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Exploiting Company. His executive duties took him to New York City, but upon the death of his father in 1919, Captain Slaughter returned to Dallas to manage the C. C. Slaughter estate. Connected with him .in the C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company are his three brothers, C. C. Slaughter, Jr., vice-president, A. A. Slaughter, secretary and Robert L. Slaughter, general manager.
Captain Slaughter was married to Miss Caroline Granam from an old and celebrated Alabama family. Her father was Alexander Graham, one of the promi- nent men of his state, being the nephew of Malcolm Graham at one time attorney general of Texas. The Graham faniily were of distinguished Scotch origin, being direct descendants of the Duke of Montrose. Captain and Mrs. Slaughter have one son, E. Dick, Jr., at present attending the University of Colorado. The Slaughter home is at 4500 Swiss Avenue.
Captain Slaughter is a prominent fraternity man, and in 1905 was one of the Triumvirs of the National Governing Body of Sigma Chi, his college fraternity. He is a past master of Tannehill Lodge of Masons, a member of the Athletic Club, the Chamber of Com- merce and a director of the Dallas Development As- sociation. Besides his position with the Slaughter Cattle Company, he is vice-president of the C. C. Slaughter Company, real estate, loans, stocks and bonds; is vice-president of the Max Hahn Packing Company in Dallas, and secretary and treasurer of the Slaughter-Randall Company, wholesale tires. During the war he volunteered his services and was given a commission as captain in the Military In- telligence Division of the General Staff, U. S. A., with duties at Washington, D. C. Upon his dis- charge in 1919 he was made captain in the Quarter- master's Reserve Corps.
L. NICHOLS, real estate broker, has been engaged in the real estate business in Dal- las for eighteen years. Since 1914 he has been connected with O. P. Bowser & Com- pany, acting as manager of the company. Mr. Nichols became familiar with the real estate busi- ness in the office of his uncle, O. P. Bowser, who had reared him after the death of his parents which occurred when he was a boy.
The Home Investors Company, of which Mr. Nichols is president, is owner of Dallas real estate and which has in the past done considerable build- ing of residences and business buildings. The com- pany was incorporated in 1902.
W. L. Nichols is a native of Texas, having been born in Dallas County, July 23, 1870. His parents, Chas. H. Nichols and Sarah (Bowser) Nichols, who came to Texas in 1856, located on a farm in Dallas County.
Mr. Nichols received his education in Dallas County public schools. In 1891 he graduated from Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College at Col- lege Station with a bachelor of civil engineering de- gree. After he left college he engaged in electrical engineering in Dallas until he took up real estate business.
In 1891 Mr. Nichols married Miss Mary S. Smith. They have four children, Mary Isabelle, Jessie Gail, W. L., Jr., and Perry Bowser. They reside at 4031 Cole Avenue. Mr. Nichols is a 32d deree Mason and member of Hella Teniple Shrine, belongs to the Dallas Auto Club and takes an active interest in civic improvement and good roads movements.
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B. WILSON. In the history of the men who have made Texas and her eities, the late J. B. Wilson, resident of Dallas, has a sure place among the chief by virtue of his active connection, of forty-eight years, with the financial and industrial life of his city and state. While he centered many of his business interests in Dallas, those interests reached every section of the Southwest; and on January 28, 1920, his city lost one of her most beloved leaders, his state, one of her chieftains, and the Southwest, one of her most able and efficient champions.
J. B. Wilson was born at Dixie, Ontario, near Toronto, Canada, in 1847, the son of John and Sarah Wilson. At the age of eighteen he came to the states to make his fortune, soon locating at New Orleans where he took up the lumber business of the pine forests of Louisiana. When less than twenty he was boss of a lumber camp, and with the lumber industry he maintained a life-long connec- tion. At his death he was president of the Water- man Lumber Company and also of the Wilson Lum- ber Company.
Perhaps Texas knew Mr. Wilson best as a cattle- man. From the time of his eoming to the Lone Star State, in 1872, at which time he located at Dallas, he became one of the greatest exponents of the eattle industry in the state. Many years ago, he owned the 7-D ranch near San Angelo, from which seetion he transported cattle to northern markets. He also exported many loads of cattle to European markets. For some time he was a partner with the late Winfield Scott of Fort Worth. He was also for many years associated with George Williams and Fayette Tankersly, well known West Texas cattlemen.
