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OUIS BLAYLOCK, Commissioner of Fi- nance and Revenue, Dallas, publisher of the Texas Christian Advocate, Scottish Rite Herald and other publications, has been closely and actively identified with the growth and up building of Dallas for the past 35 years, having come here from Galveston in 1887 and engaged im- mediately in the printing and publishing business. Director in many enterprises, member of the City Commission, Mr. Blaylock is one of the best known men in Texas and the Southwest. He is a firm be- liever in the future of Dallas and gives ample proof of his optimism by constant and substantial invest- ments in enterprises that make for the city's de- velopment.
Mr. Blaylock has been connected with the Texas Christian Advocate for 55 years and has been pub- lisher of the paper since 1874. His printing estab- lishment is one of the most complete in the South- west and .employs a large force of men, doing the mechanical work for several other large publica- tions beside the Christian Advocate.
As a city builder Mr. Blaylock has come to be regarded as an authority. He is vice-president and was a member of the building committee of the Modern Order of Praetorians, the fraternal or- ganization which erected the first sky-scraper in Texas. It was largely due to the untiring energy of Mr. Blaylock that this ambitious project became a
reality. He was also a member of the building committee of the American Exchange National Bank when that institution erected its present seven- teen-story office building on Main Street, and served on the building committee which supervised the erection of the handsome Scottish Rite Cathedral, also the Masonic Temple at Main and Pearl Streets, and has been active in many other building enter- prises.
Mr. Blaylock was born in Arkansas on October 21, 1849, and removed with his parents to Austin, Texas, when a small child. He had the benefit of private instruction under some of the ablest tutors of that time, but his studies were interrupted by the Civil War and shortly after the close of the war in 1866 he removed to Galveston and began active work at the printer's trade.
He was married on June 1, 1871, to Miss Georgia Darton. They have two sons, Louis W. and Willis Darton, who are engaged with their father in the publishing business, and two daughters, Mrs. Georgia K. V. Bunting and Mrs. Carry Irene W. D. Jones, all of Dallas.
Mr. Blaylock is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Rotary Club, Automobile Club and a charter member of the Bonehead Club. He has filled every chair of both the Scottish and York Rite Ma- sonic organizations and has attained the highest possible Masonic rank, that of thirty-third degree.
He is now serving as Finance Commissioner of the City of Dallas and has under his direction some of the most important activities of the city govern- ment, having recently had added to his duties the active direction of the city hospital and the munici- pal farm.
APTAIN HAL MOSELY, commissioner of streets and public property, Municipal Building, Dallas, is one of the most ener- getic and progressive citizens of Dallas. He is kept constantly looking after the various duties of his responsible office, for the office of com- missioner of a city of the size of Dallas is no sinecure. Captain Mosely was for three years pre- vious to the world war, city engineer of Dallas. He was elected to the office of commissioner of streets and public property May 1, 1919, while he was still serving his country with the A. E. F. in France. He was given his discharge and he immediately re- turned to the United States, arriving July 4, 1919, and coming at once to Dallas to assume the duties of his office.
Captain Mosely enlisted in the U. S. Army, Octo- ber 25, 1917, and was trained at Leavenworth, Kan- sas, in the engineers training camp. He sailed for France July 10, 1918, and remained until June, 1919, serving in the 20th Engineer Forestry Division.
Captain Mosely was born in Watrace, Tenn., in 1879, coming to Dallas with his parents in 1887. He is the son of Dr. H. A. Mosely, for thirty-three years a practicing physician in Dallas. He is a graduate of the Dallas public schools, and the A. and M. College, where he took the B. S. degree in me- chanical engineering, in which profession he is thoroughly proficient.
Captain Mosely is unmarried and resides at 4903 Bryan Street. He is a member of the University Club, and the New Athletic Club, also of the Baptist Church.
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Captain Mosely is a citizen of whom Dallas may well be proud. He is a thoroughly efficient public official, ever on the alert in looking after the details of his office, always interested in the welfare of the city and contributing of his time and energy toward its upbuilding. He is one of the most popular of the city officials, and performs the duties of his office with the thoroughness of a well trained soldier, and the ardor of a progressive citizen.
