The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 8

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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Mr. Hoover is a thirty -- second degree Mason, a member of Fort Scott Consistory No. 4 at Fort Scott, Kansas, and Marza Temple Shrine at Pitts- burg, Kansas. He is a member of the Commandery at Oswego, Kansas, and a member of the Fort Worth Club and the Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce. He resides at the Fort Worth Club.

Mr. Hoover believes there is still much good, un- developed oil territory in the fields adjacent to Fort Worth, the development of which will bring to the city continued growth and prosperity.

R. ELLIOT, 402 First National Bank Building, Wichita Falls as chief clerk of the Wichita Falls division of the Texas Pipe Line Company, is engaged in the transportation of oil, a business just as essential in its realm as is transportation in any other realm. The possibilities in this phase of the oil business. which is usually overlooked by the publie, are great. It may be a comparatively new phase of the job when compared with the oil business itself, but transportation by pipe line is destined to supersede transportation by any other and all other means combined.

Mr. Elliot is a native of Kentucky. He was born at Paducah on January 23, 1894. His parents were James M. Elliot and Ella B. (Barnes) Elliot.

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As the family moved to Texas in 1902, locating first at Beaumont and then later at Houston, Texas has viven the youth his education, the city of Houston principally. As a business choice, Mr. Elliott at once took up the pipe line business. This he has followed ever since, in office and over field. In 1909 he became connected with the Texas Pipe Line Co. with which he remained for four years. In 1913, he began service for the Standard Oil Co. and the Texas Company in northern Louisiana which work lasted for two years. In 1915, he returned to the Texas Pipe Line Company at Houston, Texas, and continued with the office there until May of 1920, when he came to Wichita Falls as chief clerk of the Wichita Falls division.

At Houston, Texas, Mr. Elliott married Miss Hilda Salm, of Evansville, Indiana. They have one son, David Gray Elliott, and the family reside at Kemp Kort, Wichita Falls. The church affiliation is Methodist.

ENRY J. CURTIS, general contractor and builder has his main offices at 120916 Main Street where he directs the construction of public buildings and larger residences. Tr 1897 he came to Dallas from Chicago where he had been in the employ of the G. A. Fuller Terra Cotta Company. He first worked in Dallas as foreman for Theo Beilharz, contractor, with whom he re- mained seven years, and when he left only to go into business for himself. He now employs more than a hundred men regularly. Some examples of his work include the City National Bank, Federal Re- serve Bank and the Tennison National Bank, St. Paul's and St Joseph's Sanitariums and Providence Sanitarium of Waco, many warehouses and a number of the more pretentious residences of the city.

Mr. Curtis was born in London, England, the son of James and Elizabeth (Gosden) Curtis. He was educated in the public schools of the United States, having come here when a boy.

Henry J. Curtis and Miss Martha H. Lamar were married November, 1899. They were pioneer resi- dents of Peak Street in East Dallas when Mr. Curtis built a home there twenty years ago. About 1908 the family moved to a new home erected in Highland Park, and still later to their present residence at Danelly Stop on the Richardson Road and Denison- Sherman Interurban, where they have a commodious house and a tract of fifty acres of fine land. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis have two daughters, Lillian and Jennie D. and one son, Harry Lamar.

Mr. Curtis is Republican in political belief and Unitarian in church affiliation. He is a liberal be- liever in Greater Dallas, as bound to be one of the largest cities in Texas and one of the largest in the Southwest.

M. O. SWIFT, secretary Austin Bros., came to Dallas in 1907, and on August 30, 1900, formed his present connection with Austin Bros., bridge builders, who make a specialty of steel and reinforced concrete construction work, and who have handled many large contracts in Texas and Oklahoma. The men comprising the organiza- tion are all experienced engineers and builders, and do all classes of heavy construction work. In addi- tion to his position as secretary of the company. Mr. Swift is also a director and occupies the same post with the Southern Manufacturing Company of Fort Worth, Texas.

Mr. Swift is a native of Sparta, Tenn., born Feb-

ruary 23, 1883. His parents were W. C. and Naomi (Phy) Swift, his father being a farmer and a pioneer citizen of Sparta. He attended the public schools of Bearcove, Tenn., then went to Pleasant Hill Academy, Pleasant Hill, Tenn., and in 1907 and 1908 took a commercial course at the Metropolitan Busi- ness College, Dallas, Texas. He was married in Dallas, Texas, September 5, 1909, to Miss Zora Taylor, daughter of J. W. Taylor of Baxter, Tenn., and they have two children, W. O., Jr., and Juanita Ruth, and the family home is located at 429 West Eighth Street, Oak Cliff.

