This Day In Texas History - August 25
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 10:25 am
1799 - Andrew Jackson Donelson, diplomat, was born in Nashville, Tennessee, on August 25, 1799. He attended Cumberland College, Nashville, and graduated from the United States Military Academy in 1820. He spent two years as aide-de-camp to his uncle, Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson, before resigning his commission in order to study law. In 1829 President Jackson appointed Donelson his private secretary; Donelson remained in Washington in that capacity until the expiration of his uncle's second term on March 4, 1837.
In 1844 President John Tyler appointed Donelson chargé d'affaires of the United States to the Republic of Texas. His duties were to present American propositions to President Anson Jones and to further the cause of annexation of the republic to the United States. Donelson performed both tasks with skill and diplomacy. In March 1845, while he was temporarily in New Orleans, Congress passed a joint resolution admitting Texas to the Union, provided that the state adopt a republican form of government before July 1846.
On April 12, 1845, Donelson interviewed President Jones, and on April 15 Jones called Congress to meet on June 16, 1845. Jones presented the proposition of the United States, and the offer was accepted unanimously. A convention was called to meet on July 4, 1845, and the ordinance accepting the terms outlined in the joint resolution of the United States Congress was passed the same day.
1849 - The State Gazette was one of the most influential newspapers in Texas from the pre-Civil War era until Reconstruction. The paper was founded as the Tri-Weekly State Gazette and first published in Austin by William H. Cushney on August 25, 1849. The paper was known for its strong states'-rights positions and as a voice of the state Democratic party, a reputation it established during political battles with Sam Houston in the turbulent times before secession.
After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Gazette was one of the first papers to demand that Governor Houston call the legislature into session and secede before Lincoln took office. The Gazette continued supporting the Democratic party through Reconstruction and the restoration of the party in power in the 1870s. It ceased publication by 1879.
1880 - The Spade Ranch actually was two separate ranches in West Texas, each under different ownership, but whose histories are linked by barbed wire and a distinctive brand. The first ranch was begun in the Panhandle by John F. (Spade) Evans, who formed a corporation with Judson P. Warner, an agent who sold Joseph F. Glidden's barbed wire. On August 25, 1880, J. F. Evans and Company purchased twenty-three sections of land in Donley County near Clarendon from J. A. Reynolds.
Although it is not known who originally designed the unique brand, which resembles a shovel or spade, it was first used on a herd that Evans and Warner gathered in Lamar County. In 1882 brothers Dudley H. and John W. Snyder bought them out and enlarged the outfit so that by 1887 it consisted of more than 300,000 acres in four counties.
Over the years the Spade Ranch has been praised for its innovative use of modern technology. During the early twentieth century, ranch managers installed a telephone system and used automobiles on the ranch. In the 1970s they used embryo transplantation in breeding practices.
1909 - The Brownsville and Matamoros Bridge Company, incorporated in Arizona Territory on August 25, 1909, is owned equally by the Missouri Pacific (as successor to the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico) and the National Railways of Mexico. The company owns and operates a bridge across the Rio Grande between Brownsville and Matamoros that was constructed between April 1909 and January 1, 1911, under a franchise originally granted to the Brownsville and Gulf Railway Company. The company also has 1.24 miles of track connecting the two cities.
1917 - The Ninetieth Division, known as the "Tough 'Ombres," "Texas' Own," or the "Alamo" division, was activated at Camp Travis on August 25, 1917, under command of Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen. Texas and Oklahoma furnished the original division, although all states were later represented. The monogram T-O insignia was adopted in France. [ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qnn02 ]
1953- International Falcon Reservoir is located on the Rio Grande east of Zapata. The huge lake is bounded by Starr and Zapata counties, Texas, and the county and city of Nuevo Ciudad Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The dam and reservoir provide for water conservation, flood control, hydroelectric energy, and recreation.
The project is owned, authorized, and operated by the United States and Mexico through the International Boundary and Water Commission. The project is named for the relocated town of Falcon, which in turn was renamed in 1915 after the wife of founder José Eugenio Ramírez, María Rita de la Garza Falcón. Work began in 1951, and deliberate impoundment started on August 25, 1953. The reservoir was dedicated by presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines on October 19, 1953.
