A History of Jefferson, Marion County, Texas, 1836-1936
Marion County, Texas
FIFTEENTH PRINTING
One-Time Gateway of Texas Retains Its Glory in Rush and Hurry Of Modern Times
This pamphlet contains items of interest that we should know about our home town, and was compiled
by Mrs. Arch McKay Mrs. H. A. Spellings
Proceeds of sale to be used by Women’s Auxiliary, Christ Episcopal Church.
FIFTEENTH PRINTING
These items have been taken from articles written by various writers for the Shreveport Times Jefferson Journal Jefferson Jimplecute Houston Post-Dispatch Prescott Daily News Texarkana Twentieth Century Capt. George Todd Nat Sharp Will Hill Thomas
And as told by individuals who once lived in Jefferson and by many who are now living and those who lived in Jefferson during her palmy days.
“From the region of the Upper Trinity and the headwaters of the Sabine, each traveler tells us, as he passes, some new tale of how the wilderness is falling under the axe of the builders of habitations and opening up of the earth.”
“The town of Jefferson, in the Southern division of our country, was but yesterday a mere name upon paper and now we are told, quite a number of buildings are going up—several persons will have goods there directly. It is a town destined to concentrate a large inland commercial business.”
“Immigration from Europe is filling up the beautiful country in the far west.”—Northern Standard, January 16th, 1854.
Mrs. Arch McKay
Mrs. H. A. Spellings
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JEFFERSON
EXCLUSIVE SOCIAL SET
STOCKADE
THE CORRAL
CHIEF JUSTICE HAUGHN
TEXAS’ FIRST FEDERAL COURT
CITY OF JEFFERSON
JEFFERSON AS A MANUFACTURING DISTRICT
ARTIFICIAL GAS
JEFFERSON HAD FIRST ARTIFICIAL ICE
PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
THE FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH
The Famous Bell
The Church Buildings
Great Meetings
The Gas Heating System
The Organ
EXCELSIOR’S HISTORY
The Post Office
“Queen Mab”
McDonald’s Machine Shop
Sedberry’s Drug Store
THE KELLY PLOW WORKS
SMELTER WAS BUILT IN 1887
The Nash Iron Works
HOMES
SCHOOLS
PROMINENT CITIZENS OF JEFFERSON IN HER EARLY DAYS
Col. D. B. Culberson
W. L. Crawford
Hector McKay
Captain Moss
Mr. T. L. Lyon
Royal A. Ferris
Nelson Phillips
W. B. Harrison
Benj. H. Epperson
W. P. Torrans
James Jackson Rives
R. Ballauf, Merchant and Banker
Robert Potter
Rogers National Bank
ONLY ONE BANK IN FIVE CAN QUALIFY FOR THIS HONOR
David Browning Culberson
THE WEDNESDAY MUSIC CLUB
MARION COUNTY
STERN MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN
WALNUT GROVE
MURDER ALLEY
THE STORY OF DIAMOND BESSIE
“Aunt Maria”
“Sugar Boy”
JIMPLECUTE
WHAT IS THERE IN A NAME
JIMPLECUTE HAS SEEN 23 FAIL
CADDO LAKE
OAKWOOD CEMETERY
General Ochiltree’s Tomb
“DIAMOND BESSIE”
Humor There
Rose and Robertson
Transcriber’s Notes