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sale of liberty bonds, while at the same time he has supervised the business of his company. As vice- president of the Conner Investment Company, Incor- porated, Mr. Bramlett loans large sums of money to persons desirous of purchasing automobiles and since coming into that business he has become a psychol- ogist of the first rate. The R. E. Bramlett and Com- pany was organized in 1916 and at the present time is one of the largest collection agencies of this city. It handles collections for wholesale concerns only and among its clientele are the J. W. Crowdus Company, Ginn and Company, C. L. Norsworthy and Company, the Dal-Tex Spring Bed Company and H. C. Miller Company.
Boin at Batesville, Mississippi, R. E. Bramlett is a son of J. M. Bramlett, contractor and builder who came to this state in 1882. His wife was Miss Laura D). Richardson, of Georgia, who is living in Dallas at the present time, her husband having died several years ago. R. E. Bramlett received his early educa- tional training in the public schools of Georgia and of Texas and graduated from the Dallas High School in 1893. After his graduation he accepted a position as bookkeeper with the Doolittle-Simpson Company, merchants. He' held this position until 1898, at which time he resigned and joined the United States Army, seeing service in the Spanish-American War. He served with Second Texas Infantry, in Company K, and when mustered out of the service held the rank of Sergeant. After the close of the war he accepted a position with the Texas Drug Company of this city. He started out as a bookkeeper, but soon thereafter was appointed Secretary-Treasurer and general credit manager. In 1911 he resigned this position and became the treasurer for the Southwestern Sundries Company, a wholesale con- cern, which he sold out in 1914 and entered the business which he is now engaged in. In 1916 he organized the R. E. Bramlett Company and since that time has been its sole owner and manager. Mr. Bramlett owns one half of the stock of the Connor
Investment Company, which deals principally with the financing of automobile sales. He was mar- ried August 23, 1920 to Jean E. Davis of Dallas and resides at 606 Woodlawn Ave.
In civic affairs Mr. Bramlett has always taken an active part, being a member of the Chamber of Com- merce of this city and also of the Lions Club. In politics he has always been a Democrat and has the distinction of never having scratched his party's ballot.
ILLIAM THOMAS SARGEANT, manager of the Dallas branch of the Stewart Title- Guaranty Company, 1221 Main Street, Dal- las, is a citizen of wide information and unbounded popularity in Dallas County, as well as a business man of the most successful type. With the exception of five years time he has devoted his entire business career to the service of the company of which he is now manager.
The Stewart Title-Guaranty Company was organ- ized in Galveston, Texas, in 1906, by Mr. Mace Stew- art, who is now its president. The Dallas office of the company was established in June, 1910. Other branch offices of the company are located at Houston, San Antonio and El Paso. The business of the con- cern is the guaranteeing the titles of land and of liens on land. The growth of the company has been unusual-organized only fourteen years ago it has outgrown many of its competitors and now has the distinction of being the largest of its kind in the South.
Mr. Sargeant was born in Galveston, Texas, Sep- tember 18, 1884, William Thomas Sargeant is the son of Thomas and Mary (Potthoff) Sargeant. His father is a native of Liverpool, England, coming to Texas in his youth and went into business in Galveston. His mother was a Galveston girl. The younger Mr. Sargeant received his education at Galveston public schools. At the age of fifteen he began to work for the title company which later became the Stew- art Title-Guaranty Company of Galveston. In 1905 he resigned his position and moved to Dallas, ac- cepting a position with Hann and Kendall, real estate brokers. He remained with that firm until June, 1910, at which time the Dallas branch of the Stewart Title-Guaranty Company was established. Mr. Sargeant accepted a position with that company again and once more was engaged in the business with that company that he has been connected with prominently ever since.
The wedding of Mr. Sargeant to Miss Louise B. Crossland, of Galveston, was solemnized in 1905. Miss Crossland was the daughter of Mr. D. E. Cross- land, a prominent wholesale coffee merchant of Galveston and now engaged in the brokerage busi- ness in Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Sargeant are the parents of one child, Thomas E. Sargeant. The family honie is located at 2722 Holmes Street. In religious affiliation Mr. Sargeant is a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas. He is also a member of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers' Association.
