Williams-Houston papers 1852-1956 (Bulk: 1880, 1900)
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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...
Houston family
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Franklin Weston Williams was born on December 18, 1874, in Washington County, Texas, to Weston Lafayette Williams of Mississippi and Margaret Lea Houston, the daughter of Sam Houston. His brother was Houston Williams who was born in December of 1869. Franklin Williams married Annie M. McKeever and together had Charlotte Williams Darby, wife of James A. Darby. Williams died on Dec. 9, 1958. Sam Houston, one of the most influential men of Texas history, began his career es...
Houston, Temple Lea, 1860-1905
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Born to Governor Sam and Margaret Lea Houston in Austin, Texas, Temple Lea Houston (1860-1905) embarked on his first cattle drive at the age of thirteen. After working as a night clerk on a riverboat, he became a page for Senator James Winwright Flanagan in the U. S. Senate. In 1877, Houston enrolled in the Agricultural and Mechanical College (later Texas A & M University), later graduating from Baylor University with a degree in law and philosophy. In 1881, Houston established ...
Ney, Elisabet, 1833-1907
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From the Handbook of Texas Online : Franzisca Bernadina Wilhelmina Elisabeth Ney, one of the first professional sculptors in Texas, was born in Münster, Westphalia, on 1833 January 26 to Johann Adam and Anna Elizabeth (Wernze) Ney, a Catholic stonecarver and his wife. Ney enrolled at the Munich Academy of Art in 1852 and, after her graduation two years later, moved to Berlin, where she studied with Christian Daniel Rauch, one of the foremost sculptors in Europe in the mi...
