
Elias Brooks Smyth
Full Name: Elias Brooks SmythOther surnames: Smith, Smythe
Date of birth: January 9, 1832
Date of death: May 15, 1899
Terms of Service top
Chamber | District | Dates of Service | Legislatures | Party | City/County | Note | Counties in District |
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H | 42 | Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879 | 15th | Democrat | Groesbeck / Limestone | Limestone |
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House District 42
Apr 18, 1876 - Jan 14, 1879 Legislatures: 15th Party: Democrat Home City/County: Groesbeck / Limestone Counties in district: Limestone |
Biographical Information top
Resolutions and Journal entries
- E.B. Smith. House Journal.
Biographical Sketches
- "Necrological," Houston Daily Post, 5/18/1899, mailable edition, page 2, image 2, near end of col. 6. Smythe - dateline Mexia, Texas, May 16. Biographical sketch/obituary - "Captain E.B. Smythe, of Mexia, Texas, died last night at Mart . . . " Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
- Biographical sketch, Hon. Elias Brooks Smyth, pp. 672-673. Born 1/9/1832 in Abbeville district, "the Palmetto State" (South Carolina). "In 1876 he represented Limestone County in the State Legislature, and in 1891 was appointed by Governor Hogg a Commissioner of the State Penitentiary, which position he now holds." A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1893.
- Biographical sketch, E.B. Smyth, born 1832 in South Carolina, pp. 110-111. Sketches of Legislators and State Officers, Fifteenth Legislature, 1876-1878, 1876.
Military Service Notes
- Confederate States Army, Private, Company A, 13th Regiment, Texas Volunteers. Elias B. Smyth. Civil War Soldiers and Sailors System.
- Confederate States Army. Elias B. Smyth, age 30, 1862, Texas, 13th Volunteers (Cavalry, Artillery, and Infantry). FamilySearch Texas Civil War Service Records of Confederate Soldiers, 1861-1865.
- Confederate States Army, "enlisted in a company of which Captain Sanders had command, which was attached to Colonel Bates' regiment, which was stationed on the Texas coast . . . he again enlisted, this time in Colonel Bradford's regiment, in which command he served until the war was over," pp. 672-673. A Memorial and Biographical History of Navarro, Henderson, Anderson, Limestone, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas, 1893.
Other Resources
- "Texanettes," Shiner Gazette, 5/31/1899, image 3, middle of col. 1. "Col. E.B. Smyth, a pioneer citizen of Mart at one time a member of the legislature and a member of the penitentiary board under the Hogg administration, died very suddenly at that place." Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers.
- Census of 1860 - E.B. Smyth, Eutaw Post Office, Limestone County, age 28, born in South Carolina, farmer. FamilySearch.
- E.B. Smyth, birth date 1/9/1832, death date 5/15/1899, burial in Mexia City Cemetery, Limestone County. Find a Grave.
- "Mortuary," 5/17/1899, p. 4. Dateline, Smyth, Mexia Tex., May 16. "E.B. Smyth, a pioneer citizen of this county, at one time a member of the legislature . . . died suddenly at Mart last night where he had gone a few days ago on business . . . " Galveston Daily News.
- E.B. Smyth, "Ready to make laws . . . Eighty members present (House)" (organization of the 15th Legislature), 4/19/1876, p. 1. Galveston Daily News.
- Elias P. Smyth. Members of the Texas Congress 1836-1845; Members of the Texas Legislature 1846-2004, 2005.
- Elias P. Smyth. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992, 1992.
Photographs
- Photograph. E.B. Smyth, 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.
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15th R.S. - 1876
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