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HomeMy WebLinkAboutHood's Brigade - Bryan CentennialLt. General John Bell Hood, C.S.A Hood's Brigade Bryan Centennial 1862 1962 U - TOTEM FOOD STORES Conveniently Located 27th W Coulter - Bryan East Gate - College Station 131 SCASTA Building Contractor VI 6 -5154 VI 6 -7021 BRYAN, TEXAS The Early History of Bryan And The Surrounding Area Narrative Prepared By Joseph Milton Nance Hood's Brigade -Bryan Centennial Committee June 1962 ROBERT L. AYERS Treasurer Hood's Brigade - Bryan Centennial Committee Insurance Dick Haddox Dr. R. H. Benbow - President Mrs. J. C. Culpepper Mrs. R. E. Callender Miss Lucy Harrison Travis Bryan, Jr. Henry Clay Rowland Vannoy BROTHERS OF THE BRUSH: J. W. Hamilton HATS AND TIES: Jesse Burditt PROMENADES AND CARAVANS: Mrs. Jerry Allard - Co- Chairman Mrs. Sam Curl - Co- Chairman J. C. Nevill Jerry Barton Jake Cangelose Douglas R. Norcross Ellis H. Smith ADVANCE SALES Joe Ferreri (Chairman) Mrs. John M. Barron - Nominations Mrs. James T. Hannigan Mrs. Kay Halsell Mrs.. A. Krenek Mrs. Lewis Newman Mrs. E. B. Sale RALPH D. McCORMICK General Chairman Headquarters Operating Capital Miss Lucy Harrison Mrs. M. L. Parker, Jr. Fireworks Jud Rogers Men's Chairman James L. Glenn BOARD OF DIRECTORS Robert Ayers - Treasurer Ralpd D. McCormick Dr. J. M. Nance Dr. Richard H. Harrison, III J. T. Duncan W. S. Barron Dr. S. J. Enloe PARTICIPATION DIVISION �r.1W r14 SAL BELLES Mrs. W. T. McDonald Mrs. John E. Hutchinson SUNBONNETS AND DRESSES Mrs. A. T. Chisholm SPECTACLE TICKET DIVISION Henry Clay (Chairman) AWARDS Mrs. Charles Edge Mrs. Mackin Jones Mrs. Don Young Women's Chairman Mrs. W. A. Zieren Decorations Emily Lyne JIMMY DILLON Secretary Jimmy Dillon - Secretary Barzos Varisco Ford Albritton H. E. Burgess John Brayton Abs. J. W. Batts, Jr. KANGAROO KOURT Johnny Johnson - Chairman M. L. (Red) Cashion Jo Ella Lanoux Alice Clairy Mary Lu Newport Alta Johnson Betty Grimes Etta Beal Virginia Jones Lee Gilber Barbara Angonia Mildred Christain Alice Fickey CASHIERS & GATES Louis E. Nedbalek - Chairman Frank Nedbalek Bob McCorquodale Charles Zikes John Darby Jim Holloway Geo. T. Blazek Bob Davidson Roy Simmons Leo Moon Harris Wright SCENARION & TITLE Dr. J. M. Nance PROPERTIES C. B. McGown - Chairman Kent Potts Doug McBride Clyde Bounds Guy Davis Steve Pearce Walter Bell W. B. Davis William Byrd PRESS RELEASE Mrs. Thomas C. Blake RADIO AND TELEVISION Robert Huffaker, Jr. MERCHANTS PROMOTION Joe Faulk - Chairman Gene Hart W. E. Stickley Marshall Massey W. A. Morgan Saturday, June 23rd GREATER BRAZOS VALLEY DAY John R. Naylor - Chairman Monday, June 25th PIONEER & HOM DAY Perry Carlton - Chairman Tuesday, June 26th AGRICULTURE DAY Tom Sistrunk - Chairman L. L. KarIi J. A. King A. L. Giesenschlag Freddie Wolters Bob Robert Herbert Wilson Gene Frairson Lucian Krose Jimmy Weedon Dr. J. F. Sousares Emily Ritter HISTORICAL PROGRAM Dr. J. M. Nance CONCESSIONS Whit Moore SPECTACLE DIVISION Alton Bowen - Chairman SOUND SYSTEM Lee Piraino PUBLICITY DIVISION H. E. Connor - Chairmn SPECIAL EVENTS DIVISION Dr. R. C. Patterson - Chairman Rueben Bond - Co- Chairman PARADES J. 0. Ashworth - Chairman Geo. A. Adams, Jr. (Trail Rideg) Co- Chairman SPECIAL DAYS Wednesday, June 27th VETERANS & FRATERNAL DAY Greene Buchanan - Chairman Sam Crenshaw 0. A. Ashworth John Stasny Mrs'. R. E. Callender James P. Hannigan Thursday, June 28th - LADIES DAY MrS. Joe L. Daisa - Chairman Mrs. Frank Kahn Mrs. Henry Young Rr. * x u DIVISION Lewis Fair - Chairman TRAFFIC AND SAFETY Joe Ellisor HOSPITALITY CENTER Mrs. Charles Myers CAST Mrs F. I. Dahlberg CONSTRUCTION James McAdams - Chairman Ed Sims W. M. Sparks GROUNDS COMMITTEE A &M College Maintenance COSTUME & MAKE -UP Dorothy Goodman DISTRIBUTIVE Jerry Birdwell SPECIAL PROJECTS Don Cain HISTORICAL WINDOWS R. E. Glidden, Chairman MUSIC Jack Briggs Chairman Sunday, June 24th FAITH OF OUR FATHERS DAY Dr. Karl 0. Bayer Bryan Pastors Ass'n. Friday, Julie 29th INTERNATIONAL DAY Mrs. Jack Dean Co- Chairman Royce Hudson - Co- Chairman Saturday, June 30th YOUNG AMERICA DAY Ronald Hale - Co- Chairman E. L. Harrell - Co- Chairman Gerald Hobbs Wayne Lacy -E: -E. Burns Bryan Hatten Al Sunday Donnie Douglas Mrs. John Hillman NOVELTIES Jerry Walker - Chairman Horace Knight CELEBRATION BALL lie Aft 19 r ig 11401 Vick Lindley This page is dedicated to the memory of the late Vick Lindley, managing editor of The Bryan Daily Eagle and vice president of the Hood's Brigade -Bryan Centennial at the time of his death Aug. 1, 1961. Mr. Lindley, an amateur historian, was one of the primary motiva- ting forces in the creation of the Hood's Brigade -Bryan Centennial. His unstinting work and dedication to the project was instrumental in making the Centennial possible. Citizens - Friends - Supporters of Hood's Brigade -Bryan Centennial >1 i4(O O John B. Hood's Brigade - Bryan- College!Station The year 1962 marks the hundredth anniversary of the participation of men recruited from the Bryan area in one of the first major battles of the Civil War, as well as the approximate centennial of the founding of the City of Bryan. It was also one hundred years ago that the United States Congress under the terms of the Morrill Act gave assistance to the states in establishing colleges (commonly known as land grant colleges and universities) to give instruction in agriculture and the mechanical arts, not to the exclusion of the liberal arts. The state of Texas accepted the terms of this law on April 17, 1871, and provided for the establishment of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas in Brazos County, adjacent to Bryan, and thus upon the opening of its doors in 1876 the college became the first state institution of higher learning in Texas. The history of Bryan is interwoven with the history of the surrounding areas, rich in their heritage from the days when the first •Spaniard trod the soil of what is now Brazos County. While there is some agreement among historians that Luis de Moscoso de Alvarado, after the death of Hernando de Soto near the mouth of the Arkansas River in 1542, in attempting to lead the remnants of the expedition overland to the Spanish settlements in northern Mexico, penetrated as far as the Brazos River before turning back to the Mississippi, the historians do not agree upon what point Moscoso reached the Brazos, even though some are so bold as to say that it was near where El 'Camino Real later crossed the Brazos. For nearly three centuries after Moscoso, the greater Bryan area was known only to the Indians and a few Spaniards. The native Indian tribes were the Tonkawa, Towakoni and Waco. These tribes were semi - nomadic, lived in huts of straw, which were described as of good size, clean, and well shaped; and the Tawakonies built granaries underground for the preservation of seeds for two years. These Indians cultivated corn, squash, beans, and a few other crops, but depended to a great extent for their livelihood upon the chase, and toward the end of the eighteenth century were constantly having trouble with the aggresive Comanches from the West; and after 1820 with the Cherokees from the East, who began to invade their buffalo hunting grounds in what is now Brazos, Robertson, Milam, Limestone, and Grimes counties. Toward the close of the eighteenth century wild horses and wild cattle were found in appreciable number in these counties, along with the usual native game of deer, bear, javelina, turkey, quail, and prairie chicken. As late as the early 1840's men from the settlements below often entered Brazos County in search of bear, turkey, and prairie chicken, and at least one man from Washington County referred to Brazos County as his poultry yard. During the days of the Republic James Dunn, one of the early settlers of Robertson County, built a large pen with wings to it near the Navasota River for the purpose of capturing wild cattle. On one occasion, according to W. W. Burton, an old Texian whose memory went back to the days of the Republic, Dunn caught some fifty calves in his pen, and attempted to raise and gentle them by letting them nurse gentle cows, but the instinct of the wild was too stong for them to ever become domesticated. The Spaniards passed along El Camino Real (vari- ously known as the King's Highway, Royal Highway, or Old San Antonio Road) blazed in 1691 by Domingo Teran de los Rios, first provincial governor of Texas, as a direct route from Monclova, then capital of the province, to the missions established in 1690 in East Texas. El Camino Real, now forming the northern boun- dary of Brazos County, was probably used by the French trader Louis Juchereau de St. Denis, from Nat- chitoches who visited the Rio Grande in 1714. It, too, was the route used by Moses Austin in 1820 when he visited the Spanish governor in 'San Antonio to request permission to establish a colony in Texas, and this same route was used the following year by his son Stephen F. Austin, when he entered Texas to request permission to carry out the contract of his father who had died shortly after the latter's return to Missouri. Later, many of the Anglo- American colonists entering Texas by way of Gaines' Ferry on the Sabine arrived at Nacogdoches and the interior of Texas over the Old San Antonio Road and its trails. Under these circumstances, it was only natural then that the middle Brazos Should play an important role in the early Anglo- American settlement of Texas. Among the first settlers in Austin's; colony in 1821 was the Millican family from Missouri. Robert Millican his wife, Nancy, and nine children (eight sons and one daughter) in December settled three miles south of the present Millican community, and thereby became the first Anglo- Americans to erect a permanent home within the present limits of Brazos County. Their nearest neighbors were four families on the west bank of the Brazos at the crossing of the La Bahia (Goliad) road, near the present site of Washington. The first of these to arrive was Andrew Robinson's; the others were those of three brothers, Abner, Joseph, and Robert Kuykendall. During December several other families joined them. Near Christmas Joseph and Robert Kuykendall and Daniel Gilleland moved to the La Bahia crossing of the Colorado and planted the first settlement on that river, near present Columbus. Abner Kuykendall and Thomas Boatright moved a few days later to a point some ten miles west of the Brazos on New Year's Creek, and about the same time Josiah H. Bell settled on the Brazos some five miles below the La Bahia road. In late De- cember the Garret and Hibbings families located at a point above the mouth of Little Brazos where El 'Camino Real crossed the Brazos, and on January 1, 1822, William B. DeWees with four other families joined them. During the months of January and February, 1822, many new settlers arrived, for these were the months to move, being the interval between the harvesting of crops back in the states and the beginning of planting in the wilder- ness for another season. For All Your PRINTING Needs! Both LETTERPRESS OFFSET LITHO Better See TOM HUNN'S and WALLACE PRINTING CO. 206 W. 26th — TA 2 -7525 BRYAN, TEXAS This Book Was Published By Us In Our Letterpress Department. Some delay in issuing land titles was caused by the achievement of Mexican independence from Spain in 1821 and the unsettled condition of government in Mexico for several years. Finally, on July 10, 1824, James Hope received the first title to land in what is now Brazos County; and on July 16, 1824, Robert Mil - lican received a grant of two and a half leagues of land, and his sons William T. and James D. Millican on the same date each received a league (or 4,428 acres) of land within the present limits of Brazos County. Also on the 16th James Whitesides, on the 19th William Mat- his and John Kelly, and on the 21st Samuel Davidson received their titles. A month later other members of Austin's first colony — James Curtis, Jr., Thomas S. Haynes, Walter Sutherland, Thomas F. Mckinney, and Henry and Roland Whitesides — received titles to the land on which they had located. All of the foregoing persons were members of Austin's first colony and the only ones of the Old Three Hundred who received titles to land in Brazos County. The Whitesides property lay both in Grimes and Brazos Counties. By 1830 J. H. Jones (1829) and J. P. Cole were living in Brazos Coun- ty. Eight families from Tennessee arrived at the junction of the Little Brazos and Brazos rivers on November 25, 1830, to find John Williams, James Christian, and William Mathis already living at that point. Richard Carter and his wife, Elizabeth, and four children (Wiley, Elizabeth, Mary Ann, and Eve line) arrived in April 1831, from Morgan Point, Alabama, and settled on Carter's Creek, at a point some three miles southeast of Bryan, For several years their nearest neighbors were the settlers near the mouth of the Little Brazos and the Millicans to the southwest. By the early part of 1832 several families had lo cated near the Old San Antonio Road in Robertson County. Among these was the William Crain Sparks family, whose headlight was east of the present Wjhee- lock community, and ultimately lay within the boun- daries of Brazos County. Captain Thomas H. Barron settled in the same general vicinity. In 1827 the northern boundary of Austin's First Colony (the Old Three Hundred) was fixed at El Camino Real (the King's Highway). In order to stem the swelling tide of Anglo- American immigration to Texas and ensure better control of affairs in Texas, the Mexican Congress enacted the Law of April 6, 1830. The law came as a result of a compre- hensive report on Texas by General Manuel de Mier y Teran who visited Texas in 1828, and, among other things recommended the promotion of counter coloni- zation of Texas by Mexicans and Europeans and the establishment of additional military posts to protect the settlers and to secure their obedience to Mexican laws. The Congress prohibited further immigration from the United States to Texas, voided those colonization con- tracts where the minimum conditions had not been met, and provided for the strengthening of the garrisons at Bexar, Goliad, and Nacogdoches, and for the establish- ment of five additional military posts, one of which came to be located near the intersection of El Camino Real with the Brazos. Late in July 1830, Lieutenant - Colonel Jose Francisco Ruiz established Fort Tenoxtitlan at a point a quarter of a league below the Old San Antonio Road on the east bank of the Brazos, but on October 17 of that year moved the post across the river to some springs in what is now Burleson County, just above where the Robertson- Brazos county line strikes the Brazos river. As long as the fort was maintained, it gave some protection against the Indians. Among the colonization contracts annulled by the Law of April 6, 1830, was that of the Nashville Com- pany (or Robertson Colony). There had been formed in February 1822, at Nashville, Tennessee, the Texas As- sociation, or Nashville Company, of which Dr. Felix Robertson was president and Sterling C. Robertson, his cousin, and Sam Houston were members. Since the Mexican proceedure in granting colonization contracts was to grant them to individuals rather than to com- panies, the contract was issued in the name of Robert Leftwich, the company's agent in Mexico, and was for the purpose of settling 800 families in Texas. Leftwich transferred the contract to the Association on condition that the area be referred to as Leftwich's Grant. In 1827 the Mexican government approved the transfer and extended the boundaries to run as follows: beginning on the west bank of the Navasota River at the point where the Upper Road (El Camino Real) crossed on the way from Nacogdoches to Bexar; thence west along the said road to the Brazos - Colorado watershed; thence northwest along the said watershed too the extreme headwaters of Little River; thence in a straight line to the Cross Tim- bers above the Waco Indian Village; thence southeast along the Brazos - Trinity watershed to the headwaters of the Navasota, and thence downstream to the paint of be- ginning. This area, roughly one hundred miles wide and two hundred miles long, covered all or part of thirty present Texas counties. Through an error in translation, the contract was confirmed to the Nashville Company rather than to the Texas Association of Nashville. In the fall of 1825 Major Sterling C. Robertson and Felix Robertson, as agents of the company, visited Texas with a party of thirty men to explore the grant. They established a permanent camp at the mouth of Little River, and explored the country along the courses of the Brazos, Little River, Leon, Lampasas, Salado, and San Gabriel rivers; and did some surveying along Cow Bayou and the Brazos River. Felix Robertson re- turned to Tennessee in April 1826, but Sterling C. Robertson stayed on in Texas to select the areas to be settled. For himself he selected a piece of land occupied by a squatter named Early, whom he requested John P. Cole, alcalde of the adjacent district of Bravo in Austin's colony, to remove. Early defied any one to re- move him, and Kole became anxious for Austin to tell him what to do about squatter Early. Robertson was soon back in Tennessee. In the fall of 1826 the Nashville Company sent out Benjamin F. Foster, W. R. Winn, "and three of four other young men of worth" to begin settlement. Upon arrival, Foster and his companions were discouraged from making a settlement owing to the confusion growing out of the Fredonian Rebellion in December at Nacogdoches; consequently, very few families entered the bounds' of the colony. The Fredonian Rebellion was by no means the sole cause of discourage- ment. Several years of internal difficulties within the company, coupled with financial losses, also adversely affected colonization. Two months after the enactment of the Law of April 6, 1830, the company authorized Sterling C. Robertson to settle two hundred families in the colony. In October 1830, Robertson again arrived in Texas with five fami lies, and with six companions reported to Colonel Ruiz at Tenoxtitlan on October 25, and then set about ex- ploring the country. On November 12, he returned to Tenoxtitlan to inform Ruiz that nine families were ,en- camped at the crossing below and that a number of others were expected in a few days. Only two of these families — Dr. Thomas J. Wootton and Isaiah Curd — built homes within the present boundaries of Brazos County. Ruiz, however, told Robertson that the contract had been abrogated and that he and those who had come with him must leave the country. Robertson ap- pealed for help to Stephen F. Austin, who had befriended him on other occasions, but Austin could make no headway against the Law of April 6, 1830. Austin did succeed, however, in getting an exception to the law for his and Green Dewitt's Colony so as to permit continued Anglo- American immigration into their colo- nies for almost two years on the grounds that they had fulfilled before April 1830, the minimum conditions in respect to the settlement of families within the limits of their grant. Immigrants thus came in increasing num- ber to Austin's and DeWitt's colonies in 1830 -1832. Furthermore, while endeavoring to help Robertson, Aus- tin learned that the Nashville Company's grant was about to be re -let to a French company, and to prevent that he applied for and obtained and additional areas for himself and his secretary, Sam May Williams. It was held that the Nashville Company had not settled 100 families prior to the enactment of the law and that according to the general colonization law under which the contract had been issued, as well as the one of April 6. 