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Mr. Hudson is a York Rite Mason and a Shriner at the Maskat Temple, and a member of the Chamber of Commerce and the Rotary Club. He is a steward in the Methodist Church He has thus already thoroughly identified himself with the civic and re- ligious life of his city as well as its commercial activity, and he and his establishment will share in the big growth of Wichita Falls.
HAS. L. FONTAINE, traffic manager of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad Com- pany with offices at 1001 Ohio Avenue, has been a resident of Wichita Falls since 1907 and is one of the best known railroad men in Texas. He assumed his duties with the Wichita Falls and Southern in 1921 and has been the right hand man for Frank Kell, president of the road, in the building up of this important line which was the outgrowth and the direct result of Mr. Kell's vision and desire to add this important line to Wichita Fall's trans- portation facilities.
The Wichita Falls and Southern runs from Wichita
Falls south to Breckenridge, a distance of 104 miles, penetrating and serving the best of the oil fields of North and Central West Texas. The line has 100 employees in Wichita Falls and plans are being de- veloped to extend the line north to Waurika, Okla- homa, a distance of forty-five miles.
Mr. Fontaine is a native of Missouri and was born in 1868. He attended the public schools of his native state and also had a college course at Saint Joseph, Missouri.
Early in life he entered railroad work, commenc- ing with the Missouri Pacific. Later he was sent to Parsons, Kansas, and after that to Saint Louis where he was with the Missouri, Kansas and Texas. He then went to Wichita, Kansas, with the Kansas Midland Railroad and in 1901 removed to El Paso. From there he went to Galveston and in 1907 came to Wichita Falls with the Wichita Falls and North- western, remaining with this line until 1921.
Mr. Fontaine's first wife died and in 1911 he was married to Mrs. Susie Cherry-Campbell, of Los Angeles, California.
Mr. Fontaine is a thorough going, public spirited citizen and keenly interested in the development and upbuilding of Wichita Falls. He knows the rail- road game thoroughly and under his direction the business of the Wichita Falls and Southern has shown rapid and consistent development.
LBERT GERALD DEATHERAGE, pro- prietor of the Wichita Falls Marble and Granite Works, came to Wichita Falls in February, 1908, and bought the present business from Backus & Batcheler, of Vernon, Texas. The company manufactures memorials, statues, monuments, corner stones for public buildings, etc. They have $25,000 invested in the business, and did a retail business in 1920 amounting to approximately $55,000. The company also does some wholesale business in North Texas and West Oklahoma, and contemplates increasing the wholesale trade so as to take in all of Texas, Oklahoma and New Mexico. Seven men are employed by the organization, which is correctly known as the "Studio of Memorial Arts."
Previous to locating at Wichita Falls Mr. Deather- age was manager of similar companies in Cisco, Texas, for five years, 1898 to 1903, Dublin, Texas, from 1903 to 1908, when he came to Wichita Falls and acquired the present business.
He is a native of Texas, born in Brown County, November 6, 1880. His parents were F. E. and Margaret Elizabeth Boatman Deatherage, the fornier a native of Tennessee and the latter from Indiana. He was educated in the public schools of Eastland County, Texas.
Mr. Deatherage was married at Wichita Falls. May, 1913, to Miss Laura Suedella Roberts, and their union has been blessed by two interesting children. Gerald Evans and Monte Everett.
He is prominently identified with the fraternal, civic, social and religious institutions of his city, enjoying membership in the B. P. O. E., K. of P., Rotary, Advertising Club, Wichita Falls Gun Club. Chamber of Commerce, Retail Monument Dealers' Association of Texas, now serving his twelfth year as president of that body. He is a member of the Methodist Church.
He has great faith in the future greatness of his city and takes a lively interest in all matters which tend to promote its welfare.
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R OLAND E. SHEPHERD, cashier of the City National Bank of Commerce, Wichita Falls, is an aggressive leader in one of the great- est financial districts in Texas. Backed up with the agricultural territory that she has, the big business as a distributing point and the immense oil business-Wichita Falls is a banking center of first rate importance and will increase as such in the future with tremendous strides. And right at the heart of this big banking business is Mr. Roland Shepherd.
