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Meridian (pronounced muh-REE-dee-uhn by locals) is a city in and the county seat of Bosque County in Texas, United States. [4] It is forty-seven miles northwest of Waco. The population was 1,396 at the 2020 census. [5]
The majority of the Black and African American population of Texas lives in the Greater Houston, Dallas, and San Antonio metropolitan areas. [39] Native Americans are a smaller minority in the state. Native Americans made up 0.5 percent of Texas's population and number over 118,000 individuals as of 2015. [40]
Anthony David Stephen Smith [1] (23 September 1939 – 19 July 2016) was a British historical sociologist who, at the time of his death, was Professor Emeritus of Nationalism and Ethnicity at the London School of Economics. [2] He is considered one of the founders of the interdisciplinary field of nationalism studies.
Besides Smith, other early settlers of the community included David Smith and Aaron Lee. There were three cotton gins and other businesses in the community until cotton farming ended in the 1950s. The post office continued to operate into the 1980s, alongside a store and a gas station. Its population was recorded as 61 from 1980 through 2000. [2]
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Dr. Ashbel Smith of Texas. Ashbel Smith (August 13, 1805 – January 21, 1886) was a slave owner, pioneer physician, diplomat, and official of the Republic of Texas, Confederate officer and first President of the Board of Regents of the University of Texas. Smith helped lead efforts to keep Texas a Republic and slave state.
George W. Bush (born 1946), 43rd President of the United States (born in New Haven, Connecticut, but raised in Texas) Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890–1969), 34th President of the United States (born in Denison, but raised in Kansas)
Works by or about Arthur D. Howden Smith at the Internet Archive; Works by Arthur Douglas Howden Smith at Faded Page (Canada) Robert Kenneth Jones, Pulp Classics: The Lure of Adventure at Google Books – pp. 35–36, on Smith, "perhaps the most series-minded" Adventure writer; Arthur D. Howden Smith at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database