Industrial executive, Moore Business Forms, Denton, Texas. Education, early work background; planning manager of Moore Business Forms, Dallas; location and building of manufacturing facilities in Denton, 1945; public relations, communications,…
A founder of Texas Instruments. Family, education, and work background; education and experiences in electrical engineering; work and training with General Electric; development of Spencer Thermostat; work with Raytheon and Charles V. Litton;…
OWENS, C. B. Founder and chairman of board, Owens Country Sausage, Family background; farm life; education; starting part-time home delivery sausage business from home farm; early productions methods; first wholesale account with Wyatt Stores, 1933…
Independent business and industry consultant, economic surveyor. Family background; education and early work experience leading to survey business; comments concerning many individual surveys; comments about personal associations with prominent…
MASSEY, Ezrum. Founder, Denton Roofing and Metal Works. Schooling and early life; construction and other work background; service in Army and sheet metal experiences there; start of partnership in roofing and sheet metal work; equipment and supply…
Founder, White’s Auto Stores. Family background; early work experiences; education; work in auto supply stores, garages; starting own business in Clinton, Oklahoma, during Depression; location of home office in Wichita Falls; expansion and growth…
Aviatrix and owner, operator, and instructor of Aero Valley Flying School. Family background; Army, Navy, and civilian nursing careers; early flying, competition; comments about Amelia Earhart and other pioneers of aviation; early planes, equipment…
Founder, owner, and operator of Craven’s, Inc., Denton, Texas. Childhood memories; Depression experiences; comments about Craven’s Dairy and early dairy industry in general; employment with Burr Stores; recollections about growth and development of…
Co-owners and operators of Selby Florist, Denton, Texas.
SELBY, Lewis Marie. Family background; education; Depression; teaching career; marriage; entering family business.
SELBY, R. L., Jr. Family background; education; Depression; work as youth…
IVEY, Olgie and Mary Louise Ivey Bardas. Family business of Ben C. Ivey, Sr. in Denton, Texas. Family background; Ben Ivey’s education; ownership of automobile dealerships and Sinclair distributorship in 1930s and 1940s; civic activities.
IVEY, Ben…
Vice-president and general sales manager, Tex Tan Western Leather Company, Yoakum, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Yoakum; experiences in Army and as prisoner-of-war of Germans during World War II; employment as assistant…
Realtor, owner and operator, Clifton Irick Real Estate, Pilot Point, Texas. Family background; description of Pilot Point, 1930s; work in dry goods store and as insurance salesman; purchase of White Auto Store franchise; purchase of Pilot Point…
Owner and operator, Fultz’s News Agency, Denton, Texas. Family background; comments on development of Sweetwater and Abilene; selling newspapers in West Texas; comments on Depression period in Abilene; magazine delivery business in Abilene;…
Owner and operator, Jim Hardin’s Paint and Wallcovering, Denton, Texas. Family background; employment with Esler paint and Paper Company, Denison; promotion to assistant manager and outside salesman; effects of Depression in Denison; comments on…
Vice-president and cashier, Farmers and Merchants State Bank, Krum, Texas; owner and operator of R & R Variety Store, Mesquite, Texas. Family background; banking operations in Krum, early 1900s; social life in Krum, early 1900s; education at…
Owner and operator, Brook-Mays Music Company and C. & S. Music Company, Dallas, Texas. Family background; comments on Depression in Comanche, Texas; experiences playing trombone with North Texas State’s Aces of Collegeland band; duty as radar…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Owner and operator, Jagoe Abstract Company, Denton, Texas and co-owner, Lewisville Fishing Barge, Lewisville, Texas. Family background; history of Carroll’s abstract business and Jagoe Abstract Company; history of Denton courthouses; origins of…
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;…
Owners and operators of A. B. McGill and Company General Merchants, Bertram, Texas. Ada’s family background; description of Ada’s father’s general store, Bertram; Bob’s family background; marriage to Ada and employment at McGill’s general store,…
Labor arbitrator, Denton, Texas. Family background; appointment to Naval Academy, 1923; description of academics and hazing at Naval Academy; assignments in Nicaragua, late 1920s; experiences during World War II as commander of submarine USS Saury…
