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The enumeration of Mr. Herold's social and indus- trial affiliations which include the Dallas Country Club, Rotary Club, the Chamber of Commerce, the Auto Club, the Ad League and the Brook Hollow Country Club, indicates the breadth of his interests. He is a 32d degree Mason and a Shriner of Hella Temple. He numbers his friends in all parts of the United States and is highly esteemed by all who really know him.
HARLES O. HODGES, proprietor and man- ager of the Saint George Hotel, of Dallas, has been a citizen of this city for the past forty-five years, and during the major por- tion of that time he has been engaged in the hotel business. During the past few years he has taken an active interest in mining affairs and at the present time is one of the owners of the Saint George mine, consisting of lead and zinc. Mr. Hodges bought the Saint George Hotel in 1895 and since that time has made a number of enlargements and improvements thereon. At the present time the hotel consists of one hundred and ninety rooms, in a fire proof brick building, located at the corner of Commerce and Martin Streets, Dallas. He employs forty people to aid in keeping the hotel up to the desires and expectations of all and for the past twenty-five years the Saint George has been one of the most popular hostelries in this city.
Born in Saline County, Missouri, on the 27th of November, 1864, Charles O. Hodges is a son of M. L. and Lydia (Hunt) Hodges, the former having been a business man and farmer of Missouri. The family moved to Dallas when Charles O. was twelve years of age and thus he was afforded the facilities of the Dallas public school system. After leaving school he accepted a position with the S A. Mahon Dry Goods Company, where he remained until his twenty-first year of age. In 1885 he moved to South Dakota, where he took up the life of a farmer in the Black Hills of that state. Two years later he re- turned to Texas, locating at Abilene, where for the first time he became engaged in the hotel business. Three years later he returnd to Dallas and pur- chased the National Hotel, located on Pacific Avenue, from his father. He operated this hotel until 1895, at which time he bought out the Saint George Hotel, which he has been operating since that time. Mr. Hodges is president of the Saint George Mining Company, which operates the Saint George mine of Missouri, which is said to be one of the largest mines of its kind in that country. In connection with the mine there is a five hundred ton mill, which requires the services of sixty-five men, when in force, and which is one of the largest mills in that state. The entire capital stock of this company is owned by Texas people and its success means prosperity for a number of Texans who have desired to finance the project.
On July 7th, 1887, Mr. Hodges married Miss Emma Bell Kirby, of Peoria, Illinois, who died of influenza in 1918.
In elubs Mr. Hodges has membership in the Little Sandy Hunting and Fishing Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Metropolitan Development Asso- ciation.
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LEX A. SLAUGHTER. The name Slaughter is known over Texas and has been for a generation as being one of the foremost families of the Lone Star State through the renown of its founder, Col. C. C. Slaughter, deceased, one of Texas' biggest men of business and philanthropist. Alex A. Slaughter, 619 Slaughter Building Dallas, Secretary and treas- urer of the C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company, is a star of the first magnitude in one of Texas' oldest and leading industries-the cattle business. Asso- ciated with him until recently in the company's or- ganization were his brothers, E. Dick Slaughter, president, C. C. Slaughter, vice-president and R. L. Slaughter, general manager. The organization was founded by the father, C. C. Slaughter, Sr., who has long been known as the largest private citizen land holder in the world. The ranches are in Hockley and Cochran Counties. Most of the cattle are sold right on the ranches. An extensive business is carried on in breeding.
Recently a division of property was made in the Slaughter estate whereby Mr. Alex A. Slaughter becomes the individual possessor of the 14,000 acre Zavalla Ranch with 1600 herd of Hereford cattle.
Alex A. Slaughter is a native of Dallas, Texas, where he was born in 1881. His father, a pioneer, not only of Dallas but of Texas, has been deceased since January 25, 1919. After completing the Dal- las School System, Alex A. Slaughter attended the Baylor University from which he graduated in 1906 with Ph. B., degree. He at once began in earnest the cattle business with his father's im- mense interests, with which he and his brothers have naturally been associated all their lives.
In the city of Dallas in 1919, Miss Dorothy Gary became the bride of Mr. Slaughter; they have one child-Hattie Louise Slaughter, and the family re- sidence is at 3417 St. John's Drive, Dallas. The Church affiliation is Baptist.
