Champe Carter papers, 1825-1889, (bulk 1870-1886).

Barziza, D. U., 1838-1882

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Howth, W. E.,

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Carter family.

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Read, W. P.,

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Chandler, Eli, b. 1798?

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Hunt, Memucan, 1807-1856

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Born in Charleston, Massachusetts, inventor and painter Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872), graduated from Yale College in 1810. Morse attended the Royal Academy of Arts in London, England and began a successful career in painting in Europe and the United States. In 1832, Morse developed the concept of the single-wire telegraph and Morse code. In 1938, Morse proposed his patent to the U.S. Government and the Republic of Texas, but failed to gain sponsorship. Morse succeeded in s...

Confederate States of America. Army. Texas Infantry Regiment, 15th.

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Irion, Van,

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Hughes, James, 1959-

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Hughes was WCEN Radio News director in Mount Pleasant (Mich.) in 1983. From the description of "A Relatively Quiet Night," 1983. (Clarke Historical Library). WorldCat record id: 41000126 Arizona surveyor. From the description of Surveyor's notebook, ca. 1914. (Arizona Historical Society, Southern Arizona Division). WorldCat record id: 43563762 ...

Historical Church (Robertson County, Tex.)

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Fisher, Samuel Rhoads, 1794-1839

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United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, usually referred to as simply the Freedmen's Bureau, was a U.S. federal government agency that aided distressed freedmen (freed slaves) in 1865–1869, during the Reconstruction era of the United States. The Freedmen's Bureau Bill, which created the Freedmen's Bureau, was initiated by President Abraham Lincoln and was intended to last for one year after the end of the Civil War. It was passed on March 3, 1865, by Congress to aid former slaves ...

Carter, Champe, 1839-1886

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Champe Carter, Jr. was born April 29, 1840. He graduated from Centre College in Danville in 1861, and joined the 15th Regiment of Texas Volunteer Infantry. After the war, he worked for the Freedmen's Bureau, and practiced law in Robertson County, Texas, specializing in land transfers. He actively sought veterans of the Republic of Texas and their heirs as clients. In 1870 Champe Carter, Jr. married Ruth Victoria Randolph. Carter aquired land throughout Texas. He died in August, 1886. ...

Carter, Ruth Victoria Randolph, d. 1885

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Robertson, James R

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Maxey, S. B. (Samuel Bell), 1825-1895

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U.S. Senator from Texas. From the description of Letter, 1878. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39522014 Samuel Bell Maxey spent his early years in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. His family lived in nearby Clinton County when Maxey was appointed to United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon graduation in 1846, he was breveted a Second Lieutenant in the regular army and served in the Mexican War until its close in 1848. In 1849 he r...

Grant, J. D.

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Gilmer, J. B.

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Thomson, F. A.

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Hutchinson, J.P.

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Cooke, Louis P., 1811-1849

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Centre College (Danville, Ky.)

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The literary societies at Centre College began with the formation in 1828 of the Chamberlain Philosophical and Literary Society, named in honor of the College's first President, Rev. Jeremiah Chamberlain. The Society apparently died out around 1927, but then was revived around 1939 for only two years.The Deinologian Literary Society was founded in 1835 by students who were dismayed with the Chamberlain Society, and continued in existence until about 1940. The Athenaean Literary Society was an of...