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Mr. Puckett was born in Louisiana, April 16, 1876, son of George W. and Amanda (Chandler) Puckett. His father was a Baptist preacher and came to Texas in 1897. Mr. Puckett worked his way through school and later taught school for a period, then attended Toon College from which he graduated after a period of four years. He then studied law in the office of C. M. Croombaugh and later with H. A. Cosnahan. He was admitted to the bar in 1903. In 1911 he came to Dallas and engaged in practise as a junior member of the firm of Morris, Pope and Puckett. In the following year he formed a partnership with Judge W. W. Nelms, which con- tinued for two years. Since that time, although having made temporary associations with other firms, most of his practise has been by himself.
The marriage of Mr. Puckett to Miss Dean, took place April 12, 1904. Mr. Puckett holds a member- ship in the Odd Fellows, B. P. O. Elks and Knights of Pythias. He is also a member of the Dallas Club and the Baptist Church.
SAAC WILLIAM KEYS, well known attor- ney and member of the law firm of Cox and Keys, Bob Waggoner Building, came to Wichita Falls in September, 1919, and formed a partnership with P. B. Cox. The firm does a general civil practice and has built up a very large and lucrative practise.
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Prior to coming to Wichita Falls, Mr. Keys was en- gaged in the practise of law in Kentucky, having been admitted to the bar in that state in 1912. He prac- tised at Murray, Kentucky, from 1915 until 1919 and served as Commonwealth's Attorney from 1916 until 1919.
Mr. Keys was born at Murray, Kentucky, March 13th, 1890, a son of John H. and M. Ellen ( Peters) Keys, prominent residents of Kentucky for many years. His preliminary academic education was re- ceived in the public and high schools of his native state and he graduated from high school with the highest honors, later entering Vanderbilt University where he was honor man in the graduating class of 1915. Mr. Keys was president of the senior class in his graduating year.
Having been admitted to the bar before entering the University, Mr. Keys following his graduation took up active practise of his profession and achieved an enviable reputation in Kentucky before removing to Texas.
The law firm of Cox and Keys is counsel for the Wichita Falls State Bank and Trust Company and also for the First State Bank and the First National Bank of Iow. Park. Mr. Keys is vice president of the Dee-Bellport Co., and is secretary-treasurer of the Texas Petroleum Company.
A man of sterling character and strong personal- ity, Mr. Keys is recognized as one of the able voung lawyers of this section. He is a Mason and a member of the Woodmen of the World, Modern Woodmen. S. A. E. and Phi Delta Phi. He also is an active mem- ber of the Wichita Club, the Chamber of Commerce and the University Club. He is unmarried and is very popular among the younger social set of Wichita Falls. His residence is at the Kemp Hotel.
ON. EDGAR SCURRY, prominent lawyer and Judge of the Seventy-eighth Judicial District Court, came to Wichita Falls December 31, 1890, and for thirty years has been an active figure in the legal profession and in the public and political life of this section. He is one of the best known attorneys in Texas and has. served the public in various capacities during an active career covering a period of nearly forty years.
A native . Texan and proud of the fact, Judge Scurry was born at Mission Valley in Victoria County, November 21, 1857. His parents were General William Reed and Janette B. (Sutton) Scurry, well known pioneer residents of Texas. His father came to Texas in 1837 and settled at San Augustine, an old Spanish settlement and the scene of many stirring events in the early days of Texas. General Scurry held the rank of Colonel under General Taylor in the war between the United States and Mexico. In the war between the States, he was made Brigadier General and assigned to General Walker's Division, rendering heroic service and dying on the field of battle at Saline, Arkansas, April 30th, 1864.
The family of Judge Scurry's mother removed to Texas in the early days of the Republic, locating at Washington on the Brazos river, the historic old town which was the first capitol of the Republic of Texas. The Sutton family was actively identified with the history of the struggling young Republic.
Judge Scurry read law in the office of N. A. Rector in Giddings and in 1881 was admitted to the bar. He continued in the practise of his profession in Lee County until 1890 and from 1883 until 1887 was county attorney. He was elected county judge of Wichita County in 1894 and served until 1896. He was a member of the Twenty-Sixth Legistlature in 1900 and 1901 and served as District Attorney of the Thirtieth Judicial District from 1911 until 1913. In 1914 he was elected Judge of the Thirtieth Judicial District and has held his present office, Judge of the Seventy-Eighth Judicial District, since 1917.
