The obituary for Mr. Peter Lawless Tuesday June 30, 1931 The Austin American
Funeral service for Pioneer will be held Tuesday.
Railroad man who came here in 1872 due to taken by death.
Funeral services for the late Colonel Peter J Lawless. 80, who died early Monday morning in a local hospital, will be held at St Mary’s Catholic Church at 4:00 PM Tuesday. His internment will be at Oakwood Cemetery.
He came to Austin in 1872 before the International and Great Northern started operating. Here and served that company for 50 years. Half a century before he retired in 1922.
Ticket agent in 1872.
Austin was a small village in the days when Colonel Lawless first began working for the railroad company. He saw Austin grow from a small town to a city of. 53,000 persons. At his death, he was still in a railroad employee being Secretary treasurer of the Austin Dam and Suburban Railroad, a subsidiary of the International and Great Northern.
From 1873 to 1874, Mister Lawless served as the ticket agent here for the. Railroad. He came to Texas from Boston ahead of the extension of the INGN Railroad. To Austin.
Lived always at Driskill.
During the period from 1880 to 1930 Mr Lawless served as ticket agent. He was the ticket agent for three railroads that operated in Austin. These were the Houston and Texas Central, the International and Great Northern, and the Austin Northwestern Railroad. The latter. Being acquired later by the Houston and Texas Central.
When the Driskell was first opened here in 1886, Mr Lawless was a guest. He resided there throughout the years up to the time of his death. Following his retirement from the service of the railroad, Mr Lawless devoted most of his time to his real estate holdings here. The lawless edition in the northwestern part of the city was named for him. He recently sold the city a large tract of land for the proposed Shoal Creek Boulevard.
Horace Booth of Houston General traffic agent for the Missouri Pacific Lines in Texas, arrived Monday afternoon for the funeral. Mr Booth and Colonel Lawless were a lifetime friends. Mr Booth will represent the railroad company at the funeral here on Tuesday.
Mr Lawless was unmarried and had no relatives surviving him. His only sister died a few months ago. At the time of his death, he was the director in the Austin National Bank and a member of the Austin Elks Lodge, serving the latter organization as its first ruler.
