Texas   The Lone Star State

T Y P E S

OF

SUCCESSFUL MEN

OF TEXAS

BY

L. E. DANIELL
Author of the Personnel of the Texas State Government

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"Tis not in mortals to command success, but
We'll do more, Sempronius, we'll deserve it

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PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR

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AUSTIN, TEXAS:
EUGENE VON BOECKMANN, PRINTER AND BOOKBINDER
1890.

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PREFACE.

We make no apology for the publication of this work; we feel that it will be interesting, and will find a host of appreciative readers. Everything that pertains to Texas is read with interest, — recently a terra incognita — the home of the buffalo and the savage, later of the cowboy and the cayote,—it is now an empire of civilization teeming with its millions of educated inhabitants, the home of skilled industry busy in the development of its tathomless stores of wealth; producing one-fourth of the cotton exported from the United States;—a State which has the finest school system and the largest school fund in the world. The present and coming generations will, we feel assured, read with interest the details in the lives of those men who have been foremost in that grand development; who have shaped the destiny of the State, made its beneficent laws, wrought order and system out of confusion, and given the Lone Star State its position in the galaxy of sister States in the Union; men who have built up colossal fortunes in the peaceful pursuits of life, or achieved renown in her legislative halls.

Man is most unstable; generations spring up, strut their brief hour on the stage, and disappear to be succeeded by others, who, but for their foot-prints—the record of the biographer—would know nothing of them. Such records stand as beacon lights to guide us, as adown the ages we go, to eternity.  Men perish, but the good they do live after them.

"The good, thro' all the ages 
Ling'ring in historic pages, 
Ever gleam and grow immortal."

In this volume we have endeavored to present a type of the men "successful" in the various walks and pursuits of life. Here are recorded the data in the life and career of the artisan, the tiller of the soil, the architect, the soldier, merchant, jurist advocate, physician, the speculator, the herdsman, the teacher, the minister of the gospel. Defective we know the work is, yet should it serve the purpose for which it was written — to preserve from oblivion the antecedents of representative men of Texas of this day and generation —the author will feel amply repaid for his pains. 

L. E. DANIELL.