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JOHN THOMAS KELLY, attorney at law, North Texas Building, Dallas, has for the past five years been engaged in the general practice of both the civil and criminal law. As a practitioner he has made an excellent record in both branches of jurisprudence and is well known among the younger lawyers of the legal fraternity. A native citizen of Dallas he has always been its booster and has taken an active interest in all public affairs.
Born in the City of Dallas, Texas, February 6th, 1886, John Thomas Kelly is a son of William and Annie Kelly, both of this city. The father established the first furniture store ever conducted here and has been engaged in that business for the past forty six years. Of the five children in the family John Thomas was the second in point of age. He received his early education in the public schools of his native city and later attended the Saint Edwards College, at Austin, where he graduated in 1903. He then
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returned to Dallas and engaged in the furniture busi- ness with his brother. He continued with this busi- ness until 1910 he answered the call of the law and began its study in a local law office where he reaped the benefits of actual experience. In 1916 he took the bar examination before the local board and easily passed and began to practice soon thereafter. He has always carried on an independent practice and in five years time has been successful in the establishment of a large clientele. Mr. Kelly has been engaged, for the most part, in the trial of civil actions but has also been connected with a number of important criminal cases.
On February 14th, 1907, Mr. Kelly married Miss Cora Wood, of Manhattan, Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Kelly are the parents of one child, Dorothy Maxine Kelly. Their home is located at 2919 Pennsylvania Avenue, Dallas.
A man who by perseverance and continuous en- deavor has become learned in the law, John Thomas Kelly well deserves to be called "a self-made man," for his has been a life of unending activity, not for his own advancement but for the good of his com- munity and fellow-citizens.
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H. (Dick) DELANEY, president and gen- eral manager of the Finley Drilling Com- pany of Texas, 1711 Tenth Street, is one of the oldest and most experienced oil operators in the North and Central West Texas fields, having come to this section when oil was first discovered at Electra in 1911. His drilling activities have covered all the fields of this territory, includ- ing Electra, Burkburnett, Breckenridge and Amaril- lo. Most of his operations have been near Electra and he has drilled a total of over four hundred wells. Wells have been put down for both large and small companies and during the past year Mr. Delaney has done a great deal of drilling on his own account. Other officers of the Finley Drilling Com- pany are W. J. Hildebrand, vice-president, and T. F. Delaney, secretary and treasurer. The company was organized in 1917 and has been very successful, now owning besides a number of drilling rigs consider- able valuable acreage in the various fields.
Mr. Delaney, a native of New York, was born in 1865 and lived on a farm in New York state until 1887. He attended the public schools and after leaving New York removed to Ohio and entered the oil business in which he has been engaged ever since. He has been actively engaged in the oil business in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Oklahoma be- fore coming to Texas. When oil was discovered in the western part of Texas he came to Wichita Falls and identified himself actively with the development of the various fields surrounding this city.
Mr. Delaney is very optimistic regarding the future of the oil industry and believes there is as much or more oil still left in the ground as has been taken from it.
In 1908 Mr. Delaney was married at Buffalo, New York, to Miss Mary Gourley. They have two chil- dren, a girl, Mary, and a boy, Richard, and by a former marriage, Thomas F. The family resides at 1711 Tenth Street where the Finley Drilling Company also maintains its offices.
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Mr. Delaney is a progressive, enterprising type of man and a great believer in the future of Wichita Falls, predicting the city will have a population of 60,000 by the end of the present decade.
OBERT BERESFORD HINCKS, lawyer, 7.' Interurban Building, and associate part !.. . with Templeton, Beall, Williams and Ca: way, is connected with one of the mex: powerful legal firms in Texas. Mr. Hincks enter : the partnership in January of 1920.
This firm makes a specialty of public utility las They represent the Dallas Railway Company, Dal ::. , Power and Light Company, Texas Power and Ligt: Company, Texas Electric Railway and other simi. .. corporations of which there are seventeen in :: : Mr. Hincks personally looks after the corporat: , end of the business, attending to franchises and i. corporations and such, and conducts a general cor- porate practice outside of the courts.
Born in Montreal, Canada, on February 7, 18-1. Mr. Hincks came from distinguished lineage. H! - father was Captain Francis Hincks, conspicuous i. r his valued service in the English army. His grand father was Sir Francis Hincks, Premier of Canada. and also Finance Minister of Canada. Mr. Hinck's mother was a famous beauty of her day, Miss Ce- celia Roche, and of a celebrated family. Upon his graduation from Trinity School, New York City, in 1898, he entered Columbia College, receiving his A. B. degree from this institution in 1902. He went on to Columbia University for a course in law, and in 1906 received his LL. B. degree.