1830, that unless at least 100 families were settled within six years from the date of the contract, the contract became void. It was thus that Austin and Williams had applied for and obtained the area embraced in the Nashville Company grant for the purpose of colonizing Mexican, Irish, Scotch, German, Swiss, and French Immigrants. Williams claimed in February 1834, that 20 -30 Mexican families were settled in the colony, mostly around Tenoxtitlan, and that there were enough German and Swiss families in the colony to make up a hundred; and, he also stated he expected 125 more German, Swiss, and Irish families. He was probably exaggerating. When a land commissioner was finally designated for the colony, 88 titles were issued in •October 1835, and ,78 in January and February of the following year, but there were very few foreign names among those receiving grants. Robertson went to Saltillo, the state capitol, and presented his claims to the governor claiming that the company had settled 100 families within the required time. The Austin and Williams contract was now can- celled on May 12, 1834, and the grant was restored, with Robertson being designated empresario, and the colony thereafter came to be known as the Robertson Colony. The anti - immigration feature of the Law of April 6, 1830, was repealed in 1834 and immigration into the Robertson Colony increased in late 1834 and through- out 1835. With the exception of contracts issued in the latter part of 1833 to Jose Francisco Ruiz, Antonio Menchaca, M. C. Rejon, Maria de la Concepcion Marques, Pedro Pereira, Jose de la Jesus', and Mariano Grande, all contracts in the Robertson Colony date from 1834 - 1835. A number of the contracts issued in 1834 -1835 were eleven league contracts, which according to the state colonization law of March 24, 1825, were to be issued only to Mexicans. Among the early settlers was Robert Henry and his family. Originally from Ireland, the Henry's immigrated to Texas from South Carolina overland through Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana to settle long the Brazos in 1829, and received on December 22, 1834, a headright east of the present . town of Hearne. A week earlier Wilson Reed received a grant to land in the southeast part of present Robert- On the east bank' of the Brazos River, at the I sing of the Comanche Trail about two miles below mouth of little River in present Milam county, Rnhel I son County on which the present community of Benchley is located, and 'near where the Eli . Seale family had located in 1832. On October 18, 1833, Mrs. Robert Henry, whose husband was away from home, was informed by a mes- senger that the dreaded Comanches had killed several persons on the North Yegua and were advancing to- ward her cabin. Mrs. Henry, like most frontier women of that day, was quite resourceful. Quickly hitching a team of horses to a wagon, she loaded up her four children and hurried eastward along the Old San An- tonio Road. At the crossing on the Navasota she found the river in -flood and several persons waiting for the waters to subside. Surveying the situation briefly, Mrs. Henry declared: "If we remain here, we shall be killed by the .Indians. I am going to cross the river." So saying, she unhitched the horses, mounted one of them, and taking one child at a time she transferred the four children to the east bank of the raging stream, and proceeded on her way, only to learn later that those who had remained on the West bank had been murdered by the Indians. In the meantime, following the disturbances at Ana- huac, most of the newly established military posts in Texas were abandoned in the summer of 1832. The garrison at Tenoxtitlan was withdrawn on August 22, 1832, although Lieutenant- Colonel Ruiz stayed in Texas, and later joined the Texans in their fight for indepen- dence. The Indian trading post at Tenoxtitlan however, remained in operation and the small settlement that had grown up around the post continued. The abandoned buildings of the fort were used by families immigrating to Robertson's Colony. From that portion of Texas lying between the Nueces and Medina rivers and the Trinity which, since January 31, 1831, had been known as the Department of Bexar, the legislature of Coahuila and Texas created on March 18,1834, the Department of the Brazos and designated San Felipe de Austin as the capital of the new department, bounded on the east roughly by the Trinity and on the west by the Lavaca River. Not long after the establishment of Tenoxtitlan, a settlement, initially consisting principally of Irish fam- ilies, grew up around Stagger's Point (Red Top), or better known today as Benchley; and about the same time, at the Navasota crossing of El Camino Real, the community of Tinnanville, named after Jeremiah Tin - nan, was begun. In 1832 James Dunn and his wife Isa- bella (Crawford) arrived in Texs from Alabama, and early in 1833 reached the vicinity of Stagger's Point. Dunn located his headright in 1834 on what later was called the "Old Cobb Prairie" by some and by others "Wheelock 'Prairie," but the grant of title to the land he had selected bears date of July 31, 1835. Dunn proceeded to build a house which might serve as a home as well as a small fort against Indian attacks, for with the abandonment of the fort at Tenoxtitlan, the Indians were becoming even more troublesome, and well migh the Red Man be concerned as he witnessed an increasing number of white men encroaching upon his hunting preserve. In 1837 Dunn built the first gristmill in the area. founded in 1835 the town of Nashville, which became the headquarters for the Robertson Colony, and from 1837 to 1846 served as the county seat of Milam County. Following the annexation of Texas to the United States it was considered as a possible site for the state capitol. In September 1837, it had an estimated popu- lation of 100. With Cameron designated as the county seat in 1846, Nashville began to decline, and the post office there was discontinued in 1868. Years later with the assistance of Milam County, the Sarah McCalls Chap- ter of the Daughters of the American Revolution ac- quired a part of the old Nashville site and deeded it to the state for a memorial .park. Settlement in the area of what came to be known as Washington -on- the - Brazos began in November 1821, when the Andrew Robinson family crossed the Brazos, and camped west of the river near the La Bahia road. In 1822 Robinson began the operation of a ferry across the Brazos River just below the mouth of the Navasota River. In 1830 John W. Hall, son -in -law of Andrew Robinson, laid out a townsite on the west bank of the Brazos, and sold several lots, but it was not until 1833 that John W. Kinney constructed the first house. Hall, Thomas Gray, Asa Hoxey, and others organized the Washington Townsite Company. The town was named Washington, probably at Hoxey's suggestion, who was from Washington, Georgia. In response to a petition from citizens of the area, Washington in July 1835, was created a separate municipality, and Joshua Hadley became the first alcalde in July 1835. By 1836 Washington had a population of about one hundred, and boasted two hotels and fifty houses. It was at Washing - ton -on- the - Brazos that the Texan Declaration of In- dependence was voted on March 2, 1836, and that the constitution of the Texas Republic was drafted. By March 20, 1836, Washington was pretty well evacuated owing to the approach of the Mexican army from San Antonio following the fall of the Alamo on March 6. After the war the citizens returned, on December 14, 1837, Washington County was organized, and for a brief spell, in the Fall of 1843 and 1844 Washington -on- the- Brazos was the temporary capitol of the Republic. Independence had its beginnings when John P. Cole with his wife, Mary Eleanor (Owen), immigrated to Texas as one of Austin's Old Three Hundred, reaching the Brazos in the Spring of 1822, and settled at the present site of Independence, which until 1836 was known as Cole's Settlement. Nestor Clay and John Mc- Neese were among the early settlers in the area. Samuel Seward came to Texas from Illinois in 1828 and built a one -room log cabin in Cole's Settlement after which he returned to Illinois in 1834 with his wife, two sons and two daughters. In 1836 Dr. Asa Hoxey suggested the name be changed to Independence. Thomas Scrog- gins organized a Baptist Church there in 1839, into which Sam Houston was baptised after he moved to Independence in 1853. Baylor College was chartered on February 1, 1845, and by the 'Congress of the Republic of Texas, and opened its doors as a co- educational in- stitution at Independence in 1846; in 1866 the female department became Baylor Female College at Inde- pendence. Sarahville de Viesca, named in honor of Mrs. Sarah (Maclin) Robertson, mother of Sterling C. Robertson, and Augustin Viesca, the newly elected (September 9, 1834) governor of Coahuila y Texas, was founded by Robertson in 1834 at the western end of the falls of the Brazos six miles west of the present city of Marlin in Falls County. Sarahville de Viesca was the site of the Robertson Colony land office until the out- break of Indian hostilities in 1836 forced its aband- onment. Its inhabitants fell back to Nashville and Whee- lock. After the founding of Sarahville de Viesca, Robert- son's Colony was referred to as the 1Vlunicipality of Viesca until the name was changed to Milam on Decem- ber 26, 1835; in honor of Benjamin R. Milam who lost his life in the storming of San Antonio de Bexar in December 1835. During the days of the republic it was known as "Fort Milam," and the First Congress of the Republic of Texas made it the county seat. The district of Viesca was represented in the con- sultation, October 16 -Nov. 14, 18315, by Samuel T. Allen, Joseph L. Hood, James W. Parker, Albert G. Perry, John Goodloe Warren Pierson, Alexander Thompson, and the Washington District was represented in the Consultation by Philip H. Coe, Elijah S. Collard, Jesse Grimes, Joseph L. Hood, Asa Hoxey, William T. Millican, Asa Mitchell, and William M. Shepherd. Eleazer Louis R. Wheelock, son of Eleazer Whee- lock, the first president of Dartmouth College, was born on March 31,1793, in Hanover, New Hampshire. He attended the United States Military Academy at West Point served in the War of 1812 and in the Black Hawk War, and for a while in 1822 was stationed in Arkansas. He resigned from the U. S. Army, and became a mer- chant in Ohio and Illinois While on a business trip to Mexico in 1824, he visited Texas, and in 1833 moved to Texas and settled in the Robertson Colony in 4835, where he laid out the town of Wheelock, in what is now the south central part of Robertson County about a mile and a half from the present county line; and built Courtesy of Mr. H. Sellers Rogers, Navasota, Texas Robinson's Ferry, Washington -on- the- Brazos a block house, known as Wheelock's Fort, for protection against the Indians. He joined the Texan army in 1835, escorted and protected families during the Runaway Scrape in the spring of 1836, and reached the Texan army, for duty, the day after the battle of San Jacinto. Wheelock was the county seat of Robertson County between 1850 and 1856. Until the courthouse was com- pleted in 1851, the court met under an oak tree. A postoffice was established in 1847, and is still operating. Wheelock Academy operated during the 1850's. Port Sullivan on the Brazos River above the mouth of Little River and at the head of steam navigation on the Brazos, in eastern present Milam County near the Robertson County line, was founded by and named in honor of Augustus W. Sullivan, who located there in 1835. It was near the site of Fort Sullivan, founded by Augustus W. Sullivan in 1835 as a trading post. Two years later Joseph Harlan built his home across the Brazos from Sullivan's Bluff, and his brother, Alpheus, built his home at Sullivan's Bluff. Fort Sullivan Female Institute, was founded here in the 1850's by the Metho- dist church and operated under the direction of Joseph P. Sneed to 1877. In 1834 Henry Fanthrop, established himself at the present site of Anderson, Texas, on the road from Nacog- doches to San Felipe de Austin, and in the year following converted his home into a hotel, and its owner became in that year also the first postmaster and the operator of the first merchantile establishment. The community which developed around the inn, came to be referred to as Fanthrop, but Fanthrop succeeded in having the village name changed to Alta Mira, because of the view of the valley of Holland Creek, January 18, 1842, Moseley's Ferry on the Brazos began operation 1856. the Texas Congress provided for the establishment of a mail route from Fanthrop's, in what was then Mont- gomery County, to Dunn's Post Office in Robertson County. In 1846 Grimes Cnunty was organized, and Fanthrop offered land for a county seat, formally laid off a town, and the name was changed to Anderson in honor of Kenneth L. Andersen, Vice - President of the Republic of Texas, who had died on July 3, 1845, at the inn. St. Paul's College was established in 1852 at Anderson. A private fort or stockade was built in 1834 at the headwaters of the Navasota, in present Limestone Coun- ty, by Silas M. Parker and James W. Parker, and other members of the family of Elder John Parker. The fort was some distance beyond the frontier of settlement, and was occasionally attacked by hostile Indians. In 1835 Captain Robert M. Williamson led an expedition from Tenoxtitlan from below against the Indians who had been raiding the settlements in the Robertson Colony, and marched to the aid of Captain R. M. Coleman at Parker's Fort. During the Revolution the settlers experienced the horrors of the "runaway scrape," following the advance of Santa Anna from San Antonio. Families in the north- ern part of the county fled eastward, but those who took a "wait- and -gee" attitude congregated at the var- ious small forts and stockades, such as Dunn's Fort, Wheelock's Fort, and Parker's Fort for mutual protec- tion against the Indians who were showing increasing restlessness. Many of those in the southern part of the county toward Washington fled eastward. In fleeing some were stricken down by disease and exposure. After the war several individuals, including Peter Norton, Rev. Robert Crawford, Willis L. Ellis, James H. Evetts, James Mitchell, Albert E. Gallatin, William Hill, and Thomas Yates, received land bounties for serving in the Texan revolution, and located their land in Brazos County. On May 19, 1836, Parker's Fort was surprised and attacked again by the Indians. This time several hundred Comanche and Caddo Indians made the attack, killing several members of the Parker family and carrying others into captivity, including the nine year old Cyn- thia Ann Parker, who later became the wife of Chief Peta Nocona and the mother of the famous Comanche Chief, Quanah Parker. A replica of the original fort was constructed n 1936 on the original site during the Texas centennial celebration. Following the massacre of the whites at Fort Parker in May, Wheelock was instrumental in organizing a ranger company for the protection of the people of Robertson Colony. - With the increase in Indian difficulties in the spring and summer of 1836, Dunn probably strengthened his residence, and by 1837 it was being referred to as Dunn's Fort. Located on the eastern edge of what is known today as the "Pryor Treasure Hunt Ranch," Dunn's Fort was built of cedar logs. After some eighty years, a portion of the structure was moved to the Seale prop- erties. The fort was laid out in the form of a square. A trench was dug, and heavy logs were stood on end, side by side. An outer trench paralleled the first and the intervening space was filled with dirt. Heavy logs were laid across the top and covered over with a layer of dirt. Later a ten -foot stockade, enclosing about three acres, was built around the fortification. Some time early in Sam Houston's first term as President of Texas, Sterling C. Robertson went to the City of Houston, then the national capital, to request the Government to assist in protecting the frontier from the Indians. President Houston is alleged to have replied: "God eternally d —n you —I wish the Indians had the whole of your scalps." Difficulties with the Indians lasted well into the 1840's In 1840 a band of Comanches raided into the settlements, killing members of several families along Big Cedar Creek. They were pursued by a company of "minute men" who overtook them at Horn Hill in present Lime- stone County. In the ensuing engagement six Texans and twenty Indians were killed. Shortly after this en- gagement a block house (called Fort Boggy) was built on Boggy Creek about two and a half miles north of Leona to give protection to settlers extending into that part of Robertson County. In May 1841, a company of surveyors discovered an Indian encampment on the headwaters of the Navasota thought to be that of some 200 Cherokees, possibly some of those who had been expelled from Texas in 1839 and returned to plant corn. The alarm was immediately given and from the settle- ments in Robertson and Navasota Counties a company of Minute Men under Captain Eli Chandler formed, ad- vanced against the Indian camp, attacked it and put the Indians to flight, leaving five Indians dead upon the ground. In the camp were found various farming tools, including some two dozen Collins' axes. The presence of the axes seem to indicate that ` the Indians were pre- paring to make a permanent settlement, at least for the growing season; that they were Northern Indians, which was even more apparent since they were dressed in citi- zen's clothing. Taken from the Indians were fifty Amer- ican horses, and various items of clothing and equipment, all of which was sold at auction a few days later in Franklin. The only Texas casualty was Colonel Thomas S. Smith, who was slightly wounded in the hand. After the seizure of San Antonio in March 1842, by a Mexican force under General Rafael Vasquez, Cap- tain Eli Chandler of Franklin was commissioned to raise a company of men for frontier defense and for participation in the planned invasion of Mexico in the summer of 1842. President Sam Houston informed Chandler on May 13, 1842: "You are entitled to the honor of having made the first returns to the (War) Department, of an organized company to commence the great work which we have before us. This fact speaks loudly for your activity and energy — and for the honorable subordinate disposition of your men. May Heaven speed yourself and command through all the perils and achievements of tale future; and may all of Courtesy of Mrs. Roy K. Blilier of Houston, Texas William Berry Smith, veteran of the Texas Revolution, participant in the "Surveyor's Fight" in Navarro Coun- ty, who lived at various times in Bell, Bosque, Milam, and Washington counties. He died June 11, 1877, and is buried near Iredell, Texas, you strike many a hard and effective blow for liberty and independence." A regiment was created for the Robertson - Brazos County area. The First Battalion was made up of Brazos County men and the Second Bat- talion was composed of Robertson County men. In late September and early October 1842, Captain Chandler headed a force of seventeen men to constitute a guard for the Texan 'Commissioners signed to nego- tiate at Waco Village with the various Indian tribes on the border of Texas. About 1835 several families began to settle around the headwaters of Mud Creek, about ten miles to the east of the present town of Calvert on land that had orginally belonged to Edwin McMillan. The Congress of Texas created the county of Robertson on December 14, 1837, from that portion of Milam County lying east of the Brazos River, and on the same day Washington County was created with the county seat at Mt. Vernon. Robertson County was reduced to its present boundaries in 1846 when Dallas, Leon, Limestone, and Navarro were created out of it. When Robertson County was created, Franklin was designated the county seat. Rivalry in the county resulted in the removal of the county seat "uster Roll of Ca caia L. J. Wilson i_or.onaY, la i:hu 1st Regiment (Carter's Brigade) of Texas Lancers Volunteers, commanded by Colonel G. :i. Cnrter calleu into the service of the Confederate States, in the Pro- visional Army, under the orovis ions `of the Act o' Co.i;_-rocs, passed February 1861 by Secretary of War from the Seventeenth day of A7ril 1362 for the tern of three years or during the war unless some discharged. No. of each ' iames Rank Age Joined for Duty grade Present and absent - °rivates _Z alpha- betical order. When ?There 1062 Boonville 1 Wilson, L. J. Capt. 48 ;tar. 8 ^lrazos Co. 1 Bowman, Wm. II. ( 1st Lieut. 