MCCORMICK, GEORGE (1841-1905) ~ George McCormick, son of W.B and Ann Virginia Millan McCormick, moved with his family from Virginia to Colorado County, Texas in December of 1858, when George was 17.
When the Civil War broke out, George mustered into the Confederate Army in Galveston and helped build defensive sand works at Fort Point and South Battery. He reenlisted in Company D, cavalry battalion, Waul's Legion. In July of 1864, at the battle of Harrisburg in Mississippi, George was wounded, captured, and had his leg amputated. At the end of the war, he returned to Colorado County.
He studied law, obtained his license, and joint the legal team of Cook and Collier. In 1866, he was elected county clerk but declared ineligible because he failed to swear the "iron-clad oath" that all Reconstruction officers were to uphold. He was removed from office in 1869, for impediment to Reconstruction. George returned to private practice in Columbus with R.L. Foard and Wells Thompson. In 1870, he was appointed Colorado County Attorney.
George represented Colorado and Lavaca Counties in the Constitutional Convention of 1875. He advocated for the direct support of public education through taxation. In 1876, Governor Richard Coke appointed George to a term as assistant attorney general. He was overwhelmingly elected state attorney general under Governor Oran M. Roberts in 1878 but decided against reelection in 1880. He returned to Columbus and practiced law with Lyle G. Logue.
In 1882, he was one of sixty-nine lawyers from across the state who met at Galveston to form the Texas Bar Association. George was elected to two consecutive terms as judge of the state's Twenty-fifth Judicial District from 1884-1892.
In 1871, he married Myrah Thatcher in Columbus, Texas and had five children with her. He died at his home in Columbus and was interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Weimar.
Sources: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmc26.html
McCORMICK, Judge GEO.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fauquier County, Va., October 12, 1841. His parents came with their family to Colorado county in 1858. They resided here until a few years since and are buried at Weimar in the family burying ground, leaving behind them enduring reputations as precious heirlooms to their descendants. Early in 1861, Geo. McCormick enlisted in the Confederate army, was in Nicholls' Regiment at Galveston, and assisted to build the mud-works at Fort Point and South Battery.
He re-enlisted in Col. D., Cavalry Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion, which crossed the Mississippi River in the fall of 1862 at Vicksburg. From that time to July, 1864, he served with his regiment under McCulloch of Missouri, Calmers, Ross and Forest in the memorable campaigns which made the cavalry of that period so famous, when he was wounded, captured, and his leg amputated by the enemy.
He came back to the county in 1865 and entered the law office of Messrs. Cook & Collier, a prominent and noted law firm of this city, and pursued with the firm the study of the law. In June, 1866, he was elected over two competitors - both popular gentlemen, who had held the office for years acceptably - to the office of County Clerk. In 1869 Gov. Pease and the military removed him because he could not take the test oath. He then formed a partnership in the practice of law with Messrs. R. L. Foard and Wells Thompson of this city, two noted and distinguished lawyers and gentlemen. In 1875 he was elected as the nominee of the democratic party, with Gen. Whitfield and J. E. Arnim of Lavaca, a delegate to represent the counties of Colorado and Lavaca in the constitutional convention of that year and which framed our present state constitution. In that convention, be it said to his honor, he was the only democrat who voted for a direct tax for the support of public schools.
When the new constitution went into effect, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General - an office made vacant by the resignation ---- of Austin - by Gov. Richard Coke. Having served in that position during the term of that distinguished Attorney General, Major H. H. Boone - the true man, statesman, lawyer, soldier and gentleman, so well known in Texas, who declined a re-election - McCormick was nominated by the convention of the great democratic people of the state to succeed Boone, was elected by an overwhelming majority, and held the office during the first term of that great and revered Governor, O. M. Roberts. He filled the office with ability and credit to himself and satisfaction to the people but declined a re-election.
At the close of his term of office he came home, formed a law partnership with Lyle J. Logue, whose untimely death in 1884 was so much regretted by our citizens. In 1884 Judge McCormick became a candidate for Judge of this judicial district, composed of the counties of Wilson, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Lavaca, and Colorado, and was elected by a large majority. In 1888 he was re-elected by over three times the majority received in 1884, showing unmistakably the verdict of the people as to his fitness and qualifications for the high and responsible office he now holds.
