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A gentleman whose reading and reflections were unconfined by the limitations of his favorite science, but who touched life and thought at all points, the charm of his fireside talks made his guests forgetful that the law was still the exacting mistress of his life's toil and ambition.
E. H. TERRELL,
SAN ANTONIO.
Edwin Holland Terrell, of San Antonio, lately United States Minister to Belgium, comes from a well-known Virginia family, and was born at Brook- ville, Ind., November 21st, 1848. He is the son of Rev. Williamson Terrell, D. D., one of the most popular and widely-known ministers in the Metho- dist Church in Indiana years ago.
Mr. Terrell's great-grandfather, Henry Terrell, removed from Virginia to Kentucky in 1787, and was prominently identified with the carly political
history of that State. Mr. Terrell's grandmother was a sister of Chilton Allan, one of Kentucky's famous lawyers. who represented the Ashland Dis- triet in Congress for many years after Henry Clay had been promoted to the Senate.
The grandfather of Edwin H. Terrell, Capt. John Terrell, was a gallant and conspicuous officer in the campaigns against the Indians shortly after the Revolution, and was present at Harmar's and St. Clair's defeats, and also took part in Wayne's
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victory over the Miamis at the Maumee Rapids, August 20, 1794.
Edwin H. Terrell graduated in 1871 at De Pauw University, Indiana, having won the first or valedic- tory honors of a class of thirty-three members. He afterwards pursued his legal studies at Harvard University, where he received his degree of L.L.B. in 1873. He subsequently spent a year in travel
prominently identified with the growth and pros- perity of San Antonio, having been actively con- nected with many of the public and most progressive movements of that enterprising Southern city.
Since his removal to the South Mr. Terrell has always taken a prominent part in the councils of the Republican party in this State. He was a dele- gate to the Republican National Conventions at
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and study in Europe, attending for a time the lec- tures at the Ecole de Droit of the Sorbonne at Paris.
Mr. Terrell returned to the United States in 1871. and entered upon the practice of the law at Indian- apolis, being a member of the firm of Barbour, Jacobs and Terrell for some years.
In 1877 Mr. Terrell'removed to San Antonio, Texas, which is still his home. He has been
Chicago in 1880 and 1888, and in the latter was one of the honorary secretaries and was selected as one of the members of the Committee of Notification.
In 1889, when President Harrison nominated Mr. Terrell as the U. S. Minister to Belgium, the San Antonio Daily Express ( Dem. ) said editori- ally :---
" In appointing Mr. Terrell to the Belgian min- istry, President Harrison secured the services of a
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gentleman, and a sober, reliable, competent, pains- taking business man - one who has been a North- erner, and was never a carpet-bagger; who has been a Republican, and was never a 'radical ;' who has lived in the South, and was never spit upon because of his nativity; who has exercised his political rights, and was never bulldozed or shot-gunned ; who is able to give a good account of himself and the people among whom he has resided. His selection refleets eredit upon him, and unon the administration which knew enough to choose him."
After Minister Terrell's arrival at Brussels in May, 1889, he had much important diplomatic work submitted to his attention, and during his four years' 'diplomatic experience took part in several noted conferences.
In 1891 he obtained the removal by the Belgian government of the onerous and discriminating quar- antine regulations which had been applied to live stock shipped from the United States to Belgium and which had practically destroyed that industry in the latter country.
Mr. Terrell was Plenipotentiary on the part of the United States to the International Conference on the Slave Trade, which was in session at Brus- sels from November, 1889, to July, 1890, and which drew up the "Slave Trade Treaty," or what is diplomatically known as the " General Aet of Brus- sels." In January, 1892, Secretary Blaine sum- moned Mr. Terrell to Washington to assist him in connection with the matter of the ratification of this treaty, then pending in the Senate and sub- sequently ratified. .
In July, 1890, Mr. Terrell was special Plenipo- tentiary for the United States in the International Conference which met at Brussels and drafted the treaty for the publication of the customs-tariffs of most of the countries of the world, which treaty was afterwards ratified by our Government.
In November and December, 1890, Mr. Terrell represented the United States on what is known as the Commission Technique, an outgrowth of the Anti-Slavery Conference, which elaborated a tariff system for the Conventional Basin of the Congo, as defined in the Treaty of Berlin of 1885.
In this special commission the United States had important commercial interests at stake, and during ils sessions, Mr. Terrell obtained a formal declara-
tion, agreed to by all the interested powers having possessions in the Congo basin and by all the ratify- ing powers of the Berlin treaty, guaranteeing to the United States and its citizens all the eommer- cial rights, privileges and immunities in the entire conventional basin of the Congo, possessed by the signatory powers of the Treaty of Berlin.
