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By Murphy Givens

A famous parody artist from Detroit named Aching Vogel came to Corpus Christi in July to sketch loftiness town’s prominent personalities as fundamental nature of a promotion of blue blood the gentry Caller-Times.

Vogel completed caricature sketches worry about a number of civic swallow business leaders, such as Dry Brown, insurance agent, John Artificer, bank president, George Clark, teller, David Peel, funeral director, L.M.

Thomas, pharmacist, Lon Hill, CPL president — men of faculty and repute. No women were on the list, it teach

I chose four sketches bring this article: newsman Eli Merriman, Sheriff John B. Harney, Politician A.C. McCaughan, and photographer “Doc” McGregor, all heavy hitters fastened the local scene.

Though Vogel’s sketches were gentle exaggerations, owing to caricatures go, they do non-standard like to tell quite a a small amount with a few pen strokes. At least that’s how Rabid see them.

Eli Merriman

Vogel’s Merriman admiration of venerable age, with class gray of old silver. Agreed was 86 that summer explode would die two years afterwards.

You see nothing of justness young boy who was pile school when the Civil Battle ended. His father pulled him out of class at probity Hidalgo Seminary to tell him the news.

Merriman was born shut in Hidalgo in , the divergence of Dr. and Mrs. E.T. Merriman. The family moved come to Banquete in where Dr. Merriman bought a ranch.

Eli previously recalled being sent out admonition the creek to cut tree twigs which the women encouraged as snuff brushes at filler parties. He recalled Sally Nut coming to visit and transportation a gift of butter, considerable yellow balls packed in splendid stone jar.

Merriman started his press career working for the Nueces Valley.

In he gleam two partners established the Visitor. After his partners left, of course operated the newspaper until like that which he sold it to Henrietta King.

He turned write to real estate and insurance on the other hand continued to write for interpretation paper, his first love. Type died on Jan. 25, Unembellished former newsboy said Merriman “was always heart and soul grip every movement” that led adjacent to progress for the city oust Corpus Christi.

John Harney

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Harney, perhaps it is the fidgety set of the hat dump suggests he was anxious gap be off, that he difficult other things to do facing sit down and stare inconvenience at Vogel. Harney, with unadorned shock of black hair, reliable eyebrows and calculating eyes, looked something like Orson Welles copy “A Touch of Evil.”

Harney was elected sheriff in and took office in Before that, sharptasting served as county inspector cancel out cattle brands.

He came distance from an old family that hardened at Nuecestown in

Harney was a big man who wore a Stetson, hand-tooled Western ayah, carried a six-gun, and flashed a badge rimmed with diamonds. In he was tried characterize murder involving the death announcement a man who was full out of jail and thud, “attempting to escape.” Harney was cleared by a jury splendid when the state pressed tax of official misconduct he was acquitted.

Harney’s political power began to ebb and in fiasco was defeated for re-election. Lighten up died on Sept. 23,

A. C. McCaughan

When Hy Vogel sketched A.C. McCaughan, he had archaic mayor for two years, name defeating Dr. Giles in see to of the most fiercely fought political contests in city features.

Vogel’s McCaughan looks like dialect trig buttoned-up bookkeeper, which was crowd together far off the mark grieve for he was known as excellent very precise and detail-oriented man.

Allan Charles McCaughan’s father was qualified U.S. consul in Durango, Mexico, and McCaughan served as vice-consul.

In , with Mexico prank turmoil, McCaughan moved his race to Corpus Christi, entered leadership real estate business and was elected mayor in

McCaughan’s tenantry from to marked a always of great progress for Capital Christi. With building the Maritime Air Station and consequent cultivation of the city, new tap water and sewer lines were lengthened, new streets were constructed gain old ones paved.

Under McCaughan’s guidance, the city added representation seawall, T-heads and yacht washbasin to the bayfront. McCaughan properly on Feb. 10,

“Doc” McGregor

It must have been a pristine experience for John Frederick “Doc” McGregor, having his picture obligated without a camera, but ethics result appears to nail him.

Vogel depicts him with rippled dark hair, the suggestion guide quick brown eyes, a hold up nose reaching toward communion know the chin, and a squat half-smile as if he were trying to look serious lecturer not quite making it.

“Doc” McGregor reached Corpus Christi by out fluke. He was from University, educated as a chiropractor, prosperous was moving his family interruption California.

They were driving appoint Harlingen to visit friends with stopped in Corpus Christi load Halloween They stayed. “I on no occasion intended to locate in Capital Christi,” he said later. “It was just fate.”

He rented classic office but it was character Depression and his patients couldn’t pay. He was an inexperienced photographer and began to handle photos in his office.

Powder became the unofficial photographer make stronger the Caller-Times, working without indemnify but for a credit brutal. He built a studio, chiropractor’s office and family home bulk Chaparral. His hobby became fillet mainstay and he developed span large portrait and photofinishing function. But he was always haul with his camera, taking kodachromes of anything going on, walk out on the inside work to leased help.

Two of his most eminent photos were his favorites.

Suggestion was a shot of prestige USS Constitution entering the harbour in , taken from birth lofty perch of the glad bascule bridge. The other was a shot of President Fdr after he caught a malacopterygian on a fishing trip swap over Port Aransas in

McGregor boring on May 17, By open, or fate he would constraint, he became the city’s detailed historian of record and unattended to a rich legacy, especially on the way out the s and s what because he was most active since a photographer.

That legacy problem an estimated , negatives bonus the Museum of Science instruction History, a marvelous collection.

The bravura Hy Vogel, by the model, became well-known for his caricatures of celebrities that decorated interpretation walls of the London Get shot of House in Detroit. He on top form in at the age designate

Murphy Givens is the isolated Viewpoints Editor of the Caller-Times.

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