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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	71	Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893	22nd (1)	Democrat	Chappell Hill / Washington		Washington
H	71	Jan 8, 1889 - Jan 13, 1891	21st (2) (3)	Democrat	Chappell Hill / Washington		Washington

(1) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.
(2) Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives.
(3) M.M. Felde, Brenham. Roster of Representatives of the 21st Legislature, "Twenty-First Legislature: Members of the House, Address, Occupation and Politics," Galveston Daily News, 1/5/1889, p. 2, crediting Abilene Library Consortium. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Biographical Notes and Resources top

Biographical Sketches

• Miers M. Felder, Chapter 4, Hood's Texas Brigade Moves into Action, about Miers and his cousin Rufus King Felder, pp. 45-57 (including Mr. and Mrs. Miers Felder and Children, photo, pp. 53-54). Miers M. Felder wounded at Second Manassas, discharge from the service on 2/14/1863, and married Catherine Felder in Chappell Hill on 12/31/1863, p. 101. Biographical sketch and drawing, pp. 202-205, served in Texas Legislature in 1889 and 1891, died 3/11/1899. The Confederates of Chappell Hill, Texas: Prosperity, Civil War and Decline, 2005.
• Portrait and biographical sketch, Myers Martindale Felder, pp. 338-342. Born 7/13/1832 in Laurens District, South Carolina. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Distinguished Texans, 21st Legislature, 1889.
• Portrait and biographical sketch, Myers Martindale Felder, pp. 674-677. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892.

Military Service Notes

• Confederate States Army, Company E, 5th Texas Infantry, Hood's Texas Brigade, enlisted 7/19/1851 at Washington, Texas, discharge 2/14/1863 at Columbia, South Carolina, as a Private; records show as M.M. Felder, also born as Miers Felder, according to War Department Memo. Miles Martindale Felder, death date 3/11/1899 in Washington County, Texas; widow Mrs. M.M. Felder, marriage date 12/26/1896 in Oktibbeha, Mississippi. Pension File No. 47995, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Miers Felder, Corporal, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com.
• Confederate States Army, 1st Corporal, Company E, 5th Regiment, Texas Infantry. Military grave marker, M.M. Felder, birth date 7/13/1832 in Laurens County, South Carolina, death date 3/11/1899, burial in Masonic Cemetery, Chappell Hill, Washington County. Find a Grave.

Other Resources

• Myers Martindale Felder, Democrat, farmer, age 71 in 1891, born in South Carolina. Legislative Reference Library Card File.

Photographs

• Photograph. M.M. Felder, 21st Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 21st session composite photo of House members (House chamber vestibule, west wall. 2W.V1). State Preservation Board.
• 22nd session composite photo of House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, north wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.

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22nd R.S. - 1891 Constitutional Amendments (Chair)  Education   Internal Improvements   Judicial Districts   Representation and Apportionment on Congressional Districts

21st R.S. - 1889 Claims and Accounts   Commerce and Manufacture   Constitutional Amendments   Counties and County Boundaries   Education   Judicial Districts   Senate Bill No. 18, 'An Act to require railroad companies in this State to provide separate coaches for white and colored passengers', Special Committee of Five