The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 47

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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The machine shops of the Wabash Railroad at Moberly, Missouri afforded his early experience in this line and from there he followed his trade in various states, coming to Texas in 1907 on the advice of his brother, J. H. Robinson, for the purpose of establishing a partnership, of which the present company is the result.

Born in Manchester, England, in 1868, the son of John R. and Matilda Whitaker Robinson, he came with his parents to the United States about five years later, the family first locating in Allegheny, Penn- sylvania, and later coming to Texas where they in- vested in land in and around Ft. Worth. Some years later the family took up their residence in Missouri and it was in the public schools of this state that Mr. Robinson completed his education. In 1898 he married Miss Edna West, of Peoria, Illinois.

Mr. Robinson devotes the greater part of his time to his business and is a member of the Masonic and Modern Woodmen Lodges and the Chamber of Com- merce.

Both Wm. E. and J. H. Robinson are enthusiastic in their praise of Dallas and believe the city has a wonderful future.

LBERT SIDNEY BASKETT, 214 Boger Bldg., is one of Dallas' foremost lawyers of today. He has a host of clients who have found him a valued legal counsellor and champion.

Mr. Baskett was born in Smith County. June 18, 1871, twenty miles east of Tyler. He began his education in the Smith County public schools which he completed, continued it in the Summer Hill Se- lect School from which he graduated in June 1890, added to this that cultural and thorough training that comes from handling life and knowledge in the school room as a teacher, and as a business man gave to his training the practical and through it all studied law under his own tutorage until the out- come is a legal success in one of the most thriving cities of the Southwest. Mr. Baskett's first two years of teaching experience was in Rusk County;

he then, in 1892, went to Hill County where he was in the Drug business for two years at Hubbard City, here he got a license to practice law and prac- ticed there seven years before going to Hillsboro. where he also took up the practice of law. After three years of success, in July of 1902 he located in Dallas where his legal practice has been continuous ever since.

Mr. Baskett married Miss Fannie Allen of Monroe, La., they have three children-Martha Elizabeth, now Mrs. Graham, John Lewis, and Everett Allen Baskett. The family resides at 2917 Douglas street and holds membership in the Mckinney Ave. Baptist church.

Among the valiant group of men gifted in cham- pioning the cause of civic Righteousness, righting wrongs and seeing that right prevails, Dallas places Albert Sidney Baskett in the rank of those at the forefront.

ARKER V. LUCAS, attorney at law, man- ager of the Automobile Underwriters Theft Bureau and secretary of the Texas Law En- forcement Association, was discharged from the army February 27, 1919, and a few days later he located in Dallas. His former home was at Boise, Idaho, where he practiced law from 1913 until he joined the army in August, 1917. He is a native of South Dakota, born at Castalia, March 28, 1888, His father, A. B. Lucas, is editor of the Eden Eagle, Eden, Idaho. His mother was Ella Mayne, of Mason City, Iowa. Mr. Lucas attended the public schools of Santa Cruz, Calif., and graduated from the high school there in 1906. He took the law course in the University of Idaho and graduated in 1913 with the degree of LL. B. His marriage to Miss Etta J. Dunagan, of Atlanta, Ga., was consummated at New Meadows, Idaho, on Christmas Day in the year 1908, and the couple have two lovely daughters, Elinor and Elizabeth. The family home is at 828 North Ewing Street, Oak Cliff.

Mr. Lucas is a K. of P. and an I. O. O. F., and en- joys membership in the University Club, the Auto- mobile Club and the American Legion Club. He is also a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce.

After enlisting in the army in 1917 Mr. Lucas went into the officers' training camp at San Fran- cisco, where he graduated November 25, 1917. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the air service and stationed in San Antonio and Fort Worth as aerial gunner, being an instructor in this line.

Locating in Dallas after his discharge from the . service, he assisted in the organization of the Auto- mobile Underwriters' Theft Bureau and the Texas Law Enforcement Association, becoming the man- ager of the first and secretary of the latter, which is made up of peace officers, auto clubs and auto trades associations throughout the state, and man- ager and attorney for the Automobile Underwriters' Theft Bureau. Mr. Lucas has been very successful in the prosecution of automobile thieves. He goes all over the state and in 1920 recevered $79,146 in cars and secured the conviction of a number of auto thieves.

