Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Robert Turner Flewellen

Full Name: Robert Turner Flewellen
Birth date: October 2, 1821
Death date: January 5, 1899

(1) Democrat, 1/14/1879, p. 1. Galveston Daily News .

Photograph. Robert Flewellen. Photo courtesy of the Texas Medical Association., Donated Material
Photograph. Robert Flewellen, Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature

Robt. T. Flewellen, birth date 10/2/1821 in Monroe County, Georgia, death date 1/5/1899 in Houston, Texas, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston, Harris County, with wife Eugenia A. Flewellen. Includes photograph. Find a Grave .
FLEWELLEN, ROBERT TURNER (1821-1899). Handbook of Texas Online .
Obituary, Dr. Robert F. Flewellen, The Daily Examiner (Navasota, Texas), 1/6/1899, p. 4, crediting Navasota Public Library. Birth date 10/2/1821 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama; death date 1/5/1899 in Houston. "In 1859 he was elected to the house of representatives and again in 1861 from the district of Washington and Fayette counties . . . In 1875 he removed to Houston and was elected to represent Harris county in the legislature in 1878. He secured the passage by the legislature of the first bill for the charter of a medical college in Texas." Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries) .
Portrait. Texas Album of the Eighth Legislature 1860.