Mr. Slaughter is a member of the New Dallas Athletic Club. He is not only zealous and indus- trious in his business interests, but public-spirited as was his father whose beneficence greatly en- riched Baylor University, Texas' Sanitariums, Bay- lor Medical College and other institutions. He will perpetuate the Slaughter name and reputation as . a leader among the business men of Texas.
HUEY HUGHES, formerly of the Hardware firm of Huey & Philp, Dallas, Texas, the oldest hardware store in Texas' leading metropolis which through its service has rendered for a generation in both the wholesale and retail business in their line have an immense in- fluence and share in all the hardware business of northern and western as well as eastern Texas. The firm was established more than a generation ago by Mr. Philp and Joseph Huey, grandfather of Mr. Hughes. Dallas is an immense business center for the Southwest; wholesale houses regard it a chief location and to say that the firm of Huey & Philp is the largest hardware wholesale and retail store in Dallas is to put the organization at the forefront in its industry in the Southwest.
Mr. Hughes devotes a large portion of his time to the extensive interest in Dallas, which constitute large investments in Texas realty and other Dallas interests.
Mr. Hughes is a native Texan, born at Dallas, 1884. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. Ashford
Hughes, his mother the daughter of Joseph Huey, a founder of the present day big business. The Dallas School System and Blee's Military Academy of Missouri gave the youth his preparatory train- ing which was completed by four years in Amherst College. Mr. Hughes began his business career by starting with the M. K. & T. with which he remained for a year; he then was president of the Trinity Ware House Co. for three years and was with the Planters Cotton Oil Company two years. He then entered the firm of Huey & Philp.
Mr. Hughes resides at 1805 Pocahontas St., Dallas. He was with the Fifth Regiment of Texas Cavalry for eight months. He is a member of the D. K. E. Fraternity and the Dallas Country Club, the City Club, Polo Club of Dallas and the Racquet Club of St. Louis as well as of the Episcopal Church.
As a leading official in one of Texas' biggest busi- ness concerns, Mr. Hughes will be a leader in his realm for his generation.
A MONTE DANIELS, former president of the Texas Harvester Company and now one of the active executives of the International Harvester Company at Chicago, is a recog- nized authority on all matters pertaining to agri- cultural implements and machinery, having spent almost a life time in this business and devoting to it much thought and intensive study.
Mr. Daniels came to Dallas from Minneapolis, Min- nesota, on March 8, 1906, and during his fourteen years residence in Dallas came to be regarded as one of the foremost business men of the city and state. He was first connected with the International Har- vester Company as assistant manager and when the Texas Harvester Company was organized in 1907, he became treasurer and assistant manager of that organization, continuing in that capacity until 1915 when he was elected president of the company. When the business was sold out to the International in 1919 he returned to that organization and it was a great disappointment to friends and business asso- ciates in Dallas when it was learned he was to go to the general office of the company in Chicago.
Believing firmly in the future of the agricultural resources of Texas, Mr. Daniels is likewise very optimistic as to the growth of Dallas. He feels that the city owes its present pre-eminent position largely to its commanding location with reference to the great agricultural sections of Texas and expects to see it grow and expand into a city of half a million inhabitants.
Mr. Daniels was born at Minneapolis, June 11, 1876, and was raised in an atmosphere of farm in- plements, his father, H. L. Daniels, being for many years general agent for the McCormick Harvester Company. He was educated in the public schools of Minneapolis and at the University of Minnesota. On March 16, 1898, he was married to Miss Clara N. Frisk, daughter of M. Frisk, a prominent banker of New Richmond, Wisconsin. They have two sons, Horace N. and Belden L. Daniels, who are now in the Culver Military Academy.
One of the hobbies of Mr. Daniels is aiding deserv- ing young men to secure an education He was chair- man of the educational committee of the Rotary Club which fostered and put over the plan of estab- lishing a revolving fund which is being used by the Club to loan to young men striving for an education. One of the Important achievements of Mr. Daniels
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was when he put over the Fifth Liberty Loan in Dallas County without the aid of the banking in- stitutions.
Mr. Daniels is a man among men, accustomed to the direction of great undertakings and has proven himself capable of handling anything he may under- take. He is a director of the American Exchange National Bank, the Dallas Trust and Savings Bank, a member of the Dallas City and Country Clubs and the University Club, and a director of the United Charities of Dallas.
C. SLAUGHTER, president of the C. C. Slaughter Co. and vice-president of the C. C. Slaughter Cattle Co., with offices in the Slaughter Building, has devoted prac- ureally his entire business career to the cattle and real estate business on the large scale and in that field he has come to be one of the outstanding figures of the Southwest.
