Dallas County, Texas - The whole text, 1892 (part 14 of 32)

tA. CAPY has been a resident of Dallas county ever since May, 1855, ^ ® when he came here with the French colony. In 1860 he moved into the city and ever since then he has devoted his time to his present trade as builder. During this time he has built many nice residences, business houses and other structures in Dallas. He was born near Paris, France, in 1829, the elder of the two children of C. and Albertine (De Bratfles) Capy, natives also of France. His father, a painter and contractor, died in his native country, in 1879; his wife had died in 1876. Mr. Capy, oar subject, learned the trade of painter in France, and his work here in Dallas is evidence of his skill and faithfulness. He has served as Alderman for the First Ward.

In 1861 he married Nativa Charpentier, a native of Paris, France, and a daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Mauger) Charpentier, natives of France who emigrated to America in 1856, leaving Paris January 3, and arriving at the site of tlie French colony here in April, after a forty-eight days' voyage. They came by way of Galveston to Parker's Bluff and thence to this county by ox team. The next year he moved into Dallas, and, being a shoemaker, he opened a shop. He died in 1864, and his wife in 1868. They had two sons, Joseph and Alfred, both born in France. When Mr. Capy was married he moved into his present residence, in April, 1861. He has had seven chiklren, of whom five are living, namely: Alfred, who is married and is the chief engineer for the Dallas Brewing Company; Albertine, now Mrs. Segarri, of Pensacola, Florida; Elizabeth, now the wife of J. L. Hayes, engineer of the ice factory in Fort Worth; Michael Joseph, at home; and Julia Augustine.

I^R. GUSTAVUS SCHIFF, one of the most successful practitioners of Dallas county, was born in Lippc-Detmold, Germany, August 20, 1833, and is the son of B. and Ethel (Berghaus) Schiff, also natives of Germany. The father was a merchant and lived all his life in the " Fatherland." He died in 1850, and the mother died eleven years before. The Doctor received an excellent literary and professional education in the famous universities of Germany, and in January, 1856, he was graduated with the degree of M. D., at the Julio-Maximilian University of Wuerzburg, Bavaria. He then entered the hospitals at Prague, and also studied in the hospitals of Vienna. Returning to his mother country he passed the State examination, but determined to emigrate to America, where opportunities were certainly greater than in his own land. Accordingly he set sail, and landed in the city of New York in May, 1857. He practiced tliere for a short time, and then went to Cook county, Illinois, practicing in and out of Chicago until 1859. In November of that year he went South to Memphis, Tennessee, in search of a milder climate. He soon went to Nashville, Tennessee, and practiced there from December, 1859, to January, 1878. During the Civil war he was Assistant Surgeon in the hospitals of the United States Army, and did noble service in caring for the sick and wounded. He passed tiirough the cholera epidemics of 1866 and 1873 while in Nashville, where he stood heroically at his post, and with unflinching courage did his duty to his suffering fellow-men.

Dr. Schiff began his residence in Dallas in 1878, when there were but 10,000 people in the place. He witnessed the growth to the present flattering proportions, and has aided very materially in its development. Under President Arthur he was appointed a member of the Board of Pension Examiners, and held the ofHce until he was suspetided by President Cleveland. He was re-appointed by President Harrison, and is now Secretary of the Board. Drs. Peters and Mackay are associated with him on the Board. He is

Dr. Sehiff was united in marriage, in 1864, to Miss Henrietta Rosenherg, a native ot' Rheda, "Westphalia, Germany. Six children have been born to them: Emma, died at the age of sixteen; Georgia married B. D. Pike, Esq., and resides in San Francisco, California; Benno L. ; Edwin K. ; Max L. ; and Laura, the latter having died in infancy. The three sons - Benno, Edwin and Max - also reside San Francisco, California. The Doctor is an ardent believer in Republican principles, and votes his sentiments. In his professional work he has met with great success. In the beginning he was well fitted for the work by a tine education, and he has never lost the student attitude which is so necessary in these days of rapid progress, research and discovery.

tAURA LIVELY, a resident of Dallas county, Texas, and the widow of the late Patrick Henry Lively, was born in Slielbjville, Tennessee. Her parents were James T. and Lucinda Turpiu, the latter born in Trolinger. Her father was a farmer in Tennessee. He came to Dallas county, Texas, in 1868, settled in Precinct No. 1, and is still engaged in agricultural pursuits here. He has had seven children, four of whom are now living: Laura, the subject of this sketch; Fannie, who married K. Hall, of Dallas, and lias three children; R. A., who married Julia Law, of Dallas, and has one child; and Mittie, who married Stephen Law, also of Dallas.

moved to Warren county, Kentucky, his mother dying on the journey. He grew up on his father's plantation, remained there, engaged in raising tobacco and other farm products until 1854, when he came to Texas. Here he settled in what is now called Precinct No. 1, in the neighborhood of Cochran's Chapel, Dallas county, in 1855. Before coming to the State he had married Mary A. Smith, of Kentucky, by whom he had six children, viz.: Eugene M., who married Lizzie Jenkins, and lives in Denton county, Texas; Fayette R., who married and lives in Bowie, Montague county, Texas; Maggie B., who wedded J. M. Cochran, of Dallas county, died, leaving three children; George R., deceased; Nannie, who married S. S. Noel, of Dallas county, and has five children; and Hiram M., who married Minnie Pledger and lives in Dallas county. For his second wife Mr. Lively married, in 1867, Mary J. Strait, of Dallas county. From this union there was no issue. In 1875 he was married to the subject of this sketch, aud by her had two children, one of whom died in infancy; the other, John T., born in 1876, is now living on the home farm.

During the late war Mr. Lively was engaged in the commissary department of the Confederate States, and also furnished stock to the army. Having been drafted to go to the front, he furnished a substitute, being obliged to do so as he was at that time a widower with children needing his care. He was during his life in Dallas county a stock breeder and a dealer in line cattle, and a frequent exhibitor of such at the county fairs, and a successful competitor for prizes. He died September 25, 1888, on the homestead farm, leaving a large estate. The farm, then consisting of 500 acres, has since been divided among his heirs, his widow retaining

When Mr. Lively came to Texas he owned 100 aci'es of land in Kentucky, which he had purchased with his earninf^s. This gave him means for making a start here. At that time he found Dallas county almost a wilderness and but sparsely settled. There were but few houses in the city of Dallas and but two stores, one of which was kept by Captain Jack Smith. A hotel, the Crutchiield House, was located on the northwest corner of what is now the courthouse square. Mr. Lively was a prominent man of his time in Dallas county. Although a man of quiet and reserved habits, lie took an eager interest in public affairs, and assisted every enterprise that was projected for the good of the county and State. In matters of religion he inclined to the Campbellite faith, his widow being an Episcopalian. He was a Democrat, but on local issues independent.

fENJAMIN J. PRIGMORE.- Among the early arrivals in Texas was the Prigmore family, a representative of which is found in the subject of this sketch. This worthy citizen and his estimable wife are known far and wide, and are distinguished for their generous hospitality.

Benjamin J. Prigmore landed in Texas with his parents, in 1844, at the age of fourteen years. He well remembers the hardships and privations of pioneer life. When they arrived here they were without money, their only possessions being six mules, a yoke of steers and two cows, and it was not long before the Indians stole their mules and killed one of the cows. The father took a headright of 640 acres of land. The first year or so the family had difficulty to get breadstuff. The year previous to their coming here, a few families had settled in the country and had cultivated truck patches, and some help was obtained from them. The senior Mr. Prigmore was a good hunter and supplied his family with plenty of wild game, and after they had been there eight or ten montus he made a rude mill with which to grind their corn. In a few years the magnificent productiveness of Texas soil placed them all beyond want.

In 1847, a few months before he was seventeen, Benjamin Prigmore joined the army and went to the Mexican war. After he came home, some of the citizens, interested in his behalf, secured for him a headv'whx, of 320 acres. Thus it was that he obtained a start in Texas. In 1849 he began improving his claim; fenced forty acres, built a log house and broke thirty acres of the soil. In 1853 he married and settled on his farm. He prospered in his undertakings and at the time the war broke out had eighty acres under cultivation, and owned thirty horses and as many cattle. In 1862 he enlisted in the Confederate army, and as a member of Company B, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry, was in a number of engagements in Arkansas, Missouri and Texas; was never wounded or captured. After the war he returned home and resumed his agricultural pursuits.

Joseph Prigmore, his father, a native of Kentucky, moved from there to Missouri with his parents when he was fourteen years old. There he grew to manhood, and married Mahala Dixon. Her father, John Dixon, moved from Ohio to Missouri, where his death occurred. Joseph Prigmore, imbubed with a restless and adventurous spirit, started in 1849 for California. After an absence of eighteen months, he returned with some money, bouglit a Iierd of cattle, sold his headright in Texas, and in 1855 went back to California, taking his family and cattle with hinn. In the winter cif 1859-'60 he moved back to this State. While in the far West he made money, returning with |20,000 in gold. He loaned a part of it and made other deals, and was paid off in Confederate money, thus losing much that he had made. He died November 19, 1862, leaving his widow in good circumstances. Her death occurred in January, 1886, in Colorado, while en route to Washington Territory with her son. Their union was blessed with nine children, namely: Mary, Benjamin P., Sarah, William, Jackson, Joseph, Elizabeth and Isaiah (twins), and Jane. Joseph died during the war in the Union prison at Springfield, Illinois. Jackson accidentally shot and killed himself. Isaiah started for Washington Territory in 1887, and has never been heard from. Sarah married a Mr. Whitelield and is now living in Lower California. The family are widely scattered and the whereabouts of some is not known.

