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Mr. Bishop comes from Roanoke, Alabama, where he was born in 1880. His father, E. D. Bishop, is a retired farmer, a native of Alabama, and a citizen of Roanoke. The public schools of Alabama and Indiana provided Mr. Bishop with his education. He was married at Wichita Falls in 1920, to Miss Selma Lewis, daughter of J. A. Lewis, cattleman of Bal- linger, Texas.
Mr. Bishop is identified with the Masonic and Odd Fellows Lodges at Petrolia, and takes a live interest in all public affairs.
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AM O. KIMBERLIN, of the Kimberlin's Ready-to-Wear Store, Indiana at Tenth Street, Wichita Falls, is one of the best authorities on ready-to-wear goods and one of the largest merchants in this line in northwest Texas. Six employees are kept in constant service to accommodate the extensive trade the Kimberlin establishment enjoys and a complete line of every- thing ladies could desire in the way of clothing is had at Kimberlin's. The business was opened in October of 1919, and now has one of the widest pa- tronage of its kind in Wichita Falls. Claude Miller is a partner in the business.
Mr. Kimberlin is a native of Oklahoma; he was born at Atlas in 1892. His father, J. N. Kimberlin, a native of Missouri, came to Texas in 1868, and later moved to Oklahoma; he is a retired ranchman. His mother, a native of Newport, Ark., is Eudora Dutton Kimberlin and has resided in Texas since childhood. After eompleting the Oklahoma public school system, young Kimberlin attended the University of Okla- homa where he finished his education. He then be- gan the dry goods business at Altas, Oklahoma, his home eity, then later in Oklahoma City. He turned aside from this work for awhile to try banking with the City National Bank of Altas, Oklahoma, then was called into the army. He enlisted on April 28, 1917, at Fort Logan H. Roots, Ark. He was commissioned as 2nd lieutenant, later as 1st lieutenant, and in this eapacity he took command of Company H, 346 Infan- try, 87th Division. He served with his Division for nine months in France and on return to the United States, he received his discharge, April 11, 1919. After leaving the army, he came to Wichita Falls and established his business of today.
Mr. Kimberlin is a "bachelor" and active not only in commercial life but in the social and civic activity of his city. He is identified with the Elks and also with the University Club. His entire career, with ex- ception of the Army service and a short time as banker, has been devoted to his chosen profession and in it he has been a leader from the start. The Kim- berlin's Ready-to-Wear Store enjoys already a place of prominence in feminine life of Wichita Falls and will have an ever increasing place in the tomorrow of the city.
F. SANDERFORD, owner of the Miller's Walk Over Boot Shop, Wichita Falls, caters to the footwear of one of the most pro- gressive and fashionable as well as pros- perous cities of the South. In fact, Wichita Falls has come to be recognized every where as the city with the greatest future to its size in the United States. In such a center, a center that thrills with success, happiness and service as well as with a lot of people, the Miller's Walk Over Boot Shop, owned and operated by Mr. Sanderford, is located, is an exclusive shoe establishment, carries the com- plete line of Walk Over footwear, special line of other shoes and has a hosiery department. The plant is a parlor twenty feet by seventy-six feet and has also an attractive balcony. The business for 1920 went beyond the $110,000 mark and kept seven employees in constant service.
Mr. Sanderford is a Texan, born in Bell County, in 1893. His father, W. F. Sanderford, deceased since 1908, was a farmer, a native of Mississippi who came to Texas in 1878; the mother was Maggie Parham (Smith) Sanderford, a native of Georgia. The public schools of Belton and then Baylor Uni-
versity gave him his education. His business career started with the Walk Over Boot Shop in Waco, Texas, on a salary. He then answered the call to arms, entered the officers' training camp at San An- tonio, Texas, September 20, 1917. He was commis- sioned second lieutenant with the field artillery, was sent to Camp Jackson, S. C., transferred to the air service as an aerial observer at Post Field, Fort Sill, Oklahoma, and then at Selfridge Field, Michigan. From that station he was transferred to Gordon City, L. I., waiting to go across but never was shipped and received his discharge on December 21, 1918. It was then that he went to Wichita Falls and established his business of today.
Mr. Sanderford is a member of the M. B. Lodge. of Waco, and of the American Legion, and is identi- fied with the West Texas Chamber of Commerce. Youthful and a good business man, Mr. Sanderford is already successful to a very attractive degree and he and his establishments will have a good part in the big future of Wichita Falls.