Mr. Lucas does a great deal of press work, urging owners of automobiles to take more interest in look- ing after their cars and to have auto thieves properly prosecuted when caught.

There is a big future for Dallas in all lines of business, Mr. Lucas says, and the state, he declares, is the greatest in the Union for young men.

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AROLD A. MERRILL is Fort Worth man- ager of the J. Rosenbaum Grain Company, extensive dealers in grain, Fort Worth of- fice in the Neil P. Anderson Building. The home office of this company is Chicago, E. F. Rosen- baum of Chicago being president. The J. Rosenbaum Grain Company has about 12 branches throughout the country. The Fort Worth branch was opened in 1900 and was successful from the start. Their grain elevator in North Fort Worth is modern, has a ca- pacity of 300,000 bushels and requires the employ- ment of about thirty people. The company docs both export and import business. Their exports run into high figures each year and their domestic business is also quite large. Mr. Merrill took up his work with the Fort Worth branch in 1917, prior to which time he was for three years associated with the same company in Kansas City, Mo. Alto- gether Mr. Merrill has been in the grain business about fourteen years. Previous to going with the J. Rosenbaum Grain Company he was connected with the B. C. Christopher Company, of Kansas City, for about six years.

Mr. Merrill is a Missourian by birth. He was born in Kansas City on October 13, 1894. His father, a native of Maine, was L. C. Merrill, now deceased. Kansas City considers her schools second to none in the United States, and in them Mr. Mer- rill obtained his education. When just a year past his majority he was united in marriage to Miss Ellen Herriott and they have one child, a son, Bill Merrill. They make their home at 1900 Washington Avenue.

Mr. Merrill's business, social and fraternal asso- ciations include the Masonic Blue Lodge No. 148, Fort Worth Club and Fort Worth Grain & Cotton Exchange. He is a member of the Presbyterian Church.

ILLIAM H. GRAHAM, formerly member of the firm of Harris, McCall and Graham, attorneys at law, Great Southern Life Build- ing, Dallas, has devoted the greater part of his business career to the public service. As a public stenographer, court reporter, former county attorney and as a legal practitioner he has served his con- stituents and clients with unswerving fidelity. Har- ris, McCall and Graham handle municipal securities especially, passing on the legality of bonds and war- rant issues and trying litigation involving the same. In corporation work and criminal law and procedure the firm is well known, Mr. Graham serves as the trial lawyer for the firm and has gained quite a reputation about the court house for his ability in this line.

Born in Holly Springs, Arkansas, October 10th, 1880, William H. Graham is a son of John Henry and Amy Susan (Yeager) Graham. He is the oldest of seven children, three of whom are brothers and three sisters. In 1884 the Grahams moved to Hunt County, Texas, locating at the city of Greenville. Having received his education at the Caddo Mills public schools, in 1899 Mr. Graham came to Dallas in order to obtain a business course that would fit him for commercial work. Upon the completion of this course he became a stenographer in commercial lines. In 1906 he went to El Paso, where for eleven and one-half years he was a public stenographer and court reporter for the district court, first of the Colorado District and then the Abilene. While not employed by his official dutics he studied law and in 1914 was admitted to the bar and practiced for

two years at Abilene. In 1916 he was elected county attorney of Taylor County, served for two years, when he resigned and came to Dallas entering the law firm of Brooks and Worsham. In the following year he was admitted to membership in the firm, which then became Brooks, Worsham and Graham. On October 20th of the same year that relation was terminated when Mr. Graham formed a partnership with Harris and McCall, which firm then took on the legal identity of Harris, McCall and Graham. He has continued in the firm since that time and is one of its well known members.

In 1901 Mr. Graham married Miss Camilla May Walson, of Abilene. Mr. and Mrs. Graham have their home at 5306 Tremont Street. Mr. Graham is a member of the Young Lawyers Club of Dallas and has always taken an active interest in its activi- ties.

Possessing a passion for knowledge and action, Mr. Graham is thoroughly versed in the technics of law, and is an ardent student, who goes into every case with energy and enthusiasm.

LEX. F. WEISBERG, member of the firm of Thompson, Knight, Baker and Harris, at- torneys at law, American Exchange Bank Building, of Dallas, has been a figure before the courts of Dallas County since 1907 and is espe -. cially well known for his connection with the Lomax case, involving the removal of several of the officers of administration of the University of Texas, during the administration of James E. Ferguson, as gov- ernor. Mr. Weisberg was successful in causing the governor to allow the officers in question to remain at the university and by his success in the case gained state wide recognition.

