Manuscripts
Herzstein Library
Finding Aids
Herzstein Library Overview
Manuscripts
Research
Veteran Biographies
Donate Books
AB Looscan

San Jacinto Museum of History

Albert and Ethel Herzstein Library

Manuscript Collections

Finding Aid

ADELE BRISCOE LOOSCAN COLLECTION

ADELE BRISCOE LOOSCAN PAPERS

1633 - 1935 (Bulk: 1881 - 1920)

Manuscript Collection: MC041

Size: 13.5 linear feet

Boxes: 36

OCLC No: 50151388

Acquisition: Mr. and Mrs. George A. Hill, Jr., Houston Public Library, Annie Hume, 1939 – 1940.

Restrictions on Access: None

Terms Governing Use: Open for research by appointment

Processed by: Sarah Canby Jackson, 2002.

Publication Rights: Copyright has not been assigned to the San Jacinto Museum of History. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Library Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the San Jacinto Museum of History as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Citation: [Identification of Item], Adele Briscoe Looscan Papers, MC041, San Jacinto Museum of History, Houston, Texas.

Creator Sketch:

Adele Lubbock Briscoe Looscan, the fifth child of Andrew Briscoe and Mary Jane Harris Briscoe was born on February 5, 1848, in Harrisburg, Texas. When only 20 months old, her father died of yellow fever in New Orleans and the family moved to her grandfather Briscoe's plantation near Port Gibson, Claiborne County, Mississippi. Her mother returned to Texas in 1852 and Adele grew up in Anderson, Galveston, Harrisburg, and Houston. She graduated valedictorian from Miss Mary B. Brown's Young Ladies' School at Houston in 1866.

In 1885 Adele Looscan began her long career as a club woman when she founded the Ladies' Reading Club and became its first president. Devoted to the study of history and literature, the club was one of the first women's clubs in Texas. In 1891 she helped to organize the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT) and served as historian and chairman of the executive committee for nine years. In 1907 during the annual meeting in Austin, the DRT split into two factions over the control of the Alamo. Adina De Zavala, Adele Looscan and the other women on the executive board were successfully sued by the DRT. Looscan continued to oppose the DRT's proposed use of the Alamo and her argument eventually won. She was also a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy and the Daughters of the American Revolution. She was a charter member of the Houston Pen Women, the Texas Woman's Press Association, and the Texas State Historical Association. Looscan served as president of the TSHA from 1915 - 1925.

Looscan expressed her interest in history, genealogy, and travel in her writing. She began to publish articles in the 1880s in newspapers and magazines under the pseudonym "Texan." She contributed three articles to Dudley G. Wooten's A Comprehensive History of Texas (1898) and wrote several articles for the Southwestern Historical Quarterly including “Harris County, 1822 - 1845" much of which was drawn from original documents in her possession. In 1905 Looscan self-published a tribute to her mother: A Brief Sketch Of The Life And Characteristics Of Mrs. Mary Jane Briscoe: Showing The Estimation In Which She Was Held By Her Friends And The Public Generally

In 1881 Adele Briscoe married Major Michael Looscan, a Houston attorney and Confederate veteran. They had no children. After her husband's death in 1897, she moved into her mother's home. After the death of Mary Jane Briscoe in 1903 and of her brothers Parmenas in 1906 and Andrew Birdsall in 1912, Looscan assumed a matriarchal role within her extended family. She assumed financial responsibility for an aunt of her husband’s after his death and maintained a correspondence with his niece for 23 years. Looscan continued an active correspondence with her nieces and nephews and cousins well into her later years. She became an invalid in 1929 and died in 1935.

Bibliography:

"DAUGHTERS OF THE REPUBLIC OF TEXAS." The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/DD/vnd3.html

"LOOSCAN, ADELE LUBBOCK BRISCOE." The Handbook of Texas Online. http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/LL/flo19.html

Davis, Ellis A and Edwin H. Grobe, eds. “Major Michael Looscan,” The New Encyclopedia of Texas, 852 - 853. Dallas: Texas Development Bureau, 1925.

Scope and Content Note:

Correspondence, creative and collected works, printed materials, financial documents, photographs, legal documents, scrapbooks and albums, works of art, surveyor's notes and sketches and maps document the life of Adele Lubbock Briscoe Looscan. The papers are divided into two groups: Personal Papers and Daughters of the Republic of Texas. The photographs are from all the fonds within the Adele Briscoe Looscan Collection.

