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Auction: 9014 - Bond & Share Certificates of the World
Lot: 712

x Republic of Texas, 10% Consolidated Fund, certificate for $500, 18(40), signed by J W Simmons as Comptroller and Charles De Morse as Stock Commissioner, attractive piece with vignettes of allegorical figures, 5 pointed star below, printed by Southern Bank Note Co., with coupons, cut cancelled, very fine Estimate £ 200-250 James Wright Simmons (1790-1858), born in Charleston, South Carolina, educated at Harvard University. Served as comptroller of the Republic of Texas from 1839 to 1840, and then as treasurer from 1840 until November, 1841. Charles DeMorse (1816-1887), born in Leicester, Massachusetts, moving to Texas in the 1830´´s to assist in their fight for independence. Stock commissioner under President Mirabeau B. Lamar. Founded the Clarksville Northern Standard in 1842 and remained its publisher and editor until his death. During the Civil War, DeMorse organized and served as Colonel of the 29th Texas Cavalry, a unit that fought in Arkansas and the Indian Territory. He was the commanding officer of the force at the battle of Poison Springs, near Camden, Arkansas, where an attempted Union advance was repulsed. Following the war, DeMorse was active in state politics, helped organize the Texas Veterans Association, and was a director of the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A & M University).

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