House-McDowall family papers 1838-1949 (Bulk: 1860-1890)

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...

Weaver, Robert

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McDowall, Mary Ann Nicholson, 1843-1931

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Nicholson, William, 1838-1864

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McDowall family

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Bastrop Military Institute (Bastrop, Tex.)

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Tipple, Elizabeth Weaver, b. 1820

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Nicholson, James, d. ca. 1885

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Lee, Robert Edward, 1807-1870

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Robert Edward Lee (1807-1870) served as General of the Confederate Army in the U.S. Civil War and was president of Washington College in Lexington, Virginia from 1865 to 1870. Lee spent the first twenty-three years of his military career in the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. From 1837 to 1841 he was superintending engineer for the harbor of St. Louis and the upper Mississippi and Missouri rivers. Robert E. Lee was a United States Army officer, 1829-1861; commander of Virginia forces in the ...

Sanders, Ruth Winfred McDowall, 1869-1897

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Crocheron, Mary Ann Tipple.

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Sanders, Richard D.

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House family

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Thomas William House, early Houston businessman, banker and mayor, was born on March 4, 1814. He immigrated to Houston from England in 1838 and by 1853 had become one of Houston's most successful merchants and dry goods dealers. House married Mary Elizabeth Shearn and together they had eight children including Edward Mandell House, who was an advisor to Woodrow Wilson, and T.W. House, Jr., who in 1869 married Ruth Nicholson of Bastrop County. Together they had six children including...