In 1878 Mr. Wilson and Miss Laura D. Witt, of Illinois, were united in marriage. Mr. Wilson had met her while she was visiting her cousin, John Witt, at that time Mr. Wilson's partner in the eattle business. From this happy union there are five daughters who are Mabel, now Mrs. J. R. Richards, of Chicago; Fay, now Mrs. L. R. Munger; Bess, now Mrs. Fred Schoelkopf; Lucile, now Mrs. George Patullo, and Geraldine, now Mrs. R. E. L. Knight, Jr., all of Dallas.
Mr. Wilson's interests in his city were large, in- ereasing as his city grew. Besides being president of two lumber companies, he held the chairmanship of the board of directors of the City National Bank, and until lately had served as a director in other financial institutions; he was treasurer of the Titche-Goettinger Company. He built and owned the Wilson Building, on Main, Ervay and Elm Streets, one of the most elegant structures of the eity, and owned the North Texas Building. His in- tense business interests left him little time for outside interests; the world knew him as a busy, efcient man; his friends, as a man with the largest interests of the community at heart, and J. B. Wilson wielded one of the most powerful, though silent, influences on the progressive destiny of his city and the Southwest.
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OHN A. BARNARD, President of John A. Barnard and Company, mortgage and loans, 707 Sumpter Building, has attained dis- tinction as a business executive of rare abil- He is connected with many of the leading commercial institutions of the city and his judgment in financial circles is undisputed.
John A. Barnard and Company was established as a real estate firm twenty years ago by Mr, Barnard and is one of the oldest and most reliable concerns in the eity. Besides handiing business and residen- tial properties, this firm negotiates loans and mort- gages and there is not a company of like character in the city that carries on a more extensive business.
Mr. Barnard was born in Roane County, Tennesse :: in 1852. His father, John A. Barnard, Sr., was a prominent merchant and farmer, and a member of the Tennessee legislature in 1872. He attended the public schools, and the Tennessee Weslyan Univer- sity at Athens, Tennessee, following this with a course at Vanderbilt University and the Philadel- phia School of Pharmacy. Upon completing his ed- ucation he came to Texas and in 1877 established a drug business in Fannin County. After seven years of conspicuous success in this line, he went to Bon- ham, Texas and organized the First National Bank of that city, and was one of its officers. In 1890 Mr. Barnard came to Dallas and has since made this his home. He liquidated the Central National Bank of Dallas, and later established his real estate busi- ness. Mr. Barnard is a director of the Security National Bank and president of the Central Ice and Cold Storage Company, a sixty-five ton plant which was erected in 1906 near Marilla and Akard streets.
His marriage to Miss Henrietta Pickel of Bon- ham was celebrated in 1884. Mr. and Mrs. Barnard have one daughter, Mrs. Geo. V. Basham of Dallas, and two sons, H. C. Barnard, deceased, who was president of the Oak Cliff State Bank, and John A. Jr., who is in the real estate business with his father. The Barnard home is at 107 East Tenth street.
Mr. Barnard is a 32 degree Mason and a Shriner. He has always shown an interest in public welfare and for thirty years has taken a leading part in the upbuilding of the eity.
RTHUR CLENNING STILES has been identified with financial activities in Dallas for several years and until recently was interested in the purchase and sale of in- vestment securities, particularly notes on automo- bile and cattle loans. He had strong financial con- nections and is well acquainted in North Texas and in Oklahoma.
Mr. Stiles is a native of Texas, born at Waxa- hachie, in 1878. He received his education in the public schools of Waxahachie and here his first busi- ness venture was started with the Modern Milling and Manufacturing Company. He remained with that concern from 1905 until 1912. In 1914 he turned his attention to oil in Oklahoma where he remained a part of that year. Upon returning to Texas he organized the private banking firm of Stiles, Thornton and Company, which was later re- organized under the present firm name. In recogni- tion of his financial standing, he was made vice- president of the Dallas County State. Bank and di- rector in a number of other organizations. Recently Mr. Stiles took charge of a silver mine in Mexico where he will be engaged for some time to come.
In 1901 Mr. Stiles married Miss Mai Case, daugh- ter of Jake Case, a stock man at Paris, Texas. They have three children, Ailel, Elsie and Ray. Mr. Stiles is a 32d degree Mason and member of Hella Temple Shrine.
