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E. CRAWFORD, as owner and director of two of the largest and most attractive drug businesses in the city of Ranger, the Oil City Pharmacy at 117 Main Street and the Crawford Pharmacy at 221 Main Street. localities made popular by the Crawford establishments, is among the successful men of business in the new Texas metropolis of the West. Mr. Crawford began his drug business at Ranger in 1919 upon his com- ing from Ennis, Texas, where he had been identified with drug firms for many years. The Oil City Pharmacy besides carrying a full and complete line of drugs and drug sundries is headquarters for the Columbia Phonograph products and in its establish- ment that measures 17 x 70 feet, is one of the at- tractive places of Ranger and keeps busy eight em- ployes. The Crawford Pharmacy at 221 Main Street is located in the Gholson Hotel Bldg, and is one of the neatest establishments in Ranger. It is noted for its Lowney's Candies and soda fountain products, occupies a floor space 24 by 48 feet and retains the constant service of six employes.
Mr. Crawford is a native Texan, born at Groesbeek. His father, a pioneer of Limestone County and one of the oldest families of Texas, is now retired and lives at Wichita Falls. The mother is deceased. The
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public school system of Texas provided the regular training of young Crawford while the Fort Worth University gave him his technical and professional education. He is a registered druggist and has de- voted his entire business activity to the drug busi- ness. His first association was with the Hesser Drug Company of Ennis, Texas, with which he had been for some time when he severed his relations there to begin a business for himself in Ranger.
In 1911, at Ennis, Texas, the city of his first busi- ness success, Miss May Nical and Mr. Crawford were united in marriage. Edward Nical Crawford is their young son.
Mr. Crawford is an enthusiastic Mason, having the Thirty-second degree to his credit, of the Scottish Rite, he is a Shriner of the Moslah Temple. He is also active in the affairs of the Elks of his territory. Having devoted all of his energies to the one busi- ness, the drug industry, and as the owner and manager of two establishments in one of Texas' best cities, Mr. Crawford has already attained success to a very attractive degree and must be listed with the leaders of business in his section. Ranger is interesting in its present and in its future promise and the Crawford establishments promise well to compare favorably with the best chain drug stores of the future in any Texas metropolis.
OY L. TERRELL, Nos. 8 and 10 Jennings Avenue, is part owner of one of the most up-to-date and well equipped drug stores in Fort Worth, his partners being his brother, W. L. Terrell and Dr. G. E. LaBeaume, phy- sician and surgeon, well known in Fort Worth. Messrs. R. L. and M. L. Terrell own and conduct an- other drug store at Twentieth and North Main Street, Fort Worth. Mr. Terrell left East Texas for Fort Worth in 1898 and has made Fort Worth his home for most of the years that have elapsed since then. In 1906, together with his brother, he became owner of the Metropolitan Pharmacy. Some time later he went to San Diego as manager of the Robinson Drug Company which at that time had
two drug stores in San Diego. After an absence of some years Mr. Terrell returned to Fort Worth and in 1919 established the La Beaume & Terrell Drug Store and the 20th Street Drug Store, with Dr. La Beaume and his brother as partners, Mr. Terrell as well as his brother are registered pharni- acists and employ other registered pharmacists to assist them in dispensing medicine.
Mr. Terrell is a Texan, as were his mother and father before him. He was born on December 12, 1879, to R. L. Terrell and Victoria Crow Terrell. His native town, Mineola, was also the scene of his early education and he graduated from the Mineola high school in 1896. He then studied law with his grandfather, Judge D. W. Crow, who had served as district judge of Wood County. In 1898 Mr. Terrell was admitted to the bar upon examina- tion. Upon the outbreak of the Spanish American war he joined the 3rd Texas U. S. Volunteer In- fantry and served throughout the war. After the war he joined his grandfather in the practice of law at Mineola. Upon the death of his grandfather he began the study of pharmacy and in 1906 he passed the examination of the State Board of Pharmacy. He later passed a like examination in California.
In 1903 Mr. Terrell married Miss Sue Huff, daugh- ter of W. L. Huff, clerk of the Court of Appeals,
a long time resident of Fort Worth, where the wed- ding took place. With their two children, Roy Lee Terrell, Jr., and Frances Victoria, Mr. and Mrs. Terrell make their home at 419 May Street.
Mr. Terrell was formerly secretary of the Amer- ican Registered Pharmacists Association of Cali- fornia and is now a member of the Retail Drug- gists' Association of Fort Worth.