Born at Waco, Texas, July 16, 1883, Alex. F. Weisberg is a son of L. Weisberg, merchant of Waco, who came to this state in 1885. The younger Mr. Weisberg received his primary education in the public schools of his native city, graduating from its high school in 1900. He then attended the Uni- versity of Texas, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904. After his graduation he at- tended the Harvard University for his legal training and received his Bachelor of Laws degree from that institution in 1907. Returning to Texas in the same year he took the bar examination and was ad- mitted to the practice. After his admittance he be- came associated with Rhodes S. Baker in the firm of Spence and Baker, which later became Spence, Knight, Baker and Harris and which is now Thomp- son, Knight, Baker and Harris. Mr. Weisberg was admitted to the firm in 1913 and since that time has covered the general civil work of the firm, both in and out of court. One of the important cases in which he has been connected is one involving some proceedings in Arkansas to force the United Mine Workers of America to pay damages done to mines by coal miners during a recent strike. In the trial court damages were recovered but the case was ap- pealed and has not yet been finally terminated. Among the large clientele of Thompson, Knight, Baker and Harris representative are: Butler Broth- ers, Sears-Roebuck, Titche.Gocttinger. Neiman- Marcus, A. Harris and Company, the City National Bank and the National Bank of Commerce.

In fraternal affiliations Mr. Weisberg is a member of the Columbian Club. He also holds membership in the City Club, the Dallas Bar Association, the

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Chamber of Commerce and the Lakewood Country Club. Ile is a member of the City Plan Commission, appointed by Mayor Wozencraft, of Dallas, and has always taken an active part in the improvement and civic development of the city. Mr. Weisberg has his home at 4719 Live Oak Street, Dallas.

OHN N. TOUCHSTONE, member of the law firm of Thomas, Frank, Milam and Touch- stone, Praetorian Building, Dallas, as the assistant general attorney for the Midland and Northwestern Railroad and as counsellor for a number of local corporations has for a number of years been considered as an able corporation lawyer. He is also well-known in Dallas business circles and is a director and stockholder in a number of local business houses. Thomas, Frank, Milam and Touch- stone are engaged in the general civil practice.

Born in Grayson County, Texas, May 6, 1895, John N. Touchstone is a son of J. N. Touchstone, a Gray- son County farmer who came to this state in 1873. The young Mr. Touchstone was educated in the Sher- man grammar school, from which he went to the Austin Preparatory School at Sherman, Texas. He was graduated there in 1910 and then attended the Austin College at Sherman for one year, after which he went to the University of Texas. He received his legal training at Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri, from which he graduated in 1915 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In the follow- ing year he came to Dallas and became associated with the firm that he now holds membership in.

The marriage of Mr. Touchstone to Miss Nancy Barnes, of Dallas, Texas, was solemnized in 1917. Mrs. Touchstone is a daughter of H. F. Barnes, vice- president of the Cullum-Boren Company of Dallas. Mr. and Mrs. Tonchstone are the parents of one child, Mary Virginia. The Touchstone home is lo- cated at 3914 Bowser Avenue, Dallas.

Mr. Touchstone is a member of the Ramblers Club and the University Club of Dallas, and the Masonic Order. In his five years of residence in Dallas he has found the time to devote to the civic improvement and welfare of his adopted city and in that short time has made a large circle of admiring friends. His future will inevitably prove beneficial to his fellow citizens and his native state.

OUIS O. HARVEY, Great Record Keeper of Tent No. 23, of The Maccabees, keeps the records for the fourteen thousand members of that organization in the state of Texas. The Dallas headquarters of the fraternity are at 18081/2 Main Street.

The order had its beginning in 1883, and since has enjoyed a steady growth until its membership at the present time is three hundred thousand. The Maccabees offer policies for life, sick and accident benefits, and maintain at the same time a social and fraternal order of a secret nature. The supreme tent is at Detroit, Mich., and beneath this governing body are eleven great camps, with more than 5,000 subordinate tents and hives. The Dallas tent is the largest tent in the world, having a membership of 2,150. Mr. Harvey has been closely allied with the order for twenty-eight years, having been a.state official since July, 1892. He has had no small part in building up the Texas division of the organiza- tion from a small beginning to its present mammoth membership of fourteen thousand.

