The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 42

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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In fraternal orders Mr. Ritchie is on the rolls of the City Club, the Dallas Bar Association, the Dallas Lawn Tennis Club and the Dallas Automobile Club. He has always taken an active interest in his clubs and has rendered them service at various times.

The law is a profession peculiarly fitted for serv- ice to the public-Mr. Ritchie has realized this in liis career and has rendered great service to his friends and fellow citizens along legal lines. Still a young man, his future will inevitably be one of service to his city and state.

EORGE O. WILSON, of the firm of Wilson & Biggers, Western Indemnity Building, Dallas, although he has only been in the practice of his profession for three years time has become well known among the lawyers of the Dallas bar. As a past president of the Dallas Junior Chamber of Commerce and now president of the United States Junior Chamber of Commerce he has become well known in this city and state and promises to be one of its most valuable citizens. The success that he has achieved thus far in life lias been accomplished under the greatest difficulties and to him may be truely and justly applied the phrase of "self-made man."

Born in Paris, Texas, November 9, 1898, George O. Wilson is a son of Mrs. M. E. Wilson, of Dallas. When he was five years of age his mother moved to Dallas and here he received his education in the Dallas public schools. After leaving school he worked in a local grocery store for a short while after which he accepted employment with the Sears- Roebuck Company. He worked for this concern for approximately one and one-half years and while there became assistant buyer for one of the large departments. While working Mr. Wilson devoted his nights to the study of the law, having selected this profession in his early youth as the goal of his ambitions. He borrowed the necessary books from willing friends and in 1917 became associated with the firm of Carden, Starling, Carden, Hemphill & Wallace. Under their careful guidance he stood the bar examination in October, 1918, and was ad- mitted to ), 'actice, after having had his minority disabilities removed by order of court and practiced with that firm until March, 1921. At the time of his entrance to practice he was nineteen years of age and was probably the youngest practitioner be- fore the Dallas bar. Mr. Wilson has taken an active interest in the civic affairs of Dallas and has been instrumental, through his affiliation with the Junior

Chamber of Commerce, in bringing about many needed improvements.

Mr. Wilson was married on June 23, 1921, to Miss Evelyn B. Frank, daughter of Dr. Graham Frank, pastor of Central Christian Church. He is promi- nent in the younger social set of the city. The family reside at 5019 Bryan Street, Dallas. He is a deacon of the Central Christian Church, a 32d degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Hella Temple Shrine.

ILLIAM H. DULS, assistant general attor- ney for the Southwestern Telegraph and Telephone Company, has, since his appoint- ment to that position handled the public utilities regulation branch of its legal business. Before forming his connection with the present firm he was employed by a number of large telephone companies of the East and there gained much ex- perience in telephone litigation. His connection with a number of important cases involving the rights of his company has gained for him a substantial repu- tation, the most important of these cases being one styled William A. Reed and Company vs. Central Union Telephone Company, the American Telegraph and Telephone Company and the Chicago Telephone Company, which involved from four to five millions of dollars. In that case Mr. Duls was the attorney for the American Telegraph and Telephone Com- pany and he ably acquitted his trust.

Born in Wilmington, North Carolina, August 11, 1887, William H. Duls is a son of John W. and Catherine Duls, the former being a prominent mer- chant. The younger Mr. Duls received his early education in the public schools of his native city and then attended the University of North Carolina, where he received his bachelor of arts degree in 1907. While in college he was elected a member of the honorary academic fraternity, Phi Beta Kappa, for excellent scholarship work. During the next year he became an instructor in mathematics at the Uni- versity of North Carolina. He then began his legal education at the Harvard University, where he was graduated in 1911 with the degree of bachelor of laws. In 1912 he began a course of research work at Harvard under Dean Roscoe Pound and in Octo- ber of the same year began his business career as counsellor for the American Telegraph and Tele- phone Company. In 1916 he went to St. Louis as the attorney for the Southwestern Bell Telephone System. A year later he came to Texas and was employed by the Southwestern Telegraph and Tele- phone Company in their legal department and has since that time become the assistant general coun- sel for the company. In August, 1918, Mr. Duls entered the artillery camp of the United States army, at Zachery Taylor, Kentucky, and was com- missioned second lieutenant. Upon receipt of his discharge on December 11, 1918, he returned to Dallas and resumed his former position. He has handled a number of the recent rate cases that have come up in this state and has been very successful in sustaining the rights of his company.

