E. W. Bowers papers 1838-1841

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E. W. Bowers papers 1838-1841

http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/sjmh/00109/00109-P.html

This small collection of financial and legal documents relates to signers of the Texas Declaration of Independence who had ties to Red River County, Texas.

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Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library,

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SNAC Resource ID: 6639618

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Bowers, Eugene W.

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A native of Red River County, Texas, district clerk and author Eugene W. Bowers co-published Red River Dust: True Tales of an American Yesterday with Evelyn Oppenheimer in 1968. He collected legal records from the 19th century and wrote articles about the various cases. From the guide to the Bowers, Eugene W. Papers, 1839-1852, 1954, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) Eugene W. Bowers was a district clerk of Clarksville, Red River ...

Browning, James E.

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Hamilton, Robert, 1781-1845

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Ellis, Richard, 1781-1846

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Planter, lawyer, and politician Richard Ellis (1781-1846) studied law in his home state of Virginia and then served in the Alabama Constitutional Convention and on the Supreme Court. In 1834, he moved to Pecan Point (now in Bowie County, Texas), located in territory claimed by both Mexico and the United States (as part of Arkansas). There Ellis established a large cotton plantation with his wife Mary West Ellis (née Dandridge), two children, and slaves and was selected as a represen...

Gray, W. H.

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