OUIS S. TURLEY, police commissioner of the city of Dallas, has been a resident of this city for the past thirty years, most of which time he has devoted to police problems, coming to be known as an expert along these lines. Since assuming the duties of this office he has made many improvements and is putting his every energy into his duties, giving Dallas one of the best police administrations in its history.
It is interesting to note that Mr. Turley's election in April was remarkable in that he was the only successful candidate put forth by his wing of the party which is evidence of his countless friends and the confidence his fellow citizens have in his in- tegrity and ability.
After coming to Dallas in 1891 he attended the Metropolitan Business College and then went into the law office of McLaren and Wozencraft as stenog- rapher, remaining there one year. After doing rail- road construction work for a short time, he opened a private detective agency and later became con- nected with the city police department, where he served ten years. He became the first secretary of the police department and served as assistant chief of detectives and later as chief of detectives. In 1917 the firm of Turley and Moffett, private detec- tives, was formed with which Mr. Turley was identi- fied until his election to his present position in April, 1921.
Mr. Turley came to Texas when he was three years old, from Napoleon, Kentucky, where he was born November 27, 1880. His father, J. S. Turley, had been a farmer and merchant there, and when he first came to Texas he located at Jefferson and later at Marshall. He then moved to Austin where the subject of this sketch attended the ward schools. Mr. Turley was married December 8, 1907, to Miss Jimmie Gaines, a native of Texas, and they have three children, L. S., Jr., Jos. L. and J. Ryan. He is a Mason, member of Trinity Valley Lodge No. 1048; member of Tent No. 23, Maccabees, and Woodmen of the World Lodge No. 1. He is a home man and devotes himself to his family. He believes Texas is the greatest state in the Union and that Dallas is one of the cleanest and most progressive of cities.
AVID C. McCORD, with offices in the Munici- pal Building of Dallas, exercises the mani- fold duties of city building inspector. His connection with this office is deserving of more than passing comment since he bears the dis- tinction of being the first building inspector in Texas, and during the present administration carries full authority over the functions of fire marshal, plumb- ing inspector, inspector of weights and measures, and city electrician.
It is thus significant that his work, having a hu-
manitarian as well as an ethical interest, is of an ex- tremely practical nature, offering the incumbent an opportunity for unlimited service to the community. All plans and specifications for proposed new struc- tures have to pass his scrutiny and approval in the light of regulations outlined in Dallas' building ordi- nances and he is likewise responsible for the safety and desirability of existing structures and the origi- nation of condemnation proceedings for such of these as may become a menace or source of offense to the public.
Mr. McCord's early training made him a very logical choice for this public office. His parents, David C., Sr., and Georgia (Haynie) McCord were living in Pratteville, Alabama, at the time of his birth in 1887, but they later removed to Dallas where David, Jr., received his education in the public and high schools. In addition to this schooling he re- ceived further preparation for business in commer- cial college. For six years prior to 1887 he worked on a farm and for fifteen years following (1887-1902) he worked at the trade of brick-layer in Dallas and other parts of the country. In Dallas in 1902, he started in the contracting business and continued in that line until 1919 when he discontinued opera- tions to take his present office. He held the office for one term previous while still a contractor (1903 to 1906) by which appointment he became the pioneer in this branch of public work in Texas.
He was married on July 28, 1888, to Miss Mar- garet Jellison at Rulo, Nebraska. She was a native of Pennsylvania and the daughter of John Jellison a contractor and builder. Mr. and Mrs. McCord have five sons and two daughters as follows: A. D., M. M., R. G., P. B., D. C. Jr., Margaret and Helen. Their home is at 820 North Beckley Avenue, Oak Cliff, Dallas.
Mr. McCord is a member of many active organiza- tions which include the Technical Club of Dallas, the Oak Cliff Commercial Club, the American Associa- tion of Engineers, the Builders Exchange of Dallas, the Texas State Builders Exchange and the National Association of Builders Exchanges. He was twice clected president of the Dallas Builders Exchange and was president of the Texas State Builders Ex- change.
He is a member of both the Masonic and Odd Fel- lows orders. His Blue Lodge membership, A. F. and A. M., is with the Tannehill Lodge No. 52, Dallas, where he has held the office of Worshipful Master. He was formerly High Priest of the Oak Cliff Chap- ter No. 373, Royal Arch Masons and he has received the degree of Knight Templar.
