Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	50	Jan 8, 1907 - Jan 12, 1909	30th	Democrat	Weimar / Colorado		Colorado
H	59	Jan 11, 1881 - Jan 9, 1883	17th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Democrat	Oakland / Colorado		Colorado, Lavaca

(1) Democrats fielded two candidates in November 1880: Joseph C. Kindred and E.J. Riggs. Consider the Lily: the Ungilded History of Colorado County, Texas.
(2) Democrat, 11/17/1880, p. 2. Galveston Daily News.
(3) Democrat. Pocket Directory of the Seventeenth Legislature of Texas, 1881.

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Biographical Sketches

Death notice, "Death of Hon. J.C. Kindred," 3/31/1916, p. 1, death date 3/29/1916.
Obituary and more extended biographical sketch, "Hon. J.C. Kindred Succumbs to Death," 4/7/1916, p. 2. Birth date 2/3/1841 in Russell County, Alabama. "In politics, Mr. Kindred was a staunch democrat . . . In 1880 he was elected a member of the 17th legislature of Texas, and again in 1906 was returned to that body as representative from Colorado county, serving with distinction on finance, revenue, taxation, penitentiary and other committees." Weimar Mercury (Weimar, Colorado County, Texas).

Other Resources

Joseph Colston Kindred, birth date 2/3/1841 in Alabama, death date 3/29/1916 in Weimar, Colorado County, Texas, lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
J.C. Kindred (1841-1916), burial in Weimar Masonic Cemetery, Weimar, Colorado County. Includes portrait, reprint of death notice in Weimar Mercury, 3/31/1916, p. 1. Find a Grave.
30th Legislature (1907) - J.C. Kindred, postoffice Weimar, nativity Alabama, age 66 (born circa 1841), lawyer, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual.

Photographs

Photograph. J.C. Kindred, 30th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. J.C. Kindred, 17th Legislature, Texas State Library and Archives Commission

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

30th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
17th session composite photo of House members (Texas State Library and Archives Commission). Texas State Library and Archives Commission.

Committee Information top

30th R.S. - 1907 Forestry Irrigation Municipal Corporations Penitentiaries Penitentiaries Subcommittee to Visit Penitentiaries Public Debt Stock and Stock Raising
17th R.S. - 1881 Finance Penitentiaries Revenue and Taxation Senatorial and Representative Districts State Affairs

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