Benjamin J. Frigmore has met with more of the nps and downs of life than most men. He had made a good start when the war came on. After his return he began life anew, and was on a fair way toward pros perity, when, in 1867, a cyclone struck his place, destroyed all his buildings and killed his daughter, Eliza. This occurred on the 26th of May. His neighbors built him a shanty, and in it he lived until 1876, when he built his present residence. Since then he has been prosperous, and has been enabled to provide farms and homes for his five children, all of whom are located within three miles of the old homestead. Mr. Prigmore's marriage occurred on the 8th of February, 1853, the ady of his choice being Miss Nancy Jackson, daughter of John and Eliza Jackson, prominent mention of whom will be found on another page of this work. Si.x children have been born to them: John W., February 24, 1855; Eliza L., April 14, 1857; Mahala E., February 11, 1859; Joseph E., July 16, 1861; Lucy E., September 2, 1864; and Texas Anna, December 26, 1866.

At the home of this worthy couple, the stranger as well as tlie friend receives a cordial welcome, and is entertained in true Southern style. Mrs. Prigmore is an adept in the culinary arts, and knows full well how to spread before her guests a tempting board and preside thereat in a most graceful manner.

[JGUST MUELLER, one of the early contractors of Dallas, was born in Switzerland, March 19, 1842, the youngest son of Gabriel and Ann (Strub) Mueller, also natives of Switzerland. The parents remained in their native country until death, the father dying in 1872, and the mother November 17, 1861. August, our subject, was reared and educated in his native country, also spent four years in France and four years in Italy. At the latter place he was encrao-ed as an organ builder, working in most of the principal cities of Italy. He left his native country and came to Elgin, Illinois, where he worked at his trade, and in 1868 he came to the city of Dallas. Mr. Mueller at once engaged in contracting and building, and has erected many of the early business houses of this city, and also the City Brewery. He became a stock holder and director in this institution, and continued as such until it changed hands, since whicii time he has never engaged in active business.

ill 1873, to Miss Lena Schulthess, a native of Switzerland, and a daughter of Conrad and Caroline (Koliler) Schulthess, also natives of that country. Pie lost his excellent wife by death in Dallas, September 15, 1886. They had four children: August and Herman, attending college in Switzerland; and Edward and Emily, attending school in Dallas. Mr. Mueller was again married, in Dallas, November 29, 1890, to Mrs. Margaret Schmidt, a native of Bavaria. Mr. Mueller was a member of Tannehill Lodge, No. 52, A. F. & A. M.; of Dallas Chapter, No. 47, R. A. M.; of Dallas Commandery, No. 6; has been a Mason for many years; was a member of the Volunteer Fire Department for eleven years; and is also a member of the Turn Verein of Dallas.

fOHN R. FIGfl, manager and junior member of the tirm of J. M. Harry & Company, composed of J. M. and D. C. Harry and J. R. Figh, manufacturers of brick, Dallas, are the proprietors of works whose capacity is about 50,000 brick per day, who have in their employ about seventy men. They are in full operation about nine months each year, and to some extent the rest of the time. The lirm was organized in 1886.

Mr. Figh was born in Alabama in 1858, the second eldest of the four children of George M. and Georgia (Clark) Figh, natives of Alabama. His father, a contractor, came in 1875 to Bryan, this State, to erect an agricultural and mechanical college there, and engaged in contracting generally; in 1881 he came to Dallas, and his son John R. joined him, forming the firm of G. M. Figh & Son. They have put up some of the best churches, residences and business houses in Dallas. In 1885 the partnersliip was dissolved, when

George M., junior, succeeded his brother, continuing business under tirm name till the death of the father, November 16, 1889. The motiier is still living, residing at 427 North Harwood street. The present firm, J. M. Harry & Company, have erected the McLeod hotel and other buildings, and are manufacturers of brick. Tiiey are just starting into the manufacture of fine front lirick, and vitrified brick for street pavement, purchasing for the purpose a tract of land three miles west of Dallas, where they are about to erect large works.

Mr. Figh, our subject, is a Democrat, taking some interest in the political welfare of the country. Both himself and wife are Baptists. He was married in AVaxaiiachie, in 1883, to Minnie Moore, a native of Tennessee who came to Texas about 1876. Her father died in Atlanta, Georgia, and her mother is still living, in Waxahachie. Mr. and Mrs. Figh have one child, named Mary Jean.

B. McCURDY, M. D., is the oldest practicing physician in the village of f^' " Lancaster, this county, having resided here for a period of thirty-one years. He was born in Muskingum county, Ohio, January 23, 1829, and is of Scotch- Irish and English extraction. His father, John Mc- Curdy, a Pennsylvanian by birth, came originally of Scotch-Iiish ancestry, while his mother, 7iee Mary Briceland, a native also of Pennsylvania, was of English descent. The Doctor's parents moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio about 1820, settling at Washington, where they spent the closing years of their lives, the father passing away in 1860, at the age of ninety years, and the mother a few years later, aged seventy-five. They were the parents of three children, - the subject of this sketch, one that died in infancy, and a daughter who died soon after reacliing maturity. John McCurdy was an architect by profession, and followed his calling actively throughout the long life allotted to him. In this way he became a resident, at different tiuies, of many places in his adopted State, and by reason of this fact the subject of this notice passed his boyhood and youth in widely scattered localities. In 1852 he began the study of medicine in the office of the late Prof. Abi-aliam Metz, graduated at Charity Hospital Medical College, took a post-graduate course at Jefferson Medical College, and received the degree of M. D. from the medical department of the University of Woostef and also from the Western Reserve Medical College.

;K. JOHN R. ERIG6S, a member of that great band of philanthropists whose effort has been to save man from the ills to which flesh is heir, was born in the State of Tennessee, in 1851, and is a son of James W. and Polly Briggs, who were also natives of Tennessee. The parents removed to Texas in 1877, and located in Fannin county, whence they moved to Gainesville, Cooke county, where they reside at the present time. The Doctor acquired an elementary education in the private schools of his native State, and made excellent use of his rather limited opportunities. The first medical lectures he attended were delivered in the college at Nashville, Tennessee, in 1873. He afterward entered the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis, Missouri, and was graduated with the class of 1880. He began the practice of his profession in Texas, at Savoy, and removed thence to Gainesville, and from thence to Fort Worth, finally coming to Dallas. Here he has made a specialty of the treatment of the eye, ear and throat, and has met with very flattering success in this branch of the profession. Dr. Briggs is the founder of the Texas Health Journal, which has reached its fourth year. He is a writer of fine perceptions, with a polished style and finish worthy of one making greater literary claims. Aside from his professional duties he finds time for other interests. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. fraternity, and belongs to the Baptist Church, and is at present a member of the Dallas City Council. Politically he adheres to the principles of the Democratic party, and is fearless and outspoken in his convictions of right and wrong.

Dr. Briggs was awarded the $100 in each of two gold prize essays for the best original paper on any medical subject presented to the Texas State Medical Association for the years 1886 and 1888.

He was married in 1887, to Miss Annie Carson Cooke, of Tennessee. Four children have been born of this union: Maudie Adelaide, John Roy, Jr., Raymond and Stella.

EORGE WILSON STEWART, one of the leading architects of Dallas, Texas, was born in the city of Glasgow, Scotland, and is a son of George McKenzie Stewart, also a native of Scotland. His father emicrrated to this country from Manila and Singapore, where he was engaged in the mercantile trade for over twenty years. He was a wide traveler and a successful business man. He died in Canada, where his wife also passed away. Her maiden name was Wilson, and she was from Scotland. Our subject spent his youth in Canada, and was educated at Hellmnth College, London, Canada, giving special attention to higher mathematics and Latin. He then turned his attention to architecture, and spent one year in Europe, traveling over the continent in order to gain all the information possible upon this subject. On his return to this counti-y he located at Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1830. While there he was appointed by the Dominion Government to build military and mounted police buildings. When he came to Dallas in 1887 he formed a partnership with B. CFuller, and after Mr. Fuller's death he conducted the business alone. He has erected some of the most beautiful and elegant buildings in Dallas, and stands high in the profession. He is a member of the State Association of Architects; he has served as Secretary, and was President of that body in 1890. He is a retired Captain in the Canadian militia, and served with distinction through the Kiel rebellion of 1885. He takes active interest in all manner of athletic and field sports and other manly exercises. He is an adherent of the Presbyterian Church. He takes little active interest in political questions, but devotes his time and attention to the study of his art. He is of a modest, retiring disposition, and is possessed of those sterling qualities which go to make a substantial citizen.

fOHN L. BOYD, one of the most enterprising and successful business men of Dallas, Texas, was born in Franklin county, New York, in 1848, and is a son of Benjamin and Sophia (Guyette) Boyd. The parents were Canadians by birth, and were devoted to agricultural pursuits. They reared a family of eight children, six of whom survive. John L. received his education in the common schools, and at the age of fifteen and a half years he enlisted in the service of his country. March 31, 1864, he joined Company H, Ninety-eighth New York Volunteer Infantry, Colonel Weed commanding. He met the regiment at City Point, Virginia, and from that time he led a life of active service. He participated in the fight at Cold Harbor, where Colonel Weed was killed. He wi.s in many other noted engagements, and after the surrender took part in the grand review at Washington, District of Columbia. At Petersburg he received a serious wound, from which he was a long time in recovering. He returned to his home in Franklin county, New York, and remained there one year, and then went to Springfield, Illinois, where he operated a sawmill until his removal to Dallas in 1876. Since coming to this city he has been engaged in the manufacture of lumber, and has erected some of the finest buildings in the place. He employs from forty to sixty-five men, and does a business of $80,- 000 a year, and has assisted very largely in the development of the business interests here, being senior member of the firm of Boyd & Webster.

