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Frank Kell

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Franklin Marian "Frank" Kell (December 2, 1859 – September 17, 1941), along with his brother-in-law Joseph A. Kemp, was one of the two principal entrepreneurs in the early development of Wichita Falls, Texas. [1]

83 relations: Amarillo, Texas, Austin, Texas, Baptists, Christmas, Clay County, Texas, Clifton, Texas, Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, Coal, Cottonseed oil, Dallas, Democratic Party (United States), District attorney, Earle Bradford Mayfield, East Texas, Federal Reserve Bank, Forgan, Oklahoma, Frank Kell Cahoon, Galveston, Texas, General election, General Mills, George Peddy, Governor of Texas, Grain elevator, Handbook of Texas, Henrietta, Texas, Herbert Hoover, Houston, Independent politician, Irish people, Joseph A. Kemp, Kell House Museum, Ku Klux Klan, McLennan County, Texas, Midland, Texas, Miriam A. Ferguson, Missouri, Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad, Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad, Natural gas, New Mexico, New York City, Norwegians, Oil, Oklahoma, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Panhandle, Orville Bullington, Overton, Texas, Perry, Oklahoma, Petroleum, ..., Philanthropy, Presbyterian Church in the United States, Presbyterianism, President of the United States, Prohibition, Rail transport, Railroad Commission of Texas, Republican Party (United States), San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad, Shelby County, Texas, Tenaha, Texas, Texas A&M University, Texas House of Representatives, Texas State Historical Association, Tom Connally, Two-round system, United States Chamber of Commerce, United States Food Administration, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, University of Texas at Austin, Vernon, Texas, Waco, Texas, West Texas Historical Association, Wheat, Wichita County, Texas, Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, Wichita Falls Railway, Wichita Falls, Texas, Wilbarger County, Texas, World War I, Write-in candidate. Expand index (33 more) »

Amarillo, Texas

Amarillo is the 14th-most populous city in the state of Texas, United States.

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Austin, Texas

Austin is the capital of the U.S. state of Texas and the seat of Travis County, with portions extending into Hays and Williamson counties.

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Baptists

Baptists are Christians distinguished by baptizing professing believers only (believer's baptism, as opposed to infant baptism), and doing so by complete immersion (as opposed to affusion or sprinkling).

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Christmas

Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ,Martindale, Cyril Charles.

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Clay County, Texas

Clay County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Clifton, Texas

Clifton is the largest city in Bosque County, located in central Texas in the United States.

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Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas

The Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas was a 56-mile length of railroad track extending from the Oklahoma state line in eastern Hemphill County, Texas, to Pampa, the county seat of Gray County, located northeast of Amarillo.

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Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds or coal seams.

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Cottonseed oil

Cottonseed oil is a cooking oil extracted from the seeds of cotton plants of various species, mainly Gossypium hirsutum and Gossypium herbaceum, that are grown for cotton fiber, animal feed, and oil.

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Dallas

Dallas is a city in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party (nicknamed the GOP for Grand Old Party).

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District attorney

In the United States, a district attorney (DA) is the chief prosecutor for a local government area, typically a county.

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Earle Bradford Mayfield

Earle Bradford Mayfield (April 12, 1881June 23, 1964) was a lawyer and Democratic Party politician from Overton, Texas who served in both the Texas State Senate and United States Senate.

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East Texas

East Texas is a distinct cultural, geographic and ecological area in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Federal Reserve Bank

A Federal Reserve Bank is a regional bank of the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States.

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Forgan, Oklahoma

Forgan is a town in Beaver County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Frank Kell Cahoon

Frank Kell Cahoon, Sr. (June 20, 1934 – January 30, 2013), was an oilman and natural gas entrepreneur from Midland, Texas, who was the only Republican member of the Texas House of Representatives in the regular 1965 legislative session.

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Galveston, Texas

Galveston is a coastal resort city on Galveston Island and Pelican Island in the U.S. state of Texas.

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General election

A general election is an election in which all or most members of a given political body are chosen.

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General Mills

General Mills, Inc., is an American multinational manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer foods sold through retail stores.

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George Peddy

George Edwin Bailey Peddy (August 22, 1892 - June 13, 1951) was a Texas lawyer and politician who ran in 1922 as a combination Independent Democrat/Republican write-in candidate for the United States Senate and in 1948 as a Democrat, losing both times.

