Biographies of Oakwood Cemetery Residents
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HADRA, BERTHOLD ERNEST (1842-1903) Buried in Sec 4, lot 215
Berthold Ernest Hadra, physician and surgeon, was born near Breslau, Prussia on November 8, 1842. He obtained his medical education from the universities of Breslau and Berlin; he received his medical degree from Berlin University in 1866 and passed the state examination in 1867. He moved to Texas in 1872 and practiced medicine in San Antonio, Galveston, and Austin. While in Texas he married Ida Weisselberg. After her death he married her sister Emma. Hadra served as a health officer at San Antonio and was a member of the University of Texas Board of Regents. He was appointed chairman of surgery at Texas Medical College at Galveston in 1888 and helped to transform that institution into what is now known as the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston. He received international respect for his pioneer work in the fields of surgery and gynecology. Hadra was a president of the Texas State Medical Association. At the time of his death he was a member of the faculty at Southwestern University at Dallas. He died on July 12, 1903 in Dallas. Source
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HADRA, IDA WEISSELBERG (1861-1885) Buried in Sec 4, lot 215
Ida Weisselberg Hadra, portrait and landscape artist, was born in Castroville, Texas, on January 4, 1861. In 1872 her father, a physician, took his family to Austin, where he had been appointed to a position in the State Lunatic Asylum. This gave Ida the opportunity to study with the Austin portrait artist Ella Moss Duval. Ida also attended classes at the Texas Female Institute, where Hermann Lungkwitz was teaching landscape painting. Ida Weisselberg married a physician, Berthold Ernest Hadra, in 1882 and lived in San Antonio, where, until her death of peritonitis on November 4, 1885, she continued her studies with Mrs. Duval. Source
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HAMILTON, ANDREW JACKSON (1815-1875) Buried Sec 1, lot 73
Andrew Jackson Hamilton, governor of Texas, was born in Huntsville, Alabama, on January 28, 1815. Late in 1846 he joined his older brother, Morgan, in Texas. He practiced law in La Grange, Fayette County, then moved to Austin. He married Mary Bowen, also of Alabama. Hamilton's political career began in 1849, when Gov. Peter H. Bell appointed him acting attorney general. By the 1850s he had become a member of the "Opposition Clique" in Texas. In 1859 Hamilton won election to the United States Congress. When he returned to Texas in the spring of 1861 he won a special election to the state Senate, and he remained in Austin until July 1862, when alleged plots against his life forced him to flee to Mexico. His rhetorical targets included slavery, disunionists, and the "slave power," which he believed was trying to subvert democracy and the rights of non-slaveowners. After he met with President Abraham Lincoln in November 1862, he accepted a commission as brigadier general of volunteers and an appointment as military governor of Texas. Hamilton accompanied an unsuccessful federal expedition into South Texas in late 1863 and spent most of the rest of the war in New Orleans, where his family joined him late in 1864. His career during Reconstruction was stormy and frustrating. As provisional governor from the summer of 1865 to the summer of 1866, he pursued a program of trying to limit officeholders to former Unionists. When the Constitutional Convention of 1866 refused to enact most of Hamilton's suggestions, he rejected presidential Reconstruction and promoted the harsher program of the Radical Republicans. He endorsed black suffrage and helped organize the Southern Loyalists' Convention in Philadelphia in September 1866. Hamilton played a leading role in the Texas Constitutional Convention of 1868-69. His political views changed again, however; he once again came to favor a quick reconstruction of Texas. He opposed the Radicals' scheme for turning West Texas into a separate, Unionist state and withdrew his support for black suffrage. Hamilton was a vocal opponent of Radical policies.He died of tuberculosis on April 11, 1875.Source
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HAMILTON, MORGAN CALVIN (1809-1893) Buried in Sec 2, lot 702
Morgan C. Hamilton, government official, was born near Huntsville, Alabama, on February 25, 1809. He was the brother of A. J. Hamilton. He began work as a clerk in a mercantile establishment and moved to Texas in 1830. In 1837 he moved to Austin. For six years, 1839-45, he served in the war department of the Republic of Texas. In Austin he had a mercantile business until 1852, when he sold out and retired from active business. Hamilton was an uncompromising Republican, violently opposed to secession. During Reconstruction he was appointed state comptroller in 1867. He was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate in 1870 and served until 1877. During his last years he resided in Brooklyn, New York, and made occasional trips to Austin. He never married. Hamilton died on November 21, 1893, while visiting in San Diego, California. Source
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HANCOCK, GEORGE (1809-1879) Buried Sec 1, lot 342
George Hancock was born in Tennessee on April 27, 1809. He moved with his family to Alabama in 1819 and was educated there. In 1835, he moved to Texas. At the battle of San Jacinto, George served as a private. He was one of five men who accompanied Deaf Smith in the destruction of Vince's Bridge. For his military service, which lasted from March 15 through November 1, 1836, Hancock received a total of 1,280 acres in Lampasas County. In 1843, Hancock opened a retail store in La Grange, and later moved to Bastrop and then to Austin in 1845. He established himself at the corner of Congress and Sixth Street. By 1850, he owned assets valued at $40,000 and his business was one of the most extensive in Texas. Hancock was a strong opponent of succession. After the Civil War, he was elected to the Eleventh Texas Legislature in 1866. In 1872, he was a lawyer and lived on Congress Avenue. He married Eliza Lewis on November 2, 1855. He also had a son who later became mayor of Austin. Hancock died on January 6, 1879 of a paralysis.
