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her original area now forms parts
of five other states, New Mexico.
Ol lahoma, Kansas, Colorado and
W roming.
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ed for a similar form of govern-
ment in a part df the area south
ably, Congress gave to Michigan
the area now known as the “Koryh- I
Peninsula/’ which subsequent,
became extremely i ”
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area lying net ween Texas and the
Pacific—the Mexican cession—an
agreement had been reached be-
tween the United States and Great
Britain regarding our claims to
the “Oregon Country,” and in 1848,
the very year in which California
and New Mexico were acquired
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Texas and the South-West.
The third addition to our terri-
tory came in the form of the State
of Texas wh ch had in 183fJ seced-
ed from Mexico and established
itself as an independent republic
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NEW MEXICO
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’ North and South DaXMI, while the
“Indian Territory” In 'a greatly
) educed form becametn? present
State of OkiuhunKuf tx
This story of our expansion anc*
transformation stater
would not be complete'*.without a
Word about our non-oouiiguous
aieas, Porte Rico, the PHllippine
Islands, Hawaii, the Virgin U-
■aad the
Porto Rico
fpll into
s war
paid to
Ptei-
CESSION
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.100.000
but 326,000 square miles. These
cessions of the western territory
by the colonies did not occur si-
7E,«'ro«y
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1786, North Carolina 1784, and
1790, South Caiolina 1787, and
Vermont, which
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iulluwed in d.tail wi.uin the limi-
vulions of t.’iis discussion. Ken-
tucky was admitted as a
lit'2, and Tennessee in 1796. In
1800 the western part of ihe torri-
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subsequently divided into Alabama
and Mississippi.
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The Territories Absorbed into
the Union
The steps ry which these two
great areas, the Territory North-
west of the r'Wo and the Territory
South of the Ohio, were trans-
formed into separate territorial
and state orgunixalions cannot be
the “Territory of Oregon,” and th'
single year 1R18 thus brought v
our entire Pacific frontage. Tb
Oregon Country became the Terri
tory of Oregon which was subs*
quently subdivided into the Terri
tories of Oregon afid Washington
and later admitted as states, *the
eastern part having been cut off
and forming the Territory of Idaho i
. r.d a part of the Territory of
Wyoming.
In 1S53 a small area lying south
of the Territory of New Mexico
was purchased from Mexico for
sum of $10 000,000 to settle a
boundary di.pute and attached
re- to the Terri'.cry of New Mexico,
Louisiana Purchase
Florida
Texas
Oregon Territory ...
Mexican Cession ...
Purchase from Texas
Gadsden Purchase ...
Alaska
Hawaiian Islands ....
Porto Rico
Guam
Philippine Islands ...
Samoan Islands
Additional Philippines
Panama Canal Zone ..
Virgin Islands .....
TOTAL
• (a)—includes iptereat payment
bmds, Gitam. Tutuila. •
Panama Ganal Zone! .
and the Philippine Isla)lds,fell
our hands as a rew&^tie
, though we pai
-Hnaan 889,000,900 for a full can-
rdlation of her claim to the Phil-
ippines. Guam which lies east of
he Philippines and hud been held
>y Spain w«; taken over by the
’nited States in 18’J8 during*the'
/ar with Spain. Our little island
■t Tutuila in the Samoan group
ell to the United States in 1899
j.fter long y^ars of joint adminis-
ration of the group by Great Bri-
ain, Germany and the United
states. Its chief value is in it#
ne harbor which is designated as
he best in tn» South Pacific while
he harbors in the Philippines anc
lawaii are the best in the North-
rn Pacific. Hawaii which had
een knocking vigorously for ad-
mission to the U rtited’^tates from
that service, and the Governor of
the Panama Can#! Zone is an army
officer designated for that service
by the President. The population
of the Philippine Islands is about
10.500,000, Porto Rico 1,300,000
Hawaii 250,000, Alaska 55,000, the
( Virgin Islands 26,000^ the Pan-
ama Canal Zone 22,0001
ADDITIONS TO THE TERRITORY OF THE UNITED STATES
|__• FROM 18M Jftk 1922
Area Added Pureh.Priee
SquaraMilea
875.025
70,107
389,795
288,689
523,802
(c)
36^11
599.446
6,740
3.600
175
143,000
73
68
441
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2,936,863 124,639,768
1*/—^nuiuucs v1 tercel' 1
(b) —ef which $3,250,000 was in payment of claims of American eit-
.. i* izaas against Mexico. . »
(c) —area purchased from Texas, amounting to 123,784 square miles,
is not included in the column of area added because it
became e part of the are* of the United State* with the
admission of Texas.
