The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 2

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. Church was born at McKinney, Texas, in Collin County, on March 1, 1884. His parents were John Church, a lawyer and county judge of Collin County, and Julia (Coffee) Church. He has one brother, also one sister, both of whom are his juniors. After completing the public schools of Collin County, Mr. Church enrolled at A. & M. from which he graduated with a B. S. degree in 1905. For three years then he was deputy food inspector of Texas. He then yielded to his natural inclination for the law and entered the law department of the University of Texas from which he received his LL. B. degree in 1909. He returned to MeKinney and became assist- ant general claim agent for the Texas Traction Com- pany. He also practiced criminal law for a number of years but soon began the exclusive practice of civil law. In 1912, he resigned his affiliation with the Texas Traction Company and came to Dallas as assistant county attorney. After one year of service in this capacity he, in 1913, became assistant city attorney for eighteen months. He has won the de- cision in some big cases, such as the Holford vs. City of Dallas case; he has also been the legal repre- sentative in the organization of big business.

In 1916 Mr. Church married Miss Susybelle West, of Corsicana. They now reside at 1917 Moser Ave-

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nue, Dallas. Mr. Church was a Phi Delta Theta at the University of Texas, he is a 32d degree Mason and Shriner, Hella Temple. He is also a member of the Dallas A. & M. Club. He is lieutenant-colonel in the Tenth Infantry Regiment of Texas National Guards. Mr. Church is one of the most active and able of Dallas' attorneys.

HARLESTON A. KLEINMAN, City National Bank Building, Wichita Falls, is a leader in two realms in which he has attained success to a very attractive degree-as lawyer and as oil operator. A University graduate, a lawyer who has led the city of Los Angeles, Calfornia, in civic and political activities for years. and as an oil operator controlling thirty-nine producing wells at present, Mr. Kleinman is among the leaders in Wichita Falls, a city of big men.

The city of Toledo, Ohio, was the birth-place of Mr. Kleinman, on July 10, 1891. His parents, L. Klein- man and Pearl Kleinman, yielded to the call of the Pacific Coast and in 1900 moved to California where they settled at Los Angeles. The Los Angeles school system, therefore, together with the University of Southern California, gave the youth his education. In 1915, he finished the Law Department and was at once admitted to the bar and for two years he prac- ticed law in his home city. Then for two years he was associated with the National Bank of Commerce and the Traders Bank as Bookkeeper and Teller. In February of 1919, he came to Wichita Falls, Texas, and began operation in oil interests with the result that today he personally controls two score wells that bring him a handsome daily yield of four hun- dred barrels from the shallow production territory, and holds leases on 2,000 acres of proven fields and assets of $400,000.00 to his credit.

Mr. Kleinman is a member of the B. P. O. E. and I. O. B. B. of Los Angeles, of the Cypher Club of Wichita Falls, and one of the organizers of the Ad Club and also Kiwanis Club, member of the Wichita Club, vice president and chairman of the Program Committee of the University Club, member Business Council of the Chamber of Commerce representing oil operators on this board, president of the National Finance Co. This company is now engaged in man- aging 83 large and small Electric and Gas Public Utility Plants in this country. A leader in California -where he ran second in a race for Senate, on the Republican ticket-and active in one of the most progressive cities of the Southwest. Mr. Kleinman has an attractive future. Every Texas city concedes :that Wichita Falls has before it the greatest future as to its per centage increase, development and growth of any place in the Lone Star State. To be stationed at such a place, to be among leaders in such a city, to have a business already of big proportions there, is an opportunity wished for by a multitude.

C. A. Kleinman has taken a very keen and active interest in public affairs of the nation. He had the distinct honor of being selected by his co-temporaries to represent the oil interests of the Southern Tariff Association and was selected as chairman of the North Texas Division of that association, which ac- cepted an invitation to appear before the Senate Finance Committee in Washington, D. C., March, 1922, and as chairman of the Oil Division Committee, was received by President Warren Harding at the White House, securing the promise of the nation's executive in the support of this tariff movement in the South.

ACK A. SCHLEY, United States patent at- torney, has, in the thirteen years of his practice, established one of the largest patent offices in this part of the state. Hr has specialized in the compilation and securing of patents, copyrights and trade marks and is recog- nized as an excellent authority on such subjects.

