Son of Miles Manning Garrett and Naomi Caroline (Ramsey) Garrett.
Married Bessie Lee on March 23, 1908.
Father of Vernon Garrett, Nolita Garrett, and Benjaman Nelson Garrett, Jr.
BEN GARRETT, Builder
Born at Como, Texas December 9, 1881, the son of M. M. and Naomi Garrett. With ambition, schrewdness and resourcefulness as his principal assets to begin with, Mr. Garrett has added experience, and today he is a the head of several corporations of large capital and big plans; a developer and a builder, using as a basis the unlimited resources of the Houston district with petroleum as one of the chief corner stones of his plans. For a number of years he was the Pacific Coast representative of Easter firms; but he came to Houston in January 1916, and began his real business career in the oil business. In August, 1916, he was elected president of the Houston Bank and Trust Company, a $400,000 Texas corporation; and president of the Houston-Goose Creek Corporation, capitalized at $100,000, to produce oil. In the first year under his management the Houston Deep Well Company declared dividends amounting to $440,000, or 110 percent of its capital, while the Houston-Goose Creek Company paid $120,000, or 120 per cent, of its capital in cash. Acquiring valuable sites with approximately 10 miles of water front on the Houston Ship Channel, Mr. Garrett is now developing along new lines, retaining his interest in petroleum. He is president of a $250,000 company- Texas Textile Company-which will build factories for the manufacture of absorbent cotton and artificial silk, the two industries being interrelated. He has also become heavily interested in ship building, and foresees in the concrete ship a solution of one of the difficulties which confronts the industry in getting enough boats into the water to do the business of the world. With a constantly widening influence in the business circles of the Southwest, Mr. Garrett is conservative and ever mindful of the fact that there must be a sound basis if the development is to be along the right lines to lead to the goal. He married, March 23, 1908, to Miss Bessie Lee, and there are three children, Vernon, Nolita, and Ben, Jr.
Texans and Their State:
A Newspaper Reference Work
1918
Married Bessie Lee on March 23, 1908.
Father of Vernon Garrett, Nolita Garrett, and Benjaman Nelson Garrett, Jr.
BEN GARRETT, Builder
Born at Como, Texas December 9, 1881, the son of M. M. and Naomi Garrett. With ambition, schrewdness and resourcefulness as his principal assets to begin with, Mr. Garrett has added experience, and today he is a the head of several corporations of large capital and big plans; a developer and a builder, using as a basis the unlimited resources of the Houston district with petroleum as one of the chief corner stones of his plans. For a number of years he was the Pacific Coast representative of Easter firms; but he came to Houston in January 1916, and began his real business career in the oil business. In August, 1916, he was elected president of the Houston Bank and Trust Company, a $400,000 Texas corporation; and president of the Houston-Goose Creek Corporation, capitalized at $100,000, to produce oil. In the first year under his management the Houston Deep Well Company declared dividends amounting to $440,000, or 110 percent of its capital, while the Houston-Goose Creek Company paid $120,000, or 120 per cent, of its capital in cash. Acquiring valuable sites with approximately 10 miles of water front on the Houston Ship Channel, Mr. Garrett is now developing along new lines, retaining his interest in petroleum. He is president of a $250,000 company- Texas Textile Company-which will build factories for the manufacture of absorbent cotton and artificial silk, the two industries being interrelated. He has also become heavily interested in ship building, and foresees in the concrete ship a solution of one of the difficulties which confronts the industry in getting enough boats into the water to do the business of the world. With a constantly widening influence in the business circles of the Southwest, Mr. Garrett is conservative and ever mindful of the fact that there must be a sound basis if the development is to be along the right lines to lead to the goal. He married, March 23, 1908, to Miss Bessie Lee, and there are three children, Vernon, Nolita, and Ben, Jr.
Texans and Their State:
A Newspaper Reference Work
1918
Son of Miles Manning Garrett and Naomi Caroline (Ramsey) Garrett.
Married Bessie Lee on March 23, 1908.
Father of Vernon Garrett, Nolita Garrett, and Benjaman Nelson Garrett, Jr.
BEN GARRETT, Builder
Born at Como, Texas December 9, 1881, the son of M. M. and Naomi Garrett. With ambition, schrewdness and resourcefulness as his principal assets to begin with, Mr. Garrett has added experience, and today he is a the head of several corporations of large capital and big plans; a developer and a builder, using as a basis the unlimited resources of the Houston district with petroleum as one of the chief corner stones of his plans. For a number of years he was the Pacific Coast representative of Easter firms; but he came to Houston in January 1916, and began his real business career in the oil business. In August, 1916, he was elected president of the Houston Bank and Trust Company, a $400,000 Texas corporation; and president of the Houston-Goose Creek Corporation, capitalized at $100,000, to produce oil. In the first year under his management the Houston Deep Well Company declared dividends amounting to $440,000, or 110 percent of its capital, while the Houston-Goose Creek Company paid $120,000, or 120 per cent, of its capital in cash. Acquiring valuable sites with approximately 10 miles of water front on the Houston Ship Channel, Mr. Garrett is now developing along new lines, retaining his interest in petroleum. He is president of a $250,000 company- Texas Textile Company-which will build factories for the manufacture of absorbent cotton and artificial silk, the two industries being interrelated. He has also become heavily interested in ship building, and foresees in the concrete ship a solution of one of the difficulties which confronts the industry in getting enough boats into the water to do the business of the world. With a constantly widening influence in the business circles of the Southwest, Mr. Garrett is conservative and ever mindful of the fact that there must be a sound basis if the development is to be along the right lines to lead to the goal. He married, March 23, 1908, to Miss Bessie Lee, and there are three children, Vernon, Nolita, and Ben, Jr.
Texans and Their State:
A Newspaper Reference Work
1918
Married Bessie Lee on March 23, 1908.
Father of Vernon Garrett, Nolita Garrett, and Benjaman Nelson Garrett, Jr.
BEN GARRETT, Builder
Born at Como, Texas December 9, 1881, the son of M. M. and Naomi Garrett. With ambition, schrewdness and resourcefulness as his principal assets to begin with, Mr. Garrett has added experience, and today he is a the head of several corporations of large capital and big plans; a developer and a builder, using as a basis the unlimited resources of the Houston district with petroleum as one of the chief corner stones of his plans. For a number of years he was the Pacific Coast representative of Easter firms; but he came to Houston in January 1916, and began his real business career in the oil business. In August, 1916, he was elected president of the Houston Bank and Trust Company, a $400,000 Texas corporation; and president of the Houston-Goose Creek Corporation, capitalized at $100,000, to produce oil. In the first year under his management the Houston Deep Well Company declared dividends amounting to $440,000, or 110 percent of its capital, while the Houston-Goose Creek Company paid $120,000, or 120 per cent, of its capital in cash. Acquiring valuable sites with approximately 10 miles of water front on the Houston Ship Channel, Mr. Garrett is now developing along new lines, retaining his interest in petroleum. He is president of a $250,000 company- Texas Textile Company-which will build factories for the manufacture of absorbent cotton and artificial silk, the two industries being interrelated. He has also become heavily interested in ship building, and foresees in the concrete ship a solution of one of the difficulties which confronts the industry in getting enough boats into the water to do the business of the world. With a constantly widening influence in the business circles of the Southwest, Mr. Garrett is conservative and ever mindful of the fact that there must be a sound basis if the development is to be along the right lines to lead to the goal. He married, March 23, 1908, to Miss Bessie Lee, and there are three children, Vernon, Nolita, and Ben, Jr.
Texans and Their State:
A Newspaper Reference Work
1918
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