Rockwell Hoskins

Full Name: Rockwell Hoskins
Date of birth: May 2, 1862
Date of death: March 11, 1930

Terms of Service
Biographical Notes
Committee Information

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Chamber	District	Dates of Service	Legislatures	Party	City/County	Note	Counties in District
H	24	Jan 10, 1905 - Jan 8, 1907	29th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾	Democrat	Cedar Bayou / Harris		Harris
H	24	Jan 13, 1903 - Jan 10, 1905	28th ⁽⁴⁾	Democrat	Cedar Bayou / Harris		Harris

(1) Houston, Harris County. House Journal.
(2) Harris County. Texas House of Representatives: A Pictorial Roster 1846-1992, 1992.
(3) Cedar Bayou. Texas Legislative Manual.
(4) Cedar Bayou. Year Book for Texas, Volume II, 1903.

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House District 24
Jan 10, 1905 - Jan 8, 1907
Legislatures: 29th ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽³⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Cedar Bayou / Harris
Counties in district: Harris

House District 24
Jan 13, 1903 - Jan 10, 1905
Legislatures: 28th ⁽⁴⁾
Party: Democrat
Home City/County: Cedar Bayou / Harris
Counties in district: Harris

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Resolutions and Journal entries

20th Legislature - Nominated for Calendar Clerk, 1/11/1886 [sic: 1887], p. 6; assigned to committees, 1/21/1887, p. 105. House Journal.
41st Legislature, 5th C.S., 3/13/1930, p. 492. Houston, Harris County. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

Biographical sketch, "Candidate for the Legislature," 2/9/1898, p. 4. Dateline - Cedar Bayou, Harris Co, Tex. Feb. 7. "Hoskins has lived here many years . . . " Galveston Daily News.
Rockwell Hoskins. Photo and preview of 29th Legislature, "Harris County's Representatives," The Houston Post, 1/8/1905, p. 8. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries).

Other Resources

Mentioned in genealogy, Rockwell Hoskins (790), pp. 58 and 101, and index, p. 213. Born 5/2/1862 in North Bloomfield [Connecticut], married Miss Willis Gillette, 6/24/1884, in Galveston, Texas. The Cossitt Family: A Genealogical History of Rene Cossitt, a Frenchman Who Settled in Granby, Conn., A.D. 1717, and of His Descendants, 1925.
Census of 1900 - Rockwell Hoskins, Harris County, age 38, born May 1862 in Connecticut, farmer, spouse Willie, married 16 years.
Census of 1910 - Rockwell Haskins, Houston, Harris County, age 47, born circa 1863 in Connecticut, merchant, spouse Willie
Census of 1920 - Rockwell Hoskins, Houston, Harris County, age 57, born circa 1863 in Connecticut, oil promoter, spouse Sarah (Sarah Willis Hoskins).
Census of 1930 - Rockwell Hoskins, Houston, Harris County, age 65, born circa 1863 in Connecticut, spouse Willie (enumeration date 4/14/1930). FamilySearch. 1900 1910 1920 1930
Rockwell Hoskins, birth date 5/2/1862 in Connecticut; death date 3/11/1930 in Houston, Harris County; retired. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1976.
Rockwell Hoskins, birth date 5/2/1862, death date 3/11/1930, burial in Forest Park Cemetery, Houston, with spouse Sarah Willis Hoskins. Find a Grave.
"Personal," 12/25/1886, p. 10. "Mr. Rockwell Hoskins, of Cedar Bayou, a son-in-law of the Hon. H.F. Gillette, is in the city. Mr. Hoskins is a candidate for calendar clerk of the lower house of the legislature." Galveston Daily News.
Father-in-law, GILLETTE, HENRY FLAVEL (1816-1896), teacher and superintendent of Bayland Orphan's Home. Handbook of Texas Online.
Obituary and photo, Rockwell Hoskins, "Former County Representative Dies at His Home," 3/12/1930, p. 6. Born 5/2/1862 in North Bloomfield, Connecticut. Houston Chronicle.

Photographs

Photograph. R. Hoskins, 29th Legislature, State Preservation Board
Photograph. R. Hoskins, 28th Legislature, State Preservation Board

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

28th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.
29th session composite photo of House members (House chamber gallery, east wall. 3W.2). State Preservation Board.

Committee Information top

29th R.S. - 1905 Appropriations Municipal Corporations (Chair) Newspaper Reports, Investigate, Special Penitentiaries State Affairs State Penitentiaries
28th R.S. - 1903 Counties and County Boundaries Labor Penitentiaries Penitentiaries Subcommittee to Visit Rusk Penitentiary Revenue and Taxation State Affairs

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