Rowlett(e)
Rowlett, Daniel, physician and Congressman, came to Texas from Calloway County, Kentucky, in 1836. Bringing with him a large number of slaves, Dr. Rowlett opened an extensive plantation on Red River near Tulip in the present Lamar County. Too late for the Battle of San Jacinto, he served from July 20 until October 24, 1836, as a hospital steward in the Texas Army. An outstanding man in the formative period of Fannin County, Dr. Rowlett was said to have been the wealthiest and most versatile of Fannin's pioneers, being a physician, an attorney-at-law, a slave-holder, a land contractor, and the county's first Congressman. He served in 1839-40 in the House of Representatives of the Fourth Congress of the Republic of Texas, and again in 1843-44 at the Eighth. Prominent in Masonic circles in Dover, Tennessee, Dr. Rowlett was made Worshipful Master of the Constantine Lodge at Bonham, Fannin County, Texas, when it was organized on November 3, 1840, serving in that position until March 5, 1844. Although the exact date of his death is not known, minutes of the Lodge show that a procession was formed by his brother Masons, on June 4, 1848, and that he was buried by them at the old Inglish Cemetery in East Bonham. Biographical Directory of the Texas Conventions and Congresses 1832 - 1845
Dr. Daniel Rowlett was a pioneer and founder of Fannin. At the age of 55 he came to Texas from Wadesboro, Kentucky, in 1836. The trip, made by boat from Memphis down the Mississippi and up the Red River, required five months...
He along with six associated families comprised the nucleus of a settlement in Fannin County which had grown to 600 persons in 1837. The record of his medical activities is vague. Doctor Rowlett represented his county in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, served on the board of land commissioners and as a member of the county commissioners court which met in Jacob Black's cabin, acted as county attorney, operated a ferry across Red River, and led his neighbors against bands of marauding Indians. The Medical Story of Early Texas, p 352.
Dr. Rowlett was the leader of an exploring party that came from Fannin County to see if what they had heard about the rich land on the upper reaches of the Trinity River were true. The party consisted of Jabez Fitzgerald, Edmund Todd, Pleasant Wilson, Dr. William Throckmorton, William B. Garrett, Littleton Ratten, M. C. Westley, and Bluford Clements.
Historians say that they selected land near present Rowlett Creek and went back for their families and household goods. They arrived back in present Collin in January of 1842 but found that Dr. Rowlett had already filed on the land they had all chosen. Disgruntled, they turned to go back and confront Dr. Rowlett. They were so taken with the beauty of the land around Hurricane Creek in Collin County that they stayed and settled at what became known as the Throckmorton Settlement. Dr. Rowlett never lived in Collin County although there is a land grant, a creek, a church and a cemetery named for him, not to mention the city of Rowlett in Dallas County.
Dr. Daniel Rowlett was a pioneer and founder of Fannin. At the age of 55 he came to Texas from Wadesboro, Kentucky, in 1836. The trip, made by boat from Memphis down the Mississippi and up the Red River, required five months...
He along with six associated families comprised the nucleus of a settlement in Fannin County which had grown to 600 persons in 1837. The record of his medical activities is vague. Doctor Rowlett represented his county in the House of Representatives of the Republic of Texas, served on the board of land commissioners and as a member of the county commissioners court which met in Jacob Black's cabin, acted as county attorney, operated a ferry across Red River, and led his neighbors against bands of marauding Indians. The Medical Story of Early Texas, p 352.
Dr. Rowlett was the leader of an exploring party that came from Fannin County to see if what they had heard about the rich land on the upper reaches of the Trinity River were true. The party consisted of Jabez Fitzgerald, Edmund Todd, Pleasant Wilson, Dr. William Throckmorton, William B. Garrett, Littleton Ratten, M. C. Westley, and Bluford Clements.
Historians say that they selected land near present Rowlett Creek and went back for their families and household goods. They arrived back in present Collin in January of 1842 but found that Dr. Rowlett had already filed on the land they had all chosen. Disgruntled, they turned to go back and confront Dr. Rowlett. They were so taken with the beauty of the land around Hurricane Creek in Collin County that they stayed and settled at what became known as the Throckmorton Settlement. Dr. Rowlett never lived in Collin County although there is a land grant, a creek, a church and a cemetery named for him, not to mention the city of Rowlett in Dallas County.