A son of George A. Harvey, a school teacher, and Cornelia (Jacques) Harvey, Louis O. Harvey was

born in Limens County, Mo., Sept. 26, 1869. Not long after this event the family came to Texas, where young Harvey availed himself of what educa- tional advantages the rural schools of the state of- fered an ambitious youth. He later attended Texas Christian University and was the first graduate of the business department of that institution.

Thus fortified, and spurred on possibly by the new responsibility imposed upon him by his marriage to Miss Anna Eames, on Jan. 2, 1892, he took a position as bookkeeper and later engaged in the book busi- ness upon his own responsibility. Meanwhile he was advancing rapidly in the esteem and confidence of the Maccabees, and on Oct. 25, 1916, he was vested with the power of Great Record Keeper for the State of Texas, relinquishing his other business in- terests to devote all his time to the office with which the organization so signally honored him.

Mr. Harvey's residence is in Oak Cliff, 439 West Eighth Street. He lost his wife by death in the year 1902, just ten years after their marriage.

The Great Keeper of the Records, however, does not confine his efforts wholly to the tents and hives of the Maccabees. He has already passed several milestones on the highway of free masonry, and is a 30th degree Mason, Scottish Rite Consistory No. 2. Then, too, he considers the work of the church of paramount importance, being an active member of the Central Christian Church, one of the oldest and most firmly established religious organizations in the city.

REDERICK W. BARTLETT, member of the firm of Holland and Bartlett, attorneys at law, 506 Sumpter Building, Dallas, has for the past quarter of a century been closely associated with the business and civic activities of the city of Dallas. As a former police and Fire Commissioner of the city and as a citizen and lawyer since 1894 he has become well established, not only in the legal fraternity but as a public spirited citi- zen. His partner in the firm, W. M. Holland, is a former mayor of Dallas and has practiced his pro- fession in that city for a number of years. Hol- land and Bartlett enjoy a large practice and number among their clients the United Savings Bank of Detroit, The Bankers Life Insurance Company, the Dallas County State Bank and a number of local mercantile houses.

A native of Iowa, Frederick W. Bartlett was born at Winterset, November 27th, 1870. A son of Jo- seph W. and Josephine (Philbrick) Bartlett, he was the eldest of four children, two of whom were boys and two girls. His primary and academic educa- tion was received in the Iowa public schools while his legal education was obtained at the New York Law school, from which he graduated in 1894 with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. While attend- ing school in New York his parents had moved to Dallas and after his graduation, he joined them, opening his practice there in 1894, in a partnership with Emmett Chambers, and later began an inde- pendent practice for himself, which he continued un- til the formation of his present connections with Mr. Holland, in 1916. As has been stated Mr. Bart- lett served as Police and Fire Commissioner of Dal- las from 1911 until January 1st, 1913, at which time he resigned.

The marriage of Mr. Bartlett to Miss Gertrude E. Clarke was performed in 1896. Mrs. Bartlett is the eldest daughter of Geo. E. Clarke, a prominent

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lawyer well known in the State of Iowa and resided at Algona. Mr. and Mrs. Bartlett have seven chil- dren: George C., Helen L., Carolyn, Frederick W., Jr. Joseph W., Robert W., and Mary Bartlett. The Bartletts have their home at 737 Elsbeth street, Dallas.

Mr. Bartlett has always served his clients well. His has been a continuous service not only to his professional duties but to his fellow-citizens of Dal- las.

ULIUS ERNEST BURMEISTER, Oil Opera- tor and President of E. M. F. Oil and Re- fining Company, W. T. Waggoner Building, came to Fort Worth in April 1919 from Davenport, Iowa, and organized the Company of which he is the executive head. It has been one of the successful oil companies, organized during the boom days in the West Texas oil development and has continued its success in activities in the various oil fields. The Company is principally interested in Wichita County, bringing in its first well in January, 1920. It has valuable properties in various fields, among which is the Texhoma, owning valuable leases in other counties of West Texas.

Mr. Burmeister has come to be looked upon as a financial expert concerning oil matters and is called upon for valuable advice concerning same by many of the Mid-Continent oil men.