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HANCOCK, JOHN (1824–1893) Buried in Section 3, lot 709
John Hancock, congressman and judge, son of John Allen Hancock, was born near Bellefonte, Alabama, on October 24, 1824. He was admitted to the Alabama bar in 1846, then moved to Austin, Texas, in 1847 and began a law practice. In 1851 he was elected district judge. He resigned at the end of four years to resume his law practice and engage in planting and stock raising. He was elected to the Texas legislature as a Unionist in 1860. During the Civil War he was an avowed Union man but took no part in active hostilities. In March 1861 as a member of the legislature he declined to take the oath of allegiance to the Confederate States and was expelled from the legislature. He practiced in the state courts but refused to conduct any legal business in the Confederate courts. He was in New Orleans at the time of Robert E. Lee's surrender, whereupon he returned to Texas. Hancock was a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1866 and was conspicuous in that body for his efforts in favor of reconciliation and the restoration of the Southern states to the Union. He was elected to the Forty-second Congress; he served from 1871 to 1877. He returned in the Forty-eighth Congress, 1883–85. He supported the Indian peace policy of the Grant administration, which called for placing Indians on reservations under government supervision. Hancock married Susan E. Richardson in November 1855. He died on July 19, 1893, in Austin. Source
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HANNIG, JOSEPH W (1834-1890) Buried in Sec 1, lot 363
Joseph William Hannig was a native of Germany who immigrated to America with a brother and sister from Lindenau, Silesia. By 1857 he was living in Lockhart. He married Susanna Dickinson, survivor of the Alamo and in Caldwell County and they soon moved to Austin, where Hannig became prosperous with a cabinet shop and later a furniture store and undertaking parlor; he also owned a store in San Antonio. Even though he married again after Susanna’s death, he was buried next to her after his death in 1890.Source Historical Caldwell County, Where Roots Interwine.
HAYNIE, SAMUEL G. (1806-1877) Buried in Section 1, family lot
Samuel G. Haynie, physician and mayor of Austin, was born in Knoxville, Tennessee, on April 23, 1806. He went as a youth to Independence, Washington County, Texas, in 1837. In 1839 he settled in Austin, where he practiced medicine. He represented Travis County in the Republic of Texas Fifth Congress, 1840-42, and in the Second Legislature, 1847. He was appointed postmaster of Austin in 1849 and served as mayor in 1850 and 1851. In 1852 he established a large mercantile firm in his name in Austin. Haynie married Hannah Marie Evans on February 7, 1841. He was an Odd Fellow and a Mason. He practiced medicine until his death on May 20, 1877. Source
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HILL, JAMES MONROE (1818-1904) Buried in Section 4, lot 495
James Monroe Hill, soldier at the battle of San Jacinto, was born in Putnam County, Georgia, on March 13, 1818.In 1835 the Hills were one of seventeen families to charter a schooner to take them to Stephen F. Austin's colony. Hill and his father joined Sam Houston's army. James Monroe Hill was one of the few men present at the first interview between Houston and Antonio López de Santa Annaqv and is portrayed in William Henry Huddle'sqv painting The Surrender of Santa Anna. On September 14, 1843, Hill married Jane Hallowell Kerr in Washington County. Hill was a soldier in the Confederate Army. The family moved in 1884 to Austin, where Hill opened a store on Congress Avenue .In 1897 the Governor appointed Hill one of three commissioners to purchase the battleground of San Jacinto. In Austin, on October 19, 1897, Hill completed his recollections, "relating personal experiences and vivid details" of the battle of San Jacinto.
