biography – Page 4 – Texas History Notebook

Carrie Marcus Neiman

Carrie Marcus was born in Louisville, Kentucky on May 3, 1883 to Jacob Marcus (1846 – 1929) and Delia A. Bloomfield Marcus (1848 – 1919). Both Delia and Jacob were born in Prussia. Jacob was listed as a merchant in the 1870 federal census and was shown to be a clerk in a store in the 1880 census. The family was still living in Kentucky when Carrie was born. Carrie was the youngest of six children. A few years before 1900, the entire family moved to Hillsboro, Texas and lived near the downtown area on Franklin Street. In 1899, when Carrie was about sixteen years old, she and her older siblings moved to Dallas. Many of them had secured retail jobs. Carrie and her brother Herbert were hired by Max Goettinger to work at A. Harris and Company. Carrie had a good eye for clothing and first worked in the ladies’ blouse department.

Y. A. Tittle

Yelberton Abraham Tittle, Jr. was born in Marshall, Texas on October 24, 1926 to Y. A. Tittle, Sr. and Alma Allen Tittle. He was the fifth of six children. His father was a mail carrier. Y. A. grew up in Marshall and was a natural athlete, participating in several sports. Biographies mention that he wanted to be a football quarterback and tried to emulate Sammy Baugh. When he found out that Baugh practiced passing by throwing a football at a suspended tire, Y. A. did the same.

Henry Sanborn

Henry Bradley Sanborn was born on September 10, 1845 in Parishville, New York to Edmund S. Sanborn and Harriet Rand White Sanborn and was the fourth of five children. His father was a farmer. He left home when he was about 19 years old, relocating to DeKalb, Illinois.

Leon Jaworski

Leonidas (Leon) Jaworski was a Texas lawyer who served as a special prosecutor during the Watergate investigation of the 1970s. Leon was born in Waco, Texas on September 9, 1905 to Joseph Jaworski of Polish descent and Marie Mira Jaworski of Austrian descent. Leon was one of four children, twin brothers Joseph Jr. and Hannibal, followed by Leon and Mary Theresa. His father, Joseph Jaworski, was an immigrant to the United States and settled with his family in Waco where he served as pastor of an Evangelical Church. Joseph and Marie had married in Austria in 1901. Soon thereafter they had come to the United States with their two infant sons, Joe Jr. and Hannibal.

Spade Ranches

The Spade Ranch (also referred to either as the Spade Renderbrook or the Renderbrook Spade Ranch) takes its name from J. F. “Spade” Evans, who was an early co-owner of the property with Henry Sanborn, who was called the “Father of Amarillo.” Their first property was in Donley County east of Clarendon and amounted to twenty-three sections of land, about 15,000 acres more or less. This property, livestock and Spade brand were all sold to Isaac Leonard Ellwood in 1889.