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EAST TEXAS FAMILY RECORDS VOL.14, NO.3, FALL 1990
Statement of J. T. Butts (Continued)
as I know, Calvin Brown has always talked like a sensible person and has
never acted to me like a man of unsound mind.
I have lived in this community ever since I arrived here in 1859 and
have known Calvin Brown all of my life. In my opinion Calvin Brown has
always been of sound mind and I have never noticed anything about him from
his acts or conversations that would indicate to me that he was of unsound
mind. Calvin has never talked to me about his sales of Oil Leases or
Minerals.
(signed) J. T. Butts
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KILLGORE, TEXAS
Kilgore, in south central Gregg County near the Rusk County
line and near the geographical center of the East Texas Oil Field
is known as the "Oil City of the World," because it has 1,134 producing
wells within the city limits.
The vicinity was settled by plantation owners previous to the
Civil War, but the town itself was founded on the Missouri-Pacific
Railroad in 1872, named for Constantine Buckley Kilgore. In 1880
Kilgore was a good trading point with a population of 248; in 1930
the population was 590. Oil was discovered in 1930, and on February
20, 1931, the city was incorporated, with J. Malcolm Crim as
mayor. The city operates on a cash basis.
Kilgore has a community building, a library, a daily newspaper,
and many civic and religious organizations. It is the operation
headquarters for the East Texas Salt Water Disposal Company, the
major office for the Oil and Gas Division of the Railroad Commission,
and headquarters for various branches of the petroleum industry.
Population increased from 6,708 in.1940 to 9,693 in 1950.
DANVILLE, TEXAS
Danville, in Gregg County, Texas in 1946 was an agricultural
community, centering around a church, a cemetery, and two stores.
SOURCE: Volume I, THE HANDBOOK OF TEXAS, Walter Prescott Webb, Editorin-Chief,
published Austin, TX by The Texas State Historical Association
in 1952.
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