Leigh Burleson. One of the ablest and best known lawyers of west central Texas is Leigh Burleson, who was admitted to the bar in this state forty years ago, and since 1876 has had his home and professional and business relations with San Saba. While Mr. Burleson ranks as one of the pioneer residents and lawyers of San Saba county, his prestige does not consist entirely in this long security of position, but on his forceful ability in the every-day work of his profession, and out of the richness of his experience and his broad knowledge he has become one of -the most successful members of the profession. Leigh Burleson was born in Washington county, Texas, in 1847, and is a son of Richard and Sallie (Leigh) Burleson. The Burleson family in Texas is too well known to require extended comment. General Edward Burleson, a cousin of the San Saba lawyer's grandfather, succeeded Stephen Austin in command of the Texas army, at the siege of San Antonio, in 1835, and was subsequently eminent in the military and civil affairs of the Texas Republic. Burleson county was named in honor of that noted Texan. An uncle of Leigh Burleson was Dr. Rufus Burleson, famous as an educator, the founder and for many years president of Baylor University, at Waco. The present postmaster general in President Wilson's cabinet, Albert Ed. Burleson, is a grandson of the General Edward Burleson above mentioned. Richard and Sallie Burleson, parents of the San Saba lawyer, were natives of northern Alabama, settled in Texas in Washington county, during the pioneer days, and finally moved north to McLennan county. Mr. Leigh Burleson was reared in McLennan county and from the common schools entered the old Waco University, subsequently Baylor University. After leaving college he studied law in the office of Coke, Herring, and Anderson, of Waco, one of the best known law firms of Texas, in their time. The first three years after his admission to the bar were spent in Waco, and in 1876 he moved to San Saba on account of failing health. Instead of practicing law, he lived the life of the out of doors, and owned and conducted a fine ranch at the mouth of Brady Creek, twenty miles west of San Saba. After getting fully restored in body and mind, he sold his ranch, and has since been continuously identified with his profession in San Saba. Mr. Burleson, while devoting himself Jealously to the law, has acquired numerous interests which are strictly outside his profession, and has never been known to neglect an opportunity to forward the material development of his favored section of the great Lone Star State. He took a leading part in the securing of adequate railroad facilities for San Saba county, and was attorney for the company, and otherwise instrumental in promoting the great projects undertaken by the San Saba River Irrigation Company, which was organized in 1909, succeeding a corporation which had undertaken the development of an irrigation and power plant on the San Saba River in 1892. Mr. Burleson's wife before her marriage was Bee Moore. Her father, Woods Moore, was one of the pioneers of Bastrop county. Her brother, James Moore, is a prominent business man of Galveston, and the Moore family has long been active in business and civic affairs in this state. The five children of Mr. and Mrs. Burleson are mentioned as follows: Russell Burleson, a banker at San Saba; Lieutenant Richard Burleson, a graduate of West Point, and serving with the rank of captain, in the United States army; Worth Burleson, a Waco business man; and Wade Burleson; and Mrs. Mary Leigh Price. Uriel T. Chamberlain Uriel T. Chamberlain, deputy sheriff of San Saba county, and a resident of San Saba since 1886, is, without exception, the most widely known man in the limits of the county. In his capacity as deputy sheriff for the past twenty-six years, he has had opportunities to extend his acquaintance that are given to few men in private life, and in addition to his wide acquaintance, he has a prominence and popularity among his fellows that gives him added standing in his territory. Born in the vicinity of Austin, on December 6, 1849, he is the son of Samuel W. and Margaret Anna Chamberlain. Samuel W. Chamberlain was a native of the state of Missouri, born there in 1827, and he settled in Travis county at an early date, taking his place as one of the pioneers of the county. He served as a volunteer in the Confederate army, but was discharged from the service owing to ill health prior to the close of the war. He died on June 3, 1866, and the mother followed him in October, 1876. The children of these parents numbered three. Uriel was the eldest of the trio; the second born. was a daughter, now Mrs. W. G. Thomas, living in Stonewall county, Texas; and S. S. Chamberlain, who passed his life in this county as a farmer, and who died on December 24, 1912. His widow still resides in the county. Uriel T. Chamberlain received his preliminary education from the private schools of his vicinity, and he left off his studies at an early age to engage in independent work. His first work was farming in San Saba county, and he was thus occupied with more or less success until his election to the office of justice of the peace in 1886. Two years later he moved to San Saba, the county seat, upon his election to the office of