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ber of the State Horticultural society
and is regarded as one of the most suc
cessful and most enterprising fruit
growers of the State.
Silas Hare, Sherman, Texas, was ad
mitted to the bar in 1883, and still prac
tices his profession in partnership with
his father. Mr. Hare still retains a
lively interest in his alma mater.
C. S. Graves, Eagls Pass, Texas, grad
uated in 1882, was engaged as surveyor
and draughtsman for about two years in
Austin and San Antonio. Aftewards
opened a small grocery business in San
Antonio, selling out shortly afterwards.
He took a commercial course at Bryant
and Stratton’s College, of St. Louis, Mo.,
and in December 1884 accepted a posi
tion as private secretary to Dr. J. C. C.
Hill, right-of-way agent for the Ferro
Carriel International Mexicano. Re
signing this position in September 1886,
he accepted a position as book-keeper
for Gregory & Co., of San Antonio. He
returned to the railraod service in the
auditing department of the F. C. I. M.
and in the Spring was appointed chief
clerk of the department which position
he still holds.
Nothing is known in regard to Searcy
Baker, J. M. Buford, J. R. Cravens,
Robert Sawyer and Aaron Tabot.
1833.
J. C. Caldwell, W. E. Moseley and J.
M. Wesson, of this class, have passed
away.
We are not sufficiently informed to
state anything definite in regard to W.
L. Fuller.
• A. T. Patrick after graduating took a
course in the law department of the
University of Texas and commenced the
practice of his profession at Austin
where he made a splendid reputation in
the Radam, Microbe Killer suit. He
moved to Houston in 1889 and at pres
ent has an office in New York City.
Mr. Patrick has recently gained a great
deal of notoriety in the J. C. Hutcher
son disbarment case at Galveston. In
fact Mr. Patrick lias gained more nffio-
riety than any other graduate of the
College.
Osborne Kennedy is practicing law at
Mexia.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF J. T. EDWARDS.
Born near Gadsden, Ala., May 18 r
1861. Came to Texas with parents in
December 1867 and settled at Pilot Point
on a farm, where I spent my boyhood
days helping my father during the crop-
season and attending a common country
school during the leisure months of each
year until I was eighteen years old. In
1879 my father sent me to the Pilo
Point Seminary then under the manage
ment of the noted instructor Dr. M. B.
Franklin. I remained at the Seminary
until the summer of 1881. Our legisla
ture in the spring of 1851 passed a law
authorizing the appointment of one stu
dent from each representative district to-
the A. and M. College, the expensas, ex
cept for books and clothing, to be pud
by the State. I, with several others, ap
plied for the appointment from this dis
trict, which after a very severe competi
tive examination, was awarded to me.
I spent the following two years at the
College anh oy dint of very hard study
ing compl 'ed the entire course in that
time, gra i uating June 1883, with first
honors nd as valedictorian. After
leaving College I taught school three
years. The next four years I was en-