The C. C. Slaughter Co. was formerly in the cattle business but has recently given its entire attention to real estate. It owns 200,000 acres of the original Col. C. C. Slaughter estate in Howard, Borden, Daw- son and Martin Counties with other holdings in Hudspeth and El Paso Counties.
The C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company has ranches in Hockley and Cochran Counties. It owns the Lazy "S" ranch sixty miles west of Lubbock, which con- tains 245,000 acres and maintains from 10,000 to 12,000 head of cattle. In addition to these interests Mr. Slaughter is director of the Brown Company and was formerly director of the Republic Fire Insur- ance Company of Highland Park.
Mr. Slaughter is a native of Dallas, born February 8, 1879. He came of the stock of pioneer settlers who saw Texas in her infancy. His grandfather was a Baptist preacher who came to Texas at an early date and took part in her struggle for independence. When Gen. Sam Houston needed a man to go on the difficult and dangerous mission of carrying a mess- age to Travis who was then in the Alamo, command- ing him to withdraw it was this grandfather who volunteered to go. The father of the present Mr. Slaughter was the late Col. Christopher Columbus Slaughter, a native of Texas, who established the well known Slaughter estate and was a figure of outstanding prominence in the cattle business. Col. Slaughter met Miss Carrie Averill, mother of the present Slaughter while he was driving cattle through Kansas where she was teaching school and their marriage was the culmination of an interesting romance. Mrs. Slaughter is still living. The younger Slaughter was educated in the Dallas public schools and in Baylor University, of Waco, Texas, from which he graduated in 1902 with the Ph. B. degree.
On December 16, 1903, Mr. Slaughter was married to Miss Elma Letcher, daughter of Dr. J. S. Letcher, a prominent physician of Dallas. An eleven year old daughter, Ann Ella, is the only child. The Slaughter residence is at 3509 Worth Street.
Through his connection with the Texas Cattle Raisers Association, of which he is executive com- mitteeman, of which his father was a charter mem- ber and past president, and with the Pan Handle and Southwestern Association, Mr. Slaughter has done much for the advancement of the cattle raising industry in Texas. He was chairman of the com- mittee which brought about the merger of the two
associations. He is a member of the Elks Club, the City Club, the Lakewood Country Club, the Dallas Auto Club and the Chamber of Commerce. The mere recital of these activities indicates the scope of his industrial and social activities. The family are members of the Baptist Church. He finds his chief recreation in motoring, hunting and ranching. Through the wide range of his interests Mr. Slaugh- ter has been associated with great numbers of the more prominent Texans and as a result he is well known and highly esteemed throughout the state.
HOMAS DAVIS HOUGHTON, president of the Houghton-Reardon Company, watch- makers and wholesale dealers in jewelers' supplies, 110316 Main Street, has for the past decade been in the wholesale jewelry business and as a result of the minute knowledge of the in- dustry which he had formerly acquired, he has risen steadily in prominence until he has become one of the outstanding figures in the jewelry trade of the Southwest.
The Houghton-Reardon Company was organized in 1911 by Mr. Houghton and has gradually widened the borders of its territory until it now covers al- most the whole of Texas and parts of Louisiana, Arkansas and Oklahoma. To cover this area, three salesmen are constantly on the road and ten em- ployees are required to handle the local trade. The jewelers supply department carries every part of every American made watch on the market. As an indication of the continued growth of the firm, the sales for 1919 more than doubled those of the previ- ous year and in 1920 there was a similar increase.
Mr. Houghton was born in Perry, Texas, February 17, 1878. The family moved first to Ennis, Texas, and later to Dallas where the elder Mr. Houghton became well known in the life insurance business. Mrs. Houghton was formerly Miss Lula Willard and was a native of Texas. The younger Mr. Hough- ton was educated in the schools of Ennis and Dal- las and at an early age went into the jewelry busi- ness in the employ of T. J. Hines. For the first six months he worked for nothing and for the second six months he was paid a dollar a week. In 1897 he went into the jewelry supply line with Morgan & . Hawley at three dollars a week. He remained with this firmu until 1908 and for the following two years he was on a farm near Dallas. In 1911 he returned to the city and organized the Houghton-Reardon Company. The other members of the firm are Mr. Royal A. Ferris and Mr. Sam Turner.