In 1919 Mr. Duls married Miss Tressie Marshall, a daughter of Schuyler Marshal, well known Dallas County farmer. Mr. and Mrs. Duls have their home at 3809 Cole Avenue. Mr. Duls is a member of the University Club, the Harvard Club of New York and the Dallas, Texas, and American Bar Asso- ciations.

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AMES L. McNEES, attorney at law, Dallas, has, since his admittance to the practice, specialized for the most part in corporation law. Although his practice extends over the entire field of civil practice, he is espe- cially well qualified in corporation practice, and has been unusually successful both in that and other lines of civil law. His clientele includes many of the larger firms of this city and several foreign cor- porations doing business in Texas.

Born in Panola County, Texas, August 9, 1885, James I. McNees is a son of Christopher L. and Emma (Simpson) McNees. He is the second child of nine children in the MeNees family, four boys and five girls. His brother, R. A. MeNees, formerly an instructor in chemistry at the University of Texas, now engineer of chemistry for the Public Service Corporation of San Antonio, is well known in science circles. Mr. MeNees, subject of this sketch, received his early training in the public schools of Merkel, Texas. His legal training was partly obtained by work in the Sprague Correspondence School of Law, after which he attended the Dallas Law School. Be- fore securing his law license he was credit manager for Baker, Ifarris and Blake, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, who are wholesale dry goods merchants. In 1912 he moved to Dallas and was employed by the Harris Lipsitz Company, of this city. He was admitted to the bar in 1913 by examination. In the trial of a number of important cases Mr. McNees has distinguished himself as an able attorney and de- pendable counsellor. One which might be mentioned is the case of Hammer vs. Foster, and which in- volved the guardianship of a valuable estate. He was employed by Mrs. Foster to recover land left her by her fathers will and which she had been dispossessed of a number of years and was success- ful in securing a judgment for the land. In this case Mr. McNees aided in clearing up seven points of law involved in the case. Another case of importance won for his clients was the case of Hickey vs. Perkins Dry Goods Co., the case involved a question of great interest to wholesalers and jobbers.

Mr. McNees is the president of the MeNees Lum- ber Company and vice-president of the Reserve Loan & Investment Company. Mr. McNess has always been active in public works for the city and public at large. He was secretary at one time of the com- mittee of the Chamber of Commerce of Dallas in raising funds to build the Southern Methodist Uni- versity. Ile was also active in the War Saving Cam- paign, he was delegated to twelve counties in the state of Texas to help in raising their quota, and where he did active and effective work.

In 1911 Mr. McNees married Miss Elsie Mae Hol- bert and they have one child, James L. McNees, Junior. The McNees home is located at 1206 Kings Highway, Oak Cliff. In fraternal orders Mr. Mc- Nees has membership in the Knights of Pythias and the D. O. K. K., the Cedar Crest Country Club, Dal- las Bar Association and the Commercial Law League of America. In religious inclination he is a Metho- dist and has always been active in the affairs of the church.

D B. FREEMAN, attorney at law, 406 North Texas Building, Dallas, as Special Prose- cutor of the Bureau of Agriculture of the United States Government from 1909 to 1914 gained wide recognition as the author of the agricultural laws for the Philippine Islands. Since

his return to Dallas, which was in 1914, he has been engaged in the general civil law practice and has secured a large interest in farming lands of this section.

A native son of Dallas County, Ed B. Freeman was born near the city of Mesquite May 15, 187%. He is a son of W. S. and Susan (Coates) Freeman, the former coming to Dallas from Illinois in 1815 and served as Justice of the Peace for seventeen years. His wife was a native of Tennessee, whose family settled in the eastern part of the county in the early fifties. Ed B. Freeman received his aca- demic education in the public schools of this county and after his graduation took up his legal studies in the offices of Judge John L. Henry, who had served as a member of the Supreme Court of Texas. After three years of study he was admitted to the bar and in 1898 became assistant district attorney, which position he held for four years. In 1909 he became the special prosecutor for the Bureau of Agriculture and was assigned to duty in foreign countries.

