Curtis Media Corporation / Texas Electric Railway Company / Fort Worth Southern Traction Company / Southern Traction Company / Strickland’s Texas Traction Company / Bennett Printing Company / Cleburne Motor Car Company / Joshua / Sherman / Burleson Banner / Northern Texas Traction Company / Fort Worth N Southern Traction Company / Cleburne Daily Enterprise / Taylor Publishing / Dallas Morning News / Continental State Bank / Denison / Dallas Southwestern Traction Company / Tarrant County Traction Company / /
Currency
cent / /
Event
Company Expansion / Man-Made Disaster / M&A / Reorganization / Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / /
Facility
Fort Worth Board / Wilson Brothers C Furniture Store / Fort Worth Star Telegram / Fort Worth-Cleburne Interurban / Fort Worth-Cleburne Interurban Line / US Highway / Camp Henderson / University of Texas / Fort Worth-Dallas / Fort O Worth / Willie Denton College / Robbins Drug Store / Carnegie Library / Fort Worth Fat Stock Show / Interurban Drugstore / Fort O Worth-Cleburne / /
IndustryTerm
transportation / father-in-law / car manufacturer / son-in-law / interurban express car / bank / electric car builder / steel / car mileage / electrical utilities / mass transportation / electricity / metal cars / telephone system / /
MusicGroup
Sousa's Band / B.C. / /
NaturalFeature
Lake Erie / Sycamore Creek / Deer Creek / Polytechnic Heights / /
Organization
University of Texas at Austin / Johnson County History Book Committee / Fort Worth Board of Trade / United States Corps of Engineers / Dallas Board of Trade / University of Texas / Commercial Club / Willie Denton College / Fifth Texas Legislature / Commissioners Court / Burleson School / Interurban Committee / Cleburne City Council / Central Electric Railfans’ Association / Dallas County Commissioners Court / Joshua Historical Committee / Texas Legislature / /
Person
R.H. McWilley / William Poindexter / Robert Montgomery / Newta May Pearce / Henry C. Renfro / Robert A. Griffith / George Clifford / George W. Riddle / Willie Nelson / E.J. Campsey / Grenville Mellen / John Philip / George W. Bransom / Son Druggists / Caddo Grove / Lane Prairie / Michael H. Beard / George T. Bishop / Edward P. Turner / O.L. Bishop / Glen Rose / John L. Cleveland / J.C. Blakeney / T.N. Pearce / Henry Eugene / LeRoy O. King / Albert Hendon Loyless / Patrick R. Cleburne / John T. Witt / E.F. Robbins / Brown Douglas / Grenville Mellen Dodge / /
Position
businessman / ticket agent / onetime manager / prominent Judge / businessmen / Bishop / even country singer / local engineer / prosperous farmer / prominent farmer / druggist / General Manager / famed Civil War General / legislator / slain Confederate General / Bishop of Cleveland / purchasing agent / Judge / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Missouri / Colorado / Texas / Kansas / Johnson County / /
An Electrifying Idea in Johnson County, Texas Robert A. Griffith Revised February 28, 2009 At the dawn of the 20th Century, a new mode of transportation awakened the sleepy towns of North Texas. Interurban railways sprea