KYMONTGO-L Archives

Archiver > KYMONTGO > 2003-02 > 1045543648


From: "Sharon Karns" <>
Subject: Re: [KYMONTGO-L] Holman
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 20:47:36 -0800
References: <007201c2d643$ab9f6c60$6501a8c0@oc.cox.net> <3E516AB7.7050601@sbcglobal.net>


The url is www.tsha.utexas.edu or www.lib.utexas.edu. Either one will get
you onto the site. It has so much info on Ky. people that ended up in Texas
& I am sure not only Ky , but most all states. It has a search site.

Sharon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hal McCawley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 3:05 PM
Subject: Re: [KYMONTGO-L] Holman


> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > format this article to print
> > 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
> >
> >
> >
> > The Handbook of Texas Online is a
joint
> >project of The General
> > Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin and the
> >Texas
> > State Historical Association.
> >
> >
> >
> > Copyright © The Texas State Historical Association Last
Updated:
> > December 4, 2002 Comments to:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ====
> >~*~To subscribe & unsubscribe send to
(mail mode) or (digest mode) with the word
SUBSCRIBE -or- UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line & first line of the body.
~*~If your e-mail address changes, please unsubscribe your old address, and
subscribe your new address. ~*~To post a message so everyone on "both" -L-
& -D- mailing list receives it, just send it "once" to
. ~*~Robbin Harrison, the list administrator can be
reached at: .
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
>
> ==== KYMONTGO Mailing List ====
> Posting Montgomery Co., KY miscellaneous information to the list will help
everyone, and will be retained on the Rootsweb archives for later
researchers to retrieve.
>
>

This thread: