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of the nation in their line and every man of the place is an expert.
Mr. Richardson is a Kentuckian; he was born at Owensboro in 1894. He comes of a mercantile family, bred to the business, as his father for many years was one of the most successful merchants of Kentucky. After completing the public school edu- cation, young Richardson attended the St. Louis Business College for practical training and then entered for his life profession the business to which his family before him have devoted themselves. His first connection was with the Carleton Dry Goods Company and as their representative he covered the states of Texas and Oklahoma. While with this firm he availed himself of every opportunity to study their business success and methods which knowledge he combined with that he had acquired from coming of a mercantile business. He located at Wichita Falls in 1915 and after a four-year residence there he began the present business for himself.
In December of 1917, Miss Cora Lee Waggoner, daughter of T. J. Waggoner, became the bride of Mr. Richardson; they now have residence at 1903 Elizabeth Street of their city.
Mr. Richardson is an Elk, a member of the Rotary Club, Wichita Falls Golf Club and is one of the Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce. He is popular in business circles, is known in the social life of his city and is active in all civic move- ments. He has attained already success to a very attractive degree and he and his establishment will have a sure and increasing place in the tomorrow of their city.
L. ELKINS is a very popular young business man who located at Wichita Falls after being discharged from the army in July, 1919. He is associated with J. P. Tarry in the ownership of the J. P. Tarry Transfer and Storage Company at 822 Ohio Avenue, a business which was established February 12, 1920, and does all kinds of transfer and storage work, moving, heavy hauling, etc., giving special attention to oil field work and being especially equipped to take care of heavy oil field hauling. The company has splendid storage facilities, having several ware- houses besides an airplane hangar with a concrete floor at Call Field. A force of eight people are employed.
Mr. Elkins entered the officers' training camp at Fort McPherson, Ga., at the beginning of the war, and on August 15, 1917, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the field artillery and sent to Camp Gordon. He sailed for France May 13, 1918, with the 321st Field Artillery, 82d Division.
Prior to entering the army Mr. Elkins traveled for a wholesale grocery firm of Meridian, Miss., in which city he was born in 1892, the son of G. W. and Tutt M. (Coleman) Elkins, both natives of that state, and his education was acquired in the public and high schools of that city.
Attracted by the enterprising spirit of the people of Wichita Falls and confident that there was a great future for the city, as well as splendid op- portunities for progressive and ambitious young men, Mr. Elkins adopted Wichita Falls as his home after the war, and he is one of the city's most enthusiastic boosters. He is single, lives at Kemp Kort, and belongs to the Stonewall Club at Meridian, Miss.
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T. HARRELL, vice-president of the City National Bank of Commerce, Wichita Falls, both because of his own ability and invest- nients and because of the great financial institution he aids in directing, is right at the heart of one of Texas' greatest banking centers- Wichita Falls. The profession of banking is one of the oldest institutions known to men; it has always existed wherever there have been men of thrift and leadership. Because of what it does for mankind, banking is always rated as one of the leading professions. Wichita Falls is already great as a banking center and has a greater banking future. With this present and future, Mr. Harrell is linked.
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A native of Iowa, Mr. Harrell was born at Winter- sett of that state, March 6, 1879. His parents were Joseph and Mandania Harrell. His native state gave him his elementary education, and the Simpson Col- - runner in 1912. He served in various departments lege of Indianola his two years of university work. when this affiliation was interrupted by the Call to Arms. He began as a private in the Air Service at Ft. Sam Houston and in November 1918, he received his discharge from the Army and returned to the Gulf National Bank. On January 1, 1919, he became State Bank Examiner and in this service was active until November 1, 1920, when he helped organize the Security State Bank and Trust Company of Eastland and was chosen President of the institu- tion. The lumber business was then the youth's choice for a commercial career and with this industry he remained for two years. By this time he had dis- covered himself, his real talents and inclination, and aligned himself with the Oxford State Bank of Johnson County, Iowa, as assistant bookkeeper. In this position he remained until 1906 when he went to Winfield, Iowa, as assistant cashier in the Win- field State Bank. After two years of service in this capacity, in 1908 Mr. Harrell became affiliated Mr. Young is a Mason and one of the directors of the Eastland Chamber of Commerce. Not only in commercial life is he active but with every move that makes for civic improvement of his city, S. D. Young is identified. with the National State Bank at Mt. Pleasant, and in 1911 he was chosen president of the Clarinda National Bank where he remained until January 1, 1920. In 1920 Mr. Harrell came to Wichita Falls where immediately, because of his efficiency, thrift and aggressiveness, he was made a vice-president of the City National Bank of Commerce and in January, 1921 was elected first vice-president of the bank.