Judge McCormick is a progressive "collar democrat," believes in the discipline of the party; is nearly a free trader; opposes trusts, combinations and free passes; believes that all people should be treated alike and that the amendment offered to the constitution to authorize the legislature to provide for a railroad commission should be adopted, though he boldly declares the Federal commission is a failure; is not so much in favor of a commission as he is in giving the legislature the authority to appoint one if it deems it necessary to do so.
Judge McCormick has resided here or in this immediate vicinity for about thirty years, and his record shows that he is one of our best citizens - a man of energy and action, pronounced in his views, bold and manly in their expression, though liberal to those differing in opinion. A long public service is characterized by a heightened sense of duty, to which as an officer he makes everything bend - kith or kin or old friends to the contrary, notwithstanding -and you may trace his public career form its inception to date, and you will find honesty of purpose and the faithful discharge of duty shining headlights in his career; and should the people in the future confer upon him other honors, we know the same course will be maintained.
In 1871 he was married to Miss Myrah Thatcher, "a native and to the manor born," eldest daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Thatcher of this city, has a large family, and his relatives here are among the best and most influential people of Colorado county, and "his friends are legion." (The Colorado Citizen, Columbus, Tex, Oct 22, 1889
When the Civil War broke out, George mustered into the Confederate Army in Galveston and helped build defensive sand works at Fort Point and South Battery. He reenlisted in Company D, cavalry battalion, Waul's Legion. In July of 1864, at the battle of Harrisburg in Mississippi, George was wounded, captured, and had his leg amputated. At the end of the war, he returned to Colorado County.
He studied law, obtained his license, and joint the legal team of Cook and Collier. In 1866, he was elected county clerk but declared ineligible because he failed to swear the "iron-clad oath" that all Reconstruction officers were to uphold. He was removed from office in 1869, for impediment to Reconstruction. George returned to private practice in Columbus with R.L. Foard and Wells Thompson. In 1870, he was appointed Colorado County Attorney.
George represented Colorado and Lavaca Counties in the Constitutional Convention of 1875. He advocated for the direct support of public education through taxation. In 1876, Governor Richard Coke appointed George to a term as assistant attorney general. He was overwhelmingly elected state attorney general under Governor Oran M. Roberts in 1878 but decided against reelection in 1880. He returned to Columbus and practiced law with Lyle G. Logue.
In 1882, he was one of sixty-nine lawyers from across the state who met at Galveston to form the Texas Bar Association. George was elected to two consecutive terms as judge of the state's Twenty-fifth Judicial District from 1884-1892.
In 1871, he married Myrah Thatcher in Columbus, Texas and had five children with her. He died at his home in Columbus and was interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Weimar.
Sources: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmc26.html
McCORMICK, Judge GEO.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fauquier County, Va., October 12, 1841. His parents came with their family to Colorado county in 1858. They resided here until a few years since and are buried at Weimar in the family burying ground, leaving behind them enduring reputations as precious heirlooms to their descendants. Early in 1861, Geo. McCormick enlisted in the Confederate army, was in Nicholls' Regiment at Galveston, and assisted to build the mud-works at Fort Point and South Battery.
He re-enlisted in Col. D., Cavalry Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion, which crossed the Mississippi River in the fall of 1862 at Vicksburg. From that time to July, 1864, he served with his regiment under McCulloch of Missouri, Calmers, Ross and Forest in the memorable campaigns which made the cavalry of that period so famous, when he was wounded, captured, and his leg amputated by the enemy.
He came back to the county in 1865 and entered the law office of Messrs. Cook & Collier, a prominent and noted law firm of this city, and pursued with the firm the study of the law. In June, 1866, he was elected over two competitors - both popular gentlemen, who had held the office for years acceptably - to the office of County Clerk. In 1869 Gov. Pease and the military removed him because he could not take the test oath. He then formed a partnership in the practice of law with Messrs. R. L. Foard and Wells Thompson of this city, two noted and distinguished lawyers and gentlemen. In 1875 he was elected as the nominee of the democratic party, with Gen. Whitfield and J. E. Arnim of Lavaca, a delegate to represent the counties of Colorado and Lavaca in the constitutional convention of that year and which framed our present state constitution. In that convention, be it said to his honor, he was the only democrat who voted for a direct tax for the support of public schools.
