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The company manufactures a complete line of can- dies and confectioneries, chocolates, package goods and pail specialties, and enjoys a large business throughout the Dallas trade territory. The business has grown from a very small beginning to one of the largest in the Southwest and is well known for the quality of its products and its business integrity. For years the name of Hughes Bros. has been a fa- miliar one in the homes of the people in Texas and the adjacent states.
Mr. Hughes is a native of Dallas, born in 1885, and educated in the Dallas Public schools, St. Mat- thews Academy and Georgetown University. He was married in St. Louis, Mo., to Miss Frances Al- bert, in 1910, and has one son, Henry C. Jr. The family home is located at 3601 Gillon avenue, High- land Park. He is a member of the Dallas Country Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the Automobile Club, the New Athletic Club and the Holy Trinity Church. Mr. Hughes is interested in all civic mat- ters pertaining to Dallas and never loses an oppor- tunity to cooperate in any movement to make it a greater and more progressive city.
B. KING is reputed to be one of the most capable scenic artists in the South, has to his credit some of the finest scenic work in theatres that can be found anywhere. The scenic decorations of some of the best known theatres of Dallas, including the Majestic, the Hippo- drome and the Jefferson, stand as examples of his artistic skill. He has also done a great deal of work for the Southern Enterprises Corporation and has furnished the scenery for a number of theatres throughout Texas. In addition to himself, two men are employed in his shop and a third is on the road.
Mr. King was born in Verdun, Illinois, March 26, 1885. His father, T. J. King, was a native of Ala- bama and his mother, Frances (Lee) King, was from Oklahoma. Mr. King was educated in the schools of Chicago and New Orleans and spent much time attending night schools. In 1901 he went with Clark Cox, a scenic artist of New Orleans and worked with him in the preparing of floats for the Mardi Gras and for various occasions in other places. He remained in New Orleans until 1910 in which year he came to Texas and began business for him- self. In 1916 he opened the Dallas studio with which he has since remained.
Mr. King was married in September, 1908, to Miss Lillian Ellis whose family was from Pennsylvania but who was reared in Chicago. There are two chil- dren, Samuel Bartram and Shirley Laverne. The King residence is at 3302 South Harwood Street.
Although he is not to be classed among the older citizens of the city, there is no man in Dallas who is more confident of her promising future or who supports her public enterprises with more en- thusiasm. He is a Maccabee and a member of the Knights of Pythias Lodge.
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HARLES F. WEILAND, owner of the Charles F. Weiland Undertaking Company and president of the New Process Bakery, both located in Dallas, has been one of the leading business men of Dallas for several years. His undertaking establishment has earned him a reputation throughout Texas of being an honest, upright and capable business man. His social activities have gained for him the reputation throughout this community as being a philanthropist and citizen of the ideal type.
The Charles F. Weiland Undertaking Company, unincorporated, was established by him in 1910. Starting in a most unpropitious way with a hole in the wall as an office, and a one horse shay as a hearse, the Weiland Undertaking Company has had a most prodigious growth until at the present time it is the second largest undertaking company in the city. The offices and chapel of the company are located at 517 North Ervay Street
The New Process Bakery was opened in Dallas in the month of May, 1919, and in a short while had made a name for itself as one of the best bak- eries of the down town district. The bakery is lo- cated at 1521 Elm Street.
In the year 1870, at Indianapolis, Indiana, Charles F. Weiland, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Weiland, was born. The elder Mr. Weiland was one of the pioneer grocery men of Indianapolis having been engaged in that business for fifty-seven years. He was one of the earliest settlers coming to that part of the country, which was then unsettled, when the Indians roamed the plains and made the life of the "pale face" a most hazardous one. The public schools of Indianapolis furnished the younger Mr. Weiland his education. After graduating he began traveling as the representative of northern vehicle manufacturers. It was in 1893 that he first set foot on Texas soil and from that time on has been a loyal supporter of the Lone Star State, and has many friends in all cities and towns of Texas. He traveled the entire state for seventeen years, repre- senting several buggy manufacturers up until 1910 when he established his present business. Since that time he has taken interest in other concerns, among which may be classed the New Process Bak- ery. He also is on the board of the Dallas Street Railway Company.
