Brinkman was named after a resident John Brinkman, a business associate of railroad builders Joseph A. Kemp and Frank Kell, who paid the expenses of platting.
Frank Kell of Wichita Falls organized an effort to attract the army to the city.
The city of Dodsonville, Texas, was founded on July 1, 1910, by Frank Kell of Wichita Falls.
From 1912 to 1973, Forgan was the northern terminus of the defunct Wichita Falls and Northwestern Railway, one of the Frank Kell and Joseph A. Kemp properties which linked Wichita Falls, Texas, with the Oklahoma Panhandle.
From 1914 to 1927, he was appointed as a director of the Eleventh District Federal Reserve Bank, based in Dallas, Texas.
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One of Kell's sons-in-law, Orville Bullington, a Missouri native and lawyer and businessman in Wichita Falls, was the 1932 Republican nominee for governor of Texas.
The base began as Sheppard Field on 300 acres (1.2 km²) just south of Kell Field, named for the businessman Frank Kell.
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