Dallas County, Texas - The whole text, 1892 (part 25 of 32)

James Oldham, oursubject's maternal grandfather's brother, was a Lieutenant in the war of 1812. Our subject has been president of the Fire Relief Association of Dallas Fire Depaitment since its organization in 1885. This organization has done great good among the firemen of the city. It is in a flourishing condition at present writing, having a surplus in the treasury of $900. John North (Mrs. Wilkinson's grandfather) was in tlie war of 1812 as private. Benjamin Wilkinson our subject's uncle was is the Mexican war and was killed at Point Isabel.

fOHN V. HUGHES, a prominent business man of Dallas, and president of the Hughes Bros. Manufacturing Company, 717 south Ervay street, is a native of Mecklenburg county, Vii'ginia, born October 17, 1858. His parents are Dr. F. E. and Mary Elizabeth (Veneble) Hughes, the father a native of Kentucky, the mother of Virginia. Dr. F. E. Hughes is the founder of the inanufacturiug house that bears his name. He emigrated from Kentucky to the Lone Star State, in 1850, locating at Indianola, where he practiced his profession very successfully for a period of twenty years, with the exceptions of a short residence in Virginia, and during the late war. In August, 1872, he moved to the flourishing young city of Dallas, leaving a large and lucrative practice, besides having charge of the marine, city and county hospitals. He was quarantine phy sician of Matagorda bay, and by the request of the Governor of Texas, assisted by his nephew, Dr. H. K. Leake, he formulated the quarantine laws of the State, which were passed by the State Legislature; subsequent to which, at the suggestion of Dr. L. A. Edwards. Medical Director and Surgeon of the United States Army, stationed at San Antonio, he submitted his views on national quarantine and board of health to Surgeon General Barnes at Washington, District of Columbia, which met with the views of that high functionary, and were by him brought to the attention of the United States Congress and became a law, which has been the means of almost totally excluding yellow fever from this Government from that date. The old gentleman takes great pleasure in showing to his friends the files of this correspondence, which he has carefully preserved.

Locating in Dallas, he at once entered on a large and laborious practice, which in the course of eight years so impaired his health that he was compelled in 1880 to retire. Having a natural fondness for chetnistry and hygiene, he decided to teach his sons the art of combining and manufacturing pure and healthful food and beverages, in which he has most admirably succeeded. He is now nearing the dead line of the psalmist, and has retired from business upon ample means with which to spend the evening of his life in comfort, and in counseling and gladdening the hearts of his children and numerous grandchildren. As an honored citizen and worthy pioneer, Dr. Hughes deserves and receives the respect of all who know him, and is held in high esteem for his many excellencies of character.

Mr. J. V. Hughes was educated at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. He went into the mercantile business soon after, and of late years has been connected with the manufactory whicii bears his name. They tnanufacture baking powder, extracts, cider, ales, mineral water, clarine, fruit preserves, jellies, fruit butters, fruit vinegar, relishes, cordials, bitters and ground spices. They ac^t on the principle, and a very true one too, that Texas can manufacture goods of equal quality and as low, if not lower, in price than their JSlorthern brothers. Their goods being manufactured in Texas, are sold principally in the

Southern States. If parties can get equal value for their investment, then wiiy not patronize home industries? Why should any one send his money North or in any other direction, when he can get goods of equal value at home? This is a question every Dallasito siiould answer: Why not patronize home industries?

Mr. Hughes was married in 1885, to Miss Anna Laura Curl, daughter of John and Julia Curl, the latter a daughter of Judge Taylor, an Englishman very honorably noted in early Texas history. He was one of the signers of the Declaration of Texas Independence. He was a noted man and worthy in his day. Mr. Hughes has four cheery children who are the joy and pride of the household. Their names are: Henry Curl, Ethel, Julia and Anna Laura. Mrs. Hughes is a member of the Catholic Church. Mr. Hughes has been identified with tiie growth, development and progress of the city during all his mature years, and ig now one of its prominent and prosperous citizens.

ff M. HOWELL, proprietor of the Dallas Nursery and Greenhouse, has been "^ prominently identified with the horticultural interests of Texas for some years, and by his siiperior knowledge and experience in tljis branch of industry has gained an enviable re])utation.

Mr. Howell was born in Jefferson county, Tennessee, August 2, 1849, the youngest of a family of ten children. His parents, Patton and Nancy (Routh) Howell, were natives respectively of I^no.x and Jefferson counties, Tpeni^essee. His father was an edge-tool and wagon manufacturer, and followed that business all through life. In 1868 he emigrated to North Carolina, and from there to Alabama, where his death occurred, in 1868. The mother died in Tennessee, in 1857. In those States the subject of this sketch was reared, receiving the most of his education in Alabama. He learned the carpenter's trade and worked at it for some years. In 1870 he came to Texas, an employe of a nursery lirm, and since that time has been engaged in the horticultural business here. He first spent one year in Collin county, and from there came to Dallas county. He located in the city of Dallas in 1872, and, under the firm name of Howell & Thomas, started a nursery on McKinney avenue, the first nursery in this county and about the first in northern Texas. They continued on McKinney avenue until the fall of 1877, when they were eaten out by grasshoppers. In 1882 he established his present business, beginning with fruits of all kinds, and about 1887 adding the greenhouse. His first plant was only 10x20 feet; he now has about 6,000 feet of glass. About fifty acres are devoted to fruit, and altogether he has 243 acres, all under a good state of cultivation.

Mr. Howell was married in March, 1877, to Julia Routh, a native of Collin county, Texas, and a daughter of Rev. Jacob and Lodemia A. (Campbell) Routh, natives of Tennessee. Her father, a Baptist minister, came to Collin county, Texas, in 1852, and settled near Piano on a farm. He made that place his home until the time of his death, in 1879. Her mother still resides on the old homestead there. This union has been blessed with the birth of five children, namely: Naimie Pauline, Roy Patton, Lee Morgan, Earle Ragan and John Marion.

zation of the Horticultural Society of the State of Texas. In that organization he has taken an active interest. He has served as Treasnrer of the Central Texas Horticultural Society, and is now President of the State Horticultural Society. Recently he has been appointed chief of the horticultural exhibit of Texas at the World's Fair in Chieacro. He has attended many of the different horticultural meetings throughout Texas, aiid has frequently addressed them.

In politics Mr. Howell has also taken an active part, afhliating with the Democratic party. In 1874 he was Alderman from the Second Ward of Dallas; represented the Eighth Ward from 1889 to 1891; served as a member of the School Board in 1888.

^ILLIAM H. LEWIS, Sheriff of Dallas county, was born in Georgia, the son of E. B. Lewis, who was a native of South Carolina and a farmer. William II. was reared in the latter State a,nd educated in the public schools, completing his course in the iiigh school at Anderson, South Carolina. At the age of sixteen years he came to Texas, and for awhile was employed on a farm; next he was in the employ of the Texas Pacific Railroad Company, and next was Deputy Assessor, appointed by R. D. Rawlins. He was continued in office as. Sheriff until 1886; was then Constable for Precinct No. 1 for a short time, but the same year was elected Sheriff of Dallas county on an independent Democratic ticket, by a majority of 800, and two years later he was re-elected by 3,200 majority! and again in 1890, he was the first man ever elected in Dalla'^ county to the third term. He has in his employ eleven men, and probably no office in the State is conducted with greater satisfaction to the public. Politically he is a stalwart Democrat. He is unmarried, is a Knio-ht of Pythias, a Knight Templar, and a member of the order of Elks.

ILLIAM H. BOALES, a farmer and stock-raiser of Dallas county, was born in Christian county, Kentucky, in 1820, a son of James and Elizabeth (Bradshaw) Boales, natives of Ireland. The father left his country in an early day, and after being twelve months on the water he landed in New York, then went to Christian county, Kentucky, where he engaged in farming. William H. was reared in that county, and aided in opening up the home farm. In 1853 he came to Dallas county, Texas, and bought 144 acres of partly improved land, north of Dallas, which he has since improved, and the whole place is now under a good state of cultivation.

Mr. Boales was married in Kentucky, in 1850, to Parmelia Gordon, a native of Christian county, and a daughter of William and Louisa Gordon, early pioneers of Kentucky. Mr. and Mrs. Boales have four living children, viz.: Mary Jane, now Mrs. William Ferris, of Brownsville, Texas: Mr. Ferris is deputy Sheriff most of the time; Katie, wife of Jacob Waymer, of Dallas; Elizabeth, now Mrs. V. Boales, of East Dallas, and Hiram H., a resident of this county. The mother died in 1870, and in 1878 Mr. Boales married Esther Santifer, a native of Mississippi, who came to this county in 1879. By this union there is one child, Willie. Mr. Boales has taken an active part in politics, voting with the Democratic party, and, religiously, is a Deacon of the Cumberland Presbyterian Church: his wife is a member of the Baptist Chiircii. For twenty years Mr. Boales knew many men in and about Dallas, but since then times have changed. He never aspired to office but attended strictly to the best interests of his farm. On his coming to Dallas deer and antelope were plentiful and at night would come up and sleep with the cows.

