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Harry McNevin said that in 1988 the ORU Board of Regents "rubber-stamped" the "use of millions in endowment money to buy a Beverly Hills property so that Oral Roberts could have a West Coast office and house." [54] In addition, he said a country club membership was purchased for the Roberts' home. The lavish expenses led to McNevin's ...
1833 map of Coahuila and Texas; Austin's Colony is the large pink area in the southeast.. The "Old Three Hundred" were 297 grantees who purchased 307 parcels of land from Stephen Fuller Austin in Mexican Texas.
Robertson's Colony was an empresario colonization effort during the Mexican Texas period. It is named after Sterling C. Robertson , but had previously been known by other names. It has also been referred to as the Nashville Colony, after the Tennessee city where the effort originated, the Texas Association, the Upper Colony, and Leftwich's ...
Sterling Clack Robertson (1785–1842) was an empresario from Tennessee, during Mexican Texas.He introduced 600 families into Robertson's Colony.Robertson was also an elected delegate to the Washington-on-the-Brazos convention, signing both the Texas Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the Republic of Texas.
British North America comprised the colonial territories of the British Empire in North America from 1783 onwards. English colonisation of North America began in the 16th century in Newfoundland, then further south at Roanoke and Jamestown, Virginia, and more substantially with the founding of the Thirteen Colonies along the Atlantic coast of North America.
Texas officials were at the moment deeply engaged in exploring settlements with Mexican diplomats, facilitated by Great Britain. Texas's predominant concern was not British interference with the institution of slavery – English diplomats had not alluded to the issue – but the avoidance of any resumption of hostilities with Mexico. [72]
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Finis Alonzo Crutchfield Jr. (() August 22, 1916 [1] – () May 21, 1987 [2]) was a noted American clergyman and a bishop in the United Methodist Church.He began his pastoral career after graduating from Duke University Divinity School in 1940.