Mr. Swift is a Scottish Rite Mason, affiliated with Tannehill Lodge and Hella Temple Shrine, belongs to the Chamber of Commerce, the Athletic Club and the Praetorians and is an enthusiastic booster for Dallas. During his thirteen years in Dallas he has seen it transformed from a small city into a busy, hustling metropolis, the most important distributing point in the entire Southwest, and he expresses the belief that within another decade its population will reach a total of over half a million people. Texas, with its unlimited resources and advantages, is fast attracting the attention of all parts of the country, and Dallas being the chief city of the state cannot help being benefitted and greatly enlarged by the development of the state's vast resources, he says.

LLIE P. HOWARD, 306 Gaston building Dallas, General Contractor of the firm of Mahaffey & Howard, is one of the most progressive of Dallas builders who is active in the immense developments his city is experiencing. Twenty years ago hardly more than a big town, Dal- las today is the Chicago of the Southwest, metropoli- tan in her sky-line, her population, her wealth and her immense commercial activities. The strides the city has made even in the last decade has been un- precedented by any Texas city for the continuation of any like period; this growth will be just as sure to- morrow, permanent and steady, characteristic of her past development. Both in her business activity of the last few years and in the immense future of Dallas to-morrow, the firm of Mahaffey & Howard have had and will have an attractive part. Always the advancement of the city means building. Ma- haffey & Howard and their corps of workers are right at the heart of this building. Fifty expert workmen are maintained by them in constant service and their workmanship, personality and character are re- flected in some of the best residences of Dallas. The conipany have now under construction some of the most substantial homes of Dallas citizens.

Mr. Howard is a native of North Carolina where he was born in 1874. His parents were William Howard and Cantharus (Kids) Howard. After re- . ceiving his schooling in his native state, Mr. Howard began his life career by choosing the builder's calling. He located in Arkansas, was at Fort Smith for some time, and in 1912 he yielded to the call of the Lone Star State and came to Dallas at that time. For the : nine years that have followed, he has been actively engaged in the profession as a leader until today he enjoys the reputation he has established for "Howard Houses." The present organization, Mahaffey & Howard, was effected in 1919.

Mr. and Mrs. Howard, (formerly Miss Tesora Black) have two children-Helen and Myra. The family residence is a beautiful suburban home. The Church affiliation is Baptist.

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in Dallas, and is active in the social, religious, and civic life of his community as well as the affairs commercial.

George Roger Mahaffey is a native of Williams- town , South Carolina, and is a son of M. A. and Annie (Scott) Mahaffey. He came to Texas in 1910, direct to Dallas, and has been associated with the building of some of the large buildings of Dallas.

Mr. Mahaffey was married to Miss Mary L. Dupree of Dallas in 1915, and reside in a suburban home at Cockrell Hill.

AWRENCE R. CROWELL, oil operator and producer, .605 Great Southern Life Building, came to Dallas from Wichita Falls, in June, 1919, and established offices here. Prior to that tinie he had been engaged in the oil business for two and a half years at Wichita Falls and had achieved marked success as an independent operator.

Mr. Crowell, for a time, was associated in the firm of Crowell, Feagin & Gant. This partnership was dissolved December 1st, 1920. Mr. Crowell is a director of the American Refining Company, of Wichita Falls, one of the leading independent com- panies of Texas. His personal interests include royalties and oil properties which he will develop soon. His producing properties are located in the Healton, Fox and Walters fields in Oklahoma, Burk- burnett in Texas. Twelve wells drilled in Burk- burnett townsite have been recently sold to the Pan- handle Refining Company for $300,000.

Mr. Crowell was born at Storm Lake near Sioux City, Iowa, January 23, 1881. His father was Z. T. Crowell, a well known contractor in Sioux City.

After preliminary studies in the public schools and the high school at Storm Lake, Mr. Crowell entered Buena Vista College, graduating in 1901. He then entered the banking business and was connected with the First National Bank of Storm Lake, later going to the First National at Fort Dodge, Iowa, and serving as auditor from 1904 to 1907. He was cashier of the Chatworth Savings Bank from 1907 to 1914. and until moving to Dallas was a director of the City National Bank at Wichita Falls.

Mr. Crowell has one daughter, Georgia Anna, who is attending Miss Hockaday's school in Dallas.