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HILL, SAMUEL B. (ca. 1841-1917) Buried Section 2, lot 410
Samuel B. Hill, photographer, was born in Ohio. He was born in 1839, 1841, or 1843. In 1877, the family moved to Austin. Hill probably began his photographic career in the partnership Adams and Hill, in 1878; by 1879 he had opened his own studio at 817 Congress. He soon established himself as one of the leading photographers in Austin. Many of his albumen prints of early Austin have survived and now provide historic documentation of buildings that have been razed. By 1882 Hill was experimenting with the new dry-plate process to produce stereoscopic views of Austin and its environs. He worked at several locations on Congress Avenue before he left photography to work in real estate during the early years of the twentieth century. He died on July 3, 1917.
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HOGG, IMA (1882-1975) Buried in Section 3, lot 1028
Ima Hogg, philanthropist and patron of the arts, was the only daughter of Saran Stinson and Gov. James Stephen Hogg. She was born in Mineola, Texas in 1882. Ima was named for the heroine of a Civil War poem written by her uncle, Thomas Elisha Hogg, and her father wished to honor his brother. She was affectionately known as Miss Ima for most of her long life. Ima was 13 years of age when her mother died of tuberculosis. In 1899, she entered the University of Texas where she and a friend inaugurated the first sorority on campus. She started playing the piano at age three and in 1901, went to New York to study music. She moved to Houston in 1909, where she gave piano lessons to a select group of pupils. She helped found the Houston Symphony Orchestra and was president of its Society in 1917. She became ill in late 1918 and spent the next two years in Philadelphia under the care of a specialist in mental and nervous disorders. She did not return to Houston to live until 1923.In the meantime, oil had been struck on the Hogg property, Varner Plantation. By the late 1920s, Miss Ima was involved in a wide range of philanthropic projects. In 1940, with a bequest from her brother Will, who had died in 1930, she established the Hogg Foundation for Mental Hygiene which later became the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health at the University of Texas. In 1948, she became the first woman president of the Philosophical Society of Texas. Since the 1920s, she had been studying and collecting early American art and antiques, and 1966, she presented her collection and her home, Bayou Bend, to the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston. In the 1950s, Miss Ima restored the Hogg family home at Varner Plantation and in 1958, she presented it to the state of Texas. It became a State Historical Park. In the 1960s, she restored the Winedale Inn, a nineteenth-century stagecoach stop at Round Top, Texas, which she gave to the University of Texas. In 1953, Gov. Allan Shivers appointed her to the Texas State Historical Survey Committee. In 1962, at the request of Jacqueline Kennedy, Ima Hogg served on an advisory panel to aid in the search for historic furniture for the White House. Her two main interested were mental health and education. On August 19, 1975, at the age of ninety-three, Ima Hogg died of complications from a traffic accident that occurred while she was vacationing in England. Her funeral was held at Bayou Bend and she was buried on August 23 in the Hogg family plot in Oakwood Cemetery. Source
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HOGG, JAMES STEPHEN (1851-1905) Buried in Section 3, lot 1028
James Stephen Hogg, the first native governor of Texas, was born near Rusk, TX in 1851. His father, a brigadier general, died at the head of his command in 1862, and his mother died the following year. Hogg, age 11, and two of his brothers were left with two older sisters to run the plantation. He worked as a typesetter in a newspaper office where he perfected his spelling, improved his vocabulary, and was stimulated by the prose and poetry. While helping the sheriff at Quitman, Hogg was lured by a group of outlaws over the county line, ambushed, and shot in the back. He recovered and turned again to newspaper work in Tyler, after which he ran his own papers in Longview and Quitman from 1871 to 1873. He studied law and was licensed in 1875. Meanwhile, he had married Sallie Stinson; three sons and a daughter were born to them. In 1886, his friends urged Hogg to run for attorney general. His father's connections with the older political leaders made it easy for Hogg to be admitted to their councils, and received the nomination and was elected. As Attorney General, he encouraged new legislation to protect the public domain set aside for the school and institutional funds, and he instituted suits that finally returned over a million and a half acres to the state. He sought to enforce laws providing that railroads and land corporations sell their holdings to settlers within certain time limits. He managed to regain control of the East Line and Red River Railroad. He gradually compelled the railroads to respect Texas laws. Finally, seeing that neither the legislature nor his small office force could effectively carry out the laws to protect the public interest against powerful corporate railway interests, he advocated the establishment of the Railroad Commission and was elected governor on this platform in 1890.While governor from 1891 to 1895, Hogg did much to strengthen public respect for law enforcement. Always interested in the history of Texas, he succeeded in obtaining financial aid for a division of state archives for the collection and preservation of historical materials. Hogg built up a sizable family fortune by his law practice and wise investments in city property and oil lands. He continued his political interests but was hurt in a railroad accident after which he was never well again. Hogg died in the home of his partner, Frank Jones, in Houston, on March 3, 1906. Source
