The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 48

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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of the armistice he resumed his practice independ- ently and has continued the same ever since.

The marriage of Mr. Golden to Miss Elise Hay, a daughter of former Mayor Hay of Dallas, was solemnized in 1915. Mr. and Mrs. Golden now have their residence at 3920 Gillon Avenue, Highland Park. In fraternal affiliations Mr. Golden is a mem- ber of Hella Temple Shriners, the Phi Gamma Delta College Fraternity and thirty-second degree Scot- tish Rite. He is also affiliated with the University Club, the Dallas Bar Association and is secretary of the Board of Stewards of the First Methodist Church of Dallas.

In the law, in public affairs, in education and in business Mr. Golden has been a factor in the affairs of his home city for many years. His abilities and attainments are of the type that make leaders of men, and it is in that position that he has worked for the past few years.

FREEMAN DUGGAN, president and gen- eral manager of the Hughes Oil Company, with offices at 515 Praetorian Building, Dal- las, before forming his present connections in business was well established in the farm imple- ment and hardware trade. At the present time he is president of the Duggan-Brown Overland Company, of Abilene, besides owning a large interest in a number of other business concerns.

A Texan by birth, R. Freeman Duggan was born at the city of Sequin on the 16th of October, 1881. He comes from an old Texas family, his father and grandfather having both been Texans and residents of Sequin and Austin. He received his primary education in the public schools of San Saba and left the high school of that place in order to volunteer for service in the Spanish-American War. He served in Havana, Cuba seeing actual service. After being mustered from the service he attended the South- western University, at Georgetown, but being unable to complete his higher education because of financial difficulties he was forced to withdraw and enter the business world. In 1900 he went to Stamford, Texas, where he became associated with his brother-in-law in the implement business. In 1901 he moved to Dallas and began work with the B. F. Avery and Company, implement dealers, and it was there that he learned the intricacies of the business. In 1902 he went to Cleburne and there established a branch for the Avery Company and for the next year acted as an expert in the implement line. In 1903 he became associated with the Parlin-Orindorff Com- pany, at Denton, and two years later was appointed manager of the Denton agency of the company. In 1905 he resigned his position and entered the farm mortgage business at Denton and Stamford, being the representative of the United States Bond and Mortgage Company of Dallas and of the Texas Se- curities Company of Fort Worth. . In 1915 he organ- ized the Duggan-Brown Overland Company, whole- sale distributors of automobiles and trucks, and is at the present time president of that company. A few years after organizing this company he became interested in the oil business and returned to Dallas, associating himself with the organizations that he is now connected with.

On August 3rd, 1901, Mr. Duggan married Miss Tabitha Wilkinson, of Johnson County, and they are the parents of three children, Maxine, Randolph and Julia Duggan. In fraternal organizations Mr.

Duggan has membership in the Masons, Dallas Con- sistory No. 2 and Hella Temple Shrine, and the Knights of Pythias, while in civic clubs he is asso- ciated with the Chamber of Commerce and a number of other local organizations. In religion he is a Methodist, being a member of the Methodist-Episco- pal Church, South, of Dallas.

J. HEMPHILL, 409 Western Indemnity Building, since 1906 has been a well known corporation lawyer in Dallas. Intricate are the complex relations of our modern life, and, as civilization grows, these relationships are becoming more complex A mind highly analytical, logical and clear, is required to pilot big business concerns through this maze of civil laws. Such is P. J. Hemphill's talent and service.

Mr. Hemphill is a Texan-a native of Ellis County. He was born January 31, 1886. His early days were spent on the farm where honesty, straightforward- ness and simple living are the deep-down virtues. This was the training that was destined to take a boy from between the rows of cotton stalks and place him in a thriving metropolis in the midst of towering sky-scrapers to help steer commercial com- plexities.

Mr. Hemphill's first four years of legal practice were in Ennis. Here he for four years employed his time zealously, strengthened himself, tried his tal- ents, and discovered that his strength and ability called for larger opportunities. Accordingly, in 1906, he came to Dallas. That his decision was founded on wisdom is well demonstrated by the fact that for the fifteen years since his arrival here, his prac- tice has been increasing yearly, and today he is a leader. At present he is associated with three dif- ferent oil concerns-The Burk-Dallas, The Burk- Best and The Burk-Venus. He directs all leases made by these aggressive firms.

Mr. Hemphill is not married. He resides at 3227 Lemmon Avenue. He has other interests than busi- ness, being a leading member in the Knights of Pythias, the Elks, and the Automobile Country Club. Successful and congenial, Mr. Hemphill is socially attractive.

The old truth that talent will find its expression has been demonstrated again in this young man. Beginning his career as a country boy, later prac- ticing law in a small town, his unusual endowment as a constructive guide has brought him to the big- ger sphere of usefulness and success which he fills today.

YLIE W. GIBBARD, attorney at law and head of the Gibbard Investment Company, Sumpter Building, is regarded as one of the best posted men in Dallas on real estate values and especially on the valuation of East Texas lands in which his company has specialized for many years. The company sub-divides and handles large acreage tracts and is doing an annual business of approximately one million dollars. Offices are main- tained at Dallas and also at Wills Point, with ex- pert attorneys and title men in each office.

Besides the real estate feature of the business, the company handles farm loans and places each year thousands of dollars of East Texas mortgages with eastern investors. In addition to this large farms are operated, growing cotton, corn and other staple crops. Approximately two thousand acres are planted each year in cotton.

Mr. Gibbard is a native Texan and was born at

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Wills Point, March 23, 1883. He is a son of John J. and Amelia (Love) Gibbard, well known residents of Wills Point for nearly a half century. His father came to Texas with the building of the Texas & Pacific Railway in 1878 and is the second oldest business man in Wills Point.

The preliminary education of Mr. Gibbard was received in the public and high schools at Wills Point and later he attended Cowles Academy. He attended the law department of the University of Texas and in 1913 was admitted to the bar. He has been engaged in the practise of law since that time, specializing in land law and title work. He removed to Dallas in 1914 and has been in business here since.

Besides the Gibbard Investment Company, Mr. Gibbard is interested in several banks and is a di- rector of the First State Bank at Wills Point.

In 1914 Mr. Gibbard was married to Miss Julia Lynn Ashbrook, of Kansas City. They have one son, Wylie Lorimore. The family home is at the corner of Lowell and Gaston Avenue.

An active and aggressive business man, Mr. Gib- bard is keenly interested in civic matters and the development of Dallas generally. He is a Mason and a member of the Dallas Automobile Club. His church affiliation is with the East Dallas Christian Church.

EORGE M. GIBSON, JR., is prominent among the younger set of Dallas business men and interested in every project of a civic or commercial nature that is ad- vantageous to his city and state.

Mr. Gibson was born in the city of Macon, Mis- souri, January 1, 1896. He is the son of Rev. George M. and Florence (Allen) Gibson. The younger Mr. Gibson was indebted to the Wentworth Military Academy for his early educational training, which was effectively supplemented at the Southwestern Military School of Dallas, the Southwestern Univer- sity of Georgetown, Texas, and the Southern Meth- odist University of Dallas. He was awarded the degree of bachelor of arts from the latter institu- tion in 1917. He then attended the Columbia Uni- versity of New York at which institution he was engaged in the study of post graduate work and literature. In the year of 1919 he returned to Dallas and at the beginning of the year 1920 began work for the Southwestern Advertising Company of this city, later being identified with the American Extension University, the Security Savings and Loan Associa- tion and the Dallas Dispatch.

In March, 1917, Mr. Gibson volunteered his serv- ices to Uncle Sam, going to the first officers' train- ing camp at Leon Springs, graduating three months later as second lieutenant. He was then stationed with the 358th Infantry at Camp Travis, and re- mained there until June, 1918, when he was sent to England and later to France. Returning in August, 1918, promoted to first lieutenant and consigned to Central Infantry Officers' Training Camp at Mc- Arthur as instructor. He was discharged in Decem- ber, 1918.

In his fraternal relationship he is a member of the Beta Theta Pi, which has been greatly aided by his loyalty and unswerving interest. He is also a member of the Junior Chamber of Commerce of Dallas, which he served as president.

LAUD C. WESTERFELD, attorney at law, Dallas, has for the past ten years been an active member of the legal fraternity of the Dallas bar and has in that time devoted the greater part of his time to corporation work. He well established himself in this city by his work in the county attorney's office some eight years ago and since that tinie has conducted an independent general civil practice with substantial success. Be- sides his large general practice Mr. Westerfeld is interested in many oil and gas concerns and at the present time is the attorney and stockholder of several large companies, among which are the Harper Drilling Company, the Dallas County Gas and Fuel Company and the Texas Gas Company.