deputy sheriff of the county, a position he has since continued to hold, in season and out of season, his service covering a period of twenty-six years in all. He has given a most praiseworthy service in his office, and his biennial return to the post is a commentary upon his work that is more speaking than the most wordy eulogy might be. For two years Mr. Chamberlain was a member of the Texas Rangers, and in 1871 was in a battle with the Indians in Lampasas county. They secured the scalp of one Indian in the melee. Mr. Chamberlain has always taken an active part in Democratic politics and has performed worthy service in the interests of the party in the years of his residence here. He is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows and of the Cumberland Presbyterian church. On May 13, 1869, Mr. Chamberlain was married to Miss F. L. Williamson, of West Williamson county, near Liberty Hill, and a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Williamson. The father was county surveyor of Burnet county for a number of years, and he died in about 1900. He served throughout the war in the Seventeenth Texas Begiment in the Confederate army, and was in a great many of the severest battles of the war. The mother of Mrs. Chamberlain died in 1906. Mr. and Mrs. Chamberlain have seven children, four daughters and three sons making up the number. They are briefly mentioned here, as follows: Mrs. Alta B. Conway, living in the vicinity of Houston, where they are engaged in farming; Henry S. Chamberlain, of Arizona, located at San Simon in the mercantile business; J. D. Chamberlain, a mechanic living at Brownwood, Texas; Mrs. Hol- lis Sweeney, living at San Simon, Arizona, where her husband is engaged in farming; Frank Chamberlain, who lives in San Saba, where he is employed as a mail carrier on a free delivery route; Miss Mary Chamberlain, living at home with her parents; and Bertha B. Maxwell, living in Oklahoma, her husband being deputy tax collector for his district and a prosperous farmer. The Chamberlain family is one that is well known in Tennessee, where many of the name still reside, and where they were for several generations prominent slaveholders and operators of mammoth plantations. They are of English extraction and ancestry, who became identified with this country in Colonial days, and who have played worthy parts in the development and upbuilding of the country from then until now, in whatever locations they chanced to find themselves. Good citizenship has long been a dominant characteristic of the family, and they have added their full quota to the good works of their various communities in all generations.   Polk Morgan Faver. One of the well-established and prosperous lawyers of San Saba is Polk Morgan Faver, who has conducted a private practice here since 1891, the year in which he gained his degree. He has controlled a generous share in the legal work of the city and county, and, in addition to his private interests, has served in 1892 and 1893 as county attorney, a post in which he gave an excellent account of himself in the administration of the legal affairs of the county. He has advanced in the public eye with each succeeding year, and his popularity is not one of mushroom growth, but the solid and dependable outcome of years of careful attention to business in his chosen community. Mr. Faver is a native son of Texas, born on February 19, 1863, in Williamson county, and his parents were William N. and Mary Ann (Oliver) Faver, both of whom were formerly from Alabama, and who came to Texas in about 1852, settling in Guadalupe. They were pioneers of that county, and were prominent in the stock raising business. The Favers are of French ancestry, while the Olivers claim Scotch blood and ancestry for theirs. Both families were of the representative class of slave holders in their native state. In about 1858 William and Mary Ann Faver came to Williamson county, Texas, continuing there in the farming and stock business in comparative success until 1866, when they moved to Bastrop county, Texas, and in November, 1872, they made their final move, locating in San Saba county. Here they continued in the vocation they had formerly pursued, and they were active in that business in the days when grass was yet free and when the Indians might be depended upon to pay unsolicited attention to herds in the night time, unless carefully looked after. They continued there in active life until the father died in 1904, the death of the wife and mother following in 1908. Mrs. Faver, it should be stated, was twice married, and when she joined fortunes with Mr. Faver, she was a Mrs. Weems and the mother of four children. Mr. Faver was also the father of five children by a former wife, and five children were born of their marriage, so that a large family of fourteen children were reared in the Faver home. Polk Morgan Faver of this review was the youngest boy of the children of his parents. In the log school houses of the country district, Polk Morgan Faver gained his early education. He later attended a private school in Taylor for one year, the years 1885 and 1886 being spent in the San Saba College. He then took up the study of law in the offices of Burleson & Harris in San Saba, Texas, and so well did he push his studies that in 1891 he was