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Walter E. Tips

Walter Tipps
Full Name: Walter E. Tips
Other surnames: Tipps
Birth date: July 23, 1841
Death date: April 20, 1911

Terms of Service

  • Senate, 24th (1) & 23rd (2) Legislatures
    1/10/1893 - 1/12/1897
    Democrat
(1) 24th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1895, p. 1. Senate Journal .
(2) 23rd Legislature - All 31 Senators are listed in Roll Call on First Day, 1/10/1893, p. 1; resolution by Sen. Cranford that the Senators shall now be divided by lot into two classes, 1/11/1893, p. 5; drew term of 4 years. Senate Journal . January 10, 1893
January 11, 1893

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

  • 23rd Legislature - Walter Tipps. 24th Legislature - Tips. Senate Journal . 23rd R.S. 24th R.S.

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Confederate States Army, 2nd Lieutenant, 6th Field Battery, Texas Light Artillery, enlistment date 10/14/1861 in Austin, Texas. Walter E. Tips, Texas, U.S., Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865. Walter Tips, U.S., Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865; U.S., Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles, 1861-1865. Ancestry.com .
  • "Tips May Be Tops for Development: Old Steel Plant Might One Day Be Surrounded by Tony Shops," by Shonda Novak, 9/12/2003. Beachman Foundry & Machine Co. (now Tips Iron and Steel) co-founded by State Sen. Walter Tips in 1899. Austin American-Statesman .
  • Obituary, "Death Came Suddenly: Walter Tips, Prominent Austin Merchant, Passed Away . . . ," 4/21/1911, p. 10. "Mr. Tips served as State Senator for four years during the late 90s and was for twelve or fifteen years a member of the State Penitentiary Commission, beginning this service under Governor Ireland." "At the breaking out of the war between the states he volunteered for service as a Confederate and served throughout the war on the Texas coast, coming out at the end as a lieutenant of artillery." Austin Statesman .
  • Walter Tips, birth date 7/23/1841 in Germany; death date 4/20/1911 in Austin, Travis County, Texas; hardware merchant and banker. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976 .
  • Walter Tips, death date 4/20/1911, burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis County. Includes obituary. Find a Grave .
  • Person Sheet, biography, and portrait - Walter E. Tips, Founder of Walter Tips Co. and Engine Works. Texas State Senator. Birth date 7/23/1841 in Elberfeld, Germany; death date 4/20/1911 in Austin. Burial in Oakwood Cemetery, Austin, Travis Co., Texas. RootsWeb.com Internet genealogical service .
  • 23rd Legislature (1893) - Walter Tips, postoffice Austin, nativity Germany, age 51, merchant, 43 years in Texas, Democrat. Texas Legislative Manual .
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