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Miss Jennie Torrey, of Abilene, became the bride of Mr. Sedwick and Robert M. Sedwick is their one son; the family reside at 3607 Rawlins Street.
Mr. Sedwick is well identified with the social life of his city as well as with its business cares; he is an active member of the Rotary Club, the City Club and the Automobile Club and is vice-president of the Builders' Association. His church affiliation is Episcopal.
The Southern Wire & Iron Company has a sure field for its activity, a market as unlimited as is the development of the Southwest, and Mr. Sedwick and his company will be big factors in the business world of this region as it grows as well as it now is.
OBERT CAMPBELL STUBB, sole owner and distributor of his own process of pav- ing, with Dallas offices in the Praetorian Building, needs no introduction to those who are in any way familiar with the road and pav- ing business, as he is recognized as one of the chief authorities on paving in the entire country.
Although his main offices are in Kansas City, Mr. Stubb lives in Dallas and is doing a great deal of work here. His work at this time is quite strenuous, requiring his personal supervision of 12 gangs in various sections of the country, including 750 men. He has laid 13 miles in the city of Dallas, and it is a usual fact that the Stubb paving that has been laid for years is as good today as when first laid.
For the past thirty years he has worked unre- mittingly, experimenting painstakingly for the slightest improvement in the paving process, not alone for personal interest but for the broader in- terest of the development of the science as well. Since the age of eighteen and his graduation from high school, Mr. Stubb has been interested in the paving art. He is the son of Major G. W. and Emma Astory Stubb of Smith County, Miss. His father was an officer in the Confederate army. The Stubb family came to Texas in.1879 and settled in Dallas in 1887, the younger Mr. Stubb being then eighteen years of age. In June, 1897, Mr. Stubb was married to Marie Henke. They have two children, Russell C., a civil engineer, and Marie Louise, who, though only twelve years of age, is an accomplished musi- cian and public reader. The family residence is at 1909 Grand Avenue.
DOLPHUS WERRY, proprietor of the Dal- las Roofing Company, Deere Building, has been an influential citizen of Dallas for twenty-seven years, and prominent in busi- ness and social circles. The company of which he is proprietor has enjoyed rapid growth since its or- ganization, the amount of business handled demand- ing repeated enlargement of capacity.
The Dallas Roofing Company was established in 1907 with a capital stock of $10,000. Their territory extends over all of North Texas and contracts are made for every kind of roofing used in modern con- struction. The company manufactures its own products which insures efficiency and economy to the buyers. A specialty is made of gravel roofing,
composition roofing and asbestos slate, all of which is manufactured in the company plant. That their work is of proven superiority is evident by the high degree of satisfaction felt among patrons.
Born in 1874, Mr. Werry, with his parents, early moved from Jeffersonville, Indiana, where his father, J. H. Werry, was engaged in the coal in- dustry until his death. Mr. Werry went to Nap- perville, Illinois, where he entered Northwestern College. Between the completion of his high school work and his entrance at college he had done news- paper work, and upon graduation from Northwest- ern College he was tendered and accepted a position with the Denison Herald. After two years on the Herald staff he definitely determined on a business career and came to Dallas and entered the roofing construction business. He has successfully handled many large contracts, among them being the munici- pal building and other large structures.
He was married in 1898 to Miss Mary Wilkinson, daughter of J. H. Wilkinson, well-known Dallas con- tractor, the ceremony being celebrated in this city. The Werry home is in Highland Park at 3600 Lex- ington Avenue.
Mr. Werry is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce and Rotary Club, also the Dallas Athletic Club.
HARLES G. TRIPPE, manager of the Dallas branch of the International Vegetable Oil Company, has devoted his entire business life to the practicing of the cotton oil busi- ness. The company that he represents in Dallas has its general offices at Atlanta, Georgia, at which place they were established in 1917.
The company owns and operates seven mills and two refineries throughout the South. The Dallas mill was established in 1917 on the Hutchins Road after a thorough investigation of this territory. The mill crushes the cotton seed and removes from them the ingredients that make up the by-products, such as cotton seed oil cake, meal, linters and hulls. The mill also crushes and manufactures cocoanut oil and meal. Copra is crushed to secure the oil and cocoanut meal, while peanuts and other oil bearing seeds are used not only for oil purposes but for the manufacture of several by-products. Since its establishment the business of the company has progressed wonderfully and its future is assured since it. is located in one of the greatest cotton belts in the United States, if not in the world.