A native of Maryland, Jack A. Schley was born at Baltimore on the 29th of October, 1879. He is the son of William M. and Ella M. ( Walf) Schley, the former being a member of one of the earliest of Maryland families, his grandfather having come to this country immediately after the Revolutionary War. He is a distant relative of Admiral Schley, who distinguished himself at the battle of Manila. during the Spanish-American war. Mr. Schley, the subject of this sketch, received his early educational training in the public schools of Baltimore and of Washington, D. C. In 1896 he attended the Young Men's Christian Association night school in the city of Washington and in the following year attended the Columbian University, where he studied law. In 1898 he accepted a position with a patent at- torney of Washington and it was there that he learned the fundamentals of the business in which he is now engaged. In 1902 he was admitted to prac- tice in the patent office at Washington and it was there that he first opened up his law offices. After practicing there for a number of years he moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and in 1907 imoved to Dallas. For a number of years he had an associate with him in his practice but for the past decade has practiced alone. He deserves the credit in a large part in influencing local business interests to localize their business affairs and to aid in the business development of this city. He has been very influential in the development of local patents and has always taken an active part in securing patents protection and many have held against infringe- ments.

In local associations Mr. Schley has membership in the Rotary Club, Dallas Advertising League, the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and the Dallas Auto- mobile Country Club. He married Miss Lelan Lewis. of Waxahachie, and they are the parents of four children: Jack A., Jr., William L., Joseph H. and Alfred Fulton Schley. The Schley home is located at 5811 Velasco Avenue, Dallas.

J. DUPIES, Dallas, is a well known citizen of this city, having had a part in the de- velopment of various businesses located here. Mr. Dupies was born at Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, July 23, 1880, and was educated in the public and high school of Appleton, Wisconsin. il.s first position of importance was sales agent for the National Cash Register Company of Wisconsin, m which place he remained for a number of years !- 1906 he went with the Burroughs Adding Macht :... Company and four years later he came to Pallas as district manager for that company. He was wrh the Burroughs Company until January 1, 1917. ..: which time he went into the auto truck business an ! at the end of two years he had the state agerey for trucks. He left this position to go into the od industry which offered a wider and more thrilling field of activity. For a time he operated inde. pendently, buying and selling leases and doing : brokerage business. During this time he syndicated a number of oil propositions. In January 1, 1919. he organized and became secretary and treasurer of

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the Burke-Verschoyle Petroleum Company, but he rontinues to handle leases independently, buying, selling and syndicating.

In 1908 Mr. Dupies was married to Miss Helen Margaret Kalkhurst, of Wisconsin. They have two children, Mary Virginia and Helen Augusta. Their home is at 3616 Lindenwood Avenue.

Dr. Dupies has taken an active part in the social and fraternal organizations of the city, being a member of the City Club, the Dallas Auto Country ('lub and is one of the seven original charter mem- bers of the Rotary Club. Keenly alert to any kind of a promising business proposition and remarkably far-sighted, he seems marked to attain even greater prominence in the commercial arena.

ILLIAM HENRY JAYNES, federal tax con- sultant, is especially qualified for his pres- ent occupation, having served in the treas- ury department of internal revenue during the war as head of the income tax department. Upon his discharge from government service in December of 1918 he left Houston where he had been stationed and eame to Dallas to establish his present business.

Mr. Jaynes prepares reports for tax payers and . time in this capacity he became auditor in 1890.

consults with them on tax matters. He makes finan- cial statements for banks, commercial firms, manu- facturing concerns, and such, handling all federal taxes. His work has been conspicuous for its ac- curacy and dependability and he has rendered note- worthy service to corporations and individuals.

Born in Sneedville, Tennessee, on August 14, 1887, he began his education in the Sneedville public schools and later attended Carson and Newman College at Jefferson City, Tennessee. His father was Dr. James Jaynes, well known practising physi- cian of East Tennessee and Virginia, and his mother was Miss Sarah Seal, of an old Tennessee family. Mr. Jaynes left his home when he was very young, traveling and working here and there, and studying at night. In 1910 he accepted his first railway posi- tion which was in the operating department of the Santa Fe office at Amarillo, Texas. Three years later he was given clerical work in the auditor's office of the Southern Pacific Railway Company at Houston. Here his ability received recognition and he became known as a young man with a future. In September of 1916 he was offered and accepted the position of division accountant and cashier of the Direct Navigation Company, located at Houston. This place he maintained until he resigned to accept government work in the internal revenue service, for the duration of the war.

