“Memorial and Biographical History of Dallas County,” published:  
Chicago;  The Lewis Publishing Company, 1892.

JOHN R. FIGH,  manager and junior member of the firm of J.M. Harry & Company, 
composed of J.M. and D.C. Harry and J.R. Figh, manufacturers of brick, Dallas, are the 
proprietors of works whose capacity is about 50,000 brick per day, who have in their 
employ about seventy men.  They are in full operation about nine months each year, and 
to some extent the rest of the time.  The firm was organized in 1886.

Mr. Figh was born in Alabama in 1858, the second eldest of the four children of George 
M. and Georgia (Clark) Figh, natives of Alabama.  His father, a contractor, came in 1875 
to Bryan, this State, to erect an agricultural and mechanical college there, and engaged in 
contracting generally; in 1881 he came to Dallas, and his son John R. joined him, forming 
the firm of G.M. Figh and Son.  They have put up some of the best churches, residences 
and business houses in Dallas.  In 1885 the partnership was dissolved, when George M., 
junior, succeeded his brother, continuing business under the firm name till the death of 
the father, November 16, 1889.  The mother is still living, residing at 427 North Harwood 
street.  The present firm, J.M. Harry & Company, have erected the McLeod hotel and 
other buildings, and are manufacturers of brick.  They are just starting into the 
manufacture of fine front brick, and vitrified brick for street pavement, purchasing for the 
purpose a tract of land three miles west of Dallas, where they are about to erect large 
works.

Mr. Figh, our subject, is a Democrat, taking some interest in the political welfare of the 
country.  Both himself and wife are Baptists.  He was married in Waxahachie, in 1883, to 
Minnie Moore, a native of Tennessee who came to Texas about 1876.  Her father died in 
Atlanta, Georgia, and her mother is still living, in Waxahachie.  Mr. And Mrs. Figh have 
one child, named Mary Jean.

Submitted by L.Pingel