The life and writings of Rufus CBurleson, DD., LLD., containing a biography of DrBurleson by HonHarry Hayens; . and post oak logs, theroom eighteen feet square. This school was located about1,500 yards due west from the old Female College building atIndependence, known at that time as Coles Settlement. Bya most singular coincidence the location was also only a few Dr. Kufus C. Burleson. 300 hundred yards north from the house in which Mrs. E. C. Bur-leson was partially raised, and grew to womanhood. MissTrask was a very cultivated and highly educated lady andas fearless as any frontiersman in T
The life and writings of Rufus CBurleson, DD., LLD., containing a biography of DrBurleson by HonHarry Hayens; . and post oak logs, theroom eighteen feet square. This school was located about1,500 yards due west from the old Female College building atIndependence, known at that time as Coles Settlement. Bya most singular coincidence the location was also only a few Dr. Kufus C. Burleson. 300 hundred yards north from the house in which Mrs. E. C. Bur-leson was partially raised, and grew to womanhood. MissTrask was a very cultivated and highly educated lady andas fearless as any frontiersman in Texas. When it was neces-sary for her to do so, she mounted her Texas pony, swung asix shooter on one horn of her saddle, and unattended, wouldride to La Grange, Houston or Austin, a distance of fifty orseventy-five miles, the whole route infested with Indians andother lawless characters. This academy was continued until 1838 or 1839, whenProf. Henry F. Gillette, as we have seen a member of thefirst Faculty of Baylor University, bought out the school, andestablished Independence Academy7 in 1841, which was. 1. Houston and Cowden Halls. 2. Gymnasium. 3. Carroll Science Hall. 4. Georgia Burleson Hall 5. Main UNIVERSITY. successfully conducted until 1845, when it was transferred andbecame a part of Baylor University. So therefore, the TraskSeminary, established January 31st, 1834, the first femaleschool opened in Texas, has the distinction of being the pro-genitor of Baylor University and Baylor Female College. From this brief account of the educational institutions inTexas under the Mexican Bepublic, it is evident that institu-tions of learning were few in number and poorly sustained,under the existing state of affairs among the colonists, butfacts go to prove that they were not unmindful of the benefits 310 The Life and Writings of to be derived from education, and that even beset by innum-erable trials, they exerted themselves to establish schools ofsome kind, an
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