Philip Edward Peers

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Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch, pp. 90-91. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.
• Biographical sketch, P.E. Peers, pp. 260-261. Texas Legislative Manual, 1882-83, 1883.

Military Service Notes

• Confederate States Army, Commissary Sergeant, Company E, 2nd Missouri Calvary, commanding officers Captain Frank J. Smith and Colonel Robert McCulloch. Application date 6/8/1917. Phillip Edward Peers, postoffice Dickinson, Galveston County. Pension File No. 34244. Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com.

Other Resources

• Death notice, "Phillip E. Peers, Harvard's Oldest Graduate, Is Dead," 2/10/1933, p. 1. Bryan Eagle.
• Census of 1880 - Phillip Peers, Robertson County, age 48, born circa 1832 in Missouri, planter.
  Census of 1910 - Philip E. Peers, Houston, Harris County, age 76, born circa 1834 in Missouri, clerk.
  Census of 1920 - P.E. Peers, Travis County, age 89, born circa 1831 in Missouri, inmate in Confederate House. FamilySearch. 1880 1910 1920
• Phillip E. Peers, birth date 9/23/1832 in Farmington, Missouri, death date 2/8/1933, burial in Masonic Cemetery of Farmington South, Farmington, St. Francois County, Missouri. Find a Grave.

Photographs

• Photograph. P.E. Peers, 18th Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. P.E. Peers, 15th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 15th session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
• 18th session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, east wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.

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