Word: probert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Died. Lionel Charles ("Dick") Probert, 53, vice president of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, whose "Chessie" cat advertising campaign he fostered; of pneumonia ; in Los Angeles. Once a locomotive fireman, he turned newspaperman, became Associated Press Bureau chief in Mexico (1913) and Washington (1918-27). He saw President McKinley assassinated, went to France with President Wilson. The late Brothers Van Sweringen got him back in the railroad business as vice president of the Erie...
...eight original Houston children, survivors are Andrew Jackson Houston, custodian of San Jacinto battlefield, and Mrs. Nettie Houston Bringhurst of San Antonio. Living descendants: 20 grandchildren, 34 great-grandchildren, 35 great-great-grandchildren. Living grandchildren are: Mrs. Margaret Bell Probert, New York novelist; Mrs. G. H. Loe, Toledo, Ohio; Temple Houston Jr., Enid, Okla.; Sam Houston Ill, Claremore, Okla.; Richard Houston, Woodward, Okla.; Mrs. W. C Henderson, Tulsa, Okla.; Adriane Houston and Margaret Houston, La Porte, Tex.; Mrs. R. E. McDonald, Stamford, Tex.; Mrs. Josephine Paulus, Pearsall Tex.; Mrs. J. B. Heitchew, Abilene, Tex.; Harry Houston and Temple H. Morrow...
Heavy have been the recent losses of the Washington A. P. to press agentry: Lionel Charles Probert, onetime locomotive fireman left the head of the bureau to become publicity man for the Brothers Van Sweringen and Vice President of their Erie R. R. While covering the Senate oil scandals investigation, Bond E. Geddes dropped his pencil abruptly to become the press agent for Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair. E. Ross Bartley covered Charles Gates Dawes' Vice Presidential campaign in 1924 so effectively that the Vice President made him his Chief Secretary at the capitol...