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"bayou fever," was incapacitated and the paper was suspended in
the summer of 1838. At that time Houston was notoriously un-
healthy, and he decided to remove to Galveston, which was then
making good progress. There he was joined by his young wife,
who had come out from Kentucky in charge of friends, and whose
first view of the muddy shores of Galvetson Island, traversed by
myriads of "fiddler" crabs, was a vivid and not a pleasing con-
trast to the scenery of the "dark and bloody ground" which she
had so recently left. The first boarding houses (and the only
ones) patronized by the young couple before setting up for them-
selves were those of Misses Humphries, estimable Kentucky ladies,
who were located on Market Street near Twenty-second, and Mrs.
Dr. O. P. Kelton, which was located on the southeast corner of
Market and Sixteenth Streets, where the convent of the Sacred
Heart now stands. In 1839 Mr. Stuart purchased a home and
two lots on the south side of Church Street, near Tremont, and
there on May 4, 1840, his first child was born-the late Mrs.
Florence Stuart Wheeler, who died at Hitchcock, Galveston
county, June 8, 1911.
Second Galveston Newspaper
On the 28th of September, 1838, Mr. Stuart began the publi-
cation of the Civilian and Galveston Gazette, a small four-column
folio, published weekly, and first printed on an old-style "Ramage"
press. The paper was a supporter of Sam Houston from the
start, and continued to be so until his enforced retirement from
public life, March 16, 1861. The first newspaper started in Gal-
veston was the Commercial Intelligencer, which made its initial
appearance in July, 1838, under the editorial management of John
S. Evans. So far as can be learned it finally suspended in 1840.
Upon the incorporation of the city of Galveston, and at the second
secession of the board of aldermen, held April 2, 1839, the com-
mittee appointed to wait on H. Stuart reported that he had sig-
nified his willingness to make a reasonable deduction on city print-
ing, and only require a settlement once a year. The early years
of Galveston's existence as a "city" were marked by many vicissi-
tudes, and its progress was slow, retarded as it was by the lack
of men, money and the sinews of improvement, to say nothing of384
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Texas State Historical Association. The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 21, July 1917 - April, 1918, periodical, 1918; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101073/m1/390/: accessed April 27, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.