Judge Scurry has a profound knowledge of the law and an acute sense of right and justice that years on the bench has served only to accentuate. He is held in highest esteem by attorneys and litigants before his Court and the clarity of his decisions is attested by the remarkably few reversals rendered by the appellate Courts.
Judge Scurry has an intense love for his profes- sion. He is a member of the Benevolent and Pro- tective Order of Elks and the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce.
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UGH THOMAS PANGBURN, president of Pangburn Company, factory 1305 West Seventh . Street, Fort Worth, is an illustra- tion of the heights of achievement to be attained by diligence and industry coupled with the ability to dream a big future and then make that dream come true. Starting out as a poor boy, Mr. Fangburn is today the president of a company which, in addition to operating an ice cream and candy fac- tory with an output of 250,000 gallons of ice creani and many, many pounds of delectable sweets per year, the factory employing from 100 to 150 persons, also owns a retail chocolate shop, a drug store and a cafeteria, all doing a thriving business. Mr. Pang- burn's first venture was a drug store, opened in 1912 at Ninth and Houston Streets. This he later sold and moved his activities to Fourth and Houston Streets, making rapid strides toward success and riches through the medium of quality and service. In 1918 the Pangburn Company was organized to manufacture ice cream exclusively, but the following year candy was added and the Pangburn brand is now well and favorably known. A retail chocolate shop under the name of Pangburn appeared in 1918, to be followed by a cafeteria in 1920.
Shortly after his birth, which occurred on Octo- ber 23, 1875, at Mayslick, Kentucky, Mr. Pangburn was brought to Texas by his parents, Henry Pang- burn and Sue (Herndon) Pangburn, the former a Christian minister, the family locating at Hutchins. At the age of fourteen, Hugh Thomas Pangburn, sensing the wider opportunities offered by larger cities, found his way to Dallas where he entered the employ of W. S. Kirby, pioneer druggist, and for eight years was a valued unit in the Kirby or- ganization. For two years after severing connection with the Kirby store he worked for Jeff Britton, mi- grating to Fort Worth in 1901, there entering busi- ness for himself.
Mr. Pangburn became a benedict in 1899, taking as his wife Miss Fannie Mae Tepp. One daughter, Ida Nell Pangburn, came to this union. They live at 1615 Sixth Street.
Mr. Pangburn belongs to several fraternal and so- cial orders, among them the Masons, Shriners, Mos- lah Temple, Scottish Rite, Knight Templar, Julian Field No. 908, the Fort Worth Club and the Rotary Club and is a member of the Christian Church.
ROY C. ANDERSON is treasurer and gen- eral manager of the Southern Manufactur- ing Company, corner of East Front and Boaz Streets, one of the largest manufac- turers of ornamental iron and wire work and struc- tural steel in this section. The company was organ- ized in April, 1918, other officers of the company being Frank E. Austin, Dallas, president; D. E. Humphrey, vice-president, and A. D. Thompson, secretary, Mr. Anderson and Mr. Thompson are actively in charge of the company's affairs.
The Southern Manufacturing Company have ground space of 119 by 195 feet and occupy a build- ing covering 90 by 100 feet. The business has grown until now thirty-five people are employed regularly and the concern has furnished most of the iron work and structural steel for practically all of the large buildings recently completed or now under course of construction in Fort Worth. The total business for 1920 aggregated two hundred thousand dollars and it is expected 1921 will exceed that figure.
Mr. Anderson is a native Texan and was born in Wood County in July, 1885, a son of W. M. Anderson, well known East Texas farmer who now resides in California. He attended the public schools of East Texas and then received a commercial course at a business college. His first work was in textile mills as a boy and in 1906 he entered the structural steel and iron work line, first as a helper, then as a mechanic and later engaging in business for himself in Fort Worth under the firm name of Anderson and Thorpe Wire and Iron Works. In 1908 he and his associates bought the business of the Southern Manufacturing Company,
Mr. Anderson was married at Waco in 1905 to Miss Jennie Shears who died November 4, 1918. Two children were born to them, James, twelve, and Delma Fay, seven. In 1920 Mr. Anderson was again married to Miss Elsie Davis, of Grandfield, Okla.
Besides his interest with the Southern Manufactur- ing Company, Mr. Anderson is a stockholder and director in the Southern Plating and Re-tinning Company. He is a member of the Fort Worth and the West Texas Chambers of Commerce and of the Masonic Lodge, Mr. Anderson is an enthusiastic booster for the Panther City and predicts a splendid future for Fort Worth and all West and North Texas.
HAS. W. BARDEEN, district manager for the Lucey Manufacturing Corporation, Fif- teenth and Throckmorton Streets, came to Fort Worth from the main office of the Lucey Corporation at Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, in July, 1919, and has succeeded in placing his com- pany in the front rank of concerns handling oil well machinery and oil field supplies. The Fort Worth branch distributes car load lots to different stores and to affiliated companies in the various oil field sections, One salesman travels the territory out of Fort Worth and keeps the Lucey products before those interested in drilling machinery, casing, line pipe and general supplies for oil fields and pipe lines. Besides the main office at Pittsburg, the Lucey Corporation has factories at Chattanooga and at Houston.
Mr. Bardeen is a native of New York State and was born at Alfred September 18, 1885. He is a son of T. J. and Agnes (Sisson) Bardeen, both members of prominent New York families. He was educated at Elmira and Richburg, New York, and immediately upon leaving school became interested in the oil business.
His first operations were in the Illinois and Okla- homa fields, later going to California and to Salt Lake, Utah. He had altogether ten years practical experience in the oil business which admirably fitted him for his work with the Lucey Manufacturing Corporation with which he became identified in 1918. After a year in the Pittsburg office he was sent to Fort Worth as manager of the branch house there.
In 1908 he was married to Miss Genevieve M. Loomis at Los Angeles, California. They have one son. Chas. Richard.
Mr. Bardeen is a member of the Fort Worth Club. the Glen Garden Country Club and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He is optimistic regarding the future of Fort Worth and predicts that it will be- come a very important distributing point and com- mercial center.
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HOMAS F. HUNTER, attorney at law, First National Bank Building, came to Wichita Falls in 1911, from West Texas, where he had formerly practiced his profession. Mr. ยท Hunter does a general practice, specializing in cor- poration law, realty and oil matters, and has handled much important litigation since he removed to this city.
In addition to his law business Mr. Hunter is also an independent oil operator with holdings in the Wichita and Burkburnett fields and is interested in agricultural lands and has other interests.
Mr. Hunter is a native of Wise County, Texas, born February 23, 1890, and was educated at the Fort Worth Polytechnic College and the East Texas Normal School graduating with the degree of Bachelor of Philosophy from the latter institution in 1910. Mr. Hunter worked his way through school and did not begin his education until 14 years of age.
For two years prior to the completion of his academic course Mr. Hunter taught school. For one year he was principal of the Arlington schools and one year he was superintendent of schools at Brown- field. During this time he read 10,000 pages of law and was admitted to the bar in 1910 and has handled many big cases, for one of which he received $100,000, probably the largest fee ever paid in this section of Texas. His parents were T. F. and Ida (Johnson) Hunter, who are pioneer residents of Wise County, and his father was numbered among the successful farmers of that section. He was married at South Plains, Texas, in 1910 to Miss Vera Scott, and they have two children, Frank and Scott. The family home is at 1211 Polk Street. Mr. Hunter is a Scottish Rite Mason, a Shriner, be- longs to the Texas Bar Association and the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce. He is greatly im- pressed with the splendid opportunities that abound in Wichita Falls and expects to see it become one of the most important cities of Texas, its close piox- imity to the great oil fields of that section operating to make it the center of the great oil and gas in- dustry. This, augmented by the great agricultural wealth that surrounds the city, will, in his opinion, make it one of the populous centers of the state and one of the richest.
G. McBRIDE, city attorney at Burkburnett, is among the leaders of the younger genera- tion of Texas lawyers, whether judged from the viewpoint of his education, position, or practise and ability. With a keen and analytical type of mind, a consciousness that will not swerve from justice, a gift in speech and delivery, he is a leader among the younger prosecuting attorneys who will carry on the might and glory and dis- tinction of his profession and calling. He is known to a host of people in the Northwest who hold him in esteem and in his general practise which he pur- sues as well as attending to the city's work, he has an extensive patronage. His specialty is in criminal prosecution for which his natural ability has espe- cially fitted him.
