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INTRODUCTORY REMARKS BY THE
PRESIDENT
Members of the Philosophical Society of Texas, Ladies
and Gentlemen:
WE HAVE met today to do honor as best we may to
two former owners and occupants of this house,
Dr. Edmund Duncan Montgomery and his wife, Elisabet
Ney, our greatest philosopher and our most noted sculptress.
Before presenting the first speaker perhaps it will not be
inappropriate for me to give a brief historical sketch of this
fine old homestead, for in the days before the Civil War it
more nearly than any other Texian home typified the baron-
ial life of the prosperous planters of the ante-bellum South.
Its first Anglo-American owner was Colonel Leonard W.
Groce. His father, Jlared F. Groce, was one of Stephen F.
Austin's early colonists, and brought with him to Texas, in
addition to his wife and several children, more than a hun-
dred slaves. Securing a large grant of land on the east bank
of the Brazos he built his home, called Bernardo, a few
miles south of the present town of Hempstead. Here, in
site of hard times and Indian raids, he developed a great
ranch and plantation that was the center of the social and
political life of colonial days.
Three years before the outbreak of the Texian Revolution,
Jared Groce built for himself a new home north of Hemp-
stead, which he called Groce's Retreat, and turned over the
management of his great estate and the home at "Bernardo"
to his son Leonard, who during the Revolution was com-
missioned Colonel. During that struggle Leonard Groce
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Philosophical Society of Texas. Philosophical Society of Texas, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting: 1937, book, 1938; Dallas, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1532680/m1/4/?q=Lamar+University: accessed June 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Philosophical Society of Texas.