Notable Persons in Texas History

The Fort Bend County Historical Commission received an inquiry from Humanities Texas recently, so I reviewed their Web site.  I had never seen it before.  Here's the link.  

The archives page had some interesting (to me) short intros to a variety of notable people in Texas history.  Here is a quick selection in case you want to investigate further.

Link to Etta Moten Barnett (African-American actress and singer from Weimer).

Link to Nettie Lee Benson, state librarian and archivist.

Link to Gail Borden, one of the Old 300 and renaissance man. 

Link to Chief Bowl, tribal leader of the Cherokee tribe in Texas.

Link to Lorenzo de Zavala, a key figure in the Texas Revolution.

Finally, I want to throw in the story of Claude Bracey, Rice University's (then Institute's) first Olympian.  He was a sprinter with a unique story as this newspaper article explains: click here to view the article.

This short article from a Rice newsletter includes a good photo of him running at Soldier Field in Chicago: click here to view the article.