A history of Texas and Texans . ary 27, 1875. He received his education in local privateschools and in the University of the South at Sewanee,Tennessee, and Kenyon College, in Cambria, Ohio Hewas associated with his father, directly and indirectly,for twelve years before the death of the latter, andsucceeded Major Eaguet in business. On November 12,1903, Mr. James F. Gregg, who had also been associatedwith Major Eaguet, became a partner, and the firm thentook its present name of Eaguet & Gregg, general in-surance and land agents. This business injeality wasoriginallv established in 1832 by Hay
A history of Texas and Texans . ary 27, 1875. He received his education in local privateschools and in the University of the South at Sewanee,Tennessee, and Kenyon College, in Cambria, Ohio Hewas associated with his father, directly and indirectly,for twelve years before the death of the latter, andsucceeded Major Eaguet in business. On November 12,1903, Mr. James F. Gregg, who had also been associatedwith Major Eaguet, became a partner, and the firm thentook its present name of Eaguet & Gregg, general in-surance and land agents. This business injeality wasoriginallv established in 1832 by Hayden H. Edwards,grandfather of Mr. Eaguet, and Nathaniel Emory, inNacogdoches, and re-established by Charles M. ^aguetat Marshall, Texas, in February, 1895. _ Charles H. Eaguet was married in San Antonio April19 1910 to Miss Harriette Eouse Gallagher of thatcity, daughter of John Francis and Harriette (Head)Gallagher. „ Mr. Eaguet enlisted in 1897 as a private m CompanyD, Third Texas Volunteer Guard (Texas National Guard. TEXAS AND TEXANS 1821 under the Dick bill after July, 1903). He servedas an enlisted man, corporal and sergeant, up to May 23,1900, at which time he was promoted to the rank offirst lieutenant and battalion adjutant. He served inthat rank until April 19, 1910, when he was promotedto his present rank of captain and assigned as quarter-master of the Third Eegiment of the Texas NationalGuard. E. B. Black. The career of one of the mostful of the Texas Panhandle, and a popular and promi-nent citizen of Hereford, is briefly sketched in the fol-lowing paragraphs: E. B. Black was born in Eussell county, Alabama, Oc-tober 13, 1866, and is a son of Capt. C. B. Black by asecond marriage, his mother being Miss Fannie John-ston of Putnam county, Georgia. His father came orig-inally from Virginia to Harris county, Georgia, where helived several years, later moving to Eussell county, Ala-bama, where he permanently located. At the outbreakof hostilities between the North and
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