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Special Thanks

To the Sherman Public Library; To Susan Hawkins for scanning; To Alice Patton for the use of her book; and to Christine Haw for the indexing.

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Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas

Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public and Many Early Settled Families. Chicago: F. A. Battey & Company 1889

"That the representative public, as well as the more illustrious citizen, is entitled to to the privileges and benefits afforded by a work of this kind needs no assertion at our hands, for one of our greatest Americans as said that the history of any county resolves itself into the biographies of its stout, earnest, progressive and representative citizens. This medium then serves more than a single purpose; while it preserves biography and family genealogy, it records history that probably would not be preserved in any other way; the expediency therefore, of placing biography and genealogy in book form is beyond question."

Front Cover

scanned image of the outside spine of The Biological Souvenir of the State of Texas     scanned image of the front cover of the Biological Souvenir of the State of Texas



Original Title Page

Original Preface