When the new constitution went into effect, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General - an office made vacant by the resignation ---- of Austin - by Gov. Richard Coke. Having served in that position during the term of that distinguished Attorney General, Major H. H. Boone - the true man, statesman, lawyer, soldier and gentleman, so well known in Texas, who declined a re-election - McCormick was nominated by the convention of the great democratic people of the state to succeed Boone, was elected by an overwhelming majority, and held the office during the first term of that great and revered Governor, O. M. Roberts. He filled the office with ability and credit to himself and satisfaction to the people but declined a re-election.
At the close of his term of office he came home, formed a law partnership with Lyle J. Logue, whose untimely death in 1884 was so much regretted by our citizens. In 1884 Judge McCormick became a candidate for Judge of this judicial district, composed of the counties of Wilson, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Lavaca, and Colorado, and was elected by a large majority. In 1888 he was re-elected by over three times the majority received in 1884, showing unmistakably the verdict of the people as to his fitness and qualifications for the high and responsible office he now holds.
Judge McCormick is a progressive "collar democrat," believes in the discipline of the party; is nearly a free trader; opposes trusts, combinations and free passes; believes that all people should be treated alike and that the amendment offered to the constitution to authorize the legislature to provide for a railroad commission should be adopted, though he boldly declares the Federal commission is a failure; is not so much in favor of a commission as he is in giving the legislature the authority to appoint one if it deems it necessary to do so.
Judge McCormick has resided here or in this immediate vicinity for about thirty years, and his record shows that he is one of our best citizens - a man of energy and action, pronounced in his views, bold and manly in their expression, though liberal to those differing in opinion. A long public service is characterized by a heightened sense of duty, to which as an officer he makes everything bend - kith or kin or old friends to the contrary, notwithstanding -and you may trace his public career form its inception to date, and you will find honesty of purpose and the faithful discharge of duty shining headlights in his career; and should the people in the future confer upon him other honors, we know the same course will be maintained.
In 1871 he was married to Miss Myrah Thatcher, "a native and to the manor born," eldest daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Thatcher of this city, has a large family, and his relatives here are among the best and most influential people of Colorado county, and "his friends are legion." (The Colorado Citizen, Columbus, Tex, Oct 22, 1889
MCCORMICK, GEORGE (1841-1905) ~ George McCormick, son of W.B and Ann Virginia Millan McCormick, moved with his family from Virginia to Colorado County, Texas in December of 1858, when George was 17.
When the Civil War broke out, George mustered into the Confederate Army in Galveston and helped build defensive sand works at Fort Point and South Battery. He reenlisted in Company D, cavalry battalion, Waul's Legion. In July of 1864, at the battle of Harrisburg in Mississippi, George was wounded, captured, and had his leg amputated. At the end of the war, he returned to Colorado County.
He studied law, obtained his license, and joint the legal team of Cook and Collier. In 1866, he was elected county clerk but declared ineligible because he failed to swear the "iron-clad oath" that all Reconstruction officers were to uphold. He was removed from office in 1869, for impediment to Reconstruction. George returned to private practice in Columbus with R.L. Foard and Wells Thompson. In 1870, he was appointed Colorado County Attorney.
George represented Colorado and Lavaca Counties in the Constitutional Convention of 1875. He advocated for the direct support of public education through taxation. In 1876, Governor Richard Coke appointed George to a term as assistant attorney general. He was overwhelmingly elected state attorney general under Governor Oran M. Roberts in 1878 but decided against reelection in 1880. He returned to Columbus and practiced law with Lyle G. Logue.
In 1882, he was one of sixty-nine lawyers from across the state who met at Galveston to form the Texas Bar Association. George was elected to two consecutive terms as judge of the state's Twenty-fifth Judicial District from 1884-1892.
In 1871, he married Myrah Thatcher in Columbus, Texas and had five children with her. He died at his home in Columbus and was interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Weimar.
Sources: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmc26.html
McCORMICK, Judge GEO.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fauquier County, Va., October 12, 1841. His parents came with their family to Colorado county in 1858. They resided here until a few years since and are buried at Weimar in the family burying ground, leaving behind them enduring reputations as precious heirlooms to their descendants. Early in 1861, Geo. McCormick enlisted in the Confederate army, was in Nicholls' Regiment at Galveston, and assisted to build the mud-works at Fort Point and South Battery.
