President Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. was the 26th President of the United States. He was born October 27, 1858 in Manhattan, New York and died January 6, 1919 in New York. At the time he became President, he was 42 years old making him the youngest person to take that office. Roosevelt had been Vice President under William McKinley who was only a few months into his second term as President when he died. He had been shot by assassin Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York on September 6, 1901. President McKinley was rushed to the hospital but he died on September 14, 1901. Roosevelt was sworn in and completed the remainder of McKinley’s term. He was elected in 1904 to a second term. He was only a distant (5th) cousin to Franklin Delano Roosevelt. They were not closely related and their earliest common ancestor dates back about 100 years.
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Will Fritz
John William Fritz was born on June 15, 1896 to Blake and Ada Hamilton Fritz in Dublin, Erath County, Texas. Will was the oldest of four boys. In 1900, Blake was a farmer in Erath County. By 1910, the family had moved to Chaves County, New Mexico in or near a small community by the name of Lake Arthur where Blake was trying to make a living as a horse and mule rancher. Lake Arthur was small back then. Even now, it is only about ten streets north to south and east to west. By all accounts, Will had a normal childhood for the son of a rancher and grew up around the ranch, acquiring cowboy skills from Blake and other workers.
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The name Joseph Cullinan might not be that familiar to some Texans regarding the state’s oil boom, but he was involved in the development of several of the early large Texas oil fields and had significant interests in several companies that are major energy companies today.
Denison, Texas
The town of Denison, Texas (located at 33°44′59″N 96°33′27″W) in Grayson County was founded in 1872 by the Missouri, Kansas City and Texas (the Katy) Railroad as it pushed its way southward into the state. It was named in honor of Katy Railroad Vice President George Denison. The town no doubt owes its success to the railroad. The Interurban also started here, eventually connecting the 70 miles to Dallas and on another 100 miles to Waco.
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