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In clubs and societies Mr. Corenbleth has member- ship in the University Club, the Young Lawyers Club, the Commercial Law League of America and is a thirty second degree Scottish Rite Mason and a member of Hella Temple Shrine, Bnai Braith Lodge and Columbian Club, is an honorary member of the Menorah Society. He has his residence at 1818 Park Avenue, Dallas.
CURRIN, former well known banker and state bank examiner and popular business man of Dallas, has been a resident of this city since 1917, when he came from East Texas to become identified with the First State Bank. He remained with this institution until 1919, when he resigned to form the oil firm of Currin and Keans. He has been identified with various successful business enterprises and is at present devoting his attention to the Central Securities Company.
Mr. O. Currin was born in Hopkins County, December 17, 1885, his father, F. M. Currin, being a pioneer merchant and farmer of East Texas. He was educated in the public schools of Hopkins County and working as a telegraph operator for two years, entered the First National Bank of Cumby. He was with the bank from 1904 to 1914, and resigned the cashiership to accept a position as state bank examiner, which he filled until 1917, re- signing to become connected with the First State Bank of Dallas, where he continued until the early part of 1919.
On June 26, 1904, Mr. Currin was married to Miss Mary E. Branom, daughter of Milton Branom, well known East Texas land owner. They have two children, O., Jr., and Evelyn. Mr. and Mrs. Currin reside at 5826 Velasco Street, Belmont.
In addition to his personal business interests, Mr. Currin is interested in the Edwards Gasoline and Service Station at Main and Saint Paul Streets. He is a great booster for Dallas and predicts that it will become one of the largest if not the largest city in all the Southwest. Resources of Texas, he says, have been scarcely touched. Mr. Currin is a member of the Chamber of Commerce, Retail Mer- chants Association, the City Club and the Auto- mobile Club and the City Temple Church.
LARENCE C. CARPENTER, senior member of the firm of Carpenter, Priest and Rosen- field, attorneys at law, 206 Sumpter Build- ing, Dallas, has been an active practi- tioner before the Dallas bar for the past four years and is regarded among the legal fraternity as an able authority on contract law. Carpenter, Priest and Rosenfield was organized in 1919 and since that time has been unusually successful in the establish- ment of a large clientele.
A native son of Texas, Clarence C. Carpenter was born at Stephenville, Erath County, Texas, on the 20th day of September, 1891. He is a son of F. M. and Malinda (Danley) Carpenter, the father having died when Clarence C. was two years of age and the mother when he was seven. He received his carly educational training in the public schools of his native city and then attended the John Tarl- ton College. While a student there lie lived eight miles from the school and had to drive there each day during his first year; during his second and third year he was a janitor of the college and in his last year there served as college librarian. He paid his own way through college with money
earned in the manner stated above and was forced to overcame many dificulties in order that he might secure an education. In 1912 he attended the Uni- versity of Texas and received a Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws degree there in 1916. While there he was a member of the Varsity Track Team and established a record of "ten flat" in the hundred yard race. In 1917 he came to Dallas and began the practice of his profession but in the following year volunteered in the United States Army, avia- tion section, and was stationed at Camp Dick, Dallas, Texas. While there he drew up all the contracts made by the camp on behalf of the government and also was an adviser on other legal matters. After his discharge he resumed his practice and became the senior member of the firm of Carpenter, Priest and Rosenfield.
On July 14th, 1918, the marriage of Mr. Carpenter to Miss Foy Wood, of Dallas, was solemnized at that city and they now live at 114 South Waverly Drive, Dallas.
It seems only fitting that the name of "self made man" should be attached to that of Mr. Carpenter for ever since his seventh year of life he has had to fight the entire world with a single hand, having lost his parents at that time. To him should be given the credit of facing the world with a de- termination to succeed and by that fact alone has his success in life been attained.
ORACE G. CORBIN, attorney at law, 406 Southland Life Insurance Building, Dallas, has been connected with the legal frater- nity of this city since 1905 and for the past year has been a member of the firm of the Texas Realty and Mortgage Company. This com- pany was organized in 1919 and is engaged in the loaning of money on farm property. Since its or- ganization it has been very successful and the pros- pects for its future are exceedingly bright.
