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Mr. Archinard is a popular member of the Elks Lodge and the Civitan Club of Fort Worth.
R. MACEO, federal tax consultant and certi- fied registered accountant in the W. T. Waggoner Building, Fort Worth, has been for several years an active factor in the business circles of that eity. He has a competent force and the firm is fully equipped to handle ac- counting of any character in commercial and public work.
Mr. Maceo came to Fort Worth several years ago and for a time was associated with the firm of Purvis and Maceo. The firm was later dissolved and Mr. Maceo took complete charge of the business of the company.
Mr. Maceo is a native Cuban. He was reared and educated in that beautiful semi-tropical island. His education was completed at the Cambridge Univer- sity in England and for many years he was occupied in important posts with the British and American governments. Since coming to Fort Worth he has become thoroughly imbued with West Texas and although he still loves his native island, he has de- cided to become an American citizen and a West Texan, and will make Fort Worth his future home and center of his business activities.
Exceedingly well educated and with courteous manners Mr. Maceo is a type of man who wins and keeps friends and will be assured a distinct place in the commercial life of West Texas.
JOSEPH ELLIOTT HUTCHINSON, member of the firm of Hutchinson and Smith, 601-3 Praetorian Building, Dallas, is one of the pioneers of the accounting profession in Dallas, having made his start as a public accountant in 1907 as partner of the firm of Morgan and Hutch- inson and continued his practice successfully with that and other firms to the present day.
Mr. Hutchinson was born in Greensboro, Alabama. September 28th, 1864, and is the son of A. H. and Virginia W. Hutchinson, of Scotch-English descent. He received his education from Hill and Vernon schools, the University of Alabama, Southern Uni- versity and C. P. A. Texas in 1915. Upon leaving college in his junior year, he entered the accounting profession as bookkeeper in 1881, and has been doing public accounting since 1907.
He is a member of the University Club of Dallas, and Dallas Athletic Club, is a York Rite and Scottish Rite Mason and a Shriner.
Mr. Hutchinson was married to Miss Eleanor P. Richardson, December 26th, 1888, they being the parents of three children. Joseph Elliott, Jr., Mrs. H. H. Bishop and Mrs. S. H. Bricker, and are now residing at Park Hotel.
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OBERT JORDAN, pioneer oil operator, with office at 908 F. & M. Bank Building, Fort Worth, has for more than a score of years been an influential figure in the oil develop- ment of Texas and Oklahoma. He has operated ex- tensively, both in Oklahoma and North Texas and operates independently upon a large scale.
Mr. Jordan is widely known among oil men throughout the Southwest as a pioneer who has blazed the way into many new fields and has suc- cessfully opened and paved the way for which a number of productive oil fields have been opened up. He and his individual companies have operated ex- tensive production and acreage in both Oklahoma and Texas.
A native Texan, Mr. Jordan was born in the village of Orange, eighteen miles of Beaumont, June 26, 1882. His father was Captain Joe J. Jordan. in the , early days leading lumberman of Southeast Texas, owning a sawmill at Orange, Texas, and also proprietor of a line of steamboats plying along the Gulf Coast. His mother was Mittie E. Bean Jordan, a native of Jasper, Texas. She is his partner and pal in business as well as life and today, though seventy years old. enjoys perfect health. She is vice-president of the companies of which Mr. Jordan is president. She resides at Mineral Wells, Texas, and Orange, Texas. She has been a hard, persistent church worker for fifty-five years in Texas and all the leading Baptists during this period know her as well as her son is known in the oil country. After receiving his education in the public schools at Orange, Robert Jordan, then a boy of seventeen, began his oil career at the famous old Spindletop. He started to work for the Texas Company, in a minor capacity and while there, became acquainted with many of the pioneers of the Texas oil fields and numbered among his personal friends, R. E. Brooks, J. S. Cullinan, D. R. Beatty and many other well known oil men of the Spindletop days. He re- mained in the employ of the Texas Company for about five years, at which time he decided to go into the business independently.
