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WAPLES, JOSEPH (1798-1846). Joseph Waples, Republic of Texas^qv official, was born in Delaware in 1798. He came to Texas in 1838 and in 1839 was in charge of removing the archives from Houston to Austin, a fifteen-day task for which he received thirty dollars. He was chief clerk in the Texas Department of State before he joined the Snively expedition^qv of 1843. He was a Mason. Waples died in Houston on August 12, 1846.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Democratic Telegraph and Texas Register, August 19, 1846. Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press, 1970).

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