T. HAWPE, a progressive farmer and stock-raiser of Precinct No. 1, was I-** born in the city of Dallas, Dallas county, Texas, in 1852, and is the seventh of a family of children of T. C. and Electa (Underwood) [J awpe, natives of Georgia and New York respectively. At an early day the father removed to Tennessee, where he was married, and in 1845 he came to Dallas county, and here his wife died. He took up a tract of 640 acres near Rylie, and made some improvements on the place. Later he sold out and went to Dallas city. He soon became prominently connected with local politics, and served as Mayor of Dallas city, as Sheriff and Clerk of the county, and as Justice of the Peace. When the war broke out he raised a regiment in Dallas county, and served as Colonel two and a half years. He was killed in Dallas city, in August, 1865. He was one of the most enterprising and energetic of men, and was possessed of the qualities of mind that settle countries, found cities, and establish governments. His wife survived him until January 29, 1876.

The subject of this notice was reared and educated in Dallas. He was trained to the occupation of a farmer, and has followed that calling all his life. He owns a small tract of land near Dallas, which he has improved, and it is now in a high state of cultivation. Mr. Hawpe was married in Dallas county in 1876, to Miss Laura E. Sypert, a native of the county, and a daughter of James and Nancy (Thompson) Sypert. Her parents were natives of Tennessee, but removed to Eastern Texas in 1842. Ten years later they came to Dallas county, and first located in the city of Dallas. Afterward they removed to a farm in the county, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Both passed away in 1872. Mr. and Mrs. Hawpe are the parents of six children: Nannie Lou, Zula, Ada Ethel, Electa, George A., Cora, and the last a boy, Raymond Grigsby. They are members of the Christian Church, and stand high in the social circles of the county. They have witnessed many changes in the country, and have largely assisted in the development of many of the most worthy enterprises of the county. Mr. Hawpe has never taken an active interest in politics, but has not failed to discharge his duty as a loyal citizen by exercisina; his right of suffras^e. He adheres to the principles of the Democratic party, and is a member of the Farmers' Alliance.

PJ^ARRY L. KYLE, M. D., of Dallas, W\ was born in Madison, Jefferson county, "^Is Indiana, August 16, 1846, a son of Dr. James W. and Sarah (BantzjKyle, the former a native of Rockingham county, Virginia, and the latter of Indiana. In his younger days the father was an itinerant minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in the Kentucky Conference. Later, he engaged in the study of medicine, and graduated at theLTniversity of Kentucky about the year 1850, his principal instructor being the late Dr. Samuel Groce, Professor of Surgery in that college. The Doctor and his wife were widely known and universally respected as pioneer settlers. They were devout and worthy members of the Methodist Church, and their names were associated with many circumstances connected with early Methodism in their locality. The father removed to Indiana about 1849, settling at Paris, where he was engaged in the drug business for a time, and during the last twenty-five years of his active life he practiced medicine at North Vernon. He is still living, an honored resident of that city, aged about seventy-six years. His wife died there in 1857, at the age of twenty-nine years. They were the parents of four children; Harry L., our subject; Kate, wife of W. S. Pratiier, Mayor of North Vertion for several years. She died in 1882, aged twenty- eight years, leaving two children: Harry Lee and Walter W.; Thomas W., the next in order of birth, resides in California; and Edwin Y. married Miss Jennie Reed, of Lexington Kentucky.

Harry L. Kyle was educated in the public schools of North Vernon, in the Seminary at Hanover, and the Franklin College, at Franklin. He studied medicine with his father four years, and later, in the spring of 1866, graduated at the Cincinnati College of Medicine atid Surgery. He practiced in his native town for over three years, and then, on account of ill health, went to Edgetield Junction, Tennessee, and a few months later came to Texas, landing in Dallas county, January 24, 1871, Dr. Kyle was engaged in practice at Frankfort, in the northern part of the county, until 1890, when he came to this city. While in Indiana he was examined in sevei-al insurance companies, and since his residence in this State he has met with good success.

Major John E. Harper, of Denton county, Texas. He now resides at Pilot Point, with his wife and family. They reared ten children, seven of whom are now living, Mrs. Kyle being the eldest in the order of birth. She is a member of the Baptist Church, and her husband of the Methodist Episcopal Church. He has been a member of the Masonic order for the past twenty years, and has filled many of the offices of the lodge, such as Senior and Junior Warden, Secretary, etc. In addition to his unquestioned professional skill, the Doctor is a gentleman of kind and genial disposition and courteous manner, which gains him sincere friends in whatever community his lot is cast.

EORGE FULLER, a gardener of West Dallas, is a native of the village of Wickham, Cambridge, England, and a son of George and Hannah (Johnson) Fuller, the former a native of Wickham, Cambridge, and the latter of Isleham, Cambridge. The parents came to Canada in 1877, and they now reside in the province of Ontario, where the father is a plain old English farmer. The parents had eleven children: Ann, wife of Thomas Palmby, of Ontario, Canada; Johnson, a resident of Hardin county, Iowa; Ellas, of Ontario, Canada; George, our subject; Maria, married and living in Hardin county, Iowa; Martha, now Mrs. John Fuller, of Hardin county; Ruth, deceased; Mina, wife of William Baily, of Iowa; Lizzie, now Mrs. Thomas Stephens, of Dallas; and Eliza, deceased.

George Fuller, the subject of this sketch, was born May 3, 1845, and was reared and educated in his native country. In 1874, he came to America, and in 1874 to Texas, settling in Bryan, where he resided until August, 1877. The next year and a half he was engaged in gardening in Dallas, and afterward bonght about four acres in South Dallas, where he engaged in that occupation on his own account. He subsequently sold this and bought seven acres in West Dallas, where he now resides.

Mr. Fuller was married in England, November 5, 1869, to Emily, a daughter of Uriah and Mary Howlett. Mrs. Fuller, a native of the village of Wickham, Cambridge, is the youngest of three children now living: Mary, now the wife of Samuel Sutherville, resides on the Isle of Ely, county of Cambridge, England; and Eliza is the wife of James Dennis, and resides in the village of Wickham. Mr. and Mrs. Fuller have had four children: Zephaniah, who was born in England, died in Bryan, this State; Burnas, also deceased in Bryan; and May and Ada were bora in Dallas, where they still reside.

H. JENKINS, proprietor of a saloon at No. 159 Main street, was born in V* Dallas county in 1860, the ninth of ten children born to William and Cynthia (Thomas) Jenkins, natives of Alabama and Tennessee respectively. The parents were married in the latter State, and in 1845 came to this county, where the father took up a headright. His death occurred in Dallas county in November, 1871, and tlie motlier still resides on the old homestead.

The subject of this sketch was reared to farm life to the age of fourteen years, after whicli he came to Dallas and engaged in the drug business for Dr. Cochran. In 1879-80 he was Deputy Postmaster at Dallas; in 1881-'82 was engaged as mail agent for the

Texas Pacific & International Railroad; from 1882 to 1887 was traveling salesman for L. Craddock, a wholesale liquor dealer; and in 1887 he began his present business. Mr. Jenkins was also Foreman of the Volunteer Fire Department for about six years. Politically, he votes with the Democratic party, and socially, is a member of the Independent Order of Red Men. He has been identified with the interests of Dallas since fourteen years of age, and has always taken an active part in everything for the good of the city and county.

EORGE WILKINS, D. D. S., Dallas, Texas, was born in the State of North Carolina, in 1856, and is a son of George and Elizabeth (Crantield) Wilkins, who were descended from English ancestors. In his youth he went to Indiana, and there grew to maturity, attaining an excellent standing as a thoroughgoing young business man. His tastes naturally inclining to a profession, he took a course of medical lectures in Indianapolis. During this time he developed a considerable mechanical genius, and turned his attention to dentistry. He studied with Dr. Haskell, of Chicago, and after a thorough course he began the practice of the profession. In 1878 he came to Texas and practiced in some nf the leading cities of the State. After ten years he had attained a reputation for skill and conscientious dealings that placed him in the front ranks of the profession. He removed to Dallas, where he was soon established in business. He has ever been an industrious student, and has made some discoveries and improvements in the methods of treatment and filling of teeth which have been adopted by the profession. He has a well-equipped laboratory in which he employs men of ability and experience, and turns out some of tbe most perfect productions He is one of the numerous examples of what may be expected from Young America, and he is certainly deserving of tlie reward he is daily receiving. He is wholly absorbed in his professional and scientific studies, and gives little thought to political questions.

Dr. Wilkins was married in May, 1881, to Miss Reavis, of North Carolina, a lady of unusual abilities. Slie is an active member of the Baptist Church.

J. MAMN, a contractor and plasterer of Dallas, was born in Mnhlenburg ® county, Kentucky, January 10, 1851, the eldest of live children born to J. B. and Sally Ann (Ingram) Mann, natives of Virginia. The father was married in Kentucky, where he had settled in an early day, and a short time afterward removed to Henry county, Missouri, in 1876 to Dallas county, and in 1878 to Williamson county, Texas, where he still resides. The mother died in Henry county, Missouri, in 1871. Our subject was reared to farm life in Marion county, Illinois, and learned his trade in Sedalia, Missouri, and followed the same for some years. He came to Dallas in 1877, and followed farming in that county, near Lancaster, one year, after which he returned to Sedalia and followed his trade. In 1886 he came again to Dallas, where he has since been engaged in contracting. Among his principal buildings are the Kimply, Dargan and Scollard, and among the principal residences may be mentioned those of T. E. Eakin, Colonel William J. Keller, J. S. Moss, C. B. Gillespie, Judge McCormick, Colonel

J. B. Simpson, John E. Myer, and many of less note. Mr. Mann uses the Acme cement, which is the hardest plaster known, and he was the iirst to use a car-load of lime in Dallas.

