The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 11

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1328

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Mr. Ellis was married at Oakland, California, in 1902 to Miss Elizabeth Andrade. They have one daughter, Dorothy Elizabeth. The family resides at 2011 Lucile Avenue.

Active in Masonic work, Mr. Ellis is a thirty- second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a director of Maskat Temple Shrine. He is also secretary of Faith Lodge No. 1158, A. F. & A. M., and a director of the Kiwanis Club and a member of the publicity committee and member of the Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce and is found on the rolls of the University Club. He is a great believer in Wichita Falls and predicts the city will have a population of 100,000 by the end of the present decade.

F. HENDREN. office manager for the T. & B. Pipe Line Company, Inc., 521 American National Bank Building, has been a resident of Wichita Falls since October, 1919, com- ing here from Indianapolis shortly after his dis- charge from the army and immediately becoming identified with this company. Other officials of the T. & B. Pipe Line Company are: J. N. Thompson, president; T. N. Clark, vice-president, and John G. Bryson, secretary and treasurer. The company has sixteen miles of pipe lines in Wichita County and eight producing wells in the Northwest Extension of the Burkburnett field.

Mr. Hendren is a native of Indiana and was born in Indianapolis in 1888. He is a son of G. H. Hen- dren, well known banker of Indianapolis. After at- tending the public schools of his native city he

entered the University of Indianapolis where he graduated with the degree of bachelor of laws ir. 1914. During his stay in France with the American army he also had five months study in the University of Paris.

From 1914 to 1917 he worked in the claim and legal department of the Indianapolis Traction ani Terminal Company and at the same time studice law. Prior to that time he was engaged in the auto- mobile business from 1911 to 1913. At the outbreak of the war he entered the first officers' training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison and was con- missioned first lieutenant and assigned to active duty. After an additional training period at Samur. France, he was sent to the 103id field artillery of the 26th division. In March, 1918, he was transferred to the 17th field artillery with the second division. and in September, 1918, was made captain and regi- mental adjutant, remaining in this position unt !! March 1, 1919. After this he attended the Uni- versity of Paris, being discharged in August, 1919.

Shortly after his return home he was married at Indianapolis to Miss Fannie Williams and in October of that year they removed to Wichita Falls. Mr. and Mrs. Hendren have one baby boy, Allen, five months old and named for his maternal grandfather. They reside at 1204 Tenth Street.

Mr. Hendren is a Mason, a member of Blue Lodge No. 84 at Bloomfield, Indiana. He is an enthusiastic booster for Wichita Falls and predicts a great future for the city.

OBERT F. PURVIS. If laws were drafted in words and phrases that would permit of but one interpretation, there would be no need for lawyers or courts of justice. However, the most careful use of our language does not make possible a uniform interpretation of our statutes, in fact, the wording of some of our most important legislation is ambiguous, to say the least. The interpretation piaced by taxpayers upon various sections of the revenue act are often widely di- vergent from the treasury department's interpreta- tion of the same sections. Hence the great demand for the federal tax consultant who makes it his par- ticular business to analyze and absorb the attitude of the treasury department in order that he may be in a position to correctly advise his client, the taxpayer, and to assist him in securing all of the benefits to which he may be entitled under the law.

Robert F. Purvis of Purvis & Maceo, federal tax consultants and public accountants, 501 W. T. War- goner Building, Fort Worth, is peculiarly fitted for this work as for some time he was connected with the internal revenue bureau at Washington, D. C in the commissioner's office and acting secretary of the board of tax reviewers, his record during his term of service being an enviable one. Early in the year 1919 he was selected from the entire force in the bureau as the best man available to instruct a large class of correspondents upon the complicated phases of the new revenue act. Mr. Purvis is considerel an authority on matters connected with the revenue act of 1918.

With Mr. Purvis is associated J. R. Maceo, certi- fied registered accountant, a Cuban by birth and : graduate of Cambridge University, England. Mr. Macco has filled important posts with both the British and American governments. He is a broad- gauged, fully equipped and experienced man of ex- ceptional ability and his comprehensive experienc.

