Harris L. Kempner, Jr., (aka Shrub Kempner), is President and Portfolio Manager of Kempner Capital Management, an investment advisory firm in Galveston, Texas since 1982. He is also a Trustee of H. Kempner Trust Association, serving as Chairman since 1988.
He was President of U.S. National Bancshares and Chief Investment Officer for Frost Bank of Galveston (formerly United States National Bank) from 1969 to 1982. He currently serves as a Director for Balmorhea Ranches, Inc, Pecos, Texas, and Director Emeritus and Advisor to Frost Bank, Galveston, Texas. He has been a Director of Legacy Holding Company in Houston, Texas since 1996.
Harris L. Kempner Jr. serves on Administrative Council of the Jacob Blaustein Institute for the Advancement of Human Rights which is named after AJWS board member Michael Hirschhorn’s
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is the great-grandson of Harris H. Kempner, a Texas philanthropist, banker and railroad magnate.
Harris Kempner (the first), was born in Russia and immigrated to the United States in 1857. After fighting for the Confederacy during the Civil War, he returned to Texas and moved to Galveston in 1870. Later that year, he and his business partner opened a wholesale grocery business that soon became the largest in the South. The business provided him with enough capital to invest in the railroad, commodities, and banking fields. He provided funds for the building of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad, and led the fight that resulted in the line's subsequent merger with the Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
In 1885 Kempner became president of the Island City (Texas) Savings Bank. He soon became a major figure in Texas banking, controlling several big Texas banks. Harris Kempner died in 1894. The city of Kempner TX, (population 1,117) is named after him.
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...of the crucial replies to Travis’s letter even after the lieutenant colonels’ death was the defeat a decade later of Santa Ana’s army led by Sam Houston which is currently is the backbone of the history of Texas Revolution.
Edmund Emil Kemper III was born on December 13, 1948 in Burbank, CA. He was born to the union of Edmund E. Kemper Jr. and Clarnell Strandberg. After his parents divorced, Clarnell took Kemper along with his two sisters to live by her very high standards and abusive ways. She berated Kemper mentally by having him sleep in a windowless basement because she feared of the harm he may cause to his sisters. In turn, this caused the hatred that he had for her to fester and turn into hatred against all women. On many occasions Kemper would break off the heads and hands of his sister’s dolls and also have them play the game he called “The gas chamber” in which he was the victim to be executed (Fisher, 2003a).
Growing up in McKinney, Texas, Lewis did many odd jobs before he was in the Texas National Guard. He was a bread truck driver for a bakery and worked on cars, to name a few . The life in Texas at the time of Lewis’ high school years was about economic expansion, with petroleum being the basic regional builder in the south west. Oil made the region’s economy different, where as it used to depend on agriculture and timber. But oil fueled the growing automobile industry, with every 4.3 Texans having a car by 1929. By 1930, Texas...
for four months in the year 1870. In April, 1875, he was appointed to the Wichita Kansas
Sam Houston Sam Houston was, as legend reports, a big man about six feet and six inches tall. He was an exciting historical figure and war hero who was involved with much of the early development of our country and Texas. He was a soldier, lawyer, politician, businessman, and family man, whose name will be synonymous with nation heroes who played a vital part in the shaping of a young and prosperous country. He admired and supported the Native Americans who took him in and adopted him into their culture to help bridge the gap between the government and a noble forgotten race. Sam Houston succeeded in many roles he donned as a man, but the one most remembered is the one of a true American hero.
What makes Texas the wonderful state that it is now? The home that you feel welcomed at, and the loving people around you. We can thank our heroes that gave their lives for us to be in peace. Stephen F. Austin is one of history's heroes we would never forget about. Stephen F. Austin showed leadership during the years of 1821-1836 , he is recognized in so many ways in Texas; the capital city, a county, and a college are named after him. He made our state proud and thankful. His statue is in the national capital was put there by grateful citizens of the Lone Star State. James Bowie is another well-known hero of Texas. He was a famous formidable knife fighter and the defender of the Alamo. As a child, Jim Bowie learned how to survive on their
Sherman's early military career was excruciatingly dull . Unlike many of his friends who fought during the Mexican-American War, Sherman spent this time stationed in boonies of California as an executive officer. In 1850, he married Eleanor Boyle Ewing, the daughter of none other than…Thomas Ewing. With his perceived dull career ahead of him Sherman resigned his commission in 1853. He managed to make money as a banker in California during the gold rush, but quit when in the Panic of 1857 rolled in. After several attempts of starting a law firm, he finally was given a job as headmaster at a military academy in Louisiana. When the North and the South started getting chippy, and the word “secede” became a more popular word down in the South, Sherman warned his southern friend...
Declaration of Human Rights: Dignity and Justice for All of Us. Accessed on October 29,
Role in early republic - National Bank, becoming George Washington's Secretary of the Treasury, and helping to create the
Moses Austin was an American merchant and lead miner who brought national attention to America’s mineral wealth. He was such an interesting person I decided to do my Famous Texan project on him.
The co-founder, Mark Butler, owes a major note to the other original partner, who Mark bought out. He has a mortgage on his 12-year-old house and no other significant investments. Mark’s personal references indicate that he is hard-working and watches his business very closely.
1988-2000 Starting over with a $100,000 gift from his dad, he started feeding cattle and drilling oil wells using the newly developed “horizontal drilling technology”. In 1990 he moved to Lufkin, Texas where he continued feeding cattle and drilling oil wells. In 1992 he assembled a 36,000 acre drilling block in Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana and through 1996, had drilled the five deepest horizontal oil wells in the world. Unfortunately the Louisiana venture was a technical success, but it was a financial failure. None of the five wells ever paid out. In 1993 he married Rita Irene Ambrosia and they still live in Lufkin where he continues to manage his oil and gas properties and invest in cattle futures.
A native of Hampton Roads, Daryl Cheatham is the Chief Executive Officer of Lionsgate Investments, Inc., a registered investment advisory firm. Prior to establishing the firm in 2014, Daryl served as a Resident Director/Financial Advisor at Merrill Lynch. Where he led a staff of professional financial consultants in providing customized wealth management solutions for public and private corporations, high-net-worth individuals and their families. He has provided counseling on a wide range of financial matters to small and medium-sized businesses, financial problem-solving for families, children and grandchildren education planning as well as companies and their executives. Daryl has been a valuable resource for other successful entrepreneurs.
Schultz, David, and John R. Vile. The Encyclopedia of Civil Liberties in America. 710-712. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Gale Virtual Reference Library, n.d. Web. 18 Mar. 2010. .
The United States government in 1816 chartered the Second Bank of the United States. It had a 20-year charter, which was to expire in 1836. Despite this, the Bank was privately owned and during the age of Jackson, the president was Nicholas Biddle. The Bank was large in comparison to other banks, being responsible for 15-20% of bank loans in the United States and accounting for 40% of the bank notes in circulation. Also, the Bank held a specie reserve of 50% of the value of its notes, when normally other banks only had a specie reserve of 10-25% (Davis 1).