Dr Samuel Garner “Sam” Haynie

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Dr Samuel Garner “Sam” Haynie

Birth
Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee, USA
Death
20 May 1877 (aged 71)
Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA
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Austin, Travis County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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One of a large extended family who moved to the Republic of Texas from northern Alabama in the 1830s, Samuel Haynie was a leader and promoter of the city of Austin in its early days as capital city for the Republic and then in the state of Texas:
Physician; Senate candidate and Representative in the Texas Congress & Texas state legislature; one of two commissioners for the first Texas Capitol building; alderman and mayor of Austin; Austin postmaster & post office builder; superintendent of the Institute for the Blind; proprietor of drugstore, general store, & hotel; superintended the construction of the addition to St. David's Episcopal Church; built a home near the Capitol building later known as the Haynie-Cook house; volunteered with Ed Burleson in the fight to suppress the Cordova Rebellion (1839).

Most but not all of the above information came from L. Haynie Rossman's book, Reverend John Haynie: Ancestry, Life & Descendants (1963). The reproduction of his [misplaced or lost] portrait which circulates in Austin, and now on line, was apparently retouched for some reason, considerably darkening his features and his eyes. This image is a "copy of a copy" obtained from St. David's Church. It appears that he had blue eyes, and the resemblance to his parents is more evident.
One of a large extended family who moved to the Republic of Texas from northern Alabama in the 1830s, Samuel Haynie was a leader and promoter of the city of Austin in its early days as capital city for the Republic and then in the state of Texas:
Physician; Senate candidate and Representative in the Texas Congress & Texas state legislature; one of two commissioners for the first Texas Capitol building; alderman and mayor of Austin; Austin postmaster & post office builder; superintendent of the Institute for the Blind; proprietor of drugstore, general store, & hotel; superintended the construction of the addition to St. David's Episcopal Church; built a home near the Capitol building later known as the Haynie-Cook house; volunteered with Ed Burleson in the fight to suppress the Cordova Rebellion (1839).

Most but not all of the above information came from L. Haynie Rossman's book, Reverend John Haynie: Ancestry, Life & Descendants (1963). The reproduction of his [misplaced or lost] portrait which circulates in Austin, and now on line, was apparently retouched for some reason, considerably darkening his features and his eyes. This image is a "copy of a copy" obtained from St. David's Church. It appears that he had blue eyes, and the resemblance to his parents is more evident.

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