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Tagged with "Floyd Jenkins"

  • Founder, W. L. Dinn & Company Insurance, Inc., Corpus Christi, Texas. Family background; work as ranchhand in Live Oak, Texas; employment as bookkeeper in Alice and Corpus Christi; entry into life insurance sales, 1920; land development in…
  • Chairman of board, president, general manager, and treasurer, Blue Bell Creameries, Brenham, Texas. Family background; history of Brenham Creamery Company; work in creamery as boy; description of cream churning process; closing of butter…
  • Owner and operator, C. R. Fowler Hardware, and mayor, Krum, Texas. Family background; origins of Denton County Library; school experiences in Krum; experiences in Dallas during Depression; employment at father’s hardware store in Krum, 1933; effects…
  • JONES, Jay. Family background; effects of Depression in McAlester, Oklahoma; employment with C. & S. Hardware, Dallas, 1950; experiences managing and co-owning C. & S. Hardware; opening of Denton Center Hardware, 1963; business competition…
  • Owner and operator, Denton Floor Covering Company, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; work in grocery stores in Denton, 1930s; employment as salesman for Lone Star Gas Company, 1940; work in Denton appliance and hardware stores; hired as…
  • Owner, president, and chairman of the board, Nocona Boot Company, Nocona, Texas. Family background; education in Nocona, early 1900s; experiences stitching boots in father’s factory, Justin Boot Company; activities as first owner, operator, and…
  • Labor arbitrator, Lubbock, Texas; director of regional War Labor Board, Dallas, Texas. Family background; farming near Beach, North Dakota; activities as principal in Dodge, North Dakota; employment in political science department at University of…
  • One of the founders of Bomber Bait Company, Gainesville, Texas. Family background; farming during Depression in Olton, Texas; employment as a gasoline retailer in Olton and tire repair operator in Gainesville; interest in designing fish baits;…
  • One of the founders of Lilly Ice Cream Company, Bryan, Texas. Family background; teaching in Pioneer, Texas; employment as principal of Jacksboro, Texas public school; work in ice plant in Commerce, Texas; partnership in Lilly ice cream business in…
  • Secretary-treasurer, Anderson-Clayton Funeral Homes, Inc. and Anderson-Clayton Burial Association, Terrell, Texas. Family background; John Clayton’s involvement in Terrell funeral business, 1921; merger of Anderson Undertaking Company and Muckleroy-…
  • Operator of grocery store, repair shop, and rental cottages, Mountain Home, Texas. Family background; education in Arkansas and Texas; training as auto mechanic; employment as ranch hand near Palacios, Texas; experiences in motor pool of Air Service…
  • Owner and operator of Adams Exterminating Company, Denton, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with Morrison Milling Company and International Exterminating Company, Denton; experiences in Navy at end of World War II; employment with…
  • Chairman of board, president, and CEO of Gearhart Industries, Inc., Fort Worth, Texas. Family background; description of farming, oil drilling, and educational experiences in Southeastern Kansas; employment as trainee field engineer for Wireline…
  • Owner and president, Schmitz-Floyd-Hamlett Funeral Homes, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; description of Denton, 1920s; employment as taxi cab driver for Dixie Motor Company, 1935; effects of Depression in Denton; employment in grandfather’s…
  • Founder and owner, Nathan’s Jewelers, San Angelo, Texas; and co-owner of Sterling Jewelry & Distributing Company, Dallas and Houston, Texas. Family background; description of fire at Gardner Park, Dallas; employment as secretary for Dallas…
  • President and general manager, Fort Worth Stockyards Company, Fort Worth, Texas. Family background; dairy farming in Washington County, Illinois; experiences teaching in one-room school, Washington County, 1935; military service during World War II…
  • Owner of auto repair business, Denton, Texas. Family background; experiences moving from Georgia to Texas, 1919; description of work and education near Homer and Royston, Georgia; description of Denton, 1919; employment with Acme Brick; part-time…
  • Owner and operator, R & R Motor Supply, Inc., Denton, Texas. Family background; comments concerning work on Will Evers’s pecan farm and hiring out to pick cotton, Denton; employment in Bailey Mullins’s machine shop and auto parts store, 1935;…
  • Owner and operator, Griffith’s Independent Ginner, Weinert, Texas. Family background; education in Texola, Oklahoma; part-time employment as cotton picker; involvement in building cotton gins and operating drug stores, West Texas, 1920s; operation…
  • Founder, owner, and operator, Miss Hendley’s Shop, Denton, Texas. Family background; employment with Federal Reserve Board, Washington D. C., 1920; financial reverses of father’s farms and ranches; opening of gift shop, Denton, 1924; comments on…
  • President and senior chairman of board, Mcclurkan’s, Wichita Falls, Texas. Family background; father’s employment with McClurkan’s store in Denton and Krum; father’s experiences opening and managing McClurkan’s store in Wichita Falls, 1907; comments…
  • General and regional manager, Haverty’s Furniture Company, Houston, Texas. Family Family background; Fenoglio settlement in Montague County, Texas; farming in Montague; comments on grape production and effects of Prohibition on business; education…
  • District manager, Duke and Ayres Company, Denton, Texas. Family background, description of Vashti, Texas, community and farming experiences; comments on work baling hay and harvesting wheat; employment with Cabell’s Ice Cream and the Baker Hotel…
  • Interviews with Lotta Evers Callahan (b.1910), Jessie Evers King, Bob Evers Tripp, Felix Callahan (b. 1907), Wilford Pierce (b. 1909), Verna Solomon, and Walter Laney (b. 1918). CALLAHAN, Lotta Evers. Daughter of Will Evers. Family background;…
  • Owner, vice president, and manager, Slade’s Saddle Shop, Uvalde, Texas. Purchase of saddle business by grandfather, 1929; origins of saddle shop, 1883; changes in ranching industry since Depression; father’s employment as manager of shop;…