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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
position of assistant superintendent on a sugar
plantation. He was afterward promoted
to superintendent, remained thus employed
until 1889. That year he moved to Lancas'ter,
Texas, and immediately engaged in the
hardware, furniture and undertaking business.
He was married in 1889 to Miss Addie
H. White, daughter of W. L. and Louisa F.
White. They have one child, Louise, born
May 15, 1891. In politics Mr. Randlett is
a strong Democrat and adheres strictly to
party rules. He is a member of the Episcopal
Church, while his wife is associated
with the Baptist denomination.
Mr. Randlett is young and energetic, well
respected and highly spoken of by his neighbors
and fellow men. He is kind-hearted
and liberal, and has recently .contributed a
considerable sum toward building a female
seminary in his adopted town.
MAYER, brewer, Dallas, Texas.-If
the old world had not contributed to
0 the population of the new, Texas
would not have reached its present high
state of development. Germany has. furnished
her full quota of excellent men, and
among them is Mr. Mayer, a resident of Dallas,
and one of its substantial citizens. He
came to America in 1875, and after a brief
career in the East, made his advent into the
Lone Star State, where he began business as a
brewer, being the pioneer of that trade in
Dallas and Fort Worth. He accumulated a
handsome competency, settled in Dallas, and
invested in real estate on Elm street: the same
is now very valuable property. Mr. Mayer
has been one of the enterprising and progressive
men of Dallas. His standing in
society illustrates forcibly the truth, that"
Honor and shame from no condition rise
Act well your part; there all the honor lies."
Mr. Mayer has shown his appreciation of
secret organizations by becoming a member
of the Odd Fellow fraternity, and he is also
a leading member of all the German societies.
R. GEORGE WILLIAM EWELL is a
native Virginian, his birth occurring
in Prince William county in 1821, and
is a son of James B. and Sophia (Douglas)
Ewell, the former a native of the Old Dominion
and the latter of Maryland. The
father followed the occupation of an agriculturist,
and moved from his native State to
Tennessee in 1839, remaining there until his
death. He was a member of the Presbyterian
Church. Mrs. Ewell was a descendant
of Lady P. Douglas, of Scotland. The
founders of the Douglas family in America
were three brothers, George, William, and
Richard Douglas, the former settling in New
York city, and the two latter in Maryland.,
Mrs. Ewell died in Virginia, and the father
afterward married a Miss Gwynn, who died
in Tennessee. To his first union were born
eight children, one of whom, a son, is resid:
ing in Waco, Texas, and a daughter, the eldest,
is now a resident of Peoria, Illinois, and
although quite old, is still hale and hearty.
Dr. George W. Ewell was reared in his native
State, Virginia, until eighteen years of
age, received a good practical education in
private schools, and then went to Tennessee,
where he began the study of medicine under
Dr. Richard Ewell, in Hardeman county.
He later entered the College of Medicine at
Philadelphia, and graduated from thatinstitution
in the class of 1842, with the degree of
M. D. He began practicing in north Missis-
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Lewis Publishing Company. Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas., book, 1892; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20932/m1/730/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.