Mr. Houghton was married to Mrs. Ella May Browne and to them two sons were born, Thomas Ruess and Reeves Reardon. The Houghton resi- denee is at 4508 Reiger Avenue.
After a residence of more than thirty years in Dallas Mr. Houghton is able to speak with authority on most topics pertaining to the life of the city and he has the feeling that her chances for development are unlimited. The trustworthy service of his own establishnient has done much to make it the whole- sale center of the Southwest. He is a member of the Praetorian Lodge and is a Maccabee. He is actively connected with the local Chamber of Com- merce and with the Wholesale Credit Men's Associa- tion. He may well be characterized as a successful business man and a highly respected citizen.
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OSSER J. COKE, member of the firm of Coke and Coke, attorneys at law, American Exchange Bank Building, Dallas, is well las . known among the younger attorneys of Dal- He has followed a corporate practice almost exelusively. A member of one of the oldest families of Texas, the name of Coke has been eonneeted with the courts and politics of the state for over a half of a century. Before becoming a member of the present firm he practiced independently and was a successful practitioner. Coke and Coke is one of the largest legal firnis in Texas. The personnel of the firm ineludes Henry C. Coke, Alex S. Coke, Rosser J. and Richard W. Coke.
A native son of Dallas, Rosser J. Coke was born August 3rd, 1888. He is a son of Henry C. and Margaret (Johnson) Coke. He is a great nephew of Richard Coke, one of the distinguished early Texans, governor of the state in 1874 and later United States Senator. Mr. Coke was educated at St. Matthews Academy, a private preparatory school at Dallas, the University of the South, at Sewanee, Tennessee and later studied law at Washington and Lee University at Lexington, Virginia. After two and one-half years there he received the degree of Bachelor of Laws and then returned to Dallas, where he took up the practice of his profession. He began independently and remained so until August, 1917, at which time he entered the aviation section of the United States Army. He was commissioned a first lieutenant in November of the same year, after train- ing at Leon Springs and San Antonio, Texas. He served in the aviation corps till the war was over, being mustered out of the service in January, 1919. Upon returning to Dallas he beeame a member of the firm of Coke and Coke and has remained with that firm ever sinee that time.
On December 28th, 1911, Mr. Coke married Miss Hazel Long, of Dallas, and they are the parents of two children, Rosser J., Jr., and John Lawson Coke. The Coke home is on Gaston Avenue, Dallas.
In fraternal orders Mr. Coke is a member of the Phi Delta Theta College Fraternity and the Phi Delta Phi honorary legal fraternity. While in col- lege he was very active in student activities and was a member of most all of the elubs. He is a member of the City Club, The Lakewood Country Club, The Chamber of Commerce and the University Club of Dallas.
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UGENE DE BOGORY, attorney-at-law, 731 Western Indemnity building, Dallas, al- though he only recently came to Dallas has well established himself in the legal fra- ternity at this bar as a corporation lawyer, which branch of the law he has made a specialty of during his entire praetice. However he is better known in business cireles as one of the organizers and at the present time Viee President of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company, the first day and night bank ever operated in Northern Texas. He brought with him to Dallas the reputation of being one of the best lawyers of the eity of Abilene and a banker of long experience and ability.
Born in Geneva, Orange county, Florida, Septem- ber 13, 1880, Eugene DeBogory is a son of P. De- Bogory, a lumber and mill man of Miami, Florida, who recently retired from active business. The younger Mr. DeBogory received his early education in the public schools of his native city and then at- tended the University of Texas, where he graduated
in 1907 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In 1908 he went to Abilene and began his practice and while there was president of the First State Bank and Trust Company and represented that district in the 35th Legislature. In 1917 he entered the army at the Leon Springs training eamp and was gradua- ted the rank of Major of Cavalry. He was stationed at San Antonio until December 5th, 1918, at which time he was discharged from the service. He then came to Dallas and resumed his praetice and a short while afterwards was successful in the organization of the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company. He has specialized in corporation law and is now the attor- ney for a number of large corporations, among which are the American Pneumatic Corporation and the Guaranty Bank and Trust Company.
In the 35th Legislature Mr. DeBogory was the commissioner of appeals and a member of the ef- ficiency committee of the Legislature and as such was instrumental in many reform measures affect- ing the state judiciary system.
On July 1, 1907, Mr. DeBogory married Miss Dora Weaver, a native Texan and a daughter of Morgan Weaver. They are the parents of two children, Larry and Francis DeBogory. The home of the family is situated at 3818 Mockingbird Lane, High- land Park. Mr. DeBogory is an active member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Dallas and State Bar Association. He was one of the organizers of the Dallas Polo Association and has been president of that Association since organization.