For eight years following he conducted a private practice in New York City, coming to Dallas in 1916 to be associated with his present firm, and later being taken into the partnership. Mr. Hincks is also a director of the Oil Cities Electric Company, which operates in oil fields.
His marriage to Miss Marguerite Bothgate, daughter of James Bothgate, financier and banker of New York City, was solemnized in New Orleans in June, 1917. Mr. and Mrs. Hincks make their home at 1007 North Fitzhugh Avenue.
Mr. Hincks is a member of the Dallas Electric Club. He stands at the top in his profession, and is popular in both social and financial circles.
E. PINKSTON, attorney at law, Slaughter Building, Dallas, is one of those loyal Dal- lasites who believe that Dallas has the greatest future of any southern city and he couples that with the prediction that Texas will soon be the greatest state of the Union. Mr. Pink- ston has been engaged in the practice of his pro- fession for the past two years and has been success- ful in the establishment of a comfortable civil prac- tice. As the attorney for a number of local cotton companies he has attracted wide attention and en- joys the patronage of a large number of cotton con- cerns. Among his clientele are the following firms: King Finley Cotton Company, Mohawk Rubber Com- pany, the E-Zy Manufacturing Company, of Grand Prairie, and a number of gold mining concerns who are operating in New Mexico.
Born at Tyler, Texas, June 17, 1884, W. E. Pink- ston is a son of L. A. Pinkston, an engineer for the Cotton Belt Railroad for thirty years. He received. his primary education in the public schools of Cor- sicana, Texas, and then took a course in mechanical engineering at the Agricultural and Mechanical Col- lege of Texas. In 1901 he accepted employment with the Cotton Belt at the local o Tee in Corsicana, Jater being transferred to Waco and finally resigned and began work for the general offices of the Katy at
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In 1916 he entered the real estate business : 'as and studied law during his spare moments. /!\ he took the bar examination and was ad- et to practice on March 21, 1918. He opened antes soon thereafter and is now well established the bar.
, October 27, 1913, Mr. Pinkston married Miss «, ., Florence Bass, a daughter of G. K. Bass, who * *: employee of the Cotton Belt Railway, at Waco. s- and Mrs. Pinkston are the parents of one child, . ,: Allen, who is five years of age. They have their nxe at 330 West Brooklyn, Dallas.
: A.le living in Waco Mr. Pinkston became af- wed with the Masons, Blue Lodge No. 99. He Aus membership in the B. P. O. Elks, at Dallas. LONZO LEE BAKER, vice-president of the Texas State Bank, is a self-made man, and his friends agree that he has "made a good job of it.'
was born in Fort Worth, March 9, 1892, and since he learned all he could in the public www's of his home town he has been engaged in : banking business, beginning with his present 14*k at the age of 19 years as runner. From this 3 . t.on he has gone up, step by step, to his present " + !: on with the bank. He has handled the pass %: As, did transit work, kept individual and general s:Kers, been receiving . teller, then paying teller, an stant cashier and cashier, holding the latter post ' : two years before he was promoted to the vice- presidency.
He is young, progressive and ambitious, and his !! ends, and he has many of them, predict for him , bright future in the financial circles of the wantry.
His father, Wm. Baker, has been a successful numeryman in Fort Worth for a number of years.
Mr. Baker was married at Garland, Texas, June 5). 1918, to Miss Lena Wyatt, daughter of R. C. Wyatt, retired business man, and to the union Cere has been added one fine boy, Alonzo Wyatt Faker. The family home is at 2132 Pembroke Drive, 2.Itenham Addition.
He is a Mason and a Shriner, is treasurer of " uth Side Chapel and a member of the South Side Mae Lodge No. 1114, and Moslah Temple Shrine.
In the civic and social life of the city he is also prominently identified, being a director and treas- wtor of the Lyons Club, and treasurer of the Whole- tale Credit Men's Association. He is also junior # rrctor of the Chamber of Commerce.