Mr. Trippe is the son of H. L. Trippe, of Gallion, Alabama, and was born at that place. The elder Mr. Trippe was a merchant of Gallion and was also a planter of well known reputation. The subject of this sketch was educated in the public schools of Gallion. His first business connection was with the Buckeye Cotton Oil Company of Selma, Alabama, with whom he worked for ten years. In 1916 he as- sociated himself with the International Vegetable Company. In his early manhood Mr. Trippe was a cotton farmer but gave up the life for one which . had a more promising future. For the past fourteen years Mr. Trippe has been engaged in his present profession.
Mrs. Trippe was formerly Miss Mable Tissier, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Tissier, of Selma. Alabama. One daughter has been born to bless their union, Miss Houston Tissier Trippe. Mr. and Mrs. Trippe are members of the Episcopal Church and are very active in church work.
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Mr. Trippe was a determining factor that lead to the selection of Dallas as the location of the branch house of his company and on account of this Dallas is, indeed, very fortunate in having as a citizen one who is desirous and anxious that his community be ahead of all others.
W ILLIAM J. WYATT, president of the Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works, Dallas, has been engaged in the general sheet metal and plate business for the past quarter of a century. He is well known as an efficient industrial worker and organizer, and has a record of business building in Dallas which is highly creditable
The Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works was estab- lished in Dallas in 1913. The officers of the com- pany are William J. Wyatt, president; Frank E. Austin, vice-president; Henry Hinckley, treasurer, and C. R. Moore, secretary. At the time of organi- zation the company operated on a very small scale being the manufacturers of corrugated pipe only. In the following year it began to construct corru- gated tanks and a general line of other light work of various kinds. Consolidating with the Dallas boiler works in 1916 the company was incorporated under the laws of the State of Texas with a capi- talization of twenty-five thousand dollars and since that time has increased its capitalization to two hundred thousand dollars. The unprecedented growth of the works is shown by the fact that when it was organized it had three men in its employ- now one hundred and twenty-five men are on the pay roll.
Born in Gibson County, Tennessee, in 1871, Wil- liam J. Wyatt is a son of J. W. Wyatt, a pioneer Tennessean. He attended school at the public in- stitutions of that state but because of their poor condition at that time received little aid from them. Coming to Dallas in 1889, at the age of eighteen years, he began work with the New Process Roofing & Supply Co. After remaining with this firm for a period covering nine years he changed his position by accepting employment with the Atlas Metal Works. While with these firms he learned the odds and ends of the business and in 1913 was of the opinion that he could be more successful if he entered business for himself. As a result the Wyatt Metal and Boiler Works was established during the same year. The great progress that concern has made under his presidency is evidence of the ability and mechanical skill that he possesses.
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In 1903 Mr. Wyatt married Miss Annie Bright at Dallas. As a result of the marriage there are two children, Annie Bell and Ellen Wyatt. The home of the family is located at 1827 Moser Avenue. Mr. and Mrs. Wyatt are Catholics in religion and are active in the circles of that church.
Among the clubs that honor Mr. Wyatt as a mem- ber are the Rotary Club, City Club, the Dallas Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
INBURN T. MARTIN is manager of the Southwestern District for the Kalamazoo Loose I eaf Binder Co., Dallas. He has held this position since September, 1915.
Mr. Martin was born at Cane Hill, Mo., in the year of 1888 and reared in El Dorado Springs, Mo., where he lived until lie came to Texas in 1907. He received his education at the Greenfield high school, at Greenfield, Mo., where in 1906 he graduated as valedictorian of his class.
After teaching one year at Jerico, Mo., Mr. Martin came to Texas to represent the Red Wing Advertis- ing Co., of Red Wing, Minnesota, as salesnian. One year later he severed his connection with the above concern to accept territory for the Eline- Reimers Company of Ft. Worth, Texas, in Northeast Texas, with whom he was connected until Septem- ber, 1915, when he made his present connection.
In October, 1911, Mr. Martin was married to Miss Grace Tippett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. S. E. Tip- pett, of Greenville, Texas.
The sale of the Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Devices has been built up in Texas and the Southwest by Mr. Martin from a small beginning until now he has under his supervision a sales and service organiza- tion of fourteen people.
