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Website. www .hputx .edu. Howard Payne University is a private Baptist university in Brownwood, Texas, United States. It is affiliated with the Baptist General Convention of Texas. Howard Payne College was founded by Noah T. Byers and John David Robnett in 1889. The institution is named for its first major benefactor, Edward Howard Payne, who ...
Daniel Baker College. Coordinates: 31.7106°N 98.9772°W. Daniel Baker College buildings. Daniel Baker College was founded April 5, 1889 in Brownwood, Texas, United States. It was named in memory of the Rev. Dr. Daniel Baker, a Presbyterian circuit-riding minister, who helped organize the first presbytery in Texas in 1840 and Austin College in ...
1372753 [2] Website. brownwoodtexas .gov. Brownwood is a city in and the county seat of Brown County, Texas, United States. [4] The population was 18,862 as of the 2020 census. [5] Brownwood is located in the Northern Texas Hill Country [clarification needed] and is home to Howard Payne University, which was founded in 1889.
Greenleaf Fisk (1807–1888) was a pioneer, known as "the Father of Brownwood, Texas". When a land and water dispute necessitated a new site for Brown County's seat of Brownwood, Fisk donated the land for the new location. He was a military veteran of the Texas Revolution and was a member of the Republic of Texas House of Representatives.
The Lone Star Conference (LSC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. Member institutions are located in the South Central states, with schools in Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Arkansas, with two members in the Pacific Northwest states of Oregon and Washington competing as affiliates for football only.
A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912. With borrowed money, he and a business partner, Clint Murchison Sr. , amassed $1 million in the oil business in 1919–1920, but then watched their fortunes wane with the oil market, until business again boomed in 1933.
The 1928 Howard Payne Yellow Jackets represented Howard Payne College—now known as Howard Payne University—as a member of the Texas Conference during the 1928 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Joe Bailey Cheaney , the Yellow Jackets compiled an overall record of 10–1 with a mark of 5–0 in conference play, winning the ...
Website. www .browncountytx .gov. Brown County is a county in west-central Texas. As of the 2020 census, the population was 38,095. [1] [2] Its county seat is Brownwood. [3] The county was founded in 1856 and organized in 1858. [4]