He was married in Windsor county, Missouri, in 1871, to Miss Mary Susan Blanchard, a native of Kentucky, and daughter of M. D. and Catharine (Browning) Blanchard, natives of Kentucky. The parents settled at Deep Water, Henry county, Missouri, where they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Mann have had four children: Bertha; Freddie, who died in 1885, at the age of nine years; Katie Belle, who died at the age of fourteen months; and an infant, deceased at the age of ten months. Mr. Mann votes with the Democratic party, and takes an active interest in politics. Socially he is a member of Tannehill Lodge, No. 52, A. F. & A. M.; Dallas Chapter, No. 47, R. A. M.; Cceur de Lion Lodge, No. 8, K. of P., in which he is Past Chancellor; Cffiur de Lion Division, No. 5, Uniformed Rank, K. of P.

ENERAL JOHN S. GRIFFITH, the subject of this sketch, was born in Montgomery county, Maryland, June 17, 1829, and is a son of Michael B. and Lydia R. (Crabb) Griffith, natives of Maryland. The maternal grandfather was General Jeremiah Crabb of Annapolis, Maryland. The parents of John S. removed to Missouri in 1835, and in 1839 went to San Aumistine, Texas. The father was not successful in business, so that our subject received a limited education, and was early in life thrown upon his own resources. There were six children in the family, of whom he is the third-born, and they received the greater part of their instruction from their mother in the evenings when they were gathered around the pineknot tire after the day's work was done. John S. was trained to agricultural pursuits, but in 1850 he secured a position as clerk with John A. Winn in San Augustine, Texas, and continued there for twelve months. He was then ready to go into business on his own account, and for five years he carried on a thriving and profitable trade. He then disposed of this business, and invested in a stock ranch in Rockwall county, and removed thence in 1859, which he managed until the begining of the Civil war. In 1861 he enlisted in the Sixth Texas Cavalry, and was made Lieutenant Colonel in the start. In 1863 he returned to his home from ill health, and was elected a member of the Legislature to represent Kaufman, Van Zandt and Henderson counties. In the same year he was appointed Brigadier General by Governor Murrah, and organized a brigade of Texas State Troops and held the position until the close of the war. He was again sent to the State Legislature, representing Kaufman, Van Zandt, Rains and Wood counties. In 1876, he removed to Terrell, Kaufman county, Texas. He came to Dallas county in the year 1889 and located in Oak Cliff, where he has since been engaged in farming and the real-estate business. He made large investments in Oak Cliff, and has been one the most stanch supporters in founding this beautiful suburb.

General Griflith was married December 18, 1861, to Miss Emily Simpson, a daughter of John J. and Jane M. Simpson. She was born in Nacogdoches county, November 28, 1834, when Texas was under Mexican rule. Ten children were born of this union, three of whom are living: William C, Augustus B., and Emma, the wife of M. C. Roberts of Terrel. William C. is the father of four children, and Augustus B. has one child.

General Griffith is a member of Redland Lodge No. 2, A. F. & A. M. and and also belongs to the chapter and commandry; politically he is a Democrat of the most ardent type, and zealously supports all the true issues of Democracy. And as a result of strict business habits, and the expenditure of an energy that acknowledges no failure, he has acquired a large amount of property, and is still residing in Oak Cliff, Dallas county, Texas, and is respected and esteemed by all who know him for his candor and integrity.

D. MOXLEY general agent of the Washington Life Insurance Company, * of New York for northern Texas, was born in Jefferson county, Kentucky, August 5, 1855, a son of Richard S. and Mary T. (Davidson) Moxley, natives of Virginia and Baltimore. The father was cashier for many years of the Louisville National Bank, was well known over the entire State, and was a resident of Louisville for about fifty years. He was one of the builders of the First Presbyterian Church, and later an officer in the College Street Presbyterian Church. His death occured in February, 1887, at the age of sixty-seven years. His widow still resides in Louisville, aged sixty-five years. Mr. Moxley was a man of good business qualifications, of the strictest integrity and was as highly respected as he was widely known. In him the truest and purest type of religious life were united.

gaged with tlie insurance company with which he is still connected. His work is altogether in Texas, and he represents one of the best companies in this line of business. Mr. Moxley was married in February, 1892, to Miss Leonard, a daughter of Mr. Leonard of New York city. Mr. and Mrs. Moxley are both members of the Presbyterian Church.

11^' J. A. BROWN, the first Jndge of Dallas city, was born in Marion county, " Kentucky, February 2, 1855, the eldest of seven children born to Jerry M. and Lucy J. (Nash) Brown, natives of Kentucky. The parents were married in their native State, and in 1859 came to Dallas, where the father worked at the blacksmith's trade. In 1861 he enlisted in Colonel T. C. Hawpe's regiment, and was with his company until 1863, when he was detailed to come to Dallas and take charge of the Government shops, and was so engaged until the close of the war. Jerry Brown was elected Sheriff of this county in 1866, for two years, but after a short service was removed on account of being an obstruction to reconstruction. He was again elected in 1869, for a term of four years. His death occurred in November, 1879, and the mother now resides in Los Angeles county, California. Grandfather T. J. Nash came to this county in 1852, and settled on a farm in Precinct No. 4, which he improved. He was a member of the Secession Convention in 1860, was County Commissioner eight years; and his death occurred about 1881; his wife died in 1873. The father of our subject owned the land where the Windsor hotel is now located, and in 1866 he bought the old Darnell homestead on Columbia, between Jefferson and Market streets.

T. J. A. Brown, our subject, was reared in the city of Dallas, and educated at the Kentucky University, at Lexington, Kentucky, two years. After tinishing his education he returned to this city and read law under the tutelage of Judge Coombes and John J. Good, and was licensed to practice law March 4, 1876. He formed a partnership with Colonel Nat. M. Burford, which continued until about 1887. Mr. Brown served two years as City Judge, two years as City Recorder, one year as Mayor, pro tem. was Alderman from April, 1886, to April, 1887, and from April, 1889 1o 1891 as City Judge.

He was married in this city, in 1883, to Miss Ada Smith, and they have two children, - T. J. A. and Mabel. Mr. Brown has always been prominently identified with this county, ai.d has witnessed the growth of Dallas from a population of 250 to its present magnitude. Socially he is a member of the order of Red Men at Dallas, and politically is identified with the Democratic party.

ELLIS COOMBES, Jr., was born in Johnson county, Texas, November 23, 1863, and is a son of Judge Ellis Coombes. When an infant he was brought to Dallas county and was reared in Dallas, receiving his education in this city and in Ad Ran College, Thorp's Spring, Texas.

Mr. Coombes was married, September 1, 1881, to Miss Susie L. Hudson, a native of Johnson county, Texas, and a daughter of J. B. Hudson, now of Somervell county, this State, who cainc from Kentucky to Dallas county at an early day. After his marriage Mr. Coombes engaged in farming in Dallas county, where lie has continued in agricultural pursuits with the exception of three years spent in Ellis county. He settled on his present farm in 1888. To thera live children have been born: Gano, William, Iva, Mina, and Benjamin F. He and his wife are members of the Christian Church, and his political relations are with the Democratic party.

lEORGE A. KNIGHT, United States Marshal for the Northern District of Texas, was born in the State of New York, where he passed his childhood and youth. He made the most of his educational opportunities, and what was lacking in training has been made up to him by that less gentle teacher, experience. At a comparative early age he began steamboating on the Ohio river, and continued the business for many years. He filled the position of clerk and pilot, and was made Captain before leaving the river. He became thoroughly familiar with the Ohio from its source to its mouth, and had many narrow escapes from dangers incident to river life.

At the beginning of the Civil war he enlisted in the One Hundred and Eightyeighth Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and carried liis musket through three years of active service in camp and lield. He trod his weary way through long inarches, and participated in battles and sieges, passing into dangers and trials that are not met outside the battlefield. Upon the expiration of his term of enlistment he joined the One Hundred and Eighty-eight Ohio Volunteer Infantry, and served until the surrender. He was never wounded and was never in the hospital. He was promoted successively to the rank of Captain, and afterwards served on General Van Cleve's Staff as Assistant Adjutant General. After the close of the conflict he returned to steamboating, but after a brief service he connected himself with the railrords south of the Ohio river, as transportation agent. He then entered upon a career that covered twenty years of active and faithful service; he traveled over every portion of the United States, gaining an unlimited fund of information on all railroad topics.

In 1882 Mr. Knight came to Texas as the Southwestern representative of the Pennsylvania company with headquarters at Dallas. He filled this position until 1887, when he connected himself with the 'Frisco Line iu the capacity of Southwestern Passenger Agent with a jurisdiction over Texas, Louisiana, New Mexico and Indian Territory. He discharged the duties of this office with the usual zeal and energy that have characterized his transactions until his appointment as United States Marshal, his commission being signed within ten days of the application, on the 9th day of April, 1889, by President Harrison. His second commission, which is for four years, was signed January 27, 1890. He has 100,000 miles under his control as Marshal, and three federal courts, one at Waco, one at Graham, and one at Dallas. The services of from fifteen to eighteen deputies are required; but so perfectly are the forces organized that a greater number of criminals has been captured than in all previous administrations. He is mustering officer of the G. A. R., and the rapidly increasing membership is largely owing to his interest iu the Post.

sons are assisting their father. The Captain is a stanch supporter of Republican principles. He is a man of the highest sense of honor and commands the respect and entire confidence of the community.

iLINY FISK TERNELL, a farmer and breeder of fine stock, is prominent among the substantial men of Dallas county, and his career thus far has been both honorable and successful. He was born in South Boston, Halifax county, Virginia, October 22, 1829, and was the seventh son and thirteenth child of sixteen children, born to James and Elizabeth (Talley) Ternell, both natives of the Old Dominion. Our subject's great-grandfather Ternell was an Italian, and his great-grandmother was an English lady; they emigrated to this country daring the Revolutionary war. Grandfather Talley came from Scotland and settled in Virginia at a very early day.