The Kalamazoo Loose Leaf Binder Co. number among their clients a large percentage of the well rated business concerns of the Southwest.
OHN L. O'HEARN, district manager for the Truscon Steel Company, Dallas, through his connection with that concern has been one of the agents in the establishment of Dallas as the main center of steel construction supplies in the Southwest. Hundreds of buildings scattered throughout the Southwest were built with steel man- ufactured by the Truscon Steel Company.
The Truscon Steel Company has its home plant in the city of Youngstown, Ohio. The Company has divided the United States into a number of districts to facilitate the distribution of its products. The district which includes Texas and of which Mr. O'Hearn is the manager, extends from the farthest corner of the state, El Paso County, to the northern portion of Louisiana. This district has its head- quarters in Dallas and maintains branch offices at San Antonio and Houston, Texas. Eight salesmen are on the road for the company in this district alone and an even larger force is in the offices. The company confines its operations to the manufacture of re-inforcement steel, steel sashes, metal lathes, hyribs and standard steel buildings. In connection with its operations the company maintains a ware- house in Dallas, located at the corner of Belleview and Austin Streets. This warehouse is kept supplied with approximately two hundred and fifty thousand dollars worth of stock at all times and employ twenty-five workmen to facilitate its operation. there are seventeen such warehouses in the United States that are owned by the Truscon Company.
Mr. O'Hearn was born at Ackley, Iowa, July 24th, 1880. He is the son of D. W. and Elizabeth O'Hearn both of Iowa, the former being one of the pioneer railroad men of the state. After receiving a pri- mary education at the Grinnell High School Mr. O'Hearn began the study of civil engineering at the Iowa State College. In 1904 he graduated there with the degree of Bachelor of Civil Engineering. During the first year after his graduation Mr. O'Hearn was employed by the American Bridge Company, of Pittsburg, Penn. From 1905 to 1908 he was division engineer in charge of construction of the Kansas City, Mexico and Orient Railroad. In 1908 he opened his offices as a consulting engineer at Clinton, Okla. Five years later he was en- ployed by the Truscon Steel Company and was sent to Dallas. In 1917 for efficient service rendered to that concern he was made district manager of the Southwestern District of the company.
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Mr. O'Hearn married Miss Anna Foley at Kansas City, Missouri in 1906, who died in Dallas in 1918. In 1919 he was married to Miss Sadie Lovell, a native of Texas and daughter of Thomas Lovall a pioneer of ' Texas. Mr. O'Hearn has his home at 5831 Palo Pinto Street.
Mr. O'Hearn is a member of the Knights of Columbus, the American Society of Civil Engineer- ing, the Dallas Rotary Club, the Technical Club of Dallas and the Dallas Athletic Club.
Mr. O'Hearn is one of the best boosters for Dallas and its surrounding territory that can be found. Like the City of the Hour he is industrious, capable, alert and above all, successful.
EORGE LUTHER SIMPSON, manager of the George L. Simpson Company, Invest- ments and Bonds, American Exchange Na- tional Bank building. has won a place of prominence among the business men of Dallas by his farsighted judgment, ready grasp of business values and his cordial vigorous personality. Mr. Simpson established the Geo. L. Simpson Company in 1919 for the purpose of buying and selling bonds of Texas municipalities, county bonds, road bonds and the like. The firm has experienced remarkable prosperity and Mr. Simpson predicts even greater things in the coming year than he has been able to accomplish dur- ing the past year.
The first twenty-five years of Mr. Simpson's life were spent in Tennessee his native state. He was born in the town of Sparta on June 9, 1887. His father, George Luther Simpson, Sr., was a large plantation owner of Tennessee. His mother before her marriage was Lillie Pope, also a native of that state. Mr. Simpson graduated from the Pleasant Hill Academy in 1906. His determination at this time was to follow the legal profession, and after finish- ing preparatory school he went to Cumberland Uni- versity at Labanon, Tennessee, where he supple- mented his academic course by a course in law. In the spring of 1911, he received his A. B. and L. B. degrees from this institution. The following year he moved to Dallas and opened up a law office. For three years he conducted a successful and grow- ing practice, which finally resulted in an association with the Powell Gerard Company of Chicago. Mr. Simpson was representative for this responsible firm for a period of ten years, and at present, in addition to his own business, still maintains his connection with the company.