In 1891 Mr. Terrell negotiated with King Leo- pold a treaty of "amity, commerce and naviga- tion" between the United States and the Congo State, which was subsequently ratified by the President and Senate.
In 1892 Mr. Terrell was appointed one of the delegates on the part of the United States to the International Monetary Conference at Brussels, and on its assembling he was selected as its viee-presi- dent. He delivered, on the part of the members of the Conference, the reply in French to the address of welcome pronounced by Prime Minister Beernaert of Belgium.
Ex-Minister Terrell is a gentleman of scholarly tastes and accomplishments and possesses a thor- ough and speaking knowledge of the French lan- guage. In his new and elegant residence lately constructed near the military headquarters at San Antonio he has one of the largest and most eare- fully selected libraries in the State of Texas.
In 1892 De Pauw University conferred upon Mr. Terrell the honorary degree of LL.D.
October 1, 1893, after his return to the United States and to private life, Mr. Terrell received by royal decree of King Leopold II. of Belgium, the decoration of " Grand Officer of the Order of Leopold," an honor rarely conferred and one which indicated the highest personal esteem of the King and the successful character of Mr. Terrell's mission.
In 1874 Mr. Terrell married Miss Mary Maveriek, daughter of the late Samuel A. Maverick, one of the founders of the Republic of Texas and promi- nent in the history of San Antonio and Western Texas. Mrs. Terrell died in 1890 at the U. S. Legation at Brussells, leaving a family of six children.
In 1895 Mr. Terrell was married to Miss Lois Lasater, daughter of the late Albert Lasater and niece of Col. E. H. Cunningham, the well-known sugar planter of Southeastern Texas.
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CHARLES LEWIS,
HEARNE, ROBERTSON COUNTY.
Although a number of settlers had taken up their abode within the present limits of Robertson County previous to the Revolution of 1835-6 and others continued to do so during the succeeding years of the Republic, it was not until a much later date that the Brazos portion of the county begau to fill with that thrifty class of planters whose intelligent and well directed labors did so much towards developing the wonderfully rich soil of that section and in giving to the county the excellent reputation for agriculture which it has since enjoyed.
The year 1852 is marked in the history of the State as the one during which occurred the great- est immigration, previous to the late war. Rob- ertson County received its proportion of that immigration, and from that year dates the advent in the county of many who were afterwards dis- tinguished for their thrift, wealth and good citizenship. Of this number was the late Charles Lewis, of Hearne.
Mr. Lewis was born in Farmington, Conn., April 14, 1822. His father was Calvin Lewis, and his mother bore the maiden name of Martha Root, both of whom were natives of Connecticut and de- scendants of carly-settled New England families, the mother being a sister of the mother of the distinguished Federal soldier and Congressman, Gen. Joseph E. Hawley. Mr. Lewis was reared in his native place in the schools of which he received an excellent education. At the age of twenty-four he left Connecticut on account of ill- health and went to Louisiana, taking up his resi- dence in Bozier Parish. There he met, and in March, 1846, married Miss Adeline Hearne, a daughter of William and Nancy Hearne and sister of Ebenezer and Horatio R. Hearne, in company with the latter two of whom he came to Texas in 1852 and settled at Wheelock in Robertson County. Mr. Lewis had been engaged in planting in Louisiana and immediately on settling in Robertson County, opened a plantation on the Brazos. Ile gave his attention exclusively to this interest until after the war, up to which time he resided at Wheelock. After the war he lived a year on his plantation, then at Houston for six years, and in 1872, on the laying out of flearne, moved to that place which he subsequently made his home till his death. He
was one of the first to locate at Hearne and erected there the first business building and the first dwell- ing. He was one of the earliest and always one of the most steadfast supporters of the town and all its interests. His own interests and pursuits were of a somewhat diversified nature, though chiefly agri- cultural. In the course of years he developed a large plantation in the Brazos bottoms and acquired a considerable amount of property. He stood among the first in a community noted for men of sound intelligence and more than average wealth. Born and reared in a Northern climate, the vigor of his intellect lost nothing by transplanting while he added to it habits of unweary exertion and sound practical business methods. His reputation was that of a safe, steady-going, straight forward man of business and his judgment always commanded respect. He represented Robertson County two terms in the State Legislature and proved an able, efficient and acceptable representative. He had but little inclination, however, for public affairs and gave way in such matters to those more eager for popular applause and political preferment. A Democrat in politics, he always gave a cordial sup- port to the men and measures of his party. Hc was a strong sympathizer with the South during the war and though not in the military service, he lent the cause very substantial aid of a kind it stood most in need of.