Born near San Marcos, Caldwell County, Texas, June 10, 1882, Claud C. Westerfeld is a son of J. G. Westerfeld, who was a merchant and came to Texas in the early days of the "forty-niners." The younger Mr. Westerfeld received his primary educa- tion in the public schools of Roby, Texas, and for five years was with the engineering, transportation and maintenance department of the Rock Island Railway and later was connected with the Santa Fe, first on the Fort Worth and Denver line and then with railways in Northern Mexico. In 1908 he entered the University of Texas and in the following two years completed an equivalent of a six years course. In 1910 he came to Dallas and in the follow- ing year became assistant county attorney, which position he held until 1912 at which time he began an independent practice which he has continued ever since.

In November of 1917, Mr. Westerfeld married Miss Nell Bolick, a native of Dallas and a daughter of John Bolick, also of this city. Mr. and Mrs. Westerfeld have their home at 906 Fourth Avenue, Dallas.

In fraternal associations Mr. Westerfeld is a thirty-second degree Mason and a member of the Hella Temple Shrine. A dependable, energetic and able lawyer he has ever championed the rights of those who have in some way been defrauded of their just claims and many are the causes he has upheld, not for the compensation he received, but for the principle that justice be done.

EORGE Q. YOUNGBLOOD, attorney at law, came to Dallas in 1910, establishing an office and doing a general law practice, specializing in civil cases, probate work, real property, corporation and trust company prac- tice. He is now general attorney for the Southern Building and Loan Association, a new corporation recently formed. On August 8, 1921, the directors of this company elected Mr. Youngblood president of the company.

Mr. Youngblood was admitted to the bar by ex- amination in 1910, and began the practice of his profession in Dallas that year, gathering a sub- stantial clientele.

He is a native of Glenn Fawn, Rusk County, Texas, born September 2, 1883, attended the public and high schools of Tyler, Texas, the University of Texas, 1901-05 term, and the Cocke Law School for two years. His examination for admission to prac- tice was conducted by Judge Murrell of Houston. His parents were John W. and Mildred (Carmichael) Youngblood, and his father was a farmer and

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pioneer citizen of Rusk County. His marriage to Miss Leila Pearl Brownlee, daughter of John E. Brownlec, a pioneer citizen of Alvarado, was cele- brated in Alvarado, June 19, 1911, and two children, Geo. Edward and Sara Mildred, complete the family circle at their home, 5506 Junius Strect.

Mr. Youngblood is a typical Texan, in that he is proud of his state and her institutions, her people and her history. He is young, studious and am- bitious, imbued with that determination that helps men to overcome obstacles and make them great. He is a member of the Young Lawyers' Club and takes an active interest in all matters pertaining to the advancement of his profession.

He is likewise a booster for Dallas and expects to see the city double its population within the next ten years.

AMMES KING WILSON, president and gen- eral manager of the Victory-Wilson Cloth- ing Company, Inc., has built up a chain of stores carrying merchandise of quality at popular prices. There is one branch of this concern in Dallas, 161312 Main Street, where Mr. Wilson makes his headquarters. The store has a floor space of 50 by 95 feet. Besides this store Mr. Wilson operates another branch store at 810 Main Street, Fort Worth, another at 31212 East Houston Street, San Antonio.

The Victory-Wilson Company was established in 1916 in Dallas, Texas. Mr. Wilson's idea was to create, in this time of soaring prices, a business that could offer to the public reliable, first class merchandise at a sharp reduction from what was being asked throughout the country. To facilitate this, running expenses were lowered. Upstairs stores were secured, thus reducing rent; business is con- ducted on a strictly cash basis, eliminating the ex- pense of bookkeepers, credit men, etc. With three stores to supply, Mr. Wilson was able to buy in immense quantities, bringing about a great saving. This saving is passed along to the customers of the stores, making it possible for Mr. Wilson to offer standard makes at considerably less than other stores are able to price them, and to live up to his slogan, "A short flight to economy." Men's cloth- ing exclusively is carried. He employs 12 persons in Dallas and approximately 35 in the state, and enjoys a whirl of business that prophesies greater things for the future. In fact the volume of busi- ness amounts to $500,000 per year.

A Missourian by birth, Mr. Wilson received his education in the public schools of Kansas City, where his parents had moved during his early child- hood. His father, Geo. W. Wilson, was chief dis- patcher on the C. & N. Railway. His mother's maiden name was Cornelia Ethel Gallaher, and she and his father were both native Missourians. When Mr. Wilson was seventeen he came to Temple, Texas, and worked in a clothing store. Ilis keen business insight and knowledge of the public demands made promotion inevitable. He was a success from the beginning. In 1914 he decided that Dallas, as the trading center of the Southwest, was the city in which to establish a future for himself, and severed his connection with the Temple concern. Upon ar- riving in Dallas he was employed by Mathews Broth- ers. At the end of two years he found that the time was ripe to launch his business project, and opened up the Victory-Wilson Clothing Stores.

