Ransom Huey Harris was the oldest child of Frank and Susan Sholar Harris. When he was 8 years old, he and his younger brother, Arlie, started school. He was 10 years old when his mother died. The first home he remembered was a large log house with a full-length gallery at the front of the house, and a gallery and shed room across the back. As the family grew, his father built a modern 8-room frame house, with a large hall "through its entire length." One large room had two huge fireplaces, where fires were kept going in the winter time—one for reading, talking, and relaxing at the end of the day, and the other for the children to play or to study their lessons.
In 1905, when he was 16, he began work as clerk in a general store in Joaquin, Texas, working through the fall season and holidays. After the store was sold, Huey worked briefly for the Houston East and West Texas Railroad, working from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM, including Sundays and holidays, with 30 minutes off for lunch. After 7:00 PM he went to supper, and returned to the office to work until bedtime, when he slept on a cot in the office.
In the Fall of 1908 he entered the Tenaha Academy at Tenaha, Texas, to prepare to become a public school teacher. But after the death of his stepmother, he returned home to help his family, and remained at home for a year. He resumed his studies, finished the course, passed the State Teachers' examination and taught two years in the Shelby County, Texas, schools.
By 1913 Huey also had completed courses and received diplomas for bookkeeping, shorthand, and typing from Tyler Commercial College, and accepted a job in a department store in Hillsboro, Texas. While in Hillsboro he met Selma Cochran, and they were married at her home on October 13, 1915.
In the previous summer, 1914, he had accepted a position as a rural mail carrier, and for 18 months he was the carrier on Route No. 4 out of Center, Texas. For this job, he needed a buggy and two horses; the horses cost $70 each, and the buggy about $50. In December 1915, Huey quit the mail route and went to work for eight years keeping books for cotton seed oil mills owned by Swift and Company.
In the next years, he worked for the Abilene, Texas, City Water Department, as well as entering the motor bus industry on his own, operating first a line between Coleman and San Angelo, Texas, and later purchased a line operating between Abilene and Coleman, extended in to Brady. After the bus line was sold, he worked with Greyhound until 1934, the Kerrville Bus Company, and bus lines at Lubbock, Texas. In December 1939 he moved to Ada, Oklahoma, and in August 1942, he moved to Oklahoma City, continuing to work with bus lines.
In 1945 Huey and his wife and son Earl were living in Fort Worth, where they were active members of the Christian Church.
—The above information is summarized from the article "Our Man of The Month: R. H. (Pop) Harris," Bowen Trailway News, November 1945
In 1905, when he was 16, he began work as clerk in a general store in Joaquin, Texas, working through the fall season and holidays. After the store was sold, Huey worked briefly for the Houston East and West Texas Railroad, working from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM, including Sundays and holidays, with 30 minutes off for lunch. After 7:00 PM he went to supper, and returned to the office to work until bedtime, when he slept on a cot in the office.
In the Fall of 1908 he entered the Tenaha Academy at Tenaha, Texas, to prepare to become a public school teacher. But after the death of his stepmother, he returned home to help his family, and remained at home for a year. He resumed his studies, finished the course, passed the State Teachers' examination and taught two years in the Shelby County, Texas, schools.
By 1913 Huey also had completed courses and received diplomas for bookkeeping, shorthand, and typing from Tyler Commercial College, and accepted a job in a department store in Hillsboro, Texas. While in Hillsboro he met Selma Cochran, and they were married at her home on October 13, 1915.
In the previous summer, 1914, he had accepted a position as a rural mail carrier, and for 18 months he was the carrier on Route No. 4 out of Center, Texas. For this job, he needed a buggy and two horses; the horses cost $70 each, and the buggy about $50. In December 1915, Huey quit the mail route and went to work for eight years keeping books for cotton seed oil mills owned by Swift and Company.
In the next years, he worked for the Abilene, Texas, City Water Department, as well as entering the motor bus industry on his own, operating first a line between Coleman and San Angelo, Texas, and later purchased a line operating between Abilene and Coleman, extended in to Brady. After the bus line was sold, he worked with Greyhound until 1934, the Kerrville Bus Company, and bus lines at Lubbock, Texas. In December 1939 he moved to Ada, Oklahoma, and in August 1942, he moved to Oklahoma City, continuing to work with bus lines.
In 1945 Huey and his wife and son Earl were living in Fort Worth, where they were active members of the Christian Church.
