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Date: Sunday, January 24, 1999 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [CTRL] Colonel House
>xxxxx, here's some of my own research.
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> Excerpts from: The Intimate Papers of COLONEL HOUSE, Charles Seymour.
Houghton Mifflin Company, 1926. Vol. I.
"We originally came from Holland and the name was Huis, which finally
fell into House. Father ran away from home and went to sea when a child,
and did not return to his home until he had become a man of property and
distinction. He came to Texas when it belonged to Mexico. He joined the
revolution, fought under General Burleson, and helped make Texas a republic.
For his services in this war he received a grant of land in Coryell County.
He lived to see Texas come into the Union, secede, and return to the Union.
He lived in Texas under four flags."
House, himself, seventh son, was born in 1858, at Houston, Texas, and
this State he has always regarded as his home.
"During the war (Civil) he (his father) sent many ships out from
Galveston with Cotton, to run the blockade (Union) to the near-by ports,
such as Havana and Belize (Honduras). At that time we had a house in
Galveston as well as in Houston......He (his father) had a working
arrangement with the Confederate Government by which the return voyage
brought them clothing, arms, and munitions of war of all kinds."
"The young House was taken to England as a boy and went to school at
Bath. ......
At the age of fourteen, after the death of his mother, he was sent to
school first in Virginia and then in Connecticut. ...
Clearly a change, even to a Yankee atmosphere, was an improvement:
and House hailed with relief, if not enthusiasm, the plan which at the age
of seventeen sent him to New Haven, Connecticut."
(He was supposed to attend Yale, but later opted for Cornell)
"Mischance cut short the college career of House, for after two years
at Cornell he was called back to Texas by the illness of his father, who
died in 1880.
The year after leaving college, House married Miss Loulie Hunter, of
Hunter, Texas, and after travelling in Europe for a twelvemonth (sic)
returned to make his home first in Houston and then in Austin, Texas.
Cotton farming and commercial enterprises kept him busy,..."
House wrote a book, later on, under a pseudonym, entitled: PHILLIP
DRU; ADMINISTRATOR. in which he describes a revolution in American, which he
lead victoriously.
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Houston Post 1937
T.W. HOUSE HAD THE INTUITVE QUALITY THAT URGES POSSESSOR ON TO SUCCESS
T.W. House was born in Stockest Gregory, England, on March 4, 1814. He came
of reputable parentage and good English stock though there was never an
effort on the part of his family to connect themselves with the nobility,
nor to trace their origin to any royal source. His family concerned itself
but little with anything beyond the problems of every day life, loyalty to
the crown under which they were born, and strong attachments for home and
fireside. It is questionable as to whether one should say Thomas W. House
did not have the advantages of a good education. That he did not receive
any school training to speak of in his youth is certain. He seems to have
been somewhat variously employed in his boyhood and youth.
Lands in New York
He came to America in 1835, landing in New York city, where he soon found
employment at the baker�s trade which he followed in that city for over a
year. During that year, Mr. House met a Mr. McDonald, proprietor of the St.
Charles hotel in New Orleans and was induced by him to come South and take
charge of the bakery department of that famous hostelry. He resided in New
Orleans until the�[newspaper clipping cut off]
But a short time before, Houston had been the capital of Texas. Mr. House
had saved his wages earned in New Orleans and he invested his savings in a
bakery and confectionery, forming a partnership with a man named Leveridge.
The following year, Mr. House became associated with Charles Shearn with
whom he was in partnership for almost 10 years. This friendship between the
two men was cemented when House married the daughter of Mr. Shearn. He
carried on the business for a decade, after Mr. Shearn withdrew his active
interest. They were in the wholesale business.
Became Big Grocers
In 1853, Mr. House purchased the business of James H. Stevens and company
and, during the same year, took into partnership E. Mather who had been with
him many years. They became the largest grocers in the state. Mr. Mather
retired in 1862. During the entire period of the war, there was never a
suspension of business.
Mr. House engaged in shipping of cotton to English markets and became a
successful blockade runner. In 1863, when Galveston was recaptured and with
it the "Harriet Lane," he brought her to Houston and ran the blockade with
this ship. After the war, Mr. House engaged in the banking business. He
began to receive deposits as early as 1840 and in this way, the foundation
of his bank was laid. He continued in the cotton business which for many
years was managed by the late Capt. William Christian.
