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Hawkins-Holly Lake Ranch, Texas - GAZETTE ARTICLE ONLINE

WOOD COUNTY HISTORY - AS TIME GOES BY

 

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AS TIME GOES BY

Wood County History

By LOU MALLORY — Chairperson, Wood County Historical Commission

 

C.W. Raines — Historian and State Librarian     12-24-05

 

Cadwell Walton Raines (1839-1906) was the son of Thomas A. and Aletha McClendon Raines. He was born on September 18th in Upson County, Georgia. In 1858, after completing his junior year at Princeton, he moved to Texas and settled at Paris.

 

He was admitted on trial by the East Texas Conference of the Methodist Church in 1860.

 

Though opposed to secession, he enlisted in 1861 under Richard M. Gano and served as a private throughout the Civil War. He was twice captured and escaped. He was also twice wounded and reported dead. When offered a commission, Walton refused because he did not want the responsibility of leading men into battle.

 

After the war, he taught school at New Braunfels, practiced law in partnership with J.J. Hill at Canton, was county judge of Van Zandt County, and published newspapers at Wills Point, Mineola and, finally, at Quitman.

 

During his residence in Quitman, he was elected county judge of Wood County. The friendship of Raines and James Stephen Hogg, who also served as a Wood County official, was a lasting influence in their lives.

 

When Hogg became governor in 1891, Raines was appointed librarian of the Texas State Library. He served in this post from May 5th, 1891 to January of 1895, and again from July 7th, 1899 until his death.

 

When he assumed office, the state library was practically nonexistent, since little had been done for its rehabilitation after the old Capitol burned in 1881. Hogg took a particular interest in the library and supported an annual appropriation of $500 to enable the state librarian to collect Texas historical data. Under Raines, the present invaluable collection of Texana was begun.

 

After being ousted from the position of state librarian by a new state administration, Raines devoted his time to scholarly work. In 1896 he published a Bibliography of Texas. His “Life of Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna” appeared in the Texas Magazine from May 1896 to April 1898. He also contributed a number of articles to the Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association.

 

He wrote the introduction to The Laws of Texas in ten volumes published by Karl H.P.N. Gammel in 1898. Raines also edited Six Decades in Texas or Memoirs of Francis Richard Lubbock, published in Austin in 1900.

 

Raines also wrote and edited Speeches and State Papers of James Stephen Hogg, with a Sketch of His Life which was published in 1905. He compiled Year Book for Texas. These two volumes were published in Austin in 1902 and 1903 respectively. Additionally, Raines compiled Analytical Index to the Laws of Texas, 1823-1905, which was published in 1906.

 

Raines was one of the founders of the Texas State Historical Association and a member of the Texas Academy of Science.

 

He was also a member of the John B. Hood Camp of Confederate Veterans and Austin Lodge No. 12, A, F and A.M.

 

Raines was married twice: first to Mary Bowden of Nashville, Tennessee, on May 17th, 1861. After her death, he married Mrs. Isabella M. Mason of Amarillo, on December 25th, 1901. He had four children.

 

C.W. Raines died on August 2nd, 1906 and was buried at Round Rock.

 

 

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