Mr. Boyd was married to Marceline La Flech, a native of New York, in 1869. Seven children have been born to them: Louise was educated at the Ursuline Convent; Barbara Ann is a pupil in the Convent at the present time; Cora Alice, Cicely Ellen, John Edwards, Irene and Josephine. The family are all of the Roman Catholic faith, and belong to the Church of the Sacred Heart. Mr. Boyd is a meml>er of Dix Post, G. A. R., of which he has been Commander. He attended the grand Encampment at Boston, and is now Assistant Quartermaster-General of Texas. He has always voted the Republican ticket. He has not taken an active interest in political questions further than to exercise his right of suffrage.

lAPTAlN WILLIAM H. HARRIS, an old settler and a prominent and much respected citizen of Dallas county, Texas, is eminently deserving of honorable mention in this work. Indeed, a history of Dallas county would be incomplete without a biography of him. A resume of his life will be read with interest by many, and is as follows:

Captain William H. Harris was born in Simpson county, Kentucky, January 1, 1838. He was reared on a farm and received a common-school education in his native State. In the fall of 1855, at the age of seventeen, he came to Texas and settled in the city of Dallas. At that place he and a stepbrother worked together at the blacksmith trade for two years. He then bought a half interest in a farm, on credit, and improved it and lived on it one year, selling out in December, 1860. From 1858 until the war broke out he was engaged in teaming In the meantime he purchased another of tract land - 160 acres - and made some improvements on it.

In February, 1862, he enlisted in the Confederate army, as a member of the First Texas Squadron, Company B, and was made Third Lieutenant. The following April they reorganized at Grand Junction, Mississippi, and he was made First Lieutenant, and in September he was promoted to the rank of Captain by unanimous election. He went first to Corinth and was then transferred to Morgan's Command, being with Morgan in all his raids through the South and North. At the time of his noted raid through Indiatia and Ohio Captain Harris was in Tennessee, having been sent back from Kentucky in special service; and after Morgan's capture he gathered up the remnant of the command and was afterward with General Wheeler, through the Southern campaign. He continued with the Army of Tennessee through Georgia until the close of the war; was with Jefferson Davis a few hours before the latter's capture; made arrangements to accompany a squad that were going to Mexico with Davis, but the plan was foiled. Captain Harris surrendered at Columbus, Mississippi, after which he returned home, arriving June 21, 1865.

The Captain soon afterward entered into a cattle speculation and took a large herd to Mattoon, Illinois. In this enterprise he lost heavily. We next find him engaged in farming, he having married, March 5, 1867, and settled down on a farm. Up to that time there had been little cotton raised in this country. He turned his attention to its production and after a time was enabled to pay off the debt he had incurred in his cattle speculation. He farmed three years, freighted four years and then settled back to farming again. He still owns the same farm, having added to his original purchase.

Harvey Harris, the Capta'n's father, was born in Kentucky, son of the Rev. William Harris. The latter was Scotch- Irish, born in the north of Ireland, and, after his marriage to a lady of his own country, he emigrated to America and settled in Virginia. From there they moved to Kentucky, being among the pioneers of that State. He was one of tiie first ministers in the Cumberland Presbyterian Church there, and made circuits of 1,500 miles, preaching. He lived to see the church well organized throughout the State, and died in Kentucky about 1845. Har\ey Harris was one of a family of seventeen children, five of whom were preachers of their father's faith. He, however, was a farmer all his life; was born March 25, 1807, and died August 18, 1842. By his first wife, nee Mary Neal, he had one child, James Monroe, who went to California and his whereabouts are now unknown. His wife died September 12, 1835. In 1836 he married Miss Sarah I. T. Skiles, daughter of Henry and Elizabeth (Hamilton) Skiles. Her parents, natives of Virginia, moved to Kentucky, where they died. She was born January 19, 1818, is yet enjoying good health, and is living with her son, the subject of this sketch. Her other child, Nancy E., born August 23, 1839, died August 6, 1847.

Captain Harris first married Miss Prudence E. Baird, daughter of Dr. J. B. Baird. Her father, a native of Kentucky, was a resident of Denton county, Texas, at the time of their marriage, but has since died. This happy union resulted in the birth of two children, both dying infancy. The wife departed this life on the 12tb of August, 1869. October 7, 1874, the Captain wedded Miss liarriette L. Rodgers, daughter of Isaac and Sarah Rodgers. Her father was a farmer and trader in Tennessee. Both parents died in that State the same year, about 1840, leaving a family of seven children. By his second marriage. Captain Harris has one child, William H. v., born March 7, 1876.

Captain Harris has had his full share of adversities in this life, but with heroic bravery he has met and overcome the many difficulties as they presented themselves. The first house he built on his farm was destroyed by a cyclone, May 26, 1867, at 10 o'clock p. M., the second was burned down July 5,

1875, and on the same foundation he erected a third house. He now rents a farm and resides in his pleasant home at Richardson. The Captain is in every respect a progressive man, keeping well posted on the general topics of the day. He is an enthusiastic and influential Granger. AVhen the Grange was first organized in Texas, September, 1873, he was elected Master, and has been a leader of the institutiop in Dallas county; also an officer of the Texas State Grange for eight years. On December 12, 1891, he was elected l>y the Board as Superintendent of the Texas State Grange Fair, an enterprise of much prominence, and is now managing this grand institution for the association. He has given four years of his life to its interests. Politically, he is a Democrat. He is a member of the I. O. O. F., the Good Templars and the Knigiits of Honor, and he and bis entire family ai-e members of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

g^ENRY H. SMITH, a prominent busi- !iess man of Dallas, was born in Covington, Kentucky, a son of Colby T. and Marium H. (Stevenson) Smith, natives of Clark county, Kentucky. His father was a cabinetmaker and builder, and came to Texas in 1860, settling at Dallas, when his son, our subject, was ten years of age. The latter grew up on a farm, engaged in teaching and farming for several years, and then was clerk for "Thompson Bros. " four years. In 1884 he was called to the office of County Treasurer, which he tilled for six years, being re-elected twice; and with the due respect to many able officers we can safely state that that position was never more ably or more satisfactorily tilled. On the expiration of his last term be retired witli the confidence of the people. His majority was larger at each election. When he first came here there were no banks in the place, and the nearest railroad depot was at Houston, Probablj no man in Dallas is more intimately connected with its growth.

He is a member and Past Chancellor of Cceur de Lion Lodge of the Knights of Pythias here, and for years has also been one of the pillars of the Christian Church. In politics he is a Democrat of the strictest type. He was married in 1875, to Miss Ellen V. Bond, a native of Virginia, and they are the parents of two children: Loyd B., now fourteen years old, and Maud, eleven years of age. Mrs. Smith came to Texas in 1S59, when five years old, was educated in Bonham, this State, and for some years was a teacher. In this profession she closed a successful career at the time of her marriage. Her parents were Charles F. and Mary (Wilson) Bond, natives of Virginia, where they were reared and married. They came to Texas in 1859. The father was a teacher, farmer and latterly a merchant. He and his wife are both deceased ; the latter in 1859. They were both devout members of tlie Baptist Church, were excellent people and left a good name. They had two children, - one. La Fayette W., a farm(!r and stock-raiser of Dallas county. His wife was Kate Fletcher, of Dallas county.

Colby T. Smith, our subject's father, was a member (as well as his wife) of the Christian Church. He was a Deacon for many years. He was well and favorably known as an honest, worthy citizen. He served three years as private in the cavalry of the Confederate States, a member of Captain Welch's Company. They were known as the Gano "Guards, an independent company named for General K. M. Gauo, under whom they served. He served with General Gano in the trans-Mississippi Department. He died at Bonham, Texas, August 7, 1877, and was fifty-two years of age. His wife died in November, 1887, and was born July, 1827. She was the mother of five sons and two daughters; one son, Joseph C, deceased September 13, 1867, aged sixteen years; Edward C, married to Mattie A. Fletcher, resides in Dallas, and is an undertaker; Henry H., our subject; Garrett D., a partner of E. C, is married to Miss Sue Evans, a native of P"'annin county, Texas; Mary B., wife of Oliver Thomas, a prominent real-estate man, of Dallas; Ellen, wife of John Hai'dy, residing in London the past two years; Willis R., a student in medical reading with Dr. Thompson, of Dallas.

;CE()LA P. SCOTT. - This gentleman is one of the prominent and prosperous farmers of Dallas, Texas. He owns a section of land here which is well improved with substantial and commodious buildings.

Besides this property he also owns land in other counties in Texas. He has been identified with the interests of this part of the country from his early manhood, and it is eminently fitting that a biography of him should appear in the history of Dallas county. Mr. Scott was born in Virginia, December 27, 1841. In 1857 he emigrated with his father's family to Texas, arriving in Collin county in December. In January, 1858, they settled in Dallas county. Mr. Scott now owns the headright that was located by J. C. McCoy. Samuel Scott, father of the subject of our sketch, was born in Virginia, July 26, 1799. He was married June 3, 1819. Camilla W. Scott, his wife, was born March 26, 1803. Both were of Scotch-

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Irish descent, and the latter was a member of a distinguished and much respected Virginia family. The father enlisted for the war of 1812, but before he reached the front the war had closed. They made the journey to Texas in wagons, brought with them about forty servants, purchased 800 acres of land, and were soon comfortably settled here, carrying on farming on a large scale. At the time of purchase 200 acres of this land were in cultivation. Here the venerable father passed the residue of his life, and died October 19, 1878. The mother departed this life December 12, 1883. Following are the names of their ten children: Roy B., born June 17, 1822; Baldwin S., April 13, 1824; Julia, November 28, 1825; Emily E., May 4, 1828; Helen M., May 12, 1880; Clara H., May 10, 1882; Henry C, February 8, 1884; Emmet B., November 5, 1835; Walter M., December 14, 1839; and Oceola P., December 27, 1841. Baldwin S. died July 18, 1825; Julia, April 16, 1829; Helen, May 10, 1832. Henry C. died in the army, near McMinnville, Tennessee, from the effects of the wound accidentally received. Walter M. died March 6, 1863, at Camp Douglas, Chicago, Illinois, of pneumonia. Roy met his death accidentally October 8, 1884, being thrown from a horse.