In 1905, he went to Oklahoma, located at Musko- gee and while there opened up an extension of the Glenn Pool. After two years at Muskogee, he moved to Tulsa and with that city as his head- quarters he operated extensively for eight years, but after the Oklahoma fields settled down, and at that time seemed to have a fixed production, the in- stinct for pioneering new fields asserted itself and in 1915 he returned to Texas and located at Mineral Wells and leased a large area of land around Ranger. Palo Pinto and Stephens counties and did consider- able drilling in wild cat areas. In 1916 he opened up the Mineral Wells gas fields, a few miles south of the city. Mr. Jordan drilled wells in Ranger and Stephens County fields long before it was known to be a proven field. In 1915 he employed reputable geologists to work on structural conditions of Dalton. Ranch, Palo Pinto County and other localities, and drilled the first deep hole and today the Dalton Ranch is very productive, a pioneer, though some. times looked upon as being risky, however, facts and details that causes Mr. Jordan to do such pioneer development is more than illusion as he always has reasons and facts and something far greater than mere vaporings of an imagination.
The extent of Mr. Jordan's activities in the de- velopment of the North Texas Oil Fields, can be
realized from the fact that he has at times been interested in as much as 200,000 acres in leases in the Texas fields. He has been influential in bringing in a great deal of capital from Wall Street and a number of eastern cities and older oil fields, to be expended in the development of this area. In the early stages of the development of North Central Texas, he brought many of the larger producing companies to this district, interesting them by virtue of his long acquaintanceship in older fields. He has paved the way for a great many successful ventures, but like all pioneer oil men, has had his vicissitudes as well as his triumphs, such as certain associates less experiences, instead of trying to do their part to help him compose his difficulties, they would get cold feet before the objective was reached and in each case, the same areas later were proven productive.
The marriage of Mr. Jordan to Miss Mamie Smith, his boyhood sweetheart, took place at Beaumont in 1901. They are the parents of two children, Robert, Jr., attending the Irving School at Tarrytown, N. Y., and Delia who spent several years in the Castle School for Girls at Tarrytown and later was a student at Kidd-Key College for women at Sherman, Texas. The family residence is 2263 Fairmount Avenue, Fort Worth, Texas.
In social and fraternal circles, Mr. Jordan's name is found in the rolls of the I. O. O. F., the Fort Worth Club, River Crest Country Club and holds membership in the Mid-Continent Oil & Gas Asso- ciation and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce.
In the history of the oil development of the Gulf Coast regions from 1901 to 1906 and Oklahoma from 1906 to 1915 and North Texas from 1915 to the present date, where the achievements of individuals who took a major part in the production of liquid gold, the name of Robert Jordan will stand near the top of the list. As a pioneer of the development of new fields, he has had no peer, and credit must be given a pioneer for blazing the way to success in the development of oil.
ALTER M. NOLD, Western Indemnity Build- ing, well known member of the Dallas bar, has been practising law in Dallas for the past eleven years, having been admitted to the bar in 1911. He has always practised alone and devotes his entire time to civil matters.
Mr. Nold is a native of Texas and was born in San Antonio on June 12, 1889. He is a son of Henry G. and Belle (Brown) Nold, well known residents of San Antonio for many years. His father was con- nected with the Frost National Bank at San Antonio for a number of years.
Coming to Dallas at the age of seventeen Mr. Nold attended the public and high schools and after leaving high school studied law in the offices of Camp and Canıp before passing his bar examination and receiving a license to practise law in July, 1911.
In 1910 Mr. Nold was married to Miss Adele Branch in Dallas. They have one daughter, Pauline. The family home is at 406 North Windomere, Oak- Cliff.
Devoting practically his entire time to his profes- sion, Mr. Nold has built up a splendid practise by his devotion to his work and the clean, high minded manner in which he has handled the business entrust - ed to his care. He is a member of the Dallas Bar Association and of the Texas Bar Association.
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OBERT LEE CALDWELL, of the firm of as well as the North and East. Caldwell & Walker, public accountants and income tax consultants, 1104 F. & M. Bank Building, Fort Worth, Texas, while he has been a resident of that city for but two years, has, by energy and efficiency, developed for himself quite an enviable clientele, not only locally but through- out the county and statc. There may be nothing ro- mantic about figures, but when one contemplates the many combinations to be made of the nine digits and remembers that while zero means nothing if taken alone its addition to or subtraction from other figures may mean the difference of a million, figures become in a way fascinating. And without finished accountants to see that figures are kept straight, the commerce of the world would come to a standstill or, worse, get into a hopless muddle. The pro- fession of public accountant, therefore, is a pc- culiarly necessary one and it is well that men of Mr. Caldwell's caliber choose it.