Mr. Shepherd is a native of Kansas. He was born at Clay Center of that state on June 8, 1883. His parents are J. A. Shepherd and Susan Spurrier Shepherd, who came and settled in the old Oklahoma before it was combined with the Indian Territory and later moved to Burkburnett, Texas. Oklahoma public schools gave the youth his education. In 1908 Mr. Shepherd began his banking career with the Bank of Randlett, in a clerical capacity, and worked up to the position of assistant cashier. He con- tinued with this bank until 1915 when he went to the Farmers State Bank at Burkburnett, as cashier. He served for three years in this capacity when, in 1918, he was chosen cashier of the City National Bank of Commerce, Wichita Falls. As he is the personal owner of a good deal of real estate at Burkburnett, Mr. Shepherd is interested in a number of oil companies.
In 1910, at Randlett, Miss Della Scott became the bride of Mr. Shepherd. They have no children and reside at 1721 Huff Avenue. Their church affiliation is with the Christian where Mr. Shepherd is Sunday School superintendent. He is a Mason, a Shriner of the Scottish Rite at Dallas, vice-presi- dent of the Wichita Club, a member of the Wichita Country Club, the University Club, Rotary Club, a member of the city council and is finance com- missioner. Youthful, talented and progressive, Mr. Shepherd is an attractive figure in business and civic circles of Wichita Falls.
C. GOLDIN, vice-president of the First State Bank of Iowa Park, is well known to men of finance and business in one of the best commercial districts of the state-the oil district that centers about his city. The banking business is known as the same throughout all na- tions, and bankers are, the world over, held in the same high esteem as being in one of the honorable and serviceable professions of men. The service possible for a financial institution to render to its city and ranks with the greatest need of a center and is most vitally connected with the growth and development of a place. Mr. Goldin and his institu- tion, the First State Bank of Iowa Park, will have, accordingly, an immense share in the unprecedented development and growth that has come to their city and section of the state and that is in its immediate future.
The First State Bank of Iowa Park was organized in 1919, with a capital of $25,000.00 and has deposits of $155,000.00. L. M. Lockridge is president, W. B. Sisk, assistant cashier.
Mr. Goldin was born at Bowie, Texas, on January 10, 1887. His parents are W. R. and Josephine (Rogers) Goldin. The public schools of Bowie and of the state of Oklahoma gave the youth his train- ing. From the age of thirteen until he was twenty, Mr. Goldin resided at Comanche, Oklahoma. In. 1900, he returned to Bowie and began in the sheet
metal and plumbing business. He followed this busi- ness until 1915 when he came to Iowa Park and went into the hardware business with his two brothers, R. E. and G. H., the firm being known as G. H. Goldin & Co. R. E. Goldin is now in charge of the business and G. H. Goldin has opened up a similar business in Bowie. In 1920, Mr. Goldin canie into the First State Bank as vice-president and as such he has active charge of the institution.
In 1914, at Bowie, Texas, Miss Gertrude Harrell became the bride of Mr. Goldin. They have two children, Elsie Mae and Josephine, and the family reside at Iowa Park. The church affiliation is Bap- tist. Mr. Goldin is a Mason, Iowa Park Lodge No. 713.
As the active directing official of an able financial institution in his city, Mr. Goldin will have a good part in the big future that is immediately before his city and territory.
P. LOGAN, of the Logan & Ragsdale law, real estate and investments, at 4061/2 Ave- nue C, -Burkburnett, is among the fore- most leaders in the immense activities that characterize the realty business in northwest Texas. The West of today is a new country; villages that a year or so ago had but a few hundreds of popula- tion and a single hotel or so are now cities of scores of thousands of people with a dozen or more first rate hotels and are the site of some of the largest business concerns in Texas. This growth has vitally concerned the real estate business which in the northwest section of the state has found itself in the ideal location in Texas. The firm of Logan & Ragsdale has had an attractive part in this ex- change of property and they deal in not only every phase of the realty business but in leases as well and investments also. Mr. Logan was alone in his work until July of 1917, then formed a partnership with Mr. J. E. Harwell in November, 1919, began by himself again, and in 1920 the organization as it now stands was effected. Mr. Logan holds royal- ties in the townsite, has organized an oil company which he sold, and has been very active in bringing in production which he usually sells. In the im- mense activities experienced by his city and ter- ritory for the last few years, Mr. Logan has been a leader in practically every realm and has made good.
Mr. . Logan was born in Wise County, Texas, in September, 1884. His father, Rev. B. Y. Logan, de- ceased, a native of Kentucky, was a minister; his mother, Eliza (Parish) Logan, who is now Mrs. Stebinger, was a native of England. After com- pleting the public school system, Mr. Logan took the best commercial training afforded by business colleges and from the beginning has been a pro- gressive leader in business activities. This is evi- denced by his present-day large interests and opera- tions.
