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muster into service, (if not already mustered in) or to disband the Texas forces, now acting under the Federal Officers at that point. Sam Houston. [Endorsed]: Orders to Taylor and Navarro, Jany. 2, 1860. 1 Houston Letters, also, Exec·utive Records, 1859-1861, p. 46, Texas State Library. The Angel Navarro mentioned here was doubtless Angel Navarro III, son of Jose Antonio Navarro. Angel Navarro I, was one of the earliest settlers of San Antonio. He was born and reared in Ajaccio, Corsica, but left his native island in 1772. After traveling about for a time to Genoa, Barcelona, Cadiz, and other places in Europe, he immigrated to Mexico. In 1777, he came to San Antonio, Texas, as a merchant. There he reared a large family, one son of which was Angel Navarro II, brother of Jose Antonio Navarro, father of Angel III. See Frederick C. Chabot, With the Makers of San Antonio, pp. 202-206, 247, for genealogy of the Navarro family of San Antonio. All the Navarros were loyal Texans and supported the American-Texan revolution of 1835-1836-all except Angel II, who was an officer in Santa Anna's army. Robert H. Taylor was born in Columbia, South Carolina, July 5, 1825. He was educated privately by the Rev. C. P. Beman, and the Rev. Otis Smith of La Grange, Georgia; he read law in the office of Judge Hiram Warner, Greenville, Georgia, and was admitted to the bar in 1843. He married Epsey, daughter of Thomas E. Hardway, and came to Texas in 1844; settled at Bonham, and was elected Justice of the Peace in 1846. He commanded a company in the Mexican War, 1847-1848, and in 1849 ran for a seat in the Texas Legislature. He was defeated in the race, but in 1851 succeeded in being elected a member of the House of Representatives of the Fourth Legislature, and was reelected to the same position for the Fifth Legislature. He served in the Sixth, and the Seventh legislatures as senator. For a number of years he was engaged in private law practice at Bonham, but in 1879 he was again elected a member of the House of Representatives for the. Sixteenth Legislature. All his legislative service was for the counties of Fannin, Grayson, and Cooke. See William DeRyee and R. E. Moore, Texas Albu11t of the 8th, Legislature, p. 178; Members of the Legislature of the State of Texas from 1846 to 1939 ( Compiled by a Committee appointed by the Texas Legislature-Tommy Yett, Chairman), pp. 15, 20, 23, 28, 99; Homer S. Thrall, The Peovle's Illustrated Almanac, and foimigrant's Guide f 01· 1880, 148; E. W . Swindells (ed., and publisher, Austin, 1879), A Legislative Mam1al fo1· the State of Texas, etc., P· 257; W. A. Carter, "History of Fannin County, Texas," (a typed copy, 1886), 127-128. ~Samuel Peter Heintzelman (1815-May 1, 1880) was born in Phila- delphia, Pennsylvania. He entered the United States Military Academy at an early age and graduated therefrom, July 1, 1822, after which time he held various positions and rendered various services in the United States army until he was advanced to the rank of Major General on the thirteenlh of March, 1865, for gallant service at the battle of Williamsburg, Virginia, during the Civil War. During the years, 1858, 1859, 1860, he commanded
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