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Established in Waco in 1968, the Texas Ranger Hall of Fame and Museum honors the iconic Texas Rangers, a service which has existed, in one form or another, since 1823. They have become legendary symbols of Texas and the American West. Thirty-one Rangers, with lives spanning more than two centuries, have been enshrined in the Hall of Fame. In The Ranger Ideal Volume 1: Texas Rangers in the Hall of Fame, 1823-1861, Darren L. Ivey presents capsule biographies of the seven inductees who served Texas before the Civil War. He begins with Stephen F. Austin, “the Father of Texas,” who laid the foundations of the Ranger service, and then covers John C. Hays, Ben McCulloch, Samuel H. Walker, William A. A. “Bigfoot” Wallace, John S. Ford, and Lawrence Sul Ross. Using primary records and reliable secondary sources, and rejecting apocryphal tales, The Ranger Ideal presents the true stories of these intrepid men who fought to tame a land with gallantry, grit, and guns. This Volume 1 is the first of a planned three-volume series covering all of the Texas Rangers inducted in the Hall of Fame and Museum in Waco, Texas.
A Family Practice is the sweeping saga of four generations of doctors, Russell men seeking innovative ways to sustain themselves as medical practitioners in the American South from the early nineteenth to the latter half of the twentieth century. The thread that binds the stories in this saga is one of blood, of medical vocations passed from fathers to sons and nephews. This study of four generations of Russell doctors is an historical study with a biographical thread running through it. The authors take a wide-ranging look at the meaning of intergenerational vocations and the role of family, the economy, and social issues on the evolution of medical education and practice in the United States.
Stephen Bird (ca. 1795-1871), Jeptha Bird (1797-ca. 1870) and Moses Bird (1800-ca. 1870) lived in Marion County, South Carolina, whose father may have been Arthur Bird of the Georgetown district. Stephen Bird married Elizabeth Frances Herrin (1796-1861) and moved to Monroe County, Alabama. Jeptha Bird married Amelia Ann Stuckey Woodham (ca. 1816-ca. 1870) in Monroe County, Alabama. Moses Bird married Frances (ca. 1809-ca. 1859) and lived in Monroe County, Alabama. Descendants lived in Alabama, Texas, Oklahoma, Florida, and elsewhere.
Together with a list of auxiliary and cooperating societies, their officers, and other data.
James Veitch (1628-1685) was born in Roxburgshire, Scotland, the son of Marcolm Vaitche of Muirdean. He immigrated to Maryland in 1651 and settled in Calvert County. He married Mary Gakerlin in 1657. They had at least six children, ca. 1658-1670. Descendants lived in Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, and throughout the United States and in Canada.
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