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As an accountant in commercial and public service w rk makes him a distinct asset, not only to the .m of Purvis & Maceo, but to the community at

Robert F. Purvis & Company established an office a: Fort Worth in 1919, undergoing a slight change in , menelature on January 1, 1921. So well and favor- AMy known is the personnel of this company that they have attracted business from many surround- . < states, California, Arizona, New Mexico, Okla- " ma, Missouri and Colorado being represented wong their clients and their Fort Worth clientele , composed of many of the most prominent mer- hants and business organizations of that city. The .taff of accountants has recently been augmented 'y the acquisition of Mr. E. O. Harper, certified pub- ! accountant, a man of broad experience in his chosen profession.

This company is prepared to ably handle audits. systems, income tax business and to conduct in. westigations. They are well equipped to instal! practical accounting systems, their systems being devised to meet the requirements of the treasury department.

HILDEMAN, manager of the Lewis System, advertising signs, 1413 Pacific Avenue, has been a resident of Dallas for fifteen years, coming here in 1907 to establish the sign business of which he is the managing director. This business has grown under the direction of Mr. Hilde- man until now the Lewis System is said to control 'nety per cent of all the sign work in Dallas. Mr. ilildeman is a progressive, enterprising business man and devotes his entire attention to the work. A large force is employed at all times looking after the placing of window, sign-board and all classes of out-door advertising. Special attention is given to show cards, window back-grounds and theatrical scenery and the Lewis System is said to practically control the latter business in this section.

Mr. Hildeman is a native of the Dutch West Indies and was born in Curacao in 1892. He is a son f Balthasar and Marie M. ( Rigaud) Hildeman. His father is now deceased.

After receiving his education in his native land and graduating at Saint Thomas College at Curacao, Mr. Hildeman came to the United States and con- luded to settle at Dallas a step he declares he has rover had occasion to regret. He has been in the »ign business all his life and is a recognized expert in this line.

In 1920 Mr. Hildeman was married in Dallas to Miss Jessie Mae Sanders, daughter of W. L. Sanders. They have one son, nine months old. Mr. and Mrs. Hildeman reside at 3308 Gunter Avenue.

Mr. Hildeman is the type of man who makes good. He is attentive to his business, keenly interested in evie progress and truly a representative type of the young, progressive business men who are build- Dallas into the leading city of the Southwest.

HAAS. E. WATSON, painting and decorating contractor and owner of the retail paint - and paper store which bears his name at 807 Indiana Avenue, has been a resident of Muita Falls since December, 1917, and since Sep- "mber, 1919, has been engaged in business for him- .f. He has been doing a general painting and evorating contracting business and on February ·

1. 1 .22, opened the retail store. About fifteen people

are employed regularly in the store and on various contraeting jobs.

Mr. Watson was born in Central Illinois in 1888 and is a son of James E. Watson, a native of Eng- land. He attended the public schools of Illinois and Indiana and also took a special course in decorating. In 1899 at the age of eleven years he began work as a helper and served his apprenticeship in Illinois. Upon completing the trade he came to Texas in 1911 and worked in various places until 1917 when he came to Wichita Falls and purchased an interest in the Robinson Paint Company, continuing with this concern until he entered business for himself in 1919.

In July, 1912, Mr. Watson was married at Bay City, Texas, to Miss Geneva Jolly. They have one son, Kenneth. The family home is at 1603 Burnett Street.

Mr. Watson is a Knight Templar, a member of Maskat Temple Shrine and a member of Blue Lodge No. 635. He also is a member of the Wichita Club, the Wichita Golf and Country Club, Kiwanis Club and the Chamber of Commerce. He is enthusiastic over the future prospects of Wichita Falls and be- lieves it will easily mantain its supremacy as the leading city of this part of the state and the com- mercial and industrial center of North and West Texas.

UMMERFIELD GRIFFITH ROBERTS, in- vestment banker, 607 Sumpter Building, has been engaged in business in Dallas since May, 1920, coming here from Terrell after his discharge from the United States Navy in which he served as Lieutenant during the War.

Mr. Roberts does a general real estate brokerage business, sells commercial paper to banks, handles city property and farm lands and has been actively interested in the oil development work in Kaufman County, handling a large volume of leases in that county. He has been very successful in every line of activity and is establishing splendid business connections in his various lines.

Born in Dallas in October, 1891, Mr. Roberts is a son of Matthew Cartwright Roberts and Emmie (Griffith) Roberts, daughter of General John S. Griffith, pioneer in Texas who canie a long time be- fore the Civil War and located at Terrell. He served as a general in the Confederate Army. His father is a banker at Terrell and prominently identi- fied with the financial and commercial life of Kauf- man county. After finishing high school Mr. Roberts attended the University of Texas, receiving the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and then matriculat- ed at Harvard where he took his M. B. A. degree.

After leaving Harvard Mr. Roberts began his business career with the Hanover National Bank of New York and after eight months service there enlisted in the Navy and was commissioned First Lieutenant in June, 1917. He saw service in Europe upon the staff of Admiral Simnis, and upon his dis- charge returned to Dallas.

On May 15th, 1920, Mr. Roberts was married in Dallas to Miss Annie Lee Warren, daughter of. Robert L. Warren of Dallas. They reside at 3800 Beverly Drive, Highland park.

Mr. Roberts is a member of the Harvard Club of New York, the Army and Navy Club of Washing- ton, City and Dallas Country Clubs of Dallas, Uni- versity Club, Dallas Athletic Club and the Chamber of Commerce. His college fraternity is Kappa Alpha.

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G. LEWIS, trustee of the Kentucky Produc- tion Company and of the Kentucky Com- pany, producers and drilling contractors, is one of the most active, enterprising and energetic of the younger oil men of Wichita Falls and has made a splendid success of his operations in the fields surrounding this city. Other trustees of the two companies, which are inter-related and con- trolled by the same group of interests, are F. Mc- Cune Barnes and C. G. Smith.

The Kentucky Company was organized on Decem- ber 20, 1920, and the Kentucky Production Com- pany in April, 1921. The companies have large hold- ings in the fields of Archer, Stephens, Wilbarger, Comanche, Hunt and Wichita counties and drilling operations are now under way in three of these counties. Most of the holdings owned by the two companies are in proven territory and considered highly valuable. The companies are independent producers and also do a great deal of drilling for other companies.

Mr. Lewis is a native of Kentucky and was born in 1891, a son of James W. and Mrs. Delia Gover Lewis. He attended the public schools and later matriculated at Bowling Green University at Bowl- ing Green, Kentucky.

Completing his education Mr. Lewis began in the oil business, first operating in the Coastal fields of Texas at Humble and Goose Creeek. He was suc- cessful there and later transferred his activities to the Stephens County fields and later Electra fields where he operated independently until the formation of the two companies in which he is interested.

In 1912 Mr. Lewis was married to Miss Mary Roberts, daughter of a well known Kentucky family. They have one son, H. G., Jr. The family resides at Kemp Kort Apartments.

Mr. Lewis is essentially a live wire oil man and a consistent booster for Wichita Falls. He is en- thusiastic over the possibilities of further oil de- velopment in the Central West Texas and North Texas fields and believes the peak of production has not been reached as yet. He is interested in all civic activities and is a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks.

F. HANNON. The successful man in the oil business is the man who causes mother earth to give up the liquid, and since Mr. E. F. Hannon, vice-president and general manager of the Carteret Oil Corporation, Wheat Building, has been able to do this, he deserves to have his name go down among the successful oil operators engaged in the industry.

He came to Fort Worth in 1918 from Tulsa, Okla- homa, where he had his initial experience, and a successful one, in the proven territory around Tulsa, and where he still has producing properties.

February 17, 1920, Mr. Hannon and his associate. Lewis D. Ladd, interested other men and organized the Carteret Oil Corporation, capitalized at $1,- 500,000, and all of the stock was readily sold. In addition to the extensive holdings of the com- pany in Oklahoma, Kansas, Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, $200,000 of the money originally subscribed still remains in the treasury. The company is going good, holding over 60,000 acres in the four states. The firm of Ladd and Hannon are independent opera- tors and producers, confining their operations to the Mid-Continent fields.

Mr. Hannon is a native of Missouri, born at

Springfield, January 3, 1876. His father, T. ITannon, was a progressive farmer, and his moth. who was Martha J. Robinson, came from a pron, nent Missouri family.

He was married June 20, 1906, at Tulsa, to M. Vera Justice, daughter of Prof. Emery W. Just , head of the Jefferson City, Mo., schools, and t: bright boys, John J and Edward, Jr., have gra. ... the union.

Mr. Hannon is a 32d degree Mason, member . Guthrie Consistory, also a member of the Ak :... Temple Shrine at Tulsa, the Riverside Country Ch. and the Chamber of Commerce at Fort Worth, ar. . the Elks at Tulsa.

Prior to engaging in the oil business he conduct. . a general merchandise business at Tulsa.