Oceola P. Scott was married May 9, 1865, to Miss Laura A. Hatcher. Her parents, Branch and Manerva (Davis) Hatcher, were natives of North Carolina and Kentucky respectively. They were unarried in Kentucky and subsequently moved to Missouri, where her father died in September, 1858. In 1861 the family emigrated to Texas to join sisters who had already come in 1856. Six children have been born to Mr. Scott and his wife, viz.: Walter M., September 10, 1866; Ann R., February 14, 1868; Emma P., September 7, 1870; Samuel B., September 14, 1878; AdaL., November 4, 1883; Henry B., October 18, 1885. Ada died April 16, 1885.

Mr. Scott enlisted in the Confederate army as a member of Company E, Eighteenth Texas Cavalry, Captain Allison Darnell in command. During his service he was twice captured, first, at Arkansas Post, from whence he was taken to Camp Douglas, Chicago; second, at Atlanta, July 22, 1864, just after General Hood was placed in command. The last time he was sent to Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio, and from there to Richmond. Receiving a furlough, he walked a great part of the way home, paid fifty dollars to be ferried across the Mississippi river in a skiff, and reached here April 9, 1865. Of the five brothers who entered the army, three returned and two are still living. Henry C, who died in Tennessee, was a practicing physician and surgeon in the army.

Mr. Scott was an active member of the Farmers' Alliance, and a heavy stockholder in the Alliance Mill at Dallas, he being one of the directors of the enterprise and one of the eight that had to pay off the claims against the institution, amounting to $20,000. He is opposed to the introduction of politics into the . Alliance. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and his family belong to the Methodist Episcopal Church.

REMOND, ex-brick manufacturer, has 3L been identified with interests of Dal- '* las county, Texas, since 1856. He was born in the State of Nievre, France, August 2, 1840, to Jean Remond and Marie, nee Pouilliat, also natives of France, who lived and died on their native soil. E.' Remond, until fourteen years of age, was educated for a priest, but being disinclined to follow that life, he in 1856 set sail for the United States, embarking at Havre, and after a voyage of sixty-five days reached the city of New Orleans. From this city he went to Houston on a tug-boat, and from the latter place came to Dallas, Texas with an ox team, being joined in Houston by his brother Jean Priot, who had come to this country two years before. The latter resided in Dallas until 1887, accumulated a competency, but in that year sold his property and returned to France, where he is living well out of his income. E. Keraond was unable to speak the English language or to understand it upon coming to this country, but it was not long before he could do both. When the Civil war opened he enlisted in Company B, Nineteenth Texas Cavalry, with which he remained one year, then volunteered in Pratt's Battery, serving as iiag-bearer until he was taken prisoner with General Marmaduke at Saline, Kansas. As rear-guard he was ambushed by negro troops at Tansas bayou, Louisiana, in 1862, but he fought for life and succeeded in cutting his way through the lines, and regained his liberty before being taken to a place of confinement. The hardships and privations he endured were many, but he bore them well until the war closed. He was married soon after to Miss Cesarine Santerre, of France, who came to this county when a child, and after his marriage he located permanently in West Dallas. He began manufacturing brick, which occupation he followed, except during the war, until 1880, since which time he has given his attention to studying practical geology of the country and in influencing capitalists to locate in this section. He introduced the first brick machine. In 1880 he discovered an unlimited quantity of '-alumina lustra," shale, steatite and soapstone, - which discovery led to the investment of $50,000 in a scientific brickmanufacturing plant at the place. He resides on sixty acres of land in Dallas county and has a beautiful and comfortable home. He is a Democrat politically and a useful citizen of the county. He never ran for office, never had a lawsuit, never gave his note, never borrowed money, and never contracted any debt. Love, science, progress and the arts are his highest avocations, while he devotes his attention mainly to the industrial development of the natural resources of his country. He is a geologist and practical clay-worker.

SREDERICK SCHUPBACK, who is engaged in gardening at Dallas, has been identified with the interests of Dallas county since 1877. He dates his birth in Berne, Switzerland, September 16, 1842, and is a son of Samuel and Elisa (Zong) Scliupback, natives of that place. His parents both passed their lives and died in the old country. He was reared on a farm, and in 1866 emigrated to the United States, sailing from Havre, and after a voyage of sixty-six days landed in New Orleans. During this time they were short of provisions for nearly two weeks.

Arrived in this country, Mr. Schupback engaged in gardening in New Orleans, remaining there eight months. He then went to Memphis, Tennessee, where he engaged in the same kind of work one year. From there he went to St. Louis for a short time; thence to Jefferson county, Missouri; eight months later to Lawrence, Kansas, following a like occupation there four years. Then he made a brief trip to California, remaining in the Golden State only two weeks. He went West on the second train over the Northern Pacific road and paid $150 for his fare. He returned to 8t. Louis, thence to New Orleans, and after two months came to Texas and located in Brenham, Washington county, wliere he raised one crop. We next find him at Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was stricken with yellow fever, and was at that place two years. In 1877 he came to Dallas and purchased his present property, twelve and a half acres, located three-quarters of a mile from Dallas, and here he has since been engaged in gardening.

Mr. Schupback was married, June 16, 1876, to Miss Eliza Sivalin, a native of North Germany and a daughter of Jack and Martha Sivalin, natives of the same place. She came to America and located at Shreveport, Louisiana, 1873. They are the parents of four children: Annie, Frederick, Lancie and Hattie. He and his wife are members of the Presbyterian Church.

S^HILLIAM E. PEARSON, a successful fflmu/t of Dallas county, is a son of l^=^feH John H. and Minerva Pearson. The father was born in Hawkins county, Tennessee, January 29, 1820, remained in his native State until 1870, when he removed to Missouri and thence to Texas, settling on Grapevine Prairie, this county, where he still resides. His father. Lawrence Pearson, was a native of Bucks county, Pennsylvania, but left his native place when a lad, and went to what is now Hawkins county, east Tennessee, then a part of North Carolina. His people settled in that locality in the days of John Seiver, when this great leader attempted to found the new State of Franklin in what is now east Tennessee. Lawrence Pearson died in Hawkins county in 1872, at the age of eighty-five years. His wife, nee Elizabeth De Vault, was a daughter of Abraham De Vault, a native of North Carolina. She was born in east Tennessee and died in Hawkins county in 1878, at the age of eighty-eight years. Our subject's mother, whose maiden name was Minerva Green, is still living, and is a daughter of William Green, also a native of Hawkins county. Mr. and Mrs. Pearson were married August 19, 1842, in Hawkins county, and had the following children: Elizabeth Jane, the widow of Captain James W. Berry, of Dallas county; William E., our subject; Enoline, who became the wife of John Willmuth, and died in Dallas county some years ago; Ruthie, the wife of Thomas Swindle, a resident of Cherokee Nation, Indian Territory; George A., of this county; Nicholas, who is still with his parents; Mary Catherine, the wife of William S. Sanders, of this county; and James M., a resident of Tarrant county.

William E. Pearson, our subject, was born in Hawkins county, Tennessee, February 1, 1845. In March, 1863, he enlisted in the Union army, in Company G, Eighth Tennessee Infantry, entering the company raised by his brother-in-law. Captain J. W. Berry, which was formed at Cauip Nelson, Kentucky, largely from refugees from east Tennessee. They served in Tennessee, Georgia and North Carolina, and the first active service was at Chattanooga in the fall of 1863. Mr. Pearson was in the Georgia campaign, and took part in all the engagements down to Atlanta; was then under Thomas on the return to Tennessee, taking part also in the liattles of Franklin and Nashville, when the Confederate army, under Hood, was dispersed. Mr. Pearson's command was then placed on a boat at Clifton, Tennessee, and transported to Cincinnati, thence by rail to Alexandria, Virginia, next to Fort Fisher, North Carolina, and then joined Sherman's army at Goldsboro, same State. Mr. Pearson enlisted as a private and was mustered out as sergeant. After the close of the war he returned to Tennessee, and in 1870 moved to Missouri, settling in Christian county, where he resided until coming to Texas in 1872. He settled in Dallas county, and in November of that year he rented a place on Grapevine Prairie, but a year later he purchased forty acres. He has since added to this farm until he now owns 215 acres, seventy acres of which is under a fine state of cultivation, and the remainder in pasture, timber and hay land.

Mr. Pearson was married in April, 1868, to Miss Minda Sanders, a daughter of Wiley Sanders, a native of Cleveland county, Tennessee. Mr. and Mrs. Pearson have had the following living children: John J., Dora, Cordia T., William, Eddie, Miney and Charlie. In politics, Mr. Pearson is a Republican; socially, a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and religiously, the family are members of the Baptist Cliurch.