Pliny F. Ternell's youth was spent on the farm, and with no opportunity to get an education until he was grown. Then he passed all his spare time in study, and attended school after he was thirty-two years of age, thus acquiring a good practical education. When twenty years of age, he engaged as a clerk in a boot and shoe store in Caswell county, North Carolina, remained there three years, and six months later embarked in business for himself, continuing this for eight years. August 9, 1852, he wedded Mrs. Mary Farthing, whose maiden name was Talley. In March, 1857, he united with the Missionary Baptist Church at Marion, Smith county, Virginia, and the same year was licensed to preach. He followed his ministerial duties until 1867, and during that time he went to Independence, Grayson county, Virginia, where he attended the academy for six months. In 1860, he began a course at Alleghany College, and was engaged in hard study there when the war broke out; he then served two years in the Confederate army. During the war he served under Floyd in the sanitary department for eighteen months, after which he returned to his old home in Virgin! . and taught school in connection with his church duties, for three sessions. February 8, 1867, he left his native State and remo^'ed to Rutherford county, Tennessee, where he taught school and preached the gospel for some time. He subsequently started out on foot to engage in tnissionary work, and on the meeting of the association in the fall of 1868, he was employed at |500 per year to continue his work in Duck river and Concord associations. He continued with that charge one year and then accepted a call at Carroll ton, Alabama, where he received a salary of $800 per year, and where he had charge of three churches. After this he was in William Jewell College, Clay county, Missouri, until sickness prevented him from remaining longer, and in 1871 he accepted an appointment from the Rome Mission Board of New York, to collect money for that mission, liis field being the north half of Alabama and Mississippi. He worked at this one year and then sent in his resignation, so that he might come to Texas. He was then offered the same position and Texas as a field. He preached for eight years and managed a farm of 200 acres. His second marriage occurred October 21, 1874, to Miss Ann M. Daniel, a native of Kentucky, and the daughter of Rev. A. E. Daniel. Mr. Ternell retired from the ministry in 1883, after faithful service in the vineyard of the Lord, and after lie had baptized several hun- dred persons and married 200 couples. He is now engaged in raising thoroughbred horses, cattle and hogs, and his horses are numbered among the best in the county. Socially, he is a member of the A. F. & A. M., the I. O. (). F., S. of T., the Grange and the Farmers' Alliance. Politically, he is a Democrat. He is a self-made man and what he has accumulated in the way of this world's goods is the result of his good management and energy. He is now in his sixty-third year, still active in person and enjoying good health.

tAVlD C. NANCE. - As a man of business, Mr. Nance's name is well known in Dallas couifty, and every step of his business career has been illustrated with acts of liberality and kindness. With each vital interest of his section and his people, he has been closely identified; and as a result he has the confidence of all who know him.

His father, Allen Q. Nance, was born in Kentucky, in 1813, in Green county, and in 1832 removed to Illinois. He came from Cass county, that State, to Dallas county, Texas, in 1852, settling a mile and a half northwest of De Soto, where he remained until his death in 1873. He was a self-made man, for he began the battle of life for himself with comparatively nothing, and at his death was in very comfortable circumstances. He was a Democrat, and was for many years a member of the Christian Church, in which he was Elder for a time. His wife, Elizabeth W., who was a daughter of Daniel Deeren, a native of Virginia, was born in Green county, Kentucky, in 1826, and in her early girlhood was left an orphan. In 1839 she went to Illinois with a brother-in-law, and there she married Mr. Nance, January 11, 1841. They had eleven children, viz.: David C; Mary Jane, who died in 1890, the wife of James Reagan, of Brownwood, Texas; Columbus, who died in infancy; Gustavus A., who resides in Dallas county; Ellen, now the wife of George W. Bowman of Palo Pinto county; Anna L., the wife of William Home of Dallas county; Sarah C, the wife of John Cruse of Calloway county, Missouri; Charles P., who resides in this county; Etta, the wife of Benjamin Brandenburg and a resident also of this county; John H., who died in infancy; and Lee, who died at the age of eight years.

The paternal grandfather, Zachariah Nance, was a Revolutionary soldier and served in the battles of Stony Point on the Hudson, July 15, 1779, and Yorktown from the 9th to the 19th of October following. He witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis at the latter place, seeing him hand up his sword. He was married twice, - first to Jane Wilkins of New Kent county, Virginia, in 1785, and lastly to Elizabeth Bingley, nee Morris, of James City county, Virginia, December 15, 1802, who became the paternal grandmother of the subject of this sketch.

The paternal great-grandfather, who also bore the name of Zachariah, and his wife, Susanna Duke Sherman, were early settlers near Jamestown, Virginia.

D. C. Nance was born in Cass county, Illinois, February 2, 1843, came to Texas with his parents in 1852, locating on a farm one and one-half miles northwest from De Soto. He remained with his parents until September, 1861, at which time he enlisted in the military service of the State, and subsequently of the Confederate States. He was a member of Company E, Twelfth Texas Dragoons, under command of Colonel W. H. Parsons, a brother of the Chicago anarchist, Albert Par-

HISTORY OP DALLAS COUNTYsons. Mr. Nance was in the Cache river battle near tlie town of Cotton Plant, Arkansas, July 2, 1862, in which engagement his horse was killed under him and he himself sustained three severe wounds. He was captured also, and made his escape the same day. A peculiarity of this day's work is the fact that one of his wounds was made by the tirst ball tired in that battle.

During the winter following, he was engaged in the manufacture of gunpowder at Waxahachie, Texas, in answer to a requisition made by the Legislature of this State. In the spring of 1863, there was an explosion and the mill was blown to atoms, Mr. Nance being the only one left alive. Subsequently he returned to the army and was in about thirty eagagements along Red river in 1864, sustaining no injuries in any until the last, the Yellow bayou battle, on May 10, in which he was wounded again, twice. After his recovery he was appointed First Sergeant of his company.

At the close ot the war he returned to his father's house, penniless, and applied his hands to the plow handles. At the age of twenty-five he turned his effects into money and took a course of study in the Bonham schools for two years, after which he turned his attention for a time to teaching. In 1874, he purchased a farm near Bonham, Texas, where he remained sixteen years. In 1889 he purchased the old homestead near De Soto, where he still plies his vocation of farming and cares for his aged and widowed mother; but in connection with this he also owns and operates a general mercantile establishment at I)e Soto, where his business has made his naine familiar to many.

1844, and came with her mother to Texas, in 1857. She was the daughter of James and Susan Hackley, both of whom are now dead. She has borne Mr. Nance four cliildren, viz. : Charles C, who manages his father's farm; James A., his father's store; Quilla, a son, and Anna Laura are yet school children.

In politics, Mr. Nance is a liigh-tariff Democrat, and is the present Postmaster of I)e Soto. Up to 1880 he was identified with the Christian or Campbellite Church, but since that time he has been a Restitutionist, having discarded many of the popular doctrines of the Spiritualists or Imiuaterialists. Prominent among these are the doctrines of heaven and hell, of immortal souls and of endless punishment. He believes there is a God and a Christ; that the Bible reveals something of their chara«ter and intentions; and that one of these intentions is that all men shall live again, on the earth, though not in pain as now. He also believes there will be in that day one universal, unending kingdom over all the nations, present, past and future; that this kingdom was foretold by the prophets and proclaimed by the apostles of our Lord as the kingdom of God, - which proclamation they called the Gospel.

He is descended from a well known and highly respected family of Kentucky. Ilis grandfather, John McConnell, when but seventeen years of age, forced his way to the frontier, in 1790, settling in what is now St. Charles county, Missouri, where he found a race of hardy farmers and stock-raisers. Old

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Missoiirians will reineinber the tavern and stage stand kept by this sturdy pioneer on the Boone's Lick road, eight miles west of St. Charles.

James MoConnell, tiie father of the subject of this sketch, was born in Missouri in 1804, and was an honest, hard working pioneer, devoted to agricultural pursuits and stockraising. He married Mary Ann Voegtie, a native of Rottweil on the Rhine, Germany, who emigrated with her parents to America, and located near the McConnells. Slie came of an excellent family of High Germans, was well educated and very intelligent, and proved a helpmeet in the fullest acceptation of the term. The father of our subject was a strong Union man at the time of the war, but after its close he made peace with those of his neighbors who held an opposite view, and passed to the life beyond in June, 1865, mourned by all who knew him.

The subject of this sketch was next to the youngest of seven children - six sons and one daughter - and inherited that energy and integrity of character so conspicuous in his ancestry. His early life was spent in his native county, where he was educated at the district schools and reared to farm life. In 1881 he came to Texas, and, in 1885, engaged in the real-estate business, in which he has been a successful operator ever since. His methods are liberal and he deals strictly in facts, which is as rare among real-estate men as is an honest lawyer in the legal fraternity, for which reason he is entitled to all the more credit.

