Kate Sayen Kirkland: 2 books
by Kate Sayen Kirkland
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Captain James A. Baker, Houston lawyer, banker, and businessman, received an alarming telegram on September 23, 1900: his elderly millionaire client William Marsh Rice had died unexpectedly in New York City. Baker rushed to New York, where he unraveled a plot to murder Rice and plunder his estate....
The Hogg Family and Houston
Philanthropy and the Civic Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Progressive former governor James Stephen Hogg moved his business headquarters to Houston in 1905. For seven decades, his children Will, Ima, and Mike Hogg used their political ties, social position, and family fortune to improve the lives of fellow Houstonians. As civic activists, they espoused...