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Stockholders in addition to the founders were: J. Sutherland, F. Huebner, B. E. Norvell, N. M. Vogelsang, William Cash, R. L. Perry, T. J. Poole, G. M. Magill, W. S. Holman, C. A. Erickson and V. L. LeTulle.
It is believed that the college was located in the Hamilton building
and an advertisement stated “Bay City Business College is the only
permanent business college in the Mid-Coast section.” The college
was still operating in 1913, but it is unknown how long it was open.
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Summer rates good until July 5th: Three months any course.................................................................$20 Time unlimited, any course...............................................................$25 Combined Commercial and Stenography courses, time unlimited.........40 BAY CITY BUSINESS COLLEGE
Matagorda News &
Midcoast Farmer, Matagorda, Texas June 19, 1914 |
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Bay City regrets the loss of a good man by the retiring of Prof. R. M. Gannon from the Bay City Business College. He is a man of square dealing and commands the respect of all who know him well. We hope the much needed rest will restore his health and that we may have him back again in a few months. His many friends, as well as his students, regret that he has to go. However, he leaves us the business college which is a prominent and lasting land mark in Bay City’s progress. In the past eight years, he has built up the college to be the best in the mid-coast section, and it has done as much to put Bay City on the map as any other business institution here. The value in a financial way to the town is large. Upwards of five hundred students have spent a least an average of $100 each for board and other things here, making at least $50,000 in the past eight years, or over 6,000 a year; besides their tuition. But Professor Gannon still holds stock in the college, and he did not fail to provide for the future welfare of the college; he has secured no less a person than Prof. P. E. Cooper, president of the D. P. Business College in Galveston to keep this college up to its present high standard. Professor Cooper is credited with being one of the most successful business college men in the State. He will enlarge the college and add many substantial improvements. He has also placed Professor G. C. Bruce in charge of the college as local manager. Professor Bruce is a highly educated man as well as a prominent business college man. He was educated in Ponca City, Oklahoma high school and in Warrenburg, Mo., State Normal, the second largest in the United States; after which he taught in the Montrose County high school. Later he graduated in the Chillicothe Business College and also taught there. He taught for some time in the Metropolitan Business College of Chicago from which he came to the Galveston college. Prof. Bruce will prove a valuable addition to Bay City’s educational force, and Bay City will stand squarely behind him. While we all deeply regret the loss of Prof. Gannon, it will be seen from the above that he leaves the Bay City Business College well provided for.
Matagorda County Tribune, August 9, 1918 |
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Married January 4, 1891, Austin
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1900 Census
– Texas – Fayette County – Justice Precinct 3 – June 20, 1900
1910 Census
– Texas – Matagorda County – Bay City – April 30, 1910 – 6th
Street
1920 Census
– Texas – Maverick County – Eagle Pass – January 6, 1920 – Harrison
Street
1930 Census
– Texas – Tarrant County – Fort Worth – April 7, 1930 – Masonic Home
and School of Texas
1940 Census
– Texas, Tarrant County – Fort Worth – April 17 & 18, 1940 – Masonic
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Eagle Pass, Tex., July 6.—Prof. R. M. Gannon, whose death by drowning at Galveston yesterday and chronicled in dispatches from that city, was a citizen of Eagle Pass and president of the International Business College of this city. He left here Saturday on a business trip to Galveston, his wife going to Bay City on a visit to friends. He is a member of the Bay City Masonic Lodge.
San Antonio Express-News,
July 7, 1922 |
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R. M. Gannon, 65 years old, manager of the International Business college at Eagle Pass, was drowned about 6:10 o’clock Tuesday evening. Mr. Gannon was in swimming with his wife when he was overcome. Lifeguards brought his body to shore and made efforts to resuscitate him, but they proved futile. Justice of the Peace Alex Gomez rendered the verdict of accidental drowning. Mr. and Mrs. Gannon were spending a vacation in Galveston. F. P. Malloy & Son, undertakers, are holding both bodies pending funeral arrangements.
Galveston Tribune,
July 5, 1922 [Mr. Gannon’s information abstracted from longer
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The body of R. M. Gannon, 65 years old, who was drowned here Tuesday evening, was forwarded to Sealy for burial by J. Levy & Bro. Wednesday evening. Mrs. Gannon accompanied the body.
Galveston Tribune,
July 6, 1922 |
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Mr. R. M. Gannon, who came to an untimely end while surf bathing at Galveston on the Fourth, was prior to moving to Eagle Pass, a citizen of Bay City. His vocation here was, as it was in Eagle Pass, manager and instructor in a business college and, while the business here was not very profitable, Mr. Gannon had credit for many graduates and a greater average, perhaps, of secured positions than any other like institution in the state, the number of students taken into consideration. The writer, doubtless, knew R. M. Gannon better, or intimately, than any person here. He was a constant visitor to our sanctum and took us into his confidence freely. We found him to be a man of above the average, intellectually, honorable as the day is long, kind in judgment and expression, charitable to a fault, and never satisfied unless he was doing something for someone. His ambition was to build a big school here and no one knows better than we the sacrifices he made to do so. Once or twice he thought his efforts would be fruitful, but on each occasion bad crops or other difficulties would set in and keep him from going on with the good work. He was intensely loyal to Bay City and kept in touch with her progress up until the day of his death. We feel sure it was his aim to return to us and make this his home as soon as he had gotten far enough along to carry out his plans. We were shocked by the news of his death for we admired the man for what he was—a real man amongst men, a devoted husband and as true a friend as ever formed friendships. He did not live his life in vain, as modestly as he tried to live it, for, in his quiet and unassuming way he went about his daily work with only one object in view, that of doing as much good as he could crowd into a day’s existence. Could mortal man do more? To his devoted wife and companion we offer our sincerest and deepest sympathy.
Daily Tribune,
July 6, 1922 |
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Mrs. Margaret Gannon, 92, a former teacher at the Masonic Home and School, was buried in the Parkdale Cemetery at Arlington after funeral services Thursday morning at Moore Chapel there. Mrs. Gannon, a native of North Carolina, died Wednesday in the Eastern Star Home at Arlington. She taught at the school for 19 years. There are no known survivors.
Fort Worth Star-Telegram,
February 23, 1961 |