1988 - Price Daniel, governor of Texas, son of Marion Price and Nannie Blanch (Partlow) Daniel, was born on October 10, 1910, in Dayton, Texas. Daniel died on August 25, 1988, at which time he had held more offices of public trust than anyone else in Texas history.
[ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fda94 ]
In 1844 President John Tyler appointed Donelson chargé d'affaires of the United States to the Republic of Texas. His duties were to present American propositions to President Anson Jones and to further the cause of annexation of the republic to the United States. Donelson performed both tasks with skill and diplomacy. In March 1845, while he was temporarily in New Orleans, Congress passed a joint resolution admitting Texas to the Union, provided that the state adopt a republican form of government before July 1846.
On April 12, 1845, Donelson interviewed President Jones, and on April 15 Jones called Congress to meet on June 16, 1845. Jones presented the proposition of the United States, and the offer was accepted unanimously. A convention was called to meet on July 4, 1845, and the ordinance accepting the terms outlined in the joint resolution of the United States Congress was passed the same day.
1849 - The State Gazette was one of the most influential newspapers in Texas from the pre-Civil War era until Reconstruction. The paper was founded as the Tri-Weekly State Gazette and first published in Austin by William H. Cushney on August 25, 1849. The paper was known for its strong states'-rights positions and as a voice of the state Democratic party, a reputation it established during political battles with Sam Houston in the turbulent times before secession.
After Abraham Lincoln was elected president in 1860, the Gazette was one of the first papers to demand that Governor Houston call the legislature into session and secede before Lincoln took office. The Gazette continued supporting the Democratic party through Reconstruction and the restoration of the party in power in the 1870s. It ceased publication by 1879.
1880 - The Spade Ranch actually was two separate ranches in West Texas, each under different ownership, but whose histories are linked by barbed wire and a distinctive brand. The first ranch was begun in the Panhandle by John F. (Spade) Evans, who formed a corporation with Judson P. Warner, an agent who sold Joseph F. Glidden's barbed wire. On August 25, 1880, J. F. Evans and Company purchased twenty-three sections of land in Donley County near Clarendon from J. A. Reynolds.
Although it is not known who originally designed the unique brand, which resembles a shovel or spade, it was first used on a herd that Evans and Warner gathered in Lamar County. In 1882 brothers Dudley H. and John W. Snyder bought them out and enlarged the outfit so that by 1887 it consisted of more than 300,000 acres in four counties.
Over the years the Spade Ranch has been praised for its innovative use of modern technology. During the early twentieth century, ranch managers installed a telephone system and used automobiles on the ranch. In the 1970s they used embryo transplantation in breeding practices.
1909 - The Brownsville and Matamoros Bridge Company, incorporated in Arizona Territory on August 25, 1909, is owned equally by the Missouri Pacific (as successor to the St. Louis, Brownsville and Mexico) and the National Railways of Mexico. The company owns and operates a bridge across the Rio Grande between Brownsville and Matamoros that was constructed between April 1909 and January 1, 1911, under a franchise originally granted to the Brownsville and Gulf Railway Company. The company also has 1.24 miles of track connecting the two cities.
1917 - The Ninetieth Division, known as the "Tough 'Ombres," "Texas' Own," or the "Alamo" division, was activated at Camp Travis on August 25, 1917, under command of Maj. Gen. Henry T. Allen. Texas and Oklahoma furnished the original division, although all states were later represented. The monogram T-O insignia was adopted in France. [ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qnn02 ]
1953- International Falcon Reservoir is located on the Rio Grande east of Zapata. The huge lake is bounded by Starr and Zapata counties, Texas, and the county and city of Nuevo Ciudad Guerrero, Tamaulipas, Mexico. The dam and reservoir provide for water conservation, flood control, hydroelectric energy, and recreation.
The project is owned, authorized, and operated by the United States and Mexico through the International Boundary and Water Commission. The project is named for the relocated town of Falcon, which in turn was renamed in 1915 after the wife of founder José Eugenio Ramírez, María Rita de la Garza Falcón. Work began in 1951, and deliberate impoundment started on August 25, 1953. The reservoir was dedicated by presidents Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines on October 19, 1953.
1988 - Price Daniel, governor of Texas, son of Marion Price and Nannie Blanch (Partlow) Daniel, was born on October 10, 1910, in Dayton, Texas. Daniel died on August 25, 1988, at which time he had held more offices of public trust than anyone else in Texas history.
[ https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fda94 ]