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Mr. McBride is a native of Texas; he was born at Greenville in 1895. His father, W. Percy Mc- Bride, deceased, was an attorney at Greenville, Texas, well known and honored in his section of the state. After completing the Texas school system, young McBride attended the University at Lebanon, Tennessee, from which he graduated. On April 9,
1919, he was admitted to the Texas bar. He had heard of Burkburnett and while he was yet in school, he visited the city to inspect it as the city for his future location. Accordingly on June 4, 1919. he located at Burkburnett and from that date he has been one of the most aggressive citizens of the coming city. On April 6, 1920, he was elected city attorney and in that capacity ne has disposed of fifty cases a week.
On October 12, 1920, at Lebanon, Tennessee, Miss Sadie B. Kenney, daughter of H. P. Kenney, a job- ber of Tennessee, became the bride of Mr. McBride, the culmination of a romance of university days. They have residence at 604 Eighth Street.
Mr. McBride is a member of the Texas Bar Asso- ciation. Youthful, educated, talented, he is already successful to a very attractive degree and in the big tomorrow of his city and territory, he will be a foremost citizen and leader.
YTTON R. TAYLOR, Attorney, 312-313 Guaranty Bank Bldg., Ranger, Texas, specializes in piloting big business through the maze of corporation law. Somewhere ' in the beginning" there was only one type of law known as the "Common law." But as men and their relations multiply, civilization becomes a very com- plex affair and today a mind alert, keen and analyti- cal, is required by large corporations in nearly all deals. It is in rendering just such expert advice that Lytton R. Taylor is identified with the city of Ranger, a place of big business. Sam K. Washaff is associated with Mr. Taylor who began his prac- tice in Oklahoma in 1916. Mr. Taylors training in two Universities, his natural talent and ten years of experience in civil practice, all combine to render him able in his specialty.
Lytton R. Taylor was born in Joplin, Mo., on Dec. 23, 1885. His father, R. H. Taylor, was a mining contractor and now retired, lives in Wichita Falls. The mother is deceased. After completing the com- mon school course of his state, as a youth Mr. Taylor took further schooling in Texas, then in the Agricul- ture College of New Mexico and for preparation for his immediate calling he entered Columbia University of the City of New York, which maintains one of the most able law schools of the nation. He then practiced law for ten years in the two cities, Las Cruces, N. M. and El Paso, Texas. In 1919 he answered the call of Corporation Practice and located in Ranger. Besides his professional work, Mr. Taylor is president of the Taylor Brothers Inc., a wholesale grocery company in Ranger, which operates with a capital of $50,000. His brother, J. Earl Taylor, gives his entire energies to the grocery business as manager of the corporation. He was educated in the Kansas State Agricultural College and has been in Ranger for three years, locating there at the time of the establishment of the Taylor Brothers, Inc.
At Las Cruces, N. M., Miss Edna Burke on Novem- ber 9, 1907 became the bride of Mr. Taylor. They have two children, Lytton Raymond Jr., age ten years and Edna Louise, age five years. The family residence is a surburban home on the Strawn road.
Mr. Taylor is a mason, identified with the Blue Lodge of Las Cruces, N. M., and an enthusiastic Rotarian. He gives the full weight of his influence to every move that makes for the civic and social welfare of his city and is thereby identified with the civic, commercial and professional life of Ranger.
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ARL G. STAATS, junior member of the firm of Sanguinet and Staats, architects, 1005 First National Bank Building, came to Fort Worth in 1891 from New York City, form- mg his present connection in 1898, establishing what is today one of the best known firms of architects not only in Texas but in the entire Southwest. Many famous buildings have been designed and erected under the supervision of this firm and work now in progress in Fort Worth and elsewhere will aggregate several millions of dollars.
Among the buildings now under construction in Fort Worth by Sanguinet and Staats are the W. T. Waggoner Building, Winfield Hotel, Star-Telegram Building, Neil P. Anderson Building and a hospital building for Saint Joseph's Infirmary. The firm has recently completed a million dollar building at Wichita Falls for the City National Bank of Com- merce. Among the well known buildings erected in past years under supervision of this firm were the Amicable building at Waco. Carter building, First National Bank building and a high school at Houston, the Central Trust Company building at San Antonio, Wilson building and Titche-Goettinger annex at Dallas. A branch office is maintained at Wichita Falls under the name of Sanguinet, Staats and Pate and at Houston the firm is Sanguinet, Staats and Gotlieb. The W. T. Waggoner and Schar- bauer residences in Fort Worth were designed by Sanguinet and Staats.
