NEWS ITEMS
The Dallas Democrat (page 7) of November 29, 1913, contains an article by Virginia Quitman McNealus, entitled “A Little Footnote to an Old Chapter,” in which are pointed out erroneous statements made in Bancroft's North Mexican States and Texas, II, 468. A letter from J. N. Cortina to J. S. Ford, dated October 17, 1891, is printed in proof of the corrections.
San Antonio Road.—At the November conference of the Daughters of the American Revolution at El Paso, Texas, the sum of $1200 was pledged to begin the erecting of boulders of Texas granite, five feet high, three and one-half by two and one-half feet wide, one side smoothed and inscribed “King's Highway—San Antonio Road, erected by the Daughters of the American Revolution,” donor's name and date. It was decided to place these markers five miles apart across the State from the Sabine river to the Rio Grande.
Colonel Henry Exall, president of the Texas Industrial Congress, died at his home in Dallas, on December 29, 1913. Numerous tributes were paid Colonel Exall through the press following his death; a brief biography is printed in Who's Who in America, 1912-1913.
Dr. Edward B. Wright, for thirty-five years pastor and for six years pastor emeritus of the First Presbyterian Church of Austin, died at his home January 4, 1914. It was said of him that “he was the best known and the best loved minister that Austin ever had.”
Judge James H. McLeary died at Washington, D. C., January 5, 1914. He served in the house of representatives and the senate of Texas, was attorney general from 1880 to 1882, was appointed one of the territorial judges of Montana by President Cleveland, and at the time of death was associate justice of the supreme court of Porto Rico. Biographical sketches of him are printed in Who's Who in America, 1912-1913, and in the San Antonio Express, January 6, 1914.
Wells Thompson, judge of the twenty-third judicial district, died at his home in Bay City, on January 17, 1914. The Galveston News of the day following gives a brief sketch of his life. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1859, and two years later from the law department of the University of Georgia. After the close of the war he took up the practice of law at Matagorda, was a member of the constitutional convention of 1866, was elected president of the senate in 1876, and served as a member of the board of codifiers of the laws of Texas in 1895.
James G. Dudley, of Paris, Texas, who was appointed by Governor Campbell one of the commissioners to codify the laws of Texas, died on January 17, 1914. The Dallas News of the day following and Who's Who in America, 1906-1907, contain brief biographies.
J. M. Oram, an inventor of distinction in electrical and telephone fields, died at his late home in Dallas on January 17, 1914. Mr. Oram wrote the chapter on “The Coming of the Telephone to Dallas” in A History of Greater Dallas and Vicinity. The Dallas News of January 18 contains a sketch of his life.
The Houston Chronicle of January 25, 1914, printed a column, entitled “Stories of Ashbel Smith.”
Dr. Frank Rainey died at Austin, February 2, 1914. He became a surgeon during the Civil War, graduated from Tulane University in 1869, and from 1874 until 1895 was superintendent of the Texas school for the blind. A tribute to Dr. Rainey by Judge Fulmore was printed in the Austin Tribune of February 8.
The Galveston News of March 19 and 20, 1914, contained a brief sketch of the life of Robert G. Murray, who participated in the naval engagements off the coast of Texas and engaged in blockade running during the Civil War.
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"NEWS ITEMS", Volume 017, Number 4, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 430 - 431. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v017/n4/back_6.html
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