The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . ; was educated there and came to Texas in 1840. ^^::rS He settled at Franklin, countysite of Robertson County,and prepared himself for the barwhile acting as deputy clerk ofthe District Court. In 1844 hewas elected District Clerk; heldthe office two years and wentinto the active practice of hisprofession. In 1848 he removedto Corsicana and was in thesame year elected to the Legis-lature. After serving one termhe devoted his entire energies tothe practice of his profession upto 1861. Early in 1861 he was elected Captain of a companyin
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . ; was educated there and came to Texas in 1840. ^^::rS He settled at Franklin, countysite of Robertson County,and prepared himself for the barwhile acting as deputy clerk ofthe District Court. In 1844 hewas elected District Clerk; heldthe office two years and wentinto the active practice of hisprofession. In 1848 he removedto Corsicana and was in thesame year elected to the Legis-lature. After serving one termhe devoted his entire energies tothe practice of his profession upto 1861. Early in 1861 he was elected Captain of a companyin the Fourth Texas Regiment and was successively promoteduntil he was made Colonel; he was seriously wounded at Get-tysburg. After the war he resumed his practice in partner-ship with Colonel (afterward Ignited States Senator) Mills;was elected a member of the Legislature in 1873, and in 1876was elected one of the Judges of the Court of Appeals, andafter holding this office he was re-elected, and while servingdied on the 13th of May, 1882, at Austin, As Told in County Names 263 YOUNG. W. C. Young came to Texas about the 3^ear 1841 and settledin Red River County. He was in the service as a Ranger forsome time, and in 1845 was elected a delegate to the conventionwhich framed the first State Constitution. He afterwardsserved in the State Legislature and was in the ranger servicein Northwest Texas from time to time up to 1861. In that yearhe was elected a delegate to the secession convention and afteradjournment entered the service of the Southern Confederacyand was chosen Colonel of the Fourth Texas Regiment of Cav-alry and went with his command into the campaign in Arkan-sas and Missouri. He was killed in the Indian Territory in 1862. 264 The History and Geography of Texas CHAPTER XVI. THE INDIANS OF TEXAS. Five counties of the State have been named for Indiantribes, viz: 1. Cherokee 3. Nacogdoches 5. Wichita 2. Comanche 4. Pecos CHEROKEE. This tribe of Indians played a so
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