UDGE GILBERT HAVEN IRISH, attorney and counsellor at law, of Dallas, has for twenty-five years served the people of Dal- las County in both public and private ca- pacities and to him is due the eredit for a number of laws that makes Dallas one of the best governed cities in Texas.
A native of Wisconsin, Judge Irish was born at the town of Sextonville, in 1872, a son of Rev. William R. and Martha (Banks) Irish. His father, who was a native of New York State, moved to Wis- consin in the early days, becoming a pioneer cireuit rider for the Methodist Church, and as a minister for over forty years filled a number of important charges. Two of his brothers were also pioneer ministers, and a son, Rev. James W. Irish is now a presiding elder at Chippewa Falls, Wiseonsin. Rev. William R. Irish is still living, his home being at Baraboo, Wisconsin. Gilbert H. Irish received his early education in Edwards public and high school of Wiseonsin, following which he attended Lawrenee University and the University of Ne- braska, graduating from the latter institution in 1894 with the degree of LL. B. While there he was acquainted with General Pershing, who was an in- structor at Nebraska, and also William Jennings Bryan, who lived at Lincoln. Judge Irish paid his own way through college by printing work and for a time after his graduation he studied law in the office of the Hon. William Lease, ex-attorney gen- eral of Nebraska, and was admitted to practise in Lincoln in 1894. The year 1896 saw the advent of Mr. Irish in Dallas where he became a general practitioner and has continued as such to the present time. As representative of his ward in the eity council for four years, he inaugurated the move- ment to acquire as rapidly as possible suitable grounds for public parks, and at considerable per- sonal expense, with the aid of others, condueted two
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campaigns for the levy of a tax for the purchase of park grounds. He also drafted the suburban saloon law for the city and finally succeeded in having it passed by the state legislature. He is the author of the anti-pass bill of the present Dallas City Charter. During the past war he was vice- chairman of the County Counsel of Defense and was very active in its affairs.
On June 20, 1894, Judge Irish was married at Platteville, Wisconsin, to Mss Luella Henderson, daughter of W. T. Henderson, of Tully, New York. Six children have been born to this union, namely, Alva, Helen, Gilbert, Marjorie, Dorothy and Robert. The family residence is at 3006 Cole Avenue, Dallas.
The following organizations honor Judge Irish as a member: Hella Temple Shrine, City Club, Dallas Country Club, Automobile Club, Kiwanis Club, the Dallas County Bar Association and the Dallas Chamber of Commerce, which he has served as director. His long and faithful service to the city of his adoption have marked him as a man of commendable public spirit who has considered it his duty to give his best to the public weal.
HOMAS J. COLE, senior member of the legal firm of Cole and Williams, has been the president of the Texas Mortgage Com- pany for nearly thirty years. Although ac- complished in the law he has used his legal training and ability to business advantage and has devoted the greater part of his time to the activities of the company of which he is the president. His law part- ner, I. M. Williams, has been associated with him for the past twenty years and at the present tinie handles all of the legal business of the firm.
The Texas Mortgage Company was organized by Mr. Cole in 1891 at Waxahachie, Texas. It engaged exclusively in farm loans and in 1912 a branch office was opened in Dallas. Six years later the Waxa- hachie office was sold and all of the business of the company was brought to Dallas. The concern is now capitalized at a half a million dollars and is one of the largest of its kind in Dallas. The officers of the company are: T. J. Cole, president; D. G. Thompson, vice-president; I. M. Williams, secretary, and J. R. Hood, assistant secretary.
A son of William G. and Olivia J. (Truitt) Cole, Thomas J. Cole was born November 4th, 1855, in Sumpter County, Alabama. In 1870 he came to Texas with his parents and located on a farm near Waxahachie, Texas. His early education was se- cured in the public schools of Alabama and Texas. In 1884 he was elected tax assessor of Ellis County, Texas and served in that capacity for six years. In 1889 he formed a partnership with Mr. Phillips for the purpose of engaging in the real estate busi- ness, under the firm name of Phillips Cole and Company. In 1891 Mr. Cole organized the Texas Mortgage Company and soon thereafter became its president which position he has held ever since that time. Mr. Cole also has an interest in the Texas Electric Railway Company and has been a member of its executive committee ever since organization.
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