Mr. Weiland married Miss Cora May Goodman on December 31, 1895. They have one child, Miss Alice Weiland, who is a graduate of the Dallas high school and the Southern Methodist University. Mrs. Weiland is active in women's clubs throughout the state, being county chairman of Rural Life, third vice-president of the Woman's Forum, chairman of the Empty Stocking Crusade and originator of Tag Day. She is one of the incorporators of the "Little Theatre" which has for its purpose a community wide spirit and not to be commercialized.
Mr. Weiland is a member of the following orders: Hella Temple Shrine, Pentagon No. 1080, A. F. and A. M. Consistory No. 2, Scottish Rite Mason, is the supreme representative of the Knights of Pythias and Imperial Sheik, which is an officer in the Im- perial Palace of the dramatic order of Knights of Khorassan and past dictator of the Loyal Order of Moose. He is a past president of the Kiwanis Club. a member of the Automobile Club, the Lakewood Country Club and the Advertising League, Odd Fel- łows and B. P. O. Elks.
EDGAR PADGITT. Back in 1869, when the great metropolis of the Southwest-Dallas -now stretching for miles along the banks of the Trinity-was a little village of small stores, grouped around the court house square, there was established here the house of Padgitt Bros., founded by J. D. and W. C. Padgitt, brothers.
Today this pioneer organization, keeping pace with its environment, is recognized as one of the largest and most progressive of the South's whole- salers of harness, saddles, leather findings, tires and truck bodies. The present location of the busi- ness is at 1020 Commerce Street. The interests of the late W. C. Padgitt, deceased, are represented by his four sons. Mr. J. D. Padgitt still serves the company as president, and has his two sons asso- ciated with him.
R. Edgar Padgitt, credit manager of Padgitt Bros., was born in Dallas; he received his education in the public schools and at the Virginia Military Institute, Lexington, Va. In 1914 he married Miss Lucile Perkins, daughter of Judge and Mrs. E. B. Perkins, of Dallas.
Mr. Padgitt is a Shriner and a member of the Dallas Country Club. He attends the First Presby- terian Church. His residence address is 4816 St. John's Drive, Highland Park.
DWARD F. PITTMAN, general manager of the G. H. Pittman & Brother, wholesale firm dealing in photographic supplies at Ervay and Pacific Avenues, directs a fastly growing industry and conducts the only exclusive supply house for a half dozen states-Texas, Louis- iana, Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona. The business was founded in 1900 by G. H. and E. F. Pittman. The advance from the faint old tin-type prints that marked the beginning of a science, as our fathers knew it, to the present day life-like creations that will preserve the image of youth for its old days and even for generations to come, is a marvel that is Aladdin-like indeed. The harnessing of the industry for magazine and press work, and now for great display advertising, is one of the latest unfolding possibilities of the trade. These advances multiply a thousand-fold the call upon the whole- sale dealer, and it is because G. H. Pittman & Bro. are measuring up to this demand that they today have the largest photographic supply house in the South.
Mr. Pittman was born February 10, 1867, at St. Louis, Mo. Appreciating the advantages of the great Lone Star State, the family immigrated to Texas and Edward F. Pittman first arrived in Dallas as a youth in 1886. He returned, however, to his native state, Missouri, when later he selected a bride, Miss Mae Wright. They have two children, George H. and Katherine Pittman.
Mr. Pittman volunteered his services to Uncle Sam in 1917 and was assigned to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology for training in the naval aviation, completing his course and receiving his commission as ensign at Key West and Pensacola, Florida.
The fact that. Mr. Pittman's firm has succeeded in becoming the leading photographie supply house in the Southwest is the best proof of his progressive- ness which so well identities him with the Chicago of the Southwest.
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AN ZANDT JARVIS, Fort Worth, Texas, has a large place in Tarrant County activi- ties as pioneer, cattleman, banker and capi- talist, and is known in the cattle industry throughout the United States and Central America as a producer of thoroughbred Short Horns and Herefords. He comes of a family whose activities are inseparably interwoven with Texas history, whether from the viewpoint of statesmen, warriors, or men of big business.