A native Texan, Horace G. Corbin was born at Tyler on the 27th day of May, 1893. He is a son of Charles Edward and Annie (Carroll) Corbin, both of Tyler. The public and high schools of his native city furnished him his early educational training and after his graduation there he removed to Dallas and began the study of law in the Old Dallas Law School. Most of his studying was done at night, for during the day he was earning his living, and after three years of conscientious work he was admitted to the bar and began his practice. He was appointed at- torney for the Bonner Loan and Investment Con- pany in 1915 and he retained that position until the United States entered the world war. At that time he volunteered in the infantry branch of the service and was assigned to the 19th infantry, which was stationed at Camp Travis, Texas. He remained there until after the signing of the armistice and was discharged from the service in April of 1919. At the time of the signing of the Armistice he had been issued orders to proceed to the Presidio Train- ing Canıp in California, for officer's training but when the armistice was signed the orders were re- voked and he retained his rank as First Sergeant. After his discharge he returned to Dallas and re- sunied his private practice and in 1919, in company with Mr. J. W. Wellman, organized the Texas Realty Mortgage Company.
In fraternal orders Mr. Corbin is a member of the Masons and also of the Mutual Club of Dallas, the
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Dallas Automobile Country Club and the Junior Chamber of Commerce. He has his home at 5110 Bryan street.
OWARD F. HIGBY, manager of the Oak Lawn Inn, an exclusive family hotel situ- ated at 3702 Cedar Springs Road, is na- tionally known among hotel men, and trav- elers through the South, having been prominently connected with most of the famous hotels of Texas. Mr. Higby assumed management of the Inn, which is owned by C. T. Jackson Estate, on June 1, 1920.
The Oak Lawn Inn is in reality an immense, lux- urious honie of one hundred rooms. Its locality in beautiful Oak Lawn is its first attraction, aside from this every convenience is added. All sleeping rooms are fitted with either private or connecting bath. The large, well ventilated living apartments, the wide sweep of porch, and homelike atmosphere that surrounds the Inn convert it into an ideal home. There are parlors, a lobby, dining room, and garage in connection, everything, in fact, to insure com- fort. It has recently been found necessary to add an annex of twelve rooms.
Mr. Higby was born in Nebraska City, Nebraska, on July 22, 1892. His father, Ira P. Higby, was a prominent hotel man and widely known in the north. His mother was Miss Ina Tapps, of Omaha. When he was two years old the family moved to Omaha where his father was connected with one of the largest hotels in that city. Mr. Higby was educated in the public schools of Omaha. When he was eighteen years of age the family moved to Hills- boro, Texas, and he assisted his father in running the Wear Hotel. In 1911 he went to Fort Worth and secured the position of chief clerk in the West- brook Hotel. It was not long before his real worth was recognized and he was made assistant man- ager of the Westbrook, which position he main- tained for seven years. In 1917 he was offered the assistant management of the Adolphus and came to Dallas in that capacity. After two years he left the Adolphus to assume management of the Bender Hotel in Houston. He resigned the Bender manage- ment to accept his present position with the Oak Lawn Inn, where he makes his home.
Mr. Higby's long connection with these fanious hotels and his steady advancement are eloquent proof of his ability in hotel management, and the eagerness with which his services are sought. The Oak Lawn Inn under the new regime offers attrac- tive accommodations for a discriminating clientele.
Mr. Higby is a member of the Kiwanis Club, the Masonic Order, Dallas Hotel Men's Association, Texas Hotel Clerk's Association, Greters of Amer- ica, Chamber of Commerce, H. M. M. B. A. and attends the Episcopal Church. Since this sketch was written Mr. Higby has become assistant man- ager of the Texas Hotel of Fort Worth.
B. EADES, member of the law firm of Clint, Chilton and Eades, 200-04 Marvin Building, Dallas, has specialized in land and probate law. He gained admittance to the bar by examination in 1908, through the medium of indi- vidual earnestness and hard study and since that time has become a known figure in the courts of this county. The partnership was formed in August, 1919, and has always enjoyed the patronage of a substantial clientele.
