The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . standard. HIDALGO. This county was named in honor of the patriot priest,Miguel Hidalgo. He was born in the province of Guanajuato, May 8, 1753. At an early age he was sent to the College of San ^ Nicolas, at Valladolid, where he be- distinguished as a was then sent to the City ofMexico. In 1778 and 1779 hethere studied and had conferredupon him the degree of Bachelorof Theology. On his return to Val-ladolid he obtained, by successiveappointments as cura, two of therichest benefices of the diocese,and finally became c
The history and geography of Texas as told in county names . standard. HIDALGO. This county was named in honor of the patriot priest,Miguel Hidalgo. He was born in the province of Guanajuato, May 8, 1753. At an early age he was sent to the College of San ^ Nicolas, at Valladolid, where he be- distinguished as a was then sent to the City ofMexico. In 1778 and 1779 hethere studied and had conferredupon him the degree of Bachelorof Theology. On his return to Val-ladolid he obtained, by successiveappointments as cura, two of therichest benefices of the diocese,and finally became cura of Dolores,with a stipend of $10,000 to $12,000 and devoted himself to avariety of occupations independent of his clerical duties, andstudied the sciences, French philosophical works (being aFrench scholar), political economy, and gave critical study tothe doctrines propounded in the unorthodox works. This loos-ened the hold of the church on many of the non-essentials inits doctrines and led him into a detestation of the despotism ofthe ruling As Told in County Names 15 On the 14th of September, 1810, he issued his famous Gritode Dolores, or war cry for Hberty, and launched the revolutionwhich was to free Mexico from the thraldom of Spain. Afterseveral victories over the royal troops he was finally defeatedin January, 1811, at the battle known as the Bridge of Cal-deron. Later he himself was captured and executed at Chi-huahua, July 31, 1811. His head was severed from his body,sent to Guanajuato and suspended in an iron cage by the royal-ists, while his body was buried in Chihuahua, where it remaineduntil 1823, when, by order of Congress, it was transferred,with his skull, to the Cathedral in the City of Mexico in theChapel las Reyes, the famous burial place of the viceroysand later of the Presidents of the Republic of Mexico. In1823 a monument was erected in Chihuahua in memory of Hi-dalgo and other leaders, and in 1863 Juarez raised Dolores tothe rank of a city a
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