Davenport, Harbert, papers, 1800, 1835-1836, 1923

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Davenport, Harbert, papers, 1800, 1835-1836, 1923

The Harbert Davenport Papers, 1800, 1835-1836, 1923, document the political and military events connected with James Walker Fannin, Jr., and the military units and persons under his command in the Goliad Campaigns.

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Fannin, James Walker, 1804?-1836

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Texas revolutionary James Walker Fannin, Jr. (1804-1836), was an illegitimate son born to Dr. Isham Fannin (b. 1778) in Morgan County, Georgia. Raised by his maternal grandfather, James W. Walker, on a plantation near Marion, Fannin entered West Point military academy in 1819. His time at West Point proved short-lived, however, and in 1821 he resigned after dueling with a fellow cadet. Fannin returned to Georgia and married Minerva Fort (b. ca. 1811), with whom he had two daughters....

Wells, James B., 1850-1923

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James B. Wells, Jr., attorney of Brownsville, Texas, was the central figure in South Texas Democratic politics from the mid-1880s through the first decade of the twentieth century and continued to exercise power as the Cameron County Democratic chairman until 1920. Wells served as chairman of the Texas Democratic Party from 1900 through 1904. Wells held public office for only two brief periods: as Brownsville city attorney in the early 1880s, and in 1897 he accepted a gubernatorial appointment t...

Davenport, Harbert, 1882-1957

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A native of Eastland, Texas, Harbert Davenport (1882-1957) married Elizabeth Pettit in 1904, and they moved to Austin in 1906. In 1908 Davenport earned his L.L.B. degree from the University of Texas. After practicing law in Anahuac, in 1912 he moved to Brownsville to work as a law associate to Judge James B. Wells, Jr. (1850-1923). Davenport became a second lieutenant in the air corps during World War I, and then returned to legal practice. He wrote several legal and his...