Mr McCoimell was married June 15, 1876, to Miss Letta Vassallo, an estimable lady and a native of Louisiana, the only child of Francesco N. and Sarah (Dye) Vassallo. Her father was a native of Genoa, Italy, and was an artist; he died in Memphis, Tennessee, in

1860. The widowed mother afterward married Dr. J. H. Mitchell, and, in 1865, moved to Illinois, where Mrs. McConnell was educated. The mother is a native of Kentucky, and moved to Texas about 1887

Mr. McConnell belongs to no church or secret society, but is one of the initiated members of the First Spiritualist Society of Dallas, and, after years of careful investigation, is thoroughly convinced that spirit return and communication is a fact in nature.

Although deeply cherishing the memories of his native State, Missouri, yet he has grown to regard his adopted State with sincere affection. He is a fixture in Dallas, and his heart swells with pride at being a citizen of the largest State in this glorious Union.

fOHN T. CORCORAN, a planter residing in precinct No. 3, Dallas county, Texas, forms the subject of this biography. He was born in Tennessee, January 20, 1820, a son of Thomas V. Corcoran, whose father was a native of Ireland and a first cousin of the great philanthropist, Washington D. Corcoran. Thomas V. Corcoran was a native of Maryland, and was a hatter by trade, dividing his time between working at that trade and teaching school. His father was also a teacher. Mr. Corcoran's mother was a daughter of James and Anna (Wallen) Keen. Of the four children born to his parents he is the oldest. The others are: Mary A., widow of John McKinzie, of Tennessee; Erastus D., a resident of Simpson county. Kentucky; Nancy Ann, who became the wife of Jnbal Paine, is now deceased. Thomas V. Corcoran died about 1829, at the age of twenty-nine years. His wife lived until 1882, and passed away in her eighty-fourth year.

John T. Corcoran received only a limited education, never going to school after he was ten years old. His father dying when he was quite young, John was bound out at the age of twelve to a Mr. Draper to learn the tailor's trade. He worked at that trade for many years in various portions of the Western States. In 1851 he came from Kentucky to Dallas county and settled in the neighborhood of where Garland is now located. After renting land three years he pre-empted 160 acres of fine black land - the place on which he still resides. This he obtained at a cost of fiftytwo cents per acre. There were no fences in this part of the country and the settlers were few. He made the trip here from Kentucky with horse teams, and was only six weeks on the way, that being the shortest time in which the journey could be made in those days by wagon. In guarding against the Indians and in developing his frontier farm, Mr. Corcoran experienced many difficulties. His only possessions when he arrived here were his team, wife and four babies. At the time the war broke out he had forty acres under cultivation and a comfortable log house. In 1862 he joined the Southern army, and during his service participated in many important engagements; was home on a furlough at the time of the surrender. When he left home he had 380 head of cattle and a number of horses, and when he returned he could find only thirty cattle and horses. For some years after the war times were hard; but he went to work with renewed energy, and his present prosperous condition is the result.

Mr. Corcoran was first married in 1843, to Elizabeth Daniel, daughter of John and Mary Daniel, of Monroe county, Kentucky, and by her had five children, namely: Mary K., deceased; Manerva W., wife of Amos Nanney, of Johnson county, Texas; Thomas

E., deceased; Malinda C, wife of Joseph Key, of Kockwall county, Texas; Margaret A., wife of James Irby, of Johnson county, Texas. The mother of these children died in 1853, the second year after coming to Texas.

In 1857 Mr. Corcoran was united in marriage with Virginia Cherry, daughter of Lemuel and Malinda (Marshall) Cherry, natives of Tennessee. Her father died when she was quite young. To Mr. Corcoran and his present companion seven children have been born: William E., a resident of Johnson county, this State; John II. deceased; Eliza, wife of Robert Baird, of the Nation; Robert L. ; Lucy B., deceased; Mary B. and Thomas J.

Previous to the war Mr. Corcoran served as Constable four years. He is a member of the Grange, and holds the office of Master. Both he and his wife are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church. Some of his children belong to this church and others to the Baptist and Christian Churches.

;R. ALVA W. CARNES, one of the most successful physicians of Dallas county, Texas, and a self-made man in every sense of that much abused term, was born in Tennessee in 1856, to the marriage of Alexander C. and N. F. (Word) Carnes, natives also of that State, the father born in 1829, and the mother in 1835. Alexander C. Carnes moved to Weston, Collin county, Texas, in 1853, and tiience to Lancaster, Dallas county, where he was engaged in teaching for thirty-five years. He graduated from the East Tetmessee University in 1847, and began teaching, continuing this until 1888, with the exception of two years, when he was editor and proprietor of the %m\\.\\\'\\\e Journal. While eiigageil in teaching he held positions in the following institutions: East Tennessee University and Rurritt and Manchester Colleges. In 1852 he married Miss Word, who was attending Burritt College, in which Mr. Carnes was professor of mathematics at tiie time of their marriage. Her death occurred in 1868. She was an estimable woman, had many friends, and was a consistent member of the Christian Church. This union was blessed by the following children: William D., born in 1854, is a resident of Dallas county^ and engaged in the real-estate and life-insurance business; Aha W.; Lillie C, located at Weston, Collin county, Te.\as, is the wife of U. S. Wade, M. D.; Maggie C. and Laura. The last named was born January, 1862, and died November, 1890. She was the wife of J. R. Best, a resident of Ardmon, Indian Territory, where he is e:igaged in farming and stock- i-aising. The paternal grandfather of these children, William D. Carnes, was a native of North Carolina, but moved from there to Tennessee, where he died. He was one of the foremost educators of the State, notwithstanding the fact that he did not commence his education until after marriage, his eldest children attending school with him. He subsequently became president ot the East Tennessee University, and was also the founder of Burritt and Manchester Colleges. The paternal grandmother, Elizabeth (Billingsly) Carnes, was a native of Tennessee, and died in 1860. The maternal grandfather. Dr. David F. Wood, was a native of North Carolina, and died in 1885; and the maternal grandmother, Mary P. (Yost) Wood, was born in Tennessee and was of Irish descent. Dr. Alva W. Carnes remained with his parents until nineteen years of age, but prior to this time he completed, within two sessions, the course of the East Tennessee University, and taught one year. From 1876 to 1879 he was proprietor and editor of the Sparta Index, init in the last named year he came to Texas, where ho began the study of medicine under his brother-in-law. Dr. Wade, at Weston. He remained with him until 1881, when he attended Vanderbilt University at Nashville, Tennessee, and graduated from that institution in 1883. He then began practicing at Weston, remained there until 1886, when he went to Hutchins, wliere he has had an active and lucrative practice since. He has been County Physician for five or six years. In 1883 he was married to Miss Minnie L. Simpson, a native of Sparta, Tennessee, born in 1861, and the daughter of William and Lee (Metcalf) Simpson. Her grandfather was General Simpson. To Dr. and Mrs. Carnes has been born one interesting child, - Campbell, whose birth occurred in 1884. Dr. Carnes is very popular in Dallas county, bobh professionally and socially, and has a happy faculty of making many warm friends.

,LEXANDER WATSON is one of the lljy.K substantial and enterprising citizens of Dallas. He has been identified with the interests of this city since his arrival here in the fall of 1885. As a contractor and builder he has established a reputation second to none. Tiiis fact is amply demonstrated by the many buildings that have sprung into existence under his efficient hand.

When he was quite young, Alexander Watson apprenticed himself to the carpenter department of the tirm of T. M. Barkliea Linen Company, in county Antrim, with whom he retnained for seven years, at the end of which time he found himself master of the carpenter trade. He was afterward employed in the great ship yards of Glasgow, Scotland. In 1882 he sailed for America, landing at New York. After remaining there one year he went to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and si.\ months later to St. Louis. Missouri, where he lived for eighteen months, working at his trade all the while. From St. Louis he started for California, but upon his arrival at Dallas, he decided to stop here a day or two. Being impressed with the natural advantages of the future great city of the South, he concluded to make it his home. Accordingly he obtained employment, and at the end of two years went into business for himself under the tirm name of Watson «Sr Beggs. In this he has met with eminent success. Among the many buildings they have erected are the First Baptist Church; the residence of Mr. J. S. Armstrong; his own beautiful and commodious home, besides many other structures of like magnitude. The tirm of Watson & Beggs dissolved partnership in June. 1891. Since that time Mr. Watson has been carrying on business for himself, office at No. 315 Pacific avenue; hours, 6 to 8 A. M., 12 to 1:30 p. M.. and 6 to 7 p. m.

In 1887, Mr. Watson made a visit to Brooklyn, New York, where he was united in marriage with Miss Elizabeth Smith, daughter of G. W. Smith, of Brooklyn, New York. After their marriage he l)ronght his bride to their Southern home, and here they have since resided. Their union has been blest with two children: Georgia and Jeanie. Mr. Watson is a member of the First Congregational Church of this city.