JAX WEITZMAN, owner of the Wichita Falls baking Company, 1007 Travis Street, Wichita Falls, Texas, not only is the biggest baker in Northwest Texas, doing only wholesale business and besides supplying his city ships his bread 100 miles around his plant, but also has won a reputation for his bread in two conti- nents-in Russia as well as in America. His new plant, with a floor space of seventy feet by one hundred and fifty feet, was established in February, 1920, and hums with the activity of eighteen em- ployees and the output of the ovens, keeps six de- livery cars rolling. Bread and cakes are the sole wares of this establishment. One of the biggest factors in the immense commercial life of Wichita Falls is its importance as a distributing center for territory hundreds of miles around it; Mr. Weitzman and his establishment are at the forefront in this phase of Wichita's commercial life for practically every town for a hundred miles about uses Weitz- man products.
Russia is the native home of Mr. Weitzman; he was born in that mighty country in 1885, and was schooled only in his trade in the old world. He entered the baking business when he was twelve years of age and has worked in the baking shops all over Europe. At the age of twenty, in 1905. he yielded to the call of the West and came to America, landing at Galveston, Texas. In this city. in Houston, Texas, in Kansas City, both in Kansas and Missouri, and in Tulsa, Oklahoma, he worked at his profession. At the latter place he began the baking business for himself, starting the project with a capital of $100. He met with great success there and in 1919 he came to Wichita Falls where he has founded his business with state proportions. It is the finest baking plant in Northwest or Western Texas.
Mr. Weitzman married in his home-land, a Russian girl; they have three children, Louise, age twelve; Rody, age four, and Ida, age eighteen months. The family residence is at 1007 Travis Street. Mr. Weitzman is a member of the Chamber of Commerce of his city and of the Retail Merchants' Association. He is a thoroughbred American in all his ideals and life, America and the Lone Star State rejoice in such citizenry as he is, and as one who has made and baked and sold bread on two continents, the old and the new worlds.
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C. HEYDRICK, of the Heydrick Mapping Company, 71016 Seventh Street, Wichita Falls, is the founder and owner of one of the biggest mapping companies of the United States, and is one of the staunchest advo- cates of the immense future he sees ahead of his city. He makes oil maps of all kinds, for Texas, Oklahoma and Louisiana, has over one hundred and fifty Texas county maps in his office, as well as maps of the principal oil districts in the Southwest. New maps are being constantly added and the old brought down to date.
Mr. Heydrick was born on May 5, 1875, in Butler County, Pennsylvania. His father, J. A. Heydrick, was a pioneer oil man in Pennsylvania and other places. His mother was Lizzie W. Nellis Heydrick, also of Pennsylvania. As a youth, L. C. received his education in the Butler County high school from which he graduated in 1895. He then began map- ping and surveying under the direction of his father and has continued in this business since. He holds maps dating back to 1870 of various oil fields. In 1907 he changed his location to the Oklahoma oil fields, later began business in the Illinois oil in- dustry, and in 1911 came to Wichita Falls where he is a leader today in three realms: maps, oil, and building. His individual tribute from the oil fields, for he is an independent operator, comes to 400 bar- rels daily and he is now drilling four more wells in Stephens and Wichita counties. As a builder, he has to his credit the Brook-Manor apartment house, is half owner of the various Maer-Heydrick buildings of his city, and he is director of the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad.
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Mr. Heydrick is a member of the Wichita Club, of the Chamber of Commerce, of the Industrial Board, and a life member of the B. P. O. E. He be- lieves that Wichita Falls has a fine future and that it is destined to be a great city. As one who is devoting his energy to the realization of this aim, he is well known as a leader and has a multitude of friends.
L. ART, Indiana at Eighth Street, Wichita Falls, is a big man in a city of big men; he is one of the largest jewelers in the state of Texas and his establishment, the Art Jew- elry Store, is known throughout Northwest Texas. The rapid increase in population of the city of Wich- ita Falls and the territory of the northwestern part of the state which it serves as chief commercial center and distributor during the last decade together with the immense increase in wealth and trade, has effected every business of that part of the state. Mr. Art's industry has had a part in this big expansion for it was as recent as 1910 that he began his busi- ness in Wichita Falls in a very small way on $1,500 and today he carries a stock of diamonds alone that is valued at a quarter of a million dollars, and his other precious stones in store as well and a watch repair department and an optical department.
