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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. Noah T. Byers and John David Robnett founded Howard Payne College in 1889. It was named for its first major benefactor, Edward Howard Payne, who was Robnett's brother-in-law. [3]
48-10780 [3] GNIS feature ID. 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 in the Texas Hill Country and is home to Howard Payne University, which was founded in 1889.
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 1849.
Brownwood Coliseum. Coordinates: 31.720205°N 98.978148°W. Brownwood Coliseum is a 4,000 seat [1] multi-purpose arena in Brownwood, Texas, United States. [2] Built in 1963, [2] it is the home of the Howard Payne University Yellow Jackets basketball and volleyball teams. [3]
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.
A native of Athens in east Texas, Richardson attended Baylor University and Simmons College from 1910 to 1912. [2] 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.
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Guy D. Newman (December 6, 1906, Dorchester, Texas – July 4, 1988) was an American academic, Baptist Preacher, Vice-President of Baylor University, and President of Howard Payne University. Background. He married Julia Herbst, and after her death, Estelle McKneely.