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- The Dallas Morning News
November 28, 1927
D.C. Giddings, Capitalist and Banker, Dead
Succumbs at Home in Brenham Sunday Morning
Special to the News
Brenham, Texas, November 27 - D.C. Giddings, banker, capitalist, planter, member of one of the most distinguished old families of Texas, died at his home in Brenham Sunday morning at 11 o’clock, aged 64 years. For the last nine weeks he had suffered intensely from injuries received in an automobile accident, and in the last few days complications developed which resulted in his death.
Mr. Giddings was born in Brenham January 27, 1863, on the same spot where the handsome Giddings home now stands. He was a son of the late Colonel D.C. Giddings and Malinda C. Lusk Giddings; was educated at the Brenham public schools, the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, of which he was one of the first students, and the University of Virginia.
In 1881, when 18 years of age, he became associated with his father and uncle in the banking house of Giddings & Giddings, the oldest bank in this section of Texas, and at the time of his death was still the active head of the bank established in 1866 by J.D. and D.C. Giddings.
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Bassett Family Association Database
d. 27 Nov 1927, Washington County, Texas