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Charles August Albert Dellschau (4 June 1830 Brandenburg, Prussia – 20 April 1923 Houston, Texas) was a Prussian-American who gained posthumous fame after the discovery of his large scrapbooks that contained drawings, collages and watercolors of airplanes and airships. He has been classified as one of the first visionary artists. [1]
Margaret Hadley Foster (May 18, 1843 – January 13, 1920) was a journalist and clubwoman, known for being Houston's first paid librarian. [1] [2]The Lyceum had been a private men's reading club which voted to admit women in 1887. [3]
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Grave marker for Adele Briscoe Looscan, Glenwood Cemetery, Houston. Looscan died in Houston on November 23, 1935, and was interred at Glenwood Cemetery. [1] She donated an extensive collection of Texas history books to the Houston Public Library and the Looscan Neighborhood Library in Houston is named in her honor.
City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1910 is a 1983 non-fiction book by Harold L. Platt, published by Temple University Press. It is the second book of the publisher's "Technology and Urban Growth" series, which debuted in 1980. [ 1 ]
Houston: A History. Austin: University of Texas Press. ISBN 0-292-73020-9. Muir, Andrew Forest (July 1960). "Railroads Come to Houston 1857–1861". The Southwestern Historical Quarterly. 64 (1): 42–63. JSTOR 30240901. Platt, Harold L. (1983). City Building in the New South: The Growth of Public Services in Houston, Texas, 1830-1915.
April 21, 1836 – Battle of San Jacinto: Mexican forces under General Santa Anna are defeated in a battle lasting 18 minutes by the San Jacinto River, Texas. (General Houston is wounded during the battle, and is later relieved of command by interim President David G. Burnet. This action enables Houston to recover from his wounds.)
Leighton Schubert, state representative from Caldwell, Texas; former Houston resident [53] Jim Sharp, state court judge, 2009–2014; Stephen Susman (1941–2020), plaintiffs attorney and a founding partner of Susman Godfrey; Sylvester Turner, 62nd Mayor of Houston; Kathryn J. Whitmire, first female Mayor of Houston; served five terms