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

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