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In 1918, at Wichita Falls, Texas, Miss Floren Miller and Mr. Garner were united in marriage; the now have residence at 611 Avenue C. Mr. Garn is a Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner at the Mask Temple. He is a good mixer with his fellow-me sociable, talented, and as a business man he enjo the activity of one of the best establishments of i kind in his part of the state. is thorough identified not only with the commercial life of } city but with its civic welfare and is one of t greatest believers in Burkburnett's future.
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OHN R. LOGGIE, district manager of pro- duction for the Texhoma Oil and Refining Company, 908-20 City National Bank Building, has been a resident of Wichita Falls since 1913 and has been connected with the Texhoma Oil and Refining Company since a short time after its organization in 1917. To Mr. Loggie devolves the important task of looking after the company's production and keeping its wells at the highest state of etficiency. He is an experienced and capable oil man and knows the intricate details of the game thoroughly.
The Texhoma Oil and Refining Company is one of the largest independent producers operating in the North and West Texas fields. It was organized by W. B. Hamilton, its president, and has been highly successful, owning a number of valuable and highly productive leases in various fields of North and West Texas. Other officers of the company are N. H. Martin, vice-president; C. W. Snider, treasurer, and J. J. Perkins, secretary. The company has a large organization and occupies practically all of the ninth floor of the City National Bank Building.
Mr. Loggie was born in Scotland in 1875 and his father dying he emigrated with his mother to America when he was thirteen years of age. The family settled in Ohio where Mr. Loggie received his education in the public schools. At the age of 24 he began work in the oil fields of Ohio, looking after drilling and production and his work has taken him into practically every major field of the United States and also into old Mexico. He came to Wichita Falls in the early days of the Burkburnett field and worked for the Humble Oil and Refining Company at first, later going with the Texhoma.
In February, 1911, Mr. Loggie was married at Tulsa, Oklahoma, to Miss Ruby Berlien, a native of Ohio. They have three children, John R., Jr., W. D. and Robert George. Mr. Loggie is a thirty-second degree Scottish Rite Mason, a member of Akdar Temple and of the Blue Lodge at Hardenville, Illinois.
IMON JONAHI COVEY, Fort Worth, the Texas representative of the California- Texas Oil Co., holds 12,000 acres of leases in the immediate vicinity of Ranger, Des- demona, Palo Pinto and other oil fields of Texas. 'The home office of the organization is Long Beach, California; the Texas office is at Fort Worth. When Pennsylvania and some of the Allegheny states dis- covered oil many years ago, that district became the chief oil territory of the United States. Fortunes were made from developing this natural resource and Pennsylvania became the first state in oil pro- duction. But within the last few years in western Texas, fields have been discovered bearing oil pools that rank with Uncle Sam's best; the districts of Ranger and Wichita Falls, and Desdemona and ad- joining territory have so increased the Texas output in oil that the Lone Star State is fast approaching leadership in this industry. While there are rich fields all over the state, yet the heart of the greatest production thus far centers in districts in western and northwestern Texas, territory in which the 12,000 acreage of the California-Texas Oil Co. lies. Their leases are right at the heart of the richest producing fields, secured just recently -- the com- pany was organized in 1920-and as this rich hold- ing is developed the California-Texas Oil Company
will be in a place of leadership. Her holdings so guarantee her destiny.
Mr. Covey was born at Richmond, Mo., November 26, 1866. J. H. and Lucy (Keeling) Covey were his parents. His father was a farmer. After complet- ing the Richmond public schools, Mr. Covey came to Texas where he has now lived for thirty-five years, actively engaged in business. He settled in Collin County and resided there for five years; he then moved to Bosque County and began the real estate and farm loan business in Morgan, Texas; he handled all of the First National Bank's business for that institution. In 1916 he entered the oil business and since that date he has been in this industry exclusively. In June of 1920 he came to Fort Worth in the position he now serves the California-Texas Oil Company.
At Rockwall, Texas, Mr. Covey married Miss Ada Baldridge. They have ten children: S. Homer, D., Ewell, Herschel, Robert J., I. W., Eunice, Esther Ellen, Berta Ruby, and Martha Elizabeth. The family residence is at 3316 Avenue L.