In 1905 Mr. Harrell married Miss Grace Boyce, of Burlington, Iowa, at Iowa City. They have four children: Paul, John, Annabelle and Mary. The family residence is at 1615 Buchanan Avenue. Mr. Harrell is a Mason, a member of the Wichita Club, the Golf and Country Club and the University Club and of the Methodist Church. As a capitalist and financier as well as a guiding influence in a great bank, he will have a big part in the future of his city and territory.
S AM D. YOUNG, President of the Security State Bank and Trust Company of Eastland, Texas, directs one of the larger financial institutions of the West that is making it- self felt in every phase of business and commercial life in the city of Eastland and its territory. The Security State Bank & Trust Company was organized in 1920 when the City National Bank of Eastland was bought and the institution as it now stands was launched. Other officers are Allen D. Dabney, vice- president; C. J. Catesì, cashier; Elmer Ford, assistant cashier and S. O. Pottorff, assistant cashier. Capi- talization is $150,000.00; Fifteen employes are kept in constant service. The bank owns its building, a five story modern structure with sixty-two offices, costing $315,000.00, completed in September 1920. The banking business is universally known and bankers themselves are held in highest esteem among all nations, as leading citizens in any section. This is because the service rendered as financiers is a necessity to every great development that comes to a country and this bankers and business expansion and
development are inseparably associated. The ex- pansion of industry, business of big proportions in many directions, has been one of the most character- istic traits of the West during the last few years and no part of the Southwest has a greater claim to the future in the launching of permanent big enterprises than has Western Texas. It is right at the heart of such a territory that Mr. Young and his institution are serving.
Sam D. Young was born at Woodville, Texas, in 1895. His father C. A. Young, was merchant for many years at Woodville, and is now retired. His mother is Sarah Frances (Sims) Young. The schools of his home town provided the subject of this sketch with his book learning and from those institutions he has gone into the University of Practical Ex- perience where he is making good. His first busi- ness association was with the Gulf National Bank as
K. ESTES. Among the young men promi- nently identified with the financial life of Burkburnett, not any are better known or more highly esteemed than J. K. Estes, private secretary to Mr. J. G. Harden, president of the First National Bank and one of the wealthiest men in the country. Mr. Estes had his initial ex- perience in financial matters as manager of the transit department of the First National Bank of Burkburnett, holding this position for one year, and because of his expert knowledge and splendid ability he was selected by Mr. Harden as his confi- dential secretary to handle loans, investments and royalties.
As a further evidence of the confidence the people of Burkburnett have in him, Mr. Estes was elected a member of the city council at the election in Sep- tember, 1920, for two years, and his friends are con- fident that he will serve with credit to himself and to the town, and undoubtedly pave the way for still greater honors and service.
Mr. Estes came to Burkburnett in May, 1918, and has always been a prominent factor in the upbuild- ing of the town, which he thinks is about the best little city in the South. He is a native of the state, born in Johnson County in 1898 and educated in. the public schools. His commercial education was acquired at the Metropolitan Business College, Dal- las. His father, S. C. Estes, is a retired merchant, a native of Mississippi, and came to Texas when he was 25 years old. His mother, Fannie (Powell) Estes, is a native of Tennessee. Mr. Estes is a Mason and a member of the Chamber of Commerce, actively identified with the latter organization in its work of building for the betterment of Burkburnett and community.
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G EORGE W. THORBURN, city secretary of Wichita Falls, has an important role in ad- ministering the affairs of this rapidly grow- ing city, and on the efficiency of his depart- ment a great deal depends to keep the machinery of the municipal government running smoothly. He was selected to fill this important post on November 16, 1919, and during the strenuous days of the oil boom in Wichita maintained his department at a high state of efficiency and enabled the various other departments of the city to function smoothly.