In Fort Worth, Texas, Miss Maymie Wren, a native of Georgia, became the bride of Mr. Logan; C. P., Jr., Tex, Laura and Jewel are their four children; the family resides at 501 East Sixth Street, Burkburnett.
Mr. Logan is a Mason of both the Scottish and York Rites and is a Shriner of the India Temple and is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and of the Methodist Church. He is prominently identi- fied not only with the commercial life of his city but with its every civic and social interest and is a foreniost citizen.
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M. MILLER, manager of the Miller Lumber Company, 209-217 Walnut Street, has had a number of years experience in the lumber business and is considered one of the best lumbermen in the country. He located at Wichita Falls in 1911, and in February, 1920, the Miller Lumber Company was organized as a partnership corporation, composed of Messrs. W. Lee Moore, J. A. Ricolt, C. B. Moore, C. L. Moore, J. H. Taylor, C. R. Taylor, C. E. Miller, C. M. Miller. A general line of building material is handled, including lime, cement, nails, roofing, wall board, posts, builders' hardware, etc., their salesroom occupying a space 150x350 feet.
Prior to 1917 Mr. Miller was with the Long-Bell Lumber Company for four years leaving them to establish the C. M. Miller Lumber Company, which he operated for two years. He went to Abilene, Texas, in 1899 and remained there until 1901, going then to Webb City with the Webb City Lumber Company, where he remained until 1903. From 1903 to 1906 he operated at Savonburg, Kans., and then went to Hereford, Texas, in 1906. He spent two years in Mexico and came to Wichita Falls in 1912.
Mr. Miller is a native of Ashland, Ky., born in 1873, and attended the schools at Ashland and Chap- man's College at Bolts Fork, Ky. His parents were Alrich and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Miller.
He was married at Ashland, Ky., in 1911 to Miss Mollie Schrope, and they have two interesting chil- dren, Charles Edward and Cora Bell. He is a York Rite Mason and Shriner and is affiliated with the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce, lending his efforts to all movements inaugurated for the purpose of promoting the progress and growth of the city, which he believes will become one of the leading business centers of the state.
DWIN A. BEBB, of the Wichita Floral Company, Wichita Falls, brings beauty and cheer in wholesale and retail fashion not only to his home city but to his part of the state in the flowers and floral supplies he handles. Other members of the firm are his father, Edwin Bebb, his cousins, M. R. and F. Bebb, and his uncle, Robt. Bebb, of Muskogee, Okla., while Edwin A. Behb is not only partner but manager of the business. The Wichita Floral Company began busi- ness at their green house, 1706 Ninth Street, on February 21, 1920, and on April 3, 1920, opened its down town establishment at 706 Ninth. At their green house they have 20,000 square feet of glass roofing and have a corps of skilled employees. An extensive mail order business cares for the floral needs of their part of the state.
As men and business multiply and increase, so the arts and cares for their cultural and esthetic natures must grow and have their place if the new city is to have a civic pride and a soul. It is the supreme business of the Wichita Floral Company to serve its city and district in this capacity and already it has a sure and increasing place.
Mr. Bebb was born in Chicago, Illinois, in 1895. His father, a partner in the present business, is an attorney at law in Chicago where he has an extensive civil practice. His mother was Mary Alice (Jones) Bebb, also a native of Illinois. The university of his home state gave Edwan A. Bebb its best and from that institution he received his B. S. degree in flower culture in 1916. For one year he then
accepted work in one of the largest greenhouses of Chicago and then served in several retail floral stores in the same city. This activity was inter- rupted by the call of arms and the First Officers' Training Camp found Edwin A. Bebb at Ft. Sheridan for three months and then in the ground school of the air service at Austin, Texas. He completed his training there with class No. 24 and was sta- tioned at Ellington Field, Houston, Texas, was com- missioned as second lieutenant on April 3, 1918, and was transferred to Taliferro Field at Fort Worth, Texas. Then ten months were spent across seas and he received his discharge on August 29, 1919.
Mr. Bebb is an active member of the University Club, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce and Re- tail Merchants Association of Wichita Falls and is well known to social circles. In establishing the Wichita Floral Company he has brought to his city a needed industry and one of the largest establish- ments of its kind in northwest Texas.
