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From: Hal McCawley <>
Subject: Re: [KYMONTGO-L] Holman
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 15:05:27 -0800
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Sharon, what is the URL for this Handbook site? Sounds very
interesting? What do you think it includes??
Hal

Sharon Karns wrote:

>Handbook of Texas Online: HOLMAN, JAMES SANDERS
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> HOLMAN, JAMES SANDERS (1804-1867). James Sanders
>Holman,
> soldier, public official, and entrepreneur, the son
>of
> Isaac and Anne (Wigglesworth) Holman, was born in
> Harrison County, Kentucky, on February 7, 1804, and
> moved to Lincoln County, Tennessee, in 1817. In 1822
>he
> married his cousin Martha Wilson Holman; they had
>nine
> children. Holman and his brother, William W. Holman,
> arrived in San Augustine from Tennessee in the fall
>of
> 1834. Their father and two younger brothers arrived
>by
> the end of the year, and their mother and three
>sisters
> arrived on March 21, 1835. James Holman fought in
>the
> siege of Bexar, for which he was awarded land by the
> Republic of Texas and later by the state.
> By 1836 Holman was an agent of Augustus C. and John
>K.
> Allen, the founders of Houston. Signatures of
>Holman,
> the Allen brothers, and Thomas J. Gazley, a signer
>of
> the Texas Declaration of Independence, are on the
> original 1836 survey of Houston by Gail Borden, Jr.,
>and
> Thomas H. Borden. In August 1837, as agent for the
> Houston Town Company, Holman advertised lots and a
>bank
> to be located in the new town by the Texas Railroad,
> Navigation, and Banking Company. Holman served as
> clerk of the Houston-Galveston district court from
> February 1837 until January 1841. He served as mayor
>of
> Houston from August 28, 1837, through December 1837.
>In
> August 1838 he ran unsuccessfully for Congress.
>After
> stepping down as district clerk, he appointed Thomas
>M.
> Bagbyqv his agent and in the early 1840s traveled to
>New
> York and Washington, advocating annexation of Texas
>to
> the United States, promoting railroads, and engaging
>in
> land speculation. During this period he also
>traveled to
> Tennessee, where his wife and children still
>resided.
> His family moved from Tennessee to Travis County,
>Texas,
> about 1854. In 1856 Holman was in Philadelphia and
>New
> York representing Texas business interests and wrote
> Ashbel Smith that he was expecting success in his
> enterprises. A James S. Holman, who may have been
>the
> same person, was a delegate from El Paso to the
> Democratic state convention in Dallas on April 18,
>1860.
> During the Civil War Holman served on the Texas
>State
> Military Board (see MILITARY BOARD OF TEXAS) from
>April
> 1864 until the board ceased to function in 1865.
>After
> the war, while supervising construction of the
>Houston
> and Texas Central Railway, Holman succumbed to
>yellow
> fever near Bryan, Texas, on December 8, 1867.
> BIBLIOGRAPHY: Feris A. Bass, Jr., and B. R. Brunson,
> eds., Fragile Empires: The Texas Correspondence of
> Samuel Swartwout and James Morgan, 1836-1856
>(Austin:
> Shoal Creek, 1978). Malcolm D. McLean, comp. and
>ed.,
> Papers Concerning Robertson's Colony in Texas (13
>vols.,
> Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press,
>1974-76;
> Arlington: University of Texas at Arlington Press,
> 1977-87). Andrew Forest Muir, "Railroad Enterprise
>in
> Texas, 1836-1841," Southwestern Historical Quarterly
>47
> (April 1944). Charles W. Ramsdell, "The Texas State
> Military Board, 1862-1865," Southwestern Historical
> Quarterly 27 (April 1924). WPA Writers Program,
>Houston
> (Houston: Anson Jones, 1942).
> Dixon W. Holman
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