Historical Marker Judge E.J. and Caledonia Mantooth

Historical Marker Judge E.J. and Caledonia Mantooth. . , Judge E.J. Mantooth was born in Cocke County, Tennessee, on April 10, 1852. He moved with his family to Angelina County in 1857. He attended private school in Texas, since there were no public schools. He graduated from Cumberland University, Lebanon, Tennessee in 1879, and was admitted to the Texas Bar in 1880., Judge Mantooth married Caledonia Watson on May 31, 1874. They bought the property at the corner of Raguet Street and Mantooth Avenue on March 12, 1899 from E.W. Frost. There were 396 acres in the purchase. Out of this property the homestead of Judge and Mrs. Mantooth and their eleven children was established at Raguet Street and Mantooth Avenue., Judge Mantooth organized and was president of the Lufkin Telephone Exchange in 1905. He also served as an officer or director of several other major companies and banks in Angelina County. He served as mayor of Lufkin in 1895-1897 and 1901-1903., Because of his generous gifts of time and money, Judge Mantooth could be considered the father of Lufkin., Dr. Peyton L. Denman, grandson and heir of Judge and Mrs. Mantooth, gave this property to the City of Lufkin to be used as a park on April 1, 1999., 2nd Plaque , If---, "Brother Square-Toes" - Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). , If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, if you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, but make allowance for their doubting too; if you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies, or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise:, If you can dream-and not make dreams your master; if you can think-and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with triumph and disaster and treat those two impostors just the same; if you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken, and stoop and build'em up with worn-out tools;, If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss; if you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: "Hold on!", If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, or walk with kings-nor lose the common touch, if neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, if all men count with you, but none too much; if you can fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds' worth of distance run, yours is the earth and everything that's in it, and-which is more-you'll be a man, my son!