The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . k beingThe Life and Literary Remains of General Sam Houston. CULBERSON. David B. Culberson was born in Troupe County, Georgia,September 29, 1830. He was educated at La Grange, Georgia;removed to Alabama and studied law under Chief Justice Chil-ton, and removed to Texas in1856, locating at Jefferson. Hewas elected a member of the Leg-islature in 1859. He entered theConfederate Army as a privateand rose to the rank of Colonel ofthe Eighteenth Texas w^as appointed Adjutant Gen-eral of Texas November 17, 1863,and served one y
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . k beingThe Life and Literary Remains of General Sam Houston. CULBERSON. David B. Culberson was born in Troupe County, Georgia,September 29, 1830. He was educated at La Grange, Georgia;removed to Alabama and studied law under Chief Justice Chil-ton, and removed to Texas in1856, locating at Jefferson. Hewas elected a member of the Leg-islature in 1859. He entered theConfederate Army as a privateand rose to the rank of Colonel ofthe Eighteenth Texas w^as appointed Adjutant Gen-eral of Texas November 17, 1863,and served one year, when he waselected to the Legislature and wasa member of that body when thewar closed in 1865. After the warhe resumed the practice of law at Jefferson and in 1873 was elected State Senator. In 1878 he waselected Representative in Congress from the Fourth District ofTexas and by successive re-elections served as a member of Con-gress until 1902, when he retired and died at Jefferson in was chairman of the Judiciary Committee of the lower house. 230 The History and Geography of Texas for several terms and achieved a nation wide fame as a constitu-tional lawyer. At the time of his death he was one of the Commis-sioners to revise the United States Criminal Code, under appoint-ment of President McKinlev. FOARD. Robert J. Foard was born in Cecil County, Maryland, in1827. He was a nephew of Senator Bayard of Deleware. Hegraduated at Princeton College and thereafter came to located at Columbus, in Colorado County, and immediatelytook a leading position at the bar. At the beginning of theCivil War in 1861 he enlisted and rose to the rank of the conclusion of the war he resumed his profession andcontinued in the practice up to his death in 1898. He was a law-yer of great ability and one of the kindest, most charitable,modest, and reserved men of his generation. This county wasnamed in his honor by his junior partner while a member ofthe Senate, in recognit
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