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	Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika in Jefferson County, [[Oklahoma]].		Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika in Jefferson County, [[Oklahoma]].
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	The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas\|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web\|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14\|author=Brian Hart\|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web\| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14\|title=Wichita Falls Railway\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|author=Clark Wheeler\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]] Press, 1952).</ref>		The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas\|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web\|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14\|author=Brian Hart\|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web\| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14\|title=Wichita Falls Railway\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|author=Clark Wheeler\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]] Press, 1952).</ref>

−	Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika, [[Oklahoma]].	+	Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika in Jefferson County, [[Oklahoma]].

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 '''The Wichita Falls Railway''' is a defunct railroad that extended for eighteen miles from  [[Wichita Falls]] to Henrietta in Clay County in northern [[Texas]]. There it joined the larger Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, often called the "Katy.". The railway was built between 1894 and 1895 by the entrepreneur [[Joseph A. Kemp]].
-The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14|author=Brian Hart|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|author=Clark Wheeler|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>
+The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14|author=Brian Hart|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|author=Clark Wheeler|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]] Press, 1952).</ref>
 Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika, [[Oklahoma]].

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 '''The Wichita Falls Railway''' is a defunct railroad that extended for eighteen miles from  [[Wichita Falls]] to Henrietta in Clay County in northern [[Texas]]. There it joined the larger Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, often called the "Katy.". The railway was built between 1894 and 1895 by the entrepreneur [[Joseph A. Kemp]].
-The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14|author=Brian Hart|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|author=Clark Wheeler| date=June 15, 2010|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>
+The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14|author=Brian Hart|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|author=Clark Wheeler|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>
 Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika, [[Oklahoma]].

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−	'''The Wichita Falls Railway''' is a defunct railroad that extended for eighteen miles from [[Wichita Falls]] to Henrietta in Clay County in northern [[Texas]]. There it joined the larger Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad]], often called the "Katy.". The railway was built between 1894 and 1895 by the entrepreneur [[Joseph A. Kemp]].	+	'''The Wichita Falls Railway''' is a defunct railroad that extended for eighteen miles from [[Wichita Falls]] to Henrietta in Clay County in northern [[Texas]]. There it joined the larger Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad, often called the "Katy.". The railway was built between 1894 and 1895 by the entrepreneur [[Joseph A. Kemp]].

	The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas\|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web\|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14\|author=Brian Hart\|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web\| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14\|title=Wichita Falls Railway\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|author=Clark Wheeler\| date=June 15, 2010\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>		The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas\|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web\|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14\|author=Brian Hart\|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web\| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14\|title=Wichita Falls Railway\|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association\|author=Clark Wheeler\| date=June 15, 2010\|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>

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 '''The Wichita Falls Railway''' is a defunct railroad that extended for eighteen miles from  [[Wichita Falls]] to Henrietta in Clay County in northern [[Texas]]. There it joined the larger Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad]], often called the "Katy.". The railway was built between 1894 and 1895 by the entrepreneur [[Joseph A. Kemp]].
-The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14|first=Brian| last=Hart| title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|accessdate=March 7, 2021date=April 30, 2012}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|author=Clark Wheeler| date=June 15, 2010|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>
+The initial capital of $100,000 to build the railway was augmented with the sale of $20,000 worth of stock and $250,000 in bonds.<ref name=kemp/> Railway board members included Robert E. Huff, A. Newby, and Joseph Kemp, all of Wichita Falls; M. J. Tompkins of Vernon in Wilbarger County, and Leon Blum, Morris Lasker, and Julius Runge, all from [[Galveston, Texas|Galveston]], Texas. The railway owned no rolling stock but leased its track to the Katy. This arrangement proved profitable for its thirty-one stockholders, the most prominent having been Kemp and his brother-in-law [[Frank Kell]], another Wichita Falls entrepreneur. In the period from 1899 to 1901, the Wichita Falls Railway paid [[dividend]]s averaging more than $13,000 per year.<ref name=tshao/> The line was sold to the Katy in 1911, which then built in Wichita Falls a station, offices, a roundhouse, and three switching tracks.<ref name=kemp>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke14|author=Brian Hart|title=Kemp, Joseph Alexander|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|date=April 30, 2012|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref> The track operated under lease until 1969, when it was superseded by the parent company. The original eighteen miles of railway were finally abandoned in 1970.<ref name=tshao>{{cite web| url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqw14|title=Wichita Falls Railway|publisher=Handbook of Texas Online: Texas State Historical Association|author=Clark Wheeler| date=June 15, 2010|accessdate=March 7, 2021}}</ref><ref>The Texas State Historical Association bases its information on the Wichita Railway from: V. V. Masterson, ''The Katy Railroad and the Last Frontier'' (Norman, Oklahoma: [[University of Oklahoma]].</ref>
-Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika, [[Oklahoma]].
+Kemp and Kell also owned other rail properties, including the Wichita Falls and Southern Railroad, which operated between 1921 and 1954 from its southern terminus in Dublin in Erath County, Texas, to its northern point in Waurika, [[Oklahoma]].
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