George Washington Chilton Brig. Ordnance officer, Fort Brown, June 1, 1863.

George Washington Chilton

Full Name: George Washington Chilton
Date of birth: June 4, 1828
Date of death: August 10, 1884

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Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District
H 17 Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859 7th (1) (2)     Tyler / Smith   Smith

(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(2) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

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House District 17
Nov 2, 1857 - Nov 7, 1859
Legislatures: 7th (1) (2)  
Home City/County: Tyler / Smith
Counties in district: Smith

(1) Members of the Seventh Legislature, Biographical Notes - Members, April 1937 issue. Southern Historical Research Magazine, 1937.
(2) Democrat. Roster of 7th Legislature, "Texas Legislature Complete for 1857-8," Civilian and Gazette. Weekly. (Galveston, Texas), 9/8/1857, p. 2, crediting Dolph Briscoe Center for American History. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Biographical Information top

Biographical Sketches

  • Biographical sketch, Colonel George W. Chilton, pp. 560-562. The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881.
  • CHILTON, GEORGE WILLIAM (1828-1883). Born 6/4/1828 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky; died 1883 and buried in Tyler. Handbook of Texas Online.
  • Biographical sketch, George Washington Chilton, p. 41. Representing Texas: A Comprehensive History of U.S. and Confederate Senators and Representatives from Texas, 2008.

Military Service Notes

  • Confederate States Army, Major, 3rd Cavalry, muster date 6/1/1861 in Texas. George Washington Chilton, U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com.
  • Photograph, Capt Geo - W Chilton, Brig Ordnance officer, Fort Brown, June 1, 1863. [Captain George W. Chilton, Confederate States of America Army] DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs.
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, Maj. George Washington Chilton, 3rd Texas Cavalry. New York Times.
  • Biographical sketch, George W. Chilton, p. 50. "In 1857 he was a member of the sixth [sic] Texas legislature." Texans Who Wore the Gray, 1907.
  • George Washington Chilton. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.
  • Jack Hays' Texas Rangers, Mexican War. Confederate States Army, Major, 3rd Texas Cavalry; Colonel; Ordnance Officer on staff of General Hamilton Bee. Biographical sketch and portrait, George W. Chilton, pp. 3, 23-24, 76, Plate No. 54. Elected to state legislature in 1857. Texas in the War, 1861-1865, 1965.

Other Resources

  • Major George Washington Chilton, birth date 6/4/1828 in Elizabethtown, Hardin County, Kentucky; death date 8/10/1884 in Austin, Travis County, Texas. SBBK/BEKII Family Tree. Ancestry.com.
  • George W. Chilton, birth date 6/4/1828, death date 8/10/1884, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Tyler, Smith County. Find a Grave.
  • Listed in "Smith County and Seventh Senatorial District Legislators, 1st—16th Regular Sessions, 1846-1879," The Tyler Journal, 5/29/1936, p. 67, crediting Smith County Historical Society. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
  • Major George W. Chilton, Barron, S. B. The Lone Star defenders; a chronicle of the Third Texas cavalry, Ross brigade, 1908, pp. 26, 27, 45, crediting Dallas Public Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).
  • Delegate to Secession Convention of Texas, 1861. Journal of the Secession Convention of Texas 1861. Edited from the original in the department of state by Ernest William Winkler, State Librarian. Texas Library and Historical Commission, the State Library. Austin: Austin Print. Co., 1912, pp. 20-22. Originally published serially in newspapers. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin), 2009.
  • Portrait, p. 105. Father of U.S. Senator Horace Chilton, pp. 102-104. The Texas Senator, 1978.

Photographs

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7th R.S. - 1857
Education  
Finance (Chair) 
Internal Improvements  
Judiciary  
Message of the Governor on Kansas Affairs  
Private Land Claims  

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