W. B. Harrison A leading business man and banker of Ft. Worth, Texas for many years started his business career in Jefferson during the palmy days. The Bateman Family (King, Andy, and Quincy) This prominent family in the business and social life of the early days of Jefferson, branched out into the business world in Jefferson and when Jefferson began to lose navigation, along with it, many of her population, the Bateman family moved west and were helpful in building Ft. Worth, Texas, in business and banking lines. In fact Jefferson furnished many of the leading business and professional men, who went west in the early days and built the State of Texas. Jefferson is truly the “mother city” of the State of Texas as it was the largest and most noted in the early ’70’s and gave to the balance of the State leading business and professional men to make “The Lone Star State” great. The old families, who were not so famous, but were the real stamina of the town down through the ages, when prosperity had passed on to other fields and living was hard—yet they lived on and kept the home fires burning until today Jefferson seems doomed to again come to be, and is known the state over as a promising oil center—with prosperity again in view. These with their children may be numbered by the hundreds. Among them we find: Dr. B. J. Terry Dr. T. H. Stallcup W. B. Stallcup Ward Taylor Dick Terry J. H. Rowell S. W. Moseley Shep Haywood T. L. Torrans W. P. Schluter Louis Schluter R. B. Walker W. B. Kennon J. B. Zachery W. B. Sims D. C. Wise A. Urquhart S. A. Spellings Capt. Lyon A. Stutz T. J. Rogers W. J. Sedberry Sam Moseley W. B. Ward Sam Ward J. M. DeWare B. J. Benefield J. C. Preston P. Eldridge I. Goldberg M. Bower J. J. Rives H. Rives These with many others have done much for Jefferson and Texas—So “Come to Texas” and be sure you come to Jefferson. Benj. H. Epperson