Burney Jack (4 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Al Cinque (illustrator). Copyright is 1961. 80 pages, saddle stapled. Corners are a little bumped and creased Slight aging to covers. Volume remains tight and contents are very clean.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Wiggins, Jack J. (illustrator). COUPLAND, A COMMUNITY IN THE BLACKLANDS, Burney Downing, softcover, illustrations by Jack J. Wiggins, 1976. BOOK CONDITION: fair. The text block and drawings are in fine condition with no tears, dog-ears, or marks. The pages are age-toned and some are foxed. There is no bookplate nor signature of a prior owner. This is not a library book nor a remainder. The wraps are intact but in poor condition (soiled, foxed, discolored). 9 x 6, 8 pages, 4 ounces XX [From the text] The first Senator from the State of Texas to pledge allegiance to the United States since the start of the Civil War was named Morgan C. Hamilton. He took the oath of office on February 22, 1870. Senator Hamilton was a Republican. Some 106 years later, and standing on ground once owned by Hamilton, another Senator from Texas, John G. Tower, spoke to the first homecoming crowd in the history of the Coupland community. On January 18, 1887, Lawrence S. Ross became governor of Texas. The following day, C. H. Welch and H. Dickson of Taylor, along with Major Theodore Van Buren Coupland of Coupland City, Texas incorporated the Coupland City Company in a charter recorded in volume 42, page 365, Deeds Records of Williamson County. The area comprised some 200 acres and was bought for $2,000. Coupland City was platted March 24, 1887 and contained some 48 blocks. A school teacher from Fayette County, John Goetz, Sr., bought the first lots. Goetz had arrived in Coupland after moving his family here from Germany by way of Illinois. He then built a two story frame house with lumber hauled by oxen from Bastrop. His home also doubled as a General Store and Goetz served as Postmaster from December 28, 1889 until 1905. The forementioned Major Coupland was the first settler near the present site of Coupland. He and his uncle, A. J. Hamilton, who was later appointed governor, had both fought with Union forces during the Civil War. The ownership of the land upon which Major Coupland settled had a long and involved history. It had been granted originally to a James Crawford, as a colonist in Austin and Williamson county, by a Major Arciniega who was the commissioner of the states of Coahuila and Texas. Subsequently conveyed to a James B. Miller and in interim lawsuits the land consisting of 1009 acres, including the present site of Coupland, was finally determined to belong to Morgan C. Hamilton, also an uncle of Major Coupland. In 1883 Senator Hamilton died in New York. He had never returned to Texas after the completion of his term as Senator. He had no wife or children and had left part of his estate to Major Coupland. It was this inheritance that brought Coupland to this location where he built a small frame house outh of Brushy creek and west of the village of Coupland.

Saddle-stapled wrappers. Condition: Very Good+. Jack L. Wiggins (illustrator). First Edition. 8pp Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. 80 pp. Wraps have a faint amount of tanning, removed lable mark on front. Title page tanned from paper previously stored in book, balance of pages are clean with no markings. Size: 8vo - 7¾" - 9¾" Tall.