The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . ntonio, en-listed as a ranger in 1882 and continued in that service until1906, rising to the rank of Captain. In 1906 he resigned andlocated at Falfurrias and engaged in farming and stock rais-ing. In 1911, when a new county was created, he was electedto the Thirty-First and Thirty-Second Legislature. He still(1912) lives in the county that bears his name. 228 The History and Geography of Texas COKE. Richard Coke was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1829. He was educated at William and Mary College, graduated in 1849, and studied l
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . ntonio, en-listed as a ranger in 1882 and continued in that service until1906, rising to the rank of Captain. In 1906 he resigned andlocated at Falfurrias and engaged in farming and stock rais-ing. In 1911, when a new county was created, he was electedto the Thirty-First and Thirty-Second Legislature. He still(1912) lives in the county that bears his name. 228 The History and Geography of Texas COKE. Richard Coke was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1829. He was educated at William and Mary College, graduated in 1849, and studied law. He came to Texas in 1850 and located in Waco, a town at that time lessthan one year old, and continued topractice law there up to 1861,when he joined the ConfederateArmy. He was appointed DistrictJudge in 1865, and in 1866 one ofthe Associate Justices of the Su-preme Court. In 1873 he waselected Governor and re-elected in1875. In 1877 he was elected tothe United States Senate and was successfully re-elected, and held the office up to his death in CRANE. William Cary Crane was born in Richmond, Va., March 17,1816, and was a lineal descendant of Robert Treat, Governorof Connecticutt. In early boyhood he was sent to a boardingschool in King William County, Virginia, six miles from Han-over Court House. At the age of fifteen he was sent to MountPleasant Academy in Massachusetts. He joined the BaptistChurch and was baptized at Richmond, Virginia, July 27, 1832,and afterward attended the Richmond College and ColumbiaCollege in Washington and was also a student at HamiltonCollege, now Colgate University. He then went to Talbotton,Georgia, where he taught school and was pastor of the churchthere. On June 18, 1838, he was married, ordained to the fullwork of the ministry in Baltimore and engaged as pastor ofthe church in Montgomery, Alabama. He lost his voice in 1839and in 1842 returned to Virginia and traveled for the Ameri-can Tract Society; for a short time he was employed
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