Cornelius T. Herring

Colonel Cornelius Taylor Herring (November 13, 1849 – June 29, 1931) was an American rancher, banker and hotelier.

Cornelius Taylor Herring was born on November 13, 1849, in Sherman County, Texas.

[3] Meanwhile, his father remarried and served in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War.

[3] Herring started his career as a wheat farmer in Hill County, Texas, at the age of thirteen, making $200 the first year.

[3] At the close of the civil war, Cornelius and his brother Emerson drove cattle from Navarro County, Texas, to Shreveport, Louisiana.

[2] Within a few years, he moved his cattle to the open range which belonged to the Comanche and Kiowa, two Native American tribes.

[6] By the late 1890s, he raised cattle in New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Lyon County, Kansas.

[3] Herring was a member of the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, the Rotary Club, the Odd Fellows, and the Boy Scouts of America.

[3] After living in Vernon, they moved into a new mansion located at 2216 Van Buren Street in Amarillo, Texas in the 1910s.