The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956 Page: 496
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Father of Texas, which is located on a tract of land granted by
the Republic of Texas to Sam Houston, one of the founders of
the Philosophical Society of Texas, and which was the home-
stead of Thomas J. Rusk where he lived for many years and
died-another founder of the society.
Many persons have been charmed by the Anna Raguet Room
of the Fredonia Hotel, which was named for a beautiful maiden
of Nacogdoches of the early 1830's who was a great friend and
admirer of General Sam Houston and who sponsored him when
he was baptized into the Catholic Church, which was required
of him on becoming a Mexican citizen. General Houston kept
up a lively correspondence with Anna Raguet during the retreat
before Santa Anna prior to the battle of San Jacinto, which
letters are of great historical interest. Anna Raguet later mar-
rier Dr. Robert Anderson Irion, a member of Houston's cabinet
and one of his closest friends, who gave his name to the beautiful
hill on the old San Antonio Highway or El Camino Real just
west of town, and who also was one of the founders of the Phil-
osophical Society of Texas.
From the foregoing, it is evident that the people of this city
and section from the earliest times have taken great interest in
politics and generally in public affairs. The present president of
the Philosophical Society, Jesse Andrews, is the senior member
of one of the oldest and one of the most distinguished law firms in
this state. In talking with him the other day, I remarked that I
believed Nacogdoches had been the site of perhaps an even more
distinguished law firm-at least it was the site of the only law
firm in history, so far as I know, that had been actually con-
sumed in patriotic public service. This was the firm of Rusk,
Henderson, and Anderson which had offices both at Nacogdoches
and San Augustine. Anderson, the youngest member of the firm,
was elected as last vice president of the Republic of Texas and
died in office just a short time before Texas joined or was annexed
to the Union. On the lowering of the flag of the Republic and
the raising of the flag of the Lone Star State of the American
Union, James Pinckney Henderson, another of its members, be-
came the first governor of the state, and at the same time Thomas
J. Rusk, the remaining member of the firm, became (along with
Sam Houston) one of our first United States senators.496
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 59, July 1955 - April, 1956, periodical, 1956; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101162/m1/524/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.