AN REID CROW, president of the Audit Company of Texas, accountants, First Na- tional Bank Building, came to Wichita Falls from Houston in 1918, and estab- lished the above company, which does a general public accounting business, specializing in income tax reports. A legal department and traffic bureau are maintained in connection with the accounting department, and the company's operations extend throughout the state. A corps of thoroughly trained professional accountants are kept in the main office at Wichita Falls, and a branch office is operated at Dallas.
Mr. Crow is a native of New Orleans, La., born June 29, 1893, and was educated in the public schools of that city. His parents, D. R. and Sarah Murphy Crow, were both of that city, and both are de- ceased. Mr. Crow has devoted his entire business career to accounting, taking up the profession about nine years ago. He was formerly connected with the Rankin Audit Company of Houston, Texas, and with Robinson-Havener Company of New Orleans, La., He is a young man, progressive and ambitious, and is building up an organization second to none of its kind in the country.
Mr. Crow was married to Miss Mary Collins, of New Orleans, La., in 1917. He is a member of the Lodge of B. P. O. Elks, and is affiliated with the Baptist Church.
AMES M. WEBB is a native of the Lone Star State. He was born in eastern Texas, in the city of Marshall. He is of a family well known for its culture and learning, his father, L. A. Webb, being a prominent minister of the Methodist church. North Carolina was the original state of the parents but they yielded to the call of Texas a few years ago. Rev. L. A. Webb is now with the Methodist Church of Ranger. The mother is Willie Webb, (Nee Marks) and was born in France. Young Webb is well schooled; besides the natural opportunities that come of being a ministers son, he has a university education and is a registered druggist of California. He has a law education as well, but the service to mankind in the medical world appealed to him more and accordingly it is in this work that he is leading, having begun as an active druggist in Los Angeles, California, two years ago.
The "Call to Arms" in the recent world war sum- nioned Mr. Webb to army service and for two years he was with the Colors. Since his discharge from army life, Texas has become his adopted State. The Lone Star State and especially the West is a coming territory where the foundations for tomorrow's busi- ness are now being laid, and judging from the work of the builders of the present and activity of the future will be among the largest and best in thie Southwest.
Mr. Webb is a "bachelor" and active in the social life of his city as well as in affairs commercial. He is a member of the Elk Order and his church affilia- tion is Methodist.
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Well educated both in cultural subjects and in his technical training, and already the director of one of Rangers leading drug stores, James M. Webb will have a place among the leaders in business in his city for many years to come.
M. ANDERSON, president of the Anderson Furniture Co., 2101 Elm Street, Dallas is a well known business man, who, with his business "grew up with the eity." Mr. Anderson today is the head of a $20,000 corpora- tion, occupying two stories and a mezzanine baleony, and carrying a stoek of general household furnish- ings, stoves, and floor coverings valued at $35,000 to $40,000. One entire floor is devoted to new merchandise, and one floor to second hand artieles. The firm was incorporated in 1906, and the other officers are A. G. Cockerell, vice-president and John D. Lambert, seerctary and treasurer. Fifteen to twenty men and women are employed by Mr. Anderson.
The story of the growth of his business is an in- teresting one. Mr. Anderson came to Dallas in January 1897, when he was but 25 years old. With a capital of only $12 he opened a little furniture business, in the same locality of the present business, which is one of the oldest furniture businesses in Dallas. Mr. Anderson's brother was associated with him during the first three years of his career but the partnership was dissolved at the end of that period.
Mr. Anderson was born on the picturesque banks of Cedar Creek at Bardstown, Ky., Aug. 15, 1872. He is a son of Thomas D. and Sarah E. Anderson, his mother being Miss Kendall before her marriage. He received his education in the public schools of Buffalo, Ky., and in Nelson, County.
Mr. Anderson was married to Miss Grace D. Rig- ney, of Dallas, during his early business career in this city. They reside at 1219 N. Haskell avenue.
He is a thirty second degree Scottish Rite Mason, and a member of Hella Temple Shrine, of Dallas. He is also taking the York Rite of Masonry.
Mr. Anderson has been actively identified with the progressive element of business men of the city, and has long been a member of the Dallas Chamber of Commerce and Manufacturers' Association.
AILEY R. ANDERSON, proprietor of the Texas Furniture and Storage Company, 2111-13 Elm street, has for a period of 26 years been a prominent merchant of Dal- las and an influence in commercial circles. Mr. Anderson has exceptional business qualifications and the success of his establishment is a direct result of this, combined with the courteous treatment accorded customers by himself and his corps of em- ployees.