He was married on December 5, 1916, to Miss

Edna Florene Jackson, a native Texas girl, t!» ceremony being performed at Coleman, Texas. They have two boys, James King, Jr., and Crawford Jackson, and reside at 5212 Worth Street.

Mr. Wilson carries membership in the Ad League. the Cedar Crest Country Club, Dallas Auto Club ar Hella Temple Shrine; is a charter member of th- Mutual Club, a 32d degree Scottish Rite and Yorx Rite Mason, a B. P. O. E. and attends the Christian Science Church.

ATHANIEL (Nat) JACKS, attorney at law, president and former secretary and treasurer of the Young Lawyers Club of this city and has in his three years of prac- tice specialized in land and corporation law. Mr. Jacks is a recent graduate of the law school of the University of Texas and while there was well known in student circles. Since beginning his practice he has deyoted his time to civil law exclusively, at first being a member of the firm of Jacks and Corn- bleth but later becoming an independent practi- tioner.

Born in Augusta, Georgia, April 8th, 1898, Na- thaniel Jacks is a son of N. G. and Tennie (Womack) Jacks. The elder Mr. Jacks was a minister and evangelist of the Christian denomination, who came to Texas in 1902, settling at Cooper. For the suc- ceeding seven years he traveled all over the South- west portion of the United States preaching the gospel and in 1909 came to Dallas, making this city his home. The younger Mr. Jacks was educated in the public and high schools of Dallas, from which he graduated in 1915. He then began his legal edu- cation at the law school of the University of Texas, where he received a Bachelor of Laws degree in 1919. While in the university he took a wholesome interest in student activities and at the same time paid all of his expenses by doing outside work. He was a member of the Cofer Law Society and the Speakers Club, two of the largest literary clubs of the school. After his graduation Mr. Jacks re- turned to Dallas and began the practice of his pro- fession, forming a partnership with his classmate, Emil Cornbleth, under the firm name of Jacks and Cornbleth. A short time thereafter this firm was dissolved and he began his practice alone. Later with Love and Rutledge and now connected with Judge E. E. Hurt.

In the spring of 1918 Mr. Jacks volunteered in the United States Naval Reserve Flying Corps and was a student flying officer. He was discharged in 1919 and immediately thereafter resumed his studies at the University.

Mr. Jacks is a member of the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity, Junior Chamber of Commerce, Dallas Automobile Club and The Dallas Bar Association.

NDREW J. PRIEST, member of the firm of Priest, Rosenfield & Herndon, 405 Dallas County State Bank Building, Dallas, has, for the past three years, been engaged in the general practice of law. Priest, Rosenfield &. Herndon was organized in 1919 and since that time has been successful in the establishment of a large clientele, including many large corporations and business concerns.

A native son of San Antonio, Texas, Andrew J. Priest was born September 11, 1894. He is a son of H. F. Priest, who is an ex-Confederate soldier, now living at Dallas. The younger Mr. Priest re- ceived his early education in the public schools of

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Cleburne, Texas, and for two years attended the high school of that city. At the age of fifteen he began work for the Green Dry Goods Store for three collars per week, but after a short time with them he became engaged in engineering work in Okla- homa, with the O'Neal Engineering Company, of Oklahoma and Texas. Later he came to Dallas for the company and while here attended night school, studying draughting. In 1915 he began to study law, being in Judge C. F. Greenwood's office for about a year and was admitted to the bar in Feb- rurary of 1919. In the case of The State v. James Anderson in which the latter was indicted for the murder of Clarence Potter, Mr. Priest was appointed by the court to represent the defendant. Anderson, a negro, claimed self-defense but in the trial court was given the death penalty. In the appeal to the Court of Criminal Appeals the case was reversed and remanded. At the second trial in July of 1919, the brother of the deceased, O. C. Potter, shot at the prisoner, while the trial was on, the trial was sus- pended but six months later the prisoner was given the death penalty again and upon the fourth trial the defendant was given a life sentence.