Detroit, Michigan, was the birthplace of this citizen of Texas, in 1883. He was educated in his native state and the University of Ohio. In 1906, at the age of twenty-three. he came to Fort Worth, Texas, and began work in a drug store; later he took work in a jewelry establishment on a salary. In 1910 with a stock of $1,500.00 he started the business that in ten years has grown to be one of the foremost jewelry
establishments in the State of Texas. He has interests in many oil companies, being a pioneer oil man, and has a great many oil holdings.
In 1910, at Sherman, Texas, Mr. Art married Mis‹ Jeanette Reisenberg; they have two children, Paulin .. Jane, Rose Marian and the family reside at 100: Brooks St.
Mr. Art is a Knight of Pythias; he is a member of the Wichita Club, the Wichita Country Club, the American Jewelers Association, the Chamber of Com- merce and the Wichita Falls Business council. He is ex-president of the Retail Merchants Association, president of the Jewish Temple, member of the B. P. O. E. and other organizations. From the first day of his arrival in Wichita Falls he has made himself a thorough Wichita-an by identifying himself with every civic interest of his people as well as with their esthetic and commercial life.
F. WATERS, southern manager of the American Oil Engineering Corporation, Dan Waggoner Building, Fort Worth, whose past accomplishments have been of wide scope, has been active in engineering and oil circles in Texas since October, 1920. His company owns holdings in Texas, Oklahoma, Montana and Cali- fornia.
By virtue of his earlier training in railroad work, Mr. Waters is regarded as an official of great ability. From 1908 until 1917, he was employed by the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad Company. rising to the position of chief clerk. At the end of this term of employment, his service was placed at the disposal of the government for the great work of the world war and he served with unusual distinction throughout the term of his enlistment which expired in June, 1919.
In May, 1917, at the very beginning of the con- flict for the American forces, he entered the service as a lieutenant in cavalry. In September, 1917, he was sent to France, and later transferred to the engineering department and promoted to the rank of captain. Here the previous railroad training stood him in good stead and soon brought the ap- pointment of assistant general superintendent of railroads in France for the United States govern- ment. The important work which this appointment involved did not permit his release at the time of the armistice, but detained him for the great tasks which had been left for our government's foreign railroads after November 11, 1918, and it was June 25, 1919, before he was relieved of his duties and given his discharge.
Upon returning to America, Mr. Waters resumed his work with the railroad, but in August, 1920, ac- cepted a position with the American Oil Engineering Corporation, his present company, as manager at Tulsa, Oklahoma. After successful work in Okla- homa and elsewhere, Mr. Water was appointed to his present position in Fort Worth.
Mr. Waters, in addition to his military and com- mercial success, bears the distinction of high rank in the Masonic Orders. He is an enthusiastic Shriner with membership at Al Amin Temple, Little Rock, Arkansas, and an ardent supporter of all Masonie activities. In Fort Worth he has gained many friends and is enrolled as a member of the Fort Worth Club.
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L. HUEY, oil operator and real estate man, Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, partner in the firm of Huey & Cotton, is aligned with two of the biggest industries in a district that is fastly leading Texas in those in- dustries. He is, therefore, in the midst of an enormous business of which he has one of the big- gest shares. The business of real estate and oil is an immense one in either branch; to be active in both divisions is to be progressive indeed, for no other city is making the strides in Texas that Wichita Falls is today.
Mr. Huey is a native Texan. He was born in Collin County, on June 14, 1879. His father is G. D. Huey. After completing the Collin County public schools, Mr. Huey studied law in Mckinney, Texas, under the direction of the most able lawyers there. In 1900 he was admitted to the bar. He began his practice at MeAlester, Okla., where he was also active in real estate until he came to Wichita Falls in 1906. In 1917 he became a partner with Mr. A. R. Cotton and together as Huey & Cotton they have built up one of the most attractive businesses in their line in their city. They deal in production properties and leases. Mr. Huey's law training equips him unusually well for this activity. In Feb- ruary, 1921, Mr. Huey organized and is president of the Florida Oil Co., taking over 200,000 acres in Florida and is now drilling three wells there. In 1910 Mr. Huey put on the Floral Heights Addition, one of the largest additions to the city and in 1918 he put in the Scotland Addition.