The Texas Furniture and Storage Company is the outgrowth of the business established by Mr. Anderson twenty-six years ago. The location on Elm street has a frontage of fifty feet and a depth of two hundred. This concern makes a specialty of handling used furniture in addition to their splendid stock of new furniture, the latter varying in grades from moderate priecd articles to period furniture of elegance and grace. The Dallas store proving such a suceess, a similar establishment was opened in Fort Worth under the same name and situated at 107 N. Houston street, Fort Worth's busiest thoro- fare. About $20,000 worth of furniture is kept in
stock in the Dallas house and about the same in the Fort Worth store. Recently Mr. Anderson opened furniture stores under the same name in Houston and El Paso. All stores did a total business of $600,000 in 1920. The following are the member! of Mr. Anderson's organization: F. E. Hoffman, John L. Recd, A. J. Clower, D. A. Cline, J. W. Ma. lone, L. C. Awalt, R. F. Spivey, R. S. Shirley, W. E. Davis, and F. A. Davis.
A Kentuekian by birth, Mr. Anderson spent his early boyhood in his native town of Bardstown where he was born on June 27, 1876. His parents were Thomas D. and Sarah Kendall Anderson whose families had moved to the Blue Grass State in pio- neer days. Upon completing his education in the publie schools of his home town, Mr. Anderson en- tered the business world in a clerical capacity. It was in 1892 that the industrial activities of Texas appealed to him so strongly that he resigned the position he was then holding and came further west. The two years following his arrival in Dallas found him engaged in the grocery business which he aban- doned because he thought he saw a better future in furniture. His present business was opened in 1894, showing splendid progress from the first and rising rapidly to its present extensive propor- tions.
His marriage to Mrs. Jane Ragan was solemnized in Dallas in 1916. Mrs. Anderson has one son, Clay- ton Ragan by a former marriage. Mr. Anderson has one son, Bailey Anderson, Jr., by a former mar- riage. The Anderson home is at 4204 Gaston Ave- nue. Mr. Anderson is an honored citizen of his com- munity, numbering his friends among the men who have been foremost in the upbuilding of the city of Dallas.
AJ. THOS. J. MORONEY is vice-president of one of the pioneer business institutions of Dallas-the Moroney Hardware Com- pany, established in 1875 by James Moroney, father of Maj. Moroney. In 1885, the business was incorporated with a capital of $50,000. Today it is capitalized at $500,000-employing seventy-five clerks and salesmen, and enjoying an annual trade in excess of a million dollars. Its founder, James Moroney, died in 1910.
Maj. Maroney was born in Dallas, September 27, 1896. He attended the University of Dallas and Georgetown University at Washington, D. C. Leav- ing school in 1914, to begin his career in the hard- ware business, he entered his father's organization in a clerical capacity, a year later, he was made vice-president.
When, on that memorable day in April, 1917, the clarion call to arms resounded throughout the Na- tion, announcing America's entry into the world war, young Moroncy answered it cagerly.
Without any attempt at eulogy-so distasteful to the American, who is trained from the beginning to cxact accomplishment as a matter of fact-and to judge it in the light of practical, net results thereby attained-it is permissible to refer to Maj. Moroney's serviec record as an historical recital of faets. After passing successfully the examination for the regular army-in May, 1917, he was com- missioned a second lieutenant in the 19th Infantry, stationed at Fort Sam Houston; in June of the same year, he was advanced to first lieutenant. Seven months afterward he secured a transfer to the 13th Machine Gun Battalion, 5th Division of Regulars,
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and in April, 1918, he went to France. There, in June, 1918, his ability and meritorious service as an officer gained for him a commission as captain, and in May, 1919, he was again rewarded with a pro- motion to the rank of major. He fought at St. Mihiel, in the Meuse and Argonne offensives and in different sectors. After the signing of the armistice, he was in the army of occupation, serving in Luxem- bonrg, Belgium and Germany. He commanded the Frontier Guard, on duty in the occupied area be- tween France and Germany. Relieved and returned to the United States on the first of June, 1919, he re- signed June 3rd and was appointed Major in the In- fantry Reserve Corps.
Maj. Moroney is a Knight of Columbus, 4th degree. A member of the Dallas Country, City, Univer- sity, Terpsichorean and Idlewild Clubs-and one of the "live wires" of the Chamber of Commerce. His residence address is Dallas Country Club.
