Biography of José Antonio Navarro, written by an Old Texan. Page: 4 of 30
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4
BIOGRAPI-Y OF
offered them of acquiring a thorough education; and as
San Antonio de Bexar was the most frontier population of
the then Kingdom of Mexico, it can be readily understood
that the sons of DON ANGEL NAVARRO had no opportunities
of receiving more than a common education. DON ANGEL
himself was a man who had seen much of the world, having
passed the flower of his life in the Spanish army, and
having had the additional advantage of receiving a thorough
education in the Military College at Ajaccio, a city made
famous as having given birth to NAPOLEON BONAPARTE.
Jose ANTONIO NAVARRO was born in San Antonio de
Bexar, the 27th of February, 1795. At this time his father,
though largely engaged in commercial enterprises, with an
abnegation of his own interests for the public weal worthy
of a Brutus, was fulfilling the functions of the highest municipal
offices to which it pleased his fellow citizens to
induct him, with a probity and singleness of purpose proverbial
to all who knew him, while his firmness in sustaining
what he believed to be just was akin to fanaticism.
"Bread is Bread, and Wine is Wine," was a favorite
saying of DON ANG(EL, the Corsican, a metaphor he was
wont to use to characterize the plain talk in contra-distinction
to exaggeration.
Joss ANTONIO manifested, at an early age, a hilgh splritedness,
an almost worship of anything ennobling and heroic,
a pride in the strict performance of his obligations, and a
determination in his juvenile enterprises, which naturally
made him not only prominent among the youths of his
native city, but drew upon him the respect of his elders.
His father, amiable as3ie was strict in the domestic education
of his family, could not conceal his predilection for
his third son; and frequently embracing lhim in his arms,
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Biography of José Antonio Navarro, written by an Old Texan., book, 1876; Houston, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth6579/m1/4/?q=San+Antonio: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.