A history of Texas and Texans . ants and fromhis headquarters in San Antonio he is able to keepin close touch with his properties by frequent visits inalmost every direction from that city. While WilliamSchertz has withdrawn from the business activities ofthe tovrn where he was reared, other members of thefamily still keep up the prestige of the name as leadingbusiness men. For a number of years the cotton ginestablished by the father was carried on by Adolph andMartin Schertz, but Martin has since retired from thefirm, and Adolph is sole proprietor of the gin and alsooccupies the old homestea
A history of Texas and Texans . ants and fromhis headquarters in San Antonio he is able to keepin close touch with his properties by frequent visits inalmost every direction from that city. While WilliamSchertz has withdrawn from the business activities ofthe tovrn where he was reared, other members of thefamily still keep up the prestige of the name as leadingbusiness men. For a number of years the cotton ginestablished by the father was carried on by Adolph andMartin Schertz, but Martin has since retired from thefirm, and Adolph is sole proprietor of the gin and alsooccupies the old homestead farm in the vicinity. Mr. William Schertz, whose home is at 329 W. CraigPlace in San Antonio, married Miss Bertha Willenbrock,who was born in Bexar county just across the line fromthe Schertz place in Guadalupe county. They have ayoung son, Edgar Schertz, born in 1901. Edward P. Mangum. The native sons of the Lone>Star state have ably carried forward the progressive,civic and industrial activities to which original impetus. TEXAS AND TEXANS 1831 was given by prior generations, and have well upheldthe prestige of the commonwealth through their sterlingservices. Such an one is he whose name initiates thisparagraph, for he is one of the representative youngagriculturists and stock-growers of Hunt county and isa citizen who commands secure vantage-ground in popu-lar confidence and esteem, as is vouchsafed by the factthat he is now serving his second term as representativeof Hunt county in the state legislature, in which hisrecord has been marked by discrimination, loyalty andefficiency. Mr. Mangum was born in Delta county, Texas, on the5th of October, 1S79, and is a son of William E. andDelina James (Murray) Mangum, the former of whomwas born in the state of Mississippi and the latter inIllinois, though she was reared in Texas, to which stateher parents removed when she was a child. William served as a valiant soldier of the Confederacyin the Civil war, as a member of
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