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Pages in category "1835 in Texas" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Anahuac disturbances; B.
Texas A&M University-Sons of DeWitt Colony Texas: Letter of Peter Ellis Bean to US President Andrew Jackson September 11, 1835; Texas Indian Papers 1837, census of tribes in the Republic, attitudes of the Yowani Choctaws and allied Chickasaws of Attoyac Bayou, Nacogdoches District
New York did not conduct a census in 1885 because its Governor David B. Hill refused to support the proposed census due to its extravagance and cost. [16] [17] Governor Hill objected to the idea of spending so much state money on a state census that was as extravagant as the 1880 U.S. Census. [16] [17]
By 1835, the town's population had increased to around 600. [6] It was home to the first post office and one of the earliest newspapers and land offices in Texas. San Felipe was second only to San Antonio as a commercial center of Texas. The Texas conventions of 1832 and 1833 and the Consultation of November 3, 1835, were held here. San Felipe ...
Two years later, the Mexican census recorded William as being 44 years old and living with his wife and eight children. [3] A blacksmith by trade, Kincheloe received a land grant of a league of land on July 8, 1824. He later donated the land on which the Wharton County courthouse stands, and died in 1835. [5]
The 1826 census described Best as a farmer and stock raiser between forty and fifty years of age. His household consisted of his wife, three sons, two daughters, and four slaves. Best may have lived at San Felipe in 1833, when William B. Travis issued a subpoena for him as a witness in a case against Isaac Clower.
The first railroad built in Texas is called the Harrisburg Railroad and opened for business in 1853. [21] In 1854, the Texas and Red River telegraph services were the first telegraph offices to open in Texas. [21] The Texas cotton industry in 1859 increased production by seven times compared to 1849, as 58,073 bales increased to 431,645 bales. [22]
Santa Anna's invasion of the territory after putting down the rebellion in Zacatecas provoked conflict in 1836, and between 1835 and 1836, the Texian forces fought and won the Texas Revolution. Although not recognized as such by Mexico, Texas declared itself an independent nation, the Republic of Texas. Attracted by the rich lands for cotton ...