A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . honesty,and a blunt simplicity of purpose that had enabledhim, in a life of great labor and sacrifice, to win hisway from poverty and obscurity to distinction andusefulness in his adopted State. In the summerof the same year, the University of Texas sustaineda serious and painful loss in the death of ProfessorLeslie Waggener, chairman of its faculty. He wasone of the original corps of professors in that insti-tution at its organization, in 1883, and had beenchairman of the faculty for a number of years beforehis death. He was
A complete history of Texas for schools, colleges and general use . honesty,and a blunt simplicity of purpose that had enabledhim, in a life of great labor and sacrifice, to win hisway from poverty and obscurity to distinction andusefulness in his adopted State. In the summerof the same year, the University of Texas sustaineda serious and painful loss in the death of ProfessorLeslie Waggener, chairman of its faculty. He wasone of the original corps of professors in that insti-tution at its organization, in 1883, and had beenchairman of the faculty for a number of years beforehis death. He was a man of finished and profoundculture, intensely loyal to the University, and giftedwith a rare practical judgment and plain, common sense methodof conducting the affairs of the great institution over which heprjesided that were as useful as they are difficult to his death, the Board of Regents, acting under the authorityof a recent act of the legislature, created the ofifice of Presidentof the Universit), which place they filled by the selection of. Leslie Waggener. 420 A COMPLETE HISTORY OF TEXAS. Period VIII. Professoi Gcorge T. Winston, late of the University of NorthCarohna. Period of Statehood On February lo, 1896, Congressman WilUam H. Grain died 1874 in Washington City, aged forty-eight years. Mr. Crain was a ™ native Texan, a man of thorough education, high order of _ natural talent, gifted with great eloquence, graceful and cap- tivating in social life, and very popular among his people. His William H. career for ten years in Congress had amply established his rep-utation for ability, and his loss at so early an age was deeplydeplored by his friends and by the State at large. At a specialelection in the summer of 1896, R. J. Kleberg was elected to fillthe vacancy caused by the death of Mr. Crain. Richard Coke On May 14, 1S97, at his home in Waco, Ex-Governor and Ex-Senator Richard Coke ended his days, mourned by thewhole people of Texas, and followed by
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