The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1891-01-22
ms AND OUTS.
Sketches Of the Outgoing and Incoming
Governors and Lieutenant Governors.

Sketches OF the Outgoing and IncOmin
Governors and Lieutenant Governors.
LAwRENCE SULLIVAN ROSS.
The retiring Governor, LswreAc
Sullivan Ross, is a man beloved b.
the entire state. Never has a maj
retired from Office with more assur.
ance of the love and respect of HI
people.
He was born at Benton's Post
Iowa, in 1888. From his father
lineage ex.Gov. Ross inherited tn,
energy, strength and pureness o
mind so characteristic of the Scot
and he has honored his ancestry as q
noble chieftain in war and peace; in
public and private life he has ever en-
joyed the love and respect of all.
Capt. 8. p. Ross, the father, settled
in Milan county, Texas, In 1889, and
made his home in Austin in 1S45.
Here the training of the seven-year-
old boy began, amid the savages
and desperadoea who in those
days infested Texas. Many hard
ships and perilous escapes
fell to his lot, but with brave heart
and the protection of father who
knew not fear, they combatted with
the dangers OF tho surroundings with
a will that has made both father and
son men historical in the annals of
the frontier history OF Texas. Such
was the military education of the
boys early training.
In 1856 he attendt d the Baylor
university at Waco. The same year
he was sent to Wesleyan university at
Florence, Ala. His three years OF
student life at Florence exertld d a
powerful influence on the young man.
The place ald time of his study
brought to his mind and heart the
most perplexing questions Of states
manship. Sui. Ross, as he was called,
was gifted student, deep thinker,
and at young age fine orator. He
graduated from Florence University in
1859 with all the honor and the best
wishes of the entire school.
He was u captain before he reached
his majority and his valiant work Oh
the fit Id has given our history writer
many page of the most interesting
narrative. He served as aid.de.csmp
with the rank of colonel for Governor
Houston; was also major OF the Sixth
Texas Confederate cavalry, one of her
grandest regiments that ever went TO
battle, ll50 men strong, and their
good work is q matter of history. He
was afterwards honored v ith a briga-
dier generals commission as reward
for his worth and his many victories.
In civil as well as military life official
nonors and responsibilities have been
rendered him by his constituents and
friends, and in 1856 he was made the
unanimous choice of the people for
governor, and in 1883 was reelected
to serve the people for another term.
The state is proud of Ex-Gov. l.. s.
Ross, and her people hope to enjoy the
wisdom of his good counsel.
GOV. JAMES STEPHEN HoGG.
This gentleman, who has now at
tanned the highest distinction state
can bestow upon one of her sons, is a
lineal descendant of one of the noblest
races in the world, a race that has
produced some of the brainiest men,
that has ever stood at the head of a
people-a good old Scotch-Irish fam
lily. His father was of Irish extrac-
tion, his mother member OF the
Scotch family of McMaths.
The family. when emigrating to
this country, first settled in Virginia,
and in time spread its branches
through the Carolinas and Georgia.
In 1889 his parents emigrated to
Texas and established their home at
Nacogdoches.
He himself was born March "a, 1851,
at Rusk, Cherokee county, Tex, and
vas left an orphan when only II years
of age. His father was a member Of
Ector's brigade, Confederate army,
and fell in battle at Corinth, Miss,
and not long after this cad
event his mother yielded her
gentle life into the hands
of her maker. The property OF the
family was swept away by the war,
and the boy was compelled to, un-
aided, take his part in that struggle
for existence in which "If the race i
not always to the swift, the battle is
assuredly with the strong" He dig
dained no honest employment, and did
any work his hands could find to do.
10 secure practical education he en-
tered a ne wspaper office as "printer's
devil" and worked his way up until he
owned and edited paper, the Long
view News, which was subsequently
removed to Quitman, Wood county,
Texas, and the name changed to the
Quitman News. He read law four
years while residing at the towns 10
I'LL Innnu;nur nnd 0nitman