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was appointed by General Houston commissary
general of the Texan army, which appointment
was confirmed by President Burnet, on the twentysecond
of May following. He was present and
took an active part in the battle of San Jacinto,
-on the twenty-first of April, 1836, and after the
engagement had the charge and care of all the captured
property, consisting of arms of all kinds,
horses and mules, and a vast amount of specie.
He was an intimate personal friend of John C.
,Calhoun ; a Master Mason holding a diplonma from
the Grand lodge of Texas issued in 1847; was a
member of the Episcopal church, and was the
senior surviving staff officer of the Texan army
-of independence. On the seventeenth of March,
1876, he was appointed colonel and aid-de-camp of
the governor by Richard Coke.
IIe died in Nacogdoches, Texas, at the residence
of his daughter, Miss Sarah M. Edwards, widow
-of the late General Haden H. Edwards. He was
sick but a short time, suffering acutely until just
before he died, when lie became easy, and passed
away from this sphere, on which he played an active
part, and of which he had so long been a
-close observer, like one who lies down to take an
*evening s rest.
0))ODRICHC, WASHINGTON EDMLUND),
y^_^ lawyer of Seguin, Guadalupe county, was
born in Davidson county, Tennessee,
June 20, 1829. He was the son of
Sterling Washington Goodrich amd Mary Amanda
Goodrich, seemingly descended from the union of
collateral branches of a most distinguished English
family. His father pursued agricultural pur-suits
in Travis county,, Texas, subsequently removing
to Austin, where lie died in 1868. The subject
of this memoir was brought up in Tennessee.
He attended the best schools his native place afforded,
and obtained a more than ordinary knowledge
of the Latin, Greek and French languages.
Having acquired a liberal education, he determined
to become a lawyer. In pursuance of that design
Ihe began to read the elementary works of jurisprudence,
and in 1851 was legally licensed to practice
the profession. After admission to the bar lhe
taught school for some time, but in 1854, feeling
fully competent to appear in the courts as an advocate,
he settled at Seguin, where he inmnediately
opened a law office, and where lie has since resided
as a successful attorney and counselor at' law.j r t tJ A. .65
He served as mayor of Seguin in 1858, and represented
a large and intelligent constituency in the
legislature in 1861-62->-3. Afterward lie joined the
Confederate army in the civil war as a private soldier
in the Eighth Texas infantry, and displayed
the qualities of a patriotic citizen soldier. He is
emphatically a lawyer and not a politician, though
upon political questions lie is a firmi and consistent
Democrat. Public position he has in the main
ignored, and has no ambition for (listiinction in
that direction. He married Miss Saralh A. Dismukes,
of Tennessee, a most worthy and estimable
lady.
L AN7Y, WILLIAM SHELBY, lawyer, Columbus,
Colorado county, was borin in
rnion county, Kentucky, September 18,
1825. His parents were Henry Field
Delany, a native Virginian, and Rhoda Prince, of
Kentucky nativity. His father became a lawyer ( f
prominence in Southern Kentucky, but finally abandoning
the legal profession he embraced theology,
and was celebrated as a clergyman of the Cumberland
Presbyterian church. He died in Kentucky in
1832. The Delany family are of English extraction.
His mother was the daughter of a pioneer farmer of
Kentucky, and founder of the town of Princeton,
the county seat of Caldwell county, which was
named after hitm. HIe was one of the first tliree
associate judges in that county.
The subject of this brief memoir waLs brought up
in Kentucky. At the requisite age he entered
Cumberland college, and in 1847 graduated. Subsequently
he was elected professor of mathematics,
and afterward transferred to the chair of ancient
languages in his Alma Mater. In 1852 he resigned
hlis professorship. During the time lie was engaged
as an educator lie had devoted his leisure hours to
reading law, and upon application to the court ill
1852 was admitted to the bar.' In 1854 lie established'hilmself
as a lawyer at NMemphis, Tennessee,
afterward locating at Nashville. In 1860 lihe came
to Columbus, Texas, where lie has since resided,
engaged in the prosecution of a lucrative practice.
JTust previous to the initiation of the civil war-in
fact during the penidency of the presidential contest
--he took a decided and emphatic stand in -favor
of the Bell and Everett ticket. In 1862 he was
elected district attorney, and re-elected in 1864.
In 1873 lie was elected to the State legislature.
He is a Jeffersonian Democrat in his political
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