Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-07-10


I and TO himself. He was member of the
| following committees: Penitentaries,
! privileges and election, claims and accounts
| and Federal relations
| Mr.. Goodman is Democrat of the purest
| type, believing that the issue for tariff re-
| tree coinage of silver and while he is IN
i ardent member OF the Farmers Alliance he
Is opposed TO the sub-treasury scheme.
j. I. MOODY.
One of the foremost men of the Alliance
| conference is the Hon. j. I. Moody of
Limestone county. About forty-two years
ago Mr.. Moody saw light in Clark county.
Miss. In 1865 he moved 10 Texas with his
father ana has since resided mostly in
Limestone county. His early educational
advantages We're few but by persistent
search after knowledge ne has become one
OF the best informed men in the state. He
served his county for several years .as a
member OF the commissioner court. He
was elected to the Twenty-tirst and Tween
ty-second legislatures, both by large major
tiles. In each he served with distinction,
and during the Twenty second held impor-
tant craftsmanship as well as good positions
on other committees. he was one of sub
committee who aided in drafting the origi-
nj commission bill at the last session OF
the legislature. He was state lecturer of
the Alliance for two years and did as much,
the true interest of the Alliance and that
too without pay. For twenty years or more
he mas been an active member OF the Ma
sonic fraternity and the Methodist church.
In 1871 he was married 10 Miss E l.. ALI
son and has ten children and lives happily
on his farm near MeXia. He is vigorous
friend anda foeman worthy any ones steel.
He is Il Democrat of the strictest type and
one of the leaders Of the auti-sub-treasury
league, being the president of the Farmers
World Publishing Co, publishers of the
Farmers World.
". B. MORROW.
Born in Greenville county, 5. c., May Il,
1927, his parents moved to Fayette county,
Tenn. in 1885, where upon them farm he
grew up = celving such an education is the
schools of that section afforded He began
the study of medicine, and was graduated
from one of the medical college, OF Mem
phis, Tenn, March l. ls4S. and since that
time has been engaged in the practice of
medicine. IN 1870 he became connected
with his alma mater Is one Of the profess
sOrs, which position he held till the war in
1851 closed the college. During 1928 he
he also occupied the same position in the
Worcester medical college, Worcester,
Mass : that college holding spring sessions,
and while occupying these places in medi-
cal colleges, he also delivered courses Of
lectures in the literary institutions OF
these cities.
At the commencement Of the war he vol
unteeced as private, and on the day of mis-
arrival AT camp was promoted, and served
as surgeon during the wal. He was mar
ried in 1855 10 Mrs. Martha J. Smith.
daughter of Hon j. J. Hodge of Texas, and
after marriage he lived Oh i farm in Harde-
man county, Tenn, within a few miles Of
where he was raised, till the close OF the
war, when, in January, 1866. he removed TO
RODpr+ To-. nd laI m bo
land which is now his farm, near where he
now lives. He has always had his home on
d farm and been engaged in farming When
the Grange was first organized proposing
BY its organization 10 improve farming and
the farmer, he joined il and has been a
member of the order and supporter of its
principles. At the first advent of ;he
Farmers Alliance he joined that also. and
has since been member and officer in this
order, and actively interested III It's prog
resS and the welfare of the farmer When
the Alliance exchange was first proposed,
Being member of the body that first pro-
posed it, he favored it, but wished it organ
lied solely as a central purchasing agency,
and when 1t was perverted into huge
credit concern based on joint notes. he OPP
posed that plan and was Instrumental ib
keeping his Sub-alliance from participation |
and loss in this disastrous scheme When !
the suD-treasury was proposed. seeing |
nothing in the plan that would insure re- |
lief. and much that was very Objectionable, |
he earnestly opposed il, and was the au- |
thor of resolutions in his Alliance condemn !
ing 1t, which were extensively published !
In the inception of the idea of the necessity |
of such meeting as thai to be held at Fort |
Worth he believes he was the first to make |
a public call through the press for such a |
meeting. In politics he is a Democrat, Civ |
ing his first vote for Cass i'll ls4S and ever |
haC aatIr-
every campaign, and has nearly all the |
while held some official position in the |
Of the party: serving in 1850
on the presidential electoral ticket. &c. ming /
the church in early LIE he has frequently |
held official positions in ecclesiastical
bodies, and has been an active worker in ,
nearly every sphere of church work. Upon
reaching his majority he joined the two
most prominent benevolent ordres, Masons
and Odd Fellows, and has been honored |
with positions of honor in these bodies.
In the educational enterprises of the |
country he has always felt and taken
lively interest and given such aid as in his
power to education.
His wife died in 1884 Since then his
only surviving child, J. Dixie Morrow, who
lad married just previous, has lived and
shares in common their home. Educated |
II the Agricultural and Mechanical college
II Texas, he is devoting his attention
strictly to farming. This sketch outlines
he prominent events in very active and |
busy life.
WILLIAM HENRY d. MURRAY,
# Cade, Navarro county, was born Novem-
,er2l, 1867, in the eastern part of Cooke
county, Tex, and he is proud that he is q
Texan. His mother having departed this
lie while he was an infant, he was taken
o his grand-father'S 81. J. Jones of Collins
'ille), where he remained until his father. !
-Ir. U. D. Z. Murray, now of Talmage.
Tex, having remarked, moved to Mon
ague, where Henry remained with his |
ather until Sunday night, September IS |
SSl, he with his two brothers, George T.
nd J. S. Murray. of Spriugtown, Tex left |
ome to attend church and never returned
or nine years, they having gone to Wise |
ounty and there begun life with complete |
eliance upon their own exertiSns.
At this tins the subject of this sketch |
-as penniless and illiterate boy of thir-
cen years, but with Gipt of perseverance |
nth a hrmness that withstood all opposi- |
ion, determination that overcame all diff
culties and i will that surmounted every |
bstacle he managed to attend school a por-
on of his time. By his diligent and moral |
abits he soon commanded the attention |
nd good graces of al who knew him.
He is pre-eminently self-made man and
as subordinated every personal pleasure TO
IS intellectual advancement from his first 8
.ssOn. He learned his letters in Sunday
,hool from ''Webster's blue-bac = gained
lie rudiments of education ill common | ,
;hools and completed it with distinction IN
ollege Hill institute at Springtown, Tex.
nder that educational genius, Professor