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Governor of Texas

The Governor of Texas is the head of the executive branch of Texas's government and the commander-in-chief of the state's military forces.

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Grain elevator

A grain elevator is an agrarian facility complex designed to stockpile or store grain.

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Handbook of Texas

The Handbook of Texas is a comprehensive encyclopedia of Texas geography, history, and historical persons published by the Texas State Historical Association (TSHA).

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Henrietta, Texas

Henrietta is a city in and the county seat of Clay County, Texas, United States.

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Herbert Hoover

Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 – October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression.

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Houston

Houston is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Texas and the fourth most populous city in the United States, with a census-estimated 2017 population of 2.312 million within a land area of.

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Independent politician

An independent or nonpartisan politician is an individual politician not affiliated with any political party.

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Irish people

The Irish people (Muintir na hÉireann or Na hÉireannaigh) are a nation and ethnic group native to the island of Ireland, who share a common Irish ancestry, identity and culture.

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Joseph A. Kemp

Joseph Alexander Kemp, sometimes known as Jodie Kemp (July 31, 1861 - November 16, 1930), was an entrepreneur and investor who along with his brother-in-law Frank Kell is considered one of the modern founders of Wichita Falls, Texas.

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Kell House Museum

Kell House Museum, also known as The Kell House, is a historic house museum in Wichita Falls, Texas.

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Ku Klux Klan

The Ku Klux Klan, commonly called the KKK or simply the Klan, refers to three distinct secret movements at different points in time in the history of the United States.

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McLennan County, Texas

McLennan County is a county located on the Edwards Plateau in Central Texas.

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Midland, Texas

Midland is a city in and the county seat of Midland County, Texas, United States, on the Southern Plains of the state's western area.

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Miriam A. Ferguson

Miriam Amanda Wallace "Ma" Ferguson (June 13, 1875 – June 25, 1961) was the first female Governor of Texas, serving from 1925 to 1927 and 1933 to 1935.

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Missouri

Missouri is a state in the Midwestern United States.

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Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad

The Missouri and North Arkansas Railroad was a regional carrier from 1906 to 1946, which at its peak strength joined Joplin in southwestern, Missouri with Helena in Phillips County in eastern Arkansas.

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Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railroad

The Missouri–Kansas–Texas Railway is a former Class I railroad company in the United States, with its last headquarters in Dallas.

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Natural gas

Natural gas is a naturally occurring hydrocarbon gas mixture consisting primarily of methane, but commonly including varying amounts of other higher alkanes, and sometimes a small percentage of carbon dioxide, nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide, or helium.

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New Mexico

New Mexico (Nuevo México, Yootó Hahoodzo) is a state in the Southwestern Region of the United States of America.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Norwegians

Norwegians (nordmenn) are a Germanic ethnic group native to Norway.

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Oil

An oil is any nonpolar chemical substance that is a viscous liquid at ambient temperatures and is both hydrophobic (does not mix with water, literally "water fearing") and lipophilic (mixes with other oils, literally "fat loving").

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Oklahoma

Oklahoma (Uukuhuúwa, Gahnawiyoˀgeh) is a state in the South Central region of the United States.

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Oklahoma City

Oklahoma City, often shortened to OKC, is the capital and largest city of the U.S. state of Oklahoma.

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Oklahoma Panhandle

The Oklahoma Panhandle is the extreme northwestern region of the U.S. state of Oklahoma, consisting of Cimarron County, Texas County and Beaver County, from west to east.

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Orville Bullington

Orville Bullington (February 10, 1882 – November 24, 1956) was an attorney and businessman in Wichita Falls, Texas, who was the unsuccessful Republican gubernatorial nominee in 1932 against former Governor Miriam Wallace "Ma" Ferguson, who won the second of her two terms in the office.

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Overton, Texas

Overton is a city in Rusk and Smith counties in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Perry, Oklahoma

Perry is a city in, and county seat of, Noble County, Oklahoma, United States.

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Petroleum

Petroleum is a naturally occurring, yellow-to-black liquid found in geological formations beneath the Earth's surface.

