The Williamson Museum reaches tens of thousands of residents, students, and visitors each year, striving to meet our mission of promoting the heritage of Williamson County through education, preservation, acquisition and exhibition. Sharing the stories of our past through this book allows us to reach even more.

We encourage business owners and families to participate in this fundraising effort by memorializing your own valuable contribution to the county’s rich heritage. With your help, we can help everyone discover the stories of Williamson County!

Mickie RossExecutive Director

Memorialize your company’s legacy, and be part of The Williamson Museum’s mission to promote and relate the rich culture and heritage of Williamson County!

“As the current Mayor of Georgetown, I have a front row seat to the history being made each day in Georgetown and Williamson County, Texas. I en-courage everyone to support the Williamson Muse-um’s effort to memorialize events over the last 170 years that have made Georgetown and Williamson County the special place we call home.

Dale Ross Mayor of Georgetown

“This is a great way to help our museum continue to build upon what is already an impressive resume. We must take time to catalog important moments in our history, and this is a great way to showcase them.

I advocate participation by all.

Judge Bill Gravell Justice of the Peace

Williamson County Pct. 3

“Being a part of some of the fastest growth ever in the state of Texas, I look forward to this collection of Williamson County history. It will be nice to see our evolution and growth in print; even better, this proj-ect provides support for the Williamson Museum and its continuing efforts to preserve and showcase our past and present.

Mike RobinsonMayor of Round Rock 1984-93

“As your Sheriff, I enjoy revisiting the storied history of law en-forcement in Williamson County. This project will magnify our ability to look back and see where we came from, where we’ve been, and will even offer a glimpse into the future. I strongly encourage support

from all for this worthy endeavor.

Robert ChodyWilliamson County Sheriff

“I wholeheartedly endorse this effort to introduce a new generation to the stories and colorful characters of our wonderful county’s history. This is an effort that all of our coun-ty’s citizens and businesses should unite behind.

Pete Correa, Executive Assistant Williamson County Commissioner Pct. 4

“Fidelis Publishing Group is pro-ducing a ‘moving time capsule’ for the Williamson Museum. The vol-ume will transport museum visitors and the many students the museum serves back through time and throughout Williamson County, giving them a You-Are-There experience. I strongly encourage you to join Fidelis as a sponsor and honor the Williamson Museum’s reputation for teaching history, preaching the Texas story, and reaching every generation.

Steve Fought, PhD Georgetown City Councilman

Williamson County, Texas has a fascinating history, replete with colorful characters and interesting events. Wilco-pedia is a full-color, hardcover, keepsake book to honor that history and the County’s 170th anniversary.

This volume will be an exquisite and definitive resource in the telling and illustra-tion of stories that have made our home one of the most desirable locations in the nation to live, work and raise a family.

Wilco-pedia is the first historical digest produced in association with and to raise money for the Williamson Museum, the very repository of history in our county.

Scheduled for publication in March 2019, Wilco-pedia will boast more than 200 pages of short and entertaining narratives of the people, places and events that define our county’s rich history and character.

Content will blend stories beginning in the 1830s—when the groundwork was being laid, not just for the future Williamson County, but for Texas itself—to the panorama of 2018. Full-color pages will feature historic and current photos, and messages from local businesses.

Wilco-pedia is your opportunity to showcase your company’s legacy and contri-butions to the people of Williamson County.

Whether you’ve been in business for a century or more, or newly arrived to be a part of the amazing growth, we are certain you will find value in sharing your story.

We will partner with you to create a page that will blend with the historical look and feel of the book, taking its longevity into account. In lieu of promoting your latest special or sale, we want to know how your company broke ground on new industry or policy, or how your growth changed the landscape of local business, government, education or employ-ment.

For example... Our company was the first in Taylor to have an automated press.

We are so proud to have been the first company in Leander to adopt a Veteran hiring policy.

The CFO was an early adopter of online shopping, which brought tourists to Liberty Hill once they saw our products online.

This dealership has been in Williamson County since 1934. One of our cars made the ceremonial first drive on Route 29.

It has been our pleasure to provide [product/service] to the people of George-town for the past 30 years and we were thrilled to open a second store in 2016 to serve the residents of Jarrell.

