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Editor's note: This story was updated on Sept. 24 with additional information.
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DALLAS — The Newman Smith football team had far from a full deck for its District 6-5A Division I ballgame against Molina, and that depth was tested even further over the course of Thursday’s matchup.
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Many historians have called Stephen F. Austin the “father of Texas” for his efforts to bring the first settlers from the United States into Texas. But the story begins with his own father, businessman and visionary Moses Austin, who in his own way became the “grandfather of Texas.”
He was the first chief justice of the state supreme court in Texas, and as such, he made Texas law into an instrument to be used by all people. John Hemphill was one of the first great legal minds to preside over a Texas court.
