Terms of Service

• House, 5th ⁽¹⁾ Legislature
  11/7/1853 - 11/5/1855
   
  

(1) Marion County was demarked from the southern portion of Cass County by an act of the state legislature on February 8, 1860. Handbook of Texas Online .

Biographical Notes and Resources

Resolutions and Journal entries

• 5th Legislature - Roll of Members, J.W. Ferris, age 30, native state New York, emigrated from Kentucky in 1847, lawyer, postoffice Jefferson, Cass County. House Journal .

Photographs

• Photograph. Justus Ferris, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.

Other Resources

• Biographical sketch, pp. 292-293. "He may be called the author of the common school system of Texas." Biographical Souvenir of the State of Texas, Containing Biographical Sketches of the Representative Public, and Many Early Settled Families 1889.
• FERRIS, JUSTUS WESLEY (1823-1899). Handbook of Texas Online .
• Biographical sketch and portrait, Justus Wesley Ferris, pp. 372-374. Indian Wars and Pioneers of Texas 1890.
• Delegate to Constitutional Convention, 1875. Included in Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Texas: Begun and Held at the City of Austin Texas. Constitutional Convention (1875). Galveston : Printed for the Convention at the "News" Office, 1875, pp. 3-4. Texas Constitutions Digitization Project (Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin) 2009.
• Biographical sketch and portrait, Judge Justus Wesley Ferris, pp. 242-244. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.

Committee Information

• 5th R.S. - 1853
• Education  
• Indian Affairs  
• Judiciary  
• Public Buildings