{"product_id":"estatefreshaustincom-2164","title":"1963 Signed First Edition History of Travis County and Austin Texas","description":"1963 Signed First Edition History of Travis County and Austin Texas. Selling the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;rare signed book. 6 3\/8\" x 9.25\" 388 pages chock full of info, minor exterior\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;wear, clean interior. I would bet my life this signature is Authentic because of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;where I got it from. This estate was full of books that were given by the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Authors to members of this family.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;These books and many more I'll be listing shortly are from the estate of Homer\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Garrison III, the son of Homer Garrison Jr.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;GARRISON, HOMER, JR. (1901-1968). Homer Garrison, Jr., Texas Ranger chief and\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;director of the Texas Department of Public Safety, son of Homer and Mattie\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;(Milam) Garrison, was born in Kickapoo, Anderson County, Texas, on July 21,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;1901, the eldest of nine children. After graduation from Lufkin High School he\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;went to work in the office of his father, who was district clerk in Angelina\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;County. Garrison received his first experience as a law officer at nineteen,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;when was appointed a deputy sheriff of Angelina County. In 1929 he became a\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;state license and weight inspector for the Texas Highway Department, and he\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;joined the Texas Highway Patrol when it was organized in 1930.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;When the Department of Public Safety was founded in August 1935 Garrison became\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the first assistant director. Among his initial duties was the task of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;developing a training program for DPS officers. At the request of the governor\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;of New Mexico, he was sent to that state to help organize the New Mexico State\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Police. During World War II he was offered an appointment by Gen. Douglas\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;MacArthur to reorganize and supervise the Japanese national police system for\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the War Department, but he declined in deference to his duties as director of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the DPS and chief of the Texas Rangers.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Among the many honors bestowed upon him during the nearly thirty years he served\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;as the head of the state law-enforcement agency was the presentation of the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;sixth Paul Gray Hoffman Award, conferred annually by the Automotive Safety\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Foundation for distinguished service in highway safety. In 1963 Governor John\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Connally appointed Garrison director of civil defense and disaster relief for\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the state of Texas and chairman of the State Defense Council. The same year the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;governor also named him director of the Governor's Highway Safety Commission. In\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;May 1966 he was elected chairman of the resolutions committee and a member of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the steering committee of the Southern Region Highway Policy Committee of the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Council of State Governments; in January 1967 he was named a member of the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;National Motor Vehicle Safety Advisory Council.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Colonel Garrison became director of the Department of Public Safety and chief of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the Texas Rangers in 1938. Under his leadership numerous major programs were\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;developed, and the organization grew to a total of some 3,400 employees. The\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;programs included crime control, police traffic supervision, driver licensing,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;vehicle inspection, safety responsibility, accident records, safety education,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;defense and disaster service, and police training.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Garrison married Mary Nell Kilgo on June 1, 1939, and they had one son. Garrison\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;died on May 7, 1968, and was buried in the State Cemetery, Austin. A Texas\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Ranger museum at Fort Fisher was named for him.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;BIBLIOGRAPHY: Ben Procter, \"The Texas Rangers: An Overview,\" in The Texas\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Heritage, ed. Ben Procter and Archie P. McDonald (St. Louis: Forum, 1980).\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Vertical Files, Barker Texas History Center, University of Texas at Austin.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Bill Carter\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"GARRISON, HOMER JR.\" The Handbook of Texas Online. [Accessed Wed Aug 7 11:36:57\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;US\/Central 2002].\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Mary Starr Barkley\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;was a life-long resident of Austin whose penchant for local history led her to\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;write numerous colorful books, articles, and essays about her hometown and\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Central Texas. Known to friends and colleagues as \"Mamie\", she liked to refer to\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;herself as a \"housewife-historian\".\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Barkley's roots in Austin extended back four generations. She was born in 1907\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;to James Patrick Starr and Mary Ellen Dolan Starr (Nellie), devout Irish\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Catholics who belonged to St. Mary's Parish in Austin. Mary attended St. Mary's\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Cathedral School until her graduation in 1923. Her close ties to the Catholic\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Church greatly influenced both her historical research and her charitable\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;activities throughout the rest of her life.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Mary attended the University of Texas for two years and then went to work for\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Austin National Bank where she met her future husband, Fred C. Barkley. The two\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;were married in 1930. During World War II, when Fred was in service, Mary began\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;to write fiction and essays. One of her favorite personal anecdotes concerns the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;time in 1946 that she sent out three articles and received a check for each one.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\"After that\", she said, \"I could never quit writing.\" She regularly sold\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;stories, essays and articles to magazines such as The Cattleman, Farm and Ranch,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Catholic Digest, the Houston Chronicle Sunday Magazine, and the Atlanta Journal\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Magazine .\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Mary Starr Barkley wrote predominantly about Austin and the surrounding\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;communities. She liked to set out at about nine o'clock in the morning one day\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;each week and drive to communities within a fifty mile radius of Austin. She\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;conducted a substantial amount of her research through oral interviews and\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;enjoyed talking to \"old timers\" who could tell her all about the history of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;their communities. Barkley's method of history writing was to weave human\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;interest stories into traditional date-oriented narratives; she called this\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;style her \"trademark\". Barkley also carried a camera with her during her travels\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;and took many of the pictures that accompanied her articles.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;In addition to her work as an amateur historian, Barkley was involved in several\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;organizations, many of which were affiliated with the Catholic Church. In 1950,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;she helped organize the Seton Hospital Auxiliary to which she ultimately gave\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;over 17,000 hours of her time during a 30-year period. In 1950, Barkley also\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;helped organize the Friends of the Adoration Convent, a group that served as\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;both the auxiliary and the fundraising arm of the Austin Adoration Convent. In\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;her later years, she served as the Chair of the Travis County Historical Survey\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Committee, an organization dedicated to the preservation of the historical\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;buildings within Travis County.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Barkley was the author of several published works including: Fifty Years of the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Seton Hospital (1952), O ne Hundred Years: The History of St. Mary's Cathedral\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;(1952), The History of Travis County and Austin, 1839-1899 (1963), A History of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Central Texas (1970), St. Mary's Church (now a Cathedral) (1972), The History of\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;St. Mary's Cathedral, 1874-1974 (1974), and numerous essays and articles\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;published in local and national periodicals. She also wrote a book on the\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;history of the Austin National Bank, and tried her hand at fiction. In addition\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;to her activities as a writer, Barkley conducted extensive genealogical research\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;about her own family and composed an unpublished family history, \"A Four Staff\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Family\".\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Principle organizations Barkley belonged to include: Seton Hospital Auxiliary,\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;the Travis County Historical Survey Committee, the Adoration Convent, Austin\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;National Bank, and St. Mary's Cathedral Parish.\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;\u0026lt;br\u0026gt;Mary Starr Barkley succumbed to cancer in 1981.","brand":"sale - www.estatefreshaustin.com Estate Fresh Austin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45204104052952,"sku":"11487781092_5211","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0677\/6284\/7960\/files\/1963-signed-first-edition-history-of-travis-county-and-austin-texasestate-fresh-austin-154427.png?v=1757830832","url":"https:\/\/estatefreshaustin.com\/zh-hant\/products\/estatefreshaustincom-2164","provider":"Estate Fresh Austin","version":"1.0","type":"link"}