Q. RICHARDSON, of Dallas county, was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, in "* 1S28, the youngest of six chihlren born to S. Q. and Mary H. (Harrison) Richardson, natives of Virginia. About the year 1790 they moved to Fayette county, Kentucky, where the father was an attorney at law. He later removed to Covington, same State, where he was killed in 1834; the mother died in June, 1833. S. Q., our subject, was reared in Bourbon county, Kentucky, and at the age of seventeen years he left home, going to Van Buren county, Iowa, where he followed farming. In 1848 he came to Texas, settling in the northwest part of Rush county, where he started a mill, but which was never completed. He served as Deputy Sheriff of Rush county, and in 1851-'52 was engaged in freighting in eastern Texas. Mr. Richardson then went to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he engaged as clerk; in 1853 he erected a mill at Henderson, Texas; in 1856 he removed to Tyler and erected a steam sawmill; in Feburary, 1859, he went to Grand Saline, Van Zandt county, Texas, and bought 4,000 acres of land including the Saline; and in 1878 he came to DaUks county and engaged in making ice. Here he bought fifteen and a half acres of land at $100- per acre, and has since made Richardson's addition to the city, and still has about one-half of his original purchase left. Richardson avenue in Dallas is named after him. Mr. Richardson enlisted in Van Zandt county, Texas, in Company I, Twenty-second Infantry, for one year and served mostly in Louisiana and Texas. He was married in Van Zandt county, in March, 18(30, to Mrs. Mary J. Casen, widow of Green Casen, and daughter of Edraond and Nancy (Blou) Williams, natives of Georgia. Tlie mother died in her native State, and the father afterward carae to Van Zandt county, in 1859, where he made his home with our subject until his death, in 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Richardson have had four children: Mar}', now Mrs. Samuel Long, an attorney of Dallas; Sarah, now Mrs. Fielder, of Grand Saline; Fannie and Dora, at home. Mr. Ricliardson is independent in politics. Both Mr. and Mrs. Richardson are members of church, the former of the Ciiristian Church, the wife and children of the Baptist faith.

F. MARTIN, deceased, was born at Campbell station, Kno.x county, I* Tennessee, in 1823, the second son and fifth child of Samuel and Julia (Reese) Martin, the former a native of L-eland and the latter of Tennessee. The father and his brother, Hugh, came from the north part of Ireland, and settled in Tennessee, where they engaged in the mercantile business at Kingston. The brothers afterwf^rd separated, and Ml"- Martin then removed to Campbell Station, where he died about 1856; his wife died at Kno.\ville, Tennessee, in 1854.

The subject of this sketch was reared in liis native place, and educated at Washington College, Tennessee. After completing his education he went to Columbus, Georgia, in company with a few lawyers, and in 1845 went into the Mexican army, and served until ^he close of the war. He participated in several battles, and after the close of the war returned to Tennessee, where he followed farming, and also the mercantile business. In 1859 Mr. Martin came to Dallas county, where he bought a prairie tract of 400 acres, a small part of wiiich was broken, and on which was a small cabin, of the native timber. During the war he was in the commissary department, and bought and furnished cattle for the Confederate army. He enlisted in 1863, in General R. M, Gano's regitnent. Captain Welsh's company. His death oc ourred near Lanesport in Bowie county, Texas, at Dr. Ware's residence, in 1865, and his remains were sent to Dallas, Texas, for interment.

W. P. Martin was married in 1856, to Eliza Jane Brown, a native of Tennessee, and daughter of General John and Nancy (Cox) Brown, the former a native of North Carolina and the latter of Tennessee. John Brown was a Colonel in the war of 1812. General Houston, who was a clerk at that time in the store of McEwens, volunteered and was captain of a company in Mr. Brown's regiment. When General Jackson was in command he was scarce of troops. At this juncture General John Brown, above referred to, raised and equipped a company for the service at his own expense. The company did valiant service at the battle of Horse-shoe.

When General Jackson was President he recommended that General Brown be reimbursed for his gallant services in furnishing the company with much needed troops, and his request was granted. At what is now the town of Rock wood, Tennessee, the coal and iron mines were awarded to General Brown for his liberality and gallant services in the war of 1812. Colonel Brown died about 1846, at the home of his brother. Major Tom. Brown, near Kingston, Tennessee. His wife died at her farm near Kingston, September 9, 1854; her age was fifty-four years. This

Brown family were of English origin, and Colonel Brown's father, John Brown, was a Revolutionary soldier. He was killed at his own home by a Tory soldier, who shot him, the ball passing through the window into his body.

Children: Lida, F. Zollicoffer and William F. Mr. and Mrs. Martin have been identified with the county for many years, and they both were in Dallas the day it was burned. Her brother, George B. Brown, came to this county when a boy, and during the war served as captain in the Ross brigade. He was in all the leading battles under General Ross, and was badly wounded at Corinth, Mississippi. He now resides at Crystal Falls, Texas, and on account of the exposures in the army, he is now in delicate health.

Mrs. W. P. Martin, the wife of our subject and an honored and most highly respected citizen of Dallas county, resides at the home farm near Dallas. Her mother was a sister of Judge William B. Reese, the Supreme Judge of Tennessee; and William B.'s father was also a Judge of the court. He was from England, where he received his education. Judge William B.'s son, William B., Jr., is a professor of law in the Vanderbilt University at the present writing.

K. HARRY, a manufacturer of roofing and fencing material, was born in -"* Staunton, Augusta county, Virginia, April 12, 1852, the fifth in a family of eleven children born to Dewitt Clinton and Matilda (Chastine) Harry, also natives of Virginia. The Harry family are early settlers of that State, and one member of the family was connected with Benjamin Franklin in the printing business. The father of our subject, a mechanic by trade, came to Dallas in 1873, and his death occurred in this city in 1877; the mother died in 1888. Of their eleven children, ten are identified with the city of Dallas: Ed B., who is connected with his brother, O. K., in the iron business; D. C, of the firm of J. M. Harry & Co., manufacturers of brick; J. M., a member of the above firm; O. K., our subject; John D., who died in this city in 1888; T. C, a member of the firm of Harry Bros., engaged in the hardware business; H. W., ali^o of the firm of Harry Bros.; W. A., who died in the city of Dallas in 1877; George Y., engaged in the plumbing business on Ervay street; Jeff D. ; Elizabeth, wife of M. P. Dazey, engaged in the feed business on McKinney avenue.

The subject of this sketch was reared mainly in Virginia, and in 1854 he removed to Rogersville, Tennessee, with his parents, where he received his education and learned the carpenter's trade. In 1870, he went to St. Louis, and two years later he came to Dallas, where he worked at his trade until 1876. In that year he established a hardware business in connection with his brother, under the firm name of Harry Bros. In 1879, Mr. Harry retired from the business, and engaged as traveling salesman for a large iron firm, and five years afterward, in 1884, he embarked in the general manufacture of roofing and fencing, in which he has since continued. The works are located in a new brick building, on the corner of Indiana and Crowdus streets, and gives employment to about twenty-five men.

Mr. Harry was married in this city, Octolier 31, 1877, to Miss Ida Hart, a native of Illinois, and a daughter of J. B. and Elizabetli (Miller) Hart, natives of Indiana. At an early day the parents removed to Illinois, later to Dennison, same State, and in 1875 tu Dallas, where the father engaged in the implement business. They both still reside in this city. Mr. and Mrs. Harry have had five children, viz.: (). K., who died at the age of four months; Clinton, also deceased at the age of four months; Lewis, who died in infancy; Lillie Bell, at home. Mr. Harry has taken an active interest in politics, voting with the Democratic party, and has represented the Eleventh Ward two terms in the City Council, and is now serving as Mayor. Mrs. Harry is a member of the Christian Church, and Mr. Harry was reared as an Episcopalian.

^OHN W. SMITH, one of the two oldest ^jf] settlers of Dallas, better known in these ^^ later years to all his friends - and they were legion - as Uncle Jack, was born in Kichmond county, North Carolina, November 24, 1805, In 1807 his family moved to Warren county, Kentucky, in which State he grew up to manhood, married and lived until middle age.

He married Miss Lucinda Blackburn of Allen county, Kentucky, and in 1844 moved to Cass county, Missouri, then comparatively a wilderness. He had heard bright stories of the fair land of Texas and he had heard also of California, and the desire to go to one of these countries took strong possession of him. Neither one belonged at that time to the United States, and the flag of his native land "Was foreign in both, Init they were painted as bright Utopias where plenty and prosperity awaited all who would seek them on their shores. California had not been developed into the golden region it later on proved to be, and save the little that Fremont, the great pathtiuder, had made known concerning it.

was but little more than terra incognita; but that daring and enterprising son of Missouri, Stephen F. Austin, had colonized Texas with some hundred of brave and hardy Americans who had wrested the wilderness in a measure from its primeval state, had driven back the savage hordes of its woodlands and prairies, had fought for and won freedom from Mexico, had set up an independent government, were building not only homes but churches, schoolhouses and cities, and with l)rain and brawn and prowess were achieving a proud destiny for a young nation.

Mr. Smith had heard these things, and in April, 1845, he came out to Texas and took a look at the lay of the land. Returning home in November of the same year, he and Judge J. M. Patterson of tliis city started together for Texas or California, tiiey had not fully determined which. At Cairo, Illinois, tiiey separated. Judge Patterson to go on to New Orleans, and Mr. Smith on through Mississippi with a drove of horses, which he intended to sell in that State, and they were to meet in New Orleans. Judj^e Patterson reached New Orleans in February, 1846, but failing to meet Mr. Smith came on to Texas, stopping in Dallas. Ten days later Mr. Smith arrived in Dallas.

They concluded to stop in Texas and cast their fortunes with Dallas. Forming a copartnership Mr. Smith and Judge Patterson entered into the mercantile business, the first store ever opened in Dallas. The towti then had four or five little cabins, was but the merest hamlet, surrounded in every direction by a wilderness. Settlers were few, homesteads were scarce, and about all of which the town and the surrounding country could boast was its future.

aiiiinals native to tlio country qnonclied their their tliirst in the Trinity river wlit^re tlio county' bridge now spans it or in the DalUis branch at any point where it now flows through the city, and fed upon tlie luxuriant mesquite and buffalo grasses indiircnous to the soil where the post otlice now stands and at other points of equal note now in the heart of the present great city.