—The above information is summarized from the article "Our Man of The Month: R. H. (Pop) Harris," Bowen Trailway News, November 1945
Ransom Huey Harris was the oldest child of Frank and Susan Sholar Harris. When he was 8 years old, he and his younger brother, Arlie, started school. He was 10 years old when his mother died. The first home he remembered was a large log house with a full-length gallery at the front of the house, and a gallery and shed room across the back. As the family grew, his father built a modern 8-room frame house, with a large hall "through its entire length." One large room had two huge fireplaces, where fires were kept going in the winter time—one for reading, talking, and relaxing at the end of the day, and the other for the children to play or to study their lessons.
In 1905, when he was 16, he began work as clerk in a general store in Joaquin, Texas, working through the fall season and holidays. After the store was sold, Huey worked briefly for the Houston East and West Texas Railroad, working from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM, including Sundays and holidays, with 30 minutes off for lunch. After 7:00 PM he went to supper, and returned to the office to work until bedtime, when he slept on a cot in the office.
In the Fall of 1908 he entered the Tenaha Academy at Tenaha, Texas, to prepare to become a public school teacher. But after the death of his stepmother, he returned home to help his family, and remained at home for a year. He resumed his studies, finished the course, passed the State Teachers' examination and taught two years in the Shelby County, Texas, schools.
By 1913 Huey also had completed courses and received diplomas for bookkeeping, shorthand, and typing from Tyler Commercial College, and accepted a job in a department store in Hillsboro, Texas. While in Hillsboro he met Selma Cochran, and they were married at her home on October 13, 1915.
In the previous summer, 1914, he had accepted a position as a rural mail carrier, and for 18 months he was the carrier on Route No. 4 out of Center, Texas. For this job, he needed a buggy and two horses; the horses cost $70 each, and the buggy about $50. In December 1915, Huey quit the mail route and went to work for eight years keeping books for cotton seed oil mills owned by Swift and Company.
In the next years, he worked for the Abilene, Texas, City Water Department, as well as entering the motor bus industry on his own, operating first a line between Coleman and San Angelo, Texas, and later purchased a line operating between Abilene and Coleman, extended in to Brady. After the bus line was sold, he worked with Greyhound until 1934, the Kerrville Bus Company, and bus lines at Lubbock, Texas. In December 1939 he moved to Ada, Oklahoma, and in August 1942, he moved to Oklahoma City, continuing to work with bus lines.
In 1945 Huey and his wife and son Earl were living in Fort Worth, where they were active members of the Christian Church.
—The above information is summarized from the article "Our Man of The Month: R. H. (Pop) Harris," Bowen Trailway News, November 1945
In 1905, when he was 16, he began work as clerk in a general store in Joaquin, Texas, working through the fall season and holidays. After the store was sold, Huey worked briefly for the Houston East and West Texas Railroad, working from 7:00 AM until 7:00 PM, including Sundays and holidays, with 30 minutes off for lunch. After 7:00 PM he went to supper, and returned to the office to work until bedtime, when he slept on a cot in the office.
In the Fall of 1908 he entered the Tenaha Academy at Tenaha, Texas, to prepare to become a public school teacher. But after the death of his stepmother, he returned home to help his family, and remained at home for a year. He resumed his studies, finished the course, passed the State Teachers' examination and taught two years in the Shelby County, Texas, schools.
By 1913 Huey also had completed courses and received diplomas for bookkeeping, shorthand, and typing from Tyler Commercial College, and accepted a job in a department store in Hillsboro, Texas. While in Hillsboro he met Selma Cochran, and they were married at her home on October 13, 1915.
In the previous summer, 1914, he had accepted a position as a rural mail carrier, and for 18 months he was the carrier on Route No. 4 out of Center, Texas. For this job, he needed a buggy and two horses; the horses cost $70 each, and the buggy about $50. In December 1915, Huey quit the mail route and went to work for eight years keeping books for cotton seed oil mills owned by Swift and Company.
In the next years, he worked for the Abilene, Texas, City Water Department, as well as entering the motor bus industry on his own, operating first a line between Coleman and San Angelo, Texas, and later purchased a line operating between Abilene and Coleman, extended in to Brady. After the bus line was sold, he worked with Greyhound until 1934, the Kerrville Bus Company, and bus lines at Lubbock, Texas. In December 1939 he moved to Ada, Oklahoma, and in August 1942, he moved to Oklahoma City, continuing to work with bus lines.
In 1945 Huey and his wife and son Earl were living in Fort Worth, where they were active members of the Christian Church.
—The above information is summarized from the article "Our Man of The Month: R. H. (Pop) Harris," Bowen Trailway News, November 1945
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