The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941 Page: 120
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Southwestern Historical Quarterly
Jack Hays and Samuel H. Walker showed the world how to
use the revolver, and that Gail Borden invented condensed milk.
Ernest Elwood Stanford, in his book, Economic Plants, (pp.
199-200) tells us that events closely related to Texas made this
nation the chewing gum champion of the world. Stanford says
that chicle "seems to have been chewed by the Aztecs" but was
little known outside of Mexico. He states that when Santa
Anna was overthrown, he sought refuge on Staten Island and
somewhat ameliorated his exile by chewing chicle. His exercise
was observed by an inventive Jerseyman who undertook to
convert chicle into rubber, failed, and became the first chewing
gum manufacturer. Internal evidence indicates that something
is wrong with Stanford's story. W. C. Binkley suggests that
it may have been Juarez and not Santa Anna who founded the
habit. If that be true, Texas can take no credit.
Mrs. Florence J. Scott of Rio Grande City is a granddaughter
of David Johnson, governor of South Carolina, 1846-1847. The
governor's daughter, Penelope, married the younger John A.
Wharton and came to Brazoria to live. His son, Ben Herndon,
joined the army of the Republic of Texas in 1836 and was
aide-de-camp to General Albert Sidney Johnston. He met his
death in 1839 while returning from Camargo where he had
been sent to warn the Texans against participation in the
attempt to organize the Republic of the Rio Grande. Mrs.
Scott's history of the Johnson family was published in the
South Carolina Historical Journal. It contains letters to or
from John and Penelope Wharton.
W. G. Sharp, President of the Commercial State Bank of
San Augustine, has a remarkable private collection of manu-
scripts and papers. Among them, according to an article by
Robert M. Hayes in the Dallas News of April 14, are the diary
of Thomas S. McFarland, who laid out the city of San Augus-
tine, bills of sale for slaves, a challenge to a duel and a tax
receipt of $1.14 on a tract of more than two thousand acres of
land in what is now Hays County. All students are familiar
with the letter which Travis wrote from the Alamo. He is
supposed to have sent out three copies, one of which is in the120
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