^AEK ELLISON, a merchant of Garland and a farmer of Precinct No. 2, Dallas county, Texas, dates his birth in Kentucky in 1844. He was the third born in the family of John W. and Elizabeth (Johnson) Ellison, natives of Kentucky. His ancestors were Scotch- Irish, and came to this country and settled in Kentucky at an early day. John W. Ellison was a blacksmith. He came to Texas in 1848, resided in Dallas county one year, and in 1849 moved to Tarrant county, settling near where Birdvilie is now located, and following his trade there until 1857. He took up a section of land, improving the same, and lived on it. A portion of the family still make their home on the old farm. The fatlier was a prominent man in his day. For some years he was Justice of the Peace of Tarrant county. He was a devoted Christian man - a member of the Christian Church - and could repeat from memory the whole of the New Testament. He and his wife were the parents of five children, namely: Frank, who resides on the old homestead; Zarilda, who was the wife of Thomas James, is deceased; Mark, whose name heads this sketch; Mary, wife of H. S. Holman, Tarrant county; John W., who died while the family were en route to this State. In 1868 Mrs. Ellison married A. Bledsaw, a prominent and highly-esteemed citizen of this county, known as "Honest A." He served as Judge of this county during and afcer the war, and was subsequently elected to the office of Comptroller of the State of Texas. His death occurred in 1884. The mother now lives on on the homestead place in Tarrant county, with her son-in-law, H. Holman. She lias been a member of the Christian Church for many years.

Mark Ellison received his education in the common schools of Tarrant county, and at the early age of sixteen entered the Southern army as a member of (Company A, Ninth Texas Cavalry. In the earlier part of the war he was in a number of engagements east of the Mississippi river, and later was transferred to the forces that operated west of the Mississippi. Twice he was wounded; first at Corinth, in the arm, and in a skirmish in Louisiana was shot through the left shoulder. He never was captured nor sent to hospital.

After the war he returned to his home in Tarrant county and immediately engaged in farming. The following year, 1867, he moved to Dallas county and settled on a headright that liad been secured by his father-in-law, H. C. Marsh, and fanned on it until 1889. He then moved his family to Garland and he engaged in the mercantile business, still, however, having his farming operations carried on. In his agricultural pursuits he has been very successful. For twenty years his crib has never been empty of corn. He has refused $45 an acre for his farmincr land, and besides this also owns seventy-tive acres of timber land. He began the mercantile business with a stock worth $2,300. Since opening up his business has averaged from 125,000 to $30,000, and at this time he carries a stock worth some |11,000 or $12,000. He has the only strictly dry-good house in the town and does a larger business than any other estabment here.

Mr. Ellison was married January 1, 1866, to Miss Martha A. Marsh, daughter of H. C. and Mary (Raymond) Marsh, natives of Harrison county, Kentucky. Their union has been blessed with four children, viz.: Hardy, a farmer of Tarrant county; Zeluma, wife of O P. Thomas; and John W. and Harrison M.,' at home. They also have one daughter deceased, Elizabeth.

Mr. Ellison is a member of the A., F. & A.M., James A. Smith Lodge, No. 395; is also a member of Dallas Chapter, No. 52, and has tilled all the chairs in the order. He and his wife have been members of the Christian Church for a number of years.

M. HALSELL, County Commissioner of Dallas county, was born in Kentucky, in 1832, the fourth child of William and Mary (Garland) Halsell, natives of "Warren county, Kentucky. The father was a blacksmith and farmer by occupation, and also served as Justice of the Peace for a number of years. The paternal grandfather was a native of Ireland, who came to America for a short time and afterward re turned to Ireland, where he died, at the age of 104 years. The maternal grandfather moved from Kentucky to Missouri, where he died, at the age of 100 years. He was a farmer by occupation, and also taught school. William H. Halsell lived in the same house in Kentucky for fifty-live years, and died in 1887, at the age of eighty-two years. He had been a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church for fifty years, and during most of his married life he never failed to have family prayer. He was twice married, first to the mother of our subject, who died in 1847. Of their nine children, seven lived to years of maturity: John E. resides in Kansas, and is an attorney of Wellington. He has served his Congressional district in Congress for two terms, and prior to this was also Circuit Judge of a judicial district in Kentucky. He is known as one of the leading attorneys and noted politicians in the Democratic party. Alvira, deceased, was the wife of the Feldin Robinson, and the family now reside in various States, two in Texas and two in Kentucky; William J., a merchant of Richardson, Dallas county, has served as Justice of the Peace of this county for several years. He came to this State in 1852; our subject is the ne.xt in order of birth; Mary, is the widow of S. Y. Garrison, of Gainesville, Texas; James M., of Waco, Texas. The latter is a minister of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church, and also collecting agent for the Cumberland Presbyterian College of this State. After the death of his Urst wife, Mr. Halsell married Sarah, daughter of Henry Skiles. Mrs. Halsell had one child, W. H., by a former husband, Mr. Harris, who is now a prominent member of

E. M. Halsell, our subject, received his early education in this county, and at the age of twenty-one years coininonced life for himself. He came to this State in 1852, and first settled in Dallas, which was then a small village, and here he assisted in the organizaation of the tirst city laws, and was elected one of the first Trustees of the place. He was at one time owner of the most of the property on Ross avenue, and erected for himself the home now occupied by Mr. Ross. While there he was engaged in blacksmithing, and his shop was located on the northeast corner of the public square. In 1859 he returned to Kentucky, where he resided until 1879. He served in the late war as recruiting ofiicer under General John H. Morgan, with the rank of Captain. After the war, and while still in Kentucky, he engaged at his trade of blacksmithing, and also served as Justice of the Peace ten years. After coming to Texas in 1879, he engaged in farming on land he had bought in Young county, where he remained until 1887, when he moved to this county. He now owns a farm of 400 acres in Young county, of wliich about fifty acres is improved. After coming to tliis county he located in Garland, where he was employed by his brother and son-in-law, S. A. Allen, lumber merchants. He now has a nice village residence. In 1890 was elected County Commissioner for two years.

Mr. Halsell was married in 1855, to Miss Mary Cook, a native of Kentucky and daughter of William and Dincan Cook, natives of Kentucky. She was a granddaughter of Captain Isaac Cook, a Captain of tiie war of 1812. Mr. and Mrs. Halsell are the parents of six children: V. B., of the firm of Alien

& Halsell, hardware merchants of this place' Julius D., deceased; Rachel, wife of S. A. Allen, of the firm of Allen & Halsell, of Garland; Maggie, wife of L. C. Simpson, a farmer of this county; Millie, wife of A. E. Kyan, a druggist of Garland; Thomas and Edgar, ages fourteen and sixteen. Mr. Halsell is a member of the Christian Church, and since 1855 has been a member of the A. F. & A. M. Mrs. Halsell is a member of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church.

OAH S. EWALT, a young and successful business man of Dallas county, is a son of Noah S. Ewalt, Sr., who was born in Bourbon count}', Kentucky. He was reared there to the age of twelve years, at which time his parents moved to Missouri, settling in Greene county. In 1856 Mr. Ewalt came to Dallas county, Texas, where he purchased a certificate for 160 acres of land on Grapevine Prairie, with which he began his career as a farmer and stock-raiser. As his means allowed he added to this tract until at the time of his death he owned 858 acres, all of which lay on the prairie except sixty acres in the timber, and nearly all of which was in pasture. Mr. Ewalt was a good manager, economical and inlustrious, and at his death left his family a good estate. He was married in Texas, May 19, 1863, to Mary J. Johnson, a native of this State. Mr. Ewalt died at his home in this county October 18, 1878, at about the age of forty-five years, and his wife survived him some years, dying October 15, 1890, aged forty -four years. They were both buried at the old family burying-ground on the farm of William Haley, near the old Ewalt homestead. They were members of the Christian Church, and led lives consistent with their profession. Noah S. and Mary J. Ewalt had a family of nine children, viz.: Noah S., born June 11, 1864; Henry, October 24, 1865; Frances, October 3, 1866; Kitturah, July 23, 1870; Lela, August 18, 1872; Thomas Richard, January 2, 1875; Lucinda 0. and Jane, twins, February 17, 1877; and Samuel Waiter, July 31, 1879. Of these, Henry died November 1, 1865; Thomas Richard, in November, 1890; Frances is now the wife of James Graham, of this county; Kitturah, the wife of Frank Crouch, also of Dallas county; and Lela is now Mrs. George Slater, of this county. The Ewalt estate has never been divided, and the unmarried children still reside on the old homestead, the management of the farm as well as the providing for the family, devolving on tlie eldest son, Noah S.

This young man has assumed the responsibilities which have come to him by the death of his parents with a manly spirit, looking diligently not only after the financial interests committed to his care as administrator, but is attending to the wants of every nature of his younger brothers and sisters.

fHOMAS F. NASH, an attorney of Gar- MVf land, Dallas county, Texas, was born in Marion county, Kentucky, October 11, 1850. He was the eleventh born in the family of fifteen children of Thomas J. and Eliza (Flood) Nash, natives of Virginia and of Scotch and Irish descent. Thomas J. Nash was born in 1808; went to Kentucky in 1815, being one of the pioneers of that State. He was a farmer by occupation, as was also his father, Thomas Nash. His maternal grandfather was a Virginia farmer.

and was a first cousin to the celebrated Peter Cartwright. Thomas J. Nash received a superior education for his day, and started out in life with fair prospects in Marion county, Kentucky. He was elected to various offices of minor importance, and when in his fortieth year he was chosen Representative of his county to the State Legislature. Previous to this he raised a regiment of men and offered his services to the United States for the war with Mexico; he was not accepted, however, there being more men offered than needed. He came to Texas m 1854, first settling five or six miles north of Dallas. In 1857 he permanently located in the vicinity of Garland. Here he bought 320 acres of wild land and developed a fine farm, his land costing him $3.00 per acre. By the time the war came on he had a nice farm and plenty of stock. In 1858 he was elected County Commissioner. In 1861 he was chosen as a member of the Secession Convention, and was a recognized authority on most subjects in regard to State rights. Being well advanced in years, he took no part in the late unpleasantness, except as a civilian, but in that capacity aided and encouraged the Confederate cause all he could. In 1876 he was again elected County Commissioner, and filled the office two years. This was the last of his political life. He died March 3, 1886, in his seventy-eighth year. For many jears he was a member of the Masonic fraternity, and nearly all his life was a prominent and devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church. His wife died July 7, 1873, aged fifty-six years. She was a member of the same church, possessed many amiable traits of character, and, like her honored husband, was held in high esteem by all who knew her. Of their fifteen children eleven lived to be grown and eight still survive. Names of the eleven are as follows: Lucy J., widow of Jerry Brown, resides in Los Angeles, California; Marietta, deceased; Isabella, wife of J. W. Jones; George W., of Urayson county, Texas; C. L., of this county; J. J., deceased; Adelia, deceased; Mary E., wife of T. J. Jackson; Thomas F.; Albert R., a Methodist minister of Kaufman county, Texas; Anna E., wife of John Jackson, of this county; Emma E., deceased.