LFRED MACDONALD, formerly forester for the city of Dallas, contributed much to the beautification of the city by his faithful services to his work during his stay here. Born in Walpole, Mass., in 1891, Mr. MacDonald, who is the son of Daniel MacDonald, a railroad man, became interested in nature when he was a boy and following his desire to delve in the secrets of nature he took up a course in forestry at the Amherst Col- lcge where, after two and one-half years of study in this special nature work, he was elected field secretary of the State Forestry Association of Massachusetts, which he held for one year. While he was engaged with the association he carried on tree planting campaigns and organized many new forestry departments over that state.
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Deciding to inerease his knowledge of the forest Mr. MacDonald took up an extensive study of for- estry at the Harvard University, which added to his knowledge obtained at Amherst has put him forth as a man who knows the forest, not as a woodsman knows the trees for their value for the preservation of man, but from a scientific growing and beauty value.
Mueh of the beautifieation of the parks of the city of Dallas is the results of his unceasing work, or better, his uneeasing pleasure.
AWNIE ROBERTSON ALDREDGE, mayor of the city of Dallas, an attorney of the younger generation and a native of Dallas, has steadily made his way into leadership until today he has a permanent place in the cata- logue of aggressive mayors of the Southwest. A Dallas product from birth, he has dedieated himself to the service of the eitizenry of his home city and he is universally known and beloved.
Mayor Aldredge was born on November 13, 1890. His father was Judge George N. Aldredge, who came from an Alabama family and served through the Civil War. He was Distriet Judge here when the district was composed of Dallas and Ellis Counties. He was prominent at the bar and in business. For many years he was vice-president of the American Exchange National Bank and until his death was active in social and civie life of Dallas. He had a large private practice after leaving the bench but had retired about fifteen years before his death. Mayor Aldredge's mother, Bettie W. (Hearne) Aldredge, was a native of Hearne, Texas, a city named for her father, a pioneer of that country. After graduating from the Dallas school system and the Terrell school of the same city, Sawnie Aldredge attended the Southwestern University at George- town for. one year, then Cornell University, from which he graduated with the A. B. degree in 1913. He studied one year of law at the same time. He then attended for one and one-half years the Uni- versity of Texas Law School and was admitted to the bar in 1914. From that date until he entered the world war in 1917, he praetieed law in his home city. In 1917, he entered as a private in the air service of his eountry at war. In 1918, at Columbus, Ohio, he was commissioned lieutenant, served at Kelly Field until July of that year when he went overseas. There he was in active service until the signing of the armistiee; he was assistant adjutant at headquarters in the air service at Camp Saint Maixent. He received his diseharge on Deeember 24, 1918 and resumed his law practice in Dallas. He has been associated with Thompson, Knight, Baker & Harris. and later entered into the affilia- tion of Allen, Flanary & Aldredge, from which firmi he resigned to enter the war serviee. On April 5, 1921, he was chosen mayor of Dallas.
On January 14, 1915, romance prevailed and Miss Mary E. Batts, of Austin, became the bride of Mr. Aldredge. She is the daughter of Judge R. L. Batts, prominent lawyer and judge, formerly partner of U. S. Attorney General Gregory, now general counsel of the Gulf Oil Companies. Sawnie R., Jr., age four years, is the benedietion on this union. The family residenee is at 3526 Cedar Springs.
Mayor Aldredge is aetive in the social life of men as well as a leader in their eivic life. He is a Mason. a member of the Dallas Country Club, the Brook Hollow Country Club, the University Club
and the Idlewild Club. He is identified with the Kappa Alpha Fraternity in the world of University men.
Youthful, capable, energetic, Sawnie Robertson . Aldredge is putting his whole soul into his work and is making good in every way. Some of the big projects his administration is already realizing for Dallas is the opening of Pacific Avenue, the removal of the railway traeks from that avenue which will form, in the future, one of the leading business thor- oughfares of the city; the filtration plant at White Rock, valued at $350,000; joint eity-and-eounty hos- pital, valued at $400,000, a much needed institution that city and county are proud of; the extension of St. Paul Street soutlı, which means another through eross town street, which is badly needed. A native of Dallas, he is alive to its every need: widening of North Lamar, St. Paul and Elm Streets, and taking steps to provide for a future water supply; he is farsighted, looking to the future as he plans. "Dal- las has reached the point where it has become the commercial center of Texas and I believe in the next five years it will prosper as much as it has in the last ten years," says Mayor Aldredge, and he is planning his administration activities accordingly.
