Biographies of Prominent Railroad Officers and Lumbermen
     
 

This index lists select biographical material on individuals who had a role in the development of transportation or lumber industries in Texas and the surrounding region.The bulk of the material is drawn from early industry publications, newspapers, biographical dictionaries, etc. Many were written while the individual was still living, and so the language of those articles reflect the present-tense of the time in which they were published. When known, birth and death dates have been added to the title headings.

 
 
 
 
 
 
A
Angle, D. M. (History of Texas)
Atmar, Lynn P. (Who's Who on the Pacific Coast)
 
B
Bell, Chancey (History of Louisiana)
Bender, Charles (History of Texas and Texans)
Bennett, Alf (American Lumberman)
Blocker, D. V. (History of Louisiana)
Bolinger, Sanford Henry (American Lumberman)
Bolinger, Sanford Henry (History of Louisiana)
Bonner, Benjamin Franklin (American Lumberman)
Bell, Chancey (History of Louisiana)
Bender, Charles (History of Texas)
Bennett, Alf (American Lumberman)
Blocker, D. V. (History of Louisiana)
Bolinger, Sanford H. (American Lumberman)
Bolinger, Sanford H. (History of Louisiana)
Bolinger, Sanford H. (Louisiana: Sketches, etc.)
 
C
Cage, John Henry (Texas Under Many Flags)
Cain, Benjamin B.(History of Texas and Texans)
Cain, Benjamin B. [Obituary] (The Daily Texan)
Cameron, William (American Lumberman)
Cameron, William (History of Wm. Cameron & Co.)
Cameron, William Waldo (American Lumberman)
Carter, Samuel Fain (American Lumberman)
Clark, Daniel F.(History of Louisiana)
Clark, Uriel Lee (American Lumberman)
Colquitt, O.B. (Yearbook for Texas, 1903)
Cronin, Marie (Murry Hammond)
Cronin, Thomas (Murry Hammond)
 
D
Davidson, Lynch (American Lumberman)
Downman, Robert Henry (American Lumberman)
 
E
Enochs, Isaacs Columbus (American Lumberman)
 
F
Fisher, Oliver Williams (American Lumberman)
Fletcher, William Andrew (American Lumberman)
Foster, John McCullough (American Lumberman)
Foster, John McCullough (Encyclopedia of the History of Missouri)
Foster, Thomas Sampson (American Lumberman)
Frost, Edwin Ambrose (American Lumberman)
Frost, James B. (Memoirs of Southern Arkansas)
Fullerton, Robert (American Lumberman)
 

G

Gilbert, John Nathan (American Lumberman)

Gould, Jay (America's Successful Men of Affairs)
Green, Edward H. (America's Successful Men of Affairs)
Green, Hetty (America's Successful Men of Affairs)
Gresham, Walter (Notables of the Southwest)
 
 
 
 

H

Harrell, Edward Hogan (American Lumberman)

Hicks, Samuel B. (Chronicles of Shreveport)

House, T. W. (History of Texas, 1895)

 

J

Jermyn, John (History of Scranton)

Johnson, Clarence Dean (American Lumberman)

Jones, J. R. (Memoirs of Northwest Louisiana)

Joyce, David (American Lumberman)

Joyce, David [Obituary] (Clinton Morning Age)
Joyce, William Thomas (American Lumberman)
Joyce, William Thomas [Obituary] (Wolfe's History of Clinton, Iowa)
 

K

Keith, Charles Smith (American Lumberman)

Keith, Jehu Frank (American Lumberman)

Keith, Richard H. (American Lumberman)

Kelley, George A. (History of Texas and Texans)
Key, Edmund (Who's Who on the Pacific Coast)
Kirby, John Henry (History of Texas and Texans)
Kirby, John Henry [Obituary] (New York Times)

Kirby, John Henry (Timber Resources of East Texas)

Kirby, John Henry (Prominent and Progressive Americans)
Kirby, John Henry (Yearbook for Texas, 1903)
Kirby, John T. (History of Texas and Texans)
Knox, William Frank (History of Texas and Texans)
 

L

Lingo, Edward H. (History of Texas and Texans)
Long, Robert Alexander (American Lumberman)
Long, Robert Alexander (Standard History of Kansas)
Lutcher, Henry J. (Northwestern Lumberman, 1889)
Lutcher, Henry J. (American Lumberman, 1906)
Lutcher, Henry J. (Herringshaw)
Lutcher, Henry J. (America's Successful Men of Affairs)
 
M
Mallam, Guy Henry (American Lumberman)
Miller, A. W. (American Lumberman, 1910)
Moberly, Edward Everett (American Lumberman)
Moore, Charles (American Lumberman)
Moore, R. T. (Chronicles of Shreveport)
Moore, R. T. (History of Louisiana)
Moore, Thomas Anthony (American Lumberman)
 

N

Nalty, John Bernard (American Lumberman)

Norris, William Henry (American Lumberman)

 
O
Olive, Sid C. [Obituary] (Bastrop Advertiser newspaper, 1906)
 
 
 

P

Peavy, Jasper [Obituary] (Gulf Coast Lumberman)

Pickering, William Alfred (American Lumberman)

Pickering, William Russell (American Lumberman)

Poor, Henry W. (America's Successful Men of Affairs)
 

R

Ramsay, William Edmund (American Lumberman)

Reagan, John Henninger (American Lumberman)

Reynolds, June [Obituary] (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Rice, Jonas (History of Texas and Texans)
 

S

Saner, John Sr. (History of Texas and Texans)
Smyth, John Blewett [Obituary] (History of Texas and Texans)
Smyth, George Washington (Jr.) (History of Texas and Texans)
Smyth, J. G. (History of Texas and Texans)
Snyder, Bryan (Dallas Morning News)
Sternenberg, John Abraham [need bio or obit]

Swinford, Samuel Thomas (American Lumberman)

 

T

Temple, Thomas Lewis Latane (American Lumberman)

Thompson, Hoxie Harry (American Lumberman)

Thompson, John Lewis (American Lumberman)

Thompson, John Martin (American Lumberman, 1906)

Thompson, John Martin (American Lumberman, 1910)
Turner, Edmund P. (Yearbook for Texas, 1903)
 
V
Van Vleck, Will George (Railway Age Gazette)
Vidor, Charles Shelton (American Lumberman)
 
W
Weiss, William (American Lumberman)
West, James M. (Southern Lumberman)
Whited, Frank Thayer (History of Louisiana)
Wier, Robert W. (Southwestern Electrician)
Wier, Tom P. (Gulf Coast Lumberman)
Wilson, Robert J. (Louisiana: Sketches, etc.)
 
 
XYZ
Yoakum, Benjamin Franklin (New York Herald)
Yoakum, Benjamin Franklin (Prominent and Progressive Americans)
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Text and images were digitized and proofread from the original source documents by Murry Hammond. Contact Murry for all corrections, additions, and contributions of new material.