Thomas F. Nash received his early education in the common schools of this county, as he grew older attended some of the more advanced schools, and subsequently engaged in teaching in Dallas county. After teaching five years, he located on a farm and engaged in agricultutal pursuits until he was thirty-three. In 1883 he became editor of a paper in Mesquite, called The Mesquiter, and was thus employed three years. Previous to this, in 1880, he was elected to the State Legislature, tilling that honored position most acceptably four years. He had also served the public two years as Justice of the Peace previous to his election to the Legislature; was a member of the School Board when he was only twenty-three; has also served in other minor offices. Duriu;* the time he was in the Legislature he was Chairmari of the Committee on State Affairs, and was one of the leading young members of the House. In 1878 he began the study of law. It was not, however, until 1888 that he decided to make law his profession. He consulted with Charles F. Clint, of Dallas, but did not study under him; passed an excellent examination in May, 1889, and was admitted to the bar by Judge R. E. Burke. His practice is already assuming large proportions, and he starts out with flattering prospects for a brilliant career as a lawyer. He has been a resident of Garland since 1887.

Mr. Nash was married, December 25, 1873, to Miss Mary F. Hobbs. Her father was killed while in the Confederate army when she was quite small, and her mother died when she was nine years old. Her paternal great-grandmother was a first cousin of George Washington. She was reared by her grandfather, James M. Ware, a prominent man in this section of the country. Mr. and Mrs. Nash are the parents of eight children: Eliza Adelia, Mary Leola, Lillian, Olin Welborn, Albert AVare, Flora Estelle, Ettie Lee and Lorena Inge.

Mr. Nash is a member of the A. F. & A. M., Duck Creek Lodge, No. 441, of which he is Master; is also a Knight of Honor. He and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

fAMES M. KENNEDY, a prominent and highly respected citizen of Dallas county, Texas, was born in Fairfield district, South Carolina, March 14, 1830. When he was eight years old he moved with his parents to Alabama and settled in Tallapoosa county, and two years later his father died at that place, leaving a wife and eight children in fair circumstances. The settling up of the estate, however, consumed all the means, and the widow found herself almost penniless. In the meantime some of her children had married and settled in life. Not content to remain where she had lost her fortune, she with three of the youngest children moved to Arkansas. This was in 1843. In 1845 they again changed their location, settling in Dallas county in May of that year, James M. being then fifteen years of age. There were few settlers here at that time. Mrs. Kennedy's capital consisted of only |55, and it was with difficulty that she managed to support her family and get a start on the frontier. The year following her arrival she took a homestead claim of 320 acres under the Peters colony, and James M. secured 160 acres. He was a good hunter and kept the family well supplied with meat, and as time rolled on the prospect brightened. Opportunities for schooling were beyond his reach and his education was limited, but he picked up enough learning to enable him to transact business and to carry him successfully through life.

Mr. Kennedy remained with his mother and assisted her until 1853, when he married and began life for himself. He progressed rapidly, and in 1860 was a full partner with a Mr. Witt in the Trinity mills and had a good store in connection with tliem. In the meantime he had had some misfortunes, namely, sickness in his family and the death of his wife. In 1858 he married again. When the war came on he was the possessor of a snug little fortune. He out loose from everything, sold out, took slaves and Confederate money as payment, and when the war was over he found his hard-oarned fortune swept away.

In 1861 he joined the Confederate army, Witt's Company, Darnell's Regiment, and soon after entering the field his company was transferred to Scantlan's squadron, in which he remained until tiie war closed. After the exemption law William Jackson was made Captain of their company and Mr. Kennedy was promoted to First Lieutenant. He participated in many skirmishes and a number of battles; was mustered out at Hempstead, Texas.

Returning home, he found himself without anything save the 160 acres of land which he had kept. He rented it and turned his attention to trading, which he followed successfully three years. He then settled down to farming and stock-raising, and has since met with prosperity. He now has an estate consisting of 800 acres of tine land, well stocked with horses, cattle, hogs, etc., and improved with substantial buildings.

Mr. Kennedy first married Miss Prudence Rowe, daughter of W. B. Rowe. Her father, an Englishman by !)irth, and a farmer, came to Texas in 1848 and settled in Dallas county, where he died in June, 1871. He was a man of high standing, his family being otie of the leading ones in the count}'. By this happy union one child was born, October 29, 1854, and was named William.

The young wife and mother departed this life September 29, 1855. October 3, 1858, Mr. Kennedy wedded Miss Charlotte Drake, daughter of George D. and Rachel (Tompkins) Drake. Her parents went from New York to Ohio and from there to Illinois, where, in Marshall county, she was born, September 17, 1839, and in 1855 they emigrated to Texas. Her father was a brick mason by trade, but after coming to Texas was engaged in farming. He died at Fort Scott, Kansas, in 1883. By his second marriage Mr. Kennedy has had nine children, two dying in infancy. Six are still living, viz.; George, born September 14, 1868; James M. and Samuel M. (twins), July 19, 1871; Emma, September 29, 1873; Mattie, September 10, 1875; and Marsh, March 27, 1877. Ella Prudence, the oldest, born March 3, 1866, married George F. Myers, August 20, 1885^ and died February 4, 1890, leaving three children, - Amy, Willie and Jay. George F. Myers is the son of Rev. J. M. Myers and grandson of Rev. David Myers, an old pioneer who organized the First Baptist Church in Dallas county.

Politically, Mr. Kennedy is a Democrat; socially, a member of the Masonic fraternity; and religiously, lie and his family are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, he having been a leader in church work for many years.

It should be further stated in connection with the family history of Mr. Kennedy that his father, Samuel Kennedy, was born in South Carolina, and that his grandfather, William Kennedy, a native of Ireland, came to America with five brothers, served through the Revolutionary war, and afterward settled in South Carolina. Samuel Kennedy married Miss Mary Murf, daughter of Samuel Murf, who was of German extraction, and of their four sons and four daughters the subject of tiiis sketch was the seventh born. Mrs. Kennedy died in Te.xas, April 8, 1861.

W. GILBERT, M. D., of Dallas county, was born in Oktibbeha county, Mississippi, January 31, 1854, a son of John W. and Sail ie (Brough ton) Gilbert. The father was born near DeKalb, Georgia, and when a young man he went to Mississippi and settled in Oktibbeha county, where he accumulated considerable property. He lost heavily by the war, and always made his home in Mississippi, where he died, in 1881, at the age of eighty-one years. Our subject's mother also died in Oktibl)eha county, in 1877, at the age of sixty-seven years. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert were the parents of eleven children, as follows: Jackson Marion is a physician residing in LewisvillC; Denton county, Texas; Franklin Monroe, also a physician, resides in Hood county; the two daughters, twins, died in infancy; John Wesley died in 1883, after reaching maturity; Allen Broughton was killed at Canton, Mississippi, in tiie Confederate army; Laurania Ann, the widow of D. W. Price, resides in Dallas county; Thomas B., a farmer by occupation, resides in Comanche county, Texas; Zachariah Taylor died in Louisiana, in 1882, leaving a family ; Henry Clay io a physician of Smithfield, Tarrant county, and D. W. our subject.

The latter was reared in his native county to the age of twenty years, after which he came to Texas, in company with a friend, and located in Grapevine, Tarrant county, in January, 1874. He began reading medicine under his brother. Dr. F. M. Gilbeit, in that city, in 1876, and took a course of lectures in 1879-'80-'81 at the Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, graduating in March, 1881. Mr. Gilbert located and began practice near Grapevine, Tarrant county, where he continued until 1884, and in that year he moved to where he now lives, near Sowers, Dallas county. He formed a partnership for one year with Dr. T. B. Dorris, and one year later with Dr. A. B. Greg, but has practiced mostly alone. The Doctor is devoted exclusively to his profession, following it assiduously and successfully. His practice embraces all branches of the profession, and extends over a coqsiderable scope of country. On locating where he now lives he purchased a small farm, which he has in a good state of cultivation, and on which he has a neat residence.

The Doctor was married in April, 1882, to Miss Marietta Board man, a native of Dallas county, and a daughter of J. R. Boardman, an early settler of (xrapevine Prairie. She died in 1885, leaving one child, Taylor Clyde. Mr. Gilbert was married a second time, in September, 1886, to Mrs. Fannie Willis Roberts, a daughter of John W. Trigg, of

Tarrant county. The Doctor takes considerable interest in matters relating to liis locality, and lends a helping hand to everything for its advancement. He is a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and is actively identified with the affairs of that order.