(d) —indudes annual payments to 1922.
the governor is also designated by
the President of the United States
" ‘ ' - - are
vested in a * colonial council.' The
governors of Guam and Samoa are
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19,250,000(b)
10.000,000
10,900.000 •; •
7^200,600
passing through
_ bl mic i nArinHf* A« turrit-
Spanish government, which
amounted when paid, including in-
terest, to $6,500,000 and the terri-
I tory thus purchased subsequently
became, in 1825, the State of Flor-
ida.
when admitted, and a
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phraseology,
i.ig bqtwfeen
Michigan was to be called "Cher-
oiKtus,” «ha» ‘bounded by tha Wa-
bash. Ohio arxl Mississippi “Poly-
potumia/' that between the I'poer
(Ihi<< and the (treat Lakes “r.k-tro-
potamia,” white pther pails i.f
the area Were given the names nf
“ininoia,” “Assenissippia.” “Mich-
igturn.” ‘iSylvania,’’ “Saratoga,” i
and “Wash ngicn.”
— The above measure devked and 1
recommended by Jefferson was ac-
cepted by Congress and put upon
iiq.- .eldtute U»oks but before steps
h.u! b<n n taken to carry it into i
a *uai uneration it was repealed
by the celebrated “Ordinance or
1787” (>stubib;hing th? “Territory
Northwest of Ohio’* of which Gen-
eral Aithip* St. Claire was made
the fir.:t gdvdrnor, in 1788, and ’he
first Territorial Government,
which war to prove su< h an im-
portant factor in the development
of the western area, put into oper- i
ation. General St. Claire estab- i
lished the scat of the government i
of. that enurmous territory at the
little village of “Losantiville”
which he renamed “Cincinnati” in
i honor of the “Society of the Cin-
| cinnuti” of which he, as an officer
i the methoil of its government. A
Congression?’ Committee was ?n-
i po nied to consider the matter ;
with Jefih’ts.Hi at its head and ihe ,
result of its labwrs was the pres-
entation of a p..... . / ..i.i.i. 3. |
ferson was understood to be the
author by which the area in ques-
tion should be divided into ten
new slates, sum" Of the names be- ’
393 on downward, ufcs admitted
n 1898 and the group of islands
labl'shed iu J JOO us the Territory
' Hawaii. Thp Virgin Islands
jiich lie just £ast ofTPorto Rico
ire purchased from Denmark in
917 fbr R£5 090,000, the chief pur-
4se being their control as a naval
tation. The Panama Canal Zone,
lye-miles on each side of the Pan-
:»ta Canal, was in 1903 granted
in perpetuity to the Uhited States
by the Panama Government on
the payment <ff $10,000,000 by the
United Stales, to be followed by
arinual payments of 3250,000 be-
ginning nine years after the agree-
ment. Alaska, the Philippines, the
Hawaiian Is'ands and Porto Rico
have their own legislative bodies.
bi|t the governor is it each caJ*8®
designated by the President of the
gywatifel
l.JUl e
released
Legislature and in 1E8U r.mde
state of the i.'tiion.