Van Zandt Jarvis is a native Texan; he was born in Tarrant County, in 1873. His father and mother both are illustrious in Texas nobility. J. J. Jarvis, his father, was a native of North Carolina who came to Texas in 1857, locating in Wood County as an attorney and later was district attorney and then district judge for that county; in 1873, he moved to Fort Worth and there practiced law until 1881 when he began service in the state legislature, returning after that, to Fort Worth. His mother, Ida Van Zandt Jarvis, was born in Washington, D. C., as her father, Isaac Van Zandt, was minister there from the Republic of Texas. He was a great and intimate friend of Sam Houston and after his return to Texas he was in the race for the governor- ship but died of the yellow fever, at Houston, Texas, before the election. The Fort Worth public schools and Texas Christian University, at that time at Thorpe Springs, gave Mr. Jarvis his education. From that date he has been active in business, prominent as cattleman, banker and in real estate. He owns 4,000 acres in Tarrant County, 2,500 of which are in cultivation and the remainder in ranches, and has 28,000 acres of land in Erath and Hood counties. He has 2,000 registered Short Horns and Hereford breed cows from which he raises and ships thoroughbreds to"all parts of the United States, Mexico, South America and Central America. He also buys and fattens steers for the market. He is a director of the Fort Worth Na- tional Bank, a stockholder in the First National Bank of Fort Worth, and of the Haslett State Bank at Haslett, Texas.
In 1901, in Fort Worth, Texas, Miss Ann Burgess, daughter of J. W. Burgess, deceased, a cattleman known all over Texas, became the bride of Mr. Jarvis. They have five children: Van Zandt, Jr., Priscilla, Jane, Mary and John Lycurgus. The family residence is a beautiful suburban home.
Mr. Jarvis is a member of the Cattle Raisers' Association, the Short Horn Association, and the Hereford Association.
He is a member of the executive committee of Fat Stock Show, the Great Southwestern Exposition, one of the greatest of its kind in the world, is a director of the Chamber of Commerce, a distinct honor, inasmuch as Mr. Jarvis resides outside the city limits. He is a member of the board of trustees of Texas Christian University and chairman of the finance committee. He has had a prominent part- in making his city, Fort Worth, the largest calf market in the world and one of the best breeding centers in the United States.
UTHER H. VAN ZANDT, owner and man- ager of the Van Zandt Iron Works, 209 West Railroad Street, Fort Worth, is skilled in the output of ice and refriger- ator machinery which his plant is engaged in manu- facturing. Established in February of 1899, the Van Zandt Iron Works is well known to the South-
west and has enjoyed an extensive share in the production and installation of refrigerator plants. It bids well in the business of the Southwest in its line today.
Mr. Van Zandt is a native Texan and a native of Fort Worth where he was born in August, 1871, of noted Texan lineage. His father, Dr. J. L. Van Zandt, retired, who practised medicine in this city for about 50 years. His mother was Ellen Henderson (Van Zandt) native of Texas, born in Marshall. After a thorough course in the Thorpe Springs and Fort Worth school systems, Luther H. Van Zandt attended the University of Michigan. where he studied mechanical and electrical engi- neering. His schooling finds its full fruition in his manufacturing work of today. His plant has a floor space 103 feet by 230 feet and employs fifteen workmen. Installation service on machinery they manufacture is maintained by the company. The Van Zandt Iron Works in its beginning was a part- nership organization but today Luther H. Van Zandt is sole owner.
In Clarksville, Tenn., in 1907, Miss Keesee, a native of Tennessee, became the bride of Mr. Van Zandt. William, Gertrude, Henderson and Nell are the four children of this union and the family resi- dence is at 1818 Henderson Avenue.
Mr. Van Zandt is a leader in business circles of his metropolis; he is thoroughly entitled to be ranked with those who have attained success of the first magnitude. The name Van Zandt, through its historical associations with the Republic of Texas and now with the state affairs, as bankers, as busi- ness men of marked ability, has sterling worth throughout the Lone Star State. Luther H. Van Zandt well perpetuates the name, the ability and the success, as well as service to the public in which he is eminent. He is identified not only with business interests but throws the full weight of his influence and helpfulness to every civic enterprise of worth.
ARNEY SMITH is best known to the citi- zens of Fort Worth by his long association in the city with the George W. Armstrong Company, of which institution he was vice- president and general manager, and which he aided in building up to be one of the leading manufactur- ing companies of Texas.
The greater part of the life of Mr. Smith has been associated with machinery and the manufacturing of various kinds of iron and steel commodities. He has worked in all capacities with machinery, from the position as blacksmith, draftsman, to the man- ager of the large manufacturing plant, with nearly five hundred employees under his management.
