CA1098

Dallas Morning News 10-22-1895
(C. Avis Catalog entry #1098)

p. 5

OLD SUBSCRIBERS OF THE NEWS.

Captain J. Calvin Maples Has Read The News for Forty Years.

    Kaufman, Tex., Oct. 14. -- To The News: 
Captain J. Calvin Maples was raised in McMinn county, east Tennessee, and came to Texas at the age of 29 and settled in old Jacksonville, Cherokee county, Texas, in 1849.  He served six months with General e. B. Nichols at Galveston as captain the the confederate army and two years and six months as captain in Walker's division in the Texas-Mississippi department.  Captain Maples left Jacksonville and located in Kaufman in 1889, where he has since resided.  He merchandised more than thirty years in Texas and for the last several years has been a private banker, loaning money, buying notes, etc.  He is a large stockholder in three national banks and is one of the wealthiest men in Kaufman county.  Captain Maples is a widower and has no children.  He has always been the friend of the poor man and perhaps has done more for the needy than any man in Kaufman.  Many men in this county will tell you to-day they owe their homes and all they have to the generosity of Captain Maples.  He has been a constant reader of The Galveston-Dallas News forty years and thinks no other paper in the south can equal this great journal in giving the news impartially without fear or favor.  He is a stanch member of the Methodist church, and always liberal in his donations to all things charitable.  His charitable acts are seldom know to the outside world.   J. M. REAGAN.