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... Clark, a founder of Add-Ran College, later renamed Texas Christian University. The next month, Dr.... The family stayed a short while in Lamar County, Texas, where a child was born, before moving to Collin
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... Clark, a founder of Add-Ran College, later renamed Texas Christian University. The next month, Dr.... The family stayed a short while in Lamar County, Texas, where a child was born, before moving to Collin
... federal records for his Texas Christian University master's thesis. Watt Grayson was a wealthy Creek... to the home of a friend, Henry Russell, in Lamar County. The Denison Daily News later told, "The evidence
... Mirabeau Lamar, like Charles III of Spain, believed a school system should be endowed with land. Land... was Texas' only wealth. In response to President Lamar's request, 52,000,000 acres were set aside in Texas
... were subscription schools; that is, the parents paid the teacher. In 1838, President Mirabeau B. Lamar..., a plan was adopted and land granted to each county for the support of schools. Because of this, Lamar
...; John and Edward Stephens, of Lamar County, Alabama; Daniel Slack, of Mississippi; and Richard H. Lock.... (This is where the present county line between Lamar and Fannin Counties is located.) 298
... to escort her to Lamar County, however, it was Morris who went with Russell. Morris later testified, "His... in the head and once in the right side." The sheriff of Lamar County, unnamed in reports, testified
... Mirabeau B. Lamar, in 1838, adopted a plan ranging from primary schools to universities. A total of 17, 712.... For this endowment, Lamar is considered the "Father of Education in Texas." When Texas became part of the United
... His other son, Joseph Clark Baccus, first married Lucinda Boren in Lamar County. They had three
... the administration of President Mirabeau B. Lamar and during President Sam Houston's second term. In December, 1844
... during the 1830s and settled at Galveston. During the administration of President Mirabeau B. Lamar
... treated unjustly. Following the presidency of the tolerant Houston and that of President Mirabeau B. Lamar
... in 1845. A child was born in Lamar County before the family moved to Collin County in 1846. Three more
... the river to where Bois d'arc Creek enters the Red (at the present-day line between Fannin and Lamar
.... President Mirabeau Lamar favored a site on the Colorado, which was named Austin, as the capital of Texas
... square townsite, eight blocks, east and west. Streets were named Houston and Lamar: Jackson and Polk
..., Texas began acting like a proper nation and got a mite ambitious. President Lamar had hoped to get New
... enrolled over at Clarksville and at Boston, and in Lamar County. Captain William Dagley, that had a place
... counties were the north Texas counties of Cooke, Fannin, Jack, Lamar, Montague and Wise - a total area
... to come to Texas. He settled near Paris, in Lamar County. Although a quarter-section west of Allen
... Stephens, of Lamar County, Ala.; and Daniel Slack of Mississippi had chartered Capt. Benjamin Crook
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