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Were I assured that his whereabouts was not known at the time of the trial and that they are now, and that the parties will bring him to justice, I should not hesitate to grant the petition. Sam Houston.
1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, p. 214, Texas State Library.
To FRANCIS MooRE, JR. 1 Executive Department, Austin, August 25, 1860.
My Dear Sir: I wish you to visit Austin so soon as you con- veniently can, as I have determined to offer you a situation in the Geological Bureau, worth at least $1,500 per annum. Your letter would have been answered long since, but my business has been so pressing and so complicated as well as incessant, that I have passed by many things from necessity. I have thought often of writing to you and requesting your presence. For the situation of Principal Mr. Weisenback has been and yet is pressed. My mind however has not been entirely made up as to the removal of Dr. Shumard, 2 but I am inclined to think that I will remove him. I desire that you should write to me immediately. With regrets that I have delayed writing to you so long, I am Truly Thy Friend, Sam Houston. Dr. Francis Moore. 3 1 Executive Reco1·ds, 1859-1861, pp. 214-215, 'J;'exas State Library. 2 Dr. Benjamin F. Shumard was a native of Pennsylvania. Even as a young boy he was interested in the study of geology, but to please his family, he studied medicine, when he grew up, under the famous Dr. S. D. Gross, head professor of the Medical College of Louisville. He received his degree in 1843, and for three years practiced his profession in and about Louisville; but in 1846 he gave up the medical profession to devote all his time to geological pursuits. Subsequently, he took part in the geo- logical surveys that were made for the states of Iowa, Wisconsin, Min- nesota, and Oregon. In 1858, the Legislature of Texas commissioned hin{ to make a geological survey of Texas, and he was engaged in this work from 1858 to 1860. He was a member of many geographical societies both at home and abroad. See Texas Almanac, 1860, pp. 187-189; Bfog·1·aphfral Encyclopedia of Texas, 291-293. 8 Dr. Francis Moore, Jr., was born in New York, but came to Texas from Ohio, in 1836, with the Buckeye Rangers. He had not been in the state long before he was offered a position as surgeon in the Texas army. In 1837, in company with J. W. Crueger, he published the Telegraph (Hous- ton), and he continued his connection with this newspaper until 1866. Re
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