Mr. House had large real estate holdings among which was the Arcola sugar
plantation. He was a charter member of the Houston ship channel
organization, a director of the H.& T.C. railway, which he helped to build,
president of the Texas Western narrow gauge railway, and interested in the
International-Great Northern railway and the Houston Tap and Brazoria
railway. He helped build the Houston Direct Navigation company. Helping to
found the Houston cotton exchange, he remained an active member. In fact,
Mr. House took stock in nearly every large corporation founded in the city
and later was one of the principal owners of the water works company.
Mr. House had two daughters and four sons. His eldest son, T.W. House, Jr.,
became postmaster of Houston and his son, Edward M. House, became
internationally known as the friend and advisor of our wartime president,
Woodrow Wilson, and close friend of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Other
sons were Charles and James.
Mr. House died on January 17, 1880�..The fortune he left was estimated at
$2,500,000. The only active interest Mr. House ever took in politics was
when he was elected mayor of Houston.
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12/13/40
H.C. HOUSE WAS PIONEER RESIDENT OF HOUSTON AND HELPED ORGANIZE ARABIA TEMPLE
H.C. House, 82, of Pasadena, Cal., resident of Houston until 20 years ago
and a cousin of the late Col. Edward M. House, who became an international
figure during the administration of the late President Woodrow Wilson, died
Wednesday at his California home, according to word received by Houston
relatives.
Mr. House was one of the organizers of Arabia Temple of Shriners and a life
member of the body.
He was owner of the building occupied by Penney�s store on Main, the
buildings occupied by the Texan, Uptown and Iris theatres, and Black
Brothers Furniture Company.
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Houston Chronicle 3/28/38
COLONEL EDWARD M. HOUSE IS TAKEN BY DEATH
New York, March 28.�Col. Edward M. House, internationally known as a close
adviser to President Woodrow Wilson during the trying world war era, died
today, after a long illness. He was 79 and a native of Houston.
Colonel House�s physicians said several weeks ago that he was "failing
steadily" and that death was only a matter of time. He was suffering from a
complication of ailments, and only last week had another relapse.
Only members of his family, including his wife, were with him when he died.
His daughter, Mrs. Gordon Auchincloss, and her husband, also were there�.
Colonel House had been in semi-retirement in recent years. He was first
reported seriously ill of pleurisy on March 4 by Dr. Paul B. Sheldon, his
personal physician. Since then he had been confined to his home.
Still keen and observant despite his declining years, Colonel House in one
of his last interviews asserted flatly that President Roosevelt would not be
a candidate for a third term�.Only last year he gave his opinion that the
United States would have joined the league if Wilson had retained his
health.
The so-called "Little Gray Man From Texas" always treasured the memory of
his friendship with Wilson. He could never understand the sudden schism
that disrupted their comradeship through the war years, and spoke of it as a
"tragic mystery." ***
House believed the kaiser was the one man, if any, who could control the
destinies of France, and he was determined to make his greatest efforts with
him. Before he started for Europe, he read everything he could find about
the German emperor and talked with every person in this country who knew him
at all well.
What the slim, mild-mannered gentleman from Texas said to the Potsdam
potentate was never disclosed, but House later indicated he was convinced
the kaiser was a less potent figure than some of his military leaders.
German, British and French statesmen declined to take seriously Colonel
House�s warning of the imminence of war. Later he himself was amazed at the
rapidity with which it came.
This was the first of many trips made by House as a special envoy of
President Wilson. Through him the president kept intimately informed on the
trend of events behind the scenes in Europe.
When the armistice was proposed, House went to Versailles as the personal
representative of Wilson and there opened the series of conferences with
Lloyd George, Clemenceau and other allied statesmen. Later designated by
the president as one of the American delegates to the peace conference,
House because of his close intimacy with Wilson and his familiarity with the
terms of the armistice, was to a large extent the medium of communicating
the American viewpoint.
Although Wilson was present in person at Paris much of the detail of
personal conference proceeded through House. The peace conference was the
first occasion upon which House worked with the president in an official
capacity. There for the first time observers noted a slight break in the
apparently perfect confidence that had always existed between them.
