Cartledge, Eugene C., b. 1858

A native of Poplar Creek, Mississippi, Judge Eugene C. Cartledge (b. 1858) attended Salado College (Salado, Texas) and the University of Texas at Austin. After gaining a legal education through private study, he joined the Austin law firm Cochran and West. By 1918, he had established a partnership at the White, Cartledge & Wilcox. Cartledge’s clients included the Texas Land Company, the New York and Texas Land Company, Chicago industrialist Howard E. Perry, and Thomas R. White Jr. In addition to his legal career, Cartledge served on the city councils of Austin and San Angelo (1887-1889).

Sources:

Fifield, James Clark, ed. The American Bar: Contemporary Lawyers of the United States and Canada . Minneapolis: The James Fifield Company, 1918.

Ragsdale, Kenneth Baxter. Quicksilver: Terlingua and the Chisos Mining Company . College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1984.

From the guide to the Cartledge, Eugene C. Papers 1946., 1874-1940, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin)