Freestone County, Texas
Biographies 

                          JAMES   R. TEAGUE
                          
   JAMES   R. TEAGUE, long actively engaged in the promotion of cotton gin interests 
in connection with the Munger companies, represents a distinguished pioneer family 
of Texas and is a son of John F. and Dora (Colgin) Teague. He was born near Mexia, 
Limestone county, but reared on the old Teague homestead, a short distance from 
the town by that name, as well as from his birthplace. It should be added that 
the Teague interests lie all along the line dividing Freestone from Limestone
county. The father of James R. was a native of Alabama, and in the early forties, 
when a young boy, was brought with other members of the family to the location 
near Mexia where many of his descendants still reside. The grandfather, James 
Teague, as well as the father, were neighbors of the family of Dr. Yoakum, who 
married a daughter of James Teague (an aunt of James R.). Dr. Yoakum was widely 
known both for prominence in his profession and as a profound scholar and able 
writer, and also became distinguished as the father of B. F. Yoakum, the eminent
railroad man of Texas, head of the Rock Island-Frisco systems. John F. Teague, 
father of James R., died in 1883. 
  Mr. Teague, of this sketch, was reared on the old home farm in Freestone county, 
and chiefly educated at old Trinity University, Tehuacana, and Roanoke College, 
Salem, Virginia. For several years after leaving college he was successfully 
engaged in merchandising at Mexia, but in 1896 located at Dallas and became 
connected with the Munger Improved Cotton Machine Manufacturing Company, now the 
Continental Gin Company. The plant operated by this company was owned by the Mungers,
who had moved their manufacturing interests from Mexia to Dallas, where the main 
factory still remains. For several years Mr. Teague has represented their interests 
throughout the southwest, as well as retaining substantial properties in Limestone 
and Freestone counties, among others being the old Teague hoomstead, now on the 
line of the Trinity and Brazos Valley Railroad, three miles from the flourishing 
city of Teague. 
  Mr. Teague is married to Miss Annie Munger, a sister of Robert S. and Stephen 
I. Munger-the former the originator of the cotton gin which bears his name, and 
the latter, president of the Continental Gin Company. The children born to Mr. 
and Mrs. Teague are Willie May, Ethel and John. Fraternally the father of the 
family is identified with the Knights of Pythias, Modern Woodmen of America and 
the United Commercial Travelers.