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DAM H. DAVIDSON, President of the Dallas Guaranty Mortgage Company, 1022-3 Dal- las County State Bank building, carries on an extensive business in loans. His estab- .shment has come to be an important factor in the building business of Dallas. Many commercial buildings as well as beautiful residences, owe their existence to the Dallas Guaranty Mortgage Com- pany. The company was formed in 1911, and not- withstanding the abnormal business depression that prevailed incidental to the war, the interests of the company advanced until they have become an es- :ablished necessity. Mr, R. R. McKee is secretary of the company and Mr. S. J. McFarland, treasurer.
Before coming to the Dallas Guaranty Mortgage Company, Mr. Davidson was for two years Vice- President of Crotty and Miller, Incorporated, and later of the firm of Davidson-Davis & Company. Being an alert business man he has acquired valuable experience and a broad knowledge in his chosen field of activity, which has equipped him for the position of responsibility which he now fills.
During the late war he served his country as a member of the 133rd Machine Gun Batallion of the 36th Division and fought with the French Army at the Champaign Sector. After demobilization of the American Army he returned home to resume his place in the world as a man of affairs.
He was born in Homer, Louisiana in 1887, and is the son of Mr. A. H. Davidson a prominent planter and merchant. His education was acquired in Dal- las Private Schools that have graduated so many successful men of the city and state. But it is the school of experience that furnishes the sound basis of business education, and it is in this school that Mr. Davidson brought his mental faculties to the high degree of development that serves so efficiently the Dallas Guaranty Mortgage Company.
He was married in 1914 to Miss Clifford Drake of Minden, Louisiana. They have one child, a son, Adem H. Davidson, Jr., who promises fulfillment of their most ambitious hopes. They reside at 3608 Maplewood Avenue, Dallas. He is a member of the Masonic Order and a Shriner of Hella Temple, Blue Lodge No. 760, and a charter member of the Ka- wanis Club, also a member of the Presbyterian Church.
DWIN HOBBY, president of Hobby Invest- ment Company and dealer in municipal bonds has for many years been an in- fluential figure in the financial circles of Dallas.
The Hobby Investnient Company was organized in the summer of 1921 with a capital stock of $300,000 and does an extensive business in loaning money and bond investments.
Prior to organizing the Hobby Investment Co., Mr. Hobby was for twelve years connected with the Security National Bank in the capacity of cashier and vice-president. He resigned from his position with the Security National Bank to organize his present business.
His long identification with the financial circles of Texas has given him an extensive acquaintance with the moneyed men of the state and has brought his company large clientele.
Mr. Hobby is a native Texan having been born ut Moscow, Polk County, Texas, August 8, 1883. llis father, Judge Edwin Hobby, was for a number
of years district judge and on the bench of the State Court of Appeals. His mother was Dora Pettus Hobby. Governor William P. Hobby and Dr. A. M. Hobby, well known throughout Southern Texas, are his brothers. He was educated in the public schools and high schools of Houston.
When only seventeen years old, Mr. Hobby took a position with the Houston National Bank where he remained for five years. While here he came to hold the place of general property man. From Houston he went with the First National Bank of Bowie where he remained only a short time, going from this place to the Stock Yard National Bank of Fort Worth. In 1906 he was appointed by Gov- ernor Campbell as State Bank Examiner and was later made Examiner in Chief when other examiners were added to the staff. He was in this office for three years with headquarters at Austin. In 1909 he resigned in order to assist in the organization of the Guaranty State Bank and Trust Company which absorbed the Commonwealth Bank and in 1914 be- came the Security National Bank. As vice-president and cashier of this establishment, his ripe experi- ence in the banking business and his wide acquaint- ance and popularity have been among its most valu- able assets.
On August 31, 1915, Mr. Hobby was married to Miss Webb. Their home is at 2620 Maple Avenue.
Mr. Hobby is a member of the City Club, the Dallas Golf and Country Club, all Masonic bodies, the Knights of Pythias, the B. P. O. E. and other fraternal orders.
Mr. Hobby's interests have not been confined to his work as a banker and he has shown a genuine sympathy for all worthy enterprises. Respected by his business associates and warmly admired by his friends he has had placed upon him the seal of approval by his adopted city and is making his full contribution to her commercial development and to her civic welfare.