2' Walker, James 2nd " 44 :Aar. 13 Boonville Brazos Co. 3 Walker, John 3rd " 42 Mar. 15 Hudsoeth, Robt. 1st Sorgt. 33 Mar. 13 tlheolock McIntosh, David Martin, James F. Connally, Jones Zimmerman, James M. McDonald, William Arnett, H. Graves,'Jares 3rd " 2nd "• .114 3rd " 26 4th " 36 5th 4o I '1st Corpl. 32 2nd " 31 Valuation in Dollars of Remarks and _;nrolled brses, Horse Equipment; Arms :Iar. 0 Mar. 16 Liar. 15 ,.ar. 8 :jar. 13 28 i:ar. 13 in 1850 to Wheelock and from there in 1856 to a new location, five miles north of Franklin, which had been laid out in 1855 and where an academy had been estab- lished. The new location was the town of Owensville, named in honor of Harrison Owen, the first county clerk. At Owensville a two -story courthouse and jail was con- structed, but after the Civil War the county records were moved to Calvert, founded in June 1869 on the route of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, and named in honor of Robert Calvert, a lawyer from Arkansas. Although no courthouse was ever built there. Calvert continued as the county seat, supported in 1870 by legislature enactment. Owensville declined rapidly and is little more than a memory today. As the Houston and Texas Central Railroad pushed northward the town of Morgan was founded in 1871 and in 1879 Morgan won the county seat from Calvert. When a post office was designated for Morgan in 1879 its name was changed to Franklin, and the settlement at the head of Mud Creek thereafter became known as Old Franklin. At "Old Franklin" in 1838 was established Franklin Academy. Washington County included the area between the Brazos and Navasota rivers as far north as the Old San Antonio Road (El 'Camino Real); however, on January Robertson Boonville " 9 u 1t Wheelock Robertson Co :R25 ;140 4140 .$140 °;150 $150 $180 Co, 0250 330 ;':225 338 :' >30 ti25 324 .333 339 339 3170 $35 3137.50 ---- $ 45.00 2.5o 3 4o.00 $ 3.00 $142.50 13, 1841, the inhabitants in the area between these two rivers petitioned Congress for the creation of that area into a new county. As a result, Congress on Janu- ary 30, 1841, created the county of Navasota to which it added some 15,000 acres of land taken from Robertson County. The name of the county was changed the next year when James A. Head, representative from Nava- sota County, introduced a bill in the House of Repre- sentatives of the Congress of Texas on January 17, 1842. The bill passed the Senate the next day, and was approved by President Houston on January 28. The boundaries of the county remained the same. Bounded on three sides by the Brazos and ,Navasota rivers, the county had for its northern boundary the Old San An- tonio Road. At the time of its creation Navasota (Brazos) Coun- ty had neither a jail, a courthouse, a ,post office, nor a mail route, but the children were taught by Harvey Mitchell in the home of Richard Carter in 1841. Its settlers lived in log cabins and were primarily engaged in subsistence farming and the raising of livestock. Considerable reliance in the early days was placed upon hunting. No. of each grade 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 Names ,Present and absent - Privats in alpha - lreticat order. Daniell, Geo. t7. Brown, J. W. Adir, James Wallace, John Urban, John 1 Arnold, George P. 2 Arnold, I. N. Allen, Thomas Brown, J. D. Bowman, H. D. Bond, J. M. Botim<^.n, Leonidas Bowman, WL 'd. Barrlet, D. U. Bynum, 'i. H. Bell Cole, Hugh Collins, J. K. C0000r, James Rank Age Ja.ncd for Duty and. ;:nrolled '.lien 'There Lath Coml. 30 Mar. 15 Boonville '.r,azos Co. Ensign 25 � .. Bugler 29 'Mar. C Farrier 31 Iar. l Blacksmith i'rivates 2h .:^r. G Oaoaville 38 :D 7r. 22 n 18 ,: r. 25 heelock Eob. Co. 26 ;mar. 18 Boonville 23 71ar. 26 23 :Jar. 26 " 27 Ha.r. 15 21 liar. 22 32 Mar. 8 I:or.ville 15 liar. 15 Boonville The tax rolls of Navasota County for 1841, as kept by Hiram Hanover, showed 95,795 acres of land had been Surveyed, and 43,395 surveyed but not yet patented. There were in the county 1,161 head of cattle, 127 horses and mules, 76 Negro slaves, 7 silver watches, 2 gold watches, and 3 clocks (one of metal and two of wood). A sum of $1,850.00 was on loan for interest. at the time of its creation in 1841, Navasota County con- tained some forty -five families. The number of men over 21 years of age was 113, and included: Holly Arnold A. G. Braden Shepard 'P. Bailey J. A. Barker Mordicia Boon, Sr. Mordicia Boon, Jr. Robert Bart George Bond Thomas Bowman James I. Bowman Richard Carter Wiley Carter William Dunlap Martin Ellison I. G. Garlett Eli Chandler Newton Cook Stephen Cooley Isaac W. G. Curd Ezekial Curd Mohale Duncan Charles Duncan Thomas Duncan Green Duncan Newton Duncan Mathew Dunn Daniel Millican Diadem Millican Valtatton in Dollars.of Horses, Morse ._'ga.oment, Arms "160 35 3 8o• $52 ^ 300 350 `.225 324 $140 ""l65 °20 155 ?18 'no `30 175 20 50.00 3.00 40. oo 2.5o 8.00 8.00 ,r 5.00 10.00 3 33 Remarks df Sae 70 Bryan -Hoods Brigade Centennial 7rom AtINCO m Member of J•ALUMINUM• � D D T 1 c I- U W ` U n 1 C m < • ASSOCIATION • N �nodu.c�s ALBRITTON ENGINEERING CORPORATION - BRYAN, TEXAS 15 16 17 10 19 20 21 22 23 24 2 26 Jesse Ellison John Millican W. L. Ellis Elliot McNiel Millican James Evetts Lytle Millican Joseph Ferguson Groves Millican Robert N. Ferguson G. W. Morgan Ray Fitch Charles Namiel Wiliam Forguhar John Needham James Forguhar John Newton Albert Gholson Wiley Newberry John A. Gilbreath Harden Neville James N. Hamm J. D. Overton Hiram Hanover William Owens Charles Harveson Griffin Payne James A. Head William G. Payne Jesse Head William C. Price Ezra Head James N. Price Robert Henry Henry Pruitt Hugh Henry Wilson Reed George Higgs Micheal Reed H. G. Hudson William Reed S. E. W. Hudson Jefferson Reed Leonard Hudson W. W. Roberts Bot Hunt J. T. Robinson Samuel Johnson William Robinson Robert Johnson Alf Robinson Gabriel Johnson Moses Scott Downing, Josiah Davis, James C. Debusb, William Ector, John Frellerton, Geor :e H. Frellerton, Edward Foley, John C. Foster, M. C. Freestone, 1',. H. Greer, Willie s - C. Dale, L. B. Henry, Alexander 27 Henry, William'Jr. 23 Holden, T. J. 29 Hanover, Hiram 30 Jenderson, Jamas U. 31 Hardy, H111i.aei E. 32 Hoelsh, ?hill? 33 King, Rich-rd. Privates 27 16 29 31 27 26 25 36 2e 38 i 22 ?:razos Co. Mar. 22 "oonville Mar. 15 l- r . 15 H:ar. 15 hr. 6 32 0 23 Ilea, 3 27 34 Her. 13 ! & :ar. 13 10 Mar. 15 Boonville 3o filar. 26 20 Mar. 26 " John H. Jones Allen C. Jones Robert Johnson Harvey Mitchell William Millican J. D. Millican Willis Millican J . - n H. Millican Andrew Walker William C. Walker Sanders Walkers S. Walker Thomas Webb Edmond Webb Joseph Webb Morris Webb John White Eli Seale C. C. Seale J. A. Seale Joshua Seale Lee C. Smith William S. Stuart Gideon Walker Thomas Walker Barnabas Wickson Cyrus Wickson Byrum Wickson Elo Wickson Frank Wickson John Williams Jonathan Williams William Young In providing for the creation of Navasota County, the Congress designated a committee of five (Captain J. H. Jones, Major Eli Seale, William T. Millican, Joseph Ferguson, and Mordecia Boon, Sr.) to select a suitable site for a permanent county seat. The com- mittee picked a site of land owned by Mrs. Elizabeth E. Parrot, wife of the late John Austin and future Mrs. . of each Hares Rank 'Age Joined for Duty Valuation in Dollars of Item:arks grade Present and absent- and inrolled horses, Horse Equipment, Arms Privates in alpha- betical order. Heen More l ar. 19 Toonville 150 '-29 Mar. 26 1 1 � )40 Mar. U Mar. '24 1.Dcelock 150 nob. 11 II " 11 n Deelock 1 1,0 0225 "30 $ 58 }30 " 40 :1250 ` 25 $ 70 :;;150 25 +160 .25 ;`200 1 44 "250 x`34 $ 40 ,. 175 30 : 739 $ 56 '150 ;27 " 40 i75 $24 C 42 on furlough Magness & Sons Poultry Processing Co. .Sawed Hood's Brigade Bra ii Ccntcn nia I On Its 100th Anniversary . leuptc 014,04 `l'aee, 7uyeil William Pierpont, situated about three miles east of the center of the present City of Bryan, and the town was named Boonville in honor of Mordecia Boon. Mrs. Parrot agreed to sell 150 acres for the town site at one dollar an acre to be paid out of the first money derived from the sale of lots. The first officials of Navasota County were desig- nated by Congress, and were as follows: Gideon Walker, Chief Justice; James D. Overton, District Clerk; James I. Bowman, County Clerk; Elliott Mc Niel Millican, Sheriff; Thomas Bowman, Coroner; and Hiram Hanover, Tax Assessor and Collector. William C. Price, William L. Millican, James A. Head, Robert Henry, and Joshua Seale received commissions as justices of the peace. Until a county seat could be laid out and ;buildings con- structed, the District Court, held it sessions according to law in the home of Joseph Ferguson, under cotton- wood trees at Ferguson Springs, near the Ferguson Crossing on the Navasota. The first term of court met on March 29, 1841, with Judge Robert E. R. Baylor of the third Judicial District presiding and Henry J. Jewett as District Attorney. The first grand jury as- No. of each Naves grade Present and ahsent— Privates in alpha— betical order. 34 King, Peter 35 King, William 36 Kiefer, ,To seoh 37 Mowbray, Aaron 38 McLeod, Rodrick 39 McCulloch, Stephen E. 140 Marsh, G. W. 41 Morrison, H. h2 Nail 1:3 Phelan, Rh. Riley 44 Phelan, U. E. 115 Prestidge, Johli R. 46 Prestidge, Rufus 47 Payne, IMarshall 48 Pace, J. L. 49 Presley, 3eore A. 50 Pollock, H. B. Rank Age Joined for Duty ariil &rolled Privates 35 Mar..26 Boonville When ;;".Tare 38 33 Mar. 22 13 Isar. 15 17 :Tr. 21 23 I Mar. 8 26 1.1ar. 17 I Aar. U 19 1:^r. 15 33 Ear. 15 31 tsar. 20 51 Reed, rrestiss 17 hr. 15 R:oonville :150 5 52 Shultz, Wilhelm I 29 "150 ',' sembled in the county consisted of Eli Seale, foreman; George Bond, Wiley Carter, Eli Chandler, Stephen Cooley, Isaac W. F. Curd, Jessie Ellison, John Millican Hardin Neville, Robert Pruitt, William Reed, and Byrum Wickson. The first grand jury made no indictments and was dismissed. The civil docket of the court was then called. There was only one case, and that was a suit brought by John F. Graves against Eli Chandler for the collection of a debt, but since the plaintiff did not appear, the defendent, and his counsiel asked the court to dismiss the case, which the court proceeded to do, and granted Chandler the right to recover from Graves the costs to which he had been put. At the July 1841, turn of the District Court Richard Carter, John H. Jones, and Hiram Hanover were ap- pointed to survey the town of Boonville according to a plan that had been suggested to the Court, and to serve as a board of Commissioners to auction off the lots. During the late summer the 150 acres tract site sur- n n 0 n u n Aalua•,ion 6n Dollars o Remarks ;iorses, Horse Equipment, Arms $1140 :,15o w30 ( A.75 225 837 M 35 x'.razos Co. `%125 $45 $150 "38 $ 30 3oonville $ 80 , "30 ;.150 ;:39 42.50 iTh.celock "150 "24 '' 30.00 has et s'1Gbifl, furlough in thought to he n deserter Farewell To The Last 100 Years HAPPY BIRTHDAY from Hotard's Cafeteria Hotards, of Texas, Inc. 2025 Texas Ave. BRYAN, TEXAS "Where The Art Of Cooking Is Not Lost" We confidently look forward to the future — we plan to play a large part in the progress of our area. Let us help you with your invest- ment and /or loan problems. COMMUNITY SAVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION North Gate Business Area COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS Feature Values In Fine Furniture Most Complete Line Of Early American Furniture In This Area. Furniture & Appliances "Quality Is Our Trade Mark" 26th & Bryan St. BRYAN, TEXAS Milton Franklin In the hands of people who know to provide with care and under- standing. to all faith THE ORDER OF THE GOLDEN RULE service Our 44th Year with equal devotion "Our Service A Sacred Trust" I 6L LIE R. TAylor / t home CHAS. F. HILL C. RUSSELL HILLIER 1 2 1 57 1 1 502 W. 26th STREET veyed by Hiram Hanover, and the lots were then ad- vertised in the newspaper Tarantula (Washington) several times, and auctioned off on September 13, 1841, and another auction was held on April 18, 1842. The following persons bought lots on September 13, 1841: Gideon Walker - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 2 at $21.00 William Young - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 1 at $31.68 William Young - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 6 at $21.00 William Young - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 9 at $36.00 James D. Overton - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 9 at $26.00 Eliot M. Millican - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 3 at $27.00 Eliot M. Millican - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 3 at $2 Sanders Walker - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 4 at $22.00 William E. Walker - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 3 at $20.00 William E. Walker - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 5 at $27.12 James M. Price - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 5 at $21.00 Ephraim W. Jackson - Lot No. 3 in Blk No. 12 at $50.00 Ephraim W. Jackson - Lot No. 1 in Blk No. 9 at $62.50 George Bond - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 8 at $35.00 John F. Crawford - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 9 at $32.00 John F. Crawford - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 8 at $2 ?o. of each Names grade Present and absent - "i i ates in alpha - betical order. 53 5h 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 Smith *pick, T. A. J. Seale, E. T. Smith, G. B. Thomas, Craig Thompson, Harrison Williams, James Weeks, Robert :h;ite, R. 11. Welch, R. Welch, J. L. Zerbst, Care Reed, William, Welch, David Recd. A & IGO July 25/62 Date April 16, 1862 Station Carip Carter near Hempstead Rank .._e Joined for Duty and Dirollod l Ehen Where T i tin 33 i ..r. 15 Boonville 29 Mar. 15 1 24 . 