Royal A. Ferris
Mr. Ferris was a leading lawyer of Dallas, Texas, and he too was reared in Jefferson.
Nelson Phillips
Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas, and a leading lawyer of the State, made his home in Dallas and was a product of Marion County, living near Jefferson.
W. B. Harrison
A leading business man and banker of Ft. Worth, Texas for many years started his business career in Jefferson during the palmy days.
The Bateman Family
(King, Andy, and Quincy)
This prominent family in the business and social life of the early days of Jefferson, branched out into the business world in Jefferson and when Jefferson began to lose navigation, along with it, many of her population, the Bateman family moved west and were helpful in building Ft. Worth, Texas, in business and banking lines.
In fact Jefferson furnished many of the leading business and professional men, who went west in the early days and built the State of Texas.
Jefferson is truly the “mother city” of the State of Texas as it was the largest and most noted in the early ’70’s and gave to the balance of the State leading business and professional men to make “The Lone Star State” great.