A history of Texas and Texans . r business, andhe became manager and editor of the Las Vegas DailyOptic. In polities he is a Eepubliean. During his fouryears connection with the Optic he took an active in-terest in politics. He served for three years as PublicPrinter of New Mexico, to which oflSce he was ap-pointed by Governor Miguel A. Otero. Having sold his interest in this enterprise, Mr. Mo-Nary, in the fall of 1906, came to El Paso. He beganas an employe of the First National Bank, and aftertwo years vvas elected Assistant Cashier of the FirstNational Bank, and two years later elected a V
A history of Texas and Texans . r business, andhe became manager and editor of the Las Vegas DailyOptic. In polities he is a Eepubliean. During his fouryears connection with the Optic he took an active in-terest in politics. He served for three years as PublicPrinter of New Mexico, to which oflSce he was ap-pointed by Governor Miguel A. Otero. Having sold his interest in this enterprise, Mr. Mo-Nary, in the fall of 1906, came to El Paso. He beganas an employe of the First National Bank, and aftertwo years vvas elected Assistant Cashier of the FirstNational Bank, and two years later elected a VicePresident, and has since been chosen First Vice Presi-dent and Chairman of the Executive Committee of thisinstitution. In 1911 IMr. McNary was President of theEl Paso Chamber of Commerce and has been an effectiveworker for business and industrial developments in thiscity. He is a Director and Treasurer of the Southwest-ern Portland Cement Company at El Paso; a Directorand Treasurer of the EI Paso Grain & Milling Company;. TEXAS AND TEXANS 1605 a Director of The James A. Dick Wholesale GroceryCompany; a Director and Treasurer of the Paso delNorte Hotel Company, and the El Paso Hotel Company,having been one of the promoters of El Pasos milliondollar hotel, which has so intimately concerned theprosperity of the City; he is a Director and Vice Presi-dent of The First Mortgage Company and also of theAmerican Trust & Savings Banlj; a Director of the EioGrande & El Paso Eailway Company, and a director ofthe W. M. Cady Lumber Company, and the McNaryLumber Company, at McNary, Louisiana, near Alex-andria. The town of McNary, whose two lumber millshave a daily capacity of 500,000 feet, was named afterhim. Mr. McNary, aside from business, is very much inter-ested in musical affairs, and is himself a trained andaccomplished musician. During his first four years resi-dence in El Paso he was musical director of the El PasoChoral Society, with a membership of one hundred. Hepossesses an exc
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