L. BUCHANAN. It was an ancient philoso- pher who said, "If all my earthly posses- sions consisted of but two coins, with one I would buy bread and with the other flowers that my soul might have food as well as my
body." It is that a fastly growing city, strident with commercialism which is destined to be a leading center of population in the Southwest in the near future might have "food for the soul" that C. L. Buchanan, his wife, Mrs. M. F. Buchanan, and Miss Clara B. Flick are engaged in a partnership floral business known as the Buchanan Floral Company, 906 Indiana Avenue, Wichita Falls. Flowers and plants of all kinds for all occasions are in abund- ance at this establishment which, though founded as recent as 1920, is well known and popular with the people of Wichita Falls. Though the leader she is already, Wichita Falls is but in her beginning, so immense is her future. In like manner her es- tablishments will share in the great development that this city is experiencing and the Buchanan Floral Company will have a large part in this growth.
Mr. Buchanan is a native of Indiana, where he was born in 1885, at Fort Wayne. His father, Samuel Buchanan, was a native of Tennessee. The public and private schools of his native state gave C. L. Buchanan his education, then the business college. Mr. Buchanan then began work with a newspaper in Huntington, Indiana, with which he continued for two years. For the following thirteen years he was engaged in the plumbing business and in March, 1920, he yielded to the call of the Lone Star State and came to Wichita Falls, establishing the present business. Mr. Buchanan has had fifteen years experience in this line of work.
. In 1917, at Fort Wayne, Ind., Miss Mildred L. Flick became the bride of Mr. Buchanan. She is a woman of unusual ability as is her aunt, Clara B. Flick, who were both successful business women in the city of Fort Wayne.
Mr. Buchanan is a Knight of Columbus and an Elk. Since locating in Wichita Falls he has identified himself with the civic and social welfare of his city as well as with affairs commercial. His establish- ment is already well known and popular with the city and will have an attractive place in the life of Wichita Falls.
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ALTER S. CURLEE, Carlee & Johnson, in the Bob Waggoner Building, Wichita Falls, is a record breaker at converting vast ranching areas into profitable farms and at developing the natural resources of a district generally. His present business is in both real estate and oil investments, and in both he is a leader. He is today building houses under the firm name of The Wichita Housing Corporation, which has a capitalization of $50,000, and of which he is secretary, and under the firm name of Curlee and Johnson, organized January 1, 1919, he has put on the Highland Heights Addition of 300 lots which were sold in two months, and owns the Curlee Addi- tion, the West Side Addition, and the North Side Park Addition. In addition to this he is drilling oil wells, handling leases and oil investments. In 1920 the firm did about $1,000,000 in business.
Mr. Curlee was born September 8, 1887, in Lime- stone County, Texas. His father, Henry Wesley Curlee, is a pioneer Texan and has been a rancher in Limestone County nearly forty years. His mother is Julia Frazier Curlee, also a native Texan. Upon finishing school at Mart, Texas, he attended the University Training School of Blooming Grove, Texas, from which he graduated in 1907. He had proven himself so proficient here that the following year, 1907-1908, he taught mathematics and man- aged the commercial department of his Alma Mater. In 1909 he came to Wichita Falls with the develop- ment of which he has been connected since. He came to take charge of the Dale Ranch of 13,000 acres and of the Jones 10,000 acre ranch which he stocked with cattle. He at once built a house on every eighty to one hundred and sixty acres and settled it with farmers. Today it is one of the best farming districts of that territory. To harness 13,000 acres of prairie as a farm is a big task. But Curlee dealt in big things all the time-he once placed an order for an entire carload of binding twine for his grain crops. This gigantic farming enterprise claimed all of his attention until 'four years ago when he began the real estate and oil business on just as large a scale. He has handled four attractive additions in a remarkably short time.
In April, 1919, he was elected to the office of Public Utility Commissioner of Wichita Falls and in April, 1920, Mayor Cline appointed him to serve a two year term as street commissioner and as mayor pro tem. During the war he was chairman of several campaigns and chairman of War Camp Community Service and was County Food Commis- sioner.
On November 13, 1910, Miss Myrtle James, of Mart, Texas, became Mr. Curlee's bride. Five chil- dren have been born to them-Ardath, Derwood, W. S., Jr., Dayton and Helen Monnette. The family resides at 2506 Tenth Street.
Mr. Curlee is a director and vice-president of the Chamber of Commerce, a member of the Wichita Club and of the Forrest Country Club. His church affiliation is Methodist.
