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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
zation of the Horticultural Society of the
State of Texas. In that organization he has
taken an active interest. He has served as
Treasurer of the Central Texas Horticultural
Society, and is now President of the State
Horticultural Society. Recently be has been
appointed chief of the horticultural exhibit
of Texas at the World's Fair in Chicago. He
has attended many of the different horticultuiral
meetings throughout Texas, and has frequently
addressed them.
In politics Mr. Howell has also taken an
active part, affiliating 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 Inemnber of the School Board in 1888.
Mrs. Howell is a member of the Baptist
Church.
ILLIAM H. LEWIS, Sheriff of Dallas
county, was born in Georgia, the son
of E. B. Lewis, who was a native of
Soutl Carolina and a farmer. William H.
was reared in the latter State and educated
in the public schools, completing his course
in the high school at Anderson, South Carolina.
At the age of sixteen years he came to
Texas, and for awhile was employed on a
farm; next lie 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 Dallas county to
the third term. He has in his employ elevenmen, 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 Knight 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 fatller
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 caltivation.
lMr. loales 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,
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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/m1/870/: accessed April 24, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.