In 1912 Mr. Simpson was married to Miss Ferol Crossman, daughter of E. J. Brock, prominent busi- ness man of Fort Worth, the wedding being cele- brated at the brides home in that city. Mr. and Mrs. Simpson have a home at 216 North Waverly.
Mr. Simpson is a Mason, a Shriner, Scottish Rite a member of Consistory No. 2, Tannehill Blue Lodge No. 52, the Dallas Athletic Club, Ad League and the Methodist Church. He is a man of sterling charac- teristics and an outstanding figure in the business circles of the city.
ILLIAM G. BREG, senior member of the. firm, Breg-Garrett & Company, dealers in Municipal Bonds and Real Estate Mortga- ges, whose offices are in the Magnolia building, has for a period of thirty years been iden- tified with the mortgage and loan business, during which time he has attained a position of highest res- pect and esteem in the financial circles of the city.
Mr. Breg was born in Flint, Michigan, March 17, 1867, his parents were Wm. L. M. and Carrie F. (Grobe) Breg, both died when he was but a small boy, When ten years of age Mr. Breg went to live with his uncle, Isaac H. Warren of Sunrise, Minn. In this little village he received his education and in 1881 started out to make his own way in the world. He secured employment in a wholesale mercantile establishment of St. Paul and continued in this line of work for a period of six years. In 1887 he accep- ted a position with a mortgage and Loan Company, where he learned the business whice he has made his life's work. In 1893 Mr. Breg came to Dallas and secured the position of secretary in the Security Mortgage and Trust Company. Four years later he became associated with A. Kahler, who was en- gaged in the same line of business. In 1903 he as- sisted in the organization of the Trust Company of Dallas, which later changed its name to the Dallas Trust and Savings Bank. He was vice-president of this institution until his resignation in October 1919, when he organized the firm of Breg-Garrett & Co.
The marriage of Mr. Breg to Martha E. Knowland was celebrated in St. Paul in 1886. They have five children, W. Roy, Clarence E., Bernice M., Powell E., and Wilbur C.
Mr. Breg holds membership in the City Club, Lakewood Country Club and Hella Temple Shrine. He is a member of the Central Congregational Church. He has always taken an active interest in the civic affairs and has attained a position of high- est esteem and respect in the financial circles of Dallas.
C. BLESI, president of Blesi Realty and Mortgage Company, 120912 Main Street, has been in the real estate business in Dallas for seven years, during which time he has negotiated many of the most important sales and leases in the city.
The Blesi Realty and Mortgage Company conducts a general real estate business, handling sales, loans and mortgages on residental and business property of Dallas. One of the largest transactions which this firm has handled was a sixty-seven year lease on the northwest corner of Main and Akard Streets, involving $1,250,000. A fifteen to eighteen story building is to be erected there.
Mr. Blesi was among the first members of the Automobile Country Club after its organization in 1913, and is a director and secretary and treasurer of this organization. The club which is situated on the Richardson road six miles from Dallas, consists of sixty-nine acres of beautiful rolling country and one of the handsomest club houses in the South. An artificial lake has been built adjoining, and regular cafe service is provided, while club dances are given every Tuesday.
Born in San Antonio on the 5th of September, 1884, Mr. Blesi received his education in the public schools of that city, supplementing this with a course in business college. His first business was in San Antonio, as cashier of the Nicholson-Jannin Grocery Co., and later was clerk with Newton, Weller, Wag- ner Company of San Antonio. Then he went to Sal- tilla, Mexico, as secretary to the general manager of a large English Mining Concern.
He came to Dallas on March 3, 1905 and soon se- cured the position of chief clerk of the Agricultural Experiment Station, United States Department of
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Agriculture, under James Wilson, then Secretary of Agriculture. After seven years in government work he resigned to accept the management of the Rental Department of the Dallas Trust and Savings Bank, remaining there one year and then establishing his own real estate business under the present name of his company.
lle was married on November 25, 1914 to Miss Mae Lee Rowan, daughter of C. T. Rowan, capitalist and property owner of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Blesi reside at 3906 Worth street.
Mr. Blesi is a member of the Dallas Auto Club, Dallas Auto Country Club, Kiwanis Club, Chamber of Commerce, Knights of Pythias, and president of the Pythian Library Association, and is taking active part in the plan of the latter organization to build in the near future. He is a member of the East Dallas Christian Church, the State Council of the Christian Endeavor Union and is now vice-president of the Dallas Male Chorus. His enthusiasm and un- tiring efforts have been a decided asset to the causes and organizations which he has championed and his influence in the community has been widely felt.
