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Rogers Clark Ballard Thruston, son of Andrew Jacskon Ballard and Frances Ann Thruston, was born in Louisville, November 6, 1858, the younger of four sons and a daughter. At the request of his mother he assumed her maiden name when he was 16. He took the name “Thruston” by a decision of the Fayette Co. Court in 1884. Thruston remained a bachelor all his life. George Rogers Clark was his great-grandmother’s brother.
Thruston was educated at Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, CT., Williston Seminary, East Hampton, MA., and in 1880 was graduated from the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. After graduation he went to work with the Monon Railroad as a clerk.
He was with the Kentucky Geological Survey for several years, was engaged to buy property for the Interstate Investment Company, and had charge of the land department of the Kentucky Union Land Company. From 1895 to 1899 he was manager of the Big Stone Gap Iron Company of Virginia, selling out his mining interest 10 years later to take up his chief interest – history.
Saved Filson Club. Credit is given to Thruston for the saving of The Filson Club. In 1913 during the last illness of Col. R.T. Durrett, founder and president of the club, a large part of the clubs collection and Durrett’s library were sold, by mistake. Thruston went to the Durrett home, where the club met, salvaged relics that had not been sold and took them to his house where the club met during the following years. When the new fireproof building was constructed in 1929, Thruston, keeping a promise made many years earlier, gave the organization his historical library and collections and an endowment fund of $100,000 in income-producing securities. In 1940 he increased the endowment by another $50,000. A metal tablet honoring Thruston, “whose library and other gifts are a nucleus of these collections,” was placed in the club. In addition to giving the club his library and family relics such as the gloves and crepe that his father wore
The Laws of Slavery in Texas: Historical Documents and Essays 9780292793101
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★ SONS OF DEWITT COLONY TEXAS Additional comments and opinions by Don Guillermo can be found at the DeWitt Colony Feedback, Forum, and The Texas Web Consortium Forum. Responses to these opinions are solicited and appreciated. "Had the Mexican presidial system succeeded, would there still have been a Texas Revolution?" The following is based on the assumption that the question refers to the Terán recommendations of 1827-1829 that precipitated President Bustamante's Decree of 1830 and Commanding General of the Eastern Interior Provinces Teran's attempt to implement the decree, which unfortunately, had gone beyond his recommendations by including principles most objectionable to Texians: Art. 3. ...central government commissioners shall supervise the introduction of new colonists... Teran's strategy was to encircle the main settlements of Anglo colonization and control immigration and contraband trade. He stationed Col. José de las Piedras at Nacogdoches with 350 men, Col. John Davis Bradburn at Anahuac with 150 men, Col. Domingo de Ugartechea at Velasco where he built a fort, Lt. Col. Francisco Ruíz at Tenoxtitlán on the Brazos River (current Burleson County) who built and staffed a fort and Col. Peter Ellis Bean who occupied Ft. Terán on the Neches River. Terán was a sincere and well-meaning Mexican nationalist, his dream was that the series of military settlements and forts would serve as foci for subsidized native born Mexican and European immigrants, a system not unlike the earlier presidio-villa system in New Spain, but without the church's involvement. I belie .
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Texas Legal Studies Series Jason A. Gillmer and William S. Pugsley, Editors Texas’s rich legal heritage spans more than three centuries and has roots in both Spanish law and English common law, but this dimension of the state’s history is relatively unexplored. Books in the Texas Legal Studies Series, sponsored by the Texas Supreme Court Historical Society, will examine a range of topics, including state-specific studies and those with a regional or national focus.
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Publication of this book was supported by a generous contribution from Larry McNeill, President, Texas Supreme Court Historical Society. “The Law of Slavery in Texas” originally appeared as Chapter 5 of An Empire for Slavery: The Peculiar Institution in Texas, 1821–1865, by Randolph B. Campbell (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989), 96–114. © 1989, Louisiana State University Press. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. “The Texas Supreme Court and Trial Rights of Blacks, 1845–1860,” by A. E. Keir Nash, originally appeared in the Journal of American History 48, no. 3 (Dec. 1971): 622–642. © 1971, Organization of American Historians. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. “One Woman’s Fight for Freedom: Gess v. Lubbock,” by Mark Davidson, originally appeared in Houston Lawyer, January–February 2008, 10–15. © 2008, Houston Bar Association. Reprinted by permission of the publisher. “The Free Negro in the Republic of Texas: The Extent of Discrimination and Its Effects,” by Harold Schoen, originally appeared in the Southwester
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Art. 9. ...The introduction of foreigners across the northern frontier is prohibited under any pretext...
Art. 10. ...the government...shall most strictly prevent the further introduction of slaves.