ENRY PEYTON INGE, president of the Inge Construction Company, Dallas, has in four years time won a high place in the ranks of his profession in the city. Many structures in Dallas and surrounding territory stand as silent witnesses of the success and achievement of the . Inge Construction Company. Among the buildings in Dallas that Mr. Inge had a hand in the construction we find the plant of the Tank Tire and Rubber Company, the Keith-Patterson Auto Build- ing, the Gray Motor Company Building, the United Motors Company Building, the King Collie Company Building, the Williams Morris Auto Building, the Fowlers Orphans Home, the Barrett Company ware- house and office building, the Simmons Company warehouse and the T. S. DeForest warehouse. Mr. Inge also constructed the Miller Manufacturing Company building at Little Rock, Arkansas.
The Inge Construction Company employs some four hundred men to carry on its operations. It is engaged in general construction work and in an exceedingly short time has built up an excellent reputation and practice. Judging by the manner of buildings that the company has constructed its success has been nothing less than phenomenal.
Henry Peyton Inge was born in the historic town of Appomattox, Virginia, in 1888. His father, Thos. H. Inge, was one of the early Virginia pioneers and one of her largest agriculturists. Mr. Inge, the subject of this sketch, secured a grade and high school education in the public schools of Vir -. ginia. After graduating from the high school Mr. Inge attended the Virginia Polytechnic Institute, at Blackbsurg, Va. There he secured an engineer- ing education along with a knowledge of military training and tactics. He left V. P. I. in 1909 and accepted a position with the H. L. Lane Construction Company. He worked with this concern until 1916 when he moved to Dallas and began work with the Hedrick Construction Company of this city. He remained with that company until January 1st, 1920, at which time he organized his own company as a subsidiary of the Hedrick Construction Company. On January 1st, 1921, the Inge Construction Com- pany was organized as an independent concern.
The Inge Construction Company has had a vigor- ous growth from its very beginning, in spite of the somewhat depressed conditions under which it was organized.
Mr. Inge is a member of the Dallas Athletic Club,
the Brook Hollow Golf Club and the University Club of Dallas. He takes an active interest in all his clubs and derives much pleasure from them. Mr. Inge was united in marriage with Miss Dorothy Anderson, daughter of C. F. Anderson, of Dallas, on September 28th, 1920. Mr. and Mrs. Inge reside at 3825 Gillon Avenue.
Alert and ready for any emergency, Mr. Inge stands among the foremost men of his profession, and is never in the rear guard when there is work to be done in the advancement of the best interests of the community, and his enthusiasm for such mat- ters is ably supported by his native vigor and ca- pacity for service.
ILLIAM E. JOOR; it is rather difficult to imagine William E. Joor, specialist in civil and structural engineering meandering around amongst droves of bees and hives clothed in the protective raiment of heavy gloves, coats and a sting proof niask, but never-the-less such is the circumstances that prevail when William Joor is not sitting at the desk in his office deeply en- grossed in blue prints and figures, for bees are his hobby.
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Mr. Joor is a son of Texas, being born in Harris- berg on October 8, 1876, his father being a promi- nent physician and surgeon. He attended Tulane High School and Tulane College at. New Orleans, graduating from College in the class of ninety-six and further increased his education by taking a . special course in engineering at the Tulane Uni- versity for one year.
He opened offices in New Orleans as consulting engineer immediately after taking the special course at the University and launched a number of big engineering deals, among them being the construc- tion of the largest sugar plant in the world, the State Penal Farm Angolate of Louisiana, a num- ber of large office buildings, a viaduct and several large bridges.
Mr. Joor accepted a position in the office of the Engineering Department of the City of Houston after having been a prominent engineer of New Or- leans for fifteen years.
In the year of 1913 he moved to Dallas and later the offices of the Joor Engineering Company were opened in the growing city of Dallas, and still bigger deals in engineering work were consumma- ted by the company ,which built some of the schools of Fort Worth and was consulting engineer for the architects on the Perkins Building, Dallas Power and Light Service Building, Holland Publishing Company's Building, City Hall, Presbyterian Church, City Temple, Galveston City Hall, Fort Worth Club, Texas Motor Car Association and many more buildings now under construction.
