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John K. Allen is described as young, handsome, intelligent, full of energy, suave of manners, faultless in dress, and kind and generous in disposition. He was a general favorite among his intimate friends, among whom were numbered Thomas J. Rusk, J. Pinckney Henderson, James Collinsworth, Samuel M. ·Williams, Sam Houston, and other notables of the day. He was never married. He died of congestive fever on August 15, 1839, and is bul'ied in Founders Cemetery, Houston, Texas. See Garrison (ed.), D·ip- lomatic Correspondence of the Revublic of Texas, I, 79. John Henry Brown, Incl·ian Wa,rs and Pioneers of Texas, 357-359. History of Texas 1uith Biographica.l Histories of the Cities of Houston and Gcilveston (Lewis Publishing Company, 1895), 260-264, 257-259. C. P. Dunbar, History of Houston, vasshn, especially p. 26. Samuel O Young, A Thumbnail History of Houston, Texas, 11ciss-i-1n. Dr. 0. Fisher Allen, The City of Houston f1·om Wildeniess to W onde,·. William C. Binkley, Official Co1·1·espondence of the Texan Revolution, I, 8, 49, 124, 221, 222, 130, 138, 139, II, 759. See also note 2, pp. 181-183.
To THE TEXAS SENATE 1
Executive Department, City of Houston, 22nd May, 1837. Gentlemen of the Senate: I take pleasure in presenting to you the names of the following Gentlemen for the offices of Col- lectors, viz : For the port of Matagorda, George M. Collins- worth,2 Collector. For the port of Gaines' Ferry, John G. Love,S Collector. These are offered instead of Thomas Stewart and James Gaines 4 who were rejected by your honorable body. I respectfully solicit your concurrence in the above nominations. Sam Houston 1 E. W. Winkler (ed.), Secret Joiwnals of the Senate, Republic of Texas, 1896-1845, 54. 2 Geqrge M. Collinsworth was living at Brazoria, July, 1832; in 1835 he was a resident of Matagorda, and raised a company of bis friends-all planters of Caney and Matagorda-for service in the Texas army. These sixty or more men captured Goliad on October 9, 1835. Collinsworth was then stationed at that place. In 1840 he was elected a commissioner for Matagorda County, and in 1841 we find him establishing a new custom house at Matagorda. See Brown, Histo1-y of Texas, I, 375. Lamar Pape1·s, III, 682. William C. Binkley, Official Correspondence of the ·Ti;xan Revolutio11, I, 6 to 364, passim. 3 John G. Love was a resident of San Augustine. He was County Judge for several terms in his home county, and later served as Primary Judge of the district. After the Texas Revolution broke out, be became enlisting officer at San Augustine, and his old 1·ecord book shows that be enlisted five companies during the month of June, 1836 (Crocket, Two Centuries -in East Texas, 186). Public Records, San Augustine County; Harriet Smither (ed.), Journals of the Fourth Congress, I, 542, 901.
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