The story of the life of Barney Smith would read much like that of many citizens of today, who have started in at the bottom of the wrung and worked up through energy and persistence to the top of the ladder of success. He was born in Dayton. Ohio, April 6, 1881. His parents were A. J. and Sarah Smith, farmers of the Buckeye State. Re -. ceiving his preliminary schooling in the publie schools of Ohio and Indiana, he was graduated from the University of Indiana Law College, at Bloom- ington, Ind., in 1898. Becoming admitted to the bar, he opened up a law practice at Muncie, Ind .. where he, through ill-health, found it necessary to give up his practice. In order to build up his con- stitution and physique he went to work in a black-
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«mith shop in the iron mills of Muncie, Ind. He rapidly advanced up to a position as foreman of a number of departments. He later was associated with the Republic Iron & Steel Company and the Highland Iron and Steel Company of Terra Haute, Indiana, remaining until 1904, when he accepted a position with the Helmbacher Rolling & Forge Company. While working in the shops, Mr. Smith became a student in the Scranton Correspondence School and by ardent and persistent study during spare hours secured a finished education as a me- chanical engineer, to which he has owed much of his success in the mechanical world. On coming to Fort Worth in 1906, he became associated with the George W. Armstrong Company. In 1910 he be- came the superintendent of the entire plant, in 1912 was elected vice-president of the institution and under his management it grew to be one of the lead- ing industries in the Southwest. January 1, 1921, he severed his relations with the George W. Arm- strong Company to look after his own interests, handling iron and steel products with offices in the Burkburnett Building.
The marriage of Mr. Smith to Miss Julia A. Turner, daughter of James B. Turner, a Tarrant County farmer, took place at Terra Haute, Indiana, in 1903. They are the parents of four children. Beatrice, Barney, Jr., Anna Belle and Alma Delle, the two last being twins.
Barney Smith is a Mason with both the Scottish and York Rites, being a member of the Fort Worth Commandery No. 19, Moslah Temple Shrine and Dallas Consistory No. 2. He is a member of the Riverside Country Club, Fort Worth Club, and the Rotary Club. Throughout the entire period of his residence in Fort Worth, Mr. Smith has taken an active interest and a leading part in all civic af- fairs, which are launched for the progress of Fort Worth. He has been a potent factor in the com- mercial and industrial development of the Panther City.
B. NEWHALL, president and general man- ager of the Newhall Labor Saving Equip- ment Company, offices in the Reynolds Building, is one of the real big business men of Fort Worth, identified with its commercial, industrial, civic and social life for the past four- teen years and a strong believer in the future great- ness of his city. Connected with him in the New- hall company are his two sons, G. H. Newhall, a graduate of Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., as secretary-treasurer, and N. H. Newhall, graduate engineer of Stevens Institute of Technology, Ho- boken, N. J., as engineer. The company are manu- facturers' agents for conveying machinery of all kinds for factories, warehouses and industrial plants desiring the best facilities for speeding up produc- tion, cutting down labor costs, etc. The following Fort Worth concerns are a few of the most promi- nent that have been supplied with equipment sold by the Newhall company: Swift & Co., Armour & Co., Smith Bros. Elevator Co., Fort Worth Stock Yards, Star Telegram News Building, North Texas Traction Co., Burrus Mill and Elevator Co., Trades Cotton Oil Co., Nissley Creamery Co., and many ethers. The company's Texas territory extends from Parallel 31 degrees to Red River.
Mr. Newhall came to Fort Worth in 1907, and in 1916 he established his present business, to handle chiefly labor saving devices manufactured by the
Mathews Gravity Carrier Company. Since then cther companies have been added to the list of those the firm represents, until today the company is in . a position to furnish every class of labor saving equipment made, and is always able to show to ad- vantage such equipment and how it will speed up production.
Graduating from the Worcester Polytechnic of Worcester, Mass., in 1882 with the degree of M. E., Mr. Newhall worked as a machinery designer and salesman for several large eastern companies and was master mechanic for the American Axe Co. (formerly Douglas Axe Co.), for six years. For many years he traveled over southern territory as machinery salesman, and from 1909 until he en- gaged in business in Fort Worth, he was engineer and salesman for the Southwestern Mechanical Co. of Fort Worth.
