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Capt John Monroe Woolsey

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Capt John Monroe Woolsey

Birth
Georgia, USA
Death
30 Sep 1901 (aged 82)
Sweet Home, Lavaca County, Texas, USA
Burial
Yoakum, Lavaca County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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Sec 12 per survey done in 1983 by Sammy Tise.
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WOOLSEY, J. M.
Having grown forty-seven crops since he was married, Mr. Woolsey is entitled to be recognized as a farmer. To this honorable business in life he has devoted his best energies, and filled up the measure of a good citizen. He was born in the State of Georgia, September 3,1819, and is, in consequence, well advanced in the school of experience. He was raised to manual labor, and without shrinking from hardship, he has endured and toiled until a competency has been his reward. He is self-taught and self-educated. Using the dim light of the evening fire, or the limited illumination of the rural cottage, he read at night, and appropriated the spare moments. when not engaged in work, to acquire knowledge, and the result has not been abortive. He is a man of good average intelligence, and has been honored by his countrymen.
The wife of Mr. Woolsey was Miss Matilda A. Blunt. His large family numbering fourteen children, equally divided in sex. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is also affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. Woolsey was elected to the Twentieth Legislature from the Sixty-seventh district, which includes the County of Colorado, being the first Democrat elected from that district since the days of emancipation, by a majority of 86.
His legislative record has been according to the tenor of his life, solid, and not speculative; staid, rather than adventurously progressive. He is not demonstrative, but has been faithful to his convictions. (Personnel of the Texas State Government: With Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive and Staff, Heads of the Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the Legislature, 1887
WOOLSEY, J. M.
Having grown forty-seven crops since he was married, Mr. Woolsey is entitled to be recognized as a farmer. To this honorable business in life he has devoted his best energies, and filled up the measure of a good citizen. He was born in the State of Georgia, September 3,1819, and is, in consequence, well advanced in the school of experience. He was raised to manual labor, and without shrinking from hardship, he has endured and toiled until a competency has been his reward. He is self-taught and self-educated. Using the dim light of the evening fire, or the limited illumination of the rural cottage, he read at night, and appropriated the spare moments. when not engaged in work, to acquire knowledge, and the result has not been abortive. He is a man of good average intelligence, and has been honored by his countrymen.
The wife of Mr. Woolsey was Miss Matilda A. Blunt. His large family numbering fourteen children, equally divided in sex. He is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and is also affiliated with the Masonic fraternity.
Mr. Woolsey was elected to the Twentieth Legislature from the Sixty-seventh district, which includes the County of Colorado, being the first Democrat elected from that district since the days of emancipation, by a majority of 86.
His legislative record has been according to the tenor of his life, solid, and not speculative; staid, rather than adventurously progressive. He is not demonstrative, but has been faithful to his convictions. (Personnel of the Texas State Government: With Sketches of Distinguished Texans, Embracing the Executive and Staff, Heads of the Departments, United States Senators and Representatives, Members of the Legislature, 1887

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