Memorialize your company’s place in our county’s heritage

DAN MOODY

THE 1923 KKK TRIALS

Fights BackDan Moody, the youngest-ever elect-ed governor of Texas, was born at Taylor June 1, 1893, the son of Daniel James and Nannie Elizabeth (Robertson) Moody. He graduated from Taylor High School and attended the University of Texas from 1910 to 1914, taking law courses during the last two years. He was admitted to the bar in 1914 and began practice in Tay-lor with Harris Melasky. His early career was interrupted by service in World War I, during which he served as second lieu-tenant and captain in the Texas Nation-al Guard and second lieutenant in the

United States Army. He returned to his practice after the war and in 1920 entered upon a period of public service. He was the youngest elected to several successive public offices: county attorney of William-son County, 1920–22; district attorney of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District, 1922–25; attorney general of Texas, 1925–27; and governor of Texas, elected for two terms, 1927–31.

You CAN Do that, Dan MoodyDuring his term as district attorney of the Twenty-sixth Judicial District, which included Williamson and Travis coun-

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ties, at the peak of Ku Klux Klan agitation, he prosecuted a group for criminal activi-ties allegedly connected with the Klan and sent some of them to prison. He achieved statewide recognition for these prosecutions and, despite Klan opposition, was elect-ed attorney general at the start of the first administration of Governor Miriam A. Ferguson. State highway-contract scandals developed within a few months, and the attorney general prosecuted cases to set aside “unconscionable” highway contracts. After these cases were won, he became the likely candidate to oppose Mrs. Ferguson when she sought a second term. The campaign has been characterized as one of the most spectacular in Texas history. Moody’s platform supported prohibition, wom-an suffrage,and other anti-Ferguson positions. After winning the first 1926 primary with 49.9 percent of the vote, Moody defeated Ferguson 495,723 to 270,595 in a run-off. He won renomination for the governorship in the first Democratic primary of 1928 with a clear majority. In the presidential campaign of 1928 the state Democratic party was rent with dissent on the prohibition and Catholic issues. Despite Gover-

nor Moody’s appeals for sup-port of the Democratic slate from top to bottom, Herbert Hoover won Texas.

Governor MoodyAs governor, Moody pur-

sued a strong reform program. He halted a liberal convict-par-don policy initiated by the Fer-gusons; he also inaugurated a reorganization of prison man-agement. He instituted a com-plete reorganization of the state highway system, including a program for a connected net-work of roads; the cost of high-ways was cut by almost half from that under the Ferguson administration. The office of state auditor and the auditing of state accounts were begun during his administration. Al-though his proposals were in accord with the thought of the progressive forces of his time, he was not successful in chang-es he proposed in the Constitu-tion and laws, such as a strong civil service law, the reorgani-

zation of the state government, the authorization of the governor to appoint executive officers elected under the Constitution of 1876, and constitutional change to permit the legislature to enact laws separating the subjects of taxation. He also wanted to relocate all state prison properties in a central penal colony near Austin.

In 1931, when he retired from the governorship, he remained in Austin and again en-tered private law practice. At the request of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935, he served as special assistant to the United States attorney general, in charge of prosecuting income-tax-evasion cases in Louisiana. He represented Texas in State of Texas v. New Mexico, a boundary dispute, and represented the governor of Texas in cases involving the right of the governor to declare martial law in the mid-1930s. He last entered active politics in the primary of 1942 as a candidate for the United States Senate against former governors W. Lee O’Daniel and James Allred. Moody came in third in the race. It was his only political defeat.

He became a recognized leader of opposition to the New Deal and the renomination of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1944. Although most of the conservative “Texas Regular” delegates in the convention walked out, Moody, an organizer of this anti-Roo-sevelt movement, did not. He stayed on and cast half of the Texas nominating votes for a conservative presidential aspirant; then he stayed within the Democratic party in the general election. He represented former Governor Coke R. Stevenson in his unsuccessful legal challenge to Lyndon B. Johnson’s narrow victory over Stevenson in the controver-sial 1948 United States Senate election. Although a Democrat, he supported Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower for president in 1952 and 1956 and Republican Richard M. Nixon in 1960.

Moody served on numerous committees of the State Bar of Texas. One that he chaired was the special committee to study all phases of the lawyer-client relationship when the lawyer is a member of the legislature. The University of Texas School of Law honored him in 1959 by dedicating its Law Day activities to him. He served as a trustee of the University of Texas Law School Foundation.

DAN MOODY MARRIED MILDRED PAXTON OF ABILENE

ON APRIL 20, 1926. THEY HAD TWO CHILDREN.

HE DIED MAY 22, 1966, IN AUSTIN AND WAS BURIED

IN THE STATE CEMETERY.

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