;ILLIAM O.HARRISON, a wellknown resident of Dallas county, is a son of Jonathan Tyler and Jemima Delina (Osborne) Harrison, of English ancestry. The first ancestor of that name who first came to America, was Terrell Harrison, a Presbyterian minister, who settled in Virginia. His son, Jonathan, was born in tiiat State, and afterward settled in Fairfield district, South Carolina, where he was a planter, and at one time was Sheriff of that district. His son, Burr Harrison, was the father of Jonathan Tyler, the father of the subject of this sketch. Jonathan Tyler Harrison was born and reared in Fairfield district, and in early life was engaged as an overseer. He worked four years as such for Governor Means, and was also overseer for h's estate after the Governor's death. Mr. Harrison then moved to Anderson district, same State, where he was engaged for some years in the mercantile business, and still later was a contractor for railroad work, having assisted in building the Blue Ridge railroad, in 1860. He was engaged in that occupation when the war came on, and he then enlisted in the Confederate army, in the Second Rifies, which was raised in Anderson county. He entered as Third Lieutenant, and was afterward promoted Second Lieutenant, and was in Lonestreet's Corps, Jenkins' Brigade, and took part in all the battles which were fought by his command. He served until the fall of

1864, when he resigned, on account of riieumatisin, and also received a flesh wound in the battle of the Wilderness. After the close of the war Mr. Harrison returned to his farm in Anderson district, where he was engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death, March 14, 1870. He was a member of the Missionary Baptist Churcli throughout life, and was twice married, first to Jemima Delina Osborne, a daughter of W. M. Osborne, of Fairfield district, South Carolina, where Mrs. Harrison was born and reared. They had the following children: William O., our subject; Sallie, who died when young; Jonathan B., of Dallas county, a sketch of whom appears in this work; James W., of Denton county, this State; Thomas Jefferson, of Dallas county; and Fannie, the wife of Sanford Wilburne, of Union district. South Carolina. The wife and mother died in Anderson district, June 8, 1858, and Mr. Harrison was afterward married to Eliza McDaniel, also of Anderson district, and tiiey had four children : Jefferson Davis, of this county; Carrie, who became the wife of W. N. Sanders, of Dallas county, and is now deceased; Susan, the wife of P. F. Sanders, of Dallas county; Mamie, the wife of J. B. Hammel, of Tarrant county, Texas.

William O. Harrison, the subject of this sketch, was born in Fairfield district. South Carolina, November 3, 1847, and was reared in that and Anderson district. He emigrated to Rusk county, Texas, in the winter of 1870, where he remained one year, and then went to Marion county, and two years later to Dallas county, settling on Grapevine Prairie, near where he now lives. He bought hig present farm of ninety acres in 1875, all of which was open prairie, and he has since added to this place until he now owns 166 acres, most of which is under cultivation.

Mr. Harrison began the mercantile business at G-ibbs about three years ago, under the lirm name of Harrison & Co., his partners being his brothers, Jonathan B. Harrison and T. J. Harrison, and he is also engaged in the gin business. Mr. Harrison secured the post office at Gibbs in 1887, and soon afterward became the Postmaster, which position he has since held, and is also Notary Tublic and general counsel for the neighborhood. He was married in Elbert county, Georgia, June 20, 1865, to Laura McDaniel, a daughter of Edward and Frances (White) McDaniel. of that county. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison have had the following children; Minnie, the wife of Byron L. Nix, of this county, Lena, wife of W. N. Sanders; Emma, now Mrs. C. ^. Corbin; Fannie, Laura, Edward T. and Birdie. Mr. and Mrs. Harrison are members of the Baptist Church. Politically, Mr. Harrison is a Democrat.

fW. HUFFHINES, a farmer near Richardson, Dallas county, was born in this ® county, in 1853, the eldest of five children born to Christopher and Martha (Smith) Huffhines, natives of Kentucky. In 1852 the parents emigrated with horse teams to Dallas county, having been forty-eight days on the road. They settled on White Rock, near Richardson, where the father bought a section of partly improved land. In 1863 he enlisted in Colonel Stone's regiment, Captain Stratton's company, and died in July of the same year, near Mansfield, Louisiana, of disease contracted in the service. The mother was married, in 1868, to Thomas J. Stratton, and now resides in Armstrong county, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. Iluft'hines had the following children: J. W., our subject;

J. F., engaged in farming and in the stock business near Amarillo, Texas; Mary, wife of W. B. Alkire, of North Dallas; Elizabeth, wife of T. J. Gillock, of Fort Scott, Kansas; Ophelia, now Mrs. Charles Chick, of Washburn, this State.

The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life and educated in the schools of Dallas county. After reaching maturity he received from his father's estate ninety acres of land, which he improved, and to which he has since added until he now owns 250 acres. In 1887 he moved to the city of Dallas, and bought and improved liis residence, having been one of the first to build in this portion of East Dallas. Mr. Huffhines is identified with the Democratic party. He is a member of one of the early pioneer families of this county, where he was born and reared, and has always taken an active part in everything for the good of the city or county. He was married in Dallas county, in 1875, to M. A. Wright, a native of Kentucky, and a daughter of Merrick and Elizabeth (Pope) Wright, also natives of Kentucky. They came to Dallas county, in 1871, settling near Richardson, but later moved near the city, where the mother died in 1889, and the father is still living. Mr. and Mrs. Huffhines have one child, Elmo. Mrs. Huffhines is a member of the Baptist Church.

fRANClS M. WHITE, an old and highly respected citizen of Lancaster, Dallas county, was born in White county, Tennessee, a son of Woodson P. and Nancy (Mitchell) White, natives of Virginia. The father accompanied his parents to middle Tennessee at an early day, settling in White county, where he lived and died, in 1840.

He was a successful farmer and merchant aud a mau of public note, having served his county in the State Legislature a number of terms. His father, John White, vpas a Revolutionary soldier, and an early settler of middle Tennessee. Our subject's mother, 7iee Nancy Mitchell, was born in Tennessee, near Knoxville, a daughter of David Mitchell, where she lived until her death. She was married to Woodson F. White, in that county, in 1810, and died there in 1871. Mr. and Mrs. White had the following children: Dyer P., who died in White county, Tennessee, leaving a family; Elizabeth, deceased, was the wife of Martin Young; Byrd, who went to Alabama after reaching his maturity, where he died before marriage; Louisa, living at Tulula, Menard county, Hlinois, was the wife of William G. Green; Martha, who died at Sparta, White county, Tennessee, was the wife of Edward Murray; William L., deceased, a sketch of whom will be found in this work; Mary, the wife of Joel B. Coolidge, of Lancaster, this county; Francis Marion, our subject; Maria, wife of S. D. Mitchell, living two miles west of Lancaster; and John Rufus, a farmer near Lancaster.

The subject of this sketch, Francis M. White, was born October 18, 1828, and was reared in his native county to the age of nineteen years, after which he went to Menard county Hlinois. Two years later, in 1851, he came to Texas, and made his first permanent stop about five miles east of the present village of Lancaster, where he had friends and acquaintances. After prospecting for a time he purchased 580 acres of land of Robert Sloan, which he improved. Mr, White remained on this purchase until about 1869, when, having reduced a large part of it to cultivation, and having accumulated some means, he sold out and came to Lancaster, and began the mercantile business. He bought out his brother's interest in an establishment in the village, and the new firm became Ellis & White. In 1879, he sold out, since which time he has been engaged mainly in farming, and he now owns one of the best improved places in the vicinity of Lancaster. Mr. AVhite was married in May, 1853, to Martha J. Gray, a native of Montgomery county, Hlinois, and a daughter of A. K. Gray, a pioneer settler of this county. The wife and mother died in June, 1867, leaving four children: Louisa, wife of M. M. Miller, of Lancaster; Florence, the wife of R. M. Clark, of Oak Cliff; Emma, now Mrs. J. A. Boyd, of Lancaster; and Wayne L., at home. Mr. White was again married, in November, 1870, to Miss Mattie T. Trigg, a native of Alabama, and a daughter of Mrs. M. B. Trigg, a resident of Aniarillo, this State. Mr. and Mrs. White have four living children, viz.: Maud, Forest, Lester and Stella. Mr. White has held the usual number of small offices in the community where he has resided, aud is a member of the Methodist Church, as was also his former wife; the present Mrs. White is a member of the Baptist Church.

fOHN BRYAN. - To this person belongs the distinction of being the first male child born in Dallas. He was born January 9, 1846, and was reared as a farmer in and near Dallas, receiving his education here. In the fall of 1864, when nineteen years of age, he enlisted in the Confederate service, and remained until the close of the war. He was with the forces that operated in Louisiana, Arkansas and Texas, and was in an almost continuous skirmish and many battles. He received no wounds, however, and was never captured; was mustered out in Milam county, Texas, and returned home. Here he was engaged in farming and stockraising until 1872. That year he went into Uvalde and Llano counties, bought cattle and engaged in ranching, remaining there fifteen years. He then returned to Dallas county, and in 1889 purchased a farm and settled here; and here he expects to remain.

October 10, 1867, he was united in marriage with Miss Sallie Thompson, a daughter of Moses and Martha Thompson, of Tennessee. They came to Texas in 1865 and settled on a farm in Dallas county. Here her father, Moses Thompson, died, in Erath county, Texas, January 25, 1890. To Mr. and Mrs. Bryan live children have been born, namely: William W., November 12, 1870; Robert Lee, July 21, 1873; James B., March 21, 1877; Luella, October 12, 1882; and Burta M., May 5, 1886.

