Year 1300 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar, the 1300th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 300th year of the 2nd millennium, the 100th and last year of the 13th century, and the 1st year of the 1300s decade. The year 1300 was not a leap year in the Proleptic Gregorian calendar

James M. Mobberly 1841-1917. James "Jim" W. Mobberly was born in 1841 in Kentucky.At the beginning of the Civil War, Jim joined a Confederate cavalry unit. During war, the future hotel operator was arrested and sent to a prisoner-of-war camp in Rock Island, Illinois.After escaping to Canada, Jim and other family members moved to Texas in 1868. He constructed a lumber …