The rapid growth of the city necessitated the ex- penditure of large sums of money and the board of aldermen immediately began the organization of a modern engineering department, and the issuance of bonds.
Bonds already had been voted to buy the privately owned water works in the city, and bonds were then voted on for new sanitary sewer, storm sewer, pav- ing, extensions to hospital, improvement of parks, extensions to water systems to be acquired, and the installation of a modern incinerator, to the amount of two and one-half millions, which bonds were disposed of equivalent to par.
Work preliminary to all this was great in every department and about October work got under way. Since then we have built about six miles of all kinds of pavements, about 30,000 feet of side walk, seventeen miles of a large sanitary sewer, one mile of storm sewer with an outlet of 72 inches, made great improvements on park and cemetery, and the incinerator about ready for operation, and graded over 100 miles of streets, and have a payroll of about $30,000 per month for city employees, number- ing about 300.
Mr. Thorburn was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1872, a son of Robert Thorburn, now deceased. He attended the public schools in England and the Royal School of Mines where he graduated with the degrees of M. R. C. S. and M. R. S. M. Coming to the United States in 1895, he engaged in the grain business with his brother ai Chicago and later went to Cripple Creek and Deadwood where he engaged in mining. Returning to Chicago he again engaged in business with his brother for a year and in 1900 came to Texas and worked on a ranch in Archer County for a year. Coming to Wichita Falls he taught school for two years and then did a jobbing business in grain for three years. He was with Whaley-Webb, cotton factors, in their office for a while and then went with the King-Collier inter- ests, having charge of their Wichita Falls office until the opening of the war when he was appointed to serve on the draft board with Clint Wood and Dr. Bass. He aided in recruiting four companies with Captain Perkins and remained on the draft board until March 31, 1919, when he entered the oil business, continuing in that line until appointed city secretary.
Mr. Thorburn was married in 1913 to Miss Meata Lowry, a native of Holiday. Texas, and a daughter of J. A. Lowry, now deceased. They have two sons, Geo. W., Jr., and Jasper Lowry.
An enthusiastic booster for Wichita Falls, Mr. Thorborn declares it to be the best city in the best state of the best country in the world. His extensive travels have placed him in a position to judge the merits of various communites and he unhesi- tatingly declares Wichita Falls the best of them
all. He is a member of the Wichita Club and the Golf Club.
H MCLAUGHLIN, manager of the City Gas Company and the North Texas Gas Com- pany, came from Dallas to Wichita Falls in 1919. The companies which he repre- sents were established about 1909, and supply the entire city of Wichita Falls with fuel, distributing about ten million cubic feet of gas a day. The supply is obtained from the Lone Star Gas Com- pany comes from various sources of supply in the Texas and Oklahoma fields. The home office of the company is at Dallas, Texas, in the Scollard Build- ing, with C. B. MeKinney as president and general manager.
Before coming to Wichita Falls Mr. Mclaughlin . was with the Dallas Gas Company for several years. He has been in the business for seventeen years, having been connected with the Kansas Natural Gas Company in Kansas and Missouri for about nine years before coming to Dallas. His entire business career has been in this line of business.
He is a capable and efficient business executive, and is numbered among the prominent and pro- gressive citizens of Wichita Falls. He is a New Yorker by birth, coming from Buffalo, where he was born February 23, 1881, son of James and Dora English MeLaughlin. His father was a native of Ireland and his mother of New York. Both parents are deceased. He attended the Buffalo public schools and the Syracuse University, where his edu- cation was completed.
Mr. McLaughlin belongs to the young bachelor class and lives at 2104 Eighth Street. He is an Elk and belongs to the Catholic Church.
RANK M. HATCHER. The subject of this sketch is a young man who turned a failure into a success, and a big success at that. The story goes that in December, 1917, he brought two automobiles to Wichita Falls to sell. Failing to find a buyer, he decided to go into the auto rent business, acted promptly upon his de- cision, and ever since then success has been smiling upon him. His business is known as the Kemp Auto Service, and is located in the Kemp Hotel. He has four service cars, one a fine Premier, which he keeps all dolled up for the dress suit fellows who have plenty of money to spend; one Cadillac and two Hudsons, Cole eight, and one Jordan. He keeps six men employed. His office is kept open day and night.