Mr. Crowell is a thirty-second degree Mason, a member of the Shrine at Sioux City, Iowa. He is also a member of the Dallas City Club. He is actively interested in the future growth and develop- ment of Dallas and has evidenced his faith in the city's development by the purchase of a beautiful home in Munger Place. Texas at large and particu- larly in the oil industry has unlimited possibilities, Mr. Crowell believes, and he is looking forward to an era of development that will bring much additional wealth to the territory tributary to Dallas.

D. D. IRONS, senior member of the firm of Ed. D. and Robert I. Irons, 208 Texas State Bank Building, came to Fort Worth from Brownwood in 1918 and has been actively interested in the development of the North and West Texas oil fields. Together with his brother he con- trols a large acreage in different fields and now has four hundred acres of valuable leases in the proven territory of the Breckenridge pool. They are drill- ing one well there now and preparing to drill another soon.

Mr. Irons is interested with his brother in a very promising test in wild-cat territory in Kimble county where they have fifty thousand acres under lease in

one tract. They will soon begin drilling their first test there and reports of geologists on the structure and formation in Kimble county are very encourag- ing, leading to the belief that this may open up an- other large area for oil development.

A native of North Dakota, Ed. D. Irons was born at Fargo, December 1, 1884. He is a son of F. H. and Susan (Parrish) Irons. His father is a news- paper man and one of the leading citizens of Fargo. He was educated in the public schools of Fargo and entered business life at an early age.

For a period of four years Mr. Irons was engaged in various mining enterprises in Oklahoma and Arkansas and in 1903 drilled the first oil well in what is known as the new strip in Oklahoma. He has been interested in the oil business at various times since then and for ten years was a traveling salesman. visiting nearly every county seat town in the United States. . He drilled several wells in the spindletop field at Beaumont and has handled successfully various oil properties. He is vice-president of the Breckenridge Drilling Corporation and is interested in the Kimble County Drilling Company.

On June 10, 1919, Mr. Irons was married at Fort Worth to Mrs. Gladys Grimes, daughter of R. E. L. Garrett of Dallas. They reside at the Lucerne Apart- ments.

Concerning the future prospects of Fort Worth. Mr. Irons believes they are better than ever and that the city is entering upon a period of development that will place it in the front rank of the leading cities of the Southwest. He is a consistent booster for Fort Worth and a strong believer in the city's ultimate future.

Mr. Irons is a member of the Masons and Elks.

M. CROOKSHANK, Detroit sales agent for Iron and Steel Manufactures for Texas, Louisiana and Oklahoma, 915 Great South- ern Life Building, has worked his way up from the position of clerk to the head of this com- pany. That he has been able to accomplish this stamps him as a man of strong business qualifica- tions and marked ability.

This sales agency was established in Dallas in 1909 by Hardy Greenwood, with offices at 406 Scol- lard Building, as hardware and mill supply jobbers. Iron and steel are shipped principally in car load lots from eastern steel mills. Among the different companies represented by Mr. Crookshank and the products handled from them are as follows: Cham- pion Rivet Co., Cleveland, Ohio, steel boilers and structural rivets; Canton Sheet Steel Co., Canton, Ohio, black and galvanized steel sheets and roofing; Detroit Brass & Malleable Works, Detroit, Michigan, brass valves malleable and cast iron pipe fittings: Hubbard & Co., Pittsburg, Pa., shovels, spades, scoops, picks, mattocks, etc .; J. B. Wise, Incor- porated, Watertown, N. Y., plumbers' brass goods: Erie Tool Works, Erie, Pa., wrenches, vises, pipe cutters, etc .; Sharon Steel Hoop Co., Sharon, Pa., black and galvanized steel bands also hoops, black and galvanized; Anniston Foundry Co., Anniston. Ala., cast iron soil pipe, service and valve boxes: National Cast Iron Pipe Co., Birmingham, Ala., cast iron water pipe and specials.

Mr. Crookshank was born in Dallas in 1SS3. His mother, Mrs. J. B. Crookshank still lives here and makes her home with him at 2117 West Tenth Street. He was educated in the schools of Sherman and upon finishing his schooling entered the real estate busi-

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ness. This was in 1901. Two years later he was offered a clerical position in a railroad office and accepted it. Promotion was rapid during the six years spent at this work and Mr. Crookshank proved Lis ability at office management and systematic methods. Believing that the business world offered larger opportunities, he left the railroad office when a chance came to enter the steel and iron business, accepting a less remunerative position as clerk in order to learn the business and work up. Soon he was made traveling representative with Texas and Oklahoma as his territory, meeting with such pro- nounced success that on April 1, 1920, soon after the death of Mr. Greenwood, was placed in charge of the Dallas office.

