biography – Page 20 – Texas History Notebook

Jack F. Grimm

Abilene’s Jack Grimm was a successful independent oilman. He was born in Wagoner, Oklahoma to Suell Grimm (1883 – 1939) and Ida Mae Vermillion Grimm (1898 – 1979). He had one brother and several half siblings from Suell’s first marriage which had ended with the death of his first wife, Daisy in 1914. His father was referred to in census forms as being an interior decorator or a house painter. After his father died, his mother married Irwin Turnham (1886 – 1966).

Price Daniel, Jr.

Marion Price Daniel III was born June 8, 1941 in Austin, Texas to Governor Marion Price Daniel (1910 – 1988) and Jean Houston Baldwin Daniel (1916 – 2002). Marion Price Daniel III is commonly referred to as Price Daniel, Jr. after his father, Marian Price Daniel II, who is referred to as Price Daniel, Sr.. His father, Price Daniel, Sr. was born in Liberty County, Texas. He earned a law degree from Baylor University and practiced law in Liberty County. Daniel served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1939 to 1943 and in the United States Army and with the United States Marines during World War II. After the war, he served as Texas Attorney General from 1946 to 1953, the United States Senate from 1953 to 1957 and Governor of Texas from then until 1963. Daniel served in various appointed offices under President Lyndon Johnson and as member of the Texas Supreme Court from 1971 to 1980.

Henrietta Chamberlain King and Her Family

Henrietta King died in 1925 and at the time, it was reported nationwide in the newswires. Today, there may be fewer people who know of her, but there are probably few Texas women who are as influential as Mrs. King was in their own part of the state. Born in Missouri in 1832, she lived most of her life in Texas, associated with the King Ranch. She moved to Texas with her blended family in 1850 where her father Hiram Chamberlain founded a Presbyterian mission church in Brownsville. She was well educated for her time and married Captain Richard King in 1854 when she was about twenty-two years old. Between 1856 and 1864, the couple had five children: Henrietta Maria (1856 – 1917), Ella Morse (1858 – 1900), Nathan Richard (1860 – 1922), Alice Gertrudis (1862 – 1944) and Robert E. Lee (1864 – 1883). The couple first made their home on the south Texas ranch in a crude block house. The ranch was located between Mexico and the more populated areas of Texas. Their wealth was tied up in the land at the time Richard King died in 1885. Mrs. King spent the next forty years associated with the farming and ranching operations which she and other family members managed. Under their leadership, the ranch prospered and grew, more than doubling in acreage.

Hotel Dieu, El Paso

Often mentioned in old newspaper accounts and obituaries is an early regional medical center in El Paso, Texas known as the Hotel Dieu. An injured or critically ill person would sometimes be noted as having been transported to the Hotel Dieu in El Paso for an operation or some other kind of treatment. It might seem to be an unusual name for a medical center, but this El Paso hospital was in business for about one hundred years.

Oliver Loving’s Family, Part 1

Oliver Loving was born in Hopkins County, Kentucky on December 4, 1812 to Joseph Loving (1786 – 1842) and Susannah Mary Bourland Loving (1788 – 1850). Joseph and Susannah were married in Kentucky around 1806. They had many children, most of whom remained in Kentucky, but Oliver and at least three of his siblings moved to Texas. Joseph and Susannah remained in Kentucky until their deaths.