Details for Pleasant Williams Kittrell

Historical Marker — Atlas Number 5471012280

Data

Marker Number 12280
Atlas Number 5471012280
Marker Title Pleasant Williams Kittrell
Index Entry Kittrell, Pleasant Williams
Address
City Huntsville
County Walker
UTM Zone
UTM Easting
UTM Northing
Subject Codes educational topics; state official; medical topics and health professionals
Marker Year 1997
Recorded Texas Historic Landmark No
Marker Location Oakwood Cemetery, 9th and Ave. I
Private Property No
Marker Condition In Situ
Marker Size 18" x 28"
Marker Text (April 13, 1805 - September 29, 1867) Doctor Pleasant Williams Kittrell, a statesman in North Carolina and Alabama, moved with his family to Texas in 1850. While serving two terms in the Texas Legislature, the doctor authored the bill to establish the University of Texas. Though the bill was signed in 1858, the university's opening was delayed until 1883. At home in Huntsville, Kittrell managed his extensive land holdings and practiced medicine. He treated area victims of the 1867 yellow fever epidemic until he himself succumbed to the disease. Kittrell is buried near his good friends Sam Houston (in whose former home Kittrell died) and historian Henderson Yoakum. (1998)

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