Volume 6 , Issue 38

Culver, Chambers & Wrought Iron Range Co

"Hi! I've been enjoying your site for months now. Thanks. I got curious about the Wrought Iron Range Co. item. I found this in the "Handbook of Texas".

Lufkin, Texas - Lufkin, the county seat of Angelina County, is at the intersection of U.S. highways 59 and 69, a few miles northwest of the  center of the county in the heart of the Piney Woods of East Texas.

Two of the city's principal industries, Southland Paper Mills (now St. Regis) and Texas Foundries, were begun as hometown companies in the late 1930s and were responsible for much of the city's industrial growth. The largest industrial employer, Lufkin Foundry and Machine Company (now Lufkin Industries), was also founded as a hometown company in 1902 and achieved worldwide fame for its oilfield pumping units.

As for Col. Cal C. Chambers, I guess he's the man referred to as the president in 1944 of the Angelina County Chamber of Commerce. And in a website from Culver Academies in Indiana, I found, referring to Culver people who served in World War I.

The highest military decoration presented to a member of the faculty was the Distinguished Service Cross (the nation's second highest award for gallantry) to Col. Cal C. Chambers '08, the Academy's executive officer. He also received the Silver Star and the French and Belgian Croix-de-Guerre. This is the same Chambers whose name is attached to the prestigious Chambers Cup, awarded annually to the outstanding Culver Military Academy student-athlete.

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