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Looscan, Adele B., 1848-1935


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    • Adele Lubbock Briscoe

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    • Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe, 1848-1935
    • Looscan, Adele Briscoe, 1848-1935
    • Briscoe, Adele Lubbock, 1848-1935

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    • Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe, 1848-1935

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    • found: NUCMC data from University of Mississippi, Dept. of Archives and Special Collections for David Ford collection of Civil War materials, 1863-1938(Adele Lubbock (Briscoe) Looscan; collection contains copy of her memoir of her mother, Mary Jane Briscoe)
    • found: Handbook of Texas online, Apr. 7, 2008(Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe; one of the founders of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas; b. Harrisburg, Tex., Feb. 5, 1848; d. in Houston, Tex., Nov. 23, 1935)
    • found: McLemore, Laura. Adele Briscoe Looscan, 2016:ECIP galley (variously referred to (prior to marriage) as Adele Briscoe and Adele Lubbock Briscoe; (after marriage) as Adele B. Looscan and Adele Lubbock Briscoe Looscan) introduction (longest-running and first woman president of the Texas State Historical Association; named in honor of Adele Baron, of New Orleans, the wife of Francis R. Lubbock, a close family friend and later Governor of Texas; involved in the controversy over use of the Alamo in San Antonio that split the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, after which she no longer associated herself with that group; called "a woman of her time, a combination of nineteenth-century tradition and twentieth-century progressivism") chapter 1 (family moved to New Orleans in early 1849; later that year her father died) chapter 2 (moved to grandfather's plantation in Claiborne County, Mississippi, in 1849; then returned to Texas, at first to Anderson (1852) and subsequently to Galveston (1856), Harrisburg (1859) and then to Houston (1861) to attend an elite girls' school and where she resided the rest of her life) chapter 6 (contacted pneumonia in late 1935 and died in her home in Houston)
    • found: OCLC, viewed September 15, 2015(access points: Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe, 1848-1935; Looscan, Adele B. (Adele Lubbock Briscoe); Looscan, Adele Briscoe, 1848-1935; Looscan, Adele B.; Looscan, Adele Briscoe; Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe; Looscan, Adele Lubbock (Briscoe), Mrs.; Looscan, Adele Lubbock (Briscoe), Mrs., 1848-1935; usage: Adele B. Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe Looscan, Adele Briscoe Looscan, Adele Looscan, Mrs. M. Looscan)
    • found: Handbook of Texas online, viewed September 15, 2015:article: Looscan, Adele Lubbock Briscoe, 1848-1935 (Texas clubwoman and writer; graduated from Miss Mary B. Brown's Young Ladies' School, Houston, TX, 1866; married Maj. Michael Looscan, Confederate officer, lawyer, and county attorney of Harris County, September 13, 1881; organized the Ladies Reading Club of Houston, 1885; chair of the executive board and one of the founders of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas; active in the Daughters of the American Revolution and the United Daughters of the Confederacy; charter member of Houston Pen Women, Texas Woman's Press Association, and the Texas State Historical Association (serving as its president, 1915-1925); author of numerous articles in historical journals and books, sometimes using the pen name "Texan"; after her husband died (1897) she moved to her mother's home (mother passed away in 1903); became an invalid in 1929 and died in Houston, November 23, 1935; buried in Glenwood Cemetery, Houston; her private library (1500 works), mostly related to Texas history, was donated to the Houston Public Library; in 1956, a branch library was named in her honor)
    • found: Houston Public Library, website, viewed September 16, 2015:Home > About HPL > Library's Named Buildings > Adele Briscoe Looscan Neighborhood Library (Looscan a descendant of both a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence and of a founding resident of Harris County; first president of the [Houston] City Federation of Women's Clubs; led the movement to establish a public library for the city of Houston)

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    • 2008-04-07: new
    • 2016-01-02: revised

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