Part 8, Note 37

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City Officials Appointment Book, City of Columbus, p. 36, Secretary of State Records (RG 307), Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin; Letter of Bartley Harbert et al., September 4, 1872, Letter of John C. Miller, September 5, 1872, Letter of John C. Miller, October 18, 1872, Governor's Papers (RG 301), Edmund J. Davis, Archives Division, Texas State Library, Austin. It is assumed that the mayor did not support Fondren's candidacy because he, quite conspicuously, did not sign the letter the council sent to the governor on September 4.