He expresses the opinion that the Texas oil fiel :- have just been scratched, and he looks for a grey future for the industry in this state. Fort Worth. he says, will always be the distributing center for the industry, and he believes the city will becor the most important railroad center and distributing point in the Southwest.

F. GWYNN, City National Bank Building vice-president and general manager of th .. Iowa Park Producing and Refining Com. pany, with general offices at Iowa Park .. is one of the well known oil men of Wichita Falls who was an eminently successful business mna !. before entering the oil business. For several years he was engaged in the wholesale grocery busines. and has continued his success since engaging in the oil industry. Associated with Mr. Gwynn in the Iowa Park Producing and Refining Company ar- J. F. Boyd, president; J. D. Overbey, secretary, and Tom Corridon, treasurer. The company has its own. production consisting of about ten producing well. in the Burkburnett district and in the Northwest Ex- tension, and has completed the first unit of a moderr refinery at Iowa Park. The company also own- several drilling rigs and strings of tools which it i .. operating in the development of its own acreage.

Mr. Gwynn was born at San Antonio, August 2: 1878, a son of F. K. and Esther (Dashiell) Gwynn. His father was formerly assistant postmaster at San Antonio and in the carly eighties removed to Fort Worth where Mr. Gwynn received his education .

In 1913 Mr. Gwynn came to Wichita Falls a: became associated with the wholesale grocery fire of Carroll, Brough, Robinson and Gates, holding ti .. position of sales manager and credit man until his resignation in January, 1918. He then became sert - tary-treasurer of the Wichita Valley Refining Com. pany, remaining with this organization until Ja's. 1919, and then going with the Texhoma Compan; as secretary for a year before becoming identifie ! with the Iowa Park Producing and Refining Com- pany. He is a director and vice-president of the Goodner Wholesale Grocery Company.

Mr. Gwynn was married at Fort Worth in 1903 to Miss Forrest Croom, a native Texan and member of a well known family at Wharton. They have one daughter, Miss Gay.

Notwithstanding his varied business interests and activity in the oil industry, Mr. Gwynn is actively interested in civic matters and is a great booster ar Wichita Falls. He is a member of the Mason ledge and Commandery, Wichita Club, Dallas Att letie Club and the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas As- sociation.

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DYSTERBACH, president

of Sam

Dysterbach Company, department store, 2108-10-12 Elm Street, has built up from a small beginning an establishment of con- Adlerable magnitude. The success of this depart- m nt store was predicted some 28 years ago when the store was organized and opened up in a small shop with a sixteen foot frontage on Elm Street, just one hundred feet from the present impressive and spacious quarters. From the very beginning the business value of "quality and service" was real- ized and every effort made to offer nothing but de- pendable goods and to extend to the buying public courtesy and consideration. That this has proved a solid foundation is shown by the fact that through the early years of the city's experimental stage, through financial panics, war, and times of recon- struction, this establishment has continued steady growth, month by month and year by year, increas- ing its capacity as the demand warranted, and con- stantly improving its line of goods.

The Sam Dysterbach Company was established in 1892, and grew out of the firm of Edward Titche. Mr. Dysterbach was Mr. Titche's first clerk, having been at his post of duty on the June morning in 1892 when the establishment of Edward Titche opened its doors to business. At this time Mr. Dysterbach was but fourteen years of age. The first location of the Dysterbach store was a small stand on Elm, 16 by 100 feet. By 1908 the business had so far outgrown this limited space that more spacious quarters had to be sought and the present location obtained. The building consists of three floors, the first two of which have a floor space of 75 by 100 feet, the third floor being 50 feet across the front. In 1909 the business was incorporated with a stock value of $47,500. Everything in the general department store line may be purchased here, and an entire day's shopping conducted within the doors of the store. Forty employees are en- gaged permanently, while during rush seasons twenty additional clerks are necessary. The officials of this store, besides Mr. Dysterbach, are Sylvian Dysterbach, a brother of Sam Dysterbach, who is secretary and treasurer.

A native of Dallas, Mr. Dysterbach retains mem- ories of an interesting era in the city's history when conditions were very different from those of the metropolis of today. He was born on November 14, 1877. His parents, Abraham D. and Caroline Land- auer Dysterbach, came to Dallas in 1870, shortly after the close of the war. The elder Dysterbach established a wholesale grocery concern which was to supply smaller towns of West Texas as well as local houses. Out of town trade was carried on by hitching two oxen to a wagon and loading the wagon to its full capacity. By this primitive method the Dysterbach concern furnished groceries to farm houses and towns throughout Western Texas.