Born in Attalla County, Mississippi, November 6,
1876, D. B. Eades is a son of J. T. Eades, who was a farmer, school teacher and later in life a justice of the peace. The younger Mr. Eades began his education in the public schools of his native state and completed it in Texas, where his parents had moved in 1899. He attended college at the Granbury College of Hood County and in 1901 began to teach school, which profession he continued for three years. In 1904 he came to Dallas and began a course of study at the Metropolitan Business College, from which he graduated in 1905, after which he be- came a stenographer and in 1906 he accepted a stenographic position with Judge Charles F. Clint and took up the study of law in his office. He has been associated with the judge ever since that time and in 1919 was admitted to partnership with him. Mr. Eades studied law while engaged as a stenog- rapher and in 1908 was successful in passing the bar examination before the Dallas Board of Ex- aminers. He-has always been engaged in the gen- eral civil practice and has especially prepared him- self in land law and probate matters.
In 1905 Mr. Eades married Miss Emma Baldwin, of Johnson County, and a daughter of J. L. Baldwin, a farmer. They are the parents of two children, Merle and Jack Eades. The home of the family is located at 5624 East Side Avenue.
In fraternal affiliations Mr. Eades is a member of the Odd Fellows and of the Woodmen of the World. In religion he is a member of St. John's Church, of East Dallas.
RANCES HEXAMER. The distinction of being the first woman to be admitted to the bar in the city of Dallas is held by Frances Hexamer, a practising lawyer who has offices at 811 Great Southern Life Building. Miss Hexamer is one of the trail blazers, and has made her way, unassisted, in a difficult profession and her experience ought to be of value to women who follow after her.
To be independent and to study law were two am- bitions which Miss Hexamer cherished since she was a small child. When she finished the Dallas Public Schools she began to study law. After three years of study she began practicing by special permits, being under twenty-one and therefore not eligible for ad- mittance to the bar. At twenty years of age, Miss Hexamer was engaged in a general practice of law and was the legal representative of six companies. In 1918 when she became of age, Miss Hexamer was formally admitted to the Dallas bar. Miss Hexamer has also attained her childhood dream of inde- pendence, having always practiced alone.
Canton, Ohio, has the distinction of being Miss Hexamer's birthplace. Her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Hexamer brought her to Dallas in 1897 when she was a small child, and since that time have made Dallas their home. They now reside at 3015 South Boulevard.
Miss Hexamer is an active worker of the business women's organizations of the city, being secretary of the Professional Women's Club and chairman of the legislative committee of the State Federation of Business and Professional Women. She is also a member of the Dallas Bar Association and the Young Lawyers Club.
Miss Hexamer is a refutation of man's old con- tention that a woman would lose her feminine charm by mingling in the affairs of men.
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H. S. BONNER, president and general manager of the well known oil firm of Bonner, Chamberlin and Sill, 211 Morgan Building, is one of the best known of the younger oil men operating in the Wichita Falls section and has been successful in his operations since coming to Wichita Falls in September, 1919.
He organized his own company in the summer of 1921 and since that time has been steadily expand- ing his operations.
Then Bonner, Chamberlin and Sill Company is a Trust Estate and does a general drilling and develop- ing business and buys and sells oil properties. The company has some excellent production in the famous Northwest Extension of the Burkburnett pool and also some valuable holdings in the South Burkburnett field.
Mr. Bonner is a native Texan and was born at Tyler in 1894. He is a son of John T. Bonner, well known insurance man and now prominently identified with a large agency at Houston.
After attending the public schools at Tyler, young Bonner had a course in a well known preparatory school at Alexandria, Virginia, and began his busi- ness career as assistant to the president of the Texas Telephone Company at Waco in 1914. He remained in this position until the outbreak of the war. On May 8, 1917, he enlisted and was sent to Camp Funston where after three months training he was commissioned a captain. He was then assigned to duty at Camp Travis and later sent to Camp Grant, Illinois, where he was discharged February 28, 1919.
Mr. Bonner is a very active, progressive business man and a consistent booster for Wichita Falls and a strong believer in the future of West Texas. He is unmarried and is a member of the Wichita Falls Country Club.
AVID E. COFFMAN, Assistant District At- torney, Court House, Dallas, has for the past seven years practiced both the civil and criminal branches of the law before the courts of this county and in that time has not only become a familiar court room figure but has also established a large clientele. Before coming to Dallas he practiced before the courts at Mckinney, Texas, and was well known throughout Collin Coun- ty.