The family is identified with the Methodist Church. EE JACKSON TAYLOR, member of the firm of Taylor and Irwin, attorneys-at-law, 611 Southwestern Life building, Dallas, has be- come a prominent figure before the criminal 'wurts of this county and is considered one of the øst criminal lawyers of the Dallas bar. Mr. Taylor Ame to Dallas in 1916 and since that time has been engaged in the criminal practice for the most part. Taylor and Irwin was established in 1916 and in four jears time has built up a substantial practice, con- " sting largely of criminal litigation.
Born at Mount Vernon, Kentucky, February 4, 1 -+6, Lee Jackson Taylor is a son of T. G. and Sarah { Rayburn) Taylor. The younger Mr. Taylor was ed- "rated in the public and high schools of his native t'ate; he then attended the Washington University · ! St. Louis, where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1912. In the following year he came to
Texas, locating at Cleburne, where he began work in the law offices of Walker and Barker. In 1914 he attended the law school of the University of Texas and in the following year was a student of the law school of Chicago University. He then returned to Washington University, where he had previously re- ceived his academic degree and after a year of study received his Bachelor of Laws degree. In the fall of 1916 he came to Dallas and formed the present part- nership with Mr. Irwin, which has continued since that time. Since the organization of the firm ap- proximately ninety per cent of its practice has con- sisted of criminal cases and its unsual success in this line of work insures its continued prosperity.
At the present time Mr. Taylor has his residence at the Park Hotel, of Dallas. He has always taken an active interest in the activities of the Dallas Bar Association and holds membership in that body. In religious proclivities he is a Methodist.
K. IRWIN, member of the law firm Taylor and Irwin, 611 Southwestern Life Building, Dallas, has been a familiar figure in the criminal courts of Dallas County for the past five years. Since the organization of the present firm he has devoted his time to criminal practice and handles the major part of the court work of the firm. Being an able speaker and ex- cellent court room lawyer he has been very success+ ful in the various cases he has tried and now enjoys the confidence of a substantial clientele.
Born at Salina, Kansas, July 1st, 1887, T. K. Irwin is a son of J. L. Irwin, a Kansas farmer. He re- ceived his early education in the common schools of his native state and then took a course of study at the Weslyan Business College, from which he graduated in 1904. He then attended the Kansas Weslyan University, from which he graduated in 1906. After his graduation he accepted employment with the Graham County State Bank and one year later was elected cashier of the Citizens State Bank of Moreland, Kansas, for eleven years he served as cashier of the institution and then became president of the Bogue State Bank, of Bogue, Kansas. While in college, Mr. Irwin became interested in the law and had studied it to some extent since that time. While in the named bank he studied diligently and applied the knowledge that he had attained while under the tutorship of Judge Wilcox, of Kell City, Kansas, to great advantage. .
In 1916 he was admitted to the bar and soon thereafter formed the present partnership with Mr. Taylor. During the last campaign of Governor Hobby, Mr. Irwin made a six weeks' campaign for his candidacy and by his eloquent appeals won many votes to the cause of Democracy. One of the most important cases that he has been an attorney in recently is the Kate Ahlers murder case in which he successfully upheld the cause of his client.
On August 30th, 1908, Mr. Irwin married Miss Gibson, a daughter of G. W. Gibson, a rancher and farmer of Eastern Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. Irwin are the parents of two children, Kendall and Ivan Irwin.
In fraternal orders Mr. Irwin is a member of the Elks lodge and the Maccabees. His has been a career of never ending service to his fellow man. Many are the difficult cases he has fought without hope of compensation but with the sole desire that justice and right prevail and many are the poor downtrodden, unfortunates that he has saved from the dreary life of cement walls and iron bars.
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R. JAMES J. TERRILL, professer of men- tal and nervous diseases in the medical de- partment of Baylor University, and a spe- cialist in the treatment of these diseases, came to Dallas from Temple, Texas, in April, 1917, and for four years has heen an active figure in the medical circles of Dallas. He is the president of Timberlawn Sanitarium, five miles east of Dallas on the Buckner Orphans Home Road and has accomo- dations for Twenty patients. Competent nurses are in charge of the sanitarium which has splendid fa- cilities for the treatment of mental diseases. Plans are under way for a considerable enlargement of the institution in the near future.
A native of Missouri, Dr. Terrill was born in Ran- dolph, County February 21, 1877. He is a son of Reuben W. and Anne Eliza Terrill and with his par- ents removed to Texas in 1878 when he was only one year of age. His parents settled at Denton and his father was engaged in the real estate business there for many years.