Mr. Covey is a member of the Woodmen, the Odd Fellows, and the Knights of Pythias. He is a past deputy grand master among the Odd Fellows. His church affiliation is with the Church of Christ. The California-Texas Oil Company, though new in the Texas fields, has holdings in the best oil country and is in position to have an important part in oil development. Mr. Covey will see that it does.
ENJAMIN W. TYE came to Dallas in 1919, drawn here by the splendid successes being made in the oil districts of the state, and he expresses the opinion that the industry is yet in its infancy and will eventually be the great- est oil producing state in the entire country. He keeps in close touch with the development going on in Texas, Louisiana and other fields, knows the lead- ing operators and is gradually establishing himself more firmly in the industry.
Prior to engaging in the oil business Mr. Tye prac- tised law at Atlanta, Ga., from 1908 to 1917, and was born in that city March 26, 1885. His father, John L. Tye, is a well known attorney there. His early education was acquired in Atlanta and he was a member of the class of 1905 at Annapolis, and the class of 1908 at Yale.
RANK M. SHEPARD, a member of the firm of Petrolia Supply Company, Duncan, Okla- homa and Burkburnett, Texas, as a dealer in oil well supplies, both heavy and light. is interested in two of the greatest oil centers in the Southwest for his business and in the rapid develop- ment of the fields he and his organization has an attractive part of the big supply trade. The organi- zation, established as early as 1915, is a partnership in the form of a stock company.
Mr. Shepard was born at Kingfisher, Oklahoma, in 1891, son of J. A. Shepard, formerly of Iowa. He was reared in Kansas and came to Texas in 1916. His mother, Susan (Spurrier) Shepard is a native of Kansas. After completing the public school sys- . tem of Oklahoma, Mr. Shepard attended the South- western Normal. In 1912, he began business in the oil fields as a tool dresser; two year later, he be- came a driller and served in this capacity until 1920 when he went with the Petrolia Supply Company. His work in this line was interrupted by the Call to Arms when Mr. Shepard enlisted for military service on May 28, 1917, Company K of the 142 Infantry of
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the Thirty-sixth Division. Later, he was transferred to the Tank Corps as second lieutenant, went to France with the 305th Batallion, landed on November 2, 1918, and was discharged in December, 1919. It was then that he returned to Burkburnett, later going to Duncan, Oklahoma.
On March 10, 1919, at Little Rock, Arkansas, Miss Jane Gowdy and Mr. Shepard were married. Her father, J. M. Gowdy is a railroad man of many years experience. Frances Jane is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Shepard. The American Legion is the only organization other than his business with which Mr. Shepard is aligned.
ILVEN STILES, owner of the Stiles Saddlery Company, Main Street, Burkburnett, has a business which, when its small beginning is considered in connection with its present- day big business, is coupled with romance. Its be- ginning was in the Army in the late war when Mr. Stiles there learned the saddlery business, and a capital to start with of fifty dollars; today, the Stiles Saddlery Company has grown from the small repair shop stage into a big con- cern, manufacturing harness and leather bags as well as a line of shoes and boots. The beginning of this present-day attractive business was in June, 1919, at Burkburnett. Three employees are kept in constant service.
Mr. Stiles is a native of Arkansas; he was born in Hot Springs County, in 1892. His father, B. D. Stiles of Rush Springs, Okla., is an active farmer. The public school system of his home city gave him his education and then Silven Stiles followed the calling of his father, farming, near Lawton, Okla- homa, until that quiet profession was interrupted by the Call to Arms. In March, 1918, he enlisted, was placed in the Remount Depot at Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas, where he learned the trade that today is building for him a big business; on May 23, 1919, he received his discharge and came at once to Burk- burnett to size up the future of the city as a business location for his trade. He started a small repair shop in his line of work with a capital of fifty dollars and from that the business has grown by vast develop- ments until he is a leader in his trade over an im- mense territory.
Mr. Stiles is a "bachelor;" he is a Mason of the Scottish Rite and a Shriner at the India Temple. In the two years of residence at Burkburnett, he has not only made himself known in commercial circles for his industry, but has identified himself with the civic and social life of his city as well. He believes Burkburnett is "the best little city in the country." In its present-day activity he is among the leaders and in the big development of the future he and his firm will have a big share.
