Frank Kell Cahoon


Corrinne Cahoon Bowers Frank Kell Cahoon, Jr.

Cahoon was born in Wichita Falls to Charles Wilbur Cahoon, Jr. , and the former Sibyl Kell . His maternal grandfather and namesake, Frank Kell , a native of Clifton in Bosque County in Central Texas, was a diversified businessman and the owner or partner of six regional railroads totaling 1,300 miles of track. Cahoons father was a partner in one of the Kell railroads, the ClintonOklahomaWestern Railroad Company of Texas, which serviced part of the Texas Panhandle. Frank Kell also owned the Wichita Mill and Elevator Company, which he sold in 1928 to General Mills for cash and stock in the latter company. The senior Kell was a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and a leading entrepreneur and philanthropist in Wichita County. In 1885, Frank Kell married the former Lula Kemp. He and his brotherinlaw, Joseph A. Kemp, are considered the two principal builders of modern Wichita Falls. Kell and Kemp are names of major streets in Wichita Falls. Cahooons parents and maternal grandpar

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