Mr. Caldwell organized his Fort Worth business on December 1, 1919, with Robert E. Walker as his partner. Before coming to Fort Worth, both Mr. Walker and Mr. Caldwell were in the government service, Internal Revenue Department, their work for Uncle Sam extending over a period of two years. They came to Fort Worth from Austin, Texas. Mr. Walker is a native Texan, born at Eagle Lake. He is active in civic and social affairs of Fort Worth and is a member of the Masonic Lodge and of the Shrine.
Prior to entering the government service Mr. Cald- well was engaged in the oil business at Ennis, Texas, the town where he was born. Mr. Caldwell is the son of A. B. Caldwell, former planter and merchant, a resident of Ennis for forty-five years, and Allie (Fugate) Caldwell. Mr. Caldwell is just six years beyond his majority, which is another proof, if any be needed, that youth is no bar to success.
On September 1, 1913, he was united in marriage to Miss Emily Haynes of Ennis, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Caldwell and their little son, Alexander Craig Caldwell, live at 508 Hemphill Street.
OEL C. RISER, member of C. S. Dudley & Company, commercial adjusters and col- lectors, Dallas County State Bank Building, Dallas, Texas, has been widely known to the commercial public of the Southwest through his long association in the wholesale grocery business. For nearly ten years he was with the Boren Stewart Company, for three years was credit manager and secretary and over three years vice-president, also manager of all factory interest creditors and did a large portion of the buying. Prior to that time he was for eight years with the Waples-Platter Gro- cery Company of Ft. Worth and in his long period of activities in the wholesale grocery business ob- tained a great fund of experience and information which is invaluable to the firm of which he has now trcome associated.
The C. S. Dudley and Company is one of the most reliable and efficient mercantile adjusters of the Southwest. The other partners of the firm are C. S. Dudicy, who has been for many years widely known in the business circles of Dallas, and F. W. Cooney, formerly credit man for the Armstrong Packing Company. The firm specializes in adjust- ments and collection of wholesale accounts and has had an extensive business throughout the Southwest
Mr. Riser is a native Texan, born in Hamilton in 1880. His parents, J. M. and Mary P. (Harwell) Riser, are pioneer settlers of this state. After re- ceiving his education in the Beeville public schools he began his business career as shipping clerk and later salesman for C. H. Cox & Co., Temple, Texas, for four years when he went to Ft. Worth as sales- man for the Waples-Platter Company of that city, with whom he remained for a period of eight years. The last four years he was manager of the branch houses at Houston, Stanford and Gainesville for that firm. In 1912 he came to Dallas and became con- nected with the Boren Stewart Company, wholesale grocers, at which institution he remained until 1921 when he left that company to form the present partnership.
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The marriage of Mr. Riser to Miss Blanche _ Schackelford took place in Temple in 1904. Mr. and Mrs. Riser have three daughters, Christine, Mary Gladys and Emile. The family residence is at 5441 Willis Avenue, Dallas, Texas. Mrs. Riser passed away on March 1, 1920.
Mr. Riser has taken an active interest in civic and commercial associations. During the year 1920 he served as president of the Dallas Association of Wholesale Credit Men and is now one of the di- rectors. He is vice chairman of the National In- vestigation and Prosecution Committee of the Na- tional Association of Wholesale Credit Men for dis- trict No. 6 that includes the Southwestern States.
He is a Shriner, Hella Temple, and holds member- ship in the Methodist Church. Ever since his resi- dence in Dallas Mr. Riser has taken an active in- terest in the civic and commercial affairs of the city and has contributed his share toward the upbuilding of the city "Where men are looking forward."
0. SPRING southwestern manager of Ernst and Ernst, audits and systems, 1312 Amer- ican Exchange Bank Building, is an expert business manager and his rapid rise to his present responsible position shows in what high esteem he is held by eastern officials of his com- pany.
Ernst and Ernst, a large concern with head- quarters at Cleveland, Ohio, make audits for munici- palities and private corporations and business con- cerns. They offer three departments of service: (1) audits, (2) systems, and (3) tax. Mr. Spring was made southwestern manager in 1915 and opened up the Dallas office with two men in his employment. At the present time he employs forty-five people in the Dallas office, and one hundred in the state of Texas. A branch office was established by Mr. Spring at Houston in 1917, and in 1919 another branch in Fort Worth. Ernst and Ernst is one of the largest concerns of its kind in Dallas, and handles every kind of business that requires audits. Be- sides the ofces in Texas citics, this concern main- tains offices in twenty-one other cities in the United States.