C. DULANEY, trustee and manager of the Hartford Trust, 610 American National Bank Building, oil producers, has been a resident of Wichita Falls since 1918, coming here from Cottle County and engaging in the oil business independently for a year. The Hartford
Trust was organized in 1919 and now has valuable production in the Electra field and also in the North- west extension of the Burkburnett district. The company is still developing its holdings in the Elec- tra field. Other officers of the Trust are Theo. Combest, Paducah, Texas, and W. B. Stradley of Fort Worth.
Mr. Dulaney is a native of Texas and was born in Falls County in 1886. He is a son of J. G. Du- laney, for many years a well known cattle inan and merchant of Falls and Cottle counties and who is now deceased.
Reared on a ranch, Mr. Dulaney attended the public schools and also studied in private schools in Fort Worth and Paducah, Texas. After leaving school he engaged in the cattle business and was quite successful. In 1914 he was elected county and district clerk of Cottle County and re-elected in 1916, serving two full terms. He also was county abstractor for four years.
Mr. Dulaney was one of the organizers with Henry Hobbs of the Texas Chief Oil Company, one of the leading companies of the early days.
Mr. Dulaney was married in Cottle County in 1914 to Miss Ethel Cameron, native of Texas. They have one child, a daughter, Marcella, two and a half years of age. The family residence is at 1613 Eleventh Street.
Since coming to Wichita Falls Mr. Dulaney has become thoroughly imbued with the "Wichita spirit" and is an enthusiastic booster for the city and its surrounding oil fields. With further development of the potential oil territory, he expects to see Wichita Falls a city of 75,000 inhabitants by the close of the present decade. Mr. Dulaney is a thirty- second degree Mason, a member of Hella Temple Shrine at Dallas, the Scottish Rite at Dallas and the Blue Lodge at Paducah and Knights Templar at Vernon. He takes an active interest in civic af- fairs and is ever ready to do his part in any enter- prise having for its object the betterment of Wichita Falls.
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UGENE F. MATHIS, well known among the younger business men of Wichita Falls, has been active during his business career mostly in the real estate and automobile July 26, 1898, was the birth date of Mr. Mathis, when he was born at Wichita Falls, Texas. His father, L. H. Mathis, deceased since 1914, was one of the leading citizens of that city where for a score of years he was a successful lawyer. His mother is Mrs. Potter Mathis, a native of Texas. The Wichita school system gave Mr. Mathis his training and one year off at a university prepara- tory school. He began his business career early, having a natural endowment for commercial affairs. He started with the M. K. & T. Ry and was in the office work of that organization for six months: then he served for a year as deputy county clerk and from that work took up the real estate business, later becoming identified with the Wichita Motor Company.
Mr. Mathis resides at 1010 Fourteenth Street. He is a great believer in sticking-to-your-home-town as are some others who reside in a coming city; he is active in its social life and is identifying himself with the civic interests of Wichita Falls as well as with its affairs commercial.
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WILKIE TALBERT, vice president and or- ganizer of the Wichita Building Loan As- sociation, Inc., real estate dealer, American National Bank Building, has been in Texas since 1905, but did not locate at Wichita Falls until 1914, when he established his present business, hand- ling city property, farms and making investments. He does a general buying and selling business and builds houses for sale. In addition to his real estate business Mr. Talbert owns a dairy with about fifty head of good cows, selling the milk at wholesale to drug stores, etc. Previous to his entry into the in- surance and real estate business in 1914, he worked on ranches at Amarillo and in Oklahoma.
During the war with Germany Mr. Talbert was second lieutenant in "E" Troop the Fourth Texas Cavalry. He attended the Central Officers Training School at Camp McArthur.
Mr. Talbert was born at Arcadia, La., January 4, 1891. His parents were John B. and Ruth Capers Talbert. His father, now deceased, was a banker and farmer. His mother makes her home at Wichita Falls. His grandfather, Col. R. L. Capers, founded the first store at Homer, La., and owned thousands of acres of land in the oil field district of that sec- tion. Ile was a colonel in the civil war. John Tal- bert was a Baptist minister for about sixty years: During the civil war he was a chaplain in the army.
Mr. Talbert was educated at the Shreveport, La., High School and the Meridian College, and he is a thorough going young business man with a bright future. He is a Mason, belonging to Wichita Blue Lodge No. 635, the B. P. O. E. No. 1105, of which lodge he was formerly secretary. He is also a mem- ber of the Rotary Club and was at one time secretary of the organization. The Ad Club is another organi- zation with which he is connected. His church faith is with the Baptist denomination.
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