Born at Annona, Red River County, Texas, April 17th, 1894. David E. Coffman is a son of David G. and Othella (Ray) Coffman. He is the eldest child in a family of eight children and thus enjoyed the benefits of the companionship of brothers and sisters. The public and high school of Collin County afforded him his early education which was effec- tively supplemented at the Burleson College, of Greenville, and Baylor University of Waco, Texas, which he attended in 1910. After leaving college he began to study law in the offices of Judge F. E. Wilcox, of Mckinney, and soon thereafter attended the Law School of the Cumberland University, of Lebanon, Tennessee, where he received his Bachelor of Laws degree in 1914. While there he took an active part in athletics, being exceptionally well fitted for football. His reputation as a fullback was well known among the universities of the middle East and he also filled the position of halfback with speed and ability.
After receiving his degree Mr. Coffman returned to Texas and located at Mckinney, Texas, and short- ly thereafter moved to Dallas. He is especially well known for the way he handled several important
local cases, among which may be mentioned the سنطين.
State of Texas vs. Lola Loyd, and the State of Texas vs. James Anderson in which he was appointed by the court to defend the prisoner and in which he was successful in gaining three reversals of a death penalty and finally getting the sentences reduced to life imprisonment, hanging the jury and thus avert- ing a verdict. At the present time he is representing the criminal cases in Judge R. B. Seay's Court.
In 1920 Mr. Coffman was appointed Assistant District Attorney by J. Willis Pierson and was ap- pointed First Assistant District Attorney by Maury Hughes, Dec. 15th, 1920.
In 1917 Mr. Coffman married Miss Dorothy Ham- mond Hopkins and they are the parents of one child, Eric Hammond Coffman. The Coffman residence is located at 4025 Worth Street, Dallas.
In fraternal affiliations Mr. Coffman is a member of the Knights of Pythias, the Masons and the Dallas Bar Association. He has always been active in the Baptist Church and regularly attends the services of the same.
LFRED A. NOWAKOWSKY, attorney at law, Dallas, has become well-known among the members of the legal fraternity as the claims attorney for the Southern Surety Company of Des Moines, Iowa. He established the claims department of that company in Texas in 1919 and since that time has taken care of all surety, bonding, automobile and compensation claims reg- istered against that company in this district.
Born in Saint Louis, Missouri, June 7, 1888, Alfred A. Nowakowsky is a son of Alfred P. Nowakowsky, resident of St. Louis. The younger Mr. Nowakowsky received his early education in the public and high schools of his native city and then attended the Benton College of Law in the evenings after work. After completing his preparatory work at that school he then entered the law school and was gradu- ated in June, 1914, with the degree of Bachelor of Laws. In January, 1915, he tok the bar examination and was admitted to practice. Mr. Nowakowsky en- listed in the United States army at Camp Funston, Texas, and became an army field clerk. He was assigned to the 92nd Division, sailed to foreign soil and arrived there June 19, 1918. He spent six weeks in a training camp and then was assigned to duty at the front, near Vosges, where he remained for three weeks, then taking part in the first Argonne offensive of September, 1918, and in the following month fought in the second Argonne offensive, which included in frontal attack on Metz, which oc- curred during the three days prior to the signing of the armistice. After the signing of the armistice he was sent back to the United States, arriving there February 18, 1919. For the following four months he was on duty at Camp Meade, being the field clerk to Major General B. B. Buck. He was discharged from the service in May and upon receiving the ap- pointment that he now occupies he immediately came to Dallas.
Mr. Nowakowsky is a member of the Dallas Scot- tish Rite bodies and is a Shriner of Hella Temple, Dallas.
Mr. Nowakowsky regards Dallas the second gate- way to the South and in this respect thinks that it presents to the young man the greatest of possibili- ties. A booster for both Texas and Dallas, a soldier of three major engagements, a lawyer of known ability and a loyal and patriotic citizen, Dallas is fortunate in having such a man on its rolls.
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ARCUS M. PARKS, senior member of the firm of Parks and Hall, attorneys at law, has as a trial lawyer in civil and criminal practice probably tried as many if not more cases in the trial courts of Dallas county than any other representative of the bar. After thirty years of continuous practice in this community, he has a well established reputation as a criminal lawyer and as a general practitioner in civil proceedings, especially damage suits. Parks and Hall practice general civil law and enjoy a large practice before the Dallas bar.