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Philanthropy

Philanthropy means the love of humanity.

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Presbyterian Church in the United States

The Presbyterian Church in the United States (PCUS, originally Presbyterian Church in the Confederate States of America) was a Protestant Christian denomination in the Southern and border states of the United States that existed from 1861 to 1983.

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Presbyterianism

Presbyterianism is a part of the reformed tradition within Protestantism which traces its origins to Britain, particularly Scotland, and Ireland.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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Prohibition

Prohibition is the illegality of the manufacturing, storage in barrels or bottles, transportation, sale, possession, and consumption of alcohol including alcoholic beverages, or a period of time during which such illegality was enforced.

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Rail transport

Rail transport is a means of transferring of passengers and goods on wheeled vehicles running on rails, also known as tracks.

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Railroad Commission of Texas

The Railroad Commission of Texas (RRC; also sometimes called the Texas Railroad Commission, TRC) is the state agency that regulates the oil and gas industry, gas utilities, pipeline safety, safety in the liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) industry, and surface coal and uranium mining.

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Republican Party (United States)

The Republican Party, also referred to as the GOP (abbreviation for Grand Old Party), is one of the two major political parties in the United States, the other being its historic rival, the Democratic Party.

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San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad

The San Antonio, Uvalde and Gulf Railroad was a South Texas railroad company in the first half of the 20th century that linked San Antonio with Corpus Christi, Texas.

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Shelby County, Texas

Shelby County is a county located in the far eastern portion of the U.S. state of Texas.

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Tenaha, Texas

Tenaha is a town in Shelby County, Texas, United States.

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Texas A&M University

Texas A&M University (Texas A&M or A&M) is a coeducational public research university in College Station, Texas, United States.

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Texas House of Representatives

The Texas House of Representatives is the lower house of the bicameral Texas Legislature.

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Texas State Historical Association

The Texas State Historical Association (TSHA) is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to documenting the history of Texas.

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Tom Connally

Thomas Terry "Tom" Connally (August 19, 1877October 28, 1963) was an American politician, who represented Texas in both the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, as a member of the Democratic Party.

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Two-round system

The two-round system (also known as the second ballot, runoff voting or ballotage) is a voting method used to elect a single winner, where the voter casts a single vote for their chosen candidate.

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United States Chamber of Commerce

The United States Chamber of Commerce (USCC) is a business-oriented American lobbying group.

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United States Food Administration

During the United States participation in World War I the U. S. Food Administration was the responsible agency for the administration of the U.S. army overseas and allies' food reserves.

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United States House of Representatives

The United States House of Representatives is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, the Senate being the upper chamber.

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United States Senate

The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, which along with the United States House of Representatives—the lower chamber—comprise the legislature of the United States.

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University of Texas at Austin

The University of Texas at Austin (UT, UT Austin, or Texas) is a public research university and the flagship institution of the University of Texas System.

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Vernon, Texas

Vernon is a city in Wilbarger County, Texas, United States.

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Waco, Texas

Waco is a city in central Texas and is the county seat of McLennan County, Texas, United States.

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West Texas Historical Association

The West Texas Historical Association is an organization of both academics and laypersons dedicated to the preservation and dissemination of the total history of West Texas, loosely defined geographically as all Texas counties and portions of counties located west of Interstate 35.

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Wheat

Wheat is a grass widely cultivated for its seed, a cereal grain which is a worldwide staple food.

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Wichita County, Texas

Wichita County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway

The Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway was among several short-line railroads which in the first half of the 20th century extended like the spokes of a wheel from the hub city of Wichita Falls, Texas.

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Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad

The Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad Company was a railroad in operation in North Texas from 1921 to 1954.

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Wichita Falls Railway

The Wichita Falls Railway is a defunct railroad that extended for eighteen miles from Wichita Falls to Henrietta in Clay County in North Texas, where it joined the larger Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, often called the "Katy".

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Wichita Falls, Texas

Wichita Falls is a city in and the county seat of Wichita County, Texas, United States.

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Wilbarger County, Texas

Wilbarger County is a county located in the U.S. state of Texas.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Write-in candidate

A write-in candidate is a candidate in an election whose name does not appear on the ballot, but for whom voters may vote nonetheless by writing in the person's name.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Kell

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