Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney

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Resolutions and Journal entries

• 36th Legislature, 1st C.S., 5/5/1919, p. 34. E.L. Dahoney, Sr. Resolutions - Memorial.

Biographical Sketches

• Biographical sketch, pp. 127-128. Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas, 2000.
• Biography, pp. 28-41. Birth date 10/12/1832. Constitutional Convention, a New Beginning: Two Constitutions, 1875 and 1974, 1974.
• Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney, birth date 10/13/1832, death date 3/29/1919, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Lamar County. Includes reprints of obituary in The Paris News, 3/31/1919; and biographical article in The Paris News, 12/13/1998. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, Betsy Mills & Ron Brothers, On-Line Edition (Paris, TX: ReBroMa Press), 2008.
• Biographical sketch, Hon. Ebenezer L. Dohoney, pp. 394-396. "Under the reconstruction acts of 1860, Mr. Dohoney was elected to the state senate over a Republican and a Democrat opposed to the terms of reconstruction....He served for four years as a laborious senator, giving satisfaction to his people, and was the author of several important acts, among them one granting a homestead of one hundred and sixty acres to those who would settle on the public domain. He was one of the two Democrats in the senate who voted for the law forbidding the carrying of deadly weapons, commonly called the six-shooter act, which has been of such great benefit to the reputation of the state and the lives of its citizens." The Encyclopedia of the New West, 1881.
• E.L. Dohoney, birth date 10/13/1832, death date 3/29/1919, burial in Evergreen Cemetery, Paris, Lamar County. Includes obituary, "Died in Texas"; biographical sketch, "Moments in Time: Ebenezer L. Dohoney, Influential Lamar Countian"; and reprint of biographical sketch from Texas Pulpit by Christian Preachers, St. Louis: Christian Publishing Company, 1888, pages 391-393. Find a Grave.
• DOHONEY, EBENEZER LAFAYETTE (1832-1919). Handbook of Texas Online.

Military Service Notes

• Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant, Company H, 9th Texas Cavalry Regiment, from 10/2/1861. Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney, postwar lawyer, Paris, Texas; delegate, Texas Constit. Conv., 1875; state senator. FamilySearch United States Confederate Officers Card Index, 1861-1865.
• Confederate States Army, 1st Lieutenant, Company H, 9th Texas Cavalry. Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney. Texas Burial Sites of Civil War Notables: A Biographical and Pictorial Field Guide, 2002.

Other Resources

• Mentioned in "'Blessed with Peace!' War's Bitter Aftermath," pp. 102-136. Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas, 2000.
• Portrait and discussion of anti-secession speeches included in account of vigilantism in the Sulphur Forks watershed counties of East Texas, pp. 35-41. Brush Men and Vigilantes: Civil War Dissent in Texas, 2000.
• E.L. Dohoney, birth date 10/13/1832 in Kentucky; death date 3/29/1919 in Paris, Lamar County, Texas; lawyer. FamilySearch Texas Deaths, 1890-1977.
• Death notice, "Col. E.L. Dohoney Called by Death," 3/30/1919, p. 1. Obituary, Eben L. Dohoney, 4/1/1919, p. 8. Born 10/13/1832 in Adair County, Kentucky; " . . . he was elected to the state senate in 1873 and took a part in legislation that finally brought Texas back under her own government." Paris Morning News.
• Mentioned in history of Senatorial redistricting for Lamar County, "Backward Glances (from the scrapbooks of the late A.W. Neville, Editor of the Paris News, 1936-1956, 3/14/1951)," republished 8/26/1976, p. 6. Paris News.
• 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.

Photographs

• Photograph. E.L. Dohoney, 13th Legislature, State Preservation Board
• Photograph. E.L. Dohoney, 13th Legislature, DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs
• Photograph. Ebenezer Lafayette Dohoney, Constitutional Convention of 1875 Composite Photo. From the collection of the Texas State Library and Archives Commisison.

Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol

• 13th session composite photo of Senate and House members (Ground floor elevator vestibule, east wall. GW.V3). State Preservation Board.
• Pictorial Monogram of the State Government of Texas 1873 (DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Collection). DeGolyer Library, SMU, Lawrence T. Jones III Texas Photographs.

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