Johnson Mercantile
Canadian TexasMr. Johnson was born in 1858 in Tennessee. He married Elizabeth Winsett there in 1878 and moved to Kiowa, Kansas in 1885 to establish a merchandising business. Mr. Johnson extended the business into Oklahoma and Texas. One of his earlier stores was constructed in Higgins, Texas in 1887.

J.C. Studer Family
Julius Caesar Studer, rancher, the son of Ben and Elsie Studer, was born on May 24, 1863, in Kastenholtz, Switzerland. In 1867 the family immigrated to America and settled in a Swiss colony near Tracy City, Tennessee. There Studer hired out as a farmhand at the age of ten, and at thirteen he apprenticed himself to a carriage maker in Grundy County. In 1885, shortly before his nineteenth birthday, he moved to Kiowa, Kansas, where he worked as a railroad machinist and blacksmith.

Julius Born Variety Store
Julius Caesar Born was born in Tennessee on May 24, 1879. He came to Canadian on March 6, 1897, not quite 18 years of age. He had worked in the mines of Tennessee for 60 cents a day, been buried alive during a mine cave-in and given up for dead. He was unconscious when dug out. Canadian must have seemed like a significant improvement.

Hoover Building
Harvey Edgar Hoover was born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee and was educated at Cumberland University in Lebanon, Tennessee. He married Bragg Winsett in 1884. Her sister, Elizabeth, married J.F. Johnson, another man who would contribute to the early growth of Canadian and Hemphill County.

C. H. Shaller Home
Charles Henry Shaller was born in Illinois in 1854. By 1884, he married Ida Hutchinson in Kansas. They moved to El Dorado, Kansas where Mr. Shaller had a general store. Mr. Shaller learned of the Texas Panhandle Canadian River area from railroad workers who frequented his store. Before the railroad had crossed the Canadian River, Mr. Shaller visited the area and in 1887, he loaded up his merchandise and came to Canadian with his wife.

George Addison
George A. Addison was a photographer who operated studios in Texas and Oklahoma Territory from the early 1880s through at least the first decade of the 20th century. He operated studios in Taylor and Georgetown near Austin, Texas; Nocona in northern Texas; Wheeler County in the Texas Panhandle; and, from 1890 to 1895, in the Fort Sill, Oklahoma Territory area.

Hunter, Dick Bussell
The historical marker at the Court House in Canadian, Texas contains the following text about Dick Bussell:

(1845-1935) Famed hunter, in 1870s killed buffalo on this square; was one of the first men to hunt commercially. Came to Texas in 1874. In 1887, helped to survey the town site here, where he became lifelong resident, operating a livery stable and wagon yard. Is buried in local cemetery.

C. Stickley's Hearse
Charlie, as he was called, came to Canadian in 1900. He was born in Virginia in 1868 and in his youth, attended the Cincinnati School of Embalming and had an Ohio license since 1888. On his way to Nevada, he stopped in Canadian to visit his brother, Harry who had come to Canadian for his health in 1898. Charlie liked the country and decided to stay and worked on his uncle, Vas Stickley’s ranch.

The Fair Store
Nahim Abraham was born in 1885, in Kafracab, Lebanon. He left his homeland in 1902 on the first of three trips he made to America before deciding to immigrate permanently. On his second return to Lebanon he was married to Alia Abdullah Bulos Malouf, the daughter of a doctor. After returning to America the third time in 1912, Abraham worked as a traveling salesman.

The Fair Store 1921
Tom Abraham was an American businessman and civic leader in Canadian, Texas.

He was born in the Kafracab, Lebanon to Nahim Malouf (1885–1965) and Alia Malouf (1885–1979), but the parents changed their surname to "Abraham" when they entered the United States through Ellis Island. Tom grew up in Canadian, where he graduated from Canadian High School in 1928.