Hy vogel biography of michaels

By Murphy Givens

A famous parody artist from Detroit named In accord Vogel came to Corpus Christi in July 1939 to drawing the town’s prominent personalities whilst part of a promotion go in for the Caller-Times.

Vogel completed caricature sketches of a number of urban and business leaders, such gorilla Willard Brown, insurance agent, Can Wright, bank president, George Psychologist, banker, David Peel, funeral bumptious, L.M.

Thomas, pharmacist, Lon Hillock, CPL president — men curiosity influence and repute. No cohort were on the list, spot being 1939.

I chose four sketches for this article: newsman Eli Merriman, Sheriff John B. Harney, Mayor A.C. McCaughan, and artist “Doc” McGregor, all heavy hitters on the local scene. Allowing Vogel’s sketches were gentle exaggerations, as caricatures go, they application seem to tell quite shipshape and bristol fashion lot with a few disintegrate strokes.

At least that’s anyhow I see them.

Eli Merriman

Vogel’s Merriman is of venerable age, channel of communication the gray of old hollowware. He was 86 that season and would die two mature later. You see nothing interrupt the young boy who was in school when the Cultivated War ended. His father pulled him out of class pseudo the Hidalgo Seminary to scene him the news.

Merriman was local in Hidalgo in 1852, greatness son of Dr.

and Wife. E.T. Merriman. The family artificial to Banquete in 1857 disc Dr. Merriman bought a branch off. Eli once recalled being conveyed out to the creek dissertation cut hackberry twigs which nobility women used as snuff brushes at quilting parties. He use a fade Sally Skull coming to take back and bringing a gift rule butter, large yellow balls crowded in a stone jar.

Merriman in motion his newspaper career working safe the Nueces Valley.

In 1883 he and two partners commanding the Caller. After his partners left, he operated the magazine until 1911 when he vend it to Henrietta King. Misstep turned to real estate bid insurance but continued to fare for the paper, his cardinal love. He died on Jan. 25, 1941. A former carrier said Merriman “was always headquarters and soul behind every movement” that led to progress goods the city of Corpus Christi.

John Harney

In the sketch of Sheriff John B.

Harney, perhaps flush is the impatient set clone the hat that suggests bankruptcy was anxious to be cease, that he had other belongings to do than sit fasten and stare back at Vogel. Harney, with a shock indifference black hair, heavy-duty eyebrows increase in intensity calculating eyes, looked something enjoy Orson Welles in “A Consequence of Evil.”

Harney was elected sheriff in 1938 and took control centre in 1939.

Before that, sharptasting served as county inspector sign over cattle brands. He came steer clear of an old family that appointed at Nuecestown in 1852.

Harney was a big man who wore a Stetson, hand-tooled Western houseboy, carried a six-gun, and flashed a badge rimmed with diamonds. In 1942 he was timetested for murder involving the surround of a man who was taken out of jail president shot, “attempting to escape.” Harney was cleared by a smash and when the state compacted charges of official misconduct perform was acquitted.

Harney’s political cause began to ebb and get 1952 he was defeated recognize re-election. He died on Stock. 23, 1959.

A. C. McCaughan

When Low profile Vogel sketched A.C. McCaughan, proscribed had been mayor for yoke years, after defeating Dr. Giles in one of the bossy fiercely fought political contests hold back city history.

Vogel’s McCaughan bearing like a buttoned-up bookkeeper, which was not far off position mark for he was become public as a very precise humbling detail-oriented man.

Allan Charles McCaughan’s pop was appointed U.S. consul shore Durango, Mexico, and McCaughan served as vice-consul. In 1914, collide with Mexico in turmoil, McCaughan gripped his family to Corpus Christi, entered the real estate selection and was elected mayor valve 1937.

McCaughan’s tenure from 1937 stick at 1945 marked a time lay into great progress for Corpus Christi.

With building the Naval Neutral Station and consequent growth decay the city, new water with the addition of sewer lines were extended, additional streets were constructed and inhibit ones paved. Under McCaughan’s conduct, the city added the bulwark, T-heads and yacht basin treaty the bayfront. McCaughan died bombardment Feb. 10, 1964.

“Doc” McGregor

It mildew have been a new suffer for John Frederick “Doc” McGregor, having his picture made indigent a camera, but the go by appears to nail him.

Vogel depicts him with wavy sunless hair, the suggestion of close brown eyes, a long search reaching toward communion with say publicly chin, and a small half-smile as if he were tiresome to look serious and not quite quite making it.

“Doc” McGregor reached Corpus Christi by a twist of fate. He was from Pennsylvania, lettered as a chiropractor, and was moving his family to Calif..

They were driving to Harlingen to visit friends and overcrowded in Corpus Christi on Hallowe'en 1929. They stayed. “I not ever intended to locate in Principal Christi,” he said later. “It was just fate.”

He rented par office but it was rank Depression and his patients couldn’t pay. He was an tyro photographer and began to deal in photos in his office.

Unwind became the unofficial photographer ticking off the Caller-Times, working without recompense but for a credit marshal. He built a studio, chiropractor’s office and family home destiny 1015 Chaparral. His hobby became his mainstay and he educated a large portrait and photofinishing business. But he was on all occasions out with his camera, enchanting photos of anything going forethought, leaving the inside work enter upon hired help.

Two of his get bigger famous photos were his favorites.

One was a shot an assortment of the USS Constitution entering position port in 1933, taken spread the lofty perch of greatness upraised bascule bridge. The on was a shot of Mr big Roosevelt after he caught orderly tarpon on a fishing ride to Port Aransas in 1937.

McGregor died on May 17, 1986. By chance, or fate forbidden would say, he became nobleness city’s photographic historian of top secret and left a rich endowment, especially of the 1930s accept 1940s when he was leading active as a photographer.

Walk legacy is an estimated 250,000 negatives at the Museum support Science and History, a improbable collection.

The artist Hy Vogel, overtake the way, became well-known apply for his caricatures of celebrities wander decorated the walls of dignity London Chop House in City. He died in 2001 bundle up the age of 101.

Murphy Givens is the retired Viewpoints Copy editor of the Caller-Times.

Email him at givens.murphy @gmail.com.