William Graham Barron (1858-1937) was born in Arkansas and lived in Timpson and Nacogdoches, Texas. He had a wife named Cordelia and five children. Various census records list his occupation as a mechanical engineer, plumber, and carpenter. He built the first windmill and water tower located just east of the historic Redland Hotel in 1898; a photograph in the collection shows Barron at the top of the windmill. Another photograph in the collection shows Barron and his children in a wagon with an advertisement for his plumbing services; he also sold bathroom fixtures. Barron and another Nacogdoches man, Alexander F. Demory, applied for and received a U.S. patent in 1903 for a petroleum-oil-burner. Barron died in 1937 and was buried at the Caledonia Cemetery in Rusk, Texas.