Mr. Spring is a native of Ohio. He was born in New Philadelphia on April 15, 1886. His father, N. J. Spring, was a merchant for many years at Dennison, Ohio, and is now engaged in the farming industry. His mother was Miss Rosetta Rice, of an old Ohio family. Mr. Spring was educated in the New Philadelphia public schools and later studied accounting in Cleveland schools and in mer- cantile offices there and in Detroit. In 1906 he be-
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gan work with F. C. Chapman and Company, whole- sale commission merchants, remaining with them for two years, when he was made auditor of the Cleve- land Trust Company of Cleveland. In 1911 he be- gan his work with Ernst and Ernst as a traveling man, working out of St. Louis principally in Texas. His success was so great and his ability so marked that within a few years he had become southwestern manager and was rapidly expanding his scope of operations, building this end of the business up to its present degree of prosperity.
He was married to Miss Loraine Eckles, daughter of Frank Eckles, prominent hotel owner of Tyler, Texas, but now retired and living in Los Angeles. Mr. and Mrs. Spring make their home at 3201 Lem- mon Avenue, Dallas.
Mr. Spring is a member of the Chamber of Com- merce, City Club, Automobile Club, Dallas Country Club, Cedar Crest Country Club, and the Dallas Athletic Club. He is a York Rite Mason of Dallas, and a Shriner. He is well liked in social and busi- ness circles of the city and identified with all the leading interests. Mr. Spring is enthusiastic in his predictions for Texas, believing its possibilities are unlimited and that in a few years it will be the richest and largest populated state in the union with Dallas as its metropolitan center.
E. BYRNE, vice-president and field execu- tive of the National Supply Company of Texas, Dan Waggoner Building, removed to Fort Worth from Houston in 1919 when the oil development in North and West Texas made it necessary for his company to establish a branch house here. He had been in Texas for seventeen years and is thoroughly familiar with oil field conditions not only in this state but throughout the entire Mid-Continent field. The National Supply Company is one of the largest concerns dealing in oil well and oil field supplies and has warehouses at Fort Worth, Electra, Houston, Ranger, Beaumont, Breckenridge, Wichita Falls, Eastland, Gorman and Shreveport, Louisiana. The company has about 250 men in the organization controlled by the Fort Worth office, which includes Texas, Louisiana, Arkansas and New Mexico.
A native of Pennsylvania, Mr. Byrne was born at Pittsburg, September 28, 1876, a son of Edward C. and Catherine (Murphy) Byrne. His father was a prominent business man of Pittsburg, doing a coal and contracting business. Educated in the public schools of Pittsburg and at Pittsburg College, Mr. Byrne early entered the business world and was engaged in various activities until 1899 when he entered the Pittsburg office of the National Supply Company. Following the discovery of the famous Spindle-Top pool, he was sent to Beaumont in 1903 and later transferred to Houston, where he was man- ager of the company's branch for twelve years until sent to Fort Worth in 1919. He was instrumental in successfully carrying out several ambitious de- velopment programs in the Southern Texas fields and is now extensively interested in various leases in North Texas. He is president of the Petroleum Tank Co., of Houston, director in the B. J. Harper and W. M. Eaton Drilling and Development Com- panies and vice-president of the Fort Worth Drilling Tool Company.
On September 25, 1919, Mr. Byrne was married to Miss Fern K. Stoddard of Illinois.
Mr. Byrne is a member of the B. P. O. E. at Beau- mont, the Fort Worth Club and Glen Garden Coun- try Club, Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association, Houston Club and Dallas Athletic Club.
Regarding the future of Fort Worth, Mr. Byrne is very optimistic and predicts that the present am- bitious building movement in the city will presage other developments that will place the city in the front rank as a commercial and industrial center.
ERBERT L. WILLIFORD, well-known busi- ness man and formerly general manager of the Eastland Oil and Refining Company, came to Dallas from Memphis, Tennessee, in 1907, and organized the Quick Tire Service Corpora- tion, a million dollar concern with retail tire stores and service stations in Dallas, San Antonio, Fort Worth, Houston, El Paso and Waco. The business developed until it became the largest retail tire or- ganization in the world and was later taken over by the United States Tire and Rubber Company.