Mr. Newhall is a native of Boston, Mass., born in 1860, son of Maurice B. Newhall. He was edu- cated in the public and high schools of Boston. His wife was a Miss Annie F. Hubbard, and they have four children, two sons and two daughters, the latter being Mrs. J. M. Barnhart, of Childress, Texas, and Mrs. Lewis Kowalski, of Brownsville, Texas. The family home in Fort Worth is in beautiful Ar- lington Heights. Mr. Newhall is identified with the Chamber of Commerce, the Salesmanship Club, the Rotary Club, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers of New York and the Sons of the Ameri- can Revolution.
LLEN G. BUTLER, vice-president of the Texas Manufacturing Company, manages this company's business at 321 Fifteenth Street, Fort Worth, where they are en- gaged in turning out a line of mill, gin, steam and water plant supplies for a growing trade extending throughout Texas and Oklahoma and other states of the Southwestern group.
Mr. Butler was born in 1884, in Belton, Texas, where he received his earlier schooling, but later attended a preparatory school in Virginia. His parents, George J. Butler and Sarah James Butler, both are now deceased. In 1915 he was married in Marlin, Texas, to Miss Allouse Ragland, daughter cf William Ragland and a native of San Antonio. They have one child, a son, Master A. J. Butler, and reside at 1731 Sixth Avenue, Fort Worth.
After making an early start with the Texas Man- ufacturing Company in 1900, Mr. Butler has, so to speak, grown up with the business, which has been established for 26 years. Mr. Butler is now realizing the benefit of sticking to one thing. When he first started out as a young man he made a modest be- ginning with this concern and he is now its active head by virtue of personal efficiency as well as that very fundamental rule of success, which depends upon the perseverence of the individual. For many years he was active as a salesman, traveling throughout the Southwest territory, but since 1913 has been head of the organization as vice-president and manager.
Associated with him are Sam Davidson, president; A. J. Panstch, secretary, and A. H. Davidson, treas- urer. At their place of business in Fort Worth this company has a building of three floors and basement all of which afford 40,000 square feet of floor space. Here are employed 35 people, while there are ten men on the road traveling in Texas and Oklahoma.
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S S. I.ARD, president of Nissley Creamery Co., established at Fort Worth in 1901, belongs to that type of nien who begin in a small way and grow. The Nissley Creamery Com- pany started in business with small capital and 900 feet of floor space, and in 1917 it had a new building with 30,000 square feet of floor space, seventy-five employes in the main plant, three manufacturing branches, nine sales branches and twelve men on the road covering all of Texas, part of Louisiana, Arkan- sas, and New Mexico, is preparing to send its forces into Old Mexico, and did four million dollars' worth of business in 1920. The main product of the com- pany is the celebrated "Mistletoe" brand of butter, one of the most popular brands and the largest seller in the territory in which it is distributed. T. W. Robinson of Fort Worth, is vice-president of the com- pany.
Mr. Lard went into the company on a salary and in 1908 was elected president of the company in ap- preciation of the remarkable and high character of service he had given the company as an employe, and the great success made by the company is evi- dence of his splendid business ability and executive management. He is also a director in the National Bank of Commerce, Fort Worth, and owns leases and other holdings in the various Oil Felds. He is a na- tive of Riley County, Kansas, born October 9th, 1886, and was educated in the public schools there and at the Kansas Agricultural School, where he studied dairying and acquired that knowledge of the business that has made it possible for him to become the head of one of the largest creamery concerns in the South. His father, S. B. Lard, deceased, was a Kansas far- mer. Mr. Lard was married in Forth Worth in 1907, to Miss Mary Potishman daughter of H. Potishman. They have one son, Homer 12 years of age. Mr. Lard is a Scottish Rite Mason and member of Moslah Temple Shrine, and Dallas Consistory No. 2. In the club life in Fort Worth he is identified with the Fort Worth Club, the Rotary Club, the Elks, the Glen Gar- den Country Club, and the Rivercrest Country Club. He claims that his city is one of the best in Texas, and that it is growing better all the time.
B EN E. KEITH, president of the Harkrider- Keith-Cooke Company, 1801 Jones Street, wholesale fruit and produce dealers, is a native of Fort Worth and proud of it. His entire life time has been spent here and he has no desire or intention of going elsewhere to reside.
Mr. Keith was born March 20, 1882, his parents being C. S. and Mary Ellen (Lightfoot) Keith, who came to Fort Worth in 1878. His father was for many years a prominent business man of Fort Worth and was well known throughout this section. He originally came from Kentucky and the mother of Mr. Keith was a member of a prominent Indiana family.
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