15 _26 Mar. 15 John F. Crawford - Lot No. 2 in Block No. & at $!20.00 John F. Crawford - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 6 at $32.50 John F. Crawford - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 6 at $29.00 Hiram Hanover - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 2 at $20.00 James I. Bowman - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 3 at $30.50 James Evetts - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 11 at $30.00 James S. Vaughn - Lot No. 3 in Block No. 10 at $21.00 The following persons bought lots on April 18, 1842: William Boyles - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 12 at $22.00 William Boyles - Lot No. 2 in Block No. 12 at $20.00 Samuel R. Moss - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 10 at $20.00 Samuel R. Moss - Lot No. 1 in Block No. 11 at $20.00 The first United States census taken in Texas was in 1850, and it showed that the County of Brazos had a population of 614 persons, including 148 negro slaves. The county had four common schools, which enrolled a total of 75 students. The total state taxes for the year was $740, county taxes were $370, and the special school tax brought in another $111. The need of a courthouse in the new county was urgent, and it was decided to build one before the u u Vnluat'.on in Dollars of Horses, "orse sau:_nnent, arms 200 "220 :39 %140 32 "'160 25 X> 63 Remarks $ 58 4 Furloughed 18.;ar. 6 1 fi 11 a )15 34 Bar. 22 n • 25 "150 ',25 Died in hospital Sick in hospital 27 Mar. 19 30 Mar. 15 Co. °N 21st Regt. Texas Cavalry April 16, 1862 275 "")39 ?A 35 1.75 "25 eeo 6,44 „ Growing With Brazos Counts, Bryan Public Utilities MUNICIPAL AND RURAL DIVISION . eve &ttea &&eee'u xd4 . . Banks of Brazos County Clearing House Association Member Banks: FIRST NATIONAL BANK COLLEGE STATION STATE BANK FIRST STATE BANK & TRUST CO. CITY NATIONAL BANK " Member F. D. I. C." Courtesy of Miss Lucy Harrison, First Brazos County Courthouse Picture is of the structure after it its original location. Door is in front at left was not a part of the original height of the original building was at lag above door. Bryan, Texas at Boonville was removed from of building. Shed structure, and the second hand hewn October term of 1841 rolled round. Since the county had no funds, and money was extremely scarce, it was de- termined to have a log- rolling; it was customary on the frontier in building a home. On the day before the desig- nated date for building the courthouse, twenty men, representing the several precincts in the county, as- sembled at Boonville with wagons, mules, horses, axes, and other tools, and the next day commenced and com- pleted the construction of a courthouse. It was a small one room log building without a floor or windows, and only one door. The roof was constructed of crudely fash- ioned boards held down and in place by eight log poles. There was a complete absence of nails. Seats were fashioned of split logs, with the flat side up, supported on round legs approximately two feet long. When Court was to be held a table and two chairs were borrowed from a nearby residence to accomodate the judge and clerk. This courthouse was replaced after Texas became a state in the American union by a new structure. In 1846 the county court contracted with Harvey Mitchell to build a new courthouse for one hundred and fifty dollars. The new structure was eighteen feet wide by twenty -six feet long. Its walls and roof were made ;of fashioned oak timbers, and the flooring and seats were of hand -sawed cedar planks. The building was weather - boarded and its roof was of river oak boards; and, hence, was commonly referred to as "the board shanty." Since there was no church building or other public structure, besides the jail, in the county, the courthouse served as a meeting house for political rallies, for church services, for masonic meetings, dances, and other social gather- ings. It also served as a school house, and as a place where dancing and singing were taught on occasion. Gillespie Lodge No. 55, the first Masonic lodge north of Washington County, was organized in the first court- house at Boonville. As the population of the county increased and the duties of the county officials multiplied, the one -room "board shanty," soon proved to be inadequate. It had never been considered safe to keep the county records in the building, and they had been kept in the respective homes of each official or deposited at the home of Har- vey Mitchell, who served the county in some capacity or other throughout the 1840's and 1850's. Consequently, in 1854, the County Commissioners Court, again hired Harvey Mitchell, who at the time was county judge, to build a new courthouse. The building was to be twenty - five feet long and of two stories, constructed of lumber from the saw mills in Grimes County hauled to the site by wagons, and was to have glass windows. upon its completion the courthouse was painted. On the lower floor of the building were four rooms for the use of the county officials, and the upper floor constituted a courtroom for the holding of sessions of the county and district courts. In the large courtroom were tables, chairs, a bar, and a jury box. From its completion, the building served as the county's courthouse until the seat of government was moved to Bryan late in 1866. Late in November 1841, sixty -eight citizens of Navasota County sent a petition to the Congress of Texas calling attention to the need of a mail route and a post office in the area. Six months later, July 1, 1842, Hiram Hanover was appointed postmaster, but held the position only briefly for he was elected a few months later to the House of Representatives of the Seventh Courtesy of Miss Lucy Harrison, Bryan, Texas Interior view of Brazos County's First Courthouse at Boonville. Picture shows "chinking" missing and light reflected from holes in roof, but original beams still fitted in place. Congress (called Session- November 14, 1842 - December 4, 1842; and Regular Session, December 5, 1842 - January 16, 1843. The early settlers believed in the need for some regulation of the medical profession. These demands were not so much for the improvement of the quality of training of such persons, but, of concern for the charges made by the doctors. The Texas Congress was petitioned on January 1, 1843, by fifty -one citizens of the county to regulate the fees to be charged by physicians prac- ticing in the county. A contract for the building of a jail was awarded on September 13, 1842, to John F. Crawford, the only purchaser of lots at the initial auction sale who was not required to put up security to guarantee payment. The contract was for one thousand dollars. The quality of the jail built by Crawford left something to be de- sired. "In consequence of the corners of . (the) Jail not being filled in a workmanlike manner," declared the Board of Commissioners, we "have decided to receive the Jail only on the said Crawford having given bond to weatherboard the walls of the same which the board conceive would make the building as valuable as if built according to contract." The jail was a two -story struc- ture built on a foundation hewn postoak logs one foot square and two logs thick. An oak plank floor was laid over the log foundation and held tight by spikes. The walls were constructed of timber similar to that used in the foundation and rose to a height of ten feet. An- other wall was built inside of the structure at a distance of eight inches from the outside wall, and the inter- vening space between the two was filled with oak tim- bers placed perpendicularly. The lower room was twelve feet square and ten feet high with a ceiling or second floor fashioned from six -in- square logs. The roof was constructed of smaller logs. The roof and gable ends of the building (or as we would say "the attic ") formed a room for female prisoners. Entrance to the jail was through a door in one of the gables which was reached by an outside stairway connecting it with the ground. The lower room, reserved for male prisoners, was reached through a trap door thirty inches square cut in the mid- dle of the second floor. A stepladder had to be let down from the second story in order to enter or leave the first room. The jail was described as being the strongest in the Republic. In his "Memoirs" Harvey Mitchell, an early and long time resident of the county, reports that from the completion of the jail to its sale by the County Com- missioners Court in 1868, only five Brazos County men were incarcerated in ,it. Four of these men were accused of murder, but each case got a change of venue, escaped, or died before he was tried. After the annexation of Texas to the United States, settlement of Texas progressed rapidly, and many new- comers entered the county. In the early 1850's Henry Kurten, on a three months furlough from the German army, visited Galveston, Texas, overstayed his leave and decided to settle in Texas rather than face trial back home for desertion. He settled in Brazos County northeast of Bryan and engaged in freighting cotton to Mexico during the Civil War, and after the Civil War became an agent of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company in promoting German immigration to Texas. The immigrants paid their passage to Texas by working on Kurten's farm. Later Kurten donated land for a community, and constructed a building for a school at his own expense. Some idea of the population growth of the county and its crops and livestock may be shown by quoting from the United States census figures. Total Population Negroes Land in cultivation (acres) Value of farms Number of horses Number of mules Number of work oxen Number of other cattle Number of sheep Year 1850 • Year 1860 614 2,776 148 1,063 1,916 14,499 $79,732 $1,280,238 460 1,161 72 364 71 959 3,713 22,532 479 9,314 In 1858 the county's population represented 268 white males between ages 18 -45; 331 who were unde 18 years of age; and 49 who gave their ages as eve 45 years. As for white women, 248 admitted to being over 18 years of age. There were in the county 272 children under 6 years of age and 394 between the ages of 6 and 18. The number of slaves was 598, and there were no free persons of color. The number of qualified voters was 285. There were only 31 town lots in the county and these were valued at $5,415. In 1859 Boonville was the official post office for the county. Courtesy of Miss Lucy Harrison, Bryan, Texas Another view of Brazos County's First Courthous Mr. O. Lee Andrews, 72, one of Harvey's oldest citi stands on the south side of the courthouse which moved, piece by piece, from Boonville to the H community area about -1866. Although Texas was isolated from the main fight- ing fronts and few military events of significance took plase in Texas during the war besides the battles of Galveston and Sabine Pass, it does not mean that Texans did not play a prominent role in the war. Some 60,000 Texans saw service in the war, and 20,000 of these served east of the Mississippi River. The men from the counties of Brazos, Milam, and Robertson readily volun- teered for duty and served with distinction. Courtesy of Mr: 0. M. Taylor of Bryan, Texas Descendants of early English family that settled in Brazos., County: From left to right: Robert Taylor, born March 17, 1E40, in East Allington, Devonshire, England, the third child of William and Elizabeth (Townsend) Taylor who came to Galveston in 1849 directly front England and shortly thereafter settled in Brazos County; second from the left is Henry A. Taylor (Nov. 24, 1874 -Nov. 17, 1937), third son of Robert Taylor and second son of Robert Taylor's second wife, Margaret, and father of 0. M. Taylor, now living in Bryan; Lee (A. L.) Taylor, fourth son of Robert Taylor, born March. 23, 187 -; Margaret (Disrens Taylor, second wife of Robert Taylor and mother of Henry, Lee, and J. W. (Will) Taylor, was born December 19, 1850, and died December 25, 1919; John R. Taylor, son of Robert Taylor and his first wife Lucina (Stucky), born Decem- ber 27, 1866, and died in December 1925; Margaret Taylor, daughter of John R. Taylor; Nora Taylor, daughter of John R. Taylor; Helen (Burney) Taylor,. April 18 1870 -March 11, 1908, wife of John R. Taylor; Winnie Taylor, daughter of John R. and Helen Taylor; J. W. (Will) Taylor, d. May 15, 1955, son of Robert and Margaret Taylor, Carrie (Goodson) Taylor, wife of J. W. (Will) Taylor, and sister of Mrs. Lena Crenshaw and aunt of ,Sam Cren- %haw, both of Bryan; Herbert C. Taylor, eldest son of J. W. (Will) and Carrie Taylor and co -owner of the Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, Texas. "The Bonnie Blue Flag" By Harry Macarthy We are a band of brothers, and native to the soil, Fighting for our liberty, with treasure, blood and toil; And when our rights were threatened, the cry rose near and far, Hurrah for the Bonnie Blue Flag, that bears a single star! Happy Birthday From .. . Happy Birthday Bryan .. . Acme Glass Company Corner of 28th and Main St. BRYAN, TEXAS Bruce and Leonard Morehead Phone TA 2 -1577 If It's Glass, We Have It . . . Mirrors Hufcor Folding Doors Auto Glass Store Front Construction Window Glass Jalousie Windows and Doors CUSTOM MADE ALUMINUM SCREENS AND DOORS Congratulations . . . TO BRYAN ON ITS 100th BIRTHDAY Hanson's Food Service 2701 Texas Avenue BRYAN, TEXAS Ham - Sausage -Bacon 109 N. Main LEARN TO FLY Texas Airmotive Co. Phone VI 6 -6217 COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS Rental — Training and Charter Best Wishes . . . HOOD'S BRIGADE -BRYAN CENTENNIAL Our business is entering it's 31st year of continuous selling of fine footwear and accessories. We thank our customers for their loyalty and patronage. We are looking forward to serving them for many years to come. Robertson's, Inc. BRYAN, TEXAS TA 2 -5749 Chorus — Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, Hurrah! Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star! As long as the Union was faithful to her trust, Like friends and like brethren kind were we and just; But now when Northern treachery attempts our rights to mar, We hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. First, gallant South Carolina nobly made the stand ;, Then came Alabama, who took her by the hand; Next, quickly Mississippi, Georgia and Florida, All raised on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. Ye men of valor, gather round the banner of the right, Texas and fair Louisiana, join us in the fight; Davis, our loved President, and Stephens, statesman rare, Now rally round the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. Chorus — Hurrah! Hurrah! for Southern Rights, Hurrah! Hurrah! for the Bonnie Blue Flag has gained the Eleventh Star! — Chorus — Chorus — Chorus And here's to brave Virginia! the old Dominion state, With the young Confederacy at length has linked her fate; Impelled by her example, now other states prepare, To hoist on high the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. — Chorus Then cheer, boys, raise the joyous shout, For Arkansas and North Carolina now have both gone out; And let another rousing cheer for Tennessee be given, The Single Star of the Bonnie Blue Flag has grown to be Eleven. — Chorus Then here's to our Confederacy, strong we are and brave, Like patriots of old, we'll fight our heritage to save, And rather than submit to shame, to die we would prefer, So cheer for the Bonnie Blue Flag that bears a Single Star. "The Southern Cross" By St. George Tucker, of Virginia Oh! say can you see, through the gloom and the storms, More bright for the darkness, that pure constellation? Like the symbol of love and redemption its form, As it points to the haven of hope for the nation. How radiant each star, as the beacon afar, Giving promise of peace, or assurance in war! Chorus — 'Tis the Cross of the South, which shall ever remain To light us to freedom and glory again! How peaceful and blest was America's soil, 'Till betrayed by the guile of the Puritan demon, Which lurks under virtue, and springs from its coil To fasten its fangs in the life -blood of freemen. Then boldly appeal to each heart that can feel, And &rush the foul viper 'neath Liberty's heel! Chorus — And the Cross of the South shall triumphantly wave As the flag of the free or the pall of the brave. — Chorus 'Tis the emblem of peace, 'tis the day -star of hope, Like the sacred Labarum that guided the Roman, From the shores of the Gulf to the Delaware's slope, 'Tis the trust of the free and the terror of foeman. Fling its folds to the air, while we boldly declare The rights we demand or the deeds that we dare! — Chorus And if peace should be hopeless and justice denied, And war's bloody vulture should flap its black pinions, Then gladly "To arms," while we hurl, in our pride, Defiance to tyrants and death to their minions! With our front to the field, swearing never to yield, Or return, like the Spartan, in death on our shield! A meeting at Owensville in the Spring of 1862, re- sulted in a detemination to fit out a company under Captain L. J. Wilson for service in the Confederacy. This company was enrolled in March 1862, at Boonville' and Wheelock, and was composed primarily of Brazos. County men and a few volunteers from Robertson Coun- ty. In April the men moved from their rendezvous point near Boonville to Millioan, where the then and horses K elly's TOYLAN E TOWNSHIRE BRYAN, TEXAS Congratulations From . . . J. A. Williams & Sons and Williams Mortgage Co. 2909 Texas Ave. BRYAN, TEXAS Insurance Home Loans Real Estate Congratulations . . . HOOD'S BRIGADE -BRYAN CENTENNIAL Allen & Stone CLOTHIERS Men's Shoes Florsheim Boy's Shoes Crosby- Square Buster Brown Red Wing 114 N. Main St. Box 986 BRYAN, TEXAS Congratulations . BRYAN ON YOUR 100th BIRTHDAY 0 A were transferred by rail to Camp Carter, near Hemp- stead, Texas, where the unit was mustered into service on April 16 as Compay I of the 21st Texas Calvary Regiment (Carter's Brigade) commanded by Colonel G. W. Carter, also known as the 1st Regiment of Texas Volunteer Lancers. From Hempstead the Company was moved by rail to Shreveport, Louisiana, where they joined the Brigade. Soon, however, Company "I" was assigned to the front of the line between Arkansas and Missouri, where it saw service to the end of the war. Its losses were slight. T. J. Mawhinney was killed in a running fight with the enemy; W. H. Bowman was severely wounded while scouting near Desark (Des Arc), Arkansas, and two men died in service. At the end of the war the Company returned to Texas and dis- banded at Moseley's Ferry on the Brazos. Soon after the beginning of the Civil War, the authorities of Robertson County authorized William P. Townsend, a veteran of the Mexican War, and Joseph McDonald to purchase $2,500 in arms to equip troops. Four companies were organized in the county and were commanded respectively by N. P. Richardson, Dr. Bel- vedere Brooks, W. P. Townsend, and K. Smith. Town - send's Company of 70 men was' composed largely of men from the western portion of the county and Dr. Brooks' Company of 95 men came largely from Whee- lock and the eastern part of the county. Townsend's Company went into camp at Block House Springs, on the west side of the Brazos, and began to drill, later moving to Millican from which point they proceeded by rail for the Confederate front in Virginia. In Virginia, Townsend's Company became Company "C" of the Fourth .Texas Regiment. The names and subsequent fate of the men of this company were as follows: Commissioned Officers: W. P. Townsend, Captain, promoted to Major, lost a foot at 2nd Manassas. Decimus et Ultimus Barziza, First Lieutenant, wounded at Gettysburg, promoted to Captain. B. F. Turner, 2nd Lieutenant. B. S. Wood, 3rd Lieutenant, mortally wounded at Gaines' Mill. Non - Commissioned Officers J. P. Grizzle, 1st Sergeant, elected Lieutenant, killed at Darbytown. H. W. Davis, 2nd Sergeant, wounded at Gettysburg. J. H. Simmons, 5th Sergeant, killed at Chickamauga. A. P. Streetman, 1st Corporal, killed at Gaines' Mill. M. L. Livingston, 2nd Corporal, Lieutenant; and Captain, wounded at Chickamauga and Gettysburg. J. C. Roberts, 3rd Sergeant, lost arm at Gaines' Mill. J. I. Galloway, 4th Sergeant, lost leg at 2nd Manassas. J. W. Hill, 3rd Corporal, lost arm at Gaines' Mill. J. 0. Adams, 4th Corporal, killed at Malvern Hill. Privates: J. M. Adams, wounded at Battle of Wilderness. Alexander, killed at Sharpsburg (Antietam). P. J. Alexander, wounded at Sharpsburg. Peter Allday W. L. Bailey, wounded at Gaines' Mill. Frank Barton, wounded at Gaines' Mill and Chicka- mauga. John Barton, lost ,right arm at Sharpsburg. Lem Barton, lost right arm at Sharpsburg. P. J. Barziza, wounded at Sharpsburg M. Beavers, wounded at Gettysburg T. B. Beavers, wounded at Gaines' Mill, killed at Wilderness Green Blackburn, killed at Wilderness J. B. Boyd, elected Lieutenant, wounded at Wilderness and before Richmond Courtesy of Mr. H. Sellers Rogers, Navasota, Texas Colonel William Harvey Sellers, one of the boy pri- soners of the famed Texan Mier Expedition of 1842, was born on September 20, 1827, at Trenton, Tenn., and died April 10, 1874, at Galveston, Texas. Sellers