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on my way to Washington. Today, I send you by mail, a Con- stitution. Write to me soon and say if you are corning to see me, & bring your Father, as proposed above! Crops are short here, but I have enough to feed your horses. Sam Houston Col. J. K. Holland My Proclamation against Commodore Moore His Dishonorable discharge, President Jones' veto, etc. These papers will be found in 1843 & 1844. Miller can find all these documents. Sam Houston [Addressed]: From Sam Houston, U.S. Senator [the frank] Colonel James K. Holland, Carthage, Panola County, Texas [postmark] Huntsville, Sep. 5 Texas [Endorsed] : Received 14th Sept. 1851 32 years old 1 Domestic Con·espondence, Texas State Library. James Kemp Holland (March 10, 1822-May 27, 1898), son of Spearman Holland, was born at Paris, Tennessee, but spent his youth at Holly Springs, Mississippi. In 1842, he came to Texas with his father's family. He was elected to the first State Legislature from Panola County, but resigned before taking his seat, in order to enter the United States Army in the Mexican War, a lieutenant of the 17th Rangers--a mounted company of Texas volunteers, commanded by his uncle, Bird Holland. He left a diary which he kept while in the Mexican War. It is now owned by bis daughter, Mrs. E. G. Myers, of Dallas, Texas. The University of Texas possesses a photostat copy of this diary, and it is edited and published in Soztthwestent Histo1-ical Quarterly, XXX, 1-33. After James K. Holland's return to Texas, he was again elected a representative to the Legislature from Panola and Rusk Counties. In 1851 he served as Deputy United States Marshal of the Eastern Di~trict of Texas. In 1853, he was again in the Legislature, a member of the Senate, and was chairman of the Senate Committee on Education. He declined nomination to the secession convention of 1861, but was soon afterward elected to represent Brazos, Grimes, and Montgomery Counties in the Ninth Legislature, which assem- bled on November 4, 1861. In 1863, he was appointed on Governor Murrah's staff, with the rank of colonel. In 1866, he was a delegate to the National Union Convention at Philadelphia. In his latter years he made his home at Austin, Texas, but he died at Tehuacana, the result of an accident, and was buried at Navasota. See Southwestern Historical Quarterly, XXX, 1; Annie J. Holland in Texas Magazine, March, 1913. Mr. L. W. Kemp also gave valuable information concerning James Kemp Holland, his father, Spearman Holland, and his uncle, Bird Holland.
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