Born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, Septem- ber 23, 1863, Marcus M. Parks is a son of John Andrew and Emma (Connelly) Parks. He was the youngest of seven children, four of whom were brothers and two sisters. After finishing his early education in the public schools of his native state, he studied law at the Folks Law School, a private institution located on the banks of the Yadkin River. In February of 1888 he was admitted to the bar and started his practice at Jefferson, Ash County, North Carolina. One year later he moved to Texas settling in Palo Pinto County, where he resumed his prac- tice. In 1891, desiring to affiliate with the bar of a larger field, he came to Dallas and started his practice, with the firm of McDonald and Parks. One year later this firm was succeeded by the firm of Parks and Irvine, which continued for a one year period. Since that time Mr. Parks has been asso- ciated with a number of firms, in most cases being the senior member, among which are: Parks and Har- row, Parks and Carden, Parks and Crawford, Parks and Peck, Parks and Patton and Parks and Hall.
In his long period of practice before the Texas bar he has appeared in many cases of just importance and still continues to be one of the busiest lawyers of Dallas.
Mr. Parks is a bachelor and has his home at 5412 Swiss Avenue, Dallas. In religious affiliation he is a Methodist; in politics, a Democrat.
L. DYE, attorney at law, 305 Gaston Build- ing, Dallas, has been a member of the legal fraternity of this city for the past thirty- five years. He came to Dallas in 1880 and since that time has been very active in the courts throughout the state, especially those of his adopted county. As a linguist he is known through- out the community and is possibly one of the most accomplished men of that line, being conversant with Greek, French, German, Anglo-Spanish and English and besides being a lawyer of distinction is a journalist of marked ability.
Born in Amite County, Mississippi, near the pres- ent town of Gloster, on June 26th, 1850, M. L. Dye is a son of John M. and Mary (Blake) Dye, both of whom were early settlers of that state. His primary education was obtained by attendance at a local private school and after graduation there he at- tended the University of Mississippi. While at the University of Mississippi he was active in all stu- dent affairs and graduated with highest honors in the class of 1874. He then attended the Univer- sity of Virginia for his legal training, and after re- maining there for one year he returned to his native state and was admitted to the bar at Natchez in 1875. In 1876 he came to Texas and located at Weatherford. He first taught modern languages and law and also engaged in a law practice. In
1880 he moved to Dallas, where he continued the practice of his profession. Ever since that time he has been engaged in practice before the local bar.
On November 17th, 1884, Mr. Dye married Miss Mary E. Thompson and they are the parents of three children, Alex White Dye, who is now the district manager of the Telephone Company at San Antonio; Mrs. Marion E. Hunter and Marion Lamar Dye, who is now engaged in the automobile business at Wichita Falls, Texas.
In fraternal associations Mr. Dye is a member of the Sigma Chi college fraternity, of the University of Mississippi.
ILLIAM S. PAYNE, well known attorney with offices in the Deere Building, came to Dallas in 1913 and for eight years has been an active figure in legal circles of Dallas End vicinity. He does a general practice in all the courts, both state and federal, and has achieved splendid success. Mr. Payne has always practiced alone and in more than 22 years of active law work has never had but one partner. He is known as an aggressive but a fair-minded, conscientious lawyer and who has never stooped to take an unfair ad- vantage of an opponent.
A native of Texas Mr. Payne was born at Terrell, July 7, 1873. He is a son of Gordon and Fannie (Richardson) Payne, pioneer residents of Texas. His father settled in Texas in 1841 and served in the Confederate army for four years during the war between the states.
Mr. Payne was educated in the public schools and the high school at Terrell and studied law under Judge W. H. Allen. He was admitted to the bar in 1898 and practiced at Dublin, in Erath County, for eight years. He then removed to Snyder where he remained for five years before coming to Dallas.
On October 20, 1898, Mr. Payne was married to Miss Mattie Gwynne Bass. They have five children, Gordon, who served with the United States army during the world war, Howard, Maurine, Larmon and William S., Jr.
Mr. Payne is a member of the Knights of Pythias, Independent Order of Odd Fellows and Woodmen of the World. He has been active in fraternal work and served in all the chairs of the Knights of Pythias Lodge. He is an enthusiastic booster for Dallas and believes the city has a great future.
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