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PF2.2.27
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5-8-1870
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Weatherford, Parker Co. Texas,
May. 8th, 1870
Pres. E.T. Tappan
Gambier, Knox Co. O.
My dear Sir;
Your letter, having followed me around my District, my Spring Term, commencing the 2nd Monday of February, has at last caught up with me, and I at once answer.
The Roll of Honor of Kenyon’s students in the U.S. Service prepared for me by [Sir. Iderin] L. Stanton is, together with other material I had for a History of Kenyon College, among some of my papers in the the company of Jasper 450 miles from here, and I have no means of getting [?], nor person to look up in time for your use. I regret this very much.
I presume from request in circular for answers, if possible, by the middle of January, that the catalogue is already in [print] if not published.
The graduates in this state are few. Hon. James Denison, of San Antonio, lawyer, was a member of the [Congress] of the Republic, and is now an [Associate] Judge of the Supreme Court of Texas.
Hon. [?] M. Bryan, of [?], lawyer and planter, has been several times a member of the state legislature, was a member of U.S. Congress 1857-9— and during the war a Major in Confederate service.
A. Banning Norton, lawyer and [?]— was member of Texas Legislature for four years before the war— was Assistant General of the state for two years—Edited various papers, among them, the ‘Intelligencer’ of Austin, the last main paper in the South. Since the war the publication of of “Norton’s Union Intelligencer” was [?] by a [?] Jefferson and [?] destroyed. Was a delegate in the Constitutional Convention of 1866, and since then has been Judge of the 5th judicial District of Texas. P.A. [?] [?], Dallas.
Howard [?]— was professor in Marshall University— edited at time of his death— the Star State Patriot, a Whig journal of Marshall, Harrison Co. Texas.
There are many of the old students in the South [?], who have figured quite extensively in politics and war, the work I design publishing will give some account of all these. I cannot publish my [?] when preferred for want of means. Some day, I hope to be able to do so.
My life, especially in this state, has been full of excitement and I have met with much misfortune,
[huh] I have [ever] had grateful recollections of old Kenyon and for her I [?] cherish the tenderest regard I expect to send her a student as [?[ [?] as prepared for Freshman [?].
With best wishes,
I am,
Truly [?],
A. Banning Norton
Recommended Citation
Norton, A. Banning, "Letter from A. Banning Norton to Eli Tappan" (1870). 19th Century Correspondence. 43.
https://digital.kenyon.edu/correspondence_19thc/43