Mr. Lewis was made a mason in carly manhood and took great interest iu the order. He was a charter member of the lodge at Hearne, which be subsequently served as master. He united with the Presbyterian Church at the age of sixteen and was a member of the same ever after, and to the support of this Church as well as to all worthy purposes he was a valued contributor.
Mr. Lewis died October 22, 1882. He left sur- viving him a widow, one son and two daughters. His son, the late Henry L. Lewis of Hearne, was a large planter of Robertson County, represented that county in the State Legislature and was a man of acknowledged ability and influence in the State.
Mr. Lewis's eldest daughter, Mrs. Fannie M. Glass, wife of F. A. Glass, died in 1889, leaving four children three of whom are now living. The youngest daughter, Mrs. Willie E. Moreland, wife
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of Dr. A. C. Moreland, resides at Atlanta, Georgia. The widow with the orphaned children of her de- 'deceased son and daughter, nine in number, still
makes her home in Hearne, where she is reckoned among the oldest of that place and a representative of the family for which the place was named.
W. L. MOODY,
GALVESTON.
William Lewis Moody was born in Essex County, Va., May 19, 1828, and reared in Chesterfield County, that State, his parents, Jameson and Mary Susan ( Lankford) Moody, having moved to that county in 1830. His father was a gallant. soldier in the war of 1812, and his grandfathers, Lewis Moody, of Essex County, Va., and William Lank- ford, of Chesterfield County, Va., fought for free- dom in the Continental lines during the Revolution- ary War of 1776.
His parents raised ten children to years of maturity : Emily A., James H., David J., Leroy F., William L., Sarah E., Joseph L., Jameson C., Mary A., and G. Marcellus Moody. Of these only Leroy F. Moody, Mrs. Sarah E. Simmons, and the subject of this memoir are pow living.
In 1852 Mr. W. L. Moody came to Texas and located at Fairfield. Such of his brothers and sisters as were then living and a dear old aunt followed, and all settled in Freestone County.
Mr. Moody practiced law at Fairfield for about two years, but his health becoming precarious he determined to engage in some less sedentary pur- suit, and accordingly, with his brothers, David J. and Leroy F. Moody, established a mercantile business at that place, under the firm name of W. L. Moody & Bros., thas taking the initial step in a brilliant, successful and widely useful career. In January, 1860, he was united in marriage to Miss Pherabe Elizabeth Bradley, of Freestone County, the beautiful and accomplished daughter of Mr. F. M. and Mrs. (Goldsby) Bradley, formerly of Summerfield, Alabama, where Mrs. Moody was born, reared and educated. Col. and Mrs. Moody have three children: W. L. Moody, Jr., Frank Bradley Moody and Mary Emily Moody, all married and living in Galveston. W. I .. Moody, Jr., married Miss Libby Shearn, of Houston ; F. B. Moody, Miss Battie Thompson, of Galveston; and Miss Mary E. Moody, Mr. Sealy Hutchings, of Galveston. Early in 1861, Col. Moody joined an infantry company raised in
Freestone County and was elected captain. The command proceeded to the rendezvous at Hopkins- ville, Ky., and was mustered into the Confederate . States service as a part of the Seventh Texas Infantry which was organized upon that occasion with John Gregg as Colonel. Col. Moody was captured at Fort Donelson, Tenn., upon the fall of that post in February, 1862, and imprisoned first at Camp Douglass, Ill., and then at Camp Chase, Ohio, and Johnson's Island on Lake Erie. In September following he was exchanged and soon after made Lieutenant Colonel by promotion, was stationed for a time at Port Hudson, La., saw much hard service in Mississippi and Louisiana participating in many fights and fierce engagements with the enemy ; after the fall of Vicksburg was severely wounded at the siege of Jacksonville, Miss., and after many months of critical illness, was pronounced per- manently disabled and retired from field service with the rank of Colonel, being promoted for gal- lantry. As soon as health permitted he reported for duty and was appointed to post duty and placed in command at Austin, Texas, where he remained until the general surrender. The war ended, he closed out the mercantile business at Fairfield, and in 1866 moved to Galveston where he and his brother engaged in the commission business under the firm name of W. L. & L. F. Moody.
Next season Mr. F. M. Bradley of Freestone County was admitted as a partner and the style of the firm changed to Moody, Bradley & Co.
In 1871, L. F. Moody and F. M. Bradley retired and E. S. Jemison of Galveston was admitted under the firm uame of Moody & Jemison, and a branch house established in New York city in 1874, with Col. Jemison in charge. Leroy F. Moody, so long associated in business with his brother at Fairfield, at Galveston and in New York, sharing with him the joys of boyhood days and in manhood the struggle for life and fortune, resides at present at Buffalo Gap, Texas, where Mrs. Sarah E. Simmons, Mr. Moody's sister, also resides. The partnership
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