VERNON
PARISH
BIOGRAPHIES
Hon.
O.
R.
Sholars
Hon.
O.
R.
Sholars.
The
lawyers
of
the
early
decades
of
Texas
have
all
passed
away.
Of
those
who
came
to
the
bar
in
the
late
'70s,
most
have
long
since
laid
down
their
briefs.
Some
survive
in
retirement,
enjoying
the
ease
and
dignity
which
lives
of
intellectual
activity
have
earned,
while
still
fewer
continue
to
participate
in
the
struggles
which
the
competition
of
younger
and
more
vigorous
men
makes
more
severe
and
exacting.
Hon.
O.
R.
Sholars
is
one
of
the
seniors
in
point
of
length
of
practice
at
the
Texas
bar.
Since
1878,
now
more
than
half
a
century,
he
has
been
in
active
practice,
and
still
keeps
an
open
office,
gives
consultations,
writes
opinions,
and
sometimes
tries
a
case
or
argues
a
cause
-with
unabated
vigor
of
mind,
and
with
the
authority
which
long
experience,
solid
learning
and
mature
judgment
brings.
Judge
Sholars
was
born
at
Vernon,
Jackson
Parish,
Louisiana,
April
18,
1852,
and
is
a
son
of
Dr.
R.
P.
Sholars.
His
father
was
born
and
reared
at
Thomasville,
Georgia,
and
during
the
war
between
the
states
served
the
Confederate
cause
at
home
as
a
surgeon,
although
invalidism,
from
which
he
suffered
practically
all
of
his
life,
kept
him
from
active
service
at
the
front.
One
of
his
sons,
S.
W.
Sholars,
served
in
the
Confederate
army.
O.
R.
Sholars
was
given
excellent
educational
advantages
in
his
youth,
attending
public
schools
in
Jasper
County,
Texas,
where
he
was
brought
as
a
child
of
six
years,
and
at
Magnolia
Springs.
Subsequently
he
pursued
a
course
at
Roanoke
College,
Salem,
Virginia,
and
in
the
Alabama
Military
Institute
at
Marion,
Alabama,
then
returning
to
Jasper
County,
where
he
commenced
the
study
of
law
in
the
office
of
Ford,
Ford
&
Wingate
of
Jasper.
In
the
meantime
he
was
elected
and
served
as
sheriff
of
Jasper
County,
in
1877
and
1878,
and
in
the
latter
year
was
admitted
to
the
bar
and
commenced
practice.
In
1886
Judge
Sholars
removed
to
Brownwood,
where
he
remained
for
twelve
years,
but
since
1898
has
been
a
resident
and
practitioner
of
Orange,
where
he
is
now
in
the
enjoyment
of
a
large,
prominent
and
lucrative
practice.
As
a
man
of
high
character
and
moral
worth
he
was
elected
judge
of
the
County
Court,
an
office
in
which
he
served
with
dignity
and
ability
for
six
years.
In
1818
he
was
elected
mayor
of
Orange,
and
by
his
strength
and
influence
carried
the
city
through
the
difficult
and
troublesome
period
of
the
great
World
war,
in
addition
to
which
he
took
a
prominent
part
in
all
war
activities.
Judge
Sholars
is
president
of
the
Orange
County
Bar
Association
and
a
member
of
the
Texas
State
Bar
Association.
He
is
a
member
of
the
Blue
Lodge,
Chapter
and
Commandery
of
Masonry
at
Brownwood,
and
likewise
holds
membership
in
the
Woodmen
of
the
World
and
the
Knights
of
Pythias.
He
is
a
Baptist
in
religion,
and
his
political
convictions
make
him
a
supporter
of
Democratic
candidates
and
principles.
Judge
Sholars
married
Miss
Epsie
D.
Regall,
of
Jasper,
and
to
this
union
there
have
been
born
the
following
children:
Ella,
who
married
William
McNeil
and
has
one
son,
Billie;
Janie,
who
married
George
E.
Calvert
and
has
one
son,
George
E.
Jr.;.
Dr.
Sam
R.,
who
is
engaged
in
the
practice
of
dentistry
at
Bay
City,
Texas;
O.
Inge,
of
Orange,
who
married
a
Miss
Wilson
and
has
two
children,
Jean
and
a
baby;
Theresa,
who
is
engaged
in
teaching
school
at
Beaumont;
and
Leslie,
the
wife
of
Walter
Keys,
of
Beaumont.
"Texas
under
many
Flags"
by
Clarence
Wharton,
pub.
by
American
Historical
Society,
1930
Submitted
by
K.
Torp
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