Beginning his business life at the age of fifteen years, Mr. Sargeant learned early in life the value of consistent effort applied continuonsly to one pro- fession. Starting with nothing but his own brains the tireless energy he has reached the top rung of the ladder of his profession.
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C. , WEAVER, president of the Briggs- Weaver Machinery Company, has for more than twenty-five years been identified with an industry that has helped to give Dallas her commercial prominence.
The establishment of which Mr. Weaver is the president has a patronage covering the whole of Texas and Oklahoma and parts of Louisiana, Arkan- sas, New Mexico and Arizona. It furnishes me- chanical supplies for ice plants, cotton gins, oil mills, electric light plants, pumping stations, oil refineries. Fourteen salesmen are on the road and in all. more than 100 people are employed. The firm owns its own buildings which consist of a three story building covering half a block and a one story warehouse 90 by 300 feet. In addition to this there are pipe yards and tracks communicat- ing with these yards and with the warehouse. An annual business running into the millions is being done.
Mr. Weaver is a native of Carroll County, Mary- land, and was educated in the public schools of his native state and in Calvert College, also of Maryland. His first position was with the Taylor Manufacturing Company, manufacturers of steam engines. From this work he went into the oil mill business in which he remained for six years in North Carolina and Georgia. From North Carolina he went to Macon, Georgia, where he was for eight years engaged in the same business. Being lured by the expansive West and its glorious future, hc came to Dallas in 1892 and four years later organ- ized the enterprise with which he has since been connected. This quarter of a century of marvelous growth which Dallas has experienced has not come as a surprise to Mr. Weaver nor does he belong to the class of men who say that the best days are past. His hopes and vision for the future are as bright and encouraging today as they were when he first entcred the city. He has the feeling that what he has seen in Dallas is only the beginning of even greater things.
Captain Alfred S. Weaver, in charge of the sales department, is the oldest boy. There are three married daughters and one unmarried daughter. The Weaver residence is at 2419 Maple Avenue.
Mr. Weaver is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and was at one time a member of the freight bureau. He is also a member of the City Club, the Dallas Country Club and the Auto Club. He is affiliated with the Hella Temple, is a thirty- second degree Mason and a member of the Tannehill Blue Lodge. Dallas has in Mr. Weaver an enthusi- astic supporter and one who has always been ready to promote her most worthy enterprises.
M AYO P. CRUM, Manager of the Deming In- vestment Company, Great Southern Life Building, Dallas, organized the Texas branch of that concern in 1916. He has been actively engaged in the business activities of that Company for sixteen years and is thoroughly posted on all forms of investments and loans. His ex- perience in the loan business has been scattered throughout the United States and in this way he has become familiar with the business that he is now engaged in.
The Deming Investment Company has its main office at Oswego, Kansas. The Company is in- corporated under the laws of the State of Kansas and
has agencies throughout the United States. Robert O. Deming is President of the Corporation, D. S. Waskey, Vice-President, F. W. Stout, Vice-President and Secretary and R. O. Deming, Junior, Treasurer. The Company negotiates Real Estate loans on property, advises as to investments and takes de- posits for investments paying interest therefor. The Dallas Branch of the Deming Company was established in Dallas in 1916 by Mr. Crum. In the Fall of that year he moved to Texas permanently and assumed control of the branch. As the repre- sentative of the concern he has made an initial suc- cess in the short time that he has been here. The reliability and age of the Company insures the safety of investments made with it and hence its business in Texas has grown considerably since the establish- ment of the branch in 1916.
The son of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Crum, Mayo P. Cruni was born in Oswego, Kansas in 1883. The elder Mr. Crum was, at the time of his death, United States Marshall of Kansas. Mr. Crum, Junior, was edu- cated at the Wentworth Military Academy, located at Lexington, Missouri. After finishing his educa- tion he began his career under the employment of the Deming Investment Company. He has continued his connection with that concern until the present time. Until 1916 he worked at the main offices of the Company at Oswego, Kansas, but at that time having been made manager of the Texas Branch he moved to Dallas.
Mr. Crum married Miss Viola Crain at Kansas City in 1905. The Crum's have three children, Luella, Paul and Mayola Crum. The family home is at 5010 Junius Street.