E. RAWLINS, proprietor of the Call Field Body Works at 808 Lamar Street, has been in business in Wichita Falls since in May, 1919. Soon after opening his establish- ment he removed to Call Field, remaining there until November, 1920, when he removed to his pres- ent location. He occupies a building fifty by seven- ty-five feet and does a general body repair business and also repairs tops and builds sport and pleasure car bodies. Three expert mechanics are employed and the shop turns out a high class of work.
Mr. Rawlins is a native of Texas and was born at Hillsboro September 17, 1892. He is a son of E. J.
and Margaret (McQueen) Rawlins, both natives of Illinois. His father came to Texas in 1888 and is now located at Waco.
After attending the public schools Mr. Rawlins engaged in business with his father who was a con- tractor and builder and continued with him until 1912. He then left his father and started out for himself as automobile mechanic and body builder. He worked all over Texas and Oklahoma and came to Wichita Falls during the height of the oil boom here. He has made good in his business and by honesty and fair dealing has won the respect and confidence of his customers.
In 1914 Mr. Rawlins was married at Waco to Miss Myrtle Hall, member of a well known Waco family. They have two children, Nona, six and Maletta, four years of age. The family home is at 610 Bluff Street.
Mr. Rawlins is a progressive and enterprising type of man and predicts a great future for Wichita Falls.
DAVENPORT, is doubly identified with the interests of Ranger, being a leading busi- ness man in that new metropolis and also prominent in civic affairs as both fire and police commissioner. This latter position has been one of the most trying in the State of Texas, in municipal life, inasmuch as the administration of Mr. Davenport has seen the village become a sure enough city. Such growth is hardly ever witnessed in the term of one official and when it does occur it requires a real man to fill the place, but A. Daven- port has proven himself so different that in April 1921, he was re-elected to his double duty. Sixteen men are on the police force under his direction and fifteen firemen. His fire department has met the unanimous and constant praise of all citizens. It was Rangers greatest need at the time Mr. Davenport went into office and today, with its equipment of five American La France fire trucks, it has resulted in the virtual cessation of disastrous blazes at Ranger. Mr. Davenport himself personally backed the building of the Fire Station before bonds could be issued. The establishment now ranks as one of the best fire fighting forces in the State of Texas. Then there is his business interests-The Davenport Hardware Company which he owns, established November 3, 1919. A complete stock of general hardware for the city of Ranger and its territory fills the establishment that has 6,600 square feet and keeps busy seven employes.
Mr. Davenport was born in Tom Green County in 1875. His father, Joe Davenport, is a retired farmer and gin man of Weatherford, Texas. The public school system of the Lone Star State, has provided all the schooling Mr. Davenport has and that it was efficient and thorough is attested by Mr. Davenport's success. As a youth, he began his work in a hard- ware store. His efficiency in this line made hin at successive periods manager of an implement business at Albuquerque, N. M., Wichita Falls and at Amarillo. Then he went with the T. & P. Coal and Oil Company as manager of their stores at Thurbur where he was when oil was brought in. He severed his relations with the Thurbur business and came to Ranger in 1918, and in November of the following year established his present-day business. He has attractive oil holdings at Ranger, Breckenridge and Graham.
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Mrs. L. A. Catron were united in marriage. They are both active in the social life of their city. Mr. Davenport is a Mason, a Knight of Pythias and a member of the Rotary Club. Whether from the viewpoint of commercial circles or civic life, Mr. Davenport is one of the chief citizens of Ranger and will be identified with its best interests for some time to come.
H. ROBERTS, member of the firm of Roberts & Mfill, oil operators, contractors and producers, City National Bank Building, has been connected with the oil develop- ment of Texas since the opening of the Spindle Top field at Beaumont in 1901. He entered the Wichita County fields at Electra in 1913 and in 1917 he be- came associated with Mr. Hill. He is interested in eleven producing wells and is operating in the Kemp- Munger-Allen field and the Burk Townsite, north- west extension. In addition to an interest in 100 acres of leases in Wichita County, he also has an interest in about 3,800 acres in Oklahoma.