Ilis work gave especial attention to the Philippine Islands and while there he drew up a set of agricul- tural laws and regulations which were later accepted by the Philippine Government and approved by the United States. He also did work in other island possessions of the United States and in foreign coun- tries such as China and Japan. Returning to Dallas in 1914 Mr. Freeman resumed his private practice and ever since that time has been engaged so in- dependently.

On February 2, 1914 Mr. Freeman married Miss Gross, of St. Louis and they have their home at 5525 Willis Ave. Mr. Freeman has always taken an active interest in the business development of Dallas and at the present time owns and cultivates several farms near the city. He has also taken an active interest in oil development and has an interest in many Texas leases.

UDGE WILLIAM M. CROW, attorney at law, 704 Southwestern Life Building of Dallas, has for the past forty-five years been a member of the legal fraternity of this state and during that time has made a specialty of the practice of land law. Before coming to Dallas, which was in 1887, Mr. Crow practiced law at Henderson. For four years he served as superin- tendent of the public schools in Galveston prior to coming to Dallas.

Born at Henderson, Rusk County, Texas, June 23rd, 1852, William M. Crow is a son of Able R. and Catherine (Diamond) Crow, the former having come to this state in 1839. Mr. Crow was the second in age of five children in the family, one of whom was a brother and three sisters. He received his primary education in the Henderson public schools and after- ward attended Emory College, of Oxford, Georgia, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1874 and his Master of Arts in 1877. He returned to Texas in 1877 and began to teach school at Gal- veston, where he served as superintendent of the public schools. In 1887 he resigned and began to practice law in Dallas, being a member of the firm of Morris and Crow. Under an appointment by Gov. Hogg as District Judge he served for a short time. He served as president of the Board of Education of Oak Cliff for a number of years when that con- munity was a separate entity from the city of Dal-

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las, and he was twice elected to the Board of Educa- tion of the city of Dallas. As has been said, Mr. Crow has specialized in the practice of land law for the past quarter of a century and is recognized as an authority on that phase of law.

In 1877 he married Miss Fannie Caswell, of Tyler, Texas, and they are the parents of five children, four being boys and one girl. Walter C. was formerly a Judge of the Supreme Court Commission and Judge of the 19th Judicial District of Oklahoma; Lucile, now Mrs. Dr. Horace Beachum, lives in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Crow have their home in the suburban district where they own four acres of land. For the past forty years Mr. Crow has been on the Board of Stewards of the Methodist Church.

EORGE M. FEILD member of the law firm of Short & Feild, Sumpter Building, Dallas, has specialized in the practice of municipal law, concerning municipal securities, bonds, assessments and improvements. He has been active before the Dallas bar for twelve years and has been a member of the present firm since 1910. Short & Feild have had for a number of years a large clientele, including a number of local and foreign companies, among which are the Feild Lippman Piano Stores, Webster Grocery Company, Uvalde Paving Company and the Hanchett Bond Company of Chicago.

Born at Fort Worth, Texas, June 9, 1887, George M. Feild is a son of Captain Julian and Ida (Major) Feild, the former having been a captain in the Con- federate army. He served as the first postmaster of Fort Worth. He died in 1897 at the age of seven- ty-two years. In 1892, the family moved to Cali- fornia where they remained for ten years, return- turning to Texas in 1902. Young Mr. Feild received his education in the San Diego public schools and afterwards attended the University of the South at Seewanee, Tennessee, from which institution he re- ceived the degree of Bachelor of Laws in 1909. A short time afterwards he returned to Dallas and began his practice alone, forming a partnership with Judge U. F. Short in 1910. Judge Short has been an active practitioner before the Dallas bar for over a quarter of a century and has become a familiar figure, not only in the courts of this county but in the courts throughout the state. Mr. Feild's asso- ciation in the practice of law with Judge Short in the second year of the former's practice is the best possible evidence of his qualifications and ability as a lawyer.

In September, 1914, Mr. Feild married Miss Hallie Webster. They are the parents of two children, Floellen Hallie and Sarah May Feild. The Feild home is situated at 121 South Seevers Street, Oak Cliff.

In fraternal orders Mr. Feild is a member of all the Masonic bodies, the University Club, the Cedar Crest Country Club and the Dallas Bar Association. .

