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| | Handbook of Texas Online: JESTER, GEORGE TAYLOR |
 | | George Taylor Jester, businessman, banker, and lieutenant governor of Texas, was born in Macoupin County, Illinois, on August 23, 1847, to Levi and Diadema Jester. |
 | | Jester was also one of five citizens to subscribe $5,000 to the campaign to build the Corsicana YMCA and one of the founders of Southern Methodist University. |
 | | Jester died in 1875, and in 1880 Jester married Frances P. Gordon of Aberdeen, Mississippi. |
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