Mr. Crookshank is a valuable man in his field and has done much, and will do more, to further the im- portation of iron and steel to Texas.

R. R. H. HODGES, manager of the W. R. Hodges Estate, has been a potent factor in the development and progress of the Ranger district. The W. R. Hodges Estate contains four hundred and fifty acres of city lots; oil proper- ties, royalties and an attractive interest in one of the largest buildings of Ranger, a hog farm that shipped thirteen carloads of hogs in 1920.

Dr. Hodges has been a health official in more than one city, a genius at work among and for newsboys and an active patron of every organization for the ad- vancement of the young people in the community in which he lived.

Robley H. Hodges was born in Falls County, Texas, in 1885. His father, deceased since 1917, W. R. Hodges, a native of Alabama, and his mother Scott (Allen) Hodges, a native of Mississippi, came to Texas in 1866. When R. II. was five years of age, the family located at Ranger where they have been identified with the best families of the Western sec- tion from that day. Ranger gave the youth his common school education; A. & M. College of Texas and the Kansas City Veterinary College completed it. As the cattle industry was the chief business of the West, Dr. Hodges prepared himself for work with that phase of Western life, but such training resulted in his being called by the city of Waco to serve on the city board of health as inspector of dairies and for protecting the city from tubercular-infected milch cows. For seven years he served the city of Waco in that capacity. But he longed to return to the place that knew him best, his home town, Ranger, which he did just as the oil boom was coming to that part of the State. Besides serving his section in his professional capacity, and giving aid as Sani- tary Commissioner to which position he was elected in April 1921, Dr. Hodges directs the W. R. Hodges Estate.

In 1920 while living in Waco, he was interested in the welfare of the Newsboys and in 1916 and 1917 he had charge of the Newsboys Club of that city. He built it from a small and weak organization into one of the largest and best organized Newsboys ('lubs of the state. Upon his departure, the "Boys" presented him with a chain and charm, dated. "Dec. 25, 1918," which are among Dr. Hodges most valued possessions.

On Christmas Day, 1918. Miss Opie Bristow, a graduate of Baylor Female College, who has served as principal of one of the San Antonio schools, be- came the bride of Dr. Hodges. They have three sons, Robley Jr., the oldest and Richard and Ross

who are twins. In 1906 Dr. Hodges was selected as one of the team from A. & M. College that repre- sented the State of Texas in the students contest at the International Stock Shows at Chicago, Ill. He has taken a very active part in every move that makes for the welfare of his city, being one of the men who secured the Hamon-Kell railroad and was second president of the Ranger Chamber of Com- merce which body was the Judge, the Jury, the Sani- tary Department "and almost everything else a boom city required." He is a member of the Elks Lodge. From both view points, civic and commercial, Dr. R. H. Hodges, is a citizen of the first magnitude in the West today and he and his interests will have a large place in the future of that section.

RTHUR P. DUGGAN was born in Hays County, Texas, September 21, 1876. His parents were Alston and Medie (Malone) Duggan. He obtained his early education from the schools of San Saba, Texas, and having completed the high school course he attended the Texas A. and M. College from which he was gradu- ated in 1895 with the degree of bachelor of science. Four years later he was graduated from the Uni- versity of Texas with the degree of bachelor of laws. In 1904 he went into the abstract and title business in Denton, Texas. In 1912 he went to Lamb County where he subdivided and sold the Yellow House Ranch belonging to the late Major George W. Little- field of Austin. Following this he built the town of Littlefield and developed the surrounding country. In 1917, following the declaration of war, he joined the army and in April, 1918, he was given a captain's commission with the cavalry. He was trained at Camp Stanley and was stationed near San Antonio. He remained in the service almost a year and was discharged December 18, 1918.

Following this he engaged in the investment busi- ness in Dallas with his brother, R. F. Duggan, until May, 1921, when he returned to Littlefield and again became sales manager of the Littlefield lands.

In 1902 Mr. Duggan was married to Miss Sarah E. Harral, niece of Major Littlefield, and to them two children were born, Alice and Arthur P., Jr. The Duggan home is in Littlefield, Texas.

Mr. Duggan is a member of the Dallas .Country Club, the University Club and the Dallas Athletic Club. He is also a Shriner. His thorough education and his keen insight into the future developments have given him great prestige in the commercial world and will enable him to retain his place of out- standing prominence.