AJOR L. E. McGEE, ex-police and fire com- missioner of Dallas, came from a family of early settlers in Texas. He eame to Dallas from Waeo in 1907 to take a position with Sanger Brothers as advertising sales manager, which position he efficiently filled for fifteen years. Previous to eoming to Dallas he was associated with the firm of Wolfe and Company of Waco, for a number of years. Major McGee was elected to the office of poliee and fire commissioner of Dallas in 1919 and served for one term.
He was the original organizer of the Tenth In- fantry of Texas, and is major of the Fifth Cavalry. National Guard of Texas. During the late world war Major McGee helped organize various units and also served with Mr. Alex Sanger in managing a department during food administration. He was also chairman of publicity of both Red Cross drives and other war campaigns.
Major McGee was born in Des Moines, Iowa, in 1880. His father was Wm. MeGee, a business man of Chicago, and his mother a granddaughter of Shapely Ross, one of the early settlers of Texas and founder of Waco. His uncle, L. S. Ross was president of A. and M. College, and also former gov- ernor of Texas. Major McGee was edueated in the public sehools of Chieago and the A. and M. College of Texas. He was married in Waco in 1907 to Miss Maude Rowe, of a family of early settlers of Texas. They reside at 1023 Zangs Boulevard. They have five children, Margaret, Sarah, Lawrence, Albert. and J. G. McGee. He is a member of the Masonic Order, Waco Blue Lodge No. 92, a eharter member and one of the organizers of the Cedar Crest Club, a member of the Bone Head Club, also a member of the Episcopal Church.
Notwithstanding the faet that Major McGee was born in Iowa he is hereditarily a native Texan, being deseended from some of the most distinguished of the early settlers of the state, he is bound to be a true Texan in spirit. He was one of the most popular of the Dallas commissioners, and ever since his residence here he has been a valuable addition to the citizenship of Dallas.
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G ENERAL" PATTERSON, as he is familiarly known to thousands of people in the South- west, was born in Talledaga, Alabama. His father was Dr. William Calvin Patterson, a promment physician of Syllacauga, Ala. He at- tended the Louisiana State University three years and later was graduated from the Louisville College i Pharmacy.
In 1878, Mr. Patterson came to Dallas and organ- ized a retail drug store, operating as W. H. Patter- .: on & Co., located at the corner of Main and Lamar. in 1888, he disposed of his interest in the drug store and entered the insurance business as salesman for the Mutual Life Insurance Company. His notable success in the insurance field won him recognition and in 1893 he accepted the appointment as state manager of the Hartford Life Insurance Company.
For twenty years Mr. Patterson devoted his ener- gies to building up his business and when, in 1913, the Hartford Life Insurance Company consolidated with the Missouri State Life Insurance Company he was selected as the man best fitted to become state manager of the newly consolidated companies. Six years later, after 26 years unsurpassed in the in- surance business, he resigned from the management of the Missouri State Life Insurance Company and returned to the profession for which he had educated himself, forming an association with the Ware Chemical Company. On account of his executive ability, he was made president and general manager of the company.
"General" Patterson is well and favorably known in fraternal circles. He was the originator of the Elks' Army that gathered at Waco in 1903 and was selected president of the Elks State Association, and commander-in-chief of the Elks Army. He was a charter member of the Dallas B. P. O. Elks and the 27th member initiated in the Dallas Lodge of Elks No. 71.
William H. Patterson, president and general man- ager of the Ware Chemical Company, 1915 Live Oak Street, is the managing head of one of the oldest- established and best known manufacturing concerns of its kind in the southwest. He is associated with Royal A. Ferris, ex-president of the American Ex- change Bank of Dallas, who is vice-president, A. V. Lane, secretary and treasurer, and P. S. Kerr, assistant secretary and treasurer.