The preliminary education of Dr. Terrill was re- ceived in the public schools and he graduated at the Denton High School in 1894. He then continued his studies at Terrill College at Dechard, Tennessee, graduating in 1896, and then entered the Medical department of the University of Texas. He com- pleted his medical course in 1902, receiving the de- gree of Doctor of Medicine. After serving an in- ternship in the John Sealy Hospital at Galveston he was appointed instructor in Pathology in the med- ical department of the State University, continuing as instructor until 1907 when he was made professor of Pathology, which position he held until 1913. From 1913 until 1917 he was director of laboratories at the Temple Sanitarium at Temple and then came to Dallas. On July 1, 1917, he opened the Timber- lawn Sanitarium and since its opening has handled 800 patients.
On June 7, 1905, Dr. Terrill was married at Gal- veston to Miss Laura Dodge, native of Tyler and a member of a well known Texas family. They have three children, James E., Allen J., and Robert.
Dr. Terrill is a member of the American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, State, County and North Texas Medical Societies. He also is a member of the Chamber of Commerce and Ki- wanis Club and takes an active interest in all civic affairs. Dr. Terrell served as president of the Dal- las County Medical Society in 1921 and President of the North Texas Medical Society in 1922.
He is deeply interested in the Y. M. C. A. work and a member of the state Committee. He believes that no city in the Southwest has a better future as a medical center than Dallas.
R. IVAN ALBERT ESTES, formerly assist- ant professor in diagnosis at the medical department of Baylor University, now a partner in the well known medical firm of Estes, Jarman & Michie, 717-18 Wilson Building, came to Dallas first in 1907 from Stephensville in Erath County, Texas, and on January 1, 1913, re- turned here and has been actively engaged in the practise of his profession here since that time.
A native of Mississippi, Dr. Estes was born at Walnut Grove, in Lee County, March 10, 1888. He is a son of Dr. B. H. and Vinnie (Oxner) Estes. The elder Dr. Estes removed to Texas with his family thirty years ago and has practised at San Antonio, Stephensville and is now located at Comfort, Texas.
Young Dr. Estes was educated in the public schools and graduated at the Stephensville high school in 1904. He then attended Mellheney Acat emy and John Tarlton College, graduating from the latter institution in 1905.
Entering the medical department of Baylor Uni4 versity, Dr. Estes graduated with the degree . el doctor of medicine in 1912. Prior to his graduation Dr. Estes served for two years as assistant hou : surgeon at the Baptist Memorial Sanitarium. In June, 1912, Dr. Estes began private practise at Christine, Texas, remaining there until January 1, 1913, when he returned to Dallas and permanently located here.
On November 20, 1912, he was married in Dallas to Miss Bettie Cameron, daughter of R. L. Cameron, for many years one of the leading automobile deal- ers of Dallas. They reside at 5419 Bryan Street.
Dr. Estes expects Dallas to ultimately become a great medical center. He is a member of the Amer- ican Medical Association, Southern Medical Asso- ciation, State, North Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies. He is also a member of the Dallas Athletic Club.
R. BERT EDWARD GREER, 1011% North Lancaster, specialist in pediatrics and former professor of children's diseases at Southwestern Medical College, came to Dallas in 1903 from Rushville, Illinois, and has been engaged in the practise of his profession here active- ly for the past eighteen years. Dr. Greer takes a special interest in the improvement of general health conditions and has been of great assistance in the work of the health department of the Chamber of Commerce, Mother's Council and other civic organi- zations.
A native of Illinois, Dr. Greer was born at Rush- ville September 6, 1876, a son of Robert L. and Annie E. (Griftner) Greer. His father was a well known business man of Rushville for many years.
He was educated in the public schools and gradu- ated at the Rushville High School in 1896. He then entered the medical department of Washington Uni- versity at Saint Louis and in. 1900 graduated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine. Following his graduation Dr. Greer served an interneship at the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium and in 1901 began the active practise of his profession in his native town, Rushville. Continuing there until 1903, Dr. Greer removed to Dallas and has been an active figure in medical circles here since that time.
In 1905 and 1906 Dr. Greer held the chair of infec- tious diseases in the College of Physicians and Surgeons and in 1907 taught the same subject in the medical department of Baylor University. In 1914 Dr. Greer was professor of children's diseases in Southwestern University.
On June 24, 1915, Dr. Greer was married in Dallas to Miss Jeannette Farmer, a daughter of Dr. J. F. Farmer, well known physician of Bowling Green, Kentucky. They have one son, James Edward.
Dr. Greer has done a great deal of post graduate work in New York, Chicago and Boston clinics and for the past five years has been connected with the infant's welfare work in Dallas, supervising the feed- ing stations and doing a great amount of clinical work for the Mothers' Council. He is a member of the health department of the Chamber of Com- merce and the health improvement committee in Oak
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biff where he resides. During this time the Dallas Methodist) Sanitarium was promulgated.
Dr. Greer is a member of the American Medical Association, Southern Medical Association, North Texas and Dallas County Medical Societies of which e was secretary-treasurer for three years. He also i a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fel- bws, Chamber of Commerce and Oak Cliff Improve- nent League. He is a consistent booster for Dallas ind a firm believer in and supporter of the move- ment to make the city a great medical center.
R. MARVIN P. STONE, Southwestern Life Building, specialist in surgery and house surgeon for the Adolphus Hotel, came to Dallas in 1908 from Philadelphia and has been actively engaged in surgical practise ever since. He is a member of the active staff of Saint Paul's Sanitarium and a member of the associate staff of Baptist Memorial Hospital.
A native of Tennessee, Dr. Stone was born at Columbia, Maury County, September 12, 1878. His father was Rev. B. F. Stone, a well known minister of the U. S. A. Presbyterian Church, a native of Kentucky. His mother was formerly Miss Henrietta Elizabeth Doboin of Holly Springs, Miss. His parents came to Texas in 1879 and settled at Brown- wood.
The early education of Dr. Stone was received in the public schools and the Brownwood high school where he graduated in 1895. He attended Daniel Baker College at Brownwood for three years and then matriculated in the medical department of the University of Texas. Later Dr. Stone attended the medical department of the University of Pennsyl- vania at Philadelphia and graduated there with the degree of doctor of medicine in 1905.
From 1905 to 1907 Dr. Stone was resident physi- cian of the German Hospital at Philadelphia under Dr. John B. Deaver, a surgeon of world-wide re- nown. In 1908 he came to Dallas and has practised here constantly since that time.
Dr. Stone was married September 19, 1912, to Miss Natalie Feltz, of Nashville, Tennessee.
Dr. Stone for many years has been a member of the Americation Medical Association, Southern Medical Society and of the State, County and North Texas Medical Societies, also of the Dallas City and Country Clubs, Athletic Club, Chamber of Com- merce and of the Bimini Bay Rod and Gun Club of Miami, Florida.
With the improvement and extension of its hos- pital facilities, Dr. Stone expects Dallas to become a great medical center and believes this is the logical location for centralizing the medical activities of the Southwest. He is a consistent booster for Dallas and ever ready to give aid and encouragement to any movement for the upbuilding of his adopted city. R. GEORGE CYRUS KINDLEY, M. D., In- structor of Medicine in the Medical Depart- ment of Baylor University and a member of the junior medical staff of the Baylor Hospital, is a man of wide experience in medicine and has devoted special study to this branch of the profession for several years. He has been a resident of Dallas since 1915, coming here at that time from Galveston. He was connected with Drs. Baird and Doolittle until 1917, doing X-ray and laboratory work until 1917 when he engaged in general practise.
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Dr. Kindley is a native of Texas and was born at Graham in Young County November 7, 1881. He is
a son of T. F. and Mary Belle (Dickson) Kindley, pioncer residents of Young County who came to Texas in 1878 from Arkansas. His father is a well known stockman and farmer of Young County. Educated in the public schools and the Graham High School, Dr. Kindley entered the academic department of the University of Texas and graduated with the class of 1905 with the degree of Bachelor of Science. He continued his studies in the medical department of the University of Texas at Galveston and gradu- ated with the degree of Doctor of Medicine in 1911.
Following his graduation Dr. Kindley taught in the department of pathology in the University Medi- cal Department until 1914 and then was house surgeon the Santa Fe Railroad Hospital at Temple until 1915 when he removed to Dallas.
On May 18, 1915, Dr. Kindley was married at Gal- veston to Miss Florence May Goodman, daughter of H. B. Goodman, well known Galveston lumberman. They have one daughter, Jane Margaret.
In July, 1918, Dr. Kindley was commissioned First Lieutenant in the Medical Corps and later promoted to Captain. He was stationed at the Yale Army Laboratory School for training and on October 31 sailed for France. He was stationed at Base Hospital No. 9 at Chatereaux, France, until July 18, 1919, when he returned to the United States and received his discharge in August.
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