Wilson, Walter B. Collection, 1895-1939

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961

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Samuel Taliaferro Rayburn was born on January 6, 1882, in a rural area of Roane County, Tennessee. At age five, Rayburn, along with his parents and nine siblings, moved to a forty-acre cotton farm in Flag Springs, Texas. One more child was born after the move to Texas, and every member of the family had to do their share to make the farm profitable. Rayburn's interest in government coincided with the family's move, and it has been suggested that his curiosity intensified due to the "great golden...

Horn, Paul W. (Paul Whitfield), 1870-1932

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Author. Educator. Born 1870 in Boonesville, Missouri. Received A.M. degree from Central College in Fayette, Missouri in 1888 and L.L.D. from Baylor University in 1917. Taught in rural schools (1884-1885); the Pryor Institute (1889-1892), and served as a high school principal in Sherman, Texas (1895-1897). Was superintendent in Houston (1904-1921) and the American School in Mexico City (1921-1922). Became president of Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas (1922-1923). In 1923, was appointe...

Neff, Pat Morris, 1871-1952

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Wilson, Walter B.

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Walter B. Wilson (1869-1939), printer, publisher, and journalist, was the owner and editor of the McKinney, Collin County, Texas, newspaper for more than thirty years. Wilson was born in 1869 in Illinois, the son of a Methodist minister and a church and charity worker. He came to Texas at the age of 18 with two brothers, and started his business career in printing and publishing. The weekly Democrat-Gazette, the oldest paper in Collin County, was founded in 1...

Wilson, Walter B., 1869-1939

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