LBERT S. JACKSON, attorney at law, Dal- las, has for the past twenty-five years specialized in the practice of land law but in conjunction with it has also carried 'on an extensive general civil practice, including pro- bate matters. During his residence in this city he has become interested in and owns a large amount of business and residence property in this city and has always taken an active interest in its civic im- provement and business advancement. Mr. Jackson

enjoys the patronage of an extensive clientele, in- cluding many large concerns, among which might be mentioned the Gray, Reardon, Newland Company, dealers in Pierce Arrow cars; The Houghton-Rear- don Company and the Home Builders Company, of Garland.

A native son of Dallas County, Albert S. Jack- son was born near the town of Garland. He is a son of Thomas J. and Mary (Nash) Jackson, the former having come to this state with his parents when he was three years of age, in the year 1846. The younger Mr. Jackson is indebted to the public schools of Dallas County for his early educational training, which was fittingly supplemented at the State Normal School, at Huntsville, Texas, from which he graduated in 1888. He then read law under the direction of Judge I. R. Oeland, who was a prominent Dallas attorney who later moved to New York, where he gained national prominence as a lawyer. Mr. Jackson was admitted to the bar in 1895 and in the following year was elected clerk of the County Court, which position he held for the succeeding six years. In 1902 he began his private practice, opening up his offices in the Slaughter Building and he has continued to occupy those offices ever since that time.

In 1898 Mr. Jackson married Miss Fredna Bryan, a native of Mississippi, and they are the parents of one child, Miss Fredna Jackson, who is a graduate of Wellesley College. The Jackson home is situated at 4909 Drexel Drive, Highland Park.

Mr. Jackson is a member of the Dallas Country Club, the Lakewood Country Club, the old Dallas Club and the Dallas Bar Association. He is an active member of the Methodist Church. A Demo- crat in politics, a lawyer by profession and a busi- ness man of integrity and judgment, Mr. Jackson presents the ideal type of citizen, who is always anxious to serve his city, state and nation to the best of his ability.

Mr. Jackson has taken a very active interest in educational matters and served as president of the Board of Education of the city of Dallas from 1908 until 1910.

ULIUS H. RUNGE, attorney at law, Amer- ican Exchange National Bank Building, Dallas, was admitted to the bar of Texas in 1914 and since 1915 has been active before the courts of this county and state. Ever since the inauguration of his practice he lias been exclusively engaged in the general civil practice.

A native Texan, Julius H. Runge was born at Gal- veston on the 12th day of October, 1890. He is a son of the late Julius Runge, who was for several years president of the Galveston Cotton Exchange, and Jolianna Runge. His grandfather, Henry Runge, was the founder of the firm of H. Runge & Co., private bankers and merchants at Cuero, Texas, established in 1845. The younger Mr. Runge re- ceived the advantages of the public schools of his native city and in 1900 moved to Austin. After graduation from the Austin high school he entered the Yale University and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from that institution in 1913. He then returned to Texas, entered the University of Texas and was graduated there in 1915 with the degrees of Master of Arts and of Law. During the previous ycar he took the entrance examination for the Texas bar and was admitted to the bar soon thereafter.

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In June of 1915 he came to Dallas and began the practice of his profession. Since that time he has engaged in the practice of the civil law, except dur- ing the world war when he served in the U. S. Marine Corps.

Mr. Runge is a member of the Sigma Alpha Epsi- lon College Fraternity, Phi Delta Phi honorary col- lege law fraternity, the Texas Bar Association, Dal- las Bar Association and the University Club of Dallas.

A man of excellent education, of legal ability and interest in civic affairs, Julius II. Runge is an en- thusiastic citizen of Dallas with great faith in its future growth.

OBERT H. VOGEL, lawyer with offices at 107 Gaston Building, Dallas, while engaged in general civil practice, has turned his at- tention particularly to the legal aspect of insurance matters and is generally recognized as an able specialist in insurance law. The care and ability that he has shown in handling insurance cases has won him the patronage of such companies as the London Guaranty and Accident Company, Ltd., of London, England; the American Indemnity Company of Galveston, Texas; the Marine and Motor Insurance Company of America and the Bankers Auto Insur- ance Company of Lincoln, Nebraska; the Standard Accident Insurance Company, as well as many others.