OCKSLEY FIFE, a partner, with his brother Folson Fife, of the Acme Brick and Supply Company, Southwestern Life Building, has built up a business that testifies to his ability. During the last fifteen years this concern has grown from the experimental stage to a sub- stantial, prospering company, ranking with the larg- est establishments of its kind in Texas, and there is every prospect that Mr. Fife will excel even his present record within the next few years.
The Acme Brick and Supply Company handles brick, hollow tile, terra cotta and everything in the line of clay products. They represent the Acme Brick Company, the largest manufacturers of face brick in the Southwest, and other well known con- cerns. Six people are employed in the Dallas sales office and the volume of business has shown a very healthy growth from year to year.
Born in Dallas on July 10, 1882, Mr. Fife received his education in the public schools of Dallas, and upon graduating from the high school attended a military academy at Macon, Missouri. Mr. Fife's father was A. D. Fife, well known in Dallas busi- ness circles, having established the first wholesale and retail vehicle establishment in the city. His father was a Kentuckian but his mother was a Texas girl, Annie Madison Shannon of Dallas.
After graduating from the military academy, Mr. Fife returned to Dallas and went into business for himself, organizing a wholesale coal concern. Later he added brick to his line and the demand for the latter soon dominated his business. Ten years after the establishment of his company he determined to devote his entire activities to clay products, chang- ing the name of his firm from the Texas Fuel and Supply Company to the Acme Brick and Supply
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Company. His success is built about his stimulat- ing personality and his very evident knowledge of the commodities he handles.
Mr. Fife resides at 1502 Pocahontas Street, is a member of the Dallas Country Club, Dallas Ath- letic Club, Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, Junior Chamber of Commerce and the Auto Club. He is enthusiastic about the future of Dallas, having a personal interest in the city through real estate holdings and acreage near Highland Park. He de- clares that the selection of Dallas by national con- cerns for location, and by the government for the Federal Reserve Bank, makes it the commercial and financial center of the Southwest, and offers un- equalled opportunities for young men in any line of endeavor.
AMUEL WALLACE INGLISH, manager of the Texas Inspection Bureau, became a citi- zen of Dallas May 1, 1920, when he as- sumed the duties of his present position. Prior to coming to Dallas he was a member of the state fire commission of Texas and state fire mar- shal, having first been appointed to that office in 1911 by Governor Colquitt, and served in that capac- ity until his removal to Dallas.
Mr. Inglish was born in Whitesboro, Texas, Au- gust 1, 1874, and was educated in the public schools of Grayson and Cooke Counties. His father came to Texas from Arkansas in 1836, settling where the city of Bonham, Fennin County, is now located. His mother was a native of Tennessee and came with her parents to Grayson County, Texas, in 1848. Mr. Inglish began his business career in Gainesville in 1892 in real estate and insurance, which business he followed until 1896, when he accepted a connec- tion in the state government service at Austin, serv- ing in the comptroller's department and state treas- ury continuously until 1911, with the exception of two years spent in Deaf Smith County. Mr. Inglish was married in Austin in 1902 to Miss Ella Randolph a native of that city.
The Texas Inspection Bureau, of which Mr. Inglish is manager, afford a valuable and much needed service throughout the state in the interest of fire protection and fire prevention in order that the de- struction of property by fire may be reduced to a minimum. Mr. Inglish, as manager of the Texas Inspection Bureau, is a member of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
Dallas is insurance headquarters of Texas and the Southwest, Mr. Inglish says, and one of the most important cities in the South with a future that predicts great and marvelous growth within the next ten years.
RED MANGET, manager of the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, Dallas, came to that city in 1916, taking charge of the Bur- roughs' office in that city, handling the ter- ritory embraced by Dallas and Northeast Texas. This agency employs twelve salesmen, twelve serv- ice men, about thirty people in all. About 7,500 machines were sold in the state of Texas for the year 1920, being approximately $2,000,000 worth of business.
Mr. Manget started out in the railroad business in 1897, working for the Wabash Railroad in St. Louis until 1903, when he went with the Burroughs people at Louisville, Ky., where he remained until
1912, when he was sent to Fort Worth, Texas, to represent the company there. He came from the Forth Worth office to Dallas in 1916. He is thor- cughly versed in all business systems and under- stands how to apply the machines of the Burroughs company to all lines of business.
He is a native of St. Louis, Mo., born in 1880, and educated in the public and high schools of that city. His father, Fred Manget, was identified with the Burroughs Adding Machine Company, head- quarters at Louisville. His mother, before her mar- riage, was Miss Hattie Trotman of Dallas. His marriage to Miss Mary A. Lewis, daughter of John W. Lewis, attorney at law and member of Congress from Kentucky, took place at Springfield, Ky., in 1905, and they have one little daughter, Elizabeth Lewis Manget.
Mr. Manget is a Mason and actively identified with the civic and social life of the city, being a member of the Rotary Club, the City Club, the Dal- las Country Club, the Dallas Athletic Club, Little Sandy Hunting and Fishing Club, Koon Kreek Club and Chamber of Commerce. Like everybody else in Dallas he has an abiding faith in the future growth and development of the city and is always ready to co-operate in any movement calculated to advance the commercial welfare of the city.
JAURICE CLARK TURNER, owner and manager of the Dixie Lyceum Bureau, has spent nineteen years in Dallas, having come here in 1901, and the entire time has been devoted to the business of the Lyceum Bureau which he founded. Today it is one of the best known book- ing organizations in the South, handling hundreds of lecturers, concert companies and artists of inter- national reputation. High grade lyceum courses are furnished schools, colleges, chambers of commerce and other organizations throughout the South and all these attractions are handled from the main office at Dallas. Reciprocal booking facilities are maintained with northern and eastern bureaus for the exchange of talent.
Among the notable speakers whose Southern tours were under the direction of the Dixie Lyceum Bureau was former president William H. Taft, Vice-Presi- dent Thomas R. Marshall, Irvin S. Cobb, etc. Many noted singers and artists have appeared in concert under the direction of this bureau and its work has been given unqualified approval by schools and col- leges all over the country which contract year after year for attractions furnished for their annual lyceum courses by the Dixie Bureau ..
Mr. Turner was born at Monroe, Michigan, April 7, 1879, a son of Jacob and Eliza (Clotilda) Turner, well known residents of Monroe. His father was a prominent contractor and lived in Monroe for 76 years.
After completing his preliminary studies and graduating at the Monroe high school in 1896, Mr. Turner attended the University of Michigan and graduated there with the degree of Bachelor of Law in 1900. The establishment of the Lyceum Bureau · in Dallas followed the completion of his university training.
Mr. Turner was married in Dallas in 1908 to Miss Epsie Waldam, daughter of John Waldam, former well known banker and cashier of one of the old Dallas banks. They have one son, Maurice Clark, Jr.
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Mr. Turner is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of Hella Temple, Dallas Consistory No. 6 and of Monroe Blue Lodge No. 27. He is also a member of the Dallas Country Club, the Lakewood Country Club, University Club, Athletic Club, Rotary Club and Automobile Club. During the campaign for the Fifth Victory Loan Mr. Turner was chair- man of the speaker's bureau for the Eleventh Fed- eral Reserve District.
A firm believer in the future of Dallas, Mr. Turner expects to see the city continue its steady and sub- stantial growth and hold its place as the commer- cial and industrial center of the Southwest.
RANK E. AUSTIN, president of Austin Brothers, structural steel factories, with plant and office at 1815 Coombs Street. The firm was established in 1892 under the name of Austin Brothers, bridge builders, and the business grew rapidly, they soon established a repu- tation as builders of all kinds of structural steel. A few years ago a new company was organized under the name of Austin Brothers Bridge Co., who contract for all kinds of steel and concrete bridges and deal in road building machinery. J. M. Jones is treasurer and general manager of Austin Bros., and Mr. C. R. Moore is president of Austin Brothers Bridge Company. Besides the firm of which he is president, Mr. Austin is actively associated with other business concerns of magnitude. He is vice- president of the Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works, of Dallas; director and treasurer of the Morris Plan Bank; vice-president of the Continental Saving and Building Association; vice-president of the Guar- anty Bank and Trust Company; director of the Dal- las Telephone Co., and also director of the Dallas Power and Light Company. It requires intellectual ability of the highest degree and scrupulous business methods to attain a position which proclaims such phenomenal success.
