Irion Family Papers

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Irion Family Papers

1825-1929

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Robert A. Irion was a physician, a senator in the First Congress of the Republic of Texas, and the Secretary of State for the Republic from 1837-1838. Anna W. Raguet married Dr. Irion in Nacogdoches in 1840. Correspondence, legal and financial documents, medical documents, photographs, broadsides, notes, certificates, and printed items. Papers of the Irion family consisting primarily of letters sent and received by Robert A. Irion and Anna Raguet Irion. Included is personal correspondence between Sam Houston and Anna Irion before her marriage, 1835-1840; official correspondence between Irion and officers of the Republic of Texas, 1835-1840; and correspondence between various members of the Irion and Raguet families. Also included are medical school lecture notes, and professional correspondence and prescriptions of Dr. Irion. The papers reflect on political, social, military, and diplomatic matters in the Republic of Texas, and in the early period of statehood. Correspondents include James Pinckney Henderson, Thomas J. Rusk, Henry W. Raguet, Charles S. Taylor, and others.

2 boxes (0.83 linear ft.)

eng, Latn

Special Collections, The University of Texas at Arlington Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6641865

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