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The Other Texas
After the Civil War, when hurricanes struck coastal towns, community
networks revived. Following the September 1875 storm, a relief commit-
tee formed at the Galveston Cotton Exchange to raise funds for victims
in Indianola and elsewhere. Businessmen and attorneys gathered
clothes, food, and almost $10o,ooo. A majority of the financial assistance
came from commercial contacts in larger cities such as Boston, New
York, and San Francisco, while local donations added a significant
amount. When another storm in August 1886 destroyed Indianola and
left many in Galveston without shelter, merchant-banker Henry Rosen-
berg led efforts that raised over $20,o00.5
Religious denominations also provided a sense of community in the
nineteenth century through shared beliefs and concerns that led to the
creation of charitable institutions at the local and state levels. Catholics
founded a children's home at Galveston, which they moved to Dallas in
the 188os. R. C. Buckner, a Baptist minister, urged the need for an or-
phans' home in the late 187os. After the Buckner home opened in 1880
near Dallas, it quickly grew to shelter over 300 children by 1899 and
added homes in other towns in the twentieth century. Methodists acted
in 1890 to establish a home for orphans from across the state. Presbyte-
rians and members of the Churches of Christ created their own orphan-
ages in the early twentieth century. By the end of the nineteenth century
sixteen private homes for orphans or homeless children had been
founded in Texas towns, including nine supported by churches. Reli-
gious denominations also developed hospitals in the post-Civil War peri-
od. Three orders of Catholic sisters established infirmaries, beginning at
Galveston in 1866. The number reached eleven by the beginning of the
twentieth century and continued to increase in later years. Other de-
nominations built hospitals in more limited numbers.6
During the same period fraternal groups formed as social organiza-
tions, but also expressed concern about the needs of their members.
Some members of the Odd Fellows in Galveston nursed cholera victims
6 Galveston Daily News, Aug. 21-28, Sept. 4, 1886.
6 J. M. Carroll, A Hstory of Texas Baptzsts; Comprising a Detailed Account of Their Activities, Their
Progress, and Their Achievements, ed. J. B. Cranfill (Dallas: Baptist Standard Publishing Co., 1923),
629-631; Proceedings, Fifty-first Annual Session of the Baptist General Convention of Texas (Brown-
wood: Will H. Mayes, 1899), 130-131; Dallas Morning News, Oct. 26, Nov. 9, Dec. 5, 19, 1885,
Jan. to, 1888; Patricia Dawson Ward, The Home: A History of the Methodist Home for Children in Wa-
co, Texas (Waco: Methodist Home Office of Development, 1980), 5-14; Stephen Daniel Eck-
stein, History of the Churches of Christ in Texas, 1824-1950 (Austin: Firm Foundation Publishing
House, 1963), 321-322; Wilhliam Stuart Red, A History of the Presbyterian Church in Texas (Austin:
Steck Co., 1936), 335-336; Galveston Tri-Weekly News, Mar. 22, May 15, 1867; U.S. Bureau of the
Census, Benevolent Institutions 1904 (Washington: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1905), 210;
Gammel (comp.), The Laws of Texas, VI, 1602; Carlos E. Castafieda, Our Catholic Hentage in Texas,
1519-1936 (7 vols.; Austin: Von Boeckmann-Jones Co., 1936-1958), VII, 359-411; Centennzal
Story of Texas Baptists (Dallas: Baptist General Convention of Texas, 1936), 179-189.
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