On August 9, 1917, Mr. Priest married Miss Ruby Nethery, of Tennessee and they are the parents of one child, Andrew J. Priest, Junior. The Priest home is located at Richard and McMillan. Mr. Priest is a member of the Hella Temple Shrine, Scottish Rite Bodies, the Oak Cliff Blue Lodge, 705, and is very active in the Young Lawyers Club, having served in the past as its secretary, vice-president and president. He is also a director of the Junior Cham- ber of Commerce, serving this organization as in- structor in its night school.

JOSEPH EFFINGHAM WAGNER, president of J. E. Wagner & Company, real estate, loans and investments, office 202 Texas State Bank Building, has been a resident of Fort Worth for thrice a decade of years, having moved to that city in 1890. Mr. Wagner could have chosen no more e.fcacious tools with which to build his fortune than the magic three, real estate, loans and investments. The earth, from which all that man has of material things must come; loans, which fill another's need legitimately and yet bring satisfac- tory monetary returns for the lender, and invest- ments, without which no fortune is ever accumu- lated. Mr. Wagner established his present business in 1908, prior to which time he was connected with the Frisco Railroad.

The names of Mr. Wagner's natal county and town take us back to the pioneer days of Texas, the days that saw the famous battle of the Alamo, for the subject of this sketch was born in Crockett. Houston County, Texas, January 21, 1876. Ilis father, Dr. F. H. Wagner, emigrated to Texas from Carolina when the Lone Star State was comparatively young. His mother was Cynthia (Prichard) Wagner, also of the old south. Mr. Wagner's education ran the gamut of learning to be had in country and village schools and we know that some of our most brilliant men have had their "young ideas taught how to shoot" in the little red school house on the hill. In 1838 Mr. Wagner was married to Miss Estell Duer. He has two sons and one daughter, Edwin and Joseph Wagner and Ruth, now Mrs. A. B. Lattimore, of Desdemona. Mr. Wagner's home address is 2220 Sixth Avenue.

Most successful men are sociable and like to "club" with their fellows. Aside from being a popular member of the Lions Club, Mr. Wagner is a Knight of Pythias an Elk and a member of the Woodmen of the World.

LBERT B. HALL, Attorney at law, 1112-13 Dallas County State Bank Building, Dallas. Born at Kingsville in Baltimore County, Maryland, August 18th, 1882. Eldest son of Charles Washington (deceased) and Ellen Brown Hall of Baltimore County, Maryland. Attended several schools and graduated from Law Department of the University of Maryland in 1908. Admitted to practice law in Maryland in 1907. In legal de- partment of American Bonding Company of Balti- more from 1908 to about 1913, when it was consoli- dated with Fidelity and Deposit Company of Mary- land, with which he was connected at Baltimore until he moved to Dallas in 1915. Admitted to practice law in Texas -in 1915. Specializes in Surety and Insurance law.

Married Eleanor Pauline Hopkins of Baltimore September 17th, 1917. Has three children, Albert Brown, Eleanor Hopkins and Katherine Norris. Home 2813 Routh Street, Dallas.

MIL CORENBLETH, attorney at law, 620- 23 Linz Building, Dallas, has been engaged in the practice of the legal profession before the local bar since his graduation from the University of Texas in 1919, and since that time he has become well known among the younger attor- neys of the city. As the travelling representative of the Government in the Liberty Loan campaigns he spoke in practically every county of this state and established an acquaintanceship throughout its boundaries.

Born at Bunceton, Missouri, November 20th, 1897, Emil Corenbleth is a son of Sam and Sarah (Levi) Corenbleth, who came to Texas in 1903. The young- est of the three children of the family he received his early education in the public schools of Dallas, his parents having moved here in 1910. He graduated from the Dallas high school in 1915 and then at- tended the University of Texas. He remained there until 1918 when he enlisted in the United States Ar- my in one of the officer's training schools. At the time of the signing of the armistice he lacked three weeks training of receiving his commission. Before entering the service he was appointed by the govern- ment as its representative in this state to further the interests of the Liberty Loan Campaigns and while in that capacity he traveled throughout the state speaking on behalf of that cause. In 1919 Mr. Corenbleth returned to the University and re- ceived his Bachelor of Laws degree in June of that year. While at the university he was president of the Delta Sigma Rho fraternity, which is an hon- orary order whose members have distinguished themselves in the art of public speaking. He also represented the university on the Tulane debate, was a member of the Assembly of the Student's Asso- ciation and srved as assistant instructor in public speaking. He was president of the Atheneam Liter- ary Society, vice president of the State Oratorical Association and is a member of the Chancellors, which is an honorary law fraternity. After his graduation he returned to Dallas and began to prac- tice his profession, and has built up a lucrative and growing clientele.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 48

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