. History of Texas, together with a biographical history of Tarrant and Parker counties; containing a concise history of the state, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens of the above named counties, and personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families. he county of Tar-rant are better known or more highly re-spected than is John C. Roy. aHARLES HERBERT SILLIMAN-—One of Fort Worths most promi-nent and inHuential citizens is H. Silliman, president of the Chamber ofCommerce and manager of the Land Mort-gage Bank of Texas (Limited). He is anative of Monroe
. History of Texas, together with a biographical history of Tarrant and Parker counties; containing a concise history of the state, with portraits and biographies of prominent citizens of the above named counties, and personal histories of many of the early settlers and leading families. he county of Tar-rant are better known or more highly re-spected than is John C. Roy. aHARLES HERBERT SILLIMAN-—One of Fort Worths most promi-nent and inHuential citizens is H. Silliman, president of the Chamber ofCommerce and manager of the Land Mort-gage Bank of Texas (Limited). He is anative of Monroe county. New York, bornon the banks of Lake Ontario, on the 30thday of January, 1852. His father. La Fa-yette Silliman. a native of the State of Con-necticut, followed farming until 1862, andthen engaged in the manufacture of agricul-tural implements, as a member of the firmof Silliman, Bowman & Company, at Brock-port, New York. Subsequently he sold hisinterest in the manufacturing business to theJohnston Harvester Company, and is nowa resident of Albion, Michigan. He mar-ried Miss Caroline, daughter of Samuel , a well known manufacturer of Holly,New York, who, at his death, in 1880, atthe age of ninety years, was one of the old-est Free Masons in the United HISTORY OF TEXAS. 377 The father of our subject is a relative ofthe noted Professor Silliman, of Yale Col-lege, and both the Silliman and Porter an-cestors were Revolutionary patriots, andamong the original settlers of Connecticut. Mr. Silliman spent much of his timewhile a boy in his fathers factory at Brock-port, receiving considerable practical in-struction in mechanics as applied to motivepower. He attended the Brockport Acade-my during the school year; always spendinghis summer vacations in the country, on oneof his fathers farms, where the free openair and exercise would remove any tendencyof the physical sjstem to an unhealthydevelopment, and where his mental facul-ties could recover their normal v
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