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Wealthy Texans, 1870
in Texas." Many were listed in the federal census with children born
in Texas prior to the Civil War, and several were listed on tax rolls
of the Republic.20
The majority of the wealthy Texans of the Reconstruction period
were "self-made" men who came from humble family backgrounds and
had had little formal education. Some-such as William Herndon who
graduated from Mackenzie College, John Robertson who attended Har-
vard Law School, Samuel Maverick who received a B.A. degree from
Yale, and George W. Paschal who completed course work at the
Georgia State Academy-were college trained,"' but the majority were
not so well educated. English-born Thomas W. House started his
career as a baker in the old St. Charles Hotel of New Orleans; John
Sealy and Henry Rosenberg were clerks in mercantile stores; and
Richard King went to sea as a cabin boy after only eight months of
formal schooling. At least three of the group, William J. Hutchins,
J. D. Giddings, and Mifflin Kenedy, were onetime school teachers,
although their own formal education had been limited to the common
schools.
Some of the wealthy Texans of the Reconstruction period played
active roles in public life. Four-E. B. Nichols, John C. Robertson,
E. S. C. Robertson, and F. S. Stockdale-were members of the secession
convention of 1861," and one, Samuel Maverick, was a member of
the Texas convention of 1836." Two of the group, Robertson and F. S.
Stockdale, later served in the constitutional convention of 1875."
William J. Hutchins had been mayor of Houston, Joseph R. Mor-
ris was serving as mayor of Houston in 1870, and William R.
1'Ibid., I, 372. For more on Coleman see A. Ray Stephens, The Taft Ranch (Austin,
1964), 9-10, 21-22, 37-40, 54-57-
2oAmong these were Thomas Adams, E. S. C. Robertson, Samuel Maverick, William
Bryan, Robert Mills, and Matthew Cartwright, husband of Amanda Cartwright, one of
the wealthy Texans of 1870. See Gifford White (ed.), The z84o Census of the Republic
of Texas (Austin, 1966).
21Webb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, I, 802; II, 161, 343, 487.
"2Ralph A. Wooster, "Analysis of the Membership of the Texas Secession Convention,"
Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXII (January, 1959), 322-335-
2"Webb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, II, 161. See also Rena Maverick Green,
Samuel Maverick, Texan, z803-z870 (New York, 1952).
2"Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas, x875 (Galveston,
1875), 3-4. None of the wealthy Texans of 1870 served in the conventions of 1866 or
1868, and none were serving in the 1870 legislature. Seven of the wealthy Texans of 186o
were serving in the legislature of that year. Charles Hale, "Political Leadership in Texas
During Reconstruction" (M.A. thesis, Lamar State College, 1965), 18-23, 40-46, 70-78.
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