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232 SIXTY YEARS IN TEXAS.
The official municipal history of Dallas in its
personnel has thus been given from the beginning
in 1856 to 1908, a period of fifty-two years, and the
personnel of the Mayors from 1856 to 1908, and
the voting population has increased from 92 to 12,742
legal voters in 1908. A few of the minor matters
and official positions have been omitted, since
1887. It is a compilation well worth preserving, and
in the time to come in the days of those grand fruitions
which to all human appearances are in store
for John Neely Bryan section and John Grigsby
league and labor, they will be held as invaluable
memorials of the early times and struggles of those
who have gone before to found on this favored spot,
at least speaking comparatively in this day of successive
marvels in the movement of population, a
great inland seat of commerce, manufactures, schools
and colleges and all those industries which in modern
times pertain to such an aggregation of enlightened
humanity in a country blessed by nature and by the
Ruler of all, despite an interval of disorder and
usurpation, blessed with free Democratic institutions
under which liberty reigns.
DISTRICT JUDGES OF DALLAS COUNTY,
1840 TO 1908
The following District Judges reside elsewhere
and have a large district, presided successively in
Dallas from the fall of 1846 to the year 1856: William
B. Ochiltree held the first Court in 1846, followed
by Amos Clark in 1847; Bennett H. Martin
served in 1848, then Oran M. Roberts came on in
1850, and in 1853 John H. Reagan served, and in
1856 the new District was created, and Nat M. Burford
elected and held the office until the spring of
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Jackson, George. Sixty years in Texas, book, 1908; Dallas, Tex.. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth20205/m1/246/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.