Mr. Williford was born at Memphis, April 7, 1881, a son of F. L. Williford, well-known Memphis busi- ness man. Educated in the public schools of Mem- phis and at Christian Brothers College, he engaged in various lines of business in Tennessee and later went on the road for the American Bag Company, of Mem- phis, and traveled in various southern states. includ- ing Texas. After selling out his interest in the Quick Tire Service Corporation, he became one of the or- ganizers and was made secretary-treasurer of the Hercules Petroleum Company and superintended the construction of that company's big refinery in West Dallas. Selling his interest in the Hercules early in 1919, Mr. Williford went with the Eastland Oil and Refining Company as general manager and built a thirty-five hundred barrel refinery for them. He continued with the Eastland until that company was absorbed by the Aetna Petroleum Corporation in August, 1920.
On February 1st, 1909, Mr. Williford was married to Miss Lide Gwynne, daughter of Wm. F. Gwynne. well-known banker and business man of Memphis. They have two children, Lide, aged ten, and Jane, six.
After three years constant work in organizing and developing two highly successful oil companies, Mr. Williford concluded to take a much needed rest and with his family spent several months the latter part of 1920 at Palm Beach, Florida. He is a great be- liever in Dallas and predicts that because of its strategic location with reference to the great natural resources of Texas, it will become the greatest city in the Southwest. Mr. Williford is a Thirty-second de- gree Mason, a member of Memphis Consistory and Shrine.
In April, 1921, the organization built and is operat- ing Union Pipe Line and Refining Co. at El Dorado, Ark.
HARLES H. SCHOOLAR, accountant and auditor, with Schoolar, Bird & Co., account- ants and auditors, Western Indemnity Building, came to Dallas in 1905, and was one of the first practicing accountants in the state. The firm of Schoolar, Bird & Company now operates throughout Texas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Louisiana, New Mexico and California, catering specially to large corporations, oil mills, cotton concerns and similar businesses. A banking department has re- cently been established to serve the banks of the Southwest in the matter of audits, systems, planning,
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reorganization in connection with consolidation, and caring for Federal tax matters for banks and their customers. Mr. Schoolar and his partner, Mr. Geo. HI. Bird, were among the originators of the C. P. A. Law in Texas, which was passed in 1915.
Prior to coming to Dallas Mr. Schoolar was with the Sloss-Sheffield Steel and Iron Company of Birm- ingham, Ala., for a period of about fourteen years, the last five years of which period he was the gen- eral auditor for the company.
He is a member of the Rotary Club and chairman of the club's finance committee; the National Asso- ciation of Cost Accountants, the Dallas Athletic Club, the Dallas Automobile Country Club and the Chamber of Commerce, and believes Dallas is the best city in the country.
LFRED H. BRUNDAGE, income tax con- sultant, 1204 Great Southern Life Building, has built up, in two years time, a substantial business which testifies to the high regard in which his services are held by the foremost busi- ness men of the city.
Mr. Brundage opened his offices in Dallas in December of 1918 upon his resignation from the U. S. Treasury Department as an internal revenue agent. Eight persons are employed by the firm. A specialty is made of income tax accounting and con- sulting among clients are practically all of the banks of Dallas and many commercial institutions and large concerns such as Sanger Brothers, Texas Port- Jand Cement Company, Neiman-Marcus and Titche- Goettinger, and in fact, the majority of the larger business firms. Besides the extensive local busi- ness which this company enjoys, it also handles work for concerns in every Texas city.
Mr. Brundage was born in New York City on July 3, 1892. He was the son of a prominent business man of the metropolis, J. Brundage, now deceased. He attended the New York public schools and upon graduating from high school entered Columbia Uni- versity, receiving his B. C. S. degree in 1916. After completing his college work he went into business for himself, opening up an office as auditor and ac- countant at 302 Broadway, New York City. Upon the declaration of war, Mr. Brundage closed his office and enlisted in the Construction Division of the Signal Corps, attending the training camps of Texas and Washington, D. C. His college and business training became known, however, and he was trans- ferred to internal revenue service as internal revenue agent in the San Antonio Division. He left the I'nited States service in December of 1918 and came at once to Dallas to establish his present business.
Mr. Brundage is a Mason and a member of the Columbia Chapter of Alpha Epsilon Pi Fraternity. He is also a member of the Chamber of Commerce, University Club, Lakewood Country Club, and is chairman of the Audits and Finance Committee of the Lion's Club. Although an easterner by birth Mr. Brundage is an enthusiastic booster for Texas and Dallas, believing this city will become the New York of the Southwest.
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