admitted to the bar, and he has since carried on a thriving legal practice in San Saba. Mr. Faver has been a stanch Democrat all his days and he has performed a deal of worthy work in the best interests of the party, though being without political ambition on his own part. A member of the Woodmen of the World, he maintains no other fraternal relations, and is a member of the Methodist Episcopal church. On November 10, 1889, Mr. Faver was married to Miss Katie Brown of San Saba, a daughter of Asa Brown and his wife. Mrs. Mary Brown, a native son of Texas, was for years well known to the stock raisers of his district as one of them. He was a soldier of the Confederacy, and he died in about 1889, while the mother is still living in San Saba county. Five children were born to Mr. and Mrs. Faver, two daughters and three sons. Mary Gregg, the eldest, is aged twenty-one years; Walter A. is aged eighteen; Alton Bain, thirteen years old; Lloyd O., aged ten; and Alice Lee is six years of age. Like all native born Texans, Mr. Faver is highly enthusiastic in regard to the advantages and opportunities Texas offers. He advocates the mild and semi-tropical climate as suited to any form of agriculture, while its healthful properties may not be gainsaid by any one. He regards the state as the world of opportunity for the poor man, provided he has a fund of ambition and energy, and never hesitates to furnish information to any desiring an intimate and inside knowledge of conditions in the state. It is to such men as he, enthusiastic and open minded, and possessing every quality that makes for the best citizenship, that Texas is indebted for her phenomenal development in the last quarter century, for they have not been content to merely prosper, but have been bent upon seeing their fellow men enjoy the same blessings that have been theirs. S. W. Rimmer, M. D. When Dr. S. W. Rimmer concluded his medical studies in 1890, winning his M. D. degree at that time, he launched out in independent practice in San Saba, and here he has continued to reside ever since. His work has broadened out with each succeeding year, so that he has long held an exceptionally fine reputation for medical and surgical skill in the county, and his practice is a lucrative and extensive one. Born in Jefferson county, east Tennessee, on January 28, 1864, Dr. Rimmer is a son of Alexander Rimmer, a stock farmer of Tennessee, who continued in that work in his native state until death claimed him in 1904. Twelve children were born into the Rimmer home, six of either sex. There are nine of the number living today, and the doctor was the fifth born in the family. On the day of his birth, General Longstreet had his headquarters on the farm of the doctor's father, and two days later one of the hottest battles of the war was fought on the farm. S. W. Rimmer gained his early education in the public schools of Tennessee, and then attended Carson Newman College in Jefferson county, Tennessee. He followed that with a course of medical training in the University of Chicago and the Kentucky School of Medicine, in Louisville, Kentucky, and on June 20, 1890, was graduated from the latter institution with his well-earned degree of M. D. His first practice was in San Saba, where he has continued without cessation to the present time. His practice has been an ever-increasing one, and he is prominent and popular throughout the county, with a most excellent standing in the medical fraternity. Dr. Rimmer has served as county health physician for several terms, and is at present the incumbent of that office, to which he has brought a high order of service and one that has resulted in much of good to the general public health. The doctor is a Republican in matters of national politics, and in 1904 he was a delegate to the National Convention in Chicago, in that year taking a post-graduate course in medicine and surgery at the Post Graduate School of Chicago, getting a post-graduate degree. Fraternally Dr. Rimmer has membership in the Masonic order, in the Knights Templar degree, and he is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows. He has filled a number of offices in Masonic circles and is now past high priest. A Baptist, he has long been a member of that body, and is a deacon of the church. On June 25, 1890, Dr. Rimmer was married in Morristown, Tennessee, to Miss Jennie Bewley, a daughter of Captain W. S. Bewley, who was an officer in the Federal army, and passed through the war with that rank. He died in 1895 at his home in Tennessee. Three daughters have been born to the Doctor and his wife: Mrs. Mayme Lou Riley was born in August, 1891; Jennie Beula "was born in May, 1894; and Miss Sammie Lee was born in May, 1909. The eldest daughter, married to A. V. Riley, is a resident of Bertram, Texas, but is living now in San Saba. Mr. Riley is engaged in the wholesale handling of cedar posts. Dr. Rimmer in his paternal ancestry is Irish, while on the maternal side he is of Scotch blood, the Whitefields having come to America in the early days of the new Republic, settling in North Carolina. Later they moved into Tennessee, and there are to be found today many of the name, all of whom have proved valuable citizens in their respective communities—good citizenship being a dominant characteristic of the family.