Mr. Dysterbach attended the public schools but left school at the age of fourteen to clerk in the Titche establishment, going from there into the business that bears his name. Mr. Dysterbach is vice-president of the Liberty State Bank, and was one of its organizers and promoters.

In 1912 he was united in marriage to Mrs. Lillian Barker of Dallas. Mrs. Dysterbach has one daugh- ter, Miss Cleo Barker. The Dysterbach home is in Munger Place, 5205 Swiss Avenue.

Mr. Dysterbach is a thirty-second degree Scottish

Rite and Royal Arch Mason, member of Hella Temple Shrine, charter member of the Woodmen of the World, a member of the Chamber of Commerce. He is prominently identified with the interests of the city and has built up an establishment that stands as a monument to his ability.

ALLEN FULK, president of the Union In- vestment and Loan Company, 610 South- western Life building, an investment, loan, and protective organization came to Dallas from Omaha, Neb., in 1916, organized and incorpor- porated a commercial detective agency known as the Fulk National Detective Bureau, checking up em- ployees of department stores, etc., sold his interest in that firm to devote his entire time to the Union Loan and Investment Company, which was organ- ized March 1, 1920. The purpose of this company is to make savings serve three-fold (1) earn com- pound interest; (2) protection, (3) an income for the future.

Mr. Fulk is a native of Livingston, Ill., born Octo- ber 21, 1875. His father, M. A. Fulk, was a farmer and at one time was foreman of Sullivan's Corn Ranch, the largest in the world, comprising 30,000 acres. His mother canie from an Illinois family and before her marriage was Miss Ida May Hopkins. His grandmother was the first white wonma born in the central part of Illinois. His parents moved to Ne- braska when Mr. Fulk was 11 years old. He at- tended the public schools at Atlanta, Neb., and was educated in Lincoln, where he attended the Normal School and the University of Nebraska. While he was acquiring his education he also taught school for four years.

From 1902 to 1905 Mr. Fulk bought his father's hardware business at Atlanta, Neb. His father organized the Atlanta State Bank, of which he is still president. He and his two daughters manage the bank. In 1905 Mr. Fulk sold the hardware busi- ness and went to Lincoln, where he bought an inter- est in a drug store. In 1907 he quit the drug busi- ness and opened a men's clothing business in Lincoln and operated that until 1914, when he sold out and went into the insurance business, which he followed for two years. He began as agent for the Bankers Life Insurance Company and became superintendent of agents in Lincoln. In 1916 he moved to Dallas and opened up a commercial detective agency.

He married and lives at Motor Route C. His wife was Miss Zena Baker, member of an Ohio family. His father, now deceased, was a prominent lumber- man at Atlanta, Nebraska. Mr. and Mrs. Fulk have two children, Francis and Dorothy, aged 17 and 12. years, respectively. He belongs to the Automobile Country Club and is an officer in the Mutual Club.

For several years before coming here Mr. Fulk says he had Dallas in view, and has not been disap- pointed in his estimate of the city's wonderful pos- sibilities. He is constantly urging his friends and relatives to locate here.

AVID DREEBEN, pioneer resident of Texas and well known Dallas citizen. is manager of the Oak Cliff Furniture Company at 612. East Jefferson, and has been for many years actively identified with the business interests of the city. The Oak Cliff Furniture Company is an upto- date store in every respect and handles a high grade line of merchandise.

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Mr. Dreeben was born on February 9, 1853 in Russia. He was reared however, in Germany. When he was sixteen year of age he came to America. For a while he lived in New York. Then he moved to Illinois where he remained for one year. In 1870 he came to Texas, locating at first at Jefferson. Mr. Dreeben later returned to New York where he lived for eighteen years. He then came back to Texas. In 1902 he came to Dallas where he has lived since.

While he was in New York the second time, he was married to Miss Rosa Iliger. They are the parents of five children, all girls, Alice, Lilly, Flora, Madeline and Viola. The family reside at 3401 Colonial Avenue. Mr. Dreeben is a member of the Columbian Club, The Jewish Church and is a Mason.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 11

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed Publication date: 1922 Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau Number of Pages: 1328

Author: Davis, Ellis Arthur, ed; Grobe, Edwin H., ed
Publication date: 1922
Publisher: Dallas, Texas Development Bureau
Number of Pages: 1328