One of the first questions which
arose after the cession Ly the i
without preliminary “probation’
as a territory Subsequently Con
gras purchased from
Texas a part of it*<
paying $10.o00.000, an
square mH.* thus pu
Europeans on the area
interests. ’ 3 he section at the west
which had b?en temporarily at-
! tached to Michigan was then es-
I tablished as the “Territory of Wis-
I consin,” while the area lying di-
rectly west of the State ol Ohio
ritory of j.-teaps” and in 1812 the
"Territory of Orleans” was admit-
ted to the I nion as the State of
: Louisiana nnd the remainder of
. the purchase given a new title, the
■ Terntory or Missouri” with its
>3phal at the city of St. Lotus,
j Late-, after the States of Arkansas
r nd Missouri had been eut off from
i’s souther.’‘errt sc ion the r~
v*. I 1—
was transformed into the State of i
Tanneorep. • The western seetion
of Georgia, ceded t® the Common
Union in 1803 became the Terri-
tory of Mississippi and later the
Territories of Mississippi and Ala-
bama until they Were finally ad-
mitted as States of the Union in
1817 and 1819, The transformation
of the western front of Virginia
into the*, new state of West Vir-
ginia in 1862-3 was an incident of
the Civil War.
member. In 1790 an act was pass- -
existed a bitter dispute between
of the Ohio which wac to be desig- Ohio as to the boundary
•naled "The Territory South of the
Ohio.” the provisions of that act
h‘ing similar to that which estab-
lish d the territory northwest of . ,
the Ohio except the omis • n for and tu settle that dispute amic-
the southern territory of 11 e pro-
viso found in that for the northern
territory with reference to slav-
ery; th? act establishing the Ter-
ritory Northwest of the Ohio ex-
cluded slavery while that proviso
was omitted from the terms under
which the Territory South of the
Ohio was es‘ablished. This Terri-
tory South of the Ohio did not,
however, include the Kentucky
area whicn remained under the i
The Lousianp Purchase.
Meantime had come the first
great addition to the area of the
\_United States, the Louisiana Pur-
chase. The area west of the Mis-
i sissippi which had .been originally
I claimed by France as a result of
exploration • and been secretly
ceded to Spain in 1762 prior to the
expulsion of France from tho con-
tinent, had subsequently been
again secretly transferred and re-
ceded by Spain to France in the
year 1800. The complete control
of the mouth of the Mississippi
River by "the United States was
extremely important to its people
and the commercial interests,
controlling as it did the exit from
the Mississippi Valley to the Gulf
of Mexico, and when the cession of
the area west of the Mississippi
to .France in 1SOO became known a
their explorations down the Mis-
sissippi to its mouth and were .
cla ming all of the area drained
by that river as a result of “orig-
inal explorations” of the valley. ’
by
C 6
lan tic were by their charters to
ti
V. aicb E:ii»r. d in to tl.c
. :~a a* century, was /..uil.y
i<y tfce Mas lurhusttLs
^'r/c
'CO
tion lying west of Lake Michigan
which included the area iiuw*
known as W»sconsih, Iowa, Miune- I
sota, and parts oi North and South i
Dakota. When the original Terri- i
lory of Aii'diigan appaed in 183 i
for admission as a slate, there
control of Virginia until its admis-
sion as a state in 1792, nor did it
include the western area of Geor-
multaneously but began with New gia which was not ceded to Lhe
York in 1781, Virginia in 1788, Union until 1803. and ’Ken became
Massachusetts L785, Connecticut . • tne Tsrrlto.-y of Mississippi; and .
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Map Showing th.? Accession* of Teirlloiy
ing for indeptnec/Ke, and ;..l ii’
thjt British colonics on ihe North
American continent except Floi ida
at the south and Canada at the |
north united in the declaration of
17|76, declaring themselves no lop- j
colonies of ’heir territory lying
west of the Alleghenies was as to
tending to the Mississippi and the
Canadian line was cue oif a.:d es-
tablished under the title of Indiana
! Territory and in ICO) ihe State of
I Ghio established. In 1805 the ter-
pTitory lying octween Lakes Michi-
; gan and Huron was established
plan of which‘Jef- j as t:,e "Territory of Michigan”.