Mr. Bryan's father, John Neely Bryan, was born at Fayetteville, Lincoln county, Tennessee, December 24, 1810. He was reared in his native town, received a liberal education, and in his jounger days was engaged in teaching. After leaving Tennessee and while in Arkansas he studied law, and after coming to Texas he practiced that profession. He landed in this State when it was yet a Republic, in 1839. He traveled over it considerably and finally decided on the location of Dallas. Returning to Red river, he got a man to accompany him to help guard against the Indians; came back, planted his stakes, obtained a hcadrieht of 640 acres, built a block-house and called the place Dallas. His first work was to get some land under cultivation. He broke soil where the courthouse now stands, planted corn and raised a crop. That year a heard of buffaloes ran thi'ough his corn and did it great damage. In 1841 or '42 he laid out a portion of the town, and soon afterward a few cabins sprang up. February 26, 1843, he married. July 26, 1846, the county of Dallas was organized. He gave to the county ninety-eight lots, besides donating the public square, the same on which the new courthouse is now being built. He gave bond for deeds of these gifts, and in 1855 received his title from the Government and made deeds for same. The town grew slowly, and in 1861, when the war broke out, it was only a little trading post. Previous to the war Mr. Bryan sold his claim and relinquished all right to the town. Soon after hostilities began he joined the army, but as he was too old was mustered out of tiie service. Finally he went in as a substitute, remaining until the war ended. He then served one terra as Justice, after which he settled on a farm and was engaged in agricultural pursuits until the time of his death. He departed this life September 14, 1877. He was a bold and fearless man, and during his early travels on the frontier met with some narrow escapes from the Indians. He made the trip to California, was all through New Mexico and Arizona, and after an absence of about four years decided to come home, and made the journey alone.

The mother of John Bryan was, before her marriage. Miss Margaret Beeman. Her father, John Beeman, was a native of North Carolina, and her mother, Emily Beeman, of South Carolina. They met and were married in Illinois, and in Illinois Mrs. Bryan was born, September 29, 1825. In 1840, at the age of fourteen, she came to Texas with her parents and located at Dallas, where she was subsequently married to John Neely Bryan. Six children blessed their union, four of whom grew to maturity, viz.: John Bryan, wliose name heads this sketch; Elizabetli F., born December 4, 1847; Edward T., June 2, 1849; and Alexander L., October 3, 1854. Edward died January 30, 1879, at the age of twenty-nine years and eight months.

John Neely Bryan was a member of the Presbyterian Church from early manhood up to the time of his death. His widow is a member of the Baptist Church. She is still hale and hearty, and has many pleasing reminiscences of her early pioneer life, which she relates in a vivid and charming manner.

|OAII GOOD, a resident of Farmers' Branch, Dallas county, Texas, was born in Page county, Virginia. He was reared on a farm and received an ordinary English education. Being of a mechanical turn, he took up the carpenter's trade and worked at it in Virginia, and also to some extent after he canie to Texas. In 1839 he moved to Kentucky, and from there, the following year, to Tennessee. In the latter State he was employed in overseeing negroes. While in Tennessee he was married, and when he arrived in Texas, in 1846, his family consisted of a wife and three children. He took a headright in Dallas county, under the Peters Colony, thus acquiring 640 acres of land. He subsequently bought an acre and a half adjoining the town site of Farmers' Branch. He also has twenty-four and onehalf acres within a mile of the town, a part of his headright. He worked at his trade in the summer and made rails for his farm in the winter.

In 1863 Mr. Good was conscripted into the Confederate army, and served eight months, his services being confined to this State. He was a member of Captain Mc-

Mrs. Good's parents, Elisha and Sarah Fyke, natives of Alabama, came to Texas in 1846. Her father was a mechanic by trade, but after coming to Texas was engaged in farming. He was in the Florida war, and received wounds there that finally ended his days, his death occurring in July, 1860. His wife died the winter after their arrival in Texas.

Mr. Good is of German extraction, but of his ancestors he knows little. To him and his wife eleven children have been born, namely: George W., Sarah A., William L., Mary E., Martha A., Virginia, Helena, Francis M., Kuth E., and James A. and John A. (twins).

Mr. Good has a nice residence in Farmers' Branch, where he is comfortably situated. Of late years he has sold some of his land and divided some among his children, retaining a farm of 176 acres and 102 acres of timber laud. For four years he served as Justice of the Peace. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and of the Missionary Baptist Church.

f HO MAS F. KING, a contractor for gravel and composition roofing, was born in the West of Ireland in 1847, the fourth of ten cliildren born to Martin and Mary (Gibbons) King, natives of Ireland. The parents left their native country in 1854 and came to Kentucky, where the father was a brick and stone contractor. Thomas F. was was about seven years of age when he came to this country, where he first worked a few years on the Mississippi river, commencing as deck sweeper, and later was promoted to mate. In 1861 he enlisted in the Rodney Guards, and served in what was known as Bonham's regiment and later numbered the Twenty-second Mississippi Infantry. He was taken a prisoner at the battle of Cliampion Hill, but afterward escaped and returned to steamboating on the Mississippi river, where he again worked on the river some years; then went to Montana Territory, where he served as a Government scout until 1871.

Mr. Kin2 came to Dallas in 1887, where bought a lot and built his present tine residence. He contracts in all the towns of northern Texas, and has also done a great amount of rooting in the city of Dallas.

He was married in Kentucky, in 1874, to Mary Cone, a native ot Ireland, and daughter of Peter Cone, a resident of Kentucky. Mr. King takes an active interest in politics, voting with the Democratic party. Socially, he is a member of the Coeur de Lion Lodge, No. 8, K. of P., and religiously, both he and his wife are members of the Catholic Church. Mr. King has witnessed the complete growth of Dallas from a small hamlet, is the second oldest roofer in the State, and has made all he possesses by his own industry.

R. COLE, a farmer and stock-raiser of Dallas county, was born in Lucas I' county, Ohio, in 1837, the second of seven children born to A. H. and Lydia (Rappleye) Cole, natives of New York. The parents were married in the latter State, and in 1835 emigrated to Lucas county, Ohio, where they bought Government land. The father was a Baptist minister and also followed the occupation of farming. He remained in Ohio until near his death, which

W. R. Cole, our subject, was reared and educated in his native State, and also attended the academy at Kalamazoo, Michigan, a few terms. He then engaged in farming, and in connection withjit followed surveying and had chargeof laying and planningcounty roads and ditches. He came to Dallas county, Texas, in 1875, and bought a partly improved farm, which he afterward sold. He now owns a good farm of over 200 acres, which is in a good state of cultivation, about three miles from the city of Dallas, and where he is also engaged in raising a good grade of stock. Mr. Cole was married in Lucas county, Ohio, in 1861, to Eliza Taylor, a native of that county and daughter of William and Mary (Corson) Taylor, natives of Pennsylvania. The parents moved to Lucas county in an early day, where the father became an extensive farmer and lumberman. His death occurred in 1884, and his wife died some years previous. Mr, Cole lost his wife by death in 1873, and by that union there was one child, Addie, now married to G. T. Godsy, of Dallas. He was agam married, in 1875, to Eva Balderson, a native of Lorain county, Ohio, and daughter of Robert and Jane (York) Balderson, natives of England. The latter emigrated to Loraiu county in 1849. Mr. Balderson still resides in that State. Mr. and Mrs. Cole have seven children: Mary, Willie, Robert, Thomas, Hattie, Clara and Bertha. The parents are both members of the First Baptist Church, and Mr. Cole is President of the Pleasant Yiew Alliance, a member of the Farmers' Alliance, and was the first President of the Central Texas Horticultural Association, which has since merged into the State Association. As lecturer of the Dallas County Alliance, in 1891, he earnestly advocated the

Alliance "sub-treasury" plan, on account of which he was required to resign his place on the Democratic Executive Committee of that county, a matter which caused no little stir in the political circles of the State of Texas.

sOSES M. CLARK, of the firm of Curfman & Clark, Garland, was born in Cocke county, Tennessee, in 1843, the tenth child of Moses and Hannah (Robison) Clark, natives of North Carolina. The father was a farmer by occupation, and came to Tennessee prior to the birth of our subject, in 1841, and settled in Cocke county, where he engaged in farming. The paternal grandfather of Moses Clark died at tiie age of 104 years, and his son, the father of our subject, was eighty-eight years of age at his death. He was twice married, and of his eleven children nine grew to years of maturity, viz: Mary P., the widow of Alex. Block, of Arkansas; George, deceased; Rachel, widow of Louis Coats, of Tennessee; Betsie, wife of D. Lillard; Nancy, wife of Monroe Lillard; Sarah, widow of James Clark; Eliza J., wife of Royal Black; Isaac, deceased, formerly a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church of North Carolina, and for some time a Presiding Elder of the church. Mrs. Clark died in 1865, and Mr. Clark was afterward married to Mrs. Varina Lillard. Mr. Clark died in 1875, at the age of eightysix years, and his last wife died about the same time.

M. M. Clark, our subject, receiv^ed his education in the common school of Tennessee, and at the age of twenty-one years commenced life for himself. He entered the Confederate army at the age of seventeen years, joining Comj)any C, Twenty-sixth

Tennessee Regiment, commanded by Colonel John M. Lillard, of Meigs county, and Captain Ed Allen. Mr. Clark participated in the battles of Fort Donelson, where he was captured and taken to Camp Morton, and after eight months was exchanged at Yicksburg, Mississippi; his next battle was Murfreesboro, Tullahoma, Chickamauga, and other engagements. His company was one of the five who captured the artillery and wagon trains of the late General Gillam, at Russellvilie, routing the opposing forces and running the fire over thirty miles. Mr. Clark was captured at Asheville, North Carolina, but succeeded in making his escape. His captain was captured at the same time, and the two were confined in a house, and while the guards had their back turned they jumped through the door, and those succeeded in making their escape. Mr. Clark was paroled at Kingston, Georgia, after which he went to Tennessee, but again returned to Georgia for four or five months. His first farming was done in 1866, in Marshall county, as a hired hand, but after one year he returned to Giles county, Tennessee, and remained until 1870. In that year he came to this State, locating a quarter of a mile from Garland, where he worked for two years on shares; next he rented land until 1883, when he bought seventy-five acres of partly improved land, paying $11 per acre, to which he afterward added seventy-seven acres and twenty acres of timber land. The 152 acres are now worth from $40 to $50 per acre.