Champe Carter family papers 1809-1941 (Bulk: 1866-1886)

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...

Thomson, F. A.

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Hughes, James

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Fisher, Samuel Rhoads, 1794-1839

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Calvert, A.

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Jones, Anson, 1798-1858

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President of Texas (Republic), physician, and a public official of Texas (Republic). From the description of Grant of Anson Jones, 1845. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79423856 Anson Jones (1798-1858) was a doctor, congressman, diplomatic minister, and President of the Republic of Texas. Son of Solomon and Sarah (Strong) Jones, he was born in Massachusetts and practiced medicine in New York and Pennsylvania. Jones practiced medicine in Venezuela from 1824 to 182...

Berry, Randolph Carter

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Calvert, P. T.

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Carter, Champe, d. 1873?

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Campbell, L. N.

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Carter, Champe, 1840-1886

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Born to Champe Carter, Sr., and Mary W. E. Montgomery in Amherst County, Virginia, April 29, 1840, Champe Carter, Jr. moved with his family to Stanford, Kentucky, in October 1847. In 1859, Champe Carter, Sr. followed his son, Edward, to Texas and settled in Milford, Ellis County. Carter remained in Kentucky where he attended Centre College in Danville and graduated in 1861. Immediately after graduation, he ran the Union picket lines on horseback, and joined his family in Texas where...

Carter, Thomas Montgomery

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Calvert, Robert

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Howth, W. E.

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Calvert, Alex

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Carter family

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Centre College (Danville, Ky.)

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The literary societies at Centre College began with the formation in 1828 of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society, named in honor of the College's first President, Rev. Jeremiah Chamberlain. The Society apparently died out around 1927, but then was revived around 1939 for only two years.The Deinologian Literary Society was founded in 1835 by students who were dismayed with the Chamberlain Society, and continued in existence until about 1940. The Athenaean Literary Society was an of...

Historical Church (Robertson County, Tex.)

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Calvert, James H.

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Carter, Charles L.

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Henderson, W. F.

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Read, W. P.

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Grant, J. D.

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Carter, Ruth Victoria Randolph, d. 1885

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Christian, F. R.

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Hutchinson, J. P.

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Napier, F. H., Mrs.

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Randolph, John F.

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Dycus, F. E.

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Gilmer, J. B.

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Hunt, Memucan, 1807-1856

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Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, inventor and painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), graduated from Yale College in 1810. Morse attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England and began a successful career in painting in Europe and the United States. In 1832, Morse developed the concept of the single-wire telegraph and Morse code. In 1938, Morse proposed his patent to the U.S. Government and the Republic of Texas, but failed to gain sponsorship. Morse succeeded in s...

Maxey, S. B. (Samuel Bell), 1825-1895

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U.S. Senator from Texas. From the description of Letter, 1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39522014 Samuel Bell Maxey spent his early years in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. His family lived in nearby Clinton County when Maxey was appointed to United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon graduation in 1846, he was breveted a Second Lieutenant in the regular army and served in the Mexican War until its close in 1848. In 1849 he r...

Randolph, George F.

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Texas. General Land Office

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The Texas General Land Office, established in 1836, administered land grants and public lands of Texas. From the description of Texas. : General Land Office, index of letters received, 1837-1854. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 39089216 Jack Giberson (1919- 2007) retired from the General Land Office after 41 years of service. Giberson was born in St. Louis, Missouri, and raised on a ranch near Alice, Texas. After earning a degree in Economics from The Un...

Robertson, Sterling

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Calvert, Jane Ellen Randolph

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Irion, Van

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Confederate States of America. Army. Leaves and furloughs

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Chandler, Eli, b. 1798?

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Carter, Edward Hill

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Reagan, John H. (John Henninger), 1818-1905

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U.S. Representative and Senator from Texas; Confederate Postmaster General. From the description of Letter to John W. Swindell, 1878 December 1. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 50734517 Postmaster General, C.S.A. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Palestine, Texas, to George W. Paschal, Jr., 1877 Mar. 20. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270616448 Born in Sevier County, Tennessee, John Henniger Reagan (1818-1905) c...

Confederate States of America, Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 15th.

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Carter, J. M.

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Barziza, D. U., 1838-1882

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Carter, P. H.

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Carter, Richard Ellis

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Cooke, Louis P., 1811-1849

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Robertson, James R. M

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Swann, A. K.

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Napier, Fred L.

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