Jack County, TX - Obituaries - L.H. Bryant ************************************************************************************* This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************************* The Jacksboro Gazette Thursday, December 4, 1924 L.H. Bryant of Jacksboro, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.C. Hart of Athens, 27 November 1924, after suffering from a stroke of paralysis. Funeral services conducted in Athens by the Masonic Lodge. Mr. Bryant was for many years one of the leading educators of Texas. His residence in Jacksboro dates from about 1890 when he accepted the presidency of the North Texas Baptist College, also professor of mathematics and was connected with the institution in various capacities until it was disbanded. He later served as county superintendent. Many of the leading men and women of the state were numbered among his pupils. Mr. Bryant was a member of the First Baptist Church and the Masonic Lodge. Survived by Mrs. Bryant, son Ð Victor; 2 daughters Ð Mrs. Jess Robinson of Jacksboro and Mrs. A.C. Hart of Athens. The Jacksboro Gazette Thursday, December 11, 1924 Professor L.H. Bryant is Called by Death By F.S. Groner in Baptist Standard Professor L.H. Bryant, who spent a great part of his life at Athens and Jacksboro, was one of the leading educators of north Texas. His parents moved to Texas when he was only three months old, and he, therefore, regarded himself as a native Texan. He served in the Confederate army, all of his service being within the confines of Texas. He was reared with Governor Hogg, Horace Chilton and John H. Reagan, and knew these three celebrities personally and intimately. In speaking of them, he always called them by their given names. He was so personally acquainted with R.C. Burleson and Sam Houston, and was as noble and faithful Roman as any of these though in a less conspicuous way. He lived to a ripe old age. He would have been 84 years old 22 December 1924. Professor Bryant was one of the most thorough scholars of his time, in Texas, and it is probably not too much to say that he did not have a superior in Texas as a mathematician. I have heard some of the most notable educators certify that he was unsurpassed in his specialty, which was mathematics. One of the greatest things about the life and career of L.H. Bryant was his personal integrity and sublime Christian character, and the high motives which he instilled in those who came under his tutelage as a teacher. He taught a number of years in Athens and other east Texas towns, and was later connected with the old North Texas Baptist College at Jacksboro. He began with that institution as professor of mathematics, and was president of North Texas Baptist College the last two years of its existence. The writer delights to honor Professor Bryant as a personal friend and benefactor. It became my duty to have a part in the funeral service with Pastor M.L. Fuller at Athens, 28 November 1924 and it was indeed a solemn and withal a sad duty. Few individuals have meant more to my life than this great and true man and stalwart Christian preceptor. Some of the most useful and conspicuous men in public life today, in Texas, and adjacent states, were at one time pupils of Professor Bryant. I think of Senator Faulk of Athens, Judge John P. Simpson of Jacksboro; Superintendent L.Z. Timmons of Throckmorton, T.J. McComb, insurance and banking commissioner of Oklahoma; Justice Walter Hays of the Supreme Court of Oklahoma; Judge Robert A. Hefner and Lewis Johnson, prominent attorneys and capitalists of Ardmore; Dr. and Mrs. Hal F. Buckner of Dallas, Rev. R.E.L. Farmer, one of the noblest Texas preachers and at one time president of Wayland College, now deceased and his wife; W.H. Vance!, prominent business man of El Paso; and his wife. At the funeral at Athens, Senator Faulk made one statement that correctly epitomized the life of L.H. Bryant when he said, ÒProfessor Bryant was a success in the truest sense of the word. No man ever more truly invested his life in the building of character in other lives than did this great and true Christian and scholarly gentleman.Ó He died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A.C. Hart of Athens, who he leaves to mourn his departure along with another daughter, Mrs. Jesse Robinson of Jacksboro; a son Ð V.H. Bryant of Oklahoma.