The Ware Chemical Company manufactures Ware's famous powders, including Ware's Black Powder, Ware's Black Powder Tablets, Ware's Baby Powder and Ware's Red Powder. The company was established in 1889 by Dr. James Ware, celebrated stomach specialist. It does a large volume of busi- ness in the Southwest and is operating in 37 states. No expense is spared in advertising, the latest cam- paign running in more than 250 newspapers. The company has an authorized capital of $250,000 and paid up capital of $50,000.
Ware's powders are manufactured and sold for stomach and bowel troubles in adults and children. They are endorsed by the leading physicians of the country and by thousands of people who have used them. The company urges any one suffering from stomach and bowel troubles to send for an attractive little booklet that describes various ailments and tells what to do for them.
The name of the Ware Chemical Company was changed a few years ago from Ware's Black Powder Company, as it was felt the former name more ap- mopriate.
Born and reared in the South, he recalls many interesting and exciting events of the Reconstruction days, and talks very interestingly of them. He is a man well preserved in health, having lived well and yet vigorously. He takes keen interest and great pride in the management of the company whose active head he is, and has shown splendid results. ENERAL ROBERT HOOD McDILL, Dallas, state manager of the Woodmen of the World, is well known throughout the state as the Commander of the Seventy-second brigade of the Thirty-sixth Division, National Guard . of Texas. The general has been identified with the Woodmen of the World since 1900 and for the past eighteen years has been the assistant state manager of that organization. The Woodmen of the World was organized in 1891 and at the present time is the only fraternal insurance society that issues one hundred per cent insurance policies in the world. By this is meant that all moneys received by the organi- zation over the amount necessary to carry the policies are returned to the policyholders as divi- dends or in some other manner. At the present writ- ing the company has a total of two hundred and thirty thousand policy holders in this state and em- ploys eighty-two traveling representatives in the Texas field alone.
Born at Sparta, Illinois, February 11, 1871, Robert Hood MeDill is a son of W. H. and Elizabeth (Brown) McDill, both of Illinois. The elder Mr. McDill was a contractor and came to this state in 1880, locating at Ft. Worth. General McDill received his primary educational training in the public schools of Fort Worth and graduated from the high schools there in 1889. He then attended the Fort Worth Business College where he graduated in 1891, after which he became interested in the cattle business. Five years later he organized a retail jewelry company and in 1900 moved to Dallas, where he continued his jewelry business but limited it to manufacturing. In 1902 he became city manager of the Dallas district for the Woodmen of the World and continued in that capacity until 1913, at which time he was appointed as state manager. Since coming into office the meni- bership of the order has increased by one hundred thousand policy holders and a great part of this in- crease is due to the capable management of General McDill. He has been a member of the National Guard of this state since boyhood and in April of 1918 was appointed a brigadier-general in that or- ganization, by executive order of Governor Hobby, with power to recruit and train the Second Brigade of Cavalry. He was sent to Leon Springs in the summer of 1918 and his brigade was designated for muster into the federal service when the armistice was signed. General McDill still holds his commis- sion and at the present time is in charge of all Na- tional Guard troops at Dallas and East and South- east Texas to the gulf.
The marriage of General MeDill to Miss Orra Stalcup was solemnized at Fort Worth and they are the parents of one child, Millie R. MeDill, who is now Mrs. R. J. Ransom, of Richmond, Texas. In fraternal orders General McDill is a member of the Woodmen of the World, Praetorians, the Maccabees, the Fraternal Aid Union I. T. A., the Modern Wood- men of America and the Woodmen Circle. He also has membership in the American Legion, the Mutual Club, the Dallas Auto Club and the Chamber of Commerce.
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OHN W. PHILP, Dallas postmaster and vice- president of Huey and Philp Hardware Company, wholesale and retail hardware dealers, is equally well known throughout Texas for his success as a business man and for his · prominent place as political leader.
As vice-president of the Huey and Philp Hardware Company he is part of the active management of a business which has grown up with the city of Dallas, partaking of its remarkable development and con- stantly extending patronage. The firm was estab- lished in 1872 by Joseph Huey and Simon Philp, ale uncle to John W., and was incorporated in 1895 with a capital stock of $200,000. This stock was increased in 1904 to $300,000 and again in 1909 to $500,000. In 1920, in order that the employes might be given an interest in the store, the stock was increased to $1,000,000. Almost two-fifths of the present stock is owned by the employes and more than seventy- five per cent is owned by men who are active in the conduct of the business.
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