Obit for Grandmother’s father – R. W. Higginbotham
R. W. Higginbotham, 72, president of Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co. one of Texas’ most successful business men, died at his home, 5002 Swiss Avenue, at 7 p.m. Thursday [3/26/1931] of a heart attack which followed an illness of three days.
The business man-philanthropist was believed to be improving until he was suddenly seized with the heart attack Thursday night.
Higginbotham’s rise from a penniless youth to one of the most prominent business men of Texas reads like a story book from the pen of Horatio Alger. He was born near Taylor’s Depot, Miss. in 1879, came to Texas, immediately formed a connection with the William Cameron Lumber Company of Waco. Two years later he entered the mercantile business in DeLeon, forming the foundation for his great stores which he was to rapidly develop. In 1914 he moved to Dallas and organized the Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co.
At the time of his death he was the head of many large Texas firms, including the Higginbotham-Bailey-Logan Co., Higginbotham Bartlett Lumber Co., Higginbotham Millinery Co., Higginbotham Brothers and Co., and the DeLeon Peanut Co. He was a director of the First National Bank of Dallas and served on the directorial boards of numerous other establishments.
His activities were not confined to business. He was a member of the Gaston Avenue Baptist Church, Lakewood and Dallas Country Clubs, Trinity Valley Masonic Lodge, Scottish Rite and Hella Temple Shrine.
His wife died last August. Surviving are five daughters: Mrs. E. R. Nash Jr. and Mrs. Baker Duncan of Waco; Mrs. O. S. Boggess, Mrs. W. J. Lang and Mrs. Henry D. Lindsley of Dallas; three sons, R. W. Higginbotham of New York, John T. Higginbotham and Joseph L. Higginbotham of Dallas. Nineteen grandchildren also survive.
–transcribed by Louise Mosley Smith
Bonham Daily Favorite, Bonham, Texas, March 27, 1931:
E R Nash Sr. and Family 