Mr. Roberts was born at Raleigh, N. C., and went from that state to Louisiana in 1889, where he worked on a plantation. In 1893 he went to Illinois and remained in that state for two years, moving to St. Louis in 1895. In 1896 he came to Texas and located at Galveston, where he worked for about two years. In 1898 he went to Port Arthur and remained there until the Spindle Top field at Beaumont began to draw attention. Going to the oil fields he began as a rough neck and followed this vocation until 1907, when he began drilling. In 1913 he came to the Electra fields and for four years worked for G. Clint Wood as a driller. In 1917 he began con- tracting drilling work with Mr. J. J. Hill, and since then has accumulated big oil properties for himself.
Mr. Roberts' father was a Wake County, North Carolina, farmer, Zachary Roberts, and his mother was Martha Ann Ford. He attended the North Carolina schools.
He was married at Spindle Top, Texas, in 1903, to Miss Mammie Larkin, a native of Texas, born and reared at Hammond, Texas.
He is a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Odd Fellows and is affiliated with the Wichita Falls Chamber of Commerce.
C. MOSS, general manager for the Dallas branch of the Acme Petroleum Company, of Chicago, has devoted his entire time to the oil business for the past eight years and is considered as an authority in petroleum and its products. His experience is not limited to paper classifications but extends to actual field work in the various fields of this state. As manager of the Dal- las branch of the Acme Petroleum Company he has charge of all the buying and selling of the concern in the southwest portion of the United States and his unerring judgment in the fulfillment of his duties has won the admiration of the employing company.
Born at Paragould, Arkansas, on the 19th day of July, 1889, T. C. Moss received his educational train- ing in the public schools of his native city and those of Little Rock, Arkansas, after which he became affiliated with the United States Postal system in the capacity of clerk of the Little Rock Post Office. After six years' service at that office he was trans- ferred to other Arkansas offices and was finally ap- pointed assistant post-master of Henrietta, Texas. He held that position until 1913 at which time he was employed by the Texas Company. He served
this company at its Wichita Falls office and then saw active service in several of the larger Texas cil fields for a period of four years. In 1918 he resigned his position with the Texas Company and in July of the same years was appointed by Ander- son and Gustafson as their representative in Texas.
While in this capacity he was the official in charge of all the buying and selling of the petroleum products that company carried on in this state. In January of 1919 he was made sales manager of the Hercules Petroleum Company and in that capacity sold petroleum products in all parts of the country by correspondence and wire. Soon thereafter he re- signed to accept the position that he now holds with the Acme Petroleum Company. Mr. Moss is espe- cially well posted on oil conditions in this state and has proven a valuable asset to his company.
On July 18, 1912, the marriage of Mr. Moss to Miss Corlett; daughter of W. B. Corlett, manager of the oil department of the Texas Company at Wichita Falls, was solemnized at Wichita Falls, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Moss have one daughter, Mar- jorie, and reside at 3616 Harvard Avenue.
N. M'CLEES is a native of Columbia Coun- ty, North Carolina, born November 29, 1876, and was educated in the schools of Kansas City and at the University of Virginia. His father N. M'Clees was a veteran of the Civil War and fought in the Confederate Army, was well known in North Carolina and after the war moved with his family to Kansas City. After leaving the Universi- ty of Virginia, Mr. M'Clees returned to Kansas City and went into the oil business in the Butler County, Kansas, fields, getting into the business when it was started and following it directly or indirectly for more than ten years. Before engaging in the busi- ness, he was in the stock and bond business.
He was married at Joplin, Mo., April 10, 1905 to Miss Thomas, whose father, P. T. Thomas, was a mining operator in the lead and zinc fields of that section. Mr. M'Clees came to Dallas in January, 1919 from Butler County, Texas. He is a member of the business and country clubs of both Kansas City and Wichita, Kansas. Mr. M'Clees is optimistic over the future of Texas and believes the oil in- dustry will be the means of bringing great wealth and hundreds of thousands of people to the State, ILLIAM GIFFORD CLEGG, Manager of the Oil Cities Electric Company, Inc., at 324 Main Street, Ranger, Texas, is an active leader among the electrical men of Texas and has had years of service with such companies as the Southwestern Telephone and Telegraph Com- pany. The Westinghouse Lamp Company and other electrical industries. Other officers of the Oil Cities Electric Company are, N. M. Baker, of Dallas, presi- dent and J. E. Lewis, vice-president and general manager. The company was incorporated in 1919, has 850 consumers in the city of Ranger and main- tains eight employes there. The Company is con- nected with the Oil Belt Power Company, of East- land, Texas, which furnishes all of the cities in the Ranger and Eastland territory with their electrical power.