A native of Iowa, Mr. Burmeister was born at Davenport January 17, 1877, a son of Ernest and Mary (Faster) Burmeister. His father was one of the early settlers of Davenport and a prominent business man there for many years. After attend- ing the public schools and a business college, Mr. Burmeister entered the commercial world. In 1893 he was employed by the Iowa National Bank of Davenport as office boy and worked his way by successive stages to the position of president of the institution, retiring from active connection with the bank in 1911 on account of his health. He then went into the investment banking business in Davenport and continued in this line until he came to Fort Worth.

On June 18, 1902, he was married at Davenport to Miss Emma Behrens, daughter of P. M. Behrens, a well known cattleman of Davenport. They have three children, Richard E., now attending St. Johns Military Academy, Bernice, a student in the Fort Worth High School and Marian, who is attending the public school in Fort Worth.

Mr. Burmeister is a Mason and a member of the Spanish American War Veterans Association. He was with the 50th Iowa Regiment of Infantry during the Spanish-American war. He also is a member of the Glen Garden and Meadow Meer Country Clubs. He is a consistant booster for Fort Worth and be- lieves the city has a great future.

M. KISTEN, attorney at law, Dallas County Bank Building, Dallas, has, since his ad- mittance to the bar in 1915, specialized in the practice of corporate law and personal injury cases. A former commercial stenographer he studied law at night both by correspondence and with the firm of Cocke and Cocke, of Dallas, was admitted to the University of Texas with senior standing in the law department and passed the bar examination soon thereafter, making an unusually high grade. In five years time he lias established a comfortable practice and enjoys the confidence of a large clientele.

A native son of Texas, II. M. Kisten was born at the city of Jefferson, October 20th, 1889. He is a son of George Kisten who came to Texas in the early sixties. The public and high schools of his native city furnished him his early education and after graduating there in 1908 he attended and graduated at a local business school. In 1909 he moved to Dallas and for five years was a commercial stenog- rapher in this city. While working here he became interested in the law and began a correspondence course with the University of Texas. In 1914 he also studied law with the classes then conducted by the law firm of Cocke and Cocke and in the same year was admitted to the law school at the University of Texas with senior standing. Soon thereafter he stood the bar examination given by the state ex- amining board and was admitted to the bar. He then came to Dallas and became associated with the firm of Lawther, Pope and Mays and later began practicing independently. At the present time he is secretary and treasurer of the Michell Lime Company and is their attorney with Mr. L. C. Lewis.

On May 20th, 1919, Mr. Kisten married Miss Helen Terry, of Dallas. They have their home at 215 South Marsalis Avenue, Oak Cliff.

Mr. Kisten is of the opinion that Dallas is still in its early stages of development and has always taken an active interest in its welfare. As the great- est city of Texas, with possible one exception, it has the best opportunity for quick development of any city of the South. It has ever been his ambition to help in the development of his adopted city as best he could and his whole career has been one of civic activity and commercial development.

ROSCOE GOLDEN, attorney at law, 309 Linz Building, Dallas, has in his ten years of practice before the Dallas bar steadily advanced his professional position and has taken no small part in the realization of those civic projects which have proven most beneficial to his home city. He is engaged in the practice of the civil law exclusively and enjoys the patronage of a large clientele.

A Texan of native birth, J. Roscoe Golden was born near Van Alstyne, Grayson County, on the 12th day of August, 1882. A son of John T. L. and Cath- erine (Thompson) Golden, he is the oldest of five children, one of whom is a brother and three sisters. His brother, Lewis Golden, is at the present time associated with the Aetna Insurance Company of Dallas. Mr. Golden was reared at Van Alstyne and received his early education from the public and high schools of that place. He then attended the Uni- versity of Texas, from which institution he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1904. Returning to his native city he was made principal of the Van Alstyne High School, which position he held for two years. In 1907 he returned to the University of Texas in order to obtain his legal education. In 1910 he graduated from the law school with the de- gree of Bachelor of Laws and then came to Dallas to practice his profession. For the first few years of his practice he was associated with the law firm of Davis and Johnson, but upon the entrance of the. United States into the war he became the chairman of the Oak Cliff local exemption board, which posi- tion he held until the termination of the war, al- though it forced him to abandon for the time being the practice of his profession. After the signing

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 47

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