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Title: A history of Texas and Texans
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Johnson, Francis White, 1799-1884 Barker, Eugene Campbell, 1874-1956, ed Winkler, Ernest William, 1875-1960
Subjects: Texas -- History Texas -- Biography
Publisher: Chicago, American Historical Society
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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e city and over a large surrounding territory. Karl G. McDonald was born at Somerville, Texas,October 4, 1884, the youngest of three children born toDavid C. and Elizabeth A. (Pearsons) McDonald. Hisfather, who was one of the early settlers at Cleburne,Texas, is still living there a successful farmer andstock raiser, being now sixty years of age. The motherwas born in Texas, where she was educated and mar-ried, and her death occurred in New Mexico m July,1905, at the age of forty-six. During his boyhood Karl G. McDonald attendedschool in western Texas, and finished a business courseat Fort Worth in 1903. As soon as he was throughschool he found employment with a laundry companyin New Mexico, and the four years that he spent theregave him a solid foundation for his business career.After working at different places he came to Vernon in1909 and established the Empire Laundry. He hasdeveloped this to an important concern, which employseight or ten hands, has a thorough equipment of up-to-
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^^ ^^^^^^..r./.J^^ TEXAS AND TEXANS 1853 date macliinerT, aud a fine building, in which he L-on-ducts the business. In politics Mr. McDonald is independent. At Vernonon March 25, 1910, he married Miss Lucy BelleFletcher, a daughter of F. C. and May Fletcher, a wellknown family. Her mother is still living at Vernon.The one child born to Mr. and Mrs. McDonald is NoraMcDonald, born at Vernon in 1911. Frank P. McGhee. More than thirty years of con-tinuous practice in the law at Vernon have constitutedMr. McGhee one of the oldest attorneys in northwestTexas, and his length of practice has been accompaniedby a corresponding degree of success and prominenceas a lawyer and man of affairs. All his success hasbeen due to his own efforts, and he practically educatedhimself for the law, since he taught school in order toget the money to pay for his courses through the Uni-versity of Missouri. Frank P. McGhee was born in Walker county,Georgia, January 30, 1853, and was the third of ninechildren, f

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