- - i and it later proved a convenient
I nucleus to which to attach
temporary government the sec-
that territory and the State of
r.u:_ — . u- i-----jj^e be-
tween them, Michigan ^claiming
an area which would have given
her the port of Toledo at the
southern tip of Lake Michigan,
now
was
that of the Spanish at St. Augus-
tine, Florida, in 1565, the English
Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607,
the Dutch at the mouth of the
Hu Ison in 1631, the Swedes on the
west bank of the Delaware in 1637,
wh le the French who made their
first permanent settlement in
Quebec in 1608 soon <
their claims southward by ex-
ploration and settlement, and by
<650 were claiming all of the area*
drained by the Great Lakes and
St. Lawrence. By 1655, “New
and immediately made application
for admission to the United
States. This application was, how-
ever, rejected by Congress when
made in 1837 and again in 1844,
but in January, 1845, Congress |
passed an act giving its “consent
that the tenitory properly, inclod-
ed within the Republic of Texas
may be erected into a new state
to be called the State of Texas”
and in December of that year the
joint resolution admitting Texas
as a state of the Union passed
both House and Senate, the area
being thus admitted as a State
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Itibaequentiy Con-
ropi the State of
iA---:“4U area.
124.000
ted sob- ;
Dutch; in 1664 the JJutch ter-
v T —------------» WliS
taken over by the English. The
fifty foutical Pivisions.
sequently became a part of the
present states of New. M«x,eo,
Oklahoma, Kansas. Colorado, and
Wyoming,, .
The ink on the documents wh’rh
admitted Texas as a- state of -he
Union was scarcely dry when th.ire ^yith Spain,
began a series of events winch ax . iL*“
tended the a«^a of the Unite*
States from tie western border o
Texas to the Pacific Ocean. A dit
pute between the United Stat*
and the Mexican Government n
warding the southern boundary o
Texas resulted in the war betwee
the United States and Mexici
which began in 1846, and in whicl
the Mexican area ..hen known a
New Mexico and Upper Californi.
was over-run and captured b
American troops, and at the clos
of that war was attached to th<
United States on payment of $15,
000,000 by the United States to th
Mexican Government, though thi
sum was subsequently increase
by the assumption of about $3,
000,000 of debts of the Mexica
Government to citizens of the Uni
ted States. By this abgorptio
of the * former Mexican area c
New Mexico and California ou
territorial area was extended t
the Pacific C >ast. Ti great arc
obtained from Mexi*.. was tub-di
vided into California '-•ich was i
1850 admitted as a p le wtchou
’’territorial probation ’ rnd i|«
---,_i: . , Ter^.
Subsequently Utah was ..
ed into three Terrjtorio:.
’> ana 'kJ
were later admitted as states. Nt'
Mexico was later sub-divided int
the territories of Arizona, .am
New Mexico and subsequently ad
mitted as states.
Simultaneously with this exten-
.aaaia^. :
A'
by that river as a result of “orig-
inal explorations” of the valley. ’
Ihis claim, however, was resisted
by the English who assumed that
their colonies fronting on the At-
lantic were by their charters to
extend across the continent to the ’
“South Sea,” as the Pacific was
then called, and in the war be-
tween France and England over
thin question the French were de-
feated and ordered to transfer
their territorial claims to Great. I
Britain, which they proceeded to *
do, secretly, however, ceding to
tfpain their claims to the western
sec ion of the Mississippi Valley,
wh ch, however, was subsequently
receded to France by the Spanish
Goi ernment
I; was when the English Gov-
ern inent found itself in full pos-
ses ion of no’ only Canada but the
ent re eastern half of the Missis- ’
sippi Valley that its parliament
attached to the Province of Que- j
bec^ for temporary ‘government,
the area now known as Michi-
gan,. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wis-
consin and a part of Minnesota,
this action by the British
Parliament proved the “straw |
t”Wt broke the camel’s back”
with certain of the colonies which
claimed that their original grants
er ended to the Mississippi River,
ana increased th«r willingness- to
join m a movement for Indepen-
dence, then pending among the
States hav;ng claims
France, and when f"
reached Washington it was quick- j
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the area of rhe United States thus {
| doubled by a single stroke of the 1
pen.