DWARD WINFIELD MORTEN. In 1877 there came to Texas a man who, by follow- ing conscientiously the advice of Horace Greeley-to "grow up with the country"- has won for himself a place in the esteem of his associates that is a worthy tribute to his character and ability-Edward Winfield Morten-president of the Morten Milling Company, one of the largest flour mills of the Southwest, a corporation capital- ized at $700,000, giving employment to 100 work- men, and turning out daily 2,500 barrels of flour and 2,000 barrels of corn-meal, known in almost every household as the La France Flour and La France Corn Meal, distributed to all parts of Texas, and even to foreign countries. The company's plant, an eight-story structure, is located at 916 Cadiz Street, Dallas.
Mr. Morten was born at Moore's Hill, Indiana, August 14, 1861, the son of E. W. and Mary Lida Clark Morten. Educated in the public schools of Cincinnati, Ohio, Mr. Morten, at the age of 26, made his first independent venture into commercial life, choosing the cotton compress business and locating at Fort Worth, Texas. About the close of the year 1891, he removed to Mckinney, Texas, to assume the management of an electric light and ice. plant, with which he was connected until 1901, when he decided to establish himself in Dallas. Here he or- ganized and served as its president the New Century Milling Company, which, later, in 1913, became the present Morten Milling Company.
Mr. Morten is president of the Morten Investment Company, owners of the Jefferson Hotel of Dallas, and a director of the Burrus Mill & Elevator Com- pany of Fort Worth and the Collin County Mill & Elevator Company of Mckinney. Vice president of the American Laundry Co., president of the American Mutual Fire Insurance Company, vice- president of the Fidelity Loan & Savings Corpora- tion of Dallas. He holds membership in the Texas Chamber of Commerce, also in the Dallas Chamber of Commerce.
Mr. Morten, in association with Chas. Mangold, completed the Jefferson Hotel which represents an investment of $1,500,000. The building is 12 stories end roof garden and has 418 guest rooms.
Expressed in terms of achievement, the story of a successful man's life work gives but small indica- tion of the diligence and personality that have made that career a success. Of necessity, the picture is hardly more than an outline, with all the interesting detail work of changing, subtle influences blurred, if not blotted out, yet in that bare outline will ap- pear a something, characterizing, differentiating the whole.
Thirty-eight years ago, in 1882, at Marshall, Texas, Mr. Morten married Miss Nellie A. Webb, of Duluth, Minnesota. A daughter, Mrs. Blanche Alex- ander, is their only child.
The Morten residence is at the Jefferson Hotel. HAS. M. BOLANZ, vice-president of the Murphy-Bolanz Land and Loan Company, located in their own splendid building at the corner of Field and Commerce streets, is a Dallas product, and chuck full of the Dallas spirit. He is the son of Chas. F. Bolanz, one of the founders of the present business, and was born June 7, 1886. His father and P. J. Murphy organized the present firm in 1874 and operated as a partnership until 1896, when the business was incorporated. The sen- ior Mr. Bolanz came to Texas in 1873 from Virginia, and after a year in the county clerk's office, he entered the real estate business and was always ac- tive in anything that was for the benefit of Dallas and always prominently connected with its develop- ment.
Mr. Bolanz's mother was a Miss Rowena A. Boyle, came to Bryan, Texas, with her family from Louis- iana. Later the family moved to Dallas. where she met and married Mr. Bolanz.
The subject of this sketch began his school career in the public and private schools of Dallas. He at- tended St. Matthews Academy and later went to St. Albans at Radford, Va. He graduated from Tome Institute, Port Deposite, Maryland, in 1904. and went immediately with this firm, where he has re- mained ever since, working in every department in order that he could thoroughly learn the business. He is now manager of the business lease department.
Mr. Bolanz was married November 30, 1910, to Miss Nell Miller, daughter of W. M. Miller, one of the oldest families of the city. Mr. Miller was in the in- surance business for several years, and later sold school supplies. Mrs. Bolanz's uncle, Judge T. S. Miller, was counsel for the Katy railroad for many years. They have one child, Nell West, 9 years of age, and their home is located at 309 North Jefferson Street, Oak Cliff.
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