His marriage to Miss Edna May, a native Texas girl and daughter of James E. May, well known merchant and rancher at Vega, Texas, and ex-county judge, was celebrated at Amarillo on January 29, 1912. Mr. and Mrs. Jaynes are the parents of two sons, James W. and J. E.

Mr. Jaynes retains his fraternity affiliations at Austin, where he was a thirty-second degree Mason, Consistory No. 4, and a Shriner.

EORGE M. HOFFORD, manager of the Texas division of Marwick-Mitchell and Company, accountants and auditors,. 1008 American Exchange National Bank Build- mgr, is one of the foremost accountants in this coun- try. During his thirty years of experience as auditor he has been connected with great railway and con- mercial corporations of the North and East and is wide and favorably known.

Mr. Hofford came to Dallas in May, 1915, from New York City, to open up the Texas branch of Marwick-Mitchell & Company, headquarters of which are in New York City. The corporation has offices in seventeen different cities of the United States, but the Dallas branch is the only one estab- lished in Texas. The company meets a wide range of demands, varying from general audits of com- panies, eities, and states, to income tax matters. They also make audits and reports on corporations, and business firms for issuing bonds or increasing capital and forming consolidations. Twenty-five people are employed in the Dallas office and business is increasing rapidly, the firm being the leaders in this line in Dallas.

Born in White Haven, Pennsylvania, on March 28. 1864, Mr. Hofford is the son of Francis E. Hofford, a railroad man, and Sarah E. Dodson Hofford, who was a member of an old Pennsylvania family. He studied in the public schools of White Haven and worked at night on special extension courses in ac- eounting. His first position was as junior elerk in railway and mining offices, and after working for a He was first employed by Cox Bros. and Company, and later appointed auditor of the Delaware, Sus- quehana and Schuylkill Railroad Company, and holding the position for ten years. In 1907 he went West as auditor of the North Coast Railroad Com- pany, a Harriman road, with Spokane as his head- quarters, remaining there until 1911 when the road was absorbed by the Oregon Railroad and Naviga- tion Company. Under the new regime he was trans- ferred to San Francisco and became auditor of sub- sidiary companies of the Southern Pacific lines. After four years he decided to enter the public accountant profession for himself and returned to Spokane and established an office. A year later he joined his present firm and after a few months in the New York office, officials of the company sent him South to establish and manage the Dallas office.

His marriage to Miss Katherine Allen, daughter of Alexander Allen, Pennsylvania mining man, was celebrated in Drifton, Penn., on January 6, 1892. Mr. and Mrs. Hofford have two daughter, Mrs. J. B. Crum, of Cleburne, and Marian, a 1920 graduate of Columbia University, New York City.

Mr. Hofford is a member of the American Insti- tute of Accountants, becoming a certified public ac- countant in Texas in 1916 by examination. He is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, City Club. Dallas Country Club, Mutual Club, and charter member of the Dallas Athletic Club. He believes that Dallas, by reason of its large tributary popu- lation, is the metropolis of the South and has a brilliant future.

LBERT EDWARD MANNING, sole pro- prietor of the Claims Adjustment Company, wholesale collections, came to Dallas in 1912 from Garland, Texas, after graduat- ing from the Garland high school. He entered the Metropolitan Business College in Dallas and gradu- ated from that institution in 1913, and then went with the Credit Claims Company, with whom he re- mained until 19144. The following year he organ- ized his present business to handle wholesalers' ac- counts only. He began without any elients and today they number in the hundreds.

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Mr. Manning's company handles business for wholesalers both in and out of the state, but most of his clients are Texas concerns, forty of them being Dallas wholesalers and manufacturers. He has correspondents in Texas towns and cities and throughout the United States, and his business is one of the leading ones of its kind in Texas. The business for 1919 was double that of 1918.

Mr. Manning is a native of Alto, Cherokee County, Texas, born March 7, 1891. His father, J. E. Man- ning, and his mother, who was Miss Cadie Fant, were native Texans. His grandfather, Wm. Man- ning, eame to Texas from Tennessee after the eivil war. Mr. Manning is married and lives at 5403 Tremont Street. His wife was Miss Pearl Peak, whose father, Clyde Peak, is a merchant in Dallas.

