Artist: Othmar J. Hoffler (1893–1954)
Louis Albert Schreiner
SCHREINER, LOUIS ALBERT (1870–1970), inducted 1939
One of the nation’s largest sheep and goat producers, Louis Albert Schreiner, is credited with establishing the cooperative wool marketing system in Texas. His father, Charles Armand Schreiner, owned a bank, department store, and the Y. O. Ranch and founded the educational institution now named Schreiner University. Charles Schreiner was one of the first to value and market mohair in the United States, making the town of Kerrville the “Mohair center of the world.” Educated at Eastern Business College in Poughkeepsie, New York, son L. A. Schreiner took over Charles Schreiner Bank and was its chief executive for seven decades, helping farmers through droughts and the Great Depression. He was highly invested in the development of Kerrville, organizing a telephone company and donating land for an airport (named for him), agriculture building, and hospital. Schreiner was an officer of the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association and the National Wool Trade Association. When Louis Schreiner died in 1970, weeks shy of his 100th birthday, the Kerr County Chamber of Commerce named him their “Man of the Century.”
Source: Saddle & Sirloin Guidebook 2026, p. 175