Mr. Clegg is a Kentuckian by birth; he was born at Louisville in the Blue Grass State in 1893. His father, William Clegg, is deceased, while the mother, Helen Gifford Clegg now resides in the City of New York. After a first rate high school education, young Clegg enrolled in the University of Missouri
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and there received his technical and professional training, graduating with the degree of Electrical Engineer. He then began an affiliation with the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company at St. Louis and after one year with them he went with the Westinghouse Lamp Company of the same city. He attained eminent success with that organization and was sent to Dallas, Texas as branch manager. In four months he resigned his work there and in 1919 located at Ranger. Here he at once secured affiliation with good business interests and today is manager of the Oil Cities Electric Company, Inc. He is a director of the Guaranty State Bank of his city and has other interests in the commercial life of his city as well as the business he directs.
At Pasadena, California, in 1920, Miss Jean Brigham of Cleveland, Ohio, and Mr. Clegg were united in marriage. They are active in civic and social circles of their city. Mr. Clegg is a member of the Ranger Chaniber of Commerce, of the Rotary Club and of various College organizations.
As the development of the West is in its beginning, although it has already reached attractive propor- tions, as it will become one of the most populous sections of the state, great business opportunities are before men of enterprise of that section. With the growth of cities, which is fastly coming, there is not only the increasing demand for local electrical power, but the need of interurbans and Mr. Clegg and his interests will be among the alert at render- ing these services in the future.
D. KENNEDY, manager of the Brown's Tin Shop at 105 Main Street, Burkburnett, is well known to a vast territory as manufac- turer of oil tanks and other fixtures and work in metal and tins. The Brown Tin Shop was established in 1918, with two employees, and on Aug. 1, 1920, Mr. Kennedy took charge of the plant as manager. The oil fields of western and north- western Texas are among the richest in the world, ranking with the world-famed territories of Tampico, Mexico, and oil fields of Russia. While Texas had to her credit an oil production prior to the opening of these newer fields, it was not until western and northwestern wells began to pour in their recent tribute to production that the Lone Star State came to the front among Uncle Sam's oil producing terri- tories. And yet in spite of the enormous yield of these territories of today, the development of oil operations in both western and northwestern Texas is still in the beginning only; the bigness of the tomorrow is more immense. In this rapid develop- ment of the recent past, of the interesting present and of the bigger tomorrow, Mr. Kennedy's industry is supplying an important item-barrel and tanks, essential to every section of the oil territory.
Mr. Kennedy is a native Texan; he was born at Belleville, in 1893. His father, W. J. Kennedy, is a native of Texas and is a farmer now retired. The public school system has given Mr. Kennedy his education and immediately after the completion of his schooling, he took up the work of his father, farming for some years. In this service he wrought and prospered until in July, 1919, he left the farm to enter the world of business and commerce, coming at that time to Burkburnett and entering the employ of the Brown's Tin Shop. Here his work was so "tlicient, his progress so marked, that on August 1, 1920, he was chosen manager of the activities of that company.
Mr. Kennedy is a "bachelor" and so far his only alliance is with the Masons and the Masonic world and interests. He is active in commercial circles and is there successful to an attractive degree.
P. FILDES, well known newspaper man and publisher of the Oil Gazette, 113 East Fourth Street, came to Fort Worth in 1919 and in November of that year founded the Gazette, a weekly publication devoted to the oil interests of the world. From a small beginning his paper has grown to an average weekly circulation of ten thousand copies which is distributed and read in all parts of the United States and in foreign countries as well.
Mr. Fildes has been engaged in newspaper work for about fifteen years and by consistent effort has worked his way from newsboy to the position of publisher of Texas' leading oil newspaper. Plans for further development of his publication are in the making and he expects to greatly extend the field of its usefulness to the oil interests of the Mid- Continent field and elsewhere.
A native of Florida, Mr. Fildes was born at Gainesville, October 11, 1895. He is a son of Chas. L. and Evangeline (Pope) Fildes, both natives of Florida and well known residents of the state.
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