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William Thomas Eldridge WILLIAM THOMAS ELDRIDGE J HE character and capacity of men are almost uner­ ringly revealed by their achievements. In rare instances untoward circumstances or calamities against which no foresight can provide, and the results of which no extent of endeavor can avoid, may make the highest measure of efficiency of no avail, but though the standard is often hard, illogical and unjust, yet the fact remains that "success is the test of merit." When a boy of twelve, without means and with only a limited education, starts out upon his career in life handi­ capped by self-assumed family burdens and, without the aid of any political or financial influence, assistance or prestige, rises before he reaches the meridian of life to a recognized position of power and success in the business world, he has avouched him­ self as being dowered with inherent natural capacity for great achievements. On September 9, 1862, William Thomas Eldridge was born in Washington County, Texas, and at twelve years of age became self-supporting. Dependent upon his own resources, whether resting 'neath fortune's favors or her frowns, he was always brave, resourceful and self-reliant. Mere energy, unassociated with intelligence, is not a weapon wherewith success is won, but when it is coupled with a vision which reaches far, imagination that fashions future achieve­ ments, and intelligence which enables the possessor to translate visions into realities, his success is assured. W. T. Eldridge, before he attained his majority, moved to Eagle Lake, Texas, a town surrounded by a marvelously rich territory, and identified himself with every enterprise and interest of the community. Lie engaged successfully in merchandising. The town was served by railroad communication running east and west, but by none extending southward to the sea, so he organized and built a line extending from Sealy in Austin County to Matagorda in Matagorda County. In 1906 he became identified with the City National Bank of San Antonio. In 1907 he financed an enterprise for the production of sugar and its byproducts. He organized the Imperial Sugar Com­ pany of Sugar Land, Fort Bend County, Texas, twenty-five miles west of Houston. The Imperial Company took over the property of the Cunningham Sugar Company. He built up the industries at Sugar Land to a measure of efficiency in various lines which continues unto this day. The sugar refinery is an immense plant, and there is also pro­ duction of sulphuric acid, vinegar, stock feed, etc. It is the home of the Sealy mattress, the fame of which is co-extensive with the nation. It is the perfection of skill in mattress manu­ facture. While W. T. Eldridge is no longer actively connected with the Imperial Sugar Company, all its varied and valuable activities give evidence of his foresight and executive ability. In 1909 he purchased the Sugar Land Railway and is now its President. There is not a more fertile or productive territory on earth than that which the Sugar Land Railway traverses, and the landed estate of the Imperial Sugar Company is one of the most magnificent and valuable pieces of property devoted to agriculture in the world. From the top of the refinery can be seen 14,000 acres of land under cultivation, every acre of which is as fertile as the famous valley of the Nile. Hundreds of thousands of tons of raw sugar are imported every year from Cuba. It is all refined at Sugar Land, while the mill is equipped to grind the cane produced on farms owned by the State and by individuals. The raw Cuban sugar is landed at Galveston and carried thence by rail to Sugar Land, part of the way over the Sugar Land Railway. If W. T. Eldridge had done nothing else in the field of business than to establish the great industries at Sugar Land, his native State would have been largely his debtor. They are the chil­ dren of his brain, the fruits of his vision, the products of his enterprise and rare business efficiency. He has caused comfortable houses to be constructed for his employees and has established a bank and a large merchandise establishment, while there is also in operation a thoroughly equipped system of public schools. Any man by whom such works are wrought is more than a business man. He is a public benefactor.