Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Philip Minor Cuny, Jr.

Full Name: Philip Minor Cuny, Jr.
Other surnames: Cuney
Birth date: October 10, 1843
Death date: April 25, 1923

Terms of Service

House, 27th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
1/8/1901 - 1/13/1903
Democrat

(1) P.M. Cuny. Texas Legislative Manual .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

38th Legislature, 2nd C.S., 4/27/1923, p. 144. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. P.M. Cuny, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

Relatives: Philip Minor Cuny, Jr. - son; Philip Minor Cuny, Sr. - father. Daniel and Priscilla White Dulaney Family Tree. Ancestry.com .
Confederate States Army, Private and Sergeant, Company D, 24th Texas Cavalry, date of enlistment 5/3/1862 at Hempstead. Phillip M. Cuny/Cuney, born about 1844 in Austin (now Waller) County, Texas; death date 4/25/1923 in Fort Worth. Pension File No. 30910, Alabama, Texas and Virginia, U.S., Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958. Ancestry.com .
Obituary, P.M. Cuny, "Former Citizen Dies," 4/27/1923, p. 1. Student of the Virginia Military Institute. "For ten years he worked in the State Land office at Austin and served his district at one time in the state legislature." Brookshire Times (Brookshire, Waller County, Texas) .
Census of 1900 - Philip M. Cuny, Waller County, age 57, born October 1843 in Texas, agt. oil co., spouse Sallie B. FamilySearch .
Philip Minor Cuny, birth date 10/10/1844, death date 4/25/1923 in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, retired. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
Obituary, "Captain P.M. Cuny," 4/29/1923, p. 19, served in Confederate army with [G]Cranbury's brigade. Fort Worth Record-Telegram .
Philip Cuney, Jr., mentioned in "Philip Cuney: Polititian and Slaveholder," p. 8. Southern Family in White and Black: the Cuneys of Texas 2003.
Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1845. Journals of the Convention, assembled at the city of Austin on the Fourth of July, 1845, for the purpose of framing a constitution for the State of Texas, pp. 377-378. Austin: Miner & Cruger, printers to the Convention, 1845. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
Captain P.M. Cuny, mentioned in biographical sketch of son E.S. Cuny, Volume 2, p. 1598. ". . . Captain P. M. Cuny, who was a member of the Twenty-Seventh Texas Legislature from Waller County. His father was first married in 1867 to Miss Mary Waller, a daughter of Judge Edwin Waller, and following her death in 1882 he was married again to Miss Sallie Daniel of Sherman. Captain Cuny enlisted in the Confederate Army when a lad of seventeen and served throughout the war between the States. He died on April 25, 1923." The New Encyclopedia of Texas 1926.
Biographical sketches, Philip M. Cuny and Judge Edwin Waller, pp. 92-95. Cuny born 10/10/1843 in Austin County. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.
Civil War Service in Confederate States Army, Private and Sergeant, 24th Texas Cavalry; 2nd Lieutenant, Brig. Gen. H.B. Granbury's Consolidated TX Brigade. Biographical information included in historical roster ID 1287, Philip Miner [Minor] Cuny. Born 10/10/1843. Virginia Military Institute Archives .