Steel engraving of James Collinsworth from the book, “Tragedy in Texas,” 1890. Floyd Killough Collection
Steel engraving of Sam Houston, Governor of Tennessee and First President of the Republic of Texas.
We all learned in history class that Texians were white immigrants to Mexican Texas who supported the Texas Revolution. We were also taught that the 1876 act of the Texas legislature which established Collingsworth County misspelled the namesake of the county, James Collinsworth. But we were not taught that Collinsworth, a lawyer from Tennessee who lived in Texas less than three years, was an alco…
