biography – Page 6 – 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.

Jim Reno, Sculptor

James Frederick Reno was born in Wheeling, West Virginia on March 14, 1929. He was raised by his mother who supported Jim and his older brother. Their mother, Mary Ann, was born in Belfast, Ireland. By the time the 1940 federal census was taken, Mary Ann was working in a Chrysler automobile factory in New Castle, Indiana, about 44 miles northeast of Indianapolis. Jim grew to love horses and remarked in some of his interviews how much he enjoyed drawing them. Jim added that he wasn’t drawing horses just because he wanted to draw them. He was drawing them because he wanted to be around them and be outside. His first attempt at sculpture was to carve a wooden Hereford cow, a project of a wood carving class. At the request of an ag teacher, it was used in class. His teacher entered it in a state competition, which it won. In a 2005 interview, he said that he still had that carved Hereford.

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.