The following information is from a handwritten list I found while researching in Raymondville's Reber Memorial Library. I do not guarantee that it is all correct; I am only copying the information as I found it written.
Raymondville Firsts
| French silos | Ed Raymond and C. A. Oberg |
| passenger on train in 1904 | Mr. MacManus |
| station agent | J. F. Kimball |
| state bank - 1907 | C. H. Pease from Michigan |
| president of bank - 1907 | E. B. Raymond |
| doctor - 1909 | Dr. LaGrand |
| teacher - 1907 | Miss Nellie Kimball |
| Father for Catholic Church - 1908 | Bishop Quinn of Houston |
| Sunday School - 1906 | McChesney home |
| drug store - 1909 | B. S. Duffield |
| real estate office | B. F. Frazier |
| newspaper printed at Lyford | Willacy County News or Gulf Courant? Mr. Whitney |
| bakery | C. N. Swink |
| white child born | Hellen Curry (Mr. & Mrs. Jim Curry) or was it Pauline Jersig Holt (Mr. & Mrs. Henry Jersig) writing difficult to read on that last name |
| electric light plant | ran in Burton's 1916, A. C. Burton's Garage |
| barber, iceman, milkman | Tom Clark |
| mayor, manager of 1st cotton gin (La Coma Ranch Gin), 1st county judge | S. L. Gill |
| theatre - 1914 | "Birth of a Nation" movies |
| county clerk - 1923 | R. W. Huff |
| auto | Mr. Ludlum |
| grocery store - 1904 | Higinio Cantu or Brenner? |
| artesian well | sunk in 1905 on old Davidson Hotel |
| resident pastor for Methodist church - 1915 | Rev. O. C. Crow |
| president of Woman's Club | Mrs. S. L. Gill (club organized 1921 by Mrs. H. A. White |
| restaurant - 1922 | G. M. Pearson - Valley Cafe |
| manager of Raymondville Golf Course | John Robert Summers |
| mayor - 1923 | M. H. Dreyer |
| town surveyed by | Fred Warren |
| city named for | E. B. Raymond |
| boarding house - 1905 "Kimball House" | Miss Dora & Nellie Kimball |
| Methodist Church | 1925 -1926 |
| street paving, sewers established | 1926 - 1928 |
| 1925 | Liverite Club - succeeded by Lions, Kiwanis, Rotary |
| meat market - 1908 | Porfirio Garcia |
| blacksmith | S. E. Mills |
| telephone line - 1907 | from Brownsville to Raymondville, B. E. Earle 1915 in Lyford & Raymondville |
| post office-Paso Real - 1907 | Postmaster - Christian Balduf - 1887 |
| ice house | R. H. Adair - 1911 |
| dairy | T. P. Dodd - 1915 |
| attorney county | Ira Jay Dutton - 1922 |