A history of Texas and Texans . ceived but meager educational ad-vantages in his youth, his training being limited to aboiitthree months of each winter in the primitive log-cabindistrict school. He was ambitious and industrious, how-ever, and his receptive mind and retentive memory per-mitted him to become better schooled than many of hisfellows. Since that time, wide reading, much travel, andkeen olServation of men and affairs have given liimbroad fund of knowledge on a number of subjects, andone cannot be with him long without realizing that hea very well-educated man. Mr. Lovejoys first bus
A history of Texas and Texans . ceived but meager educational ad-vantages in his youth, his training being limited to aboiitthree months of each winter in the primitive log-cabindistrict school. He was ambitious and industrious, how-ever, and his receptive mind and retentive memory per-mitted him to become better schooled than many of hisfellows. Since that time, wide reading, much travel, andkeen olServation of men and affairs have given liimbroad fund of knowledge on a number of subjects, andone cannot be with him long without realizing that hea very well-educated man. Mr. Lovejoys first businesiexperience was as a clerk in a drug store at McKinneyfollowing which he accepted a position as a travelingsalesman for Meyer Brothers, wholesale druggists of StLouis. His career as a banker began when he opened inational bank at Greenville, Hunt county, of whichcontinued as president until September. 1907, since whi(time he has acted in the capacity of vice president. During this time he had been a stockholder and director. TEXAS AND TEXANS 1709 the First National Bank of McKinney, at McKinney, andin September, 1907, was chosen president of that institu-tion, recognized as one of the strongest in this part ofthe state. His able direction of its policies has popu-larized its coffers, and its standing in banking circlesand in the confidence of the public is equally high. is the owner of his fathers old home and farmwest of McKinney, where there are 12-11 acres of land,rented to nine families. A Democrat of the Jeffersonianpersuasion, Mr. Lovejoy has always been an active andardent supporter of his partys policies and Masonry he has achieved a high place, having attainedto the Scottish Eite degree, and he is at this time treas-urer of the Commandery at McKinney. He holds mem-bership also in the Benevolent and Protective Order ofElks, and is a charter member of the local lodge of theKnights of Pythias. A lifelong member of the SouthernPresbyterian chur
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