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==Background==
==Background==
Cahoon was born in [[Wichita Falls]] to Charles Wilbur Cahoon, Jr. (1897–1979), and the former Sibyl Kell (1899–1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index |publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wichita-heritage.org/Newsletter/P%2063413%20WCHS%20Nsltr%20Fall%202009%20Booked.pdf|title=''Heritage Review'', 2009|publisher=wichita-heritage.org|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> His maternal grandfather and namesake, [[Frank Kell]] (December 2, 1859 – September 17, 1941), a native of Clifton in Bosque County in central Texas, was a diversified businessman and the owner or partner of six regional [[railroad]]s totaling 1,300 miles of track. Cahoon's father was a partner in one of the Kell railroads, the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which serviced part of the Texas Panhandle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqc13|title=Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 27, 2013}}</ref> Frank Kell also owned the Wichita Mill and Elevator Company, which he sold in 1928 to General Mills for cash and stock in the latter company. The senior Kell was a director of the [[Federal Reserve Bank]] of [[Dallas]] and a leading entrepreneur and philanthropist in Wichita Falls. In 1885, Frank Kell married the former Lula Kemp. He and his brother-in-law, Joseph A. Kemp, are considered the two principal builders of modern Wichita Falls. Kell and Kemp are names of major streets in Wichita Falls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke07|title=Kell, Frank|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> Cahooon's parents and maternal grandparents are interred at Riverview Cemetery in Wichita Falls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Cahoon&GSiman=1&GSst=46&|title=Grave Search Results|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref>
Cahoon was born in [[Wichita Falls]] to Charles Wilbur Cahoon, Jr. (1897–1979), and the former Sibyl Kell (1899–1991).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/ssdi.cgi|title=Social Security Death Index |publisher=ssdi.rootsweb.ancestry.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wichita-heritage.org/Newsletter/P%2063413%20WCHS%20Nsltr%20Fall%202009%20Booked.pdf|title=''Heritage Review'', 2009|publisher=wichita-heritage.org|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> His maternal grandfather and namesake, [[Frank Kell]] (December 2, 1859 – September 17, 1941), a native of Clifton in Bosque County in central Texas, was a diversified businessman and the owner or partner of six regional [[railroad]]s totaling 1,300 miles of track. Cahoon's father was a partner in one of the Kell railroads, the Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad Company of Texas, which serviced part of the Texas Panhandle.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/eqc13|title=Clinton-Oklahoma-Western Railroad|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=April 27, 2013}}</ref> Frank Kell also owned the Wichita Mill and Elevator Company, which he sold in 1928 to General Mills for cash and stock in the latter company. The senior Kell was a director of the [[Federal Reserve Bank]] of [[Dallas]] and a leading entrepreneur and philanthropist in Wichita Falls. In 1885, Frank Kell married the former Lula Kemp. He and his brother-in-law, Joseph A. Kemp, are considered the two principal builders of modern Wichita Falls. Kell and Kemp are names of major streets in Wichita Falls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fke07|title=Kell, Frank|publisher=''The Handbook of Texas''|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref> Cahoon's parents and maternal grandparents are interred at Riverview Cemetery in Wichita Falls.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gsr&GSln=Cahoon&GSiman=1&GSst=46&|title=Grave Search Results|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=March 13, 2011}}</ref>
Cahoon was a nephew by marriage of the Wichita Falls attorney [[Orville Bullington]], the Republican [[Governor||gubernatorial]] nominee in 1932, having lost to the Democrat Miriam Wallace Ferguson in her second nonconsecutive bid for the office. A son-in-law of Frank Kell, Bullington<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu18|title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=June 11, 2010}}</ref> was married until his death to Cahoon's aunt, the former Sadie Kell (1886–1960).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Sadie+Kell_Bullington&event=_wichita+falls-wichita-texas-usa_78666|title=Sadie Kell Bullington|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 22, 2019}}</ref>
Cahoon was a nephew by marriage of the Wichita Falls attorney [[Orville Bullington]], the Republican [[Governor||gubernatorial]] nominee in 1932, having lost to the Democrat Miriam Wallace Ferguson in her second nonconsecutive bid for the office. A son-in-law of Frank Kell, Bullington<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fbu18|title=''The Handbook of Texas'' on-line: Orville Bullington|publisher=tshaonline.org|accessdate=June 11, 2010}}</ref> was married until his death to Cahoon's aunt, the former Sadie Kell (1886–1960).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.ancestry.com/search/?name=Sadie+Kell_Bullington&event=_wichita+falls-wichita-texas-usa_78666|title=Sadie Kell Bullington|publisher=Ancestry.com|accessdate=August 22, 2019}}</ref>