A. A. Jackson, Jr., who is at the head of the Jackson-Stephens Company, wholesale distribu- tors for Canton Blackstone tires, and a daughter, Mildred.

Taking a deep interest in civic affairs, Mr. Jack- son was a member of the city council of Dallas in 1896 and 1897. He is a member of and for twelve years was a director of the Chamber of Commerce. He is also a member of the Dallas City and Country Clubs and of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

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G EORGE CLAPP GREER. The life of George Clapp Greer, formerly general at- torney and trustee of the Magnolia Petrol- eum Company, was thus briefly told in an `appreciation dedicated to his memory by the Dallas Bar Association, which reads as follows:

"When a good man dies, it becomes appropriate that his associates do honor to the departed. It is fitting that his friends recall and record his virtues, to the end that the good he did in life shall not be interred with his bones. So, in brief but earnest words, we sum up and emphasize the elements so mingled in the character of our lamented friend, that all the world might stand up and say 'here was a man.'

"Born in 1882, near San Augustine, Texas, he was the son of a pioneer, who came from Tennessee to Texas in the early days of the Republic.

"Educated partly in the common schools of Texas, he graduated in 1883 from Vanderbilt University with the highest honors of the four years' course, for which he was awarded the Founder's Medal.

"Married in 1884, at San Augustine, Texas, to Miss Margaret Eugenia Broocks, daughter of Col. and Mrs. John H. Broocks, his faithful companion, and their three sons survive him to mourn the vacant chair.

"Offered, in recognition of his scholarship, chairs alike in the University of Tennessee and the Uni- versity of Texas, he declined only to yield to the lure of the law.

"Trained by home study, and securing his license in 1889, he located at Beaumont, Texas, and num- bered among his associates, his brother-in-law, M. L. Broocks, former congressman of Texas, Foster Ross, former mayor of Galveston, and Judge F. D. Minor, one of the most splendid lawyers of Texas, with all of whom he enjoyed a prosperous practice.

"Eschewing office-seeking in politics, he was nom- inated by a Democratic convention in his district, without his knowledge or desire, and consented to serve a single term in the senate of Texas.

"Removing to Dallas in 1914, he linked his latter professional life with the phenomenal growth of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, of which he was one of the organizers and trustees, a relationship that continued until the time of his death.

"Identifying himself in his youth with the Metho- dist Episcopal Church, South, he was a faithful and consistent member, serving as a member of the Board of Stewards, and honored as a member of the Board of Trustees of Vanderbilt University.

"These meagre facts but poorly express the mean- ing of the life of George Clapp Greer to his family, to his profession, to his church and to the world. "We honor his memory as a model husband and father. All his married life was one of unusual happiness and devotion. To him, home was sanctuary. His personal life was pure; he kept his marriage vows; he was as faithful as a good woman.

"We honor. his memory as a successful lawyer. He enjoyed a varied and extensive practice. He advanced steadily in the confidence of clients and . the public. Throughout his professional career, he was the soul of honor. He took no sharp advantage. A sense of fairness and justice guided him. He handled big problems in a big way. He accumulated a modest fortune, but no taint ever touched his name. He was an ornament to the bar while he lived, and is an inspiration to those who survive.

"We honor his memory as a devoted Christian. His church relationship was not a mere formality. His membership was marked by humility and con- centration. His religion was not something apart from his life, but a part of his life. It moulded his whole life. His simple faith made him a better husband, a better father, a better lawyer, and a better citizen. It gave him guidance for the duties of every day. It lent fortitude during the long days of illness as he fronted the fact of death.

"Mr. Greer died at Johns Hopkins Hospital, Balti- more, Maryland, May 7th, 1920.

"Friend, neighbor, comrade, for a season, farewell, but not FOREVER. "Signed:

"Wm. Thompson "J. P. Haven "W. H. Francis

"H. C. Coke "M. M. Crane "Jes. E. Cockrell

"Tom Camp "Julius A. Germany "Cullen F. Thomas""

LVIN C. EBIE, general manager of the sales department and assistant secretary of the Magnolia Petroleum Company, has under his management in his department alone 1,440 men. This one figure, revealing but the one phase of the work of Mr. Ebie's company, tells something of the magnitude of this leading oil com- pany of Texas. He came into the Magnolia Company at its organization, in fact he helped organize it, and has had a vital connection with it ever since.

