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Wealthy Texans, i86o
settlers of Texas. Others, such as Brazoria County merchant John
Adriance, Austin County physician Richard R. Peebles, and Travis
County merchant Nathaniel Townsend, came to Texas on the eve of
the Revolution," while still others, such as Swedish-born merchant
Swen M. Swenson, railroad director William R. Baker, and ironmaster
and planter Reece Hughes, came to Texas shortly after the Revolu-
tion." Several of the state's wealthiest citizens, such as agricultural
reformer Thomas Affleck and Grimes County planter Thomas E.
Blackshear, both of whom came to Texas in 1858, were comparative
newcomers." Three members of the group, Moses Austin Bryan,
William Joel Bryan, and S. S. Perry, were nephews of Stephen F.
Austin.'
Some of the wealthy Texans were well-educated. Dr. Ashbel Smith,
for example, was a graduate of Yale and had studied also in France;
Daniel Atchinson was a graduate of the Harvard law school; Samuel
Maverick was a graduate of Yale; and John H. Herndon was a
graduate of Transylvania." Scottish-born Thomas Affleck studied
agriculture at the University of Edinburgh and Mississippian Ben
Epperson attended Princeton." For formal education none of the
group could surpass Charles W. Tait of Colorado County. This wealthy
planter, who came to Texas after serving as a surgeon in the United
States Navy, was educated at William and Mary, Tuscaloosa, and
Pennsylvania colleges, where he received degrees in civil engineering,
medicine, and surgery." The majority of the wealthy Texans appear,
however, to have had little formal education; of the fifty-seven for
whom biographical sketches are found in the Handbook of Texas only
twelve are listed with collegiate education of any type. Many, like
James M. Norris of Coryell County," were self-educated and received
"Webb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, I, o10; II, 356, 792-793. See also Frank
MacD. Spindler, "The History of Hempstead and the Formation of Waller County,
Texas," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, LXIII (January, 1960), 405.
"Webb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, I, lo1-xo2, 861; II, 687-698.
"Ibid., I, 11, 170. See also Fred C. Cole, "The Texas Career of Thomas Affleck" (Ph.D.
dissertation, Louisiana State University, 1936).
xWebb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, I, 233-234; Abigail Curlee, "The
History of a Texas Slave Plantation, 1831-63," Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXVI
(October, 1922), 79-127.
'7Webb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, I, 75-76, 802; II, 161, 62o-621.
"Isbid., I, x , 568-569.
"Ibid., II, 702; Abigail Curlee, "A Study of Texas Slave Plantations, 1822-1865" (Ph.D.
dissertation, University of Texas, 1932), 84-85.
"sWebb and Carroll (eds.), Handbook of Texas, II, 283.167
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