Texas Governors' Wives . By Pearl Cashell Jackson . (Austin:  E. L. Steck, 1915. Pp. 156. Illustrated. $2.00 net.)

The twenty-three sketches composing this book were first published in the San Antonio Express. They are well written, represent a good deal of research, and incidentally throw interesting sidelights on the gubernatorial history of the State. Frances Cox Henderson, wife of the first Governor of Texas, forms the subject of what is in many respects the most interesting sketch in the book. She is said to have been able to translate twenty-eight languages, and to have spoken twenty-two of them. She was married in Paris while Henderson was Texan minister to England and France. After her husband's death she returned to Europe, where she remained during the Civil War. One of her daughters married an Austrian count, and two of her grandsons are now officers in the Austrian army and navy.

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"Texas Governors' Wives", Volume 019, Number 3, Southwestern Historical Quarterly Online, Page 320. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/publications/journals/shq/online/v019/n3/review_36.html
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