Mr. Ebie was born in Akron, Ohio, on July 24. 1864. His parents were Daniel F. and Lavinia A. Ebie. He was educated in Canton, Ohio, and in the Ada Normal School. He taught school a few years and then in 1886, at the age of twenty-two, began in the oil business with the Standard Oil Company in Newark, N. J. He started as cashier and worked up to the position of assistant manager for his di- vision. In 1904, he left Newark and came to Okla- homa City as manager of the Oklahoma Division of the Waters-Pierce Oil Company. He continued in this capacity until 1909 when he went to Baltimore as manager of the Standard Oil Company of New Jer- sey. In January 1911, he came to Dallas as sales manager of the John Sealy Company. In April of the same year he left this company to help in the or- ganization of the Magnolia Oil Company of which he became the general manager of Sales and As- sistant secretary.

In 1892, Mr. Ebie married Miss Emma A. Cann. Russell and Dorothy are their two children and the family reside at 3725 Beverly Drive, Highland Park.

Mr. Ebie has been active in affairs social and civic and philanthropic for his city as well as di- recting his own interests He is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner, a member of the City Club, the Auto Country Club, and is ex-presdent of the Lion's Club. He is president of the American Paint & Sup- ply Company, vice-president of the Magnolia Building and Loan Association, president of the Cotton Stalks Fibre Company-a paper manufactur- ing concern; Chairman of the Building of the Dallas Athletic Club, Chairman of the Highland Park Divis- ional Association. He was chairman of the Red Cross Drive in the second campaign with a quota of $167,000.00 to raise, but raised $760,000.00 instead. He was chairman of the Corpus Christi Relief Drive. he is chairman of the Metropolitan Development As- sociation, and served as chairman of the War Camp Community Service during the entire war for his district. He is chairman of the Dallas Welfare Council and is treasurer of the Highland Park Cen- tinarian fund.

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APT. E. DICK SLAUGHTER, capitalist and president of the C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company, belongs to Texas' oldest and most distinguished family. For one hundred years the name Slaughter has been connected with the development of Texas and the leading commer- cial and social interests of the Southwest. Captain Slaughter, in his efficient management of an im- mense business, his active assistance in all uplift and public welfare work, his social graces, maintains the traditions of his celebrated family.

The C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company, organized by Captain Slaughter's father, at one time the wealth- iest man of Texas and widely known throughout the country, is said to be the largest cattle company on record. The range is situated in West Texas in Hackley and Cochran Counties and comprises 250,000 acres with from 10,000 to 15,000 head of cattle. Forty men are necessary to round up the immense herds shipped from the range direct to Kansas City. Most of the cattle are shipped as calves to feeders in Kansas and Nebraska. One hundred mules are kept on the ranch, and four hundred head of horses are being raised and trained as saddle horses. Of this vast track of land one thousand acres is in cultivation, and another track of a thousand acres is being cultivated in New Mexico, the latter made possible by irrigation.

Palo Pinto County, made famous as the home- stead property of the Slaughter family, was the birth place of Captain Slaughter. He was born on August 1, 1873. The following year his family moved to Dallas. His father, C. C. Slaughter, was already pointed out as the "Cattle King" of Texas and Dallas recognized the advantage of claiming as a citizen a man of such wealth and influence. He was the organizer of the old City Bank of Dallas, and partial organizer of the City National Bank and also the American Exchange National Bank. He built the Slaughter Building in 1899, making ex- tensive additions to this in 1910, and has been con- nected with, and instrumental in, the promoting of nearly all of the large commercial undertakings in the city. Captain Slaughter's mother was Cynthia Ann Jowell, a native of Texas. He began his educa- tion in the Dallas Public Schools, graduating from Grove's High School in 1887, and from East Dallas high in 1889. Entering the University of Texas for a four year course, he received his A. B. degree in 1893, and his LL. B. from the law depart- ment in 1895. The following year he took special work at the University of Chicago and also studied law at Washington Lee University.

Returning from college he became private secre- tary to his father, his present success in the cattle business being undoubtedly based on the eight years' experience which he had in this work. In 1904, and for four years after, he was with the Aetna Life In- surance Company as general agent, and was also general agent of the accident and liability depart- ment of the National Surety Company. Wishing to broaden his field of commercial activities, he organ- ized in 1908, a wholesale tire company, known as the Slaughter-Randal Company, and was actively con- nected with its management until 1911 when he ac- cepted the active vice-presidency of the Max Hahn Packing Company. Three years later he became interested in oil developments and relinquished his other activities to become president of the Western

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.1, Part 55

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau Number of Pages: 1204

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1204