Author:
San Marcos Hays County Digital Collection.
Imprint:[San Marcos, Tex] : [San Marcos Hays County Digital Collection] , [1930s?]
Physical Description1 album : b&w ; 9.5x8 in. photo.
Note:From the collection of Randy Brown, through Allison Tudor's documentation.
Note:The Alanson Brown family lived at 401 N. Guadalupe Street in the 1890s through the 1920s. Alanson and Catherine E. Brown's children are Katherine, Nancy J., Robert L., Margaret A., John W., Mary Anna, and Sugars Turner Brown. These are pages from a family album, mostly images from San Marcos, especially the San Marcos River, but also documenting family vacations.
Note:Katherine married and moved to Orange, Tx. Nancy went to China then moved in with Mary when Mary moved to AZ. Robert became MD and opened practice in Pearsall. Margaret never married--photographer in San Marcos. John Brown became a physician and Public Health officer, lived in and is buried in Marfa. Mary Brown became school teacher then Superintendent for 20 plus years. Mary had a partner for almost 50 yrs. Sugars Turner Brown was a salesman. Randy Brown is the great grandson of Sugars "Turner" Brown.
Note:Mary Brown was born in Beeville, Texas in 1888 to Reverend Alanson and Catherine E. Brown. Mary attended the Coronal Institute as a girl and in 1912, Mary graduated from Southwest Texas Normal School. Miss Brown taught her first two years in Palacios, TX before moving to Winslow, Arizona. In 1914 she registered to vote in AZ and by 1920 she was the school principal. After several years she was elected to the Office of Navajo County School Superintendent, an office she held for 22 1/2 years until she retired in 1955. Mary Brown died on July 21, 1959 and is buried in the San Marcos Cemetery.
Note:Margaret Amelia Brown (1882-1969) was born to Rev. Alanson and Catherine Moore Brown in Gonzales County, Texas. As early as 1907, Margaret had taken up photography and in an ad for Millers Studio in the 1916 Pedagog announced that Miss Margaret Brown was the successor to G.K. Miller, a long time prominent photographer in San Marcos. By the following year she had changed the name of her business to The Brown Studio.
Electronic Resource:Electronic resource:
http://www.hank.ci.san-marcos.tx.us/SMHC/DIGITAL/Brown Family Album.pdf -- Materials specified: Scanned Brown Family Album
CitationThe Digital Local History Collection of the San Marcos Public Library is a purely digital collection. This image was loaned to the Library in order to make a digital copy for our local history archive; however, the library does not possess the photograph.
