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|death_place = San Antonio, Texas |spouse = Mary Elizabeth Shearn |children = 9 |residence = Houston, Texas |profession = Businessman }} Thomas William House, Sr. (1814–1880) was a merchant and cotton factor in Houston, Texas. He also invested in and organized transportation and utility companies in the Houston area. He was a veteran of the Texas Revolution and provided financial assistance to the Confederacy during the American Civil War.〔Handbook of Texas Online, s.v. "House, Thomas William" http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/HH/fho68.html (accessed July 9, 2010).〕 He was mayor of Houston, Texas in 1862.〔David G. McComb, Houston: The Bayou City (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1969; rev. ed., Houston: A History, 1981).〕 ==Early life== House was born on March 4,〔 1814 in Stoke St Gregory, Somerset, England. His family are likely to have been of Anglo-Saxon, or possibly Norse origin (from the Old English and Old Norse ''hūs'').〔 In May 1835, House emigrated to New York City. There, he became a successful pastry maker. In 1836, House accepted an invitation from the owner of the St. Charles Hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana to run the bakery at the hotel.〔 In 1836, he moved to Texas to fight in the Revolution against Mexico. He was rewarded with a land grant in Coryell County and, in 1838, he opened his own bakery, House and Loveridge in Houston, Texas. The store produced and sold Houston's first ice cream, and the store became the leading store in Houston.〔 The next year, he obtained another partner in the form of Charles Shearn, later the chief justice of Harris County.〔 House fell in love with Shearn's daughter Mary Elizabeth, and in 1840 they married. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Thomas William House, Sr.」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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