Legacies: A History Journal for Dallas and North Central Texas, Volume 26, Number 2, Fall 2014 Page: 10
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old, men and women, that they wept-wept tears
of hope for our glorious state.' 1
On December 29, 1913, Texans wept for
Exall, who passed away at the family home in Dal-
las after failing to recover from an operation. Many
believed he had worked himself to exhaustion.
"Colonel Exall was attacking a problem," noted
The American Lumberman, "that the Department
of Agriculture and all the agricultural colleges of
the country had been working at for years," but
had made "little headway against the great national
bulk of farmers' ignorance and conservatism."19
"He was able in a few years' time," said E. J.
Kyle, dean ofTexas A&M, at Exall's memorial ser-
vice at Fair Park Coliseum on February 22, 1914,
"to become one of the greatest, if not the greatest,
teacher of practical agriculture this country has
ever known."20 "His pure, simple, and unselfish
life enabled him to teach by example as well as
by word of mouth." "It is not too much to say,"
Kyle added, "that agricultural conditions have
been revolutionized in the State of Texas within
the last few years and no other man had more to
do with this great movement than Col. Exall."
Exall's good friend G. B. Dealey, publisher of
The Dallas Morning News, shared the personal side
of Exall's story with the thousands gathered at the
Coliseum. "Morning and night, in the sunshine
and the rain, sometimes physically strong, many
times weak, weary, and heavy-laden, he made
his way. He worked without pay. Indeed he gave
freely from his own purse to the cause."21
"Why did he do it?" Dealey asked. "His
quick, kindly eye saw the miserable housing
conditions and wretched environment on some
of the farms," the publisher emphasized. "Many
times have I seen his eyes moisten as he so graphi-
cally told the hard lot of some of the wives and
children of farmers and depicted scenes of mis-
ery he had witnessed. While he scattered intel-
ligence, while he cried, 'Waste not, want not,' his
great heart also pleaded for social justice and for
a square deal for those not getting it." "No one
better than he," Dealey suggested, "realized that a
State or Nation cannot really prosper unless all of
its people have a chance for a decent comfortableliving and opportunity to progress."
"Henry Exall and adversity met once," wrote
The Beaumont Enterprise after his death. "The
struggle was not a brief one, but adversity lost
and Exall won."22
As did Dallas and Texas.
NOTES
1"The Legacy Left Us by Colonel Exall," The Galveston
News,January 11, 1914.
2"The Texas Bankers Association-A History" The Texas
Bankers Record,January 1917.
3"Exall-Dickson Nuptials," The Dallas Morning News,
November 10, 1887 (hereafter cited as DMN).
4William L. McDonald, Dallas Rediscovered (Dallas: The
Dallas Historical Society, 1978), 46-49. The building survived
until 1967.
5"Most Decidedly on Top," DMN, March 7, 1890.
6"Large Sale of Real Estate," DMN,August 1, 1891.
7"Tribute is Offered to Exall's Memory" DMN, February
23,1914.
8"Highland Park," Sam Acheson, DMN, August 25,
1966. See also "Highland Park's Origins and Development,"
in Acheson's Dallas Yesterday, ed. by Lee Milazzo (Dallas: SMU
Press, 1977), 52-56.
9"Dallas in the East," DMN,June 30, 1889.
0"Round About Town," DMN, February 5,1892.
""When Texas-breds Outpaced the Nation," sallyharri-
son.com,April 27,2011.
12"Meet the Distinguished Guest," DMN, February 23,
1909.
"Ted Dealey, Diaper Days of Dallas (Nashville: Abingdon
Press, 1966), 137.
""Dallas Secures Industrial Congress," DMN, November
15, 1910.
is"Henry Exall Makes Kentuckians Think," DMN,
January 13,1913.
16For a Greater Texas (Texas Industrial Congress pamphlet),
"The FarmerWho Feeds the World."
17Texas Farmers' Industrial Congress, Baptist Standard,
February 26, 1914.
18"Tribute to Col. Henry Exall," DMN, December 15,
1912.
19"A Soil Conservationist," American LumbermanApril 20,
1912.
2"Tributes to Memory of Col. Henry Exall," DMN,
February 22, 1914.
1Ibid.
22"Texas Lost a Great Man," Beaumont Enterprise,
December 31,1913.10 LEGACIES Fall 2014
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