In fraternal eireles Mr. Manning is identified with the Praetorians and Masons. He is a member of the Texas Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Chamber of Commeree and Manufacturers Association, and wor- ships at the Methodist Church. Politically he is a Demoerat.

Mr. Manning is a great booster fer Texas and for Dallas. The outlook for greater development of the state, he says, was never brighter, and in his opinion the state will beeome the greatest in the Union.

P. JOHNSTON, 702 W. T. Waggoner Build- ing, Fort Worth, is a leading oil operator of today. He holds oil acreage in the vari- ous Texas fields which he is engaged in developing, in Stephens County, Texas, and Okla- hema fields with a production of about 400 barrels per day which will grow with the 1922 development.

Mr. Johnston was born in Collin County, on Feb- ruary 22, 1887. His father, A. C. Johnston, de- eeased, was a pioneer who came to Texas from Ken- tucky in the early eighties, while his mother, Armina Poteet Johnston, was a Virginian. His schooling was secured in Cooke and Denton counties. In early life, he followed his father's profession, farming, but later entered the business realm as an insurance man, then later as a real estate and loan man, at Ralls, Texas. In June of 1918 he entered the oil business at Ranger. In 1919 he moved his head- quarters to Fort Worth where he is now located. In addition to his oil interests Mr. Johnston is in- terested in farming lands in Texas, having about 400 acres in wheat.

On January 12, 1913, Mr. Johnston married Miss Zae Thomason, of Denton, Texas, at Amarillo, Texas. To them three daughters have been born, . Frances, Florine and Claudine. The family has residence at 3045 Lipscomb Street.

Besides his business activities Mr. Johnston eham- pions the eause of and holds membership in the Worth Commandery No. 19 at Fort Worth, Dallas Consistory No. 2 at Dallas, the Moslah Shrine at Fort Worth, the Chamber of Commerce of the same city and is also a member of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association.

Fort Worth is not only one of Texas' leading cities but it promises to race vigorously any other city of the Lone Star State for first rank in the next ten years. Its growth has been the most phenomenal and yet permanent of any Texas point. It has a fine ·future because it believes in big developments and in the oil industry, which has undoubtedly be- come a leading industry of Texas. Mr. Johnston promises to become one of the leaders for his metropolis.

C. EZELL. Prior to the discovery of oil in the territory of Mexia, Texas, its one proud boast was that it was the home town of C. C. Ezell, personal representative of Lewis J. Selznick, president of the Select Pietures Corpora- tion, manufacturers and distributors of their own productions, with offices at 180112 Commerce Street. .Mr. Ezell covers United States, Mexico and Canada.

Mr. Ezell has been in Dallas about fifteen years, establishing himself permanently here in 1916, when the present business was established and he became its manager. His entry into the amusement busi- ness dates back to his ninth year, when he joined a circus organization and traveled for several years with carnivals and circuses. In 1902, when the motion picture industry was just getting started, Mr. Ezell went into the business and for several years exhibited pietures in a tent. In 1910 he organ- ized the S. N. Bass Film Company in New Orleans and was later manager of the J. D. Wheelan Film Company. Later he became president of the Texas Paramount Pictures and then went with the General Film Company, having charge of all the Southern territory.

Mr. Ezell's company features such stars as Eugene O'Brien, Owen Moore, Elaine Hammerstein and others.

As stated previously, Mr. Ezell was born at Mexia, Texas, July 9, 1882, his father, A. C. Ezell, being a business man of that town and a native of Ten- nessee. His mother was a Miss Emma Waller, a native of Texas. Mr. Ezell's scholastie training eon- sisted of one year in the publie schools of Mexia, prior to the beginning of his circus career.

Mr. Ezell married Miss Gertrude Benevedis, a native of Mississippi, and they have one child, Ed- ward. The family home is at 100016 North Mar- salis Street.

He is one of the founders and a member of the Motion Picture Board of Trade. He is also a 32d degree Mason and Shriner.

Dallas, Mr. Ezell says, is the center of the film business in the South, ranking about fourth in the United States. Texas looks finer than ever before, he asserts, and the continued development of the state is most promising.

