Burnet County, TX - Bios: Ed V. Magill, born 1861

August 15,2000



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 MAGILL, Ed V. - born 1861 

 

Source: Vertical File in Herman Brown Free Library, date and author unknown.



ED V. MAGILL



Ed V. Magill is a member of a family that has been active in the development of Texas 

for more than a century. Mr. Magill’s father came to Texas during the days when the 

state was under the sovereignty of Mexico and fought in the war for Texas Independence 

and was a member of the forces under General Sam Houston at the battle of San Jacinto 

which resulted in freeing Texas from Mexican domination. The elder Magill was a native 

of Kentucky and settled in Burnet County and aided in making the necessary survey when 

the county was organized and was one of the first commissioners elected after 

organization of the county was completed.



Ed V. Magill was born in Burnet County on the thirtieth of January, 1861, and is the 

oldest living native of the town of Burnet where he has lived for many years. Mr. 

Magill has spent his entire business career in the cattle industry and has a fine ranch 

where he raises blooded Jersey and Hereford cattle which he sells locally and ships to 

Fort Worth. During the early days of the industry before the coming of railway 

transportation, Mr. Magill made numerous trips over the trail to sell cattle in Wyoming, 

Utah, New Mexico, Colorado and Nebraska. Mr. Magill’s parents, W. H. Magill and 

Elizabeth (Hedrick) Magill, were both natives of Kentucky.



In 1907 Mr. Magill was married to Miss Della Nichols, a native of DeWitt County and a 

daughter of L. Nichols, formerly a resident of Mississippi who came to Texas many years 

ago and was a well known planter and rancher in DeWitt County. The children of Mr. and 

Mrs. Magill are Zuma, Kyle, Edward, Winston and Katie Mae Magill.



Mr. Magill has been interested in many civic activities in Burnet County and served for 

four years as a member of the school board at Spring Creek. He is a member of the Old 

Trail Drivers Association and in religious life a communicant of the Methodist Church.