There were no signs of friction, however, when they parted at Paris on June
29, 1919, never to meet again. In August newspapers published a story about
a personal breach between Wilson and House. On August 26 Colonel House
cabled the president from London:
"Our annual falling out seems to have occurred. The foreign office received
a cable the other day saying we were longer on good terms and asking the
prime minister and Balfour be informed. I am wondering when this particular
story originated."
President Wilson cabled this reply: "Am deeply distressed by malicious
story about break between us and thank you for message about it. Best way
is to treat it with silent contempt."
Four days after sending his last cable to House the president left on a tour
in support of the League of Nations which ended in his collapse. Warned by
cable of the president�s breakdown, House planned to return and to testify
before the senate foreign relations committee in behalf of the peace treaty.
He, too, fell ill when he took ship and was in a state of collapse when he
arrived in the United States�.
On three occasions after the defeat of the treaty in the senate House
received notes from the president in answer to messages of good wishes. The
president wrote: "Thank you for your letter. I appreciate your thought of
me." But the letters were signed "sincerely and faithfully yours" and not
"affectionately" as they had been for years.
Thus the friendship lapsed, never to be renewed.
Colonel House shied from personal publicity and declined public office. His
retiring nature combined with the highly confidential character of the
business he transacted for the president heightened the wall of mystery
which concealed him from public comprehension. Some politicians, unable to
fathom his apparent lack of interest in personal preferment, wondered "what
ax he had to grind." Indignant at such insinuations, he said:
"Men talk about my connection with Wall Street and the big banking houses.
They seem to think I must get some sort of shady rake-off for my services.
It is as pitiful as it is despicable.
"And if I wished to make money out of my position I could do it easily and
without going to Wall Street. With my knowledge of what is happening and
what is going to happen, I am in a far better position than the powers of
Wall Street themselves to take advantage of market conditions. But I have
nothing to do with that sort of thing."�.
His advent in Texas politics was in 1892. He was a young man of independent
means with a cultivated taste for affairs of state and no liking for
business. He sought position of authority within the party and is credited
with domination of its councils.
In the nominations and elections of Governors Hogg, Culberson, Sears and
Lanham, he is said to have had potent influence. Without attempting to
assume the role of the traditional political boss, he won his way by quiet
persuasion and sagacity. His power was attributed to a faculty of
suggesting or doing the right thing at the right moment�.
Albert Sidney Burleson, postmaster general, was an Austin neighbor of
Colonel House. He had graduated from the University of Texas in that
institution�s first law class and had held local offices and been a member
of the national house of representatives before he went into the cabinet.
Thomas Watt Gregory, an 1885 graduate of the university�s law school, was
practicing in Austin when he assumed leadership of the Wilson forces in
Texas. He later was named as attorney general.
David F. Houston, although chancellor of Washington University, St. Louis,
Mo., when he was selected as secretary of agriculture, was formerly a
professor of economics in the University of Texas and later president of the
Texas A and M. College. In 1905 he came back to Austin as president of the
University of Texas and three years later went to St. Louis. He and House
kept in close touch through the years and Houston told afterward that he was
named for the cabinet before he had ever met Wilson personally.
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N.Y. Times, January 17, 1977
JANET H. AUCHINCLOSS, LAWYER�S WIDOW, DIES
Janet House Auchincloss, the widow of Gordon Auchincloss and daughter of
Col. Edward M. House, adviser to President Woodrow Wilson, died yesterday
afternoon at her home at 950 Park Avenue. She was 89 years old.
A native of Austin, Tex., she was prominent in the suffragette movement in
her youth and made her home in New York after her marriage in 1912 to Mr.
Auchincloss, who served as Colonel House�s secretary during the Armistice
negotiations in Europe in 1918.
Mr. Auchincloss, a lawyer, was a member of a large and well-known family.
He was a brother of James C. Auchincloss, who died last October and who
represented New Jersey�s Third Congressional District in the House for many
years. He also was a cousin of Louis S. Auchincloss, the New York lawyer
and novelist, and of the late Hugh D. Auchincloss, Sr., a stockbroker in
Washington and stepfather of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Gordon Auchincloss
died in 1943, and Hugh D. Auchincloss Sr. Died last November.
Mrs. Auchincloss �is survived by one son, Edward House Auchincloss of New
York, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
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