History

Cafe owner Gillette a popular Bay City citizen

   Stanley James Gillette was a native of Matagorda County, and was undoubtedly one of the best known and most popular citizens of Bay City, where he was proprietor of the Green Cafe and Confectionery and had made a business of providing service to the many hundreds of hunters and other visitors...

Collinsworth fought in Battle of Velasco, raised troops for Goliad

   George Morse Collinsworth (Collingsworth), soldier, planter, and civil servant, was born in Mississippi in 1810.   He was living in Brazoria, Texas, in 1832, when he participated in the battle of Velasco.   In July of that year he was serving as secretary of the Brazoria Committee of Vigilance.

Jane McManus: Texas’ only female colonizer

   Jane Cazneau [pseuds.: Montgomery, Cora Montgomery, Corrine Montgomery], journalist, author, promoter, and unofficial diplomat, daughter of William Telemachus and Catharina (Coons) McManus, was born in or near Troy, New York, on April 6, 1807.