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Marker Text: Emil Henry Marks (1881-1969), a descendant of Prussian immigrants was orphaned at an early age and reared by his maternal grandparents in Addicks, Texas, and later by relatives in Pattison, Texas.
Marks registered the H-7 cattle brand in 1898, he married Maud May Smith in 1907. They raised longhorn cattle in Addicks and in 1917 relocated their expanding herd to a 640-acre ranch in Barker, Texas by the early 1930s their herd had increased to 6,816 head of cattle and their grazing land had expanded to 36, 000 acres. A barbeque and rodeo held by marks during spring roundup and branding activities in 1918 became such a popular annual event that he expanded the rodeo facilities and began charging admission. _H7 rodeos, a showplace for marks' premier longhorn cattle , ended in 1950 after much of the Barker Ranch was inundated by the creation of the Barker flood control reservoir. Mark's helped found the south Texas producers' association (1931), Houston's fat stock show and rodeo (1932), the salt grass trail drive (1952), and the Texas longhorn breeders' association of America (1964), in 1936 he broke ground for the San Jacinto Monument with _H7 oxen. The heirs of Emil and Maud Marks continued to raise longhorn cattle and use _H7 brand. (1995) |
Marker No: 10719
Aluminum 27x 42 Subject Marker
Geographic: 29.892912, -95.638939
Location: Barker-Clodine Road, 1.75 miles south of IH-10 in West Houston