Mary Jane Harris Briscoe and Adele Lubbock Briscoe Looscan Papers, 1886, [1904?]
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Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe, 1848-1935
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Born at Sainte Genevieve, Missouri, Mary Jane Harris (1819-1903) was educated in New York before moving to Harrisburg, Texas, to join her family. In 1837, she married Andrew J. Briscoe, a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence. The couple had five children, including Adele Lubbock Briscoe (1848-1935) who married Confederate officer and lawyer Michael Looscan in 1881. In 1885, Adele organized the Ladies Reading Club of Houston, which would become a model for similar study cl...
Ladies Reading Club of Houston (Tex.)
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Briscoe, Mary Jane Harris, 1819-1903
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Mary Jane Harris was born August 17, 1819, to John Richardson and Jane Birdsall Harris. She married Andrew Briscoe in 1837 in Texas. After Andrew's death in 1849, Mary Jane and her 4 children moved to her father-in-law's plantation in Mississippi. In 1852 she returned to Texas. She was a charter member of the Ladies' Reading Club, the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, and the Texas State Historical Association. She was active in the Texas Veterans Association. Mary Jane Harris Briscoe died Mar...
Long, Jane Herbert Wilkinson, 1798-1880
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