He was a prominent area physician and a veteran of the Union Army .
Emerging from a number of small , rural settlements along the Cotton Belt Route , Colleyville was originally known as Bransford when Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley settled there in 1880 .
Lilburn Howard Colley was a prominent Dr.   and a veteran of the Union Army .
Emerging from a number of small , rural settlements along the Cotton Belt Route , Colleyville was originally known as Bransford when Dr. Lilburn Howard Colley settled there in 1880 .