Taylor (Charles Stanfield)Papers 1832-1864

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...

Taylor (Charles Stanfield)

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Born in London, England, Charles Stanfield Taylor (1808-1865) immigrated to the United States in 1828 and moved to Texas, where he took his Mexican citizenship oath in 1830. Taylor represented Nacogdoches, in the Convention of 1832 and continued to represent this area until the Texas Revolution in 1836. He and three other Nacogdoches representatives signed the Declaration of Independence. Following the revolution, President Sam Houston nominated Taylor to run the boundar...

Taylor, Charles S. (Charles Stanfield), 1808-1865

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British born lawyer and judge, of Nacogdoches, Tex. From the description of Charles S. Taylor papers, 1810-1913. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956418 ...

Starr, James Harper, 1809-1890

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Banker, physician, land agent, and Texas public official. From the description of Sale notice, 1869. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956413 From the description of James Harper Starr letters, 1868-1882. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70956411 James Harper Starr (1809-1890) was a banker, physician, land agent, public official, and railroad official. Starr, a practicing doctor, moved to the Nacogdoches area from Georgia in January 1837 and was selected b...

Berry, Bradford

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Mayfield, James S.

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Lawyer, legislator, and soldier, James S. Mayfield (1809-1852) was born in Tennessee, but moved to Nacogdoches, Texas, in 1837, where he practiced law. He represented Nacogdoches County in the Fifth and Sixth congresses of the Republic of Texas, introducing the Franco-Texian Bill in 1841, and served as Governor Mirabeau B. Lamar’s Secretary of State during the same year. In September 1842, Mayfield organized a company of volunteers to help repel the Mexican Army from San Antonio, bu...

Rueg, Louis

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Taylor, Laurence

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Lamar, Mirabeau Buonaparte, 1798-1859

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Lamar served as President of Republic of Texas (1838-1841). This journal, in Lamar's own hand, documents his June-October 1835 trip from Columbus, Georgia to Brazoria, Texas. Observations of the climate, political situations, and people encountered during the journey, delving into Lamar's own thoughts on these subjects. Lamar, like other travelers, stopped overnight in private houses and farms, and stayed longer in settled areas such as San Augustine, Nacogdoches, Brazoria, and Velasco. ...