He re-enlisted in Col. D., Cavalry Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion, which crossed the Mississippi River in the fall of 1862 at Vicksburg. From that time to July, 1864, he served with his regiment under McCulloch of Missouri, Calmers, Ross and Forest in the memorable campaigns which made the cavalry of that period so famous, when he was wounded, captured, and his leg amputated by the enemy.
He came back to the county in 1865 and entered the law office of Messrs. Cook & Collier, a prominent and noted law firm of this city, and pursued with the firm the study of the law. In June, 1866, he was elected over two competitors - both popular gentlemen, who had held the office for years acceptably - to the office of County Clerk. In 1869 Gov. Pease and the military removed him because he could not take the test oath. He then formed a partnership in the practice of law with Messrs. R. L. Foard and Wells Thompson of this city, two noted and distinguished lawyers and gentlemen. In 1875 he was elected as the nominee of the democratic party, with Gen. Whitfield and J. E. Arnim of Lavaca, a delegate to represent the counties of Colorado and Lavaca in the constitutional convention of that year and which framed our present state constitution. In that convention, be it said to his honor, he was the only democrat who voted for a direct tax for the support of public schools.
When the new constitution went into effect, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General - an office made vacant by the resignation ---- of Austin - by Gov. Richard Coke. Having served in that position during the term of that distinguished Attorney General, Major H. H. Boone - the true man, statesman, lawyer, soldier and gentleman, so well known in Texas, who declined a re-election - McCormick was nominated by the convention of the great democratic people of the state to succeed Boone, was elected by an overwhelming majority, and held the office during the first term of that great and revered Governor, O. M. Roberts. He filled the office with ability and credit to himself and satisfaction to the people but declined a re-election.
At the close of his term of office he came home, formed a law partnership with Lyle J. Logue, whose untimely death in 1884 was so much regretted by our citizens. In 1884 Judge McCormick became a candidate for Judge of this judicial district, composed of the counties of Wilson, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Lavaca, and Colorado, and was elected by a large majority. In 1888 he was re-elected by over three times the majority received in 1884, showing unmistakably the verdict of the people as to his fitness and qualifications for the high and responsible office he now holds.
Judge McCormick is a progressive "collar democrat," believes in the discipline of the party; is nearly a free trader; opposes trusts, combinations and free passes; believes that all people should be treated alike and that the amendment offered to the constitution to authorize the legislature to provide for a railroad commission should be adopted, though he boldly declares the Federal commission is a failure; is not so much in favor of a commission as he is in giving the legislature the authority to appoint one if it deems it necessary to do so.
Judge McCormick has resided here or in this immediate vicinity for about thirty years, and his record shows that he is one of our best citizens - a man of energy and action, pronounced in his views, bold and manly in their expression, though liberal to those differing in opinion. A long public service is characterized by a heightened sense of duty, to which as an officer he makes everything bend - kith or kin or old friends to the contrary, notwithstanding -and you may trace his public career form its inception to date, and you will find honesty of purpose and the faithful discharge of duty shining headlights in his career; and should the people in the future confer upon him other honors, we know the same course will be maintained.
In 1871 he was married to Miss Myrah Thatcher, "a native and to the manor born," eldest daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Thatcher of this city, has a large family, and his relatives here are among the best and most influential people of Colorado county, and "his friends are legion." (The Colorado Citizen, Columbus, Tex, Oct 22, 1889
When the Civil War broke out, George mustered into the Confederate Army in Galveston and helped build defensive sand works at Fort Point and South Battery. He reenlisted in Company D, cavalry battalion, Waul's Legion. In July of 1864, at the battle of Harrisburg in Mississippi, George was wounded, captured, and had his leg amputated. At the end of the war, he returned to Colorado County.
He studied law, obtained his license, and joint the legal team of Cook and Collier. In 1866, he was elected county clerk but declared ineligible because he failed to swear the "iron-clad oath" that all Reconstruction officers were to uphold. He was removed from office in 1869, for impediment to Reconstruction. George returned to private practice in Columbus with R.L. Foard and Wells Thompson. In 1870, he was appointed Colorado County Attorney.
George represented Colorado and Lavaca Counties in the Constitutional Convention of 1875. He advocated for the direct support of public education through taxation. In 1876, Governor Richard Coke appointed George to a term as assistant attorney general. He was overwhelmingly elected state attorney general under Governor Oran M. Roberts in 1878 but decided against reelection in 1880. He returned to Columbus and practiced law with Lyle G. Logue.