fought in the Mexican War, 1846 -48, and served as Adjutant - General of Hood's Brigade during the Civil War. Sellers was the first president of the Galveston Cotton Ex- change. P. A. Brown, killed at Gaines' Mill Joe Burns G. J. Chambers, killed at Sharpsburg E. N. Coe Wilks Corley, killed at Petersburg J. H. Cosgrove, wounded at Wilderness Riley Davidson, killed at , Sharpsburg Louis Davis J. H. Drake, wounded at Cold Harbor J. H. Drennan, wounded at Gaines' Mill and Cold Harbor M .L. Easter, killed at Sharpsburg H. F. Eddington, killed at Darbytown George Elder F'. L. Field, killed at Gettysburg H. Foster, lost arm at Gaines' Mill R. Foster, wounded at Malvern Hill H. Frost, mortally wounded at Wilderness J. M. Garrett W. Gary W. E. Gear J. Goodman, wounded at Gaines' Mill and Wilderness W. H. Hamman Bazley Harris Richard Haynes William Hearne J. S. Henderson, killed in action A. Herndon, killed at Petersburg E. D. Herndon Jacob Herndon, killed at Gettysburg G. M. Hixson, killed at Darbytown W. R. Hunter, killed at Gaines' Mill Hyson, killed at Petersburg John January D. C. Jones J. J. Jones, killed at Chickamauga W. A. Jones D. Kensey, killed at Chickamauga L. D. Keith, wounded at Richmond W. S. Kirk, killed at 2nd Manassas Jesse Livingston, wounded at 2nd Manassas and Gettysburg Ogle Love Silas Lufton James McClinton, killed in action B. F. McVoiman J. M. Marsh Ben Marshall W. H. Marshall W. W. Marshall, wounded at Gaines' Mill B. F. Merriman, wounded at Gaines' Mill and Wilderness S. J. Mitchell, wounded at Chickamauga Whit Montgomery, wounded at Spottsylvania Court House M. C. Moore, killed at Pe`ersburg R. E. Moore, wounded at Petersburg J. Noble W. Norton, killed at Chickamauga Alexander Norwood, killed at Wilderness J. Olive, killed at Sharpsburg Y. B. Ray Ashley Reed W. Reese, killed at Chickamauga J. C. Roberts, promoted B Robertson Frank Robertson J. R. Robertson, killed at Gaines' Mill Robert Rutherford B. W. Rymes J. Smiley, wounded at Wilderness J. R. Smiley, killed at Gaines' Mill W. J. Smiley, killed at Gaines' Mill J. R. Smith, mortally wounded at Chickamauga J. W. Sneed, wounded at Gaines' Mill W. C. Steel Y. 0. Talbot 0. H. Tindall, lost foot at Wilderness Augustine Talbot W. Vandusen, wounded at Gettysburg Courtesy of Mrs. Manley Jones, Bryan, Texas Captain A. T. Rainey of Palestine, Company H, First Texas Infantry Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade. s Courtesy of Mrs. Sally Weston Bird, Caldwell, Texas George M. Weston, volunteered from Alabama at age 16 for service in the Confederate Army, Hood's Brigade, Company G. After the war he settled in Bryan for a while, later moving to Caldwell, Texas, where he died June 23, 1921, at the age of 77. P. H. Vaughn E. Webster, wounded before Richmond Lon Wells W. G. Whiddon, killed at 2nd Manassas E. Wilkins J. M. Wilson, killed at 2nd Manassas Bennett Wood, wounded at Gaines' Mill, 2nd Manassas and Wilderness E. O. Wood, wounded at 2nd Manassas, killed at Chicka- mauga J. Wood One of the most famous fighting units in the Con- federate service was the Texas Brigade, which fought largely in northern Virginia as a part of General James Langstreet's Second Corps'. The Texas Brigade received repeatedly high praise from President Jefferson Davis and General Robert E. Lee, who on one occasion even requested permission to lead the Brigade personally for a brief period during the Wilderness campaign. The Texas Brigade made its reputation as a stand up fighting unit under the leadership of a native Ken - tuckian, who adopted Texas as his state, since his state did not secede and rejected his tender of services. Dis- appointed in his state's attitude, the Kentuckian vol- unteered for Confederate service at Montgomery, Ala - bama, where he received a commission as First Lieu- tenant, and gave Texas as his place of residence, hav- ing been stationed in Texas as a Second, and later as a First Lieutenant, from 18156 to 1861 in the Second United States Cavalry. Son of Dr. John W. and Theo - docia (French) Hood, John Bell Hood was born at Owingsville, Bath County, Kentucky, on June 1, 1831. The son of a medical doctor and a 1853 graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, John Courtesy of Mr. Hood Boone Barry, Navasota, Texas Captain W. E. Barry, Company G, Hood's Texas Bri- gade. Barry settled at Navasota in 1860, and volunteered for service in the Confederacy soon after war began. He was wounded four times during the war — once at Gaines' Mill, once at Chattanooga, and twice in the Wilderness campaign. He gave the memorial address at the unveiling of Hood's Texas Brigade Monument in Austin in 1910. SEARS ROEBUCK AND CO. Congratulations . . . Bryan On Your 100th Birthday 44 Salte 'Motel Downtown Bryan Allen Academy (Founded In 1886) Oldest Boys Boarding College Preparatory School In The State Salutes BRYAN'S HOOD'S BRIGADE Sears In Townshire Welcomes You To The Bryan Centennial Hood Is Brigade4Bry n Cent Or r mit' tee Presents The Civil War Commemoration And Historical Spectacle 'Gallant Men of Texas" A JOHN B. ROGERS PRODUCTION Produced and Directed by Gene T. Montefiore Costumes, Lighting, and Scenery furnished by The John B. Rogers Producing Co., Fostoria, Ohio "Gallant Men of Texas" is based on historical outline and slight changes have been made to meet the demands of staging and dramatic effects. Trial KYLE FIELD, A &M COLLEGE OF TEXAS JUNE 25 - 29, 1962 Spectacle Division Chairman: Mr. Alton Bowen Scenario & Title: Dr. J. M. Nance Cast: Mrs. F. I. Dahlberg Costumes: Mrs. Dorothy Goodman Properties: Mr. C. B. McGown Construction: Mr. James McAdams Sound: Mr. Lee Piranio Dance Assistant: Mrs. Jane Lee program .. PROLOGUE: This spectacular and colorful scene is dedicated to Bryan's Centennial Queen and her Royal Court of Honor. It features the Youth of our community in a dramatic salute to Bryan's Centennial Cele- bration. INTRODUCTION: FROM SWORDS TO ATOMS In comparative battle vignettes we announce our dedication to the fighting men of Texas. EPISODE ONE: LAND OF THE REDMEN Our story beging with the historic Tonkawa Indians, who lived in the Brazos County area long before the arrival of the White Man. INDIAN BRAVES. Members of Bryan's Boys Club. EPISODE THREE: BRAZOS COUNTY IS CREATED INDIAN MAIDENS: Darlene Nichols, Suzan Lee, Kathy Blackburn, Susan Garrett, Sammy Kay Tullous, Rita Carole Brooks, Kay Kincannon, Jan Orsak, Margaret Bush, Bonnie Bowers, Diane Hud- son, Barbara Cook, Peggy Geppert, Laura Jean Allen. THE DANCE OF THE INDIAN MAIDENS EPISODE TWO: EARLY TERRITORIAL DAYS Following the early arrival of the Spanish and French, came the first Anglo- Americans. Their wagons rolled along the Texas wilderness despite the frequent war raids' of the Indians. PONEERS: WAGON MASTER, Raymond Fickey, Mrs. Raymond Fickey, Melissa Ann Fickey, GRAN- NY, Mrs. Raymond Sneath. Mr. Raymond Sneath, Joe Merka, Sr., Tommy Riley, Albert Newcomb, Mrs. Dorothy Newcomb, Johnny Newcomb, Janet Newcomb, Tommy Airrington, Mrs. Clara Faye Airrington, Ronny Airrington, Nathan Airrington, Cathy Airrington, Ernest Fickey, Mrs. Ernest Fickey, Jerry Fickey, Timmy Fickey, Donny Fickey, Laura Newland, Johnny Bowman, Mrs. Dorothy Bowman, Jennie Bowman, Clyde Sides, Mrs. Clyde Sides, Sharon Sides, Buddy Riley, Mrs. Buddy Riley, James Fickey, Mrs. Ja es Fickey, James Fickey, Jr., Webb Riley, Mrs. Webb Riley, Shawn Riley, Penny Riley, Mike Riley, Tommy Baxter, Mrs. Tommy Baxter, Gregory Baxter, Mor- ris Endler, Mm. Morris Endler, George Moran, Mrs. Blanch Moran, Patty Moran, Mike Moran, James Cargill, Mrs. Ella Mae Cargill, Bob Cargill, Bar- bara Cargill, Brad Cargill, Luke Centaeni, Mrs. Lucille Centaeni, Lucille Ann Centaeni, Bernadette Centaeni, Mary Jane , Centaeni, Wayne McDonald. Eddy Ilschner, Mrs. Eddy Ilschner, Mary Ilschner, Ethel Ilschner. SQUARE DANCE: Mrs. Jeanette Gibson's Dancers. In 1841, the Congress of the Republic of Texas created the county of Navasota, which was re- named a year later to Brazos County. Hiram Han- over was selected to survey the land, the Towns - folks built the Court House. EPISODE FOUR: FAITH OF OUR FATHERS The various worshipping groups used the County Court House for their religious services. EPISODE FIVE: THE THREE R'S Even in the early days of our town, the children were brought up with the high standards of readin', 'ritin', and 'rithmetic. r EPISODE SIX: THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES In one of the most gruelling wars of all time, the gallant fighting men of Texas, namely Hood's Bri- gade, fought gloriously under the Bonnie Blue Flag. Inspired by the words of General Robert E. Lee, the South looked forward to the future with proud, full, hearts. SOLDIERS: Portrayed by the Men of the A &M College of Texas. GENERAL ROBERT E. LEE: 'Cread A. McCollom. Intermission EPISODE SEVEN: BRYAN RISES The Battle -weary troops return to Bryan. These were peaceful days that saw the coming of the Iron Horse to our town. WXLLIAM J. BRYAN: Allen Brunk. THE VIRGINIA REEL The Founding of A &M College of Texas. EPISODE EIGHT THE GAY NINETIES Here we are at the Couny Fair at the turn of the century, when the town and its inhabitants pros- pered. . . and everyone had FUN!! GAY 90 PEOPLE: Mrs. Roland A. Bell, Mabel Bradley, Avis Crenshaw, Mrs. Terrill Crenshaw, Jams Stark, Mrs. Carol Stark, Judy Stark, Dennis Stark, Dianne Stark, Connie Stark, Dieth Stark, Tom Barker, Mrs. Ina Mae Barker, Barbara Bar- ker, Tobie Barker, Shirley Barker, Donald Barker, Tony Karoneka, Mrs Bobbie Karo- neka, Jerry Shelton, Jimmy Shelton, David Shelton, Danny Shelton, Vadia Bell, Suzzette Goode, Mary Harris, Donna Sue Lunsford, Betty Ann Lunsford. BATHING BEAUUTIES: Lida Shelton, Nora Lee Wasson, Jane Watson, Beth Brunk, Lunette Fraz- zino, Lulu Frazzino, Sarah Mathis. MEDICINE MAN: Johnny Johnson. STRONG MAN: Raymond Fickey POLKA BATHING BEAUTY DANCE NATIVE DANCES of the International Club Dancers JITTERBUG NATIONAL ANTHEM FIREWORKS DISPLAY ...cast EPISODE NINE: IN MEMORIAM In 1914, our men were off to the far off reaches of Europe enbattled in a "war to end all wars." WALTZ CAN -CAN CAN -CAN DANCERS: Barbara Cook, Laura Jean Allen, Peggy Geppert, Carol Ann Kincannon, Jan Orsak, Margaret Bush, Bonnie Bowers, Darlene Nichols. EPISODE TEN: THE ROARING TWENTIES This was really the era of FUN . what with "homemade hooch" . movie matinee idols . . . and the thrill of the day . the Charleston. MEN OF INDUSTRY: Johnny Johnson, Walter Wilcox, Billy Burkhalter. CHARLESTON DANCERS: Barbara Cook, Peggy Geppert, Laura Jean Allen, Suzan Lee, Kathy Blackburn, Susan Garrett, Diane Hudson, Sammy Kay Tullous, Rita Carol Brooks, Carol Ann Kin - Kannon, Kay Kincannon. THE CHARLESTON EPISODE ELEVEN: THE DEPRESSION The stock market crashed ... unemployment sky - rocketed . . . and the WPA gave work to many. EPISODE TWELVE: WORLD WAR TWO The tragedy at Pearl Harbor set the fuse for an- other global conflict which saw the flag of the United States gloriously raised in Iwo Jima for all the world to see. EPISODE THIRTEEN TODAY We now live in a peaceful, though troubled world and everybody seems to be doing . . . THE TWIST FINALE We applaud the entire cast of tonight's' perfor- mance. Bell Hood, six- foot -three tall, blond, and long- faced, served for a time in the army in Missouri, and in Cal- ifornia before he saw service in Texas at 'Fort Mason, where he arrived on January 14, 1856. He was later stationed at Camps Colorado, Cooper, and Wood, and for a time served in Texas under the command of Lieu- tenant- Colonel Robert E. Lee and Brevet Major Earl Van Dorn at Camp Colorado. In October 1861, he helped to organize in northern Virginia the 4th Texas Regi- ment composed of ten companies. Many of the men who served in the 4th Regiment were from Milam and Rob- ertson counties. Those from Robertson County were primarily from the towns of Franklin, Wheelock, and their vicinity and west. These were "the Fire Eaters" and were enrolled in Company "C ", under Captain Wil- liam P. Townsend and First Lieutenant Decimus et Ultimus i(Tenth and Last) Barziza. The principal group (95 men) from Wheelock was under Dr. Belvedere Brooks and did not fight on the Virginia front, or in the famed Texas Brigade (or Hood's Brigade as it came to be known), but saw service in the Army of Western Tennessee and fought at Shiloh and other places. Hood was Colonel of the 4th Texas Regiment and John Marshall served as Lieutenant Colonel; but, before he could lead his men into battle, Hood was promoted to Brigadier General on March 7, 1862, and placed in command of the Texas Brigade, replacing Louis T. Wigfall, who resigned on February 20, 1862, to became one of the senators from. Texas in the Confederate Congress. Wigfall had organized the 1st Texas Regi- ment in Virginia in the winter of 1861, and in October 1861, the 4th and 5th Texas had been formed, and these with the 18th Georgia Regiment and Wade Hampton's South Carolina Legion( the latter two being replaced in October 1862, by the 3rd Arkansas Regiment) made up the Texas Brigade. The 5th Texas was commanded by Colonel James J. Archer and Lieutenant Colonel Jerome B. Robertson. Hood led the Brigade first in the battle of Eltham's. Landing (Chickahominy), May 1862, where, near the York River, Hood's unit ran into a Union force which it chased for a mile and a half through a dense forest, taking forty prisoners; but the first principal battle in which his unit fought was the Battle of Gaines' Mill, June 27, 1862, in which the Texas Brigade received rec- ognition for its splendid to the Confederate fo hces onthat occasion. It ensured captured fourteen Union artillery pieces and took prisoners near- ly an entire enemy regiment, but the 4th Texas lost all of its field grade officers and the brigade suffered 570 casualties. Major General E. M. Law of the Confederate Army, observing the action of some of Hood's men at Gaines' Mill wrote: "General Hood at the head of the Fourth Texas Regiment swept into position and broke into a trot down a slope toward the Federal works. Men fell like leaves in the autumn wind; the Federal artillery tore gaps in the ranks at every step. The ground in the rear of the advancing column was strewn thickly with the dead and wounded. "But not a gun was fired in reply. There was no confusion. Not a step faltered as the grey lines swept silently and swiftly on. The pace became more rapid every moment. When they were within thirty yards of the ravine, and could see the desperate nature of the work in hand, a wild yell answered the Federal mus- ketry and they rushed for the works. When the Con- federates were within ten paces of them, the Federals in the front line broke cover and leaving their log breastworks swarmed up the hill in their rear, carrying away with them in their rout their whole second line. Courtesy of Mrs.. M. Tungate, Bryan, Texas and Mrs. F. L. Gilbert, Houston„ Texas Hood's Brigade Reunion, Navasota, Texas, June 27 -28, 1907. OLD TOWNS SETTLEMENrs, FORTS • OLD ROADS, TRAILS, STAGE LINES PRESENT DAY TOWNS SNOW N 0 FERRIES, RIVER CROSSINGS 11 II / 11 U \ II 11 11 11 BARTLETT 1- 11STORICAL MAP of BRAZOS COUNTY and SURROUNDING COUNTIES -- JI. 0 THORNDALE 11 M I .des* L E E E BASTROP �} L'E II \\ II WACO VILLAGE M C L /C �O,1TH // BoSgUt/ / o M•GREGOR / 1, / � \ / / •,// / \ / F /// / I / m "/ \ O/ � )I / - EDDY I I \ M \ N A N \ a / O HOWARD \ > 1 lieo•sox(FORT MILAM v I ' zit KI -11 ;!I ill I 11 v OE O I wn ..it =IA \ OI / /XoT\EMPLEI \ \ " '91 . 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In all, the brigade participated in no less than twenty -four battles, including besides those already mentioned, Second Manassas (Bull Run), August 29 -30, 1862; Sharpsburg (Antietam), September 17, 1862; Gettysburg, July 1 -3, 1863, where the casualties among Hood's men numbered over 400; Chickamauga, Sept. 19, 1863; Franklin, Tenn., November 1864; and Nashville, December 15 -16, 1864. The rear -guard fighting of the Texans saved the Confederate army from almost certain annihilation at Antietam, and at the close of the campaign only a fraction of the command could be classed as "effectives." Out of 854 men of the Texas Brigade who had participated in the battle, the Brigade lost 660. Over 82% of the 226 in the 1st Texas Regiment had been lost, 53% of the Fourth, and 75% of the Fifth. Colonel Garnet Wolseley, later Field Marshall Lord Wolseley of the British army who observed the Texans as they marched along •after the battle, re- marked to General Robert E. Lee on the appearance of the Texans and of their tattered clothing. Said General Courtesy of Mrs. Manley Jones, Bryan, Texas, and also of Mr. John C. Roberts, Bremond, Texas Gen. John Bell Hood's Children, 1879. Following the death of General Hood, Mrs Hood, and their eldest daughter, Lydia, in the summer of 1879 from yellow fever in New Orleans, the Hood Relief Committee was formed in the city to raise a Permanent Fund for the Education and Support of the "Wards of the South," as the orphans of the noted General were called. The two little girls on the left, Odile Musson and Ida Richardson (twins), three years old; Odile is on the extreme left in the act of trundling a doll's carriage, while Ida is near seated with the doll in her arms. Little Ida looks pale and like an invalid, having only recently recovered from the fever when her picture was taken; the third from the left is Duncan Norbet, seven years old, and next to him stands with one hand on Duncan's shoulder, John Bell., Jr., eight years old; both of these boys have bright bea »tiful faces, the latter resembling his father. Next to John Bell sits cunning little Oswald, thirteen months old. Next in the order in which they are named are Ethel Gene- vieve and Anabel (twins), nine years old, in whose sweet faces the features of the mother are plainly discerned. Next are Lillian Marie and Marion Maude (twins), six years old, in the order named. In front of the group, and reclining on a miniature sofa, is the little baby fast asleep, Anna Gertrude, only two months old. A vacant chair on the extreme right is for the missing Lydia, the eldest of the children, who, taken sick just before her father, died a few hours after he passed away. The portrait of the General is on the left, and that of Mrs. Hood on the wall. Lee: "Never mind their raggedness, Colonel, the enemy never sees the backs of my Texans." And to Lee's query: "General, where is that fine division you had this morning ?" Hood is said to have replied: "They are lying on the field where you sent them, sir. My division has been almost wiped out!" On October 11, 1862, after the Battle of Antietam, Hood was named Major General of the largest division in General James Longstreet's Second Corps in which the Texas Brigade operated, and on November 1, 1862, Brigadier General Jerome B. Rob - ertson, son of Sterling C. Robertson, the empresario, became brigade commander, replacing