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R.W.
KINDEL has for some years been prominently connected with the business
interests of Weatherford, a leading factor in commercial circles.
Through his efforts the material prosperity of this community has been
greatly advanced and extensive enterprises have been promoted.
He was first known as a business man in the line of the drug trade. He
began clerking in 1869, and after one year began business for himself
as proprietor of one of the best appointed drug stores in this
section. He successfully carried on operations along that line until
June, 1892, when he sold out. He came to this county when only twenty
years of age, just out of school, being influenced to locate in Parker
county by an aunt and uncle living
here. In 1886, under the name of the Castor Oil Company, he
established the only castor-oil mill in the South, and it has become
one of the leading industries of the State. He has also been vice
president of the Citizens' National Bank and a director and a
projector of the Electric Light Company. He is one of the leading
members of the company, and it is largely through his efforts that
this has made the successful venture which we to-day find it. In
connection with the large amount of stock that he owns in these
enterprises he has much valuable property,
both town and country.
The interests of Mr. Kindel have always been allied with those of the
South. He was born in Wayne county, Tennessee, in 1847, and is a
son of a Tennessee farmer, T. J. Kindel. His father died in August,
1892, at the age of
sixty-seven, and his wife is still living, aged sixty-eight years. Our
subject was married in Weatherford, to Fannie Allison, daughter of
Colonel R. D. Allison, one of the veterans of the Mexican war, who
served as a Colonel in the
Civil war. To Mr. and Mrs. Kindel have been born the following
children: Jackie May, Warren, Allie, Ralph, Mary, Lloyd (deceased),
Florence, and William, who died in infancy.
Mr. Kindel is a member of the Knights of Pythias and Knights of Honor,
is also a Mason, and holds high rank in these fraternities. He is a
consistent and faithful member of the Methodist Church, has served as
its Treasurer and as Superintendent of the Sunday-school, and has held
a number of city offices with credit to himself and satisfaction to
his constituents.
[History of Texas, Together With a Biographical History of Tarrant
and Parker Counties by The Lewis Publishing Company, 1895 –
Transcribed by AFOFG]
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