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Mr. Huey resides at the Hern Hotel. He is a leader among the Elks, a past exalted ruler, and a member of the Knights of Pythias. He is active in the Wichita Club and Chamber of Commerce. In fact, Mr. Huey identifies himself with every civic and social activity of his city as well as with its business interests. He is, therefore, widely known and has many friends. In 1914 Mr. Huey was District Deputy Grand Exalted Ruler of the B. P. O. Elks for North Texas.
As one identified with Wichita Falls for fifteen years, engaged in two of the leading interests of that metropolis, real estate and oil, Mr. Huey is one of the most active of men in this city of active leaders.
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R. COTTON, of the firm of Huey & Cotton, Fort Worth and Wichita Falls, is informed as to real estate and oil values of northwest and central Texas. a district that has at- tracted the attention of the Southwest as much in recent years as has any other section of the United States. Land values are at the foundation basis of a country's wealth; time was when in the territories of the immense Lone Star State there was free land unbounded; then it began to sell for a few dollars an acre, and today the natural resources unknown a few years ago have disclosed Texas as a leader, not only in agricultural products but in underground values as well. It was the coming in of the north- west territory as an oil field that put Texas at the forefront among Uncle Sam's oil producers. A. L. Huey is the partner in the organization which was launched in 1916 as an oil and real estate investment concern. Formerly the firm of Huey & Cotton en- joyed a handsome production about Burkburnett and in the northwest extension they still hold attractive leases in the best proven fields.
Mr. Cotton is a native of Kansas; he was born at Wamego of that state on June 8, 1878; the father. G. B. Cotton, now deceased, was a Kansas farmer: the mother is Mary Earle Cotton. The training of the best public and high schools of the Southwest was Mr. Cotton's as he grew up. He left the farm of his father to enter the business world as a lum- berman, becoming associated with the C. T. Herring Lumber Company, an extensive concern with many yards in leading centers of the state. For thirteen years Mr. Cotton was with the Herring organiza- tion; he left that association to enter the business that is his today. In the opening of the Mexia field Mr. Cotton has taken an interest in the oil activity of that section.
In 1906, at Manitou, Oklahoma, Miss Dixie Myers, a native Texan, became the bride of Mr. Cotton. George, Albert R., Jr., Ora and Ada are their chil- dren and the family residence is at 1000 Taylor Street.
Mr. Cotton is a Mason of the York Rite and Shriner; he is also a member of the Elks, the Coun- try Club. He is a welcomed personality to the pleasure and civic gatherings of his townsmen as well as in their business Chambers of Commerce.
AMES LEE BIGELOW, of Bigelow & Kief- ner and of the National Securities Com- pany, W. T. Waggoner Building, the first named company handling a general line of insurance and the second making mortgage loans on automobiles in Fort Worth, is a native of Gard- ner, Kansas, where he was born December 18, 1895.
He came to Fort Worth in 1919, after being dis- charged from the United States Air Service, and or- ganized his present business in the month of October of the same year.
At the outbreak of the late war Mr. Bigelow joined the air service department and was stationed at various fields in Texas about one year and nine months. He was also stationed for a short while at Gardner City, L. I. He finished the ground school course at Austin, Texas, and completed the flying school course at Kelly Field, being commissioned a second lieutenant.
Prior to entering the army Mr. Bigelow had been in the banking business since leaving the University of Kansas where he spent three years.
His father, A. Bigelow, was president of the Farmers Bank at Gardner, Kansas, and it was here that Mr. Bigelow received his first training in the banking business. Prior to coming to Fort Worth he had charge of the discount department of the City Bank of Kansas City, which position he held about nine months.
Mr. Bigelow lives at the Lucerne apartments and is a member of the Rivercrest Country Club. He is also a Mason, holding membership in the Gardner Blue Lodge.
Mr. Bigelow's associate, Charles Edward Kiefner. is a native of Wichita, Kansas. Before coming to Fort Worth he was with the National City Company of New York in Kansas City.
He also was in the air service department of the army, stationed in Texas, and is a finished flier.
Mr. Kiefner lives at the Lucerne apartments, is a Mason and Shriner. He was educated at the Uni- versity of Kansas and the Northwestern University at Chicago.
