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HISTORY OF DALLAS COUNTY.
State Fair and Dallas Exposition, a full
account of which is given in the historical
part of this work.
The Sanger brothers are of that class of
citizens who in this, their adopted country,
have by their industry, push and perseverance,
started without capital, and have made for
themselves homes, wealth and reputation in
this country, where many native born men
with more favorable opportunities have failed.
They are excellent examples of what correct
business habits can accomplish with small
capital. 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
comn munity.
OLON EL 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 Inercantile,
the first in the private schools and
Spring Hill College, and the latter in the
banking house of Thomas P. Miller but young
Elliott and a half dozen of his friends had
the courage of their convictions. Although
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 arming for its defense.
True to that declaration he joined the
first Louisiana battalion, that left :New Orleans
for service near Pensacola and subsequently
for the Potomac. During the
struggle he was in several battles in Virginia,
Mississippi and Louisiana, as 'private and as
commissioned officer. The war ended, Colonel
Elliott was an earnest advocate for immediate
and sincere reconstruction and restored relations
of peace and co-operation.
Locating then in New Orleans, the home
of his parents, he engaged in commercial
pursuits until persuaded by an oldfriend, for
whom he was chiefly instrumental in acquiring
quite a fortune, to remove to Philadelphia,
where he subsequently enlisted on the editorial
staff of the Press, until his removal to
Galveston in the fall of 1874. There lieonce
again launched into mercantile life, but in
1878, losing his wife, whom he married in
1866, he was persuaded to go to Dallas,
whither he went in the spring of 1879, to
take an interest in and the editorial management
of the Dallas Daily Herald, then only
a sixteen-column folio. During hisadminis-
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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/m1/898/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.