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he lived until November 29, Dr. Herff would have been 92 years
old."-San Antonio Express, May 19, 1912.
The Express gives in this issue more than three columns to a
sketch of Dr. Herff's remarkable career, and editorially comments
on his qualities as a citizen. An incident in the early life of Dr.
IHerff as a member of the "Communistic colony of Bettina" is nar-
rated in THE QUART ERLY, III, 33-40.
Captain M. B. Davis died at Waco on June 18. He was born
in Virginia in 1844, was educated at the Virginia Military In-
stitute, and served in a Virginia regiment in the Army of North-
ern Virginia during the Civil War. In 1873 he entered the news-
paper business in Waco. From 1875 to 1878 he served as a Texas
ranger, hut at the expiration of that time re-entered newspaper
work. For a number of years before his death hle was Texas rep-
resentative of the National Audubon Society.-(From a sketch in
The Dallas 7ewq, June 19, 1912.)
On June 21 Colonel Andrew J. Baker, of San Angelo, died
while on a visit to Los Angeles, California. He was born in
Grenada county, Mississippi, in 1842, was educated at the Uni-
versity of Mississippi, and served in a Mississippi regiment in the
Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War. After the war
he practiced law at Oxford, Mississippi, and was a member of the
Legislature which closed the period of Reconstruction in that State.
He moved to Texas in 1884, was a member of the Twenty-second
Legislature, served as Commissioner of the General Land Office
of TexaNs from 1894 to 1898.---( Prom a sketch in The Dallas News,
June 22, 1912.)
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