Texas State Gazetteer & Business Directory
1892 - R.L. Polk & Co
Contained town descriptions & businesses
ELMO - A stirring village on the T. & P. Ry, and on Cedar creek, in
Kaufman county, 226 miles northeast of Austin, 15 northeast of Kaufman,
the county seat, and 6 1/2 east of Terrell, the nearest banking point. Settled in 1872, it contains several steam cotton gins and grist mills,
a church and a hotel. Population, 300. Tel, W.U. Exp., Pacific. W.M. Lindsey, postmaster.
Beavers S J, blacksmith
Burke F M, insurance and lumber
Cauthen L E, grocer
Cowart S, builder
Fields J W, grocer
Fitzgerald J R, carpenter
Fry James M, physician
Giese T S, railroad, exp and tel agt Gordon Q L, money broker
Gray R A, meat market
Hart H K, notary
Henderson F W, constable
Johnson Bros. builders, mill and gin
Lindsey W M, Justice and Notary
McGinnis C T, live stock
Mallory Bros, grist mill and gin
Marshall J T, brick mason
Mullinicks H J, hardware
Oldham Mrs S A, dry goods
Piper J J, grist mill and gin
Pratt D T, physician
Richardson H D, grist mill
Roberts P W, grist mill
Roberts Wm, hotel
Robinson T M, blacksmiths
Stovall J R, grocer
Zink Wm, Druggist