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HOWARD PAYNE, vice-president of the Fraser Brick Company, the Seguin Brick and Tile Company and Wilburn Tile Co., 808-809-810 Sumpter Building, is a promi- nent business man of Dallas, and widely known through his splendid work in charitable and patriotic organizations as well as for the position he holds as a business executive of marked ability. Time and again Mr. Payne has personally sacrificed his own interests for the causes he has championed, and the value of his services during the war cannot be measured by words.
The Fraser Brick Company was organized in March of 1907 as the Fraser-Johnston Brick Com- pany, which later became the Fraser-Meyers Com- pany. In 1910 Mr. Payne formed a partnership with Mr. Fraser and the company was incorporated under the new name, with Mr. Payne as its secretary and sales manager. In 1919 he became vice-president and is now in charge of sales and distribution.
This firm has three factories of its own in the state, at Seguin, Ginger and Wilburn, and production contracts with several other plants, besides repre- senting half a hundred face and fire brick manu- facturers of the North and East. In two factories enly interlocking tiles are manufactured. About one hundred men are employed in the plants which have a combined capacity of 50,000 tons per year and up- ward, the annual output rapidly increasing in growth. Territory covered by salesmen and repre- sentatives includes Texas, South Oklahoma, West- ern Arkansas, Louisiana and Eastern New Mexico. This concern is the leader in manufacture of burnt clay building products, both as to size of plants and amount of production.
Born in Kansas City on May 28, 1884, Mr. Payne was the son of James E. Payne, noted journalist of that city and well known in the West before the war. He served four years in the Confederate army and was commissioned a captain in the Spanish- American war. His brother, Milton J. Payne, was one of the first mayors of Kansas City. He married Miss Annie Eliza Hickman, daughter of his com- manding officer in the Confederate army, Major E. A. Hickman.
Mr. Payne was educated in the public schools of Kansas City. His first business experience was with the firm of Sherwin-Williams Co. While manager of the promoting department of the Kansas City office he came to Dallas in 1907 to take charge of the Texas branch of the Sherwin-Williams business. Still later he held executive positions in the sales offices of Cleveland, Pittsburgh and Chicago. He left this company in 1910 to form a partnership with Mr. Fraser in the brick business.
Mr. Payne married Miss Lucile Elizabeth Wood- ward, whose father, Charles H. Woodward, of Brownwood, built the West Texas Telephone Com- pany, one of the first lines established in the state. Mr. and Mrs. Payne have three children, J. Howard, Jr., Charlotte Elizabeth, and Walter Edward.
Mr. Payne is past-president of the Dallas Ad- vertising League, also of the Dallas Better Business Bureau and organizer of the President's Club of Dal- las, the membership of which is made up of the pres- idents of various business clubs. He is an associate member of the University Club and holds member- ship in the Rotary Club, Automobile Club, Automo- bile Country Club, and is secretary of the Dallas Athletic Club and one of its organizers and charter members. He was publicity director of the State
Fuel Administration during the war, and at the same time was on the executive committee of the Dallas Red Cross, the United Charities, and executive secre- tary of the United War Work Campaign and took active part in all Liberty Loan campaigns. He is also a Scottish Rite Mason, a member of the Cham- ber of Commerce, and for the last three years chair- man of its advertising committee. Such activities in welfare, municipal and industrial circles designate him as a man of rare mentality, strict integrity of character and an enormous capacity for work.
D. BALCOM, president of the Dallas Trans- fer Company, Austin and Young streets, Dallas, before coming to this city was en- gaged in developing farm lands of Western Texas and while following that pursuit was instru- mental in the development of over ten thousand acres of Texas lands. Since becoming president of the Dallas Transfer Company, Mr. Balcom has prac- tically built the entire equipment of the company and through his earnest effort its business has been more than doubled. The Dallas Transfer Company was organized in 1876; since that time, for eight years it has handled all of the United States Mail within this city, discontinuing June 1920, and has built up a reputation of steadfastness and reliability. Mr. Balcom bought the controlling interest in the company in 1919 and at the present time it is en- gaged in transfer, baggage, storage and forwarding of both household goods and merchandise. The con- cern has one hundred and seventy five people in its employ; uses eleven taxicabs; sixteen trucks and fifty wagons. The warehouse of the company is lo- cated at Poydrus & Young streets and occupies a space of some eighty thousand square feet.
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