William Johnson McDonald
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William Johnson McDonald was a Paris, Texas banker who left $850,000 to the University of Texas System to endow an astronomical observatory.
Circa 1920
The Confederate States of America, also known as the Confederate States or the Confederacy, was a republic in the Southern United States from 1861 to 1865, unrecognized as a sovereign nation by either
William Johnson McDonald
…director. McDonald was the eldest of the three sons of Sarah Johnson and Henry Graham McDonald of Paris, Texas. As a young man, he was a private in the Confederate Army. He became wealthy through his businesses as a lawyer and a banker, but remained frugal his entire life. He never married and had no children…
The inauguration of Jefferson Davis in Montgomery, Alabama
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Elias Boudinot, a Cherokee secessionist and Confederate Representative in the Indian Territory of present-day Oklahoma