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HOGG, WILLIAM CLIFFORD (1875-1930) Buried in Section 3, lot 1028
William Clifford Hogg, lawyer and businessman, son of Sallie Stinson and James Stephen Hogg, was born on January 31, 1875. He attended Austin public schools and Professor Orr's County School near Tyler before entering Southwestern University at Georgetown. At Southwestern he contemplated entering the Methodist ministry but decided to study law at the University of Texas, where he received his LL.B. degree in 1897. Will Hogg practiced law for a few years in San Antonio and then joined his father in the firm of Hogg, Robertson, and Hogg at Austin. After his father's death in 1906, it was necessary for him to take charge of the Hogg interests in Houston. . Will Hogg died on September 12, 1930, while vacationing in Europe with his sister, Miss Ima Hogg. After funeral services at his Houston home, Bayou Bend, he was buried in Oakwood. His will left bequests to various Texas institutions of learning and gave the bulk of his estate to the University of Texas, which has used it as a trust fund to support the Hogg Foundation for Mental Health. Source
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HOLLAND, BIRD (?-1864) Buried in Section 1, lot 13
Bird Holland, civil servant and Confederate soldier, immigrated to Galveston, Texas, in 1837. By 1840 he was residing in Travis County, where he owned one slave. He was probably the father of three sons by a slave, James, Milton M., and William H. Holland. Sometime in the 1850s he purchased the three brothers' freedom and sent them to school in Ohio. He resigned from the Texas army on August 8, 1846 because of illness. After the Mexican War, Holland served as chief clerk and assistant secretary in the state department. On October 1, 1857, he married Matilda Rust of Austin. She died on July 4, 1858. He was appointed secretary of state and served until he joined the Confederate Army. During the Civil War, Holland served in the Texas Infantry with the rank of major. He was killed in action on April 8, 1864. The following year his body was returned to Austin, where it was buried on October 14, 1865.
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HUBBARD, LOUIS HERMAN (1882-1973) Buried in Section 3, lot 1125
Louis Herman Hubbard, teacher and college president, was born in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, on February 10, 1882. His father was United States consul to Puerto Rico. After completing high school in El Paso, Hubbard began his undergraduate work at the University of Texas in 1899. The board of regents selected him, at the age of forty-four, to become president of the College of Industrial Arts (now Texas Woman's University) in Denton, where he served for twenty-four years as president.. On July 31, 1912, he married Bertha Altizer. For the next thirteen years he traveled, wrote his memoirs, Recollections of a Texas Educator (1964), and spoke before educational organizations. Hubbard died in Georgetown, Texas, on August 13, 1973.
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HUDDLE, NANNIE ZENOBIA CARVER (1860-1951) Buried in Section 3, lot 725
Nannie Carver Huddle, painter and sculptor, was born in Mobile, Alabama in 1860. She received her first art lessons from a nun who arranged for her work to be critiqued by William Henry Huddle, a painter of historical scenes and portraits. Nannie and Huddle were married ten years later. After her husband's premature death in 1892, Mrs. Huddle withdrew from most outside contact. She began painting again in 1894. She won an appointment to teach at the Texas School for the Deaf, a position she held until her retirement in the mid-1940s. Nannie Huddle became a close friend and the sole pupil of Elisabet Ney. At least one sculpture by Huddle has survived, a bas-relief of Stephen F. Austin that was probably copied from one of Ney's works. She is credited as one of the first in the state to paint fields of bluebonnets and, as a wildflower painter. Huddle painted portraits, and during Woodrow Wilson's presidency, the Texas legislature commissioned her to paint the president's portrait. Over 100 of her watercolors of wildflowers were anonymously donated to the University of Texas a year before her death. She died on July 21, 1951. Examples of her work are included in the collections at the University of Texas at Austin. Source
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HUDDLE, WILLIAM HENRY (1847-1892) Buried in Section 3, lot 725
William Henry Huddle, painter, was born in Wytheville, Virginia, on February 12, 1847. He served in the Confederate cavalry. He went to Virginia to study painting. Huddle returned to Texas and took up residence in Austin. He began to concentrate his artistic energies on Texas history and politics, subjects that became his artistic trademark. In 1885 he resumed his efforts to complete the portraits of former chief executives of Texas, and before his death he completed portraits of all the presidents and the first seventeen governors. He also showed a new interest in historical painting. He painted The Surrender of Santa Anna to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of the battle of San Jacinto, and the painting has attained the stature of an icon of Texas history. In 1891 the Twenty-second Legislature appropriated $4,000 for the purchase of the painting, which now hangs in the state Capitol, as does Huddle's portrait of David Crockett. Huddle married Nannie Zenobia Carver in Austin in 1889. He died March 23, 1892. Source
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