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Matthew Duncan Ector

M.D. Ector
Full Name: Matthew Duncan Ector
Birth date: February 28, 1822
Death date: October 29, 1879

Terms of Service

  • House, 6th Legislature
    11/5/1855 - 11/2/1857
     

Biographical Notes and Resources

Photographs

Other Resources

  • Biographical sketch, Mathew Duncan Ector, pp. 124-125. Born 2/28/1822 in Putnam County, Georgia; served in the Georgia Legislature and the 6th Texas Legislature. A History of Rusk County, Texas 1961.
  • Biography, Mathew Duncan Ector, pp. 165-168. Bench and Bar of Texas 1885.
  • Matthew Duncan Ector, birth date 2/28/1822, death date 10/29/1879, burial in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Includes portrait, historical marker photo. Find a Grave .
  • ECTOR, MATHEW DUNCAN (1822-1879). Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Confederate States Army, Colonel, 14th Texas Cavalry; Brigadier General, appointed 8/23/1862. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • ECTOR COUNTY named for Mathew D. Ector. Handbook of Texas Online .
  • Biographical sketch, Mathew Duncan Ector, Presiding Judge, Texas Court of Appeals, 1876-1879. Justices of Texas, 1836-1986 (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2004.
  • Biographical sketch, Matthew Duncan Ector, p. 73. Texans Who Wore the Gray 1907.
  • Matthew Duncan Ector. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide 2002.
  • Confederate States Army, Brigadier General. Historical marker, Matthew Duncan Ector, Greenwood Cemetery, Marshall, Harrison County. Texas Historic Sites Atlas (Texas Historical Commission) .
  • Biographical sketch and portrait, Matthew Duncan Ector, pp. 4, 26, 77, Plate No. 4. Texas in the War, 1861-1865 1965.

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