The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 42, July 1938 - April, 1939 Page: 260
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legislature and was headquarters of Colonel Santos Benavides
during the Confederacy. This information is set forth in a
pamphlet issued containing the program for the dedication exer-
cises when the monument was presented to the city. As a part
of the exercises Mr. Seb. S. Wilcox spoke on "TomAs Sanchez,
Founder of Laredo." Mrs. Claude Hamilton gave an account of
"The Five Monuments of Historic [mport Erected in Webb
County," and Hon. Robert Lee Bobbitt made the dedicatory
address.
During the meeting of the American Historical Association
at Chicago, the editor met a graduate student named Garth
who is coming to Texas in February to investigate the activities
of Charles Stillman of the Lower Rio Grande Valley. It was
Charles Stillman who founded in Texas the Stillman fortune
of New York. A descendant of Charles Stillman is sponsoring
the investigation. The Stillman papers have been presented
to Harvard.
Professor S. W. Geiser of Southern Methodist University, Dallas,
is interested in receiving information about early Texas scientists.
It seems that in the early days of Texas the Germans were among
the most careful naturalists and scientific observers. One of
these is Peter H. Oberwetter, a florist of Austin, who had a fine
knowledge of Texas botany. Professor Geiser says that Ober-
wetter lived in Austin many years, until his death, May 22, 1915,
and that many years ago "he wrote a grand paper in Schultze's
Jahrbuch on the ornamental plants of Texan flora."
George Squires Herrington, 300 West 12th Street, New York,
writes that his grandfather George Jackson Squires drove a herd
of cattle from Texas to Tllinois in 1854. He quotes the following
passage from The Genealogical and Biographical Record of Kendall
and Will Counties, Illinois, published in Chicago, 1901:
In February, 1854, Mr. and Mrs. (George Jackson)
Squires, with Mr. Bent, embarked in a new enterprise, going
to Texas to look for cattle. Mr. Bent, who was suffering260
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