—By Judge Norman G. Kittrell, member of Appeals Commission, Texas Supreme Court. William Thomas Eldridge belongs to the Virginia Eldridges who are descendants of Pocahontas and John Rolfe and also of the famous Boiling family of Virginia, through the marriage of Martha Boiling and Thomas Eldridge in 1729. Martha Boiling was a great-great-granddaughter of the In­ dian princess and John Rolfe of Varina, Virginia, and Heachem Hall, Norfolk, England, whose marriage took place in 1614 and whose romantic story is too well known to need repetition on these pages. It will be remembered that Thomas Rolfe, only son of John Rolfe and Pocahontas, who was born on the ancestral Rolfe estate—Heacham Hall, England—came to America, the home of his mother's race. He resided in Virginia where he married Jane Poythress by whom he had one child, a daughter Jane. Jane Rolfe lived but about a year after her marriage to Col. Robert Boiling but she left one son, John Boiling, to carry on the Bolling-Pocahontas line. The Boiling family is of extremely ancient English lineage. Boiling Manor, in Bradford, England, was bestowed upon the Boiling family by King John, for services rendered to his majesty by the head of the house. The mansion erected was a fine type of monastic architecture. It was reconstructed in the eighteenth century and is now the home of the West Brad­ ford Golf Club. Robert Boiling, who married Jane Rolfe, was born in 1646, son of John and Mary Boiling of Allhallows, Barkin Parish, Tower Street, London, whose family was a branch of the ancient Boilings of Boiling Hall and Manor. At the age of fourteen years Robert Boiling emigrated to America, probably in the company of friends or relatives. He settled at Kippax, or Smoaky Hill, in Prince George County, where he traded with the Indians and the English, acquired large grants of land, be­ came a planter and amassed a fortune. He is called Robert Boiling, gent., in the records of his day. In the military and civil life of Virginia he played a prominent part. His home was in the part of Charles City County that later became Prince George County. He represented the former county in the House of Burgesses in 1688, 1692 and 1699 and the latter in 1704. He was colonel of the Prince George militia in 1705. His last land grant was dated in 1706 and his death occurred in 1709, at the age of sixty-two years, six months and twenty-one days. He acquired much more land by purchase than by grants although by the latter he obtained one thousand, seven hundred and sixty acres in Bristol Parish, Charles City County, fifty acres in Hen­ rico County, and one thousand, nine hundred and seventy-three acres in Prince George County. By his second wife, Anne Stith, whom he married five years after the death of his first wife, Col. Robert Boiling had five sons, ancestors of many present-day Boiling families of distinction. It is with the descendants of John Boiling, son of Col. Robert by his first wife, Jane Rolfe, that this record is concerned. Major John Boiling of Cobbs, only child of Col. Robert and Jane (Rolfe) Boiling, was born in 1676, the year in which his mother died. At the age of nineteen years he was married in Henrico County to Mary Kennon, daughter of Sir Richard Kennon of Conjurer's Neck, the oldest Virginia seat still extant. He was a merchant and planter in Henrico County, and was a member of the House of Burgesses for his home county at most of the sessions from 1710 to 1726. The family seat, called Cobbs, is now in Chesterfield County. The colonel was the father of six children, John, Jane, Mary, Elizabeth, Martha and Anne. The Eldridge interest centres in the fifth child, Martha Boil­ ing, born in 1713 and married in early maidenhood, in 1727, to her cousin, Thomas Eldridge, Jr., son of Thomas Eldridge, Sr., and Judith (Kennon) Eldridge, the latter a sister of Mary (Kennon) Boiling, who was mother of Martha Boiling. Judith Kennon was born in 1692 and was married to Thomas Eldridge, Sr., before 1711, in which year she and her husband witnessed a deed from Judith's brother William to another brother, Richard, Jr. In this same year Thomas Eldridge, Sr., received by deed from his brother-in-law, William Kennon, a tract of land, six hundred and seventy-five acres in extent, called Roxdale, and located in Henrico (now Chesterfield) County. Thomas Eldridge later removed to Surry County, where his will was drawn up on August 17, 1739, and proved May 20, 1741. In the document he mentions his wife Judith; sons, William, Thomas and Richard; daughters, Judith, Mary, Ann and Martha; and grandchildren, Thomas and Jane Eldridge. Richard received Roxdale in Henrico; William, the plantation in Surry after the death of his mother; and Thomas, some lands, all his father's law books, and certain silverware. Thomas Eldridge, Sr., was practising law in Henrico County by 1709 and in 1716 was made deputy clerk of that county. He was a descendant, probably grandson, of Thomas Eldridge, gentleman, who was attorney for the King in Virginia in 1636.
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