History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties. Page: 504
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.'50t HISTORY OF TEXAS.~ ~ ~ ~~ ~~._
Ha and Franklin, both engaged ip farming
in this county. Mr. Inge died in the army,
and his widow afterward moved with her
children to this locality. In 1867 she married
St. John Primem, and they had five children:
Julian B., Varney H., Albert M.,
Theodosia H. and Estell,- all at home. During
his life, Mr. Primin contributed liberally
to the education of his children, and his wife
is now carrying out his desires. The two eldest
sons are graduates of the college at Delaware,
Ohio, and are now engaged i' inerchandising
at Sinithville. The third eon also
attended thle same college. The daughters
have attended school at San Antonio and Austin,
and a governess is also employed at home.
Mr. Primm died in 1880.
In 1881 Mrs. Primm married James
Primm, the eldest brother of l:er former husband.
They now reside at the old homestead,
where they have about 2,200 acres of land
under cultivation. Eighty tenants are employed
on the place, and they make from 600
to 900 bales of cotton annually. The family
residence, a two story frame building, is situated
on an elevated plat, overlooking the entire
plantation. Mr. and Mrs. Primmn have
one son, William A.
ROF. L. R. WALDEN, President of
the Walden's Texas Business Colleges
in Austin and Fort Worth, was born
in Clark county, Kentucky, April 13,
1861, a son of William J. and Mary Jane
(Heisle) Walden, who were born, reared and
married in Kentucky. The father, a farmer
and mechanic by occupation, came to Texas
with his wife in order that they mnigyt spend
their lives with their children, all of whom
are in this State. The wife and mother diedFebruary 20, 1892, aged fifty-seven years.
The father is now fifty-seven years of age.
Both were members of the Christian Church.
Mr. and Mrs. Walden were the parents of
four children: Adelia, wife of James F.
Ragland, of Austin; L. R., our subject; C.
E., local principal of the Fort Worth school;
and Robert E. Lee, a teacher in the same
school,
L. R. Walden was educated in the primary
and district schools of Clark county, Kentucky;
in the Winchester high school; in the
Ogle and Mitchell Colleges, of Lexington,
and in the Spencerian Businless College at
Cleveland, Ohio. After completing his education
he began teaching in Johnston's Commercial
College and the English Academy,
but later severed his connection with the
latter school and traveled through Kentucky,
doing itinerant work in the commercial
branches, bookkeeping, penmanship, short
methods in arithmetic, etc. Mr. Walden
was next identified with the Lake Side Business
College, of Chicago, and in 1886 accepted
the principalship of the commercial department
of the Capitol Business College, in
Austin, under the Presidency of Professor J.
J. Anderson. One and a half years later he
opened the Texas Business College, which
now enrolls about 300 pupils per annum. In
August, 1895, a branch school was estab.
! lished at Fort Worth, under the name of
{ Walden's Texas Business College, and the
l Austin school was changed to the same name.
, They enroll about fifty pupils, and the curric,
ulum includes a thorough business course in
I bookkeeping, penmanship, business arithmer
tic, practical English grammar, mentd arithmetic,
commercial spelling, correspondence,
I business forms, commercial law and business
i ethics. Professor Walden designs the term
iI business course," in the Walden's Texas501
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Lewis Publishing Company. History of Texas, Together with a Biographical History of Milam, Williamson, Bastrop, Travis, Lee and Burleson Counties., book, 1893; Chicago, Illinois. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth29785/m1/543/: accessed May 1, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.