Mr. Smith continued in the mercantile business in copartnership with Judge Patterson until in 1854, when tlieiirin ditsolved, J. N. Smith, a brother of Mr. Smith, who had become a partner in 1852, andtludge Patterson retiring. Mr. Smith continued the business alone until some time during the war, when there was no point from which to replenish his depleted stock and refill his shelves, and he clostnl up business.

Aftei' tht^ war he began business again in partnership with his son-in-law, the late Major Wallace Peak, and continued it for several years, finally retiring to enjoy the rest of a quiet old age with bis family about hira.

In 1848 he was elected County Clerk, but turned the affairs and management of the office over to the late Captain Alex. Ilarwood who for so many years tilled the office. This was the only time he ever aspired to office of any kind.

In 1800, when a .series of incendiary fires, or at least so believed to be, convulsed Texas, Mr. Smith's mercantile establishment was l)\irned out, but, while it was a great drawback to him, it served only to spur his energy and enterprise and he at once renewed business. That was a memorable year all over the country. It was the year of the great campaign between Breckenridge, Douglas, Bell and Lincoln for the presidency. Mad passion held sway in all sections of the country. In Texas the towns of Henderson and Dallas weredestroyedalmostentirely by fire, the work, it was then believed, of abolition incentliaries, and it was in that fire in Dallas that Mr.. Smith lost his mercantile establishment.

A mercantile establishment in Dallas, a hamlet of four or five cabins fortyfoui' years ago, was not a very extensive affair. It took no brigade of clerks, gentlemen and ladies, nor a battalion of cash boys to conduct the business as now; but, as the hamlet grew into a village and from a mere village at a crossing of the Trinity river to a county site, Mr. Smith's budiuoss kept pace with it, and, all along with the city from its infancy to the day of his death, he kept abreast of the times and he had no greatcir pride nor joy than to see the city grow and ilevelop and thrive and become strong and great.

He helped to organize Dallas county, to select Dallas as its coui\ty site. He saw the great city of to-day in its swaddling clothes fortyfour years ago as its four or five little cabins nestled demurely on the east baiik qf the Trinity river. He saw it grow a little and a little year by year up to the boginipng of the great Civil war, when, as a equity site in the midst of a coui)ti-y settling up, it had reached a populatioii of 600 or 700. He saw it stand still through tlie four years of the Civil war. IJe saw the young town, povertystricken when the war was over, take up again the battle ((f life where it had laid it down four years before and begin again, with nothing to begin on save hope and fortitude. He saw it advancing little by little as the years went by, with prosperity smiling brighter all the time, until, finally, in 1872, the village of 800 people heard the whistle of tlie locomotive and tlie rumble of incoming trains. Tiien a now era dawned. He saw the village grow into a goodly-sized town. lie saw other railroads come. He saw the town expand into a growing city and in eight years' time it was his pleasure to behold the village of 800 i)eople grow into a city of more than 10,000 population.

Another ten years rolled by when he was gathered to his fathers, but in that ten years he saw the prairies taken into the corporate limits of the city; he-saw the 10,000 inhabitants increased to 50,000; he saw many railroads built, street-car lines constructed with steam and electric motors; he saw the city liglited by electricity; he saw four, five, six and eight-story stone and brick buildings erected ; he lived to see the hamlet of fortyfour years ago grow into the great commercial center and metropolis of the groat State of Texas.

During these forty-four eventful years he was always the same kindly, pleasant, generous, manly gentleman, a good citizen in all senses of the word, loved and honored by all who knew him.

There are but a few of the old pioneers left. One by one they " cross over the river to rest under the trees on the other shore." He died July 13, 1890.

Mrs. Lucinda (Blackburn) Smith, was a native of Allen county, Kentucky, daughter of Robert Blackburn, and a near relative of the Hon. J. C. S. Blackburn and also Doctor Blackburn, the Democratic nominee for governor of Kentucky, in 1879.

She was married, February 22, 1843, to Uncle Jack Smith in I3owling Green Kentucky. Soon after they emigrated to Missouri and from there to Texas, in 1845. She died March 16, 1879, at the age of sixty-four years.

She, her husband and daughter settled on the banks of the Trinity when Texas was yet a Republic. She was a member of the Episcopal Church, having been baptized and confirmed by Bishop Wi'Cgg seventeen years since.

Mrs. Smith was one of those unostentatious Christians whose unobtrusive manners, devotion and duty to her family and to her friends has ever gained for her the love of all who knew her. She was truly a woman of pure thoughts, pure words and pure deeds. Around her dying bed were gathered her husband and four surviving children, her daughters, Mrs. W. W. Peak, and Misses Ellen and Lou, and her son J. Elden Smith, ministering by their affectionate attention that solace and comfort which only the presence of those we love can give to the departing spirit.

In the death of Mrs. Smith, her husltand and family have sustained a loss which to them is irreparable, and one whose memory will ever remain green and be cherished by those who know her well. She has left to all who knew her a rich heritage of goodly deeds and a loved and glad memory. It has never been the privilege of the writer to witness such deep devotion and assiduous attention as were displayed by her children during her illness. These aged people have done their part, and they <lid it well, in opening up the frontier and preparing the way for the pace of civilization and progress which the present generation now enjoy. They are buried side by side beneath the clods of the valley in a cemetery where affection will keep watch over their slumbering dust.

Of the children born to John W. and Lucinda Smith are: Mary Frances, consort of Wallace Peak; their four children are: Lula Blackburn, who married J. N. House: they reside in Dallas; John Sydney and Wallace

W. live in Mexico; the next isEden W., who is in college at St. Louis; Sydney Allen, wife of Edwin Singleton: they reside in Columbia Falls, Montana: Lula Blackburn is their only child; Loyd Blackburn was killed at the age of nineteen, November 2, 1870, by Tom Caudle, in Lancaster, Texas; Tom evaded justice then and is running at large now; Elden W. died March 9, 1891, at the age of thirty-seven years: he was a railroad contractor and a man of good business qualifications; Lula C, the youngest, is the wife of llobert D. Berrey, who is local freight agent of the Houston & Texas Central railway at Dallas; he is in every way a worthy, enterprising and good citizen, a thorough and practical business man, a credit to any community; they reside in Dallas.

^HARLES H. LEDNUM, a rising young lawyer of Dallas county , has been a resident of the State of Texas since his youth. He was born in the State of Georgia January 13, 1862, and is a son of William H. Lednum. The father removed to Texas in 1873, and settled in Waco, where Charles H. grew to manhood, and received his education. He was a student at Waco University, but at an early age left school, and became a clerk in the office of the District State Court. He served in this position for three years, and then began the study of law. He devoted himself to this most industriously and in 1886 was admitted to the bar. Soon after this event he was appointed Chief Deputy of the United States District Court for Dallas, Judge McCormiek presiding. In addition to this position he fills the office of Commissionerof thecourt. As a Clerk of the court he probably has no peer in Texas, and the high encomiums bestowed upon him by those who know him best are the strongest tribute to his ability and fidelity. Judge McCormiek says of his work: "It is exactly up, and it is uniformly correct." This sentiment is further indorsed by the leading members of the bar. His private life is without a stain, and this fact taken in connection with his untarnished reputation as an official places him in the front ranks of the public servants.

Mr. Lednum was united in marriage, in 1886, to Miss Lucie David, a native of the State of Georgia. Mrs. Lednum is a worthy member of the Baptist Church.

II. TILLEY FOWLKES, Dallas, Texas. The humanizing influences of Christianity are shown in thousands of directions, but in none in a more marked degree than that of medical and surgical science; and although Dallas has many fine physicians Dr. Fowlkes stands among the foremost.

He was born in Texas in 1868, to J. S. Fowlkes and wife, the former of whom was a Virginian and came to Texas at the age of eighteen years, which State has been his home up to the present time. He has devoted his attention to the banking business, in the management of which he has proven himself an able financier. Doctor Tilley i^'owlkes received his early instruction in Bryant and finished his literary education in a private school. He then began the study of medicine in the Jefferson Medical College in 1886, and three years later graduated from this institution with the degree of M. D., succeeding which he began making a special study of the eye, ear, nose and throat. To perfect himself in this, as well as in the general branches of the science, he went to Berlin

Germany, and entered Kaiser William's University and still has the usnal certificate of attendance. He then again took a special course in the treatment of the eye, ear, nose and throat in New York city, and has a deep and accurate knowledge of this most important branch of his calling. He is the only one of the specialists in the city wiio has received the advantages of a foreign education, and that he has improved his opportunities can be readily seen in the many people who require his services and in the many almost miraculous cures he has made. He has been an extensive traveler and has made trips to Australia as ship's purgeon.