Mr. Joor is a member of the Texas Honey Produc- ers Association, The Technical Club of Dallas, Dal- las Beekeepers Association of Dallas of which he is president and the Arcadia Improvement Club of Ar- cadia Park, where he is a resident. Mr. Joor is pres- dent and general manager of the Daltex Aparies. Mr. Joor has made a deep study of bees and the bee industry and has contributed many valuable articles to journals covering this line. He has hopes of making Dallas one of the big honey centers of the United States. William Jr., and Judith Joor comprise his family besides his wife who was formerly Miss Katherine S. Brignhurst.
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AMES WILLIAM POPHAM, state manager of the State Life Insurance Company, of Indianapolis, has, during the past ten years, perfected the organization of that concern within the borders of this state and has, in a large part, been responsible for the phenomenal growth of that company. He has been engaged in the life insurance business since 1895 and for the past ten years has been following his profession in this city He has exclusive jurisdiction of all business of the company in this state and the volume of business handled by him is ably illustrated by the fact that he wrote over thirteen million dollars of life insur- ance policies during the year 1919. The premiums for that year exceed those of any concern, of a similar character, who have their home office in another state. In 1920 he wrote over $28,900,000. The State Life Insurance Company has deposited in securities over twenty millions of dollars as a guar- antee to policy holders; this sum is in excess of any other concern of a similar nature in this country.
Born near the town of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, on the 15th day of February, 1861, James William Popham is a son of Allen and Elizabeth (Reynolds) Popham, the former being a farmer by profession. The younger Mr. Popham received his early training in the public schols of his native state when such was possible but for the most part educated himself by private study. Reared on a farm it was difficult for him to attend the country schools regularly and it was through self-determination that he received the major portion of his educational training. In 1895 he began his profession by starting at the bot- tom of the ladder in a life insurance o lice located at Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Two years later his ability in this line was awarded by his appointment as state manager for this concern, which position he held for the next succeeding two years. In 1899 he became associated with the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York and for the next few years secured more policies for that concern than any other agent below the Mason-Dixon Line. In 1910 he was appointed state manager for the State Life Insur- ance Company for Texas, and since that time has built that concern up until at the present time it is one of the leaders in the life insurance field in this state. As state manager Mr. Popham is at the head of all agencies for the company in Texas, and in 1919 he wrote over one-third of all of the policies written by the company in the balance of the United States.
On April 15 1888, Mr. Popham married Miss Modesta A. Popham, a fourth cousin, of Louisville, Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Popham are the parents of five children: James H., now deceased, who was born in 1889 and died of influenza in 1918; Kimble, en- gaged in business with his father: Miss Delphine Elizabeth, in college at Bristol, Virginia; Dorothy, a student of Miss Ilockaday's School and Frederick, now attending the New Mexico Military Institute at Roswell, N. M. Mr. Popham is a member of the Masons, being a 32d degree Scottish Rite; of the Odd Fellows, the K. of P., the Chamber of Coni- merce and at the present time is president of the board of stewards of the Methodist Church.
Since the above data was secured the State Life Insurance Company has purchased the agency from Mr. Popham for a very large sum of money. We congratulate Mr. Popham for the wonderful success he has made in the life insurance business.
Y. GOUDELOCK, 817 American Exchange. National Bank Building, is the special rep- resentative of a number of well known com- panies in this state, his territory covering the entire state and there being something like three hundred and fifty agencies under his jurisdiction. He has one assistant.
Mr. Goudelock is what might be called a truly self-made man. He was born at Murraysville, Ga., March 19, 1882. His father, James Y. Goudelock. was a Georgian, and his mother, Julia Tate was a native of Mississippi. His early schooling was re- eeived in Mississippi and finished in Texas after 1896, when he came to Texas with his mother at the age of fourteen and settled in Ellis County. When he was sixteen he left home and came to Dallas, where he took a business course and then went into a real estate off'ce, where he remained until 1904, when he went into the insurance office of Scruggs & Smith. Leaving Scruggs & Smith in November, 1907, he went with Smith & Cochran, remaining with them until December 30th, 1916. He then spent three months with the Fireman's Fund Insurance Com- pany and in April, 1917, went with his present com- panies as special agent. He is now special agent for: Biers, Kenison & Company, general insurance, of Galveston, representing the following companies: Atlas Assurance Company, Ltd .; Caledonia Insur- ance Company; London & Lancashire Insurance Company, Ltd .; Norwich Union Fire Insurance So- ciety, Ltd .; Sun Insurance Office; Atlas Underwriters Agency; Scotch Underwriters Agency; New Zealand Insurance Company and Sun Underwriters Agency.
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