Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County, Texas. Page: 929 of 1,110
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viz.: Mhike Huffmnan,.who is a partner with
his father in the real-estate business. He
married Miss Emnna Moss, and they reside
in Dallas city: Mlike is their only child. Mr.
Thomas' next child is Josepl Pinkney, who is
foreman of the gents' furnishing department
of E. M3. Kahn Mildred Eleanor, a graduate of
the Dallas high school class of 1892; DeWitt,
who is in the audit department of the Texas
Eulace Lane, deceased
in November, 1880, aged about four
years; iMollie Rice, who is a bright pupil
and quite proficient il mnathamatics and languages;
Calvin Holmes, who is quite a bright
and business-like boy, a pupil of the high
school; and Fergus Davis, a bright boy of
seven summers. Both parents and the three
oldest children are members of the Central
Christian Church.
J. Pink. Thomas is one of the older citizens
of Dalllas, and has been identified with
the best interests of the city since it was
quite a village. He and his good wife are
numbered among its worthy and substantial
citizens.
'.ILLIAM N. COE, County Treasurer
' of Dallas county, was. born in 1861,
in Russell county, Kentucky, a son
of John C. Coe, a farmer. Just before attaining
his majority of years he came to
Texas, and by the advice of his maternal
uncle, Dr. W. F. Wolford-a wealthy and in_
fluential pioneer of Collin county, -went to
school about three years. Quick and tireless
of application, he mastered the rudiments of
an education thorougllly and became an excellent
bookkeeper. He followed this occupation
until 1886, whllen he entered the employ
65of Henry Lewis, Sheriff of Dallas county.
He has thus come in contact with men of'
every condition of life, and exhibited remarkable
tact, uniform courtesy and a clear conception
of the duties of a public officer; and
at the election of County Treasurer in 1890,
with four independent Democratic candidates
in the field, he was chosen by a handsome
plurality. Barely thirty years of age at the
time of his election, he is the youngest county
treasurer ever elected in the State of Texas,
A half million dollars of the people's money
pass annually through his hands. Ile is a
stalwart Democrat, being one of the brightest
exponents of that political faith. He is a
zealous member of the order of Knights of
Pythias. He was married February 5, 1891,
to Miss Fannie Cullom, a most estimable
lady.
EV. A. P. SMITH, D. D., minister of
the First Presbyterian Church of Dallas,
was'born il Dallas county, Alabama,
July 16, 1832. His parents were William
S. and Louisa (Bowie) Smith, the former
from Charleston, the latter of Abbeville,
South Carolina. The father was an attorney
in his early days in Charleston, South Carolina;
later was a planter in Alabama, from
which State he came to Texas, where he died
in May, 1881, at the age of eighty-four years.
He was an elder in the Presbyterian Church
for forty odd years. His wife, Louisa A.,
was a daughter of Major George Bowie. a
prominent attorney of South Carolina. She
also was a merr ber of the Presbyterian Church,
earnest and devoted and died more than
forty years ago.
Our subject, the oldest in a family of eleven
children, was educated primarily in the schools
of Dallas county, Alabama; later he gradu.
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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/m1/929/: accessed April 23, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Dallas Public Library.