This “Louisiana Purchase’’ thus :
completed jp 1803, which as above of California'was established hr
indicated nrnie than doubled the the United States Government a
area of the country, included 883,-
000 square- miles, while the total
area prior to the purchase was
for | only 828,000 square miles. The
entire new aiea was given the title
| of the “Tei ritory of Louisiana”
but in 1304 the southern tip was
cut off and e*- ..blishcd as the “Ter-
_
Map Showing bow th* V»»l T*mt«ri*« of the United States were Broken Up Gradually and Formed into States.
under the title of “Indiana Terri-
tory” had meantime been divided
into the territories of Indiana and
Illinois. Indiana became a state
w 1816 and Illinois in 1818/
The Territory South iff the Ohio . square mil.* thus pi
ern Peninsula/’ wiueh subsequent* ; mainder was re-named the “Indian
ly became extremely valuable Country.”
through the development of its i V) hile this “Indian Country’ was
great Copper and iron and timber slowly being transformed intmter-
i _i a.------x j ritorial and state divisions, there
came the second addition- to the
area of the United States in the
purchase of Florida from Spain to
which country Great Britain had
re-ccded it in 1J83. The considera-
tion of its purchase from Spain
was to be the payment by the
United States of various claims
by American citizens against the
government, which
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Ma? of the United Stat*. Shuyring th* Grawth Within it* Border*, and jt* Tarriiorles and Island DcpondeRcic*. »
the area thus added being about United States. In the Virgin Islands
Our Recent Accessions. and the legislative functions
In 1867 Alaska with its enormous
territory was purchased from Rus-
sia for $7,200,000. and is now . naival officers of the United States,
the only area of continental Uni- designated by the President for
ted States still governed as a ter-
ritonr, all other parts of the great
continental areas added having
been transformed into states after
„—,i------thejr “probation
period” as territories. The great
Territory \>f Nebraska at one time
a part of the still greater Terri-
tory- of Missouri was sub-divid-
ed into Ihe States of Nebraska and
commission was sent to France by remainder divided inio
’ tho United States Government to i lories of New Mexico an
negotiate for the purchase of the ,T*“U "'k“
area adjacent to the mouth of the
Mississippi and including the city . Nevada, and Colorado
of New Orleans. The French Gov- i— -j
ernment, however, fearing a loss
of the entire western area to Great
Britain offered to sell it all to ihe
United States for $15,000,000, of
which $11,250,000 would be in six . -----------w v...o
per cent bonds of the United States i «ion of our government over tb«
i Government and the remainder to ; ’ ' m J
I be paid to citizens of the United >
stale in ' States having ciaims against j
this treaty ■
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tory northwest of the Ghio and ex- h' ratified, in October 180L and
The British flag At that
,g moment new from the southern tip i.smj, ;*cuer. vaioima no/,
:h" of Florida to the northern border Georgia in 1802. Vermont, which
i- had been claimed by the State of
New York as a part ®f her area,
purchased independence from that
state by paying £30.(100 and was
subsequently admitted to the
| Union as the first new state.
Maine, which had been claimed and
governed by Massachusetts fur
ger colonies but free and indepen-
dent states.
A A *
The First Territories.
It was at the close of that mem-
orable struggle, when the peace
treaty with Great Britain in 1783
. gave to the new United States ef ;
.America the entire area extending i
Ccmmon Union by the thirteen toj the Mississippi at the west arid
ihp Canadian border at the north, ;
. thpt the quc. lion < the meth.xl 4>f
government in that great in‘.eri<>> ir.g drawn f<o:n the Greek and
• ana came to the front and de Latin and others from Indian
miir.ded solution. Seven < of tlh
; < oLui.ifs—Ma isachusetts, Connec-
ticut, New vrt-k Virginia, Nord
: Carolina, • Smith Carolina, ri|<
Georg.a—cl-vnied that their orig
[ inal grants extended westward I.