Hood. After the sieges of Chattanooga and Knoxville, the Texas Brigade returned to Virginia in April 1864, where General John Gregg, who had organized the 7th Regiment of Texas Volunteers in September 1861, became its commander. When Gregg was killed on October 7, 1864, while lead- ing a division on the. New Market Road near Fort Har- rison, the command of the brigade passed temporarily to Colonel Clinton Winkler and then to Colonel F. T. Bass. At the surrender of at Appomattox on April 10, 1865, Colonel F. M. Powell commanded the brigade. General Hood was considered the hero of the Battle of Chickamauga, where he lost his right leg. Hood built for himself the reputation of being a "fighting general ", but time proved that he was not a master strategist. After several days of fighting at Chickamauga, one company of the First Texas Regiment had only one of- ficer and no men as survivors, and the First and Fifth Texas had fewer than one hundred men each unscathed. He was promoted to the rank of lieutenant general on February 1, 1864, and on July 18, 1864, succeeded Gen- eral Joseph E. Johnston in command of the Confederate Army of Tennessee. Rated as a good leader on the of- fensive and the attack, he proved less effective when it came to fighting on the defensive; and, therefore, has been criticized for his defense of Atlanta. After the evacuation of Atlanta, Hood moved up into Tennessee, where in the battle of Nashville on December 15 -16, 1864, he suffered a crushing defeat, and was relieved of his command on January 23, 1865. The Texas Brigade suffered heavy casualties during the war. At the beginning of the war it was estimated that the 1gxas regiments contained some 3,500 men and that recruits during the war increased the number to about 4,480 men. At its surrender it numbered about 557 officers and men. Only six of Company "M" of the original First Texas Regiment of 125 men were present at the surrender. After the Civil War, Hood moved to New Orleans, where in 1868 he married Anna Marie Hennen. They became the parents of three sons and eight daughters. The children, from eldest to youngest, were: Lydia; Ethel Genevieve and Annabel (twins); John Bell, Jr.; Duncan Norbet; Lillian Marie and Marion Maude (twins); Odile Musson and Ida Richardson (twins); Oswald; and Anna Gertrude, less than two months of age at the time of her parents' death. Hood only re- turned to Texas once after the war, where he visited with many of the Texas survivors of his famed brigade. He died in New Orleans of yellow fever on August 30, 1879, his wife having preceded him in death on August 24 from the same disease and his eldest daughter, Lydia, died of the same cause a few hours after he ceased to be. Hood's Last Charge By Mary Hunt McCaleb Odom The twilight of life is beginning to fall, Death's shadows are creeping high up on the wall; Eternity's waters are plashing So close I can hear the wild waves as they roar And suddenly break on the surf- beaten shore, Monument to Hood's Texas Brigade on Capitol Grounds, Austin, Texas, erected March 1910. Their silver spray over me dashing. The old camp is fading away from my view; I hear the last stroke of life's beating tatoo,- The sounds wear the muffle of sorrow. My campaigns are ended, my battles are o'er, My heroes will follow my lead never more, No roll -call shall break on my morrow. But now I am fighting them over again; On fields that are gory, `mid heaps of the slain, The enemy swiftly are flying; The shrieking of shell and the cannon's deep boom Are thundering still at the gate of the tomb, The rattle of grape -shot replying. But ahl the last enemy conquers tonight, And death is (the., victor —in vain is the fight Whe God and his creature have striven; The struggle is over; life's colors are furled - Are lost in the dark of the vanishng world; The bonds of the spirit are riven. But ere 1 go down 'neath the conquerors tread, And lie white and still in the ranks of the dead Through silence forever unbroken, ' To you, my old heroes, my TEXAS BRIGADE, From, the dimness of death, from the cold of its shade, One last solemn charge must be spoken: `My faithful old followers, steady and true, My children are orphans, -I give them to you, A trust for your sacredest keeping. By the shades of the heroes who fought at your side, By the few who have lived, and the many who died, By the brave array silently sleeping. "By the charges I led, where you followed so true, When the soldiers in gray and the soldiers in blue, And the blood of the bravest was flowing, Be true to this last and this holiest trust, Tho' the heart of your leader has crumbled to dust, And grasses above him are growing." "Greeting To Hood's Brigade" By Maud J. Young Not with the tramp of martial train And the stirring roll of drum, Not with the trumpet's proud refrain Do you, our heroes, come. But we greet you with a gladsome pride, In your pure and spotless fame, No victor's crown could add a ray To the lustre of the name. Of Hood's Brigade. Its falchion's light Streams far o're land and sea; The dead bivouac,ed on a hundred fields — The sentinel's now with Lee. Courtesy of the L. S. Ross Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Hood's Brigade Reunion, Bryan, Texas, June 26, 1924, showing some of the veterans, their families and friends, 'sncluding John Bell Hood, III (the little boy). t- . C.. cis U Bryan - Houston - Victoria San Antonio - Commerce Cade Motor Company 1916 Brown -Allen Motor Co. Oldsmobile — Cadillac — Rambler CADILLAC "We Service What We Sell" SALES & SERVICE cl?amt re.7. 11Ws11It111 N. Main at 20th Bryan, Texas 1309 - 1700 Texas Ave P. O. Box 352 Phone TA 2 -1333 BRYAN, TEXAS Serving The Brazos Valley For Forty -Six Years 1962 Your own true hearts and dauntless arms Have covered it with glory, And while a Southerner treads the soil It will live in song and story. Peace has her victories, too, and these You have most nobly won — The heritage of ages pure, Bequeathed from sire to son. The principles of seventy -six, Though lost upon the field, Are yet sustained in faith by you, Who cannot, will not yield. The mounds that strew our native land Are watched by Heaven above, From Sharps burg to the Rio Grande, They've shrined in endless love. We think of them — thought can't be bound: We wept —tears can't be stayed: But Glory keeps her sentinel -watch Above each bloody grave. We pledge them now, in their warriors' rest, And again we pledge each other; Thank God! so many live today To say: "God bless you, brother!" Uncover all! Up to your feet We've guests ye cannot see; The dead have heard our long roll call, And answered it with Lee. They're here;. soul cries it unto soul: They see and love us yet; Living and dead together stand, And neither can forget. The Conquered Banner By the Rev. J. A. Ryan, Catholic Priest of Knoxville, Diocese of Nashville, Tenn. Furl that banner, for 'tis weary; Round its staff `is drooping dreary; Furl it, fold it, it is best; For there's not a man to wave it, And there's not a sword to save it, And there's not one left to lave it In the blood which heroes gave it; And its foes now scorn and brave it,— Furl it, hide it, let it rest. Take that banner down —`tis tattered, Broken is its staff and shattered, Awl the valiant hosts are scattered Over whom it floated high. Oh! 'tis hard for us to fold it, Hard to think there's none to hold it, Hard that those who once unrolled it Now must furl it with a sigh. Furl that banner, furl it sadly— • Once ten thousands hailed it gladly, And ten thousands, wildly, madly, Swore it should forever wave, Swore that foema's sword could never Hearts like their's entwined dissever, `Till that flag would float forever Furl that banner! softly, slowly, Treat it gently --it is holy — For its people's hopes are dead. Touch it not, unfold it never;, Let it droop there, furled forever, For its people's hopes are dead. O'er- their freedom or their grave. Furl it! for the hands that grasped it, And the hearts that fondly clasped it, Cold and dead are lying low; And the banner, it is trailing While aroud it sounds the wailing Of its people in their woe. For, though conquered, they adore it, Love the cold, dead hands that bore it, Weep for those who fell before it, Pardon those who trailed and tore it, And oh! wildly they deplore it, Now to furl and fold it so. Furl that banner! true 'tis gory, Yet, `tie wreathed around with glory, And `twill live in song and story, Though its folds are in the dust; For its fame on brightest pages, Penned by poets and by sages, Shall go sounding down the ages, Furl its folds though now we must. Fold It Up Carefully A Reply to "The Conquered Banner," by Sir Henry Houghton, Bart., of England Gallant nation, foiled by numbers, Say not that your hopes are fled; Keep that glorious flag which slumbers, One day to avenge your dead. First National Bank Caldwells Jewelers Varner Jewelers Sankey Park Edges Beverly Braley Franklins Joyces Real Hat Shop Pennys Guarantee Store Collegiate Shoppe K. 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Jarrots Pharmacy Ellison Pharmacy Romans Pharmacy Black Pharmacy Madeley Pharmacy Vicks Pharmacy Margolis Austin Shoe Stores Singer Sewing Center Sew 'n Sew Fabric Shop World Book Encyclopedia Taylors Variety Store Shaffer's Book Store Bryan Amusement Co. First State Bank & Trust Co. Be Sure To Visit THE, SCRIBE SHOP 211 W. 25th Bryan, Texas TA 3 -6705 Printing Souvenirs - Gifts c l 4 HOOD'S BRIGADE BRYAN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 1862 196'< BRYAN CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION 1862 1962 Keep it, widowed, sonless mothers, Keep it, sisters, mourning brothers, Furl it with an iron will; Furl it now, but —keep it still, Think not that its work is done. Keep it `till your children take it, Once again to hail and make it All their sires have bled and fought for, All their noble hearts have sought for, Bled and fought for all alone. All alone! aye, shame the story, Millions here deplore the stain, Shame, alas! for England's glory, Freedom called, and called in vain. Furl that banner, sadly, slowly, Treat it gently, for 'tis holy: `Till that day -yes, furl it sadly, Then once more unfurl it gladly — Conquered banner —keep it still! The survivors of Hood's Brigade formed on May 24, 1872, the Reunion Association of Hood's Texas Bri- gade, and held their first annual meeting in Houston, Texas. Through the efforts of the Association a mon- ument in memory of the brigade was erected on the capitol grounds in Austin and dedicated on October 27, 1910. During World War II, Camp Hood (later Fort Hood) was established near Killeen, Texas, and named in honor of Lieutenant General John Bell Hood. After the first reunion in Houston, the survivors of Hood's Texas Brigade held their annual meetings in various towns in Central and East Texas'. Their first meeting in Bryan was in 1876, but beginning in 1919 they made Bryan their regular place of reunion, and met annually through 1933. John Bell Hood, Jr., from Mississippi attended the 1924 reunion accompanied by his son, John Bell Hood, III. At that time, he addressed the veterans of his father's Texas Brigade, as he was to do at several subsequent reunions. The last survivor of Hood's Texas Brigade was John H. Roberts who died March 10, 1934. In June 1934, the descendants of mem- bers of the brigade met in Bryan for a special memor- ial service, but there have been no meetings since that date. Besides military service, the citizens of Brazos and surrounding counties contributed in other ways toward the war effort. Cattle were purchased for the Confed- erate Army through various agents including Captain Geoge H. Dunn, son of James Dunn and a well -known cattleman of Central and East Texas. In 1$63 the Confederate War Department undertook to foster the establishment of a combination cotton, woolen, and flour mill in Robertson County. As a means of financing the building of the factory, the Brazos Manufacturing Company, a joint stock company, was chartered by the state legislature, in which the leading cotton planters of the area subscribed a certain number of bales of cotton, for which privilege they would be permitted to export through Mexico an equal number of bales of cotton. Cotton was selling at that time at $1.00 a pound on the world market, but owing to the Union blockade of the coast could only be exported through Mexico. The subscribers of cotton to the Brazos Manufacturing Company were: Dr B F Hammond 100 bales The Talbots 100 bales Captain Charles P. Slater 100 bales Aaron Woods 50 bales Judge Robert Calvert 100 bales William Burnet 50 bales Courtesy of Mrs. F. L. Gilbert, Houston, Texas E. K. Goree, Huntsville, Texas, member Company H, Fifth Regiment, Hood's Texas Brigade, Army of North- ern Virginia. A president of Hood's Texas Brigade As- sociation and its Secretary and Treasurer for life. Our OF BACK OF Boon' "N BRA205 CotIvey DEED RECORDS. / y✓o-L�,�„ COQNT CLERK BRAZOS CO. TEX 2 - 22 -/936 c5o MAP of Tkc CiTy of f3 rya'? Brn:oa C Terns V J. E. Herndon 100 bales T. S. Hanna 50 bales C. 0. Barton 100 bales Thomas Anderson 100 bales Horatio R. Hearne 100 bales Charles Lewis 100 bales Volney Cavitt 50 bales Christopher Columbus' Hearne 50 bales Coleman Garrett 50 bales J. T. Garrett 100 bales Mrs. Mitchell 50 bales J. C. Roberts 50 bales W. P. Townsend 50 bales The machinery for the factory was imported from Europe by way of Matamoros, and brought by ox wagon to the factory site in the Easterwood pasture about five miles east of the present town of Hearne. Millstones for the mill were purchased in France for $2,000 each. It had been expected that the factory would be adjacent to the line that had been surveyed as the proposed route of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad extension from Millican. Captain Charles P. 'Slater was sent by the Confederate government to help get the factory in operation. He requisitioned every tenth slave from the nearby plantations and set them to making bricks and quarrying rock. The completion of the factory came too late to do the Confederacy much good, and after the war when the railroad went five miles to the west, the factory was dismantled and its brick and lumber hauled away, and only portions of its foundations may be seen. One of the two pistol factories in Texas during the war was that of the Dance Brothers and Park at 'Old Columbia which is said to have been the first ma- chine shop operated in Texas. The plant turned out both Army and Navy revolvers on the Colt model. When the Federal troops moved to capture the factory, the firm had time to move the pistol- making machinery to An- derson, Texas, where it continued to produce small arms, cannon balls, and other munitions for the Confederacy. The approach of the Houston and Texas Central Rail- road was the occasion for the founding of the town of Bryan. Chartered on March 11, 1848, by the Republic of Texas, the railroad began to build northward from Houston in 185 in 1856 it had reached Cypress; and in 1860 it reached Millican, and had built an extension from there to Brenham. Elliot Mc Niel Millican on De- cember 14, 1859, sold the land on which Millican is now located to the Houston and Texas Central Railroad. The town was quickly surveyed and the first lots were sold on January 11, 1860, to G. W. Daniel. In 1864 the town was incorporated by a vote of 14 to 1. In 1867 Wellborn had its birth from a construction camp along the route of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad. A right of way had been given to the railroad by William Joel Bryan, nephew of Stephen F. Austin, through his land in the northern part of Brazos County, and the route had been surveyed and graded as far as Hearne, but the coming of the Civil War altered any fur- ther construction beyond Millican until after the war. Having previously made a preliminary survey, William J. Bryan, in 1859 laid out, surveyed, and platted along the route of this railroad a townsite of 640 acres which was named Bryan in his honor. Land was set aside for a courthouse, a school, and a lot was given to the Meth- odist Church. The lots were rendered for taxation in 1859. The following year on April 9, William J. Bryan sold his interest in the town lots for $3,200 to Abram Groesbeeck and W. R. Baker, both members of the board of directors of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad Company. Although persons began to settle in Bryan before the end of the war as an extension of settlement from the adjacent town of Boonville and from other areas, more rapid settlement began in 1866. The Houston and Texas Central Railroad was the first of the Texas railroads to begin construction after the war. In 1866 it began to build northward from Milli- can, reached Bryan in August 1867, Hearne in 1868, Bremond in 1870, and Corsicana and Dallas, respectively in 1871 and 1872. The first train from Millican came into Bryan on August 29, 1867, at which time there was a gala celebration. It would be difficult to assign a particular date to the founding of Bryan, but when a townsite is surveyed, platted, and its lots rendered for taxation, there seems an indication of its founding. Its successful establish- ment depends upon settlement, and this came with the Civil War period and the extension of the railroad from Millican. As the railroad approached Bryan, an election was held in the county on October 15, 1866 to determine the future location of the county seat, and, by a vote of 190 to 42 it was decided to move the seat of county administration from Boonville to Bryan. The courthouse at Boonville, built in 1854, was soon thereafter sold by order of the Commissioner's Court to W. H. Bowman. In the meantime, however, in Bryan speculators had gained control of the lots surrounding the site of the new county courthouse in anticipation of profiteering off of businessmen who might be expected to develop a business district around the courthouse. The business- men were not to be taken -in, and instead of paying the exhorbitant prices demanded for lots, in an era when money was very scarce, purchased lots on the west side of the tracks along what came to be known as Main and Bryan Streets, and in the end large fine two -story frame houses came to be built around the courthouse, which contrasted sharply with the usual procedure in town development. The merchants backed their stores up to the railroad tracks to facilitate loading and unloading, and Main Street was laid out wide so that ox teams of three to five yokes hooked to a wagon would have suf- ficient room to turn around. From the front as well as from the rear the merchant could take freight directly into his store and send it on by rail wagon, or ox -cart. Mrs. Sara A. Dobson writing from Bryan Station, Brazos County, Texas, November 21, 1866, pictured con- ditions in Bryan as follows: "Brazos County is superior to Leon (County) —the BEST WISHES for a Happy Birthday Howell Lumber Company Bryan, Texas CONGRATULATIONS To The 100th ANNIVERSARY OF HOOD'S BRIGADE R. B. Butler, Inc. One Hour Cleaning — One Day Laundry 2 Convenient Locations 1315 Texas+ Ave. — 313 Main in College Station "Tips His Hat" Hood's Brigade -Bryan Centennial Let Us All Go Forward In The Next Hundred Years .. . y$STEADRY•g DIGNITY W. L. Ayers One Hour Martinizing And Laundry TODAY One Grows If One Builds On Integrity FUNERAL DIRECTORS Bryan S. College at Dellwood College Station one I have just been describing —in some respects, but the moral atmosphere is bad here. Stores are open on the Sabbath, country people come in and buy the same as on other days, wagons loaded with cotton and other goods are passing and repassing all the time; drinking, gambling, stealing, shouting, and horse racing fill up the picture. But I hope a better day is dawning, for last Sabbath, a Baptist church was organized here; and six- teen members united with it. If we had churches, schools, and good society, Bryan would be a very pleasant little village; for it is situated in the edge of a beautiful, high, rolling prairie, dotted here and there with a clump of trees, and abounding with cattle, horses, sheep, and goats as far as the eye can reach. Occasionally, a mule - eared rabbit crosses your path, and a bird of paradise, a wild goose, or blue crane flies over your head. At every step, curious pebbles and pieces of petrified wood meet your gaze . .. . The town is six miles west (east) of the Brazos river, and one hundred north of the city of Houston. Wpe will only stay here until Mr. Dodson completes the building of two houses ... This is a very healthy place, and the main rason why we came here. Cholera is in various parts of the country, but has not reached here yet. We are boarding at a hotel at fifty dollars per month; including everything except wash- ing." For approximately a year and a half Bryan was the terminus of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad, and enjoyed a great deal of business resulting from railroad construction and a wide sphere of trade activ- ity. During this time Bryan had a floating population of between 300 and 500 persons. Many of the business- men of Millican moved to Bryan between 1860 and 1837 and shortly thereafter. Among these were Milton Parker, president of the Millican Bank, being the oldest bank in the county; George T. Haswell businessman and one of the organizers of the Episcopal Church at Millican in 1864; J. Allen Myers; Major J. W. Tabor; and Colonel Henry Bates Stoddard. A jail seems to be a fundamental ingredient of an orderly society. The removal of the functions of county government to Bryan and the beginning of military rule during the days of reconstruction following the Civil War necessitated the construction of a jail. As a result, a single -room jail structure, ten by twelve feet square, commonly referred to as the "Bryan Sky Parlor" was constructed on the courthouse square in 1867 fifteen feet above the ground upon four logs stuck upright in the ground. The door to the room was reached by means of a removable ladder. Reluctant guests of the "Bryan Sky Parlor" included Isaiah Curd, B. South, I. L. Royd- er, and Jim Cooper. Following the race riots of July 1868, at Millican, in which a number of Bryan citizens became involved, Federal troops were dispatched to Mil- lican, Bryan, and Calvert to maintan law and order. No doubt the jail saw considerable use during these troublesome times. The troops serving in the Fifth Mil- itary District (Texas and Louisiana), on November 21, 1868, at Bryan 'Station were commanded by Brevet Major James Gillette, Captain of Company "K ", 15th Infantry. For ten years the "Bryan Sky Parlor" served as the county jail. Finally, in July 1877, a contract for the building of a more commodious jail was awarded P. Willman for $10,558. Upon completion it was to be the best jail in the state, if not was described as being supplied with with a file." "that cannot be cut Once more Harvey Mitchell was awarded a con- tract to build a new courthouse. In 1868 the contract called for the building of a courthouse in Bryan, the designated new county seat. Until the building could be completed Mitchell agreed to furnish to the county a courtroom free of charge. The two -story courthouse was constructed of brick, and was completed in 1871. Al- through possessing all of the modern conveniences of that day, surmounted by a large town clock, which cost about $900, the building was poorly constructed, owing to A. said in the South, and eight steel cages, Courtesy of Mr. Travis B. Bryan, .Sr., Bryan, Texas William Joel Bryan, nephew of Stephen F. Austin and original owner of the townsite of Bryan, was born in Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, December 14, 1815, and died March 13, 1903. The town that he projected is named in his honor. to the lack of skill on the part of the superintending architect and workmen. Its foundation soon began to give way and its walls, made of soft brick, cracked; but by constant repairs and re- enforcement it was made to last twenty years, and was finally torn down in 1892. In 1891 Mitchell explained that he had contracted during the Democratic administration to build a $30,000 building and, after having made many necessary purchases of material, the Republican Carpet- bag- scalawag administra- tion of Governor Edmund J. Davis came into office and "repudiated the courthouse contract in toto." After some time Mitchell was able to make an arrangement with the Republicans to erect the building, which he completed at a cost of $16,000 for which he only realized $6,500. In 1891 the County Commissioners sold the court- house to J. W. Johnson nd G. W. Morrell for the sum of $75.00, and made plans for the construction of a courthouse of stone. Ths courthouse was completed on November 1, 1892. The architect was Eugene T Hainer of Houston a. nd the contractor was .1. 1Vi. Brown of I,ittl Rock, Arkansas. The white sandstone used in its con - struction was brought from Comanche County and the red stone used in the trimming came from Pecos Coun- ty. Its total cost was $65,000. Finally, it was replaced by the completion in 1956 of the present multi - dollar large, modern, air - conditioned structure. Main Street, Bryan, Texas, 1867 The cedar on the courthouse lawn links the present history of Bryan to its past. The cedar was no more than a small sprout under the big hickory tree where court was first held in the county in 1841 at Ferguson Springs. The sprout was moved to Boonville when the county seat was located there, and later this same cedar was moved to the county courthouse square in Bryan when landscaping was being done for the 1892 courthouse. The State Legislature, by an act approved by the Governor on November 29, 1871, provided for the organ- ization of "the town of Bryan, in Brazos County, Tex- as," and the incorporation of "said town as the City of Bryan." The town was formally incorporated in 1872. The first city officials were appointed by the Republican controlled state legislature and were Alexander Ander- son, mayor, and A. B. Forman, Lemmel Preston, A. B. Bowman, Thomas Hall, and William Hoverman, aldermen. A visitor to Bryan in 1878 referred to the community as "the beautiful little city of Bryan." "The society of the city is excellent," wrote Mrs. Bella French, "and a most interesting social and literary feature of the city is the Library Association, which has a hall neatly furnished and supplied with a piano and a large and well selected library." 'Since the war and the coming 1 of the railroad the city had made considerable progress. It had two substantial private banks "; approximately fifty business houses; two lumber and grist mills; one gin and mill; one oil factory; two carriage and buggy factories; four hotels, and numerous boarding houses. There were two brick warehouses in 1878 for the stor- age of cotton; two public halls or opera houses; and four livery stables. Although the past year's cotton pro- duction was poor, on account of the worms, 11,500 bales of cotton were shipped from Bryan, and it was expected that the year 1878 would see some 18,000- 20,000 bales shipped from the railway station in the city. During the past year twelve cars of grain and thirty of live- stock had been shipped from Bryan, as well as 52,000 pounds of wool, 65,000 pounds of hides, and "other promiscuous freight (of) 4,446,800 pounds." Bryan was the trade center for the surrounding counties whose in- habitants found it convenient to sell their produce to merchants and commission agents in Bryan. Mrs. French, in the American Sketch Book, listed the following in 1878 as the most popular businessmen and firms of Bryan: J. P. Ayers, attorney -at -law, office over Parker & Flippen's bank. J. G. Anderson, life insurance agent. M. Bonneville, wholesale and retail dealer in liquors, groceries, dry goods, boots, shoes, hats, caps, etc. Buckholts & Gardiner, attorneys -at -law, and general land agents. W. R. Cavitt, attorney -at -law, office in brick build- ing southwest corner of courthouse square. Frank Clarke, cotton and wool factor, grocer and commission merchant. R. K. Chatham, cotton gin and mill factory. Dr. J. Cameron, physician. J. R. Cole, general merchandise. Charles Davis, cotton factor and commission ,mer- chant, office at Fulkerson & Davis' old stand. J. S. Fowlkes & Co., bankers, commission merchants and dealers in exchange. W. 11. Flippen, banker, successor to Parker and Flippen. Drs. Hall & Adams, physicians and surgeons. S. J. Howell, dealer in staple and fancy dry goods, notions, etc., postoffice block, Main street. Will A. Haswell, with Sam Hoffman, dry goods. J. W. Johnson, dealer in staple and fancy groceries, tobacco, cigars, etc., Main street. M. W. McCraw, attorney -at -law. David McIntosh, oil factory. A. D. McCormick postmaster. Dr. J. P. Mitchell, physician and surgeon. Male and Female Institute, W. W. James, principal of male department; W. H. Colman, A. B., principal of female department; Miss Sue McLelland, music depart- ment; Miss Fannie Rogers, painting and drawing. G. W. Norrell, druggist. P. D. Page, attorney -at -law. L. Spring with Julus Paris, dealer fancy dry goods, Main street. George W. Smith, grocery and commission house. C. L. Trigg, dealer in staple and fancy dry goods. E. L. Ward, dealer in dry goods, notions, boots, shoes, clothing, crockery and general merchandise. in staple and The American Sketch Book carries an interesting note on the newly established Agricultural and Mechan- ical College of Texas, which its author visited in 1878 and described as follows: "The pride of Texas, in an educational point, is the Agricultural and Mechanical College, which is situat- ed in this county, four miles from the city of Bryan. This College is the only State Institution of learning in Texas, and Brazos county was selected for its location as the most desirable portion of the State. The institu- tion is largely endowed by appropriations from both the National and State government. The College build- ings are models of architectural beauty, large and com- modious. The second session of the Institution opened in October with two hundred and eighty students in attendance. The faculty is composed of eight professors of the highest standard of excellence as scholars and tutors. Altogether, there is not a more superior college in the South. The entire expenses for a term of nine months, are covered by the sum of nineteen dollars, embracing two suits of uniform. The discipline is mil- itary and gives admirable satisfaction to all concerned. "The following gentlemen compose the faculty and officers: "Thos, S. Gathright, A. M., President and Professor Courtesy of Miss Lucy Harrison, Bryan, Texas Brazos County Courthouse, 1892 -1954. 1 Brazos Motor Company YOUR Studebaker Dealer Serving Bryan and the Brazos County Area Since 1924 CONGRATULATES Hood's Brigade On Their 100th Anniversary Congratulations and Best Wishes from Woodson Lumber Company BRYAN COMPLETE HOME Happy Birthday . . H. L. Whitley, Sr. from Culpepper Realty Builders and Insurance Bryan - College Station Developers Since 1937 — 1962 25 Years Congratulations .. . HOOD'S BRIGADE -BRYAN CENTENNIAL TOWNSHIRE SHOPPING CENTER of Mental and Moral Philosophy; Alexander Hogg, A. M., Professor of Pure Mathematics; R. P. W. Morris, Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy and Engineering; John T. Hand, A. M., Professor of Ancient Languages; C. P. B. Martin, D. D., Professor of Prac- tical Agriculture, Chemistry and Natural Sciences; Wil- liam A. Banks, A. M., Professor of Modern Languages; Capt. Geo. T. Olmsted, Jr., U. S. A., Commandant and Professor of Military Tactics; Louis L. McInnis, A. M., Adjunct Professor; Capt. James E. Binkley, Assistant Commandant and Adjunct Professor; D. Port Smythe, M. D., Surgeon; Gen. Hamilton P. Bee, Steward; Treas- urer, Prof. ;Morris; Secretary, Prof. McInnis." A Chronology Of Early Events In Bryan 1866 Post office moved from Boonville to Bryan. First Christian Church organized. First Baptist Church organized in a building that had been a tenpin alley and a saloon at the corner of South Tabor and East 27th Street; temporary seats were made by placing twelve -inch planks upon beer kegs. First general merchandise store established in Bryan at corner of 26th Street and Tabor Avenue by Hill and Mosley. First rooming house opened by Mrs. Sara Shaw. Houston and Texas Central Railroad reached Bryan. First telegraph line reached Bryan. Bryan News Letter began publication by Lambden Cunningham as a weekly and semi - weekly, and was described as "conservative" in politics. St. Andrews Episcopal Church organized in Bryan as a Parish, its members having been members of the Episcopal Mission at Millican who moved to Bryan because of the yellow fever epidemic at that place. First Presbyterian Church organized, and services were held bi- monthly in a warehouse until a church could be built. First Methodist Church organized. Harvey Mitchell commenced the operation of a small planing mill. Courtesy of Mrs. Lillian Brown, Wellborn, Texas Main Street Scene, Bryan, Texas, 1900 PLAN OF TOWN OF BOONVIL.LE SURVEYED BY RICI -1ARD CARTER, TOWN N. JONES AND WIRAM HANOVER 1 84-1 1868 First Christian Church built on corner of 27th and Texas Avenue. St. Andrews Episcopal Church constructed at corner of Parker Avenue and West 25th Street and known as "the Old Church." Present structure built in 1905. 1869 Chatham Gin Factory organized and located about one and a half miles north of Bryan. Bryan Appeal successor to the Bryan News Letter com- menced publication. First Presbyterian Church built on corner of Tabor and 29th Streets. First Methodist Church built on two lots donated by the Houston and Texas Central Railroad to the Methodist Episcopal Church, South in 1868. 1870 First oil mill in Brazos County established in Bryan in 1870 by William McIntosh and others and operated to 1885 when dismantled. 1871 Bryan Male and Female Seminary founded under charter from the State. Bryan Bridge Company incorporated to construct a bridge over Navasota River at a point of 20 miles northeast of Bryan. Officers of the company were W. L. Sanders, President; P. R. Smith, Secretary; and J. S. McLendon, T. T. Smothers, H. T. Dow - nard, J. S. Folks, C. H. Randolph, and J. N. Cole, directors. Carriage and buggy factory established in Bryan by D. D. Williamson; operated to 1880 when northern competition forced its closing. Central Texas Agricultural and Mechanical Association of Bryan, Texas, was formed with Harvey Mitchell, President; Spence Ford, Vice - President; R. E. Blandford, Secretary; Horatio M. Moore, Treasur- er; and J. S. Folks, O. P. Bowles B. H. Davis, C. A. Sterne, C. G. Moore, William B. Foreman, M. W. McCraw, and H. A. Moore, directors. The associa- tion was required to hold at least one fair a year in Bryan. Site for The Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas was picked adjacent to Bryan after Harvey Mitchell met with the locating Committee in Gal- veston and personally pledged 2,000 acres of land and $50,000 in cash to be raised within 48 hours which was endorsed in a subsequent meeting of prominent citizens of Bryan and Brazos County. May 25—the Bryan Real Estate and Building Association was incorporated to buy and sell real and person- al property. R. M. Moore, W. G. Bunger, C. F. Moore, 'Spence Ford, S. A. Conger, Frank Clark, 11. W. MdCraw, C. W. Gardiner, W. H. Flippen, and T. T. Smothers were charter members. Nov. 25 —the Bryan Real Estate, Building and Joinnt Stock Association was incorporated with 11. T. Downard E. L. Ward, T. J. Deering, and D. C. Barmore as organizers. Brazos County issued $3,000 in bonds to build a new jail. Nov. 29— Legislature provides for the incorporation of the City of Bryan. Dec. 1 —Bryan Manufacturing Company chartered to own, build, purchase, and erect buildings and ma- chinery of all kinds necessary for the •manufactur- ing process. Dec. 1 —Odd Fellows Hall Association of Bryan, Texas, was incorporated. Oil mill established. This was the second oil mill to be erected in Bryan. The principal original stock- holders were J. C. Burroughs, J. W. English, D. D. McComonico, J. N. Cole, J. L. Chance, and J. N. Cole. Texas Odd Fellows University and Orphan's Home open- 0 0 z o i 0 / O 00 / 0 MAP OF BRAZOS COUNTY SNOWING LOCATION OF PLANTATIONS IN 1659 AND RIVERS AND CREEKS 1872 0 � CpNE Pi co‘ p . /. o.,� 0 Q/ co/ 0 0 0 0 00 0 <p 0 4cw 0 ,. N3 C a 00 0 c, b 0 x ct 00 00 0 00 0000 0 608 S. College "Old Style Service" BURGESS CASHION HADDOX INSURANCE COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS "New Style Coverage" We have enjoyed doing business in Bryan for the past 16 years, and we are happy to be a part of this com- munity. Complete Departments Maternity, Infants Boys — 1 thru 18 Girls — 1 thru 14, ISubteens, Juniors, Misses BRYAN, TEXAS TA 2 -2864 VI 6 -6412 Home of Fine Photography AGGIELAND STUDIO COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS WE SALUTE HOOD'S BRIGADE from MADE LEY PHARMACY Southside College Station Prescriptions — Cosmetics Sundries and Fountain Service i ed and operated for three years. 1873 Nov. 29— Legislature provides for the reorganization of the City of Bryan. Money lending office established by Guy M. Bryan, Jr., who represented his father William Joel Bryan. 1875 Bryan Academy founded utilizing the facilities of the Texas Odd Fellows University and Orphan's Horne which its founders had bought. 1876 Brazos Pilot began publication as a weekly newspaper. First resident 'Catholic Priest came to Bryan. 1877 New County jail built under contract awarded to A. P. Williams for $10,558. Bryan Appeal ceased publication. Citizens of Bryan vote to establish a public school sys- tem and to levy an annual property tax for its support. 