Previous to coming to Wichita Falls, Mr. Hatcher had been engaged in the mercantile business, be- ginning at the age of 14 years in the store of his father at Caddo, Oklahoma. He is known to be a very fine salesman and has worked in some of the largest cities in Oklahoma. He is confident that Wichita Falls has a great future and he has de- termined to grow with the city, consequently he is a booster and interested in all plans devoted to furthering the general welfare.
Mr. Hatcher was born in Ada, Oklahoma, in 1897. and attended the public schools of Caddo, Oklahoma, where his father, W. C. Hatcher, is engaged in the real estate business. He was married November 23, 1917, to Miss Birdie Ludwell, a native of Okla- homa, and they have a bright little son, George Leon, aged three years. The family resides at 710 Burnett Street.
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HAS. W. REID, formerly vice-president of the city National Bank of Commerce, Wichita Falls, is a man of big finance and a leader in many developments of his sec- tion of the state. He has been a leading, active official in one of the state's largest banks, and is president of the bank at Randlett, Oklahoma, a director of the First National Bank of Rule, Texas, president of the Liberty Petroleum Company, di- rector of the Ranger-Wichita Oil and Refining Com- pany, and is interested in many other companies.
In January, 1922, Mr. Reid resigned as officer of the City National Bank of Commerce and has opened an office in the American National Bank Building where he is engaged in the investment business.
Mr. Reid was born at Rocky Comfort, Arkansas, on January 31, 1880. His parents were George W. and Lillian Hart Reid. The public elementary schools of his native state and the University of Arkansas gave the youth his first education. In 1903, at Texarkana, he began the wholesale lumber business but later moved to Muskogee where he en- gaged in the retail lumber business. He continued in this capacity until in 1908 he yielded to his desires to enter the banking profession and accord- ingly founded and was president of the First State Bank of Muskogee, Oklahoma, for two years. In 1913 he came to Wichita Falls where he organized and was president of the National Bank of Com- merce. When in 1920 this institution combined with the City National Bark, Mr. Reid became di- rector and vice-president of the new organization, The City National Bank of Commerce.
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In 1908, at Texarkana, Mr. Reid married Miss Anna May Priest, of Missouri, niece of Judge Henry S. Priest, a distinguished attorney of St. Louis. They have four children, Dorothy, Mildred, Frances and Anna May. The family resides at 1817 Huff Avenue.
Mr. Reid is a Knight of Templar and a Shriner of the Maskat Temple, a member of the Elks, Country and University Clubs, and ex-president of the Wichita Club. He is a member of the Episcopal Church of which organization he is Senior Warden. Mr. Reid for a number of years has been a very active member of the board of directors of the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce, which im- portant position he still holds. He is ex-president of the Wichita County Motor Club which initiated the movement for a system of hard surfaced roads and successfully made the campaign for the neces- sary bond issues. At the front in all civic, social and business affairs of his city, Mr. Reid is a leader of attractive personality and marked ability.
E. MAY, Guaranty Bank Bldg., Ranger, Texas, as secretary-treasurer and general manager of the Guaranty Bank Building of this city, as resident citizen for twenty-one years and as capitalist, is thoroughly identified with the business interests of the city of Ranger and its territory. Other officers of the Guaranty Bank Building Company, Inc., are, R. H. Hodges, president; A. H. Bowers, vice-president; and S. A. Conley, vice- president. The building which was started in June 1919 and completed in August 1920, has six stories, each forty by one hundred forty feet and is one of the best to be found anywhere in Northwestern or Western Texas. It has 103 offices with every modern convenience. The Guaranty State Bank of
Ranger occupies the first floor in adequate quarters.
Mr. May is a native of the West. He was born in Eastland County October 21. 1879. His father, Dr. T. W. May, a native of Alabama who came to Texas in 1874, was active as practicing physician for forty eight years. He studied medicine in the East. The mother, Annie (Brown) May, is also a native of Alabama. The public schools of Western Texas, principally of Eastland and Ranger, provided the schooling of the subject of the sketch. He began his business career as a bookkeeper and after serving in that capacity for two years, entered the drug business. He started under the direction of his father and until 1914 he was associated with C. E. Terrell. At that date he began the drug business for himself and continued in that business until 1919 when he helped organize the firm that built the Guaranty Bank Bldg., and of which organization he is today an active official. Mr. May is a director in the Guaranty Bank of Ranger and has considerable other interests in Ranger investments and territory.
