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Early Presbyterianism in Texas
Let me add here that there was always the warmest friendship
between the two schools, the brothers went to Baylor while their
sisters were students at Live Oak Seminary. In my childhood,
Rev. Dr. Wrn. Carey Crane, President of Baylor University, and
Rev. Dr. J. H. Luther, President of Baylor Female College,
preached often at the Baptist Church near our home and came
time and again as honored guests in our house.
Of Walker County and Huntsville, De Cordova. says:
Austin College [now at Sherman]. The prosperity of this college
is looked forward to with much anxiety by the friends of education
throughout the State. They have already erected, on a command-
ing eminence, a beautiful building, have obtained the services of
able professors, laid the foundation of a good library, and procured
chemical and philosophical apparatus, and placed the institution
under the direction of an enlightened and efficient board of trus-
tees, who appear determined to make it an ornament to the town
and a credit to the State. The students number now over a hun-
dred, and, from the high reputation that this college has de-
servedly obtained, there is no. doubt that it will receive an in-
creased patronage. .
Board of Trustees: Rev. Daniel Baker, D. D., Ex officio Presi-
dent, Rev. J. W. Miller, Rev. R. H. Byers, ilon. Sam Houston,
Judge A. S. Lipscomb, James A. Baker, Esq., A. J. Burke, Esq.
(afterwards Mayor of Houston).
Faculty of five in Academic Department. Hon. Royal T.
Wheeler (a Supreme Court Judge) was chosen Professor of Law
in this college in 1858.
The Austin College Quarterly in its semicentennial number of
October, 1902, speaks thus of Rev. J. W. Miller, D. D.
Official Roster-Trustees 1850: Daniel Baker, J. W. Miller,
G. C. Red, Henderson Yoakum, Sam Houston, Hugh Wilson, A. J.
Burke, R. Smither, J. Branch, J. C. Smith, J. Hume.
Anent the establishment of Austin College the same says:
The next meeting of Presbytery was held at Washington (old
capital) June 21, 1849. At this time action concerning a loca-
tion at Goliad was rescinded, owing to its being so far West. A
committee consisting of Daniel Baker,' J. W. Miller and Blair
was appointed to select a central location for a college. This
committee reported to a called meeting held at Prospect Church
[where the Miller Home now is] Oct. 13, 1849, recommending
Huntsville. The report was adopted, a charter was drawn up, a
board of trustees selected, and a principal teacher secured. When167
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