Mr. Staats was born in New York City, April 19, 1871, the son of Frederick and Anna Staats. His father was a designer of interior work. Young Staats studied in the public schools and took special evening courses in architecture and architectural drawing and worked in offices from 1887 to 1897 when he came to Fort Worth and formed his present connection. The business of Sanguinet and Staats has increased until now from 15 to 30 men are regularly employed in the Fort Worth office alone.
Mr. Staats was married at Temple, Texas, to Miss Mary Royce, a native of Michigan. They have six children, Regina, John, Gilbert, Anna May, Edna and Patrick. Mr. Staats is a member of the River- crest and Fort Worth Clubs, Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce, American Institute of Architects and the Texas State Association of Architects. His fraternal affiliations are with the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks and the Knights of Colum- bus.
LMER W. VAN SLYKE, Reynolds Building, senior member of the architectural firm of Van Slyke and Woodruff, came to Fort Worth in 1913 from Oklahoma City and during his seven years residence here has been identified with some of the most pretentious build- ing projects in the state. His firm now has under construction a number of handsome church edifices and other structures and has just completed a number of others.
Among the structures in Fort Worth designed by Van Slyke and Woodruff are the Carnes Court Apartment building, the First Christian Church and the Chestnut Avenue Christian Church, Texas Chris- tian University Church and the Texas Christian University gymnasium building, and also the South Side Baptist Church. The first Christian Church at Tulsa was recently completed under supervision of this firm and they have under construction the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South, at Paris and a number of school buildings. The firm did the architectural work for the Oak Cliff Christian Church and the Ross Avenue Baptist Church in Dallas.
Mr. Van Slyke is a native of New York state and was born at East Pike, April 11, 1861. His parents were P. J. and Hannah M. (Edwards) Van Slyke, with whom he removed to Missouri when a child. His education was received in the public schools and the high school of Hamilton, Missouri, where he graduated in 1880. He studied architecture and architectural drawing under Button Brothers, archi- tects, of New York. Mr. Van Slyke began his archi- tectural career at Friendship, New York, in 1885, and remained there until 1890 when he went to Lestershire, now known as Johnson City, N. Y. He remained there until 1909 when he removed to Oklahoma City and after four years removed his office to Fort Worth.
Mr. Van Slyke was married at Wichita Falls, April 11, 1912, to Isabelle Warner, of New York state. He has two children by a former marriage, Mrs. Anton J. Spies, of Johnson City. New York, and Mrs. Ray W. Drake, of Fort Worth.
A great booster for Fort Worth, Mr. Van Slyke sees unlimited possibilities in the Panther City and never tires of relating its advantages from a rail- road and commercial standpoint He is a member of the Christian Church, a York Rite Mason and Shriner, being a member of Moslah Temple at Fort Worth.
D. JOHN ZIHLMAN, architect and engineer, with offices at 202 Burton Building, Fort Worth, Texas, designs and constructs his own buildings, of which the Athens Pottery Company on North Hampton Street, the Pennsyl- vania Garage on Pennsylvania Avenue, the Gamble Apartments at Ballinger and Texas Streets and one of the most beautiful residences ever constructed in the United States, for Roy M. Johnson, of Ard- more, Oklahoma, are the most prominent. The home of Roy M. Johnson was made of reinforced concrete and the interior finish was marble with the Renais- sance Period architecture. Mr. Zihlman, who is a thoroughbred business man, also designed and con- structed the Lakeview Addition at Fort Worth, which was composed of about three hundred modern priced homes, while in partnership with Herbert Walker.
His birthplace is in Hebron, Nebraska, where he was born in 1884. His parents are Lukas, a business man, and Charlotte (Jordan) Zihlman. He attended a public school at Fairfield, Iowa, when he was a boy and later went to the Fairfield Academy where he received a civil engineer's degree in 1905.
In 1906 he located at Fort Worth, Texas, and assumed a partnership with Herbert Walker which dissolved after a number of successful years. He was married to Miss Martha Delia Darter, daughter . of W. A. Darter, a pioneer of Fort Worth who sur- veyed off Main and Houston streets many years ago, on May 26, 1914, at Fort Worth. They have one daughter, Charlotte. The family residence is at Highmount, Montgomery Street.
Mr. Zihlman has done as much as any man in helping to make Fort Worth a prosperous, growing and well known metropolis.
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H WYATT, attorney-at-law, is not only able in championing the cause of Justice before the Bar, but is known in North Central Texas as a publie spirited man in a district made up of big men.
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