A leading business man and banker of Ft. Worth, Texas for many years
started his business career in Jefferson during the palmy days.
The Bateman Family
(King, Andy, and Quincy)
This prominent family in the business and social life of the early days
of Jefferson, branched out into the business world in Jefferson and when
Jefferson began to lose navigation, along with it, many of her
population, the Bateman family moved west and were helpful in building
Ft. Worth, Texas, in business and banking lines.
In fact Jefferson furnished many of the leading business and
professional men, who went west in the early days and built the State of
Texas.
Jefferson is truly the “mother city” of the State of Texas as it was the
largest and most noted in the early ’70’s and gave to the balance of the
State leading business and professional men to make “The Lone Star
State” great.
The old families, who were not so famous, but were the real stamina of
the town down through the ages, when prosperity had passed on to other
fields and living was hard—yet they lived on and kept the home fires
burning until today Jefferson seems doomed to again come to be, and is
known the state over as a promising oil center—with prosperity again in
view. These with their children may be numbered by the hundreds. Among
them we find:
Dr. B. J. Terry
Dr. T. H. Stallcup
W. B. Stallcup
Ward Taylor
Dick Terry
J. H. Rowell
S. W. Moseley
Shep Haywood
T. L. Torrans
W. P. Schluter
Louis Schluter
R. B. Walker
W. B. Kennon
J. B. Zachery
W. B. Sims
D. C. Wise
A. Urquhart
S. A. Spellings
Capt. Lyon
A. Stutz
T. J. Rogers
W. J. Sedberry
Sam Moseley
W. B. Ward
Sam Ward
J. M. DeWare
B. J. Benefield
J. C. Preston
P. Eldridge
I. Goldberg
M. Bower
J. J. Rives
H. Rives
These with many others have done much for Jefferson and Texas—So “Come
to Texas” and be sure you come to Jefferson.