AMES MARVIN GATEWOOD. of the younger generation of business men of North Texas is well known among automo- bile and oil men in this section of Texas. He came to Dallas several years ago as a salesman for the Pierce Oil Corporation. Prior to that he had been an electrical engineer, working for oil com- panies and cotton oil mills. For a short period he was engaged in the automobile business in Dallas.

His military record shows that on December 1, 1917, he went to Love Field, where he worked in the motor department. From there he went to Camp Humphrey, Virginia, where he attended the officers training school and was recommended for a commis- sion. He was discharged from the service Novem- ber 27, 1918. .

J. M. Gatewood was born at Van Alstyne, Texas, in 1892, and was educated in the public schools of Cleburne. His father, Will Gatewood, now deceased. was a progressive farmer of Grayson county. His mother was Mrs. Dora (Shannon) Gatewood, a native of Cleburne. He was married in Dallas in 1918, to Miss Jimmie Faye Cook, of Dallas, and they have one child, James Edmond.

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ARRY ERNEST GORDON, accountant, owner and manager of the firm of H. E. Gordon & Co., general auditors and ac- countants, 401 Scollard Building, came to Dallas in 1909 from New York, where he had been a publie accountant. From 1909 until he engaged in business for himself, he was connected with the National Laundry Owners Association as installing their accounting system, which is owned by the Na- tional Laundry Owners Association. He makes a specialty of preparing income tax reports, cost planning systems and general systems of accounting, and operates in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkan- sas and New Mexico. In addition to this business he is connected with several other enterprises, having been vice-president of the Southern Motor Manufac- turing Asssociation of Houston, Texas; business manager Dallas Male Chorus.

Mr. Gordon is a native of Haverhill, Mass., born July 21, 1881, and educated in the public and high schools of his home town. He graduated from the New York University in 1909, and is a Delta Sigma Phi of that institution. He was married at St. Louis, Mo., September 26, 1912, to Miss Fannie Schmittker of that city, and to the union two children have been born, Harriet Elizabeth and Frances Arline, and the family resides at 5527 Palo Pinto.

He is a York Rite Mason and Knight Templar, member of the Knights of Pythias, B. P. O. E., D. O. K. K. Grotto, Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis Club, Dallas Ad League and Jivian League, and always interested in all movements tending to pro- mote the continued development and growth of Dallas, which he believes is the greatest city in the Southwest, with a future destined to make it the leading metropolis of the South and Southwest.

ADWARD J. ARCHINARD, certified public accountant, Fort Worth, is a member of a comparatively new yet none the less im- portant profession. To be a certified ac- countant means not only that one has a full and complete knowledge of accountancy but that one is also possessed of a sufficient knowledge of certain branches of law. Prior to 1915 there did not exist upon the statutes of Texas a certified accountant law, but in March of that year, through the efforts of Mr. Archinard the legislature passed such a law and was appointed by the government as a mem- ber of the state board of public accountants and was elected chairman of that board. Mr. Archinard received his certificate in June of 1915. Not content with following the ordinary routine of accounting, Mr. Archinard has devised a special system for oil companies as well as a special income tax system.

Mr. Archinard moved to Fort Worth in 1890, coming there from Dallas, Texas, where from 1885 to 1889 he was associated with his father in the insurance business. When the United States was drawn into the world war, Mr. Archinard imme- diately offered his services and during 1917 and 1918 was division auditor for government construction at Camp Bowie. All told Mr. Archinard has given to the public years of service three times a decade in number and is one of the oldest, if not the oldest, public accountant in Fort Worth.

Mr. Archinard was married to Miss Juliette Cuny, of Austin, Texas, in 1899. Miss Cuny's forefathers were closely identified with the early history of Texas as a state, her father, Captain P. M. Cuny having been the chief clerk in the land office of Texas

for many years while her grandfather, Judge Edwin Waller was the first mayor of Austin. The third signer of the Texas Independence of Houston and the commissioner who located the capitol of Texas at Austin. Judge Waller was a noted figure in the early Texas history. He owned most of the territory now comprising Waller, Washington and Brazoria counties, the former of which was named for hin. He was the first treasurer of the state of Texas and in the days of Texas' struggles for independence he loaned Texas $100,000, he shipped boat loads of cotton to New Orleans and brought back, at his own expense, the grain and ammunition to fight the Mexicans in the early struggle of Texas for inde- pendence. The Archinards have no children.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 2

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