In 1911, Miss Victoria Harrison, daughter of J. H. Harrison an active builder in Ranger for many years. but now retired, became the bride of Mr. May. Annie Katherine and C. E. Jr., are their two children.
Mr. May is a Mason to the Thirty-second degree, of the Scottish Rite and has most of the York Rite to his credit also. He is a Knight of Pythias, a member of the Ranger Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club of his city. He is very active in the Commercial life of his section. West and North- west Texas are among the most rapidly developing sections of the United States today and the growth is along permanent lines. This spells opportunity for men of vision and application and as Mr. May is of this type, he will be related to much of the ex- pansion of business in his city and its territory.
ERBERT WESLEY PERKINS, president of the Continental State Bank Petrolia. Texas, and one of the leading citizens of the town, has been identified with the growth and development of that section of Texas since 1907, when he left the service of the Wichita Valley Rail- road after one and a half years and located at Petrolia. The bank with which he is connected was organized in 1905, with a capital stock of $10,000. which has been increased to $30,000, and Mr. Perkins has been president since 1909. The bank is the leading financial institution in that section in which it is located, and has always been an important factor as an aid to the agricultural and other in- terests there, enabling worthy enterprises and in- dividuals to carry on the business of the community on a safe and sound basis.
Mr. Perkins' father and mother, D. R. and Mary Belle (Wardlow) Perkins, came to Texas in 1893, from Adamsville, Tenn., where the subject of this sketch was born February 15, 1887, and his educa- tion was acquired in the public schools of Holliday, Texas, where he was married, in 1910, to Miss Mollie F. Lowery. They have two children, Annabel and Mary Helen, and live at Petrolia. Mr. Perkins is a member of the Masonic lodge at Petrolia, the Elks lodge at Wichita Falls, the Texas Bankers Associa- tion and the American Bankers Association. He is a great Texas booster and enjoys watching the State being transformed into the greatest State in the Union.
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W. HUDSON, president and general man- ager of the Wichita Co-Operative Supply Company, Inc., Wichita Falls, enters more homes of his city in the capacity of his grocery and meat products than does any other man in that city of big business and rapid growth. The Wichita Co-Operative Supply Company, with its 50x150 feet of floor space, its 4,800 feet of shelves. its twenty energetic employees and five trucks, to- gether with the quality of products and dispatch in service rendered-is the largest grocery store and meat market in Western Texas, doing on the average of $1,000,000. Mr. Hudson began selling stock for the organization on September 6, 1920, and ex- actly two months later the business was opened; shareholders get goods at cost plus overhead ex- pense.
Mr. Hudson was born in Missouri, Polk County, on August 23, 1868. His father, Rufus Marion Hudson, retired merchant and farmer, was for twenty years a merchant in Parker County, Texas, having come to the Lone Star State in 1893. The public schools of his native state gave the youth the best education afforded and at the age of twenty- two he came to Texas. He did work for awhile in the dry goods business, on a salary of $30.00 a month, in Harrison, Arkansas, but was there for a very short time. His Texas business began at Weatherford where he was in the dry goods busi- ness for two years, then at Springtown, Texas, in the grocery business, but left this for the drug business at Reno, Texas, for three years. Then he opened a drug store at Boyd, Texas, where he re- mained for three years. For some time he con- ducted drug stores at Itasca, Grandview and Arling- ton and traveled as a salesman. He then went with the Eli Lilly Company with headquarters in Dallas and for several years was interested in the promo- tion business, leaving this he came to Wichita Falls, on August 20, 1920, to found the present day busi- ness that is the largest of its kind in the West.
On March 29, 1892, at Springtown, Texas, Miss Hattie Dixon, a native of Tennessee, whose family moved to Texas when she was four, became the bride of Mr. Hudson. They have two children, Hayden Hudson, who is a real estate man in Dallas, Johnnie Lillian, who is now Mrs. Ernest Ditto, of Arlington. The Hudson residence in Wichita Falls is at the American Hotel.
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