1906, 1909 R H NORRIS HARDWARE CO LETTERHEAD CHILDRESS TEXAS WITH R H SIGNATURE

Description: 1906, 1909 R H NORRIS HARDWARE CO LETTERHEAD CHILDRESS TEXAS WITH R H NORRIS SIGNATURE. NORRIS. WAS A WHOLESALE & RETAIL HARDWARE CO. SERVING TEXAS FROM WICHITA FALLS TO AMARILLO. PART OF THE MAJOR EXPANSION IN NORTH AND WEST TEXAS WHEN THE DENVER CITY AND FT. WORTH RAILWAY CAME THROUGH IN THE 1880S. ROBERT HENRY NORRIS WAS A LEADING CITIZEN IN CHILDRESS AND HELPED DEVELOP THE TOWN.NORRIS HARDWARE WAS FOUNDED IN THE MID 1890S.PRESIDENT: R H NORRIS (SIGNED BY)WRITTEN TO LEWIS SANDERS HDW, QUANAH TEXASBUILDING STILL THERE IN DOWNTOWN CHILDRESS.HARDWARE AND IMPLEMENTSJOBBERS OF HARDWARE, CUTLERY, QUEENSWARE, WINDMILLS, PIPE, BARB WIRE AND SHEET METAL SEE MY STORE: VINTAGE HARDWARE STORE COLLECTIBLES from A HISTORY OF TEXAS AND TEXANS Robert Henry Norris. In the death of Robert Henry Norris on March 17, 1911, Childress lost a business men and citizen who had been a very efficient factor in making his home city one of the best commercial centers of North Texas. He was in business there as a banker and merchant from the pioneer days until permanence and pros perity became a surety, and none were more zealous, more public spirited, more practical in promoting that end than the late Mr. Norris. He left it for the hardware business in Round Rock. Two years later he took charge of a store at Elgin, Texas, from there moved to Beltou, was in the hardware business there for two years, and then, on September 1, 1891, arrived at Childress, which was to be the scene of his most successful efforts and influence as a business man and citizen. In partnership with Dr. Holloway, who, as previously mentioned, married his hall-sister, he bought the business of the Swift Hardware Company. It was from an humble beginning, with a limited education and with no assistance from anyone, that Robert H. Norris grew to be one of the leading men of North Texas. After four years in a partnership he bought Dr. Holloway's interest, and the business was thereafter conducted as the Norris Hardware Company. He built up an establishment which was the pride of the community, and considered the largest store of its kind in all this section of the State. He was also one of the organizers of the City National Bank of Childress, was vice president of that substantial institution, and was president of the First State Bank of Kirkland. He organized the Norris Implement Company, which is also a big concern, and had many other relations with the commerce of his locality. The late Mr. Norris built and owns the large building in which his hardware business was conducted. They have built up a large wholesale trade with surrounding towns, and the business still remains one of the largest in the country. The Fort Worth and Denver Railway (reporting mark FWD), nicknamed "the Denver Road," was a Class I American railroad company that operated in the northern part of Texas from 1881 to 1982, and had a profound influence on the early settlement and economic development of the region. The Fort Worth and Denver City Railway Company (FW&DC) was chartered by the Texas legislature on May 26, 1873. The company would later change its name to the Fort Worth and Denver Railway Company (FW&D) on August 7, 1951. The main line of the railroad ran from Fort Worth through Wichita Falls, Childress, Amarillo, and Dalhart, to Texline, where it connected with the rails of parent company Colorado and Southern Railway, both of which became subsidiaries of the Burlington Route in 1908. Beginning construction at Hodge Junction, just north of Fort Worth, on November 27, 1881, by September 1882 Dodge had completed 110 miles (180 km) of track to Wichita Falls, Texas. By 1885 the line reached Harrold; by 1886, Chillicothe; by 1887 Clarendon and Amarillo; and by 1888 Texline on the New Mexico border. Continuing into the New Mexico Territory the FW&DC finally linked with the D&NO where the railheads met at Union Park, near present-day Folsom, New Mexico, 528 miles (850 km) from Fort Worth, on March 14, 1888. ORIGINAL, LETTERHEADS, BILLHEAD, BILLHEADS, HARDWARE. NORMAL AGING FOR THIS PERIOD,

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Location: Dallas, Texas

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