1920 LETTERHEAD Austin Texas PEELER attorney LEGISLATION TAX ON PISTOLS GUNS NRA

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sale is for ONE
advertising
LETTERHEAD
dated April 15, 1920
from
J. L. PEELER,
ATT
O
RNEY
in
AUSTIN, TEXAS .
SOME HISTORY OF PEELER'S FATHER IS BELOW.
There is very interesting historical content to this letter:
Pertains to legislation on a
BILL TO REDUCE TAX
ON THE SALE OF PISTOLS.
J. L. PEELER SERVED IN The TEXAS HOUSE OF REPRESENATIVES.
This
LETTER IS SIGNED
by
J. L. PEELER.
CONDITION:
Normal letter folds, bugs had their way with the bottom edge of this letter but, did not effect the signature or the type in the letter.  The "EBAY ITEM" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attached to this letter.
PEELER, ANDERSON JAMES
(1838-1886). Anderson James Peeler, lawyer and assistant attorney general of Texas, the son of James and Amanda Peeler, was born in Harris County, Georgia, on April 22, 1838. When he was ten the family moved to Florida, where he received his education. In 1857, before he was twenty-one, he was admitted to the state bar by a special act of the Florida legislature. He established a practice at Newport and within two years had been elected by both houses of the legislature as clerk of the state Supreme Court. Also in 1857 he married Mrs. Elizabeth Frances Walker Byrd of Tallahassee.
With the outbreak of the
Civil War
he was elected first lieutenant and adjutant in the Fifth Florida Infantry; he served first under Gen. Braxton Bragg and later in the Army of Northern Virginia under Gen.
Robert E. Lee
.
After promotion to the rank of captain, Peeler was wounded and taken prisoner at the battle of Gettysburg. He was imprisoned at Johnson's Island in Lake Erie and not exchanged until near the end of the war.
Approximate size
of
letterhead is
8 1/2" X 11".
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