Mr. Vogel is a native of Texas, born in Dallas, January 31st, 1890, the son of R. C. Vogel, a jeweler, and Mary Elizabeth (Venner) Vogel. After complet- ing his studies at the graded and high schools in Dal- las, he attended Dallas University where he was graduated with the degree of Bachelor of Science in 1907. Following this course he attended law school at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee, where he was graduated with the degree of bachelor of laws in 1910. He returned to Dallas and took the Bar Examination, becoming admitted in August, 1910, and immediately began the practice of law in this city.

Since that time he has carried on his practice in Dallas where he was married in 1914 to Miss Gladys Williams, daughter of H. H. Williams also of Dallas. They have one child, a daughter, Miss Catherine, and reside at 211 Cumberland Avenue.

P. ALLEN, of the firm of Allen and Allen, attorneys at law, 327 Western Indemnity Building, Dallas, has been engaged in the practice of civil law in this city since 1917. As member of the local camp of the American Legion he has become well known, not only among the ex-soldiers but among the members of the la- gal fraternity, and has always taken an active part in the development and beautification of his adopted city.

Born at the city of Terrell, Kaufman County, Texas, June 16th, 1894, G. P. Allen is a son of William H. Allen who until 1906 was one of the' most prominent lawyers of Kaufman county, and who moved to Dallas at that time. The younger Mr. Allen was educated in the public schools of Dal- las and in 1912 travelled East, accepting a position with the Peerless Motor Car Company of St. Louis. While with that concern he was the foreman of the service and garage department, but after three years of service he returned to Texas and enrolled in the law department of the University of Texas, where he remained practically three years. At the out-

break of the war Mr. Allen took the examination for entrance into the Texas bar and was admitted by the order of the Board of Examiners. On August 4th, 1917, he enlisted as a private in Battery D, of the 133rd Field Artillery, and was stationed :: Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas. On December 4th 1917, he was commissioned second lieutenant of Ar- tillery and six months later was promoted to first lieutenant. He landed at Brest, France, August 12th, 1918, and on October 22 was assigned to the First French Army Corps, which was at the fron: in Alsace-Lorraine. He was there until the sign- ing of the Armistice and was then assigned to Camp Eliquidan, where he served as Judge Advocate un- til February 28th, 1919. He returned to the United States March 20th and was discharged on April 5th. He then resumed the practice of his profes- sion at Dallas with his father, the late Wm. H. Allen under the firm name of Allen & Allen. Upon the death of the latter June 30, 1921, he has continued to practice under the firm name.

In fraternal affiliations Mr. Allen is a thirty sec- ond degree Mason, a Scottish Rite, member of the Blue Lodge, 760 and of the Hella Temple. He is a member of the Phi Gamma Delta College Frater- nity and the American Legion.

Having been a citizen of Dallas since 1906, Mr. Alien considers it as his true home city and is one of its most enthusiastic boosters. The future of the city depends, to a large extent, upon its young men and well can it depend on this one, who is a true patriot, a learned lawyer and an active citizen.

UDGE HARRY EVANS SPAFFORD, attor- ney at law, Dallas, has, during his twenty- three years of practice, specialized in me- chanics' lien law and is well known in Texas as the author of the present mechanic lien law that went into effect in this state in 1915. He came to Texas in 1914 and before that time was an attorney and judge at Beatrice, Nebraska. Judge Spafford has successfully established a large clientele since locating in Dallas. He has represented a number of the largest concerns of this city.

Born in Akron, Ohio, June 11, 1786, Harry Evans Spafford is a son of I. J. and Elizabeth (Evans) Spafford, his father being a retired contractor. He was educated in the public schools of Grant City, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1894. He then began the study of law in the offices of Kelso and Schooler of that city, where he remained for two years. He passed the bar examination before the Circuit Court of Missouri and was admitted to prac- tice in 1897. For the next three succeeding years he was a member of the form of Kelso, Schooler and Spafford, after which he moved to Beatrice, Ne- braska, forming the partnership of Babcock, Sackett and Spafford, which continued for four years. In 1906 he was elected county judge of Gage County, Nebraska, and served for two terms of two years each, after which he refused to run for re-election. In 1911 he became a member of the firm of Sackett and Spafford and continued that connection until he moved to Dallas in 1914. While in Nebraska he was the attorney for the State Board of Pharmacy and a number of banks and other mercantile estab- lishments. In 1914 he opened his offices in this city and has continued his practice here since that time.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 42

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