This Day In Texas History - June 14

[joe817]

1830 - Stephen F. Austin, in a June 14, 1830, letter to Thomas F. Leaming, wrote that he was considering the advantages of Swiss and German immigrants because they were opposed to slavery and did not have the Anglo-American mania for speculation.

1841 - Joseph Eve(Kentucky legislator, judge, and chargé d'affaires of the United States to the Republic of Texas), following Secretary of State Daniel Webster's instructions obtained the ratification of the boundary line surveyed by a joint commission of the Republic of Texas and the United States. Both parties agreed that the line was the Sabine River and, from near the southeast corner of what is now Panola County, the thirty-second parallel north to the Red River. Eve sought to negotiate a new commercial treaty with the Texas government, but disagreement over certain provisions of the convention prevented its acceptance by either side. Further negotiations were soon dropped with the renewal of American interest in the annexation of Texas. He greatly admired Sam Houston and sponsored the annexation of Texas. He toured Texas from Galveston to the new capital, Austin, and was favorably impressed with the productivity of the land. He was fully confident that Mexico could never reconquer Texas.

1875 - Jefferson Davis is invited to serve as the first president of Texas A&M, but he declines.

1881 - The Laredo Times was founded. In 1926, the paper became the first English-language paper on the border to include a Spanish section.

1886 - Conger Neblett was born in Corsicana. In 1926 she married Jack Hagar, a Bostonian who had come to Texas because of his interests in oil and real estate. In 1935 the Hagars moved to Rockport, where Connie Hagar spent the rest of her life as an amateur bird-watcher and gained the respect of professional ornithologists in Europe and the United States. The "Texas bird lady" added over twenty new species to the avifauna list of the state and was the first to report numerous species of migratory birds, including several that were thought to be extinct. She died in 1973 and was buried in a spot overlooking the wildlife sanctuary that bears her name.

1897 - The first carload of tomatoes ever shipped from Texas rolled out of Craft on June 14, 1897. Craft, formerly known as Independence, is on U.S. Highway 69 two miles south of Jacksonville in northern Cherokee County.

1907 – A posse pursuing Mexican-American folk hero Gregorio Cortez found him hiding in the home of a friend, Martín Robledo, in Belmont. The lawmen, led by Gonzales County sheriff Robert Glover, opened fire, but Cortez escaped - he was captured 10 days later after an acquaintance led the posse to him. He continued running for the next 10 days, still pursued by a posse sometimes as large as 300 men. The San-Antonio Express called the Battle of Belmont, as it came to be known, "a tale of bravery unsurpassed on the part of the officers and of desperation on the part of the Mexicans." The actual story, according to folk historian Américo Paredes, was somewhat less romantic. [for the full story: http://blogs.chron.com/txpotomac/today_ ... s_history/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; ]

1920 - Sul Ross State Normal College, the future Sul Ross State University, began operations. The school, located at Alpine in Brewster County, was authorized by the Thirty-fifth Legislature in 1917. Sixty-seven students enrolled in the first class. They studied education and liberal arts subjects leading to teacher's certificates and junior college diplomas.

1941 - Sheppard Field (Later renamed Sheppard Air Force Base), was opened just outside of Wichita Falls. In 1945 the base reached its peak strength, 46,304, the largest concentration of American air corps troops in the world.

1958 - Elvis Presley returned to Fort Hood, TX, for ten weeks of advanced tank training.

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[joe817]

I'd like to say that the half way point of this one year duration thread was passed yesterday. Thanks to all that have contributed to it and have made comments.

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