JUGO HOVEL, former sales manager and general manager of the refinery division of the Hercules Petroleum Company, American Exchange National Bank Building, Dallas, has for several years been a well known figure in oil circles of Texas and Oklahoma. He has occupied various positions of trust and responsibility with dif- ferent large organizations and after leaving the Hercules Petroleum Company in the latter part of 1921 went to Houston where he has been engaged since that time with S. E. J Cox, founder and former president of the General Oil Company.

Mr. Hovel has a keen insight into the intricate details of the oil business and is especially familiar with the marketing of crude oil and refined products. Ile has made a close study of market conditions, both domestic and foreign, and achieved a splendid reputation among oil men by reason of several high-

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ly important sales made during the war when the demand for refined products was so great.

Coming to Dallas Mr. Hovel was connected with the marketing division of Anderson and Gustaffson at Fort Worth. Before coming to Fort Worth he was connected with a large organization in Okla- homa City and also formerly operated a company in Saint Louis.

Mr. Hovel is a native of Saint Louis, Missouri, and was educated in the public and high schools there. After completing high school he attended college and specialized in chemistry, planning to later study medicine. After turning his attention to the oil industry he found his chemical researches highly valuable and he has continued his studies along this line.

Mr. Hovel is an enterprising and progressive man, an enthusiastic booster for Texas and for Dallas and is a member of the Mid-Continent Oil and Gas Association and other organization of oil men.

UGH M. LARKUM, secretary and treasurer of the Sunshine State Oil & Refining Com- pany, American National Bank Building, Wichita Falls, is ranked among the leading oil developers and interest holders in his district today, a territory made up of big men and big com- panies. Associated with him in an official capacity are G. C. Jensen as president and W. F. Ramming as vice president. The plant is located two and a half miles north of Wichita Falls and has a capacity of 2,000 barrels a day; they employ twenty men. The capital of the firm at organization was $650,000.00; it has recently been increased to $1,000,000.00, and incorporated. Then Mr. Larkum is secretary and treasurer of the Sunshine Pipe Line Company, which has thirty-five miles of line from the K. M. A. Field to Wichita Falls; which was recently merged with the Sunshine State Oil and Refining Company; twelve miles of the line is of four inch pipe, the remaining twenty-three miles of three inch pipe; they also have several miles of two inch gathering lines. The Sunshine State Oil & Refining Company owns thirty to thirty-five thousand acres of leases in New Mexico, and a few hundred acres of choicest leases in Wichita Falls County, Texas. Mr. Larkun is also Vice president of the Derden Oil Company, organized to develop oil property in Archer County where this company holds 120 acres in the best fields of that district.

Mr. Larkum was born at Clarksville. Texas, May 9, 1885. His father, N. R. Larkum, is a lawyer who has served as assitant county attorney; his mother is Ella May (Sport) Larkum. The parents moved to Detroit, Texas, in the early boyhood of their son so the Detroit schools gave him his education. From the age of eleven until he was seventeen. Hugh M. Larkum has worked at odd hours in a printing office. At seventeen he began as a helper in the railroad station at Detroit where he remained for over two years. He then became cashier for the T. & P. Ry. at Honey Grove, Texas, where he was stationed for two and a half more years. Then he served as a brakeman on the train for four months and in 1908 he came to Wichita Falls and went to work for the Ft. Worth & Denver Ry., in the office division, and worked there until October 10, 1918, when he re- signed and went into the oil business with the Sun- shine State Oil and Refining Company. He is now a leading official in three able companies and is at the front among the most active business men.

On August 28, 1907, Mr. Larkum and Miss Ann: Funston of Paris, Texas, were married at Pari. They now have residence at 1208 Monroe Stree:, Wichita Falls.

OY F. CALVERT, oil operator and owner of the Roy F. Calvert & Company, Amer. ican National Bank Building, Wichita Fall is one of the leading oil well supply met of Wichita Falls. Though the firm was not estab. lished until July of 1919, there was a sore need of it. the oil activities in the northwestern territory ranks with the most active fields of the world, beine placed in fame along wtih the renowned fields of Mexico and Russia, and that activity is increasing with large strides every year. It is the coming ir of this territory, North and Northwest Texas, that has placed the Lone Star State at the forefront among Uncle Sam's oil producers. Today Mr. Cal- vert not only supplies the demand for a complet- line of heavy and light oil well supplies for his im- niediate vicinity, but he has branch houses at Burk- burnett, Corsicana and Duncan, Oklahoma, that do a large business. Thirty employees are kept in constant service. He maintains a pipe line gang and a rod and tube pulling gang in the northwest fields.

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The encyclopedia of Texas, V.2, Part 8

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