[ANGER BROTHERS, who are proprietors of the largest, most important and most perfect wholesale and retail dry-goods establishment in the Southwest, located on Elm street, Dallas, Texas, are natives of Oberubreit, Bavaria, Germany. They are sons of Elias and Babette Sanger. In the old country, the father was a merchant on a small scale, had a family of ten cliildren, which were brougiit up to habits of industry, usefulness and economy, traits in character building, which have ever been serviceable to the children, and have proven to be of inestimable value in their career of business life and activity. The father, wife, three brothers, and three sisters came to America in 1867. That same year, not long after their arrival, two sons, Jacob and David, the former aged twenty-two, the latter aged seventeen, died with yellow fever, at Bryan, Texas, which disease was epidemic and very malignant in that locality. The two brothers were of good business qualifications, had the best of habits, and were most promising young men. The hearts of the parents, brothers and sisters, were made very sorrowful in the demise of these dear young men. Tiie sisters were, Sophie, wife of L. Emanuel, now residing in "Waco; two other sisters also, Eda, wife of Jacob Newburger, and Bertha, wife of Joseph Lehman, the latter a widow, both residing in New York city. Of the other brothers, in the order of their birth, are Isaac, Lehman, Philip, Samuel and Alexander. Isaac arrived from Germany in 1851. He clerked in New Haven, Connecticut, in a clothing establishment, at a salary of |30 and board, the first year, $50 and board the second year, and $70 and board the third year. He went to New York in 1854, as bookkeeper in a wholesale clothing house, where he remained until 1858, when he moved to McKinney, Texas. He went from Houston, Texas, to McKinney by stage, and his goods were sent in an ox wagon, which required four weeks in transit. At McKinney, he formed a partnership with Fred Baum, under the firm name of Baum & Sanger. They remained at McKinney several years, then moved to Weatherford, leaving the brother Lehman in charge of the McKinney branch. The latter entered the firm in 1859; they remained in Weatherford until the war opened, when Lehman enlisted in the Confederate service. Isaac enlisted also, but after a time returned, and was County Clerk of the Court, until the war closed. During this time, Baum took charge of the store, while Isaac gave oversight to that and served as County Clerk. About the year 1868 or 1869, Isaac returned to New York, where he still resides, unmarried, and has bcsen required to stay, being the resident buyer and financial manager of the Dallas and Waco concerns.

1866, the Houston & Texas Central Kailway made its terminus at Milliken. As the railway advanced northward, the tirm followed witli its business to the next terminus, locating from time to time at the following terminal points: Milliken, Bryan, Hearne, Calvert, Kosse, Bremond, Groesbeck, Corsicana, Waco and Dallas. Lehman lives in "Waco. He was an active member of the firm, and did much in conducting the business and bringing it to its present high standing. He withdrew from the tirm on account of ill health in 1881. He married Miss Isabella Wenk, of Williamsburg, JS'ew York. He was a man of enterprise and business push, and was the originator of the Belt Railway in Dallas.

Philip came to America alone, at sixteen years of age, in 1857, landing at New York, where he clerked in a retail clothing house, at a salary of §'2.50 a month and board for the first year. That same year, |10 of his hard earnings was saved for his parents. He stayed four months longer and received §4 a month and board. He then went to Savannah, Georgia, where he clerked for Mr. David Heller, at $10 a month and board for two years; after that he sold buggies and collected outstanding accounts for Mr. Heller. The latter left Georgia just before the outbreak of the war for his home, Cincinnati, Ohio. Philip enlisted in the Confederate States of America service, Company G, Thirty-second Georgia Regiment, and remained in the service until the close of the war, surrenderinowith Johnston near Greensboro, North Carolina. He was slightly wounded at the battle of Ocean Pond, Florida; he was in the second bombardment of Fort Sumter and Morris Island, South Carolina, just before the surrender of Charleston, and was in all the march before Sherman, through. South and North Carolina.

During this time he was acting private secretary to the Adjutant at general headquarters. He was intrusted with the dis- ]iatches of the scouts, during the Sherman n)arch, and often had the giving of countersigns. He participated in the battle of Ocean Pond, Florida, and was slightly wounded. After the war he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained five months as a clerk in a wholesale notion establishment, - Heller Brothers. He then joined his brothers in Milliken, Texas, in December, 1865, and immediately became a partner. He has lived in Milliken, Bryan, Calvert, Kosse, Groesbeck, Corsicana, and in Dallas since 1872. In 1869, Philip married Miss Cornelia Mandelbaum, of New Haven, Connecticut. Their three living children by this marriage are: Elias, Jessica and Bertina Lois. These parents have lost five children: the lirst-born of the family, Selina, a sweet, bright, lovely and promising child, died at seven years of age. She was the idol of the parents, and died of membranous croup in 1876.

In 1872, Alexander Sanger joined the firm, and in 1873 Samuel became a member of the same, doing wholesale and retail business all the while. Lehman and Samuel Sanger were located at Waco, there conducting the business, building up a large wholesale and retail trade. The firm of Sanger Brothers located in Dallas in 1872, under the charge of Philip and Alexander. The store in Dallas in 1872 occupied a box frame one-story building, 50x80; today it occupies a large brick and stone building, 100 feet of which is six stories, and 100 feet two- stories, high, at a depth of 200 feet and tlirougli to Main street, and lias forty-two complete departments. In __ the start they had no employes, doing all the work themselves. Now, it averages about 250 employes.

In 1865, when Philip joined the firm at Milliken, he had not seen the two brothers, Isaac and Lehman, for six years. At this time Lehman was away; Isaac took Philip in as a partner. When Lehman returned, he found Philip behind the counter, making himself generally useful. He took Isaac to one side, and inquired of him why he employed this new clerk? that the business did not justiiy it, etc. In short, he kicked at the new accession to the force, and he kicked hard. At this time, affairs were waxing a little UTipleasautly warm, Isaac carrying on the joke at Lehman's expense. The former took Lehman to the counter, calling Philip thereto, he introduced Lehman to his brother. The matter was settled instanter, and they indulged in a hearty laugh, much to Lehman's discomfort and pleasure as well.

^ At present writing, they operate the largest industry of the kind in the State. Their sales annually amount to about $3,000,000. Of the dry-goods wholesaling and retailing, they are the pioneers of the State.

Alexander on coming to America went to Cincinnati as bookkeeper for the Heller Brothers; later, he formed a partnership under the firm name of Ochs. Lehman & Company, who bought out Heller Brothers, and can'ied on the same business three years, until he sold out to his partner and came to Texas, and joined the brother at Corsicana. Alexander opened a house, which was burned at Dallas, lirst on the square, which was a branch of the Corsicana house, and in the fall of 1872, when the railroad was extended to Dallas, Philip joined him. The Corsicana stock was moved to Elm street, Dallas, in the new building, just erected, in a one-story box frame, 50 x 80, before referred to. The largest surface occupied in any of the different stores south of Dallas, up to 1872, was about 30 X 70, and when in 1872 Alexander ordered the construction of their first store in Dallas (one story frame, 50 x 80), he was told by one of his brothers that it was a mistake to build so large a building as this, the brother claiming they would not have the goods to fill it. Alexander, however, had his way, had the store built according to his previously arranged plans and specifications; and time, which is the great equalizer and regulator, has proved the wisdom of the arrangement. Alexander was married in 1879, to Miss Fannie Fetchenbach, of Cincinnati, Ohio. This marriage has been blessed in the birth of one child, Elihu.

The Sanger brothers and their families all belong to the Hebrew Congregation. They have, however, contributed quite frequently and liberally toward the erection of other churches in the city and State.

Sanger brothers also publish a monthly magazine, under the editorship of Mrs. V. Q. Goff: James Kirkland, manager. It is a forty-four-page, illustrated periodical, containing serial stories by tiie best of American writers, articles on fiowers, the farm, garden, household, fashion, etc. The price is five cents a copy, or fifty cents a year. Their mail order department is the largest and most efficient in the southwest. Orders are filled the same day they are received, and samples are sent anywhere on request.

The Sanger brotiiers are of that class of citizens who in this, their adopted country, hare by their industry, push and perseverance, started without capital, and have made tor themselves homes, wealth and reputation in this country, where many native born men witii more favorable opportunities have failed. They are excellent examples of what correct business habits can accomplish with small capita!. They are enterprising, patriotic, and believe in keeping abreast in the latterday nineteenth century progress. As will be seen, their success in business is simply marvelous. They are numbered among the most progressive and public-spirited men in the city; always taking part in such enterprises as promise for the best welfare of their community.

^OLONEL JOHN F. ELLIOTT, Dallas, Texas. - The richest heritage of American youth is the example of their country's brain and brawn, wrought into lives of perfect altruism, of splendid fealty, of tireless industry. The annals of such a life is briefly told by one who has known Colonel John F. Elliott long and well. Colonel Elliott, of Dallas, Texas, is a native of Mobile, Alabama, where he grew to manhood and received his earlier education, literary and mercantile, the first in the private schools and Spring Hill College, and the latter in the banking house of Thomas P. Miller & Co.

In the tiery days just preceding the Civil war he was one of the few far-sighted young men of the South who dared to oppose secession, and as a metnber of the Union Democratic Douglas and Johnson Club he delivered an address clearly setting forth the error of that doctrine in principle and policy. It was a time that tried men's souls and imperiled those who antagonized the dogma; but young Elliott and a half dozen of his friends had the courage of their convictions. Altlioucrh he insisted in that address that the principle of secession was unconstitutional, the policy dangerous, and ruinous to the integrity of the Republic and to Union, that the Southern States were numerically too weak to cope with the North, and that the sentiment of the world being hostile to the the institution of slavery it would fail to give them aid, all of which was afterward literally verified, yet he announced that if his section should secede he would not be the last in armincr for its defense. True to that declaration he joined the first Louisiana battalion, that left New Orleans for service near Fensaeola and subsequently for the Potomac. During the struggle he was in several battles in Virginia, Mississippi and Louisiana, as private and a^ commissioned officer. The war ended. Colonel Elliott was an earnest advocate for immediate and sincere reconstruction and restored relations of peace and co-operation.