1878 St. Joseph's Catholic Church built. 1879 Harvey community begun six miles north of Bryan, and named in honor of Harvey Mitchell. 1880 U. S. Post Office building at corner of 24th and Main streets burned. First tax - supported public school in Bryan opened under the name of the Bryan Graded School. 1882 First Baptist Church moved to its present location at East 27th and Washington Streets. 1883 Tabor community, named in honor of John J. Tabor, was founded in the northern part of Brazos Coun- ty about ten miles from Bryan. 1884 First class graduated from the Bryan public schools upon completion of the tenth grade. 1886 1887 Bryan Compress Company organized and commenced operations. 1889 Bryan Water, Inc., and Electric Light Company, Inc., contracted to furnish water for the ci.y. Merchants and Planters National Bank chartered. Bryan Weekly Eagle commenced publication on Oct. 29. 1890 Compress of the Bryan Compress Company destroyed by fire; and a new compress was constructed. Bryan Water, Ice, and Electric Light Company, Inc., began to furnish water to the City of Bryan. 1891 Courthouse built in 1871 sold for $75.00. 1892 Brazos county's sixth courthouse completed. Bryan Telephone Exchange established and sold out to Southwestern States Telephone Co. about 1925. 1893 Bryan Morning Eagle begins publication. 1894 Free Will Baptist Church organized. 1895 Bryan's Woman's Club first organized as the Mutual Improvement Society. 1896 St. Anthony's Catholic Church built. 1897 United Daughters of the Confederacy organized. 1899 Smallpox epidemic in Brazos' county; a two -room "pest house" was built outside of Bryan for the use of all smallpox patients who could not be safely quarantined at home. Allen Academy, founded at Madisonville, Texas, in 1886 by John R. and Rivers Allen as The Allen High School for Boys, was moved to Bryan. 1900 International and Great Northern Railroad reached Bryan. First National Bank of Bryan chartered. Poultry packing plant established by Allen Smith. Bryan 214 S. Main TA 2 -1584 Serving Six Counties 201 Main - College Station VI 6 -5115 74te Davey Potaduce4 S an/tar '- FARM DAIRIES 1962 Serving All South - Central Texas 1928 Houston 2613 Texas Ave. TA 2 -4434 3502 Texas Ave. VI 6 -5114 Business League of Bryan formed by businessmen of Bryan— forerunner of modern Chamber of Com- merce. 1901 First automobile in Bryan owned by M. Boneville; it was an Oldsmobile (or a "Locomobile" as some said). Villa Maria Ursuline Academy, a Catholic school for girls, was transferred to Bryan after the Galves- ton hurricane of 1900 had badly damaged the academy's buildings there. 1902 Carnegie Library founded.. The Carnegie Endowment Fund contributed $10,000 for its construction upon land donated by the city. City National Bank successor to reorganized Merchants and Planters National Bank. New First Methodist Church built. 1903 Brazos County Bulletin commenced publication on April 12. Brazos County Signal commenced publication on October 3 as a prohibitionist newspaper. Texas Woman's College founded by the Bapists of Bryan. 1906 Compress of the Bryan Compress Company again des- troyed by fire; but rebuilt during the year. City ordinance prescribes a speed limit of 8 m.p.h. First Methodist Church destroyed by fire, March 19. New church built immediately upon the old foun- dations. 1907 Rural free delivery mail service established out of Bryan. 1908 Board of Health created for the city. First Christian Church builds new church building on site of their first building. First county school superintendent (William Parker) elected. 1909 Bryan's second city hall burned; the Bryan Fire De- partment was in the same building and it burned too. All City Minutes prior to 1889 were destroyed by the fire. Brazos Pilot and Bryan Weekly Eagle merged to form Eagle and Pilot. Sewer system with septic tank installed by the City to serve the business district. First State Bank and Trust Company founded. Bryan Baptist Academy, formerly Texas Woman's Col- lege, organized and operated by the Baptist Gen- eral Convention. Mutual Improvement Society changes name to Bryan Woman's Club. 1910 Commercial Club formed as successor to Business League of Bryan; 1931 -46 known as Bryan- Brazos County Chamber of Commerce; 1947 -49 name changed to Bryan and College Station Chamber of Commerce; 1950 -,59 called the Bryan Chamber of Commerce; and since 1960 has been the Bryan- College Station Chamber of Commerce. Bryan - College Interurban, Inc., commenced operation be- tween Bryan and The A. & M. College of Texas, a distance of five miles. Bryan Eagle successor to Eagle and Pilot. 1911 City purchased electric distribution system from the Bryan Wiater, Ice, and Electric Light Company for $7,650. Reading Club of Bryan organized. An eleventh grade added to the Bryan Public School System. 1913 Modern sewage disposal plant installed in the western part of the city. First auto truck bought for the fire department. Bryan Daily Eagle successor to Bryan Eagle. 1,914 City ordinance required registration of all automobiles operated within the limits of the city and set the registration fee at 25c each. Speed limit changed to 15 m.p.h in downtown districts and to 18 m.p.h in other districts of the city; and a speed limit of 6 m.p.h at intersections; unlawful for person under age 16 to drive unless accompan- ied by the owner of the machine. 4 -H Clubs first organized in the county. Present St. Andrews Episcopal Church building com- pleted. Bryan Baptist Academy discontinued operations; its buildings were sold and are currently used as apartment houses. 1915 First Federal owned building constructed in Bryan. Free city delivery of mail commenced in Bryan. 1916 Knights of Columbus organized. Daughters of American Revolution organized. 1917 Allen Academy became a military school. Red Cross Chapter founded in Bryan. Bryan adopted the Commission- Manager form of city government. 1918 Sewage disposal system extended to east side of city and another disposal plant constructed. First telephones installed. Bryan - College Interurban abandoned. 1919 City electric power plant and generating station and equipment from Bryan Power Company for $75,000. Rotary Club organized. 1921 1924 Elks Club formed. Lions Club formed. Bryan - College Interurban rails removed. 1925 East side sewage disposal system extended. 1.929 Villa Maria Ursuline Academy discontinued. Bryan City Officials Mayors June 1868 Nov. 1, 1869 -Jan. 1870 Thurmond, J. M. Jan. 1870 -Jan. 1872 Downard H. T. April 15, 1873 McLelland, Jas. B. Dec. 1874- Dec.1876 Ervin, L. Aug. 1874 Williamson, D. T. (acting) March 1876 -April 1877 Evans, J. R. March 1877 -Nov. 1883 Robinson, J. M. Nov. 1883 -Jan. 1885 Tabor, J. W. April 9, 1889 -Aug. 28, 1899 Adams, Cliff A. (resigned) Aug. 28, 1899 -Sept. 12, 1899 Tabor, R. G. (pro - tempore) Sept. 12, 1899 -April 1900 Harrison, R. H. (resigned) April 1900 -April 14, 1902 Mooring, J. S. Anderson, Alexander Aril 14, 1902 -April 3, 1906 Harrison, R. H. April 3, 1906 -April 6, 1908 Butler, J. E. April 6, 1908 -Nov. 8, 1912 Maloney, J. T. (resigned) Nov. 8, 1912 -Jan. 1, 1913 .,..Walker, G.C.S. (pro tempore) Jan. 1, 1913-April 20, 1917 Harris, W. W. April 20, 1917 -April 5, 1921 Lawrence, J. M. April 5, 1921- April 8, 1927 Haswell Tyler April 8, 1927 -April 12, 1929 Bradley, Wilson April 12, 1929 -April 10, 1931 Jenkins, E. J. April 10, 1931 -April 14, 1933 Jones, Forrest April 14, 1933-April 12, 1935 Stewart, N. A. April 12, 1935 -April 9, 1937 Johnson, 0. S. April 9, 1937 -April 14, 1939 Yeager, E. E. April 14, 1939- April 13, 1945 Langford, Ivan Nov. 13, 1942 -April 13, 1945 Yeager, E. E. April 13, 1945 -April 11, 1947 Langford, Ivan April 11, 1947 -April 1949 Vick, Roy M. April 1949 -April 13, 19!51 Dansby, Roland C. April 13, 1951 -May 1, 1954 Adams, Geo. E. May 1, 1954 -April 1955 Bernath, R. I., Jr. April 1955 -April 1957 Dishman, H. C. April 1957 -Died July 5, 1957 Vance, B. F. July 1957 -April 1961 Donaho, 0. B. April 1961 Naylor, John R. City Secretaries 1889 -1897 Carr, A. B. 1897 -1900 Rhodes, H. G. 1900 -1907 Spell, C. M. 1907 -1909 Clarke, Frank 1909 -1911 Hines, J. B. 1911 -1913 Derden Ed. S. 1913 Wicker, E. R. 1913 -1915 Moore, John 1915 -1917 Smith, Robert T. 1917 -1945 Bittle, Guy P. 1945- Dansby, Noah W. Brazos County Officials County Judges Jan. 30 -March 1841 Walker, Gideon (appointed by Congress) March 1841 -1844 Middleton, Samuel W. 1844 -1845 Spence, Isaac C. 1845 Prendergast, William M. D. 1845 -1848 Walker Skeaugh 1848 -1851 Head, Jame& A. 1851 -1854 Mitchell, Harvey 1854 -1866 Reed, Gillespie B. 1866 -1867 Perry James S. 1867 -1869 Anderson, Alexander 1869-1870 Thurmond, J' (VI. 1870 -1876 Downard, J. T. 1876 -1888 Barmore, D. C. Sept. 25, 1888 -Nov. 12, 1888 Brietz, A. C. (appointed to fill unexpired term of D. C. Barmore, deceased) Nov. 12, 1888 -1890 Buckholts, J. A. 1890 -1894 Harmon, W. H. 1894 -1896 Hudson, V. B. 1896 -1898 Harmon, W. H. 1898 -1912 Board, A. G. 1912 -1920 Maloney, J. T. 1920 -1928 Ferguson, H. 0. 1928-1934 MicSwain, A. S. 1934 -1938 Ferguson, John Marion 1938 -1958 Ware, A. S. 1958— Davis, W. C. 1841 -1844 Millican, Elliott McNeil 1844 -1847 Vess, William 18474850 Hudson, Leonard 1850 Johnson, Robert Johnson 1850 -Feb. 1852 Boyles, William C. Feb. -Aug. 18152 Robinson, Joseph T. Aug. 1852 -1854 Boyles, William C. 1854 -1856 Riley, James I. 1856 -1859 Hudson, S. E. W. (resigned) 1869 -May 1861 Hudson, Leonard May 1861 -Aug. 19, 1861 Mullins, A. B. Aug. 19, 1861 -1864 Hudson, S. E. W. 1864 -1865 Zimmerman, J. M. 1865 -1866 Hardy, Henderson 1866 -1868 Heill, John H. 1868 -1869 Erwin, L. 1869 Farrow, George W. 1870 -1880 Forman, W. B. (resigned) June 28, 1880 -Nov. 15, 1880 Dawson, D. D. Nov. 15, 1880 -Dec. 7, 1882 Mays, J. L. Dec. 7, 1882 -Nov. 13, 1890 Dawson, D. D. Nov. 13, 1890 -Nov. 26, 1904 Nunn, T. C. Nov. 26, 1904 -1908 Nall, R. M. 1908-1914 ■Conlee, Jno. D. 1914 -1918 Nunn, T. C. 1918 -1924 Morehead, L. E. April 1 -Nov. 19, 1924 Morehead, Mrs. L. E. (appointed) Conlee, Jess (resigned) Reed, Jim H. Nunn, Roy Reed, Horace Koontz, Henry Hamilton, J. W. Sheriff 1924 -Nov. 1, 1926 Nov. 1, 1926 -1934 1934 -1938 1938 -1941 Aug. 4, 1941 -1946 1946— Tax Assessor - Collector — 1 1841 Hanover, Hiram (Appointed Tax Assessor and Collector) 1841 Hanover, Hiram (elected Tax Assessor) 1844 Prendergast, Luke B. 1846 Callicoat, John B. 1847 Burton, Samuel (appointed Tax Assessor and Collector) 1848 Seale, C. C. (appointed to fill vacancy of Tax Assessor & Collector) 1865 -1866 Mitchell, H. 1866 -1869 Montgomery, S. W. 1869 Breal, Walter T. 1869 Moore, Frank 19344938 Harris, Guy 1938 -1942 Tatum, Earl (Preacher) 1942 -1952 Weedon, I. M. 1952 -1954 Burkhalter, Norton 1954 -1958 Burkhalter, Mrs. Marjorie E. 1958- Buchanan, Raymond 1 —See "Tax Assessor" Tax Assessor — 2 1841 -1844 Hanover, Hiram (elected) 1844 -1846 Prendergast, Luke B. 1846 Wood, John (appointed) 1876-1882 Harmon, W. H. 1882 -1884 Roberts, W. T. 1884 -1890 Peverly, H. E. 1890- 1892 Closs, J. T. 1892 -1894 Peverly, H. E. 1894 -1904 Nall„ R. M. 1904 -1912 McCollough, John H. 19124918 Smith, J. Sidney 1918 -1922 Darwin, J. M. 1922 -1930 Goen, Clyde F. 19304934 Worsham, James Frank 2 —See "Tax Assessor- Collector" Tax Collector — 3 1841 Millican, Elliott McNeil (Sheriff and Tax Collector) Johnson, Robert (Sheriff and Tax Collector) Callicoat, J. B. (Tax Collector) Forman, W. B. Dawson, D. D. Adams, James J. Payne, George F. (died in office) 1891 -1903 Adams, J. J. (appointed) 1844 1846 1872 -1880 1880 1880 -1890 Nov. 13, 1890 -1891 1903 -1904 Adams, George A. (appointed) 1904 -1914 Wipprecht, W. 1914 -1918 McCulloch, W. I. 19204929 Hudspeth, Roy 1929 -1932 Ferguson, J. M. 1932 -1934 Harris, Guy 3 —See "Sheriff" County Attorneys Jan. 7, 1868 -March 12, 1870 Brietz, A. C. March 12, 1870 -Sept. 26, 1870 Neale, W. T. Sept. 26, 1870- Cunningham, A. J. (did not serve) Sept. 26, 1870 -Sept. 30, 1870 Broaddus, A. L. (pro tempore for 5 days) Sept. 30, 1870 -1878 Cunningham, A. J. 1878 -1880 Cavitt, William R. 1880 -1882 Clark, L. W. March 1, 1882 -Nov. 20, 1882 Thomas, J. D. Nov. 20, 1882 -Nov. 24, 1884 Cavitt, William R. 1884 -1886 Hudson, V. B. 1886 -1888 Jones, Kit P. 1888 -1894 Hudson, V. B. 1894 -1898 Board, A. G. 1898-1900 Gainer, Charles) S. 1900 -1906 Nagle, M. 1906 -1918 Bethea, Lamar 1918 -1922 Minkert, J. G. 1922 -1926 McKenzie, Oak 1926-1930 Neeley, W. E. 1930 Ware, A. S. (appointed) 1931 -1937 McKenzie, Oak 1937 -1939 Allen, W. R. 1939 -1945 Bethea, Lamar 1945 -1947 Minkert, J. G. 1947 -1955 Grant, Davis 1955 -1961 Barron, John M. 1961- Cofer, David Brooks, Jr. 1841 -1845 Bowman, James I. 1845 -1846 Boyles, William 1846 -1850 Mitchell, Harvey 1850 -1854 Johnson, Robert 1854 -1859 McIntosh, David 1859 -1861 Floyd, Joseph T. Dec. 1861 -1862 McIntosh, David 1894 May 1862 Guest, James N. 1897 (clerk pro tempore) 1902 18624865 Wooten, Thomas 1904 1865 -1866 Cooper, Samuel 1910 1866 -1869 11NcIntos'h, David 1912 1869 -1870 Glasenapp, George N. 1915 1870 -1876 Moore, C. Frank 1917 County Clerks 1876 -1884 Hardy, Hammett 1884 -1886 Derden, S. M. 1886 -1890 Myers, J. Allen 1890 -1896 Barron, J. E. 1896 -1904 McMichael, G. W. 1904 -1910 Boyett, W. C. 1910 -1916 Higgs, W. S. 1916 -1920 Ferguson, H. 0. 1920 -1928 McSwain, A. Stewart 1928 -1932 McGee, Jesse B. 1932 -1934 Goen, Clyde F. 1934 -1940 Worsham, Frank 1940- Syptak, A. B. District Clerk 1841 -1850 Overton, James 1850-1862 Edwards, Arthur 1861-1865 Hudson, Leonard 1866 Perry, James 1865 -1866 Hubert, Beniamin 1866 -1867 Martin, G. W. H. 1867 Hardy, Hammett 1868 Martin, George 1869 Waldrop, J. C. 1869 Glasenapp, George W. 1869 -1875 Moore, C. Frank 1875 -1876 Hardy, H. 1876 -1880 Gillespie, J. C. 1880 -1882 Robinson, Jno. A. 1882 -1884 Adams, F. J. 1884 -1888 Buchanan, A. J. (elected) 1888 -1895 Board, A. G. 1895 -1899 Williams, J. C. 1899 -1904 Batts, J. W. 1904 -1905 Crouch, Frank 1905 -1906 Board, Guy M. 1906 -1908 Jones, H. 0. 1908 -1909 Suber, J. H., Jr. 1909 -1910 Boyett, C. E. 1910 -1928 Barron, J. W. 1929 -1933 Cobb, J. L. 1933- Cole, F. Thurston County Health Officers 16. 1891 Hall, Dr. F. M. Appleby, A. L. Tabor, Dr. G. R. Oliver, Dr. W. H. Harrison, Dr. R. H. Oliver, Dr. WL H. Sims, Dr. B. U. Harrisbn, Dr. R. H. Mondriek, Dr. A. L. 1918 Raysor, Dr. P. M. 1919 Mize, Dr. T. J. 1919 Mondrick, Dr. A. L. (filled unexpired term of T. J. Mize) 1923 Mondrick, Dr. A. L. 1924 Searcy, Dr. C. A. 1927 Harrison, Dr. R. H. 1933 Searcy, .Dr. R. M. 1939 Hunnicutt, Dr. R. J. 1942 -1945 U. S. Public Health Service Directors of Local Health Unit acted as City and County Health officers 1947 -1948 Waller, Dr. Alvin L. 1949 -1952 Brown, Dr. David E. 1952 -Dec. 1960 Harrison, Dr. R. Henry _ 1961- No one County Superintendent of Schools 1884 -1888 Barmore, D. C. 1888 Brietz, A. C. (appointed to fill unexpired term of D. C. Barmore, deceased) 1888 -1890 Buckholts, J. A. 1890 -1894 Harmon, W. H. 1894 -1896 Hudson, V. D. 1896 -1898 Harmon, W. H. 1898 -1907 Board, A. G. (served as County School Supt. until T. W. Parker was appointed) Aug. 12, 1907 Parker, T. W. (appointed) 1908- March 13, 1916 Parker, T. W. (elected) March 13, 1916 Williams, E. R. (appointed) 19164920 Powers, Wm. L. (elected) 1920 -1922 Smith, Eck 1922 -1928 McDonald, D. J. 1928 -1930 Vance, Frank M. 1930 -1932 McDonald, D. J. May 28, 1932 McDonald, Mrs. D. J. (appointed to fill unexpired term of D. J. McDonald) 1932 -1943 Neeley, Mrs'. W. E. (elected) 1943 -1947 Pearson, Luther (elected) 1947- Bunting, W. D. 4— County Judge served as County Superintendent of Schools, 1884 -1907. Brazos County Surveyors 1841 Tyas, Robert H. 1844 Love, William M. 1848 Seale, Joshua 1856 Hines, Bennett J. 1858 Mitchell, Harvey 1862 McIntosh, William 1864 Thompson, Frances A. 1866 Thompson, Frances A. 1868 Pierce, W. J. 1870 Purdy, Judson 1871 Thomas, J. B. 1873 . Thomas, J. B. 1876 Mitchell, Jeff P. 1878 Mitchell, Jeff P. 1884 Thomas, J. B. 1885 Mitchell, Jeff P. 1886 Mitchell, Jeff P. 1887 Thomas, J. B. (resigned) 1888 Mitchell, J. P. 1890 Camp, Ira S. 1892 Henderson, Sam R. 1892 Mitchell, Jeff P. 1894 Jones, Tom 1896 Lowery, F. S. 1898 Carson, A. B. 1899 Nagle, M. 1900 Jones, Dick 1902 Minkert, J. G. 1904 Bethea, Lamar 1906 Minkert, J. P. 1908 Edge, Monroe 1910 -1923 Jones, H. 0. (resigned) May 14, 1923 Minkert, J. G. (appointed) 1924 Endler, H. A. 1926 -1944 Minkert, J. G. 1944 -1946 Bittle, T. C. 1946 -1948 Minkert, J. G. 1949- Public surveyor hired when needed County Treasurer 1841 Reed, Wilson (elected) 1844 -1845 Burton, Samuel 1845 -1846 Rogers, William S. (appointed) 1846 -1847 Burton, Samuel (appointed) 1847 -1848 Johnson, Robert (appointed) 1848 -1852 Burton, Samuel (appointed) 1852-1861 Bowman, James I. 1861 -1867 McIntosh, William 1867 -1868 Gardner, Charles W. 1868 -1870 Farrow, George W. (died in office) 1870 Mordicie, Henry (died in office) 1870 -1871 Hall, Thomas J. 1871-1872 Ferrell, S. H. 1872 -1873 Downard, H. T. 1873 -1876 Banger, W. G. 1876 -1880 McLelland, James B. (died in office) 1880 -1884 Fulkerson, Isaac 1884 -1898 Carr, R. W. 1898 -1900 Buchanan, Amos W. 1900 -1912 Lawrence, J. M. 1912 -1918 Priddy, James B. 1918 -1920 Taylor, Tom E. 1920 -1926 Wilson, Mrs. Dova Elliot 1926 -1946 Montgomery, Roy 1946 -1952 Montgomery, Mrs. Jewel M. 1952- Elkins, B. V. In Remembrance of ... In honor of the members of L. S. Ross Chapter, U. D. C. and in memory of their ancestors who were members of the Confederate States Army In remembrance of Virginia (Jennie) Evetts Harrison (1866- 1940). Member of L. S. Ross Chapter, U. D. C., and her father, Samuel Givens Evetts (1833- 1893), Member of Co. F, 10th Regiment Texas Infantry, Confederate States Army. In remembrance of Robert Henry Chapter, Daughters of the Republic of Texas. "In memory of the pioneer families who settled in the Brazos Coun- ty Area before and during the Republic of Texas." Congratulations Bryan On 100 Years Of Progress Lee's Radio and TV, Bryan Shaffer's Book Store, College Station Joe Faulk Auto Parts, Bryan Jones Pharmacy, College Station Brazos Office Equipment, Bryan Lady Fair Beauty Salon, Bryan McCormick Sign Co. The Sheriff 7 -up Bottling Co. Royal Crown Bottling Co. McCormick - Coffer Outdoor Adv. Co. Bryan A. C. "Jack" Dean, 304 Grove, College Station, Rep. Brazos Adv., Inc., Waco, Texas Bailey's Dist. Co. Distributor for Lone Star Beer M. B. GOUGH 1111 S. College Ave. BRYAN, TEXAS dram (` ,a I ran -C allrge Stathnt unh on ' S Tariga:br (utcnnii1 LAWRENCE M. BEAL 408 S. College Ave. BRYAN, TEXAS L. H. COURTNEY 701 Sulphur Springs Rd. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS L. E. McCALL 815 Highway 6 S. COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS Iltimblc VISIT THE FOLLOWING HUMBLE PRODUCTS SERVICE STATIONS IN BRYAN AND COLLEGE STATION FOR . . . • Quality Enco Products • Unexcelled Service • Cleanliness W. F. DAVIS, Bulk Agent 1206 S. College Ave. BRYAN, TEXAS SAM MALAZZO 3404 S. 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