« the Mississiuni; ii not farther, aii<
Ihe Signing of the Declaration of lndepenjrr.ee, after the Faintin; ay Trursbull,
at the Capitol in Waihington. *
j it had also become apparent that '
i these claims i~ many instances !
| over-lapped each other; and with
j the magnanimous spirit then pre-
' vailing of fealty to the new gov-
ernment the legislatures of those
I se4en states o..e by one ceded to
! the Common Union all of their
western claims, the area th.» r« di-
ed j to be formed into new states
extended ' w4h individual privileges and
' powers equal to those which genj-
I erously relinquished their claims
i upon the territory in question.
The area thus ceded to the Com-
- - ------ —. ----, ----- | mon Union hy the seven states
Sweden”^had been taken over by above named, lying between the
Allegheny-Cumberland range on
the east and the Mississippi on the
west,*exceeded in area that retain-
ed by th? “original thirteen,” ag-
gregating about 500,000 square
miles, while the present area of
th4 “original thirteen” aggregates
Th* .ifficulcies jwhich
ihe transformation of the
f pre-war countries of Eu-
..-lo the thirty which now
^.-rtar on the map of that conti-
nent- recall some interestini
liatuies of the process by which
ti ie territory of the United States,
which is now about equal to that
of all Europe, war enlarged, ad-
justed, and readjusted into the
ii‘ty political divisions v ui-h now
M inear upon the map of u.:r uy.n
ci untry.
We ha ve been busy, very busy,'
in this big country of ours in the
comparatively short period since
the Swedes, the Dutch, the Span-
isi, the French and the English
w ?re “staking out” their respect-
Iv^b claims upon the Atlantic
frontage from the southern tip of
F orida to the frozen north. But
j. when we recall the steps by which
that area was united, enlarged,
populated and then divided and
s^lxiivided into territories and
stites, we find many interesting
ai d almost forgotten incidents.
How many of the twenty million
people living in the states of Ohio,
Indiana, lllincis, Michigan and
Wisconsin recall the fact that the
area *which they now occupy was
one time a )>art of the province
Quebec 7
How many of the nine million
people in the states of Wisconsin,
loiva, Minnesota and a part of the
D; ikotas realize that the section
which they now occupy was once
A Jart of the territory of Michigan,
w lose area in 1834 was eight
tines as much as that when the
teritory was established and six
tines as much as that of the pres-
ent state of Michigan?
Die Territory of Missouri once
in duded the area forming the
present states of Iowa, Nebraska,
North Dakota, South Dakota,
Ai kansas, Missouri and a part of
th? present aiea of Minnesota,
W joining, Montana, Kansas, Okla-
hotna, and Colorado.
The Territory of Indiana in 1801
included what is now Minnesota
and a part of the Dakotas.
Texas, which is now nearly (
twice as large as any oilier state '
of the Union, is at the present
' . as big
part of i
on ginal states after the close of
th.' Revolutionary War now forms
part or all of thirteen other state
having a combined area greater
than that of the.present area of
th| original thirteen winch gave
thlir western area to the Ccmmon
Union.
The first per*r; ""r'
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The Process by Which Our “Original Thirteen” Were Enlarged and Transformed into die Present
colonies. TZ— 2/-L1. /—o 2—-
moment flew from the southern tip
of JHorida to the northern
of Canada, for Florida had i
time been brought under the
ish flag; and following thia txten-
sion of Canadian Government over
the area lying s/uth and west of
‘ the Great Lakes, the colonies
claiming that area joined with
those which were already clamor-
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Leonard, J. T. & Leonard, Joe M. Gainesville Daily Register and Messenger (Gainesville, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 235, Ed. 1 Monday, August 28, 1922, newspaper, August 28, 1922; Gainesville, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1316140/m1/3/: accessed July 7, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.