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- Books Written About Lorenzo available at
the Lorenzo Library
- History of the City of
Lorenzo, Texas Crosby County by Mr. W. O Cherry
- Once Upon a Plain. . .
Echoes of Lorenzo by
Wayne & Sydna Wallace
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- Mayors of Lorenzo Top
- 1924-1925 W.R. Seltzer
1925-1926 W.W. Anderson
1926-1927 T.G. Hendrick, Sr.
1927-1928 H.S. Smyer
1928-1932 A.C. Woodward
1932-1936 H. Wampler
1936-1938 Joe Schuler
1938-1944 Fred Robb
1944-1948 Roy J. Terrell
1948-1952 O. H. Kemp
1952-1956 James O'Rear
1956-1958 A. W. Lott
- 1958-1960 Leon Keene
1960-1968 J. R. Petersen
1968-1970 Walter E. Brown
1970-1973 E. B. Fullingim
1973-1976 Tommy McGee
1976-1980 Joe E. Darden
1980-1984 Edward S. Smith
1984-1986 Don C. Nickson
1986-1990 William H. Nelson
1990-1995 Tommy Fondren
1995-Present Lester C. Bownds
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- City Secretaries/Administrator
- Roy Terrell
- R. T. (Jack) Bowman
- Joe Schuler
- Leroy Lemon
- L.H. Baker
- William W. Mitchell
- L.H. Baker
- J.T. Herrington
- E. T. House
- Lyman Daniel
- Positon changed to Administrator
- Leon Moore
- Rick L. Hanna
- Roger Cypert
- Jim Norris
- Mike Cypert
- Rhonda Cypert
- Dorothy Bristow
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- United States
Postmasters
- Mrs. Alice McGuire
- Mrs. B. F. Hoople
- L.M. Laird
- Chester Maxey
- Betty Cypert
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- First Residents
- Mrs. J. A. (Jim Pearson)
- Mrs. Fred (Lura Smyer) Maxey
- Dick Childers
- Polk Smallin
- J.R. Terrell
- Roy Terrell
- Families moved from Estacado
- Johnnie & Zora Russell
- Easters
- Wylies
- McGuires
- Cartwrights
- Kelseys
- Hooples
- Dr. J. T. Laird - first Doctor
- Dr. J. F. Crawford
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- Lorenzo was organized in 1911 by the C.B. Livestock
Company. It was first named San Lorenzo, but because of other
post offices so named, had to drop the San. It was named for
Lorenzo Dow, who worked for the C.B. Livestock Company. The town
section upon which Lorenzo was located formerly was owned by
K. Carter, whose home was near where the Santa Fe water tank
now stands. K. and George Carter owned and operated a small ranch
in the vicinity. They traded their ranch for mercantile interest
in Lubbock.
L.B. Culwell came into possession of the Carter land and he in
turn sold it to the C.B. Livestock Company for a townsite, with
Julian Bassett as manager. H.E. Smith surveyed out the town.
They offered lots and the cost of moving all houses to Lorenzo
as inducements to come to the town. H.E. Smith proved to be a
real promoter. He built a house and an office on the ground,
and succeeded marvelously in building the town. So Lorenzo grew
from a windmill and a tank. Jim Pearson, brother of Clabe and
Foster, built the first house on the townsite. The first house
to be moved to Lorenzo was the house of the Cartwrights.
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- Their daughter, Mrs. McGuire, became the first postmistress
in 1911, which office she held until 1920, when Mrs. Hoople acted
as postmistress for a year under personal bond before receiving
her commission from the Government. John Dollard, Tommy Easter
and N.L. Green were her bondsmen. She then was commissioned and
served until July 1, 1933. Louisa Laird has served as postmaster
at Lorenzo since then.
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- The Townsite Company put the Hoople house at Estacado on
moving trucks, when it rained and the moving date was postponed,
so the family had to live in the hoisted house for several days
before they could proceed to Lorenzo. Soon after they had pulled
the house out on the road it began to snow; finally they bogged
down in a lake outside the townsite, where the house took another
rest hiked up on the timbers.
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- In 1914 with Smith's urgency the farmers around the new town
agreed to plant some cotton if the promoters would guarantee
them a gin. Smith got busy and got Arthur Kelsey to build a gin.
The first cotton to be ginned at the time was in the experimental
stage. However it so happens that the town of Lorenzo is located
in the heart of the cotton framing belt of Crosby County and
in an irrigated section. Now its four gins never stop during
the ginning season.
- Polk and Erdy Smallin put in the first general store in Lorenzo.
Henry Smyer soon acquired it from them and ran it for several
years.
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- The first to be placed in the new cemetery was the body of
a young child at the station house who died from whooping cough.
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- McAdams put in the first lumber yard and Fred Maxey, a young
man from Falls county ran it. He would go to the train and get
the mail, carry it to the lumber yard office, and everybody came
and picked it up for themselves. Jim Pearson ran the boarding
house.
- The first school was taught on Main Street in a small wood
building by Miss Viola Ellison of Crosbyton.
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- Miss Lura Smyer was the town's first bride. She married Fred
Maxey in 1911.
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- Dr. Harrison just out of medical school opened up the first
drugstore. Tom Smith was a hog and cow buyer, H.C. Pearson, Feed
and Seed; John Dillard and Bunch Fullingim put in a dry goods
store and so did J.J. Jennings. O'Rear was an early day groceryman.
The Harvest Queen elevator took care of the grain. Woodard had
a hardware and in 1915 Dr. Laird arrived and traveled around
to see his patients in a buggy. Later he went in a Stanley Steamer
when he could get his boys to drive, for every time the car stalled
the steam went down and he could not get started again.
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- Village of Lorenzo grew and became incorporated
April 1, 1924. City officers elected 4-28-1924. W.R. Seltzer
received 78 votes for office of Mayor. T.G. Hendrick, Sr. received
59, W.P. Fullingim 2 and H. Wampler 2. Aldermen elected were
Emzy Pierett, W.M. Blakemore, J.A. Dillard, W.P. Fullingim and
H.C. Pearson. J.H. Welch was elected to the office of City Marshall.
N.E. Smallin was appointed Clerk, and Dr. J.T. Crawford, City
Health Officer.
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City Clerks |
Police Officers |
- Jean Horn
- Mauna Moore
- Trish Chavez
- Dorothy Bristow
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- Bill Jones
- Ronald Jenkins
- S. E. Braly
- Aaron Arthur
- Robert Bybee
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