Jesse Wade Briscoe Howe papers, 1851-1920, (1862-1907).

Daughters of the Republic of Texas

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Looscan, Adele Briscoe, 1848-1935

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The Adele Looscan Texana Collection was derived from documents located in the Adele Briscoe Looscan Collection which could not be directly related to a specific group of records. The previous arrangement of the original collection, chronological without regard to creator or series, destroyed any provenance which may have indicated the original order of the documents. The Adele Looscan Texana Collection holds documents with no identifiable relationship to members of the Harris-Briscoe-Looscan fam...

Bringhurst, Nettie Houston,

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Howe, Jesse Briscoe, 1845-1920

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Jessie Wade Briscoe, the eldest daughter of Mary Jane Harris Briscoe and Andrew Briscoe, was born in 1845 in Harrisburg, Texas. She married Milton Grovesnor Howe, a civil engineer and Civil War veteran, in 1873. Their son, Joseph Milton Howe, was born in 1874. They resided in Houston and traveled extensively. In 1901 Milton G. Howe was appointed a director of the American Society of Civil Engineers. He died in 1902. Jesse was an active member of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, the Daught...

Briscoe, Parmenas, 1839-1906

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Parmenas Briscoe, the eldest son of Mary Jane Harris Briscoe and Andrew Briscoe, was born in 1839 in Houston, Texas. Parmenas served in Company 1, 2nd Battalion of the Infantry of Waul's Texas Legion during the Civil War. He ran a sawmill, worked briefly as an agent with Houston East and West Texas Rail Road, and clerked in the Harris County Clerk's office. As the eldest male in the family, Parmenas handled the legal and financial transactions for his immediate and extended family. He died in hi...

Kleinpeter, Thomas,

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De Zavala, Adina, 1861-1955

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Adina de Zavala was instrumental in saving the Alamo from destruction in the early twentieth century. She is the author of a book and several pamphlets about the Alamo. From the description of Papers, 1878-1963. (University of Texas at Arlington). WorldCat record id: 29870168 Adina Emilia DeZavala was instrumental in preserving many of Texas' historical landmarks and documenting her family's experiences in the Republic of Texas. She was involved with the Daughters of the Rep...

Howe, Milton Grovesnor, d. 1902

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Briscoe, Andrew Birdsall, 1841-1912

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Andrew Birdsall Briscoe "Brits" was born in Harrisburg, Texas, in 1841, the second son of Andrew Briscoe and Mary Jane Harris. After his father's death in 1849, he lived with his mother and siblings for a time on his grandfather's plantation near Port Gibson, Mississippi. In 1852 Mary Jane and her children returned to Texas, living in Anderson, Galveston, and Harrisburg. During the Civil War, Briscoe saw action as a member of Terry's Texas Rangers. In 1871 he married Annie Payne and they had fou...