In 1882, he was one of sixty-nine lawyers from across the state who met at Galveston to form the Texas Bar Association. George was elected to two consecutive terms as judge of the state's Twenty-fifth Judicial District from 1884-1892.
In 1871, he married Myrah Thatcher in Columbus, Texas and had five children with her. He died at his home in Columbus and was interred at the Odd Fellows Cemetery at Weimar.
Sources: http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/MM/fmc26.html
McCORMICK, Judge GEO.
The subject of this sketch was born in Fauquier County, Va., October 12, 1841. His parents came with their family to Colorado county in 1858. They resided here until a few years since and are buried at Weimar in the family burying ground, leaving behind them enduring reputations as precious heirlooms to their descendants. Early in 1861, Geo. McCormick enlisted in the Confederate army, was in Nicholls' Regiment at Galveston, and assisted to build the mud-works at Fort Point and South Battery.
He re-enlisted in Col. D., Cavalry Battalion, Waul's Texas Legion, which crossed the Mississippi River in the fall of 1862 at Vicksburg. From that time to July, 1864, he served with his regiment under McCulloch of Missouri, Calmers, Ross and Forest in the memorable campaigns which made the cavalry of that period so famous, when he was wounded, captured, and his leg amputated by the enemy.
He came back to the county in 1865 and entered the law office of Messrs. Cook & Collier, a prominent and noted law firm of this city, and pursued with the firm the study of the law. In June, 1866, he was elected over two competitors - both popular gentlemen, who had held the office for years acceptably - to the office of County Clerk. In 1869 Gov. Pease and the military removed him because he could not take the test oath. He then formed a partnership in the practice of law with Messrs. R. L. Foard and Wells Thompson of this city, two noted and distinguished lawyers and gentlemen. In 1875 he was elected as the nominee of the democratic party, with Gen. Whitfield and J. E. Arnim of Lavaca, a delegate to represent the counties of Colorado and Lavaca in the constitutional convention of that year and which framed our present state constitution. In that convention, be it said to his honor, he was the only democrat who voted for a direct tax for the support of public schools.
When the new constitution went into effect, he was appointed Assistant Attorney General - an office made vacant by the resignation ---- of Austin - by Gov. Richard Coke. Having served in that position during the term of that distinguished Attorney General, Major H. H. Boone - the true man, statesman, lawyer, soldier and gentleman, so well known in Texas, who declined a re-election - McCormick was nominated by the convention of the great democratic people of the state to succeed Boone, was elected by an overwhelming majority, and held the office during the first term of that great and revered Governor, O. M. Roberts. He filled the office with ability and credit to himself and satisfaction to the people but declined a re-election.
At the close of his term of office he came home, formed a law partnership with Lyle J. Logue, whose untimely death in 1884 was so much regretted by our citizens. In 1884 Judge McCormick became a candidate for Judge of this judicial district, composed of the counties of Wilson, Guadalupe, Gonzales, Lavaca, and Colorado, and was elected by a large majority. In 1888 he was re-elected by over three times the majority received in 1884, showing unmistakably the verdict of the people as to his fitness and qualifications for the high and responsible office he now holds.
Judge McCormick is a progressive "collar democrat," believes in the discipline of the party; is nearly a free trader; opposes trusts, combinations and free passes; believes that all people should be treated alike and that the amendment offered to the constitution to authorize the legislature to provide for a railroad commission should be adopted, though he boldly declares the Federal commission is a failure; is not so much in favor of a commission as he is in giving the legislature the authority to appoint one if it deems it necessary to do so.
Judge McCormick has resided here or in this immediate vicinity for about thirty years, and his record shows that he is one of our best citizens - a man of energy and action, pronounced in his views, bold and manly in their expression, though liberal to those differing in opinion. A long public service is characterized by a heightened sense of duty, to which as an officer he makes everything bend - kith or kin or old friends to the contrary, notwithstanding -and you may trace his public career form its inception to date, and you will find honesty of purpose and the faithful discharge of duty shining headlights in his career; and should the people in the future confer upon him other honors, we know the same course will be maintained.
In 1871 he was married to Miss Myrah Thatcher, "a native and to the manor born," eldest daughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Thatcher of this city, has a large family, and his relatives here are among the best and most influential people of Colorado county, and "his friends are legion." (The Colorado Citizen, Columbus, Tex, Oct 22, 1889
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