Cranfill, J. B., papers, 1844-1941

Cranfill, J. B. (James Britton), 1858-1942

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Baptist leader James Britton Buchanan Boone J. B. Cranfill (1858-1942) was born in Parker County, Texas, to Dr. Eaton A. Cranfill and the former Martha Jane Galloway. While teaching in Crawford, Cranfill married his student Olivia Ollie Allen in 1878. The next year he earned a doctor’s license and began practicing in Turnersville, where Cranfill also ran a cash store and the local newspaper, Effort . Over the next decade, Cranfill published the Gatesville Advance, Waco Advance, and ...

Sheppard, Morris, 1875-1941

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Morris Sheppard (1875-1941) was born May 28, 1875, in Wheatsville, Texas. He received his AB degree from the University of Texas in 1895 and his LLB in 1897. He also earned an LLM degree from Yale University, before beginning his law practice in Pittsburgh and Texarkana. In 1902, Sheppard was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives to fill the space left vacant by his father’s death. He served until 1913 when he became a U.S. Senator, a post he would hold until his own death in...

Carroll, B. H. (Benajah Harvey), 1874-1922

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Benajah Harvey Carroll, Jr. (1874-1922), author, educator, minister, chaplain, journalist, editor, and U.S. consulate, earned degrees from Baylor University, University of Texas, and Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He was ordained a minister in Waco in 1894 and served churches in both Kentucky and Texas, and headed the department of history and political economy at Baylor for a short time. He volunteered for service in the Spanish-American War, 1898. He ...

Harris, Corra, 1869-1935

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"Novelist Corra White Harris was one of the most celebrated women from Georgia for nearly three decades in the early twentieth century. She is best known for her first novel, A Circuit Rider's Wife (1910), though she gained a national audience a decade before its publication. From 1899 through the 1920s, she published hundreds of essays and short stories and more than a thousand book reviews in such magazines as the Saturday Evening Post, Harper's, Good Housekeeping, Ladies Home Journal, and esp...

Carroll, B. H. (Benajah Harvey), 1843-1914

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Benajah Harvey Carroll, Jr. (1874-1922), author, educator, minister, chaplain, journalist, editor, and U.S. consulate, earned degrees from Baylor University, University of Texas, and Southern Baptist Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky. He was ordained a minister in Waco in 1894 and served churches in both Kentucky and Texas, and headed the department of history and political economy at Baylor for a short time. He volunteered for service in the Spanish-American War, 1898. He first served...

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