James L. Britton collection 1817-1889 (Bulk: 1829-1855)

Houston, Sam, 1793-1863

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Texas politician, soldier, and frontier hero. He was the first president of the Republic of Texas and served as a United States Senator for that state. From the description of Letter, ca. 1855. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122699442 From the description of Letter, 1859. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 145435304 Sam Houston's colorful public life began with his heroic action during the war of 1812. He served as congressman and governor of Tennessee, spent years amon...

Baker, Moseley, 1802-1848

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Baker was a lawyer, editor, politician, Methodist minister in his lifetime. He was the leader of the Texas war party before the Revolution, opposed to the burning of San Felipe during the Revolution, and after the Revolution drew up charges of impeachment against Houston. He was a brigadier general in the Texas army in the 1839 campaign against the Indians and at the time of the Adrian Woll expedition and died of yellow fever in Houston in 1848. From the description of Baker, Moseley...

Robinson, James W., 1790-1857

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Fisher, Samuel Rhoads, 1794-1839

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Burnet, David Gouverneur, 1789-1870

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David Gouverneur Burnet (1788-1870) was born in Newark, New Jersey. About 1817 he moved to Natchitoches, Louisiana, and in 1831 to Texas. He was ad interim president of the Republic of Texas from March 17 to October 22, 1836. In 1836 he was elected vice president of the Republic of Texas, serving part time as secretary of state and acting president. From the guide to the David G. Burnet letters MS 188., 1836-1859, (Woodson Research Center, ) Born April 14, 1788,...

Grayson, Peter Wagener, 1788-1838

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Jones, August

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Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869

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Franklin Pierce (1804-1869) was the 14th President of the United States (1853-1857). Prior to his presidency he served in both the House of Representatives (1833-1837) and the Senate (1837-1842) as a legislator from New Hampshire. Although a Northerner, he sympathized with the Southern cause during the American Civil War and was good friends with Jefferson Davis....

Musquiz, Ramon, b. 1797.

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Musquiz was a Spanish-Mexican merchant and highest political leader in Bexar, responsible for the administration of the colonization laws there for early impresarios. A friend of Stephen F. Austin, he was sympathetic to the American colonists. For a short time in 1835 he served as governor of Texas. Musquiz helped develop the first department of public health west of the Mississippi River and led preventative health campaigns to curb smallpox outbreaks. From the description of Ramon ...

Flores de Abrego, José Gaspar María, 1781-1836

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Morgan, James, 1787-1866

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Colonel James Morgan (1787-1866) was an early Texas settler, merchant, and land speculator. Having started out in Texas with a mercantile business, in 1835 Morgan became a real estate agent for the New Washington Association and began to purchase large tracts of land for development. During the Texas Revolution, Morgan was the commander at Galveston Island, where he was in charge of the 1836 fortification of the island. President Sam Houston later charged him with mismanaging this project. After...

Lamar, G. B.

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McLeod, Hugh, 1814-1862

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Rusk, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), 1803-1857

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U.S. senator from Texas, legislator of the Texas (Republic), jurist, and army officer. From the description of Petition of Thomas J. Rusk, 1852. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71015419 Army officer, jurist, Texas legislator, and U.S. senator. From the description of Thomas J. Rusk letters, 1835-1856. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956387 From the description of Thomas J. Rusk collection, 1826-1978. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956384 Edwar...

Price, Rodman M. (Rodman McCamley), 1816-1894

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Price was born on May 5, 1816 in Sussex County, NJ; attended College of NJ; served in US Navy with Commodore Sloat's squadron on the west coast of Mexico in 1846, read the proclamation of the annexation of CA from the custom house in Monterey, CA; became alcade of Monterey; was member of the first San Francisco Municipal Council, the CA Constitutional Convention (1849), and a member of the House of Representatives (1851-53); served as governor of NJ, 1854-57; he died on June 7, 1894 in Sussex Co...

Bowie, James, d. 1836

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The son of Reason (or Rezin) and Elve Bowie, James (Jim) Bowie (1796?-1836) moved around the southern United States in his early life, finally settling on a plantation near Opelousas, Louisiana, in around 1809. During the War of 1812, James and his brother Rezin Pleasant Bowie enlisted in the Second Division, Consolidated, of the U.S. Army. After the war, the brothers bought slaves from Jean Laffite and traded them in St. Landry Parish, until raising $65,0000, which James and Rezin ...

McCall, John G.

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Davis, Andrew Jackson

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Eastland, William M., 1806-1843

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Ingram, Ira, 1788-1837

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Ira Ingram (1788-1837) played a key role in the Texas Revolution as a member of Austin's original "Old Three Hundred," and as a soldier, land holder, and politician. From the guide to the Ira Ingram Papers, 1830-1835, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) From the description of Ingram, Ira, papers, 1830-1835. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 71226647 Born in Vermont, emigrated to Texas from Louisiana in 1...

Williams, Samuel May, 1795-1858

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Ripley, Henry

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Bird, John, 1795-1839

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Travis, William Barret, 1809-1836

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As commander of the doomed Alamo garrison, Colonel William Barret Travis became a legendary figure in Texas history. Born in South Carolina in 1809, Travis went on to study law and marry Rosanna Cato before moving to Texas. He left his family behind and settled in Stephen F. Austin's colony to practice law. With the coming of war with Mexico, Travis became an army officer and was ordered to reinforce the Alamo garrison in San Antonio de Bexar. He took command after James C. Neill gave up the pos...

Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte, 1798-1859

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Lamar served as President of Republic of Texas (1838-1841). This journal, in Lamar's own hand, documents his June-October 1835 trip from Columbus, Georgia to Brazoria, Texas. Observations of the climate, political situations, and people encountered during the journey, delving into Lamar's own thoughts on these subjects. Lamar, like other travelers, stopped overnight in private houses and farms, and stayed longer in settled areas such as San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Brazoria, and Velasco. ...

Britton, James L., collector

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Green, Thomas, 1814?-1864

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McCaleb, T. F.

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Jones, William

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Thompson, Waddy, 1798-1868

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Waddy Thompson, a member of the Whig party of South Carolina, served in the state legislature, U. S. Congress, and as Minister to Mexico. From the description of Waddy Thompson letter, 1848 Jan. 14. (Louisiana State University). WorldCat record id: 244566435 South Carolina politician; United States minister to Mexico, 1842-1844. From the description of Waddy Thompson papers, 1823-1851 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23304922 American lawyer, politician...