Mr. Austin was born in St. Lawrence County, New York, on June 8, 1871, and is the son of J. H. Austin, a well known agriculturist of that county. He received his education at the Ogdensburg Academy, but like many other successful business men his highest degree was obtained by coming di- rectly in contact with the big issues of life.
Mr. Austin was married in 1906 to Miss Dorothy Connor, of Dallas, Texas, daughter of W. O. Connor, who was for forty years credit man for the mercan- tile firm of Sanger Brothers. He is now president of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company. Mr. and Mrs. Austin have two children, a son, Frank E. Austin, Jr., and a daughter, Dorothy Jane Austin. The family reside at 4321 Highland Drive in High- land Park. Mr. Austin is a member of the Dallas Country Club and the City Club, Chamber of Com- merce and also a vestryman in the Episcopal Church.
Mr. Austin is an invaluable citizen and one who has played a prominent part in the upbuilding of Dallas. In. looking around we view everywhere wonderful examples of his business ingenuity and realize the power and importance of steel, when we enjoy a feeling of security whil ecrossing safely soni giant steel bridge built by this man, with char- acter as strong as the product he represents. His activities are not confined solely to business for his influence is felt in both the social and religious life of Dallas.
B. MARSH, well known business man and citizen of Dallas, has for about twenty-five years been closely identified with the agri- cultural development of the state, through his life long service in the implement field. During a period of fourteen years he travelled over the state becoming acquainted with the citizens, geography, and conditions generally. The state wide friendships made in this manner and the general first hand knowledge of Texas gleaned in this way have been of great assistance to him in after years.
Mr. Marsh is a native of Texas and was born in Navarro County in 1872. He attended public school in Hill County and then took a business education in a Waco school. Equipped with this training he entered the bookkeeping department of the Keeting Implement Co., at Hubbard City, Texas. He ad- vanced to manager of that firm before moving to Dallas and going with the Deering Hardware Co. He travelled the state for twelve years for the Keeting Co., then two years for the Moline Plow Co. He was later made assistant manager of this company, then manager, which position he held until a few years ago.
Mr. Marsh and Miss Dorothy Roberts of Denton were united in marriage at Galveston in 1908. They have one son, C. B. Marsh Jr. The family residence is at 3613 Worth Street.
Mr. Marsh is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, Knight Templar, and member of Hella Temple Shrine. Prior to his marriage he was a member of the Dallas Club for a number of years. The family affiliates with the Methodist Church.
Mr. Marsh has always been proud of his citizen- ship in Dallas and works to make this city the peer of any in the Southwest.
ILLIAM A. SEDWICK, president and gen- eral manager of the Southern Wire & Iron Company, Inc., at Harwood and Terminal Railway, Dallas, directs a business whose products are interwoven into the make-up of every great building either from a practical or artistic purpose or sometimes the two combined. Other members of the firm are R. J. DeWees, vice president and sales manager, and R. H. Kean, secretary. The firm, which was bought by Mr. Sedwick in 1910 upon his coming to Dallas, handles ornamental iron, light structural steel buildings, steel runways for oil re- fineries and tank stations, and a very large part of the business, elevator enclosures and wire work such as teller cages for banks. The company also are state distributors for metal lathe, fire doors, shut- ters, metal ceiling and other building specialties. The plant in Dallas covers over an acre of ground and employes over 50 people. With the rapid ex- pansion of industry the Southwest is experiencing, with the growth of building and increase in com- merce, the activity of the Southern Wire & Iron Company is in great demand and the Southwest will be as good or perhaps the best market for these products as any section in the United States. Dal- las is well known to this large area as a distributing center and from this point the Southern Wire & Iron Company is supplying the market.
Mr. Sedwick was born at Waco, Texas, in 1875. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. John F. Sedwick, his father a ranchman and farmer. Strother's private school of Waco and Staunton Military Academy of Staunton, Va., combined in the education of Mr.
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Sedwick. He then entered the business world where practically all of his activity has been devoted to the iron and steel business-the last eighteen years. .For five years he was secretary of the Texas Anchor Fence Company of Ft. Worth. In 1910, he changed his location to Dallas, buying at that time the busi- ness of which he is now president and manager.
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