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Philip Edward Peers Full Name: Philip Edward Peers Date of birth: September 23, 1832 Date of death: February 8, 1933 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District H 48 Jan 9, 1883 - Jan 13, 1885 18th (1)   Democrat Mumford / Robertson   Robertson H 27 Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879 15th   Democrat Hearne / Robertson   Robertson (1) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Eighteenth Legislature of Texas, 1883.   Biographical Notes and Resources top 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. Committee Informationtop 18th R.S. - 1883 Educational Affairs   Enrolled Bills   Penitentiaries   Revenue and Taxation   15th R.S. - 1876 Agricultural and Mechanical College, Visit   Agriculture and Stock Raising   Counties and County Boundaries   Public Debt   State Penitentiary

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