State Historical Association (TSHA) https://www.tshaonline.org Leonard, John Marvin https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/leonard-john-marvin Home → Handbook of Texas → Entries → J. Marvin Leonard: Businessman and Civic Leader of FortMarch 1, 1995 Updated: November 11, 2020 Print Print J. Marvin Leonard ("Mr. Marvin

other farm products produced in part by Polish farmers. He frequently attended social and cultural functions in

cooperative business operation of the region’s Farmers’ Alliance, and it operated a cotton

Hidalgo County Rebellion was an early effort of farmers and middle-class business owners in the

of African Americans in Texas By: W. Marvin Dulaney Published: 1976 Updated: August 24, 2023 Print Print People

History of Medicine Committee and Dr. J. Marvin Smith III, who strongly supported the goals of

from farms went for the war effort. Farmers, with prices high, cultivated the soil to

faced an even bigger challenge, first from the Farmers' Alliance and then from the People

Panhandle as the new garden for farmers. Not until well into the twentieth century, however

conditions during 1931 and 1932 also deteriorated. But farmers, many of whom were sharecroppers and tenants

severe local drought in 1925 prevented many area farmers from meeting loan obligations, and although the

did the Bandera County Ranchers and Farmers Association organize cooperative storage and marketing of

and Ohio, where they were sold mostly to farmers who fattened them for local slaughter markets. The

and 10 percent to woodlands. That year farmers and ranchers in the area

from farms went for the war effort. Farmers, with prices high, cultivated the soil to

them bought silk shirts and silk underwear. But farmers who had expanded their operations and gone further

so that only breadstuffs could be processed, thus prompting local farmers to raise more wheat. A post

least nine children: Peyton, Wallace, Leslie, Archie, Claude, Herbert Bruce, Marvin, Charles, and Sherrod. In 1870 the

Plains of Texas by ranchers and farmers. More directly it was the result of

concerned with the plight of Texas farmers and became an active member of the