LAUDE C. DABNEY, 702 Praetorian Build- ing, is vice-president of the Maxwell Invest- ment Company, one of the largest farm loan companies in the United States, serving through its offices at Kansas City, Memphis, Okla- homa City and Dallas, six states that comprise one-third the area of the United States and reaches a great many of Uncle Sam's farmers. The company was founded in 1871 in Ottawa, Kansas, by J. E. Maxwell, and began its big business of harnessing the prairies by helping the farmers buy homes. It now has offices in four states.
Born in 1882, of Iowa parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. I. Dabney, the father a lawyer in Bloomfield, Claude C. Dabney was a westerner to begin with which shows that Providence favored him at his start. The high school of his native town, together with the literary and cultural value of a lawyer's home, gave Claude C. his schooling prior to his entering the university of experience. Mr. Dabney received his first experience in the farm miortgage business in Oklahoma. He came to Dallas in 1914 from Okla- homa Chy.
Mr. Dabney is a member of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and of the Dallas Country Club.
Mr. Dabney's business is constructive and has before it the unlimited opportunities of the expand- ing Southwest which he serves.
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ULES E. SCHNEIDER. Among the real builders of Dallas no name stands out with greater prominence than that of Jules Edouard Schneider, pioneer and city build- er, who resided in Dallas from 1871 until his death in 1906. Mr. Schneider came to Dallas from Waco with Alex Sanger and built what came to be known as the first real home in Dallas. This home was located at what was then known as 269 Ross Avenue and here Mr. Schneider lived until his death. Mrs. Schneider now has one of the most beautiful homes in the lakeside drive section of Highland Park locat- ed at 4700 Lakeside Drive.
Mr. Schneider was born in France in 1843 and received his education in New Orleans and in various schools and colleges of Europe. Although he had only applied for his first citizenship papers, Mr. Schneider was engaged in the Civil War and was in a number, of engagements in and around New Or- leans.
On January 8th, 1879, the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, Mr. Schneider was married to Miss Florence Belle Fonda, member of a promi- nent family of Louisville, Kentucky. The coming of Mrs. Schneider to Dallas as the bride of one of the city's most prominent young men and the then head of its volunteer fire department, was a gala event and resulted in a celebration that is still re- membered by many of the pioneer citizens of that day. Mrs. Schneider immediately assumed the same commanding position in the social life of Dallas that was held by her husband in commercial circles. She was very active in charitable and club circles and organized the Womans Home Association in 1886 and built a home for sick women and children, con- tinuing to operate the home until in 1906 when ade- quate hospital facilities made its further operation unnecessary. Mrs. Schneider also organized the first ladies musical club in Dallas in 1883 and was president of the organization at various times until 1905.
Mr. and Mrs. Schneider were the parents of four children. Florence Kate Schneider Morgan, wife of Bruce Fitzgerald Morgan of Seattle, Washington; Elisa von Striacka Schneider Blum, wife of Leon Blum of Dallas; Georgia Fonda Schneider Cary, wife of Dr. Edward H. Cary of Dallas; Jules Edouard Schneider of the Schneider Investment Company of Dallas. Mr. Blum and Dr. Cary with their families have magnificent homes adjoining that of Mrs. Schneider on Lakeside Drive.
During his life time Mr. Schneider acquired a great deal of valuable property in Dallas but it was characteristic of him that he never held back and waited for developments around him to enhance the valuation of his own holdings. He was courageous and far-sighted in his building and development enterprises and to him the city of Dallas owes much of its present day development.
HARLES FRANKLIN CARTER, deceased since November 17, 1912, was one of the best known and esteemed cotton brokers of Dallas, Texas, where his family now resides. A son of the South, his entire business career was with the South's chief product and as a business suc- cess he was well known in Alabama, his native
state, and in Texas, his adopted state. As a business man he was one of the most progressive; as a citi- zen, he was one of the most loyal, giving his in- fluence and energy to everything that made for the civic development of Dallas.
Mr. Carter was born in Talladega, Alabama, in 1843. His father, Charles Carter, was a farmer who located in Alabama in 1810; his mother, Feribe (Veasy) Carter, was a native of that state. The best schools of his state gave young Carter his edu- cation, which, in the earlier days, were private schools for the great public school system of today is very recent. These private schools ranked high in scholarship and cultural advantages and had the opportunity of developing more intensely the train- ing of their students.
Until reaching young manhood, Charles Franklin Carter was reared on the farm where he best learned the deep-down virtues of honesty, upright- ness and thrift, virtues so essential to a people's strength.
He started his business career in Selma, Alabama, working on a salary with a cotton firm as cotton grader. With this firm he remained five years; he then decided to go into business for himself, having applied himself in a close study to the principles of success that had brought his company a big business. This beginning was made at Vicksburg, Miss. At the end of the first year, which was a winning year, the yellow fever began to spread over the state and to threaten adjoining states. It was then that Mr. Carter came to Texas, in 1878, locating at Dallas. He found Dallas the best market of his experience and remained in Texas after the fever scare beyond the Mississippi was over. For thirty-four years, 1878-1912, he was among the most active cotton men of the Lone Star State and it was his ability and energy which has helped make Dallas the big center of cotton buying that she it today. Mr. Carter re- tired from the more strenuous phases of his work in 1904.
Mr. Carter was profoundly interested in civic and educational progress of his adopted state and city. He was one of the founders of S. M. U. and was one of the leading exponents of education, both in ele- mentary and higher education. He was a liberal supporter of the church and all religious institutions. He was a member of the Dallas Council and while on the park commission helped to establish the present City Park, in fact much of his life was devoted to civic education and religious progress of Dallas, and was director of the State Fair.
In 1875, at Athens, Ala., Miss Sue Tanner, daugh- ter of J. T. Tanner, banker at Athens, became the bride of Mr. Carter; ten children blessed the union: Charles and John, now deceased; Mrs. P. H. Smith, W. W. Carter, Mrs. Louise Carter Busey, Owen Carter, Florence, now Mrs. T. G. Leachman, Ruth. Mrs. H. P. Edwards, Alice, Mrs. J. Robert Carter; and Mrs. Marguerite Carter Chandler. The family residence is at 3715 Beverly Drive, Highland Park, Dallas.
Mr. Carter was & Mason and a member of the Dallas Country Club. His church affiliation was Methodist. Zealous in business, active in civic moves, Mr. Carter was the type of citizen that makes cities
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ILLIAM RANDOLPH MCENTIRE. Any volume on the Makers of Texas would be incomplete without taking into account the life history and influence of William Randolph MeEntire, deceased since June 22, 1920- one of Texas' greatest cattlemen, most active bank- ers and esteemed pioneers. It is because the men of yesterday built so wisely that the Lone Star State today in all its prodigious industries is making such strides in expansion and big business. Col. Mc- Entire gave guidance not only to much of the yesterday in Texas life, but has been a leader in some of the largest industries in their present day history. As a pioneer cattleman, he was known not only to his own state, but to Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Chicago and St. Louis, and as a financier of ability he has had prominent connection with three of Dallas' mightiest financial institutions,
William Randolph McEntire, the only son of Bivil McEntire and Elizabeth Wells McEntire, was born on January 6, 1839, in Buncomb County, North Carolina. His youth was spent in his native state under the guardianship of his paternal grandmother, Rilla Postom McEntire. In 1858, at the age of nineteen, he went to Atlanta, Ga., joining his uncle, Chambers McEntire, and from him learned his first lessons in the wholesale grocery business. On March 12, 1861, he married Miss Catherine Daniall and to them one child was born. Both wife and child died in 1863. Descended from Revolutionary an- cestors, the McEntires, Mckenziers, Postoms, Wells and Phillips, all Scotchmen of the land of Wallace and Bruce, his fighting nature was easily aroused by the Civil War. On February 27, 1862. he en- listed with Company A, 9th Artillery Battalion of Georgia Volunteers, was elected junior 2nd lieutenant. Under Major A. Leyden, commander of the battalion of six companies known as the Leyden Artillery, their services were tendered to the Confederate gov- ernment instead of to the state of Georgia. They were first under General Humphrey Marshall, in Vir- ginia, then in General Bragg's army in northeast Kentucky. After the battle at Perryville, the 9th Georgia Battalion was returned to Virginia and was assigned the duty of keeping raiders out of Virginia, That's where the West begins. Tennessee and Kentucky at various times. Late in 1863 his battalion was returned to Bragg's Army, just before the battle of Chickamauga, and Col. McEntire personally was prominent with the capture of Andrew's Raiders and the famous engine, the General William Fuller engineer, which has since become of so much interest in the history of the war. He distinguished himself at Cumberland Gap where he was stationed to hold in check the forces of General Burnside. The northern forces made their . earlier days for a common cause.
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