Archivist's Note:

Other related papers from the Adele Briscoe Looscan Collection include the Mary Jane Harris Briscoe Papers, the Parmenas Briscoe Papers, the Andrew Birdsall Briscoe Papers, the Jesse Wade Briscoe Howe Papers, and the Michael Looscan Papers. All photographs are located in the Adele Briscoe Looscan Papers.

Adele Looscan's papers can also be found at the Houston Metropolitan Research Center, Houston Pubic Library, Houston, Texas, and the Center for American History, University of Texas, Austin, Texas.

ADELE BRISCOE LOOSCAN PAPERS, 1633 - 1935 (Bulk: 1881 - 1920)

Manuscript Collection: MC041

Size: 13.5 linear feet

Boxes: 36

Inventory

Group: Personal Papers

Correspondence: 1865 - 1933 (Bulk: 1892 - 1920)

Size: 6.2 linear feet

Boxes:16

Correspondence received documents Adele Briscoe Looscan's involvement with the Daughters of the Republic of Texas (DRT), her interests in history, writing, and genealogy, and her management of financial and family affairs. The bulk of the correspondence concerns the DRT during its development, through the increasing controversy over the purchase and development of the Alamo property, the events leading to the split of the organization at the Austin meeting in 1907, and the aftermath of lawsuits and defeat. Of particular interest is the correspondence from Adina De Zavala (143), Hally Ballinger Bryan (64), Betty Ballinger (54), Nettie Houston Bringhurst (33), Rebecca Jane Fisher (80), Cornelia Branch Stone (64), Mrs. L. de L. Tuttle (15), and Marie Bennet Urwitz (24). Correspondence with fellow historians Samuel E. Asbury, Dr. Alex Dienst, and George Garrison records her interest in the Texas State Historical Association and in the history of Texas. Letters from participants in Texas historical events, among them Dilue Rose Harris (15), 1903 - 1909 and T. N. Waul (26) 1889 - 1902, document her desire to record firsthand accounts related to Texas history. Correspondence with William Gwinn Scarff (1894 - 1897), Sara Hartman (1894 - 1895) and A. C. Gray (1905 - 1906) deals with publication of her writings. Family correspondence documents her extensive genealogical investigations into the Harris and Briscoe families and her changing role in the family as her husband, mother, and brothers die. Letters from members of Michael Looscan's family, Mary and Michael Looscan and Winefred McAran, document Adele Looscan's generosity and sense of duty. Correspondence from family members brims with news while often seeking her advice and financial help. Her distant cousin Ki B. Venchiarutti (1901 - 1910) appeals to Looscan for help in selling inherited Texas lands especially after the death of Parmenas Briscoe.

Correspondence sent reveals her thoughts in responding to events in her life. Of particular interest are those letters sent to Mark Kelly (1871) and later returned. Letters sent to Mrs. J. J. McKeever and other members of the DRT document Looscan's deep sense of betrayal and hurt after the lawsuit. Third party correspondence is comprised primarily of letters sent to her to read. The envelopes are arranged in chronological order by year.

Series:   Correspondence:  Received

Location

Title

Dates

97

1

W. C. Abney

1915 - 1920

97

2

I. D. Affleck

1905

97

3

J. R. Alford, M. D.

1888 - 1890

Location

Title

Dates

97

4

J. R. Alford, M. D.

1892 - 1894

97

5

Mary A. Anderson

1904 - 1909

97

6

Clement Appleyard

1904, n.d.

97

7

Dora Fowler Austin

1895 - 1906, n.d.

97

8

Samuel E. Asbury

1919 - 1922

97

9

Samuel E. Asbury

1923

97

10

Samuel E. Asbury

1924

97

11

Samuel E. Asbury

1925 - 1932, n.d.

97

12

Millie Gaston Ashe

1891 - 1892, n.d.

97

13

Bettie G. Austin

 n.d.

97

14

Betty Ballinger

1896 - 1910

97

15

Betty Ballinger

 n.d.

97

16

Betty Ballinger

 n.d.

97

17

J. M. Ballinger (Mrs.)

1897

97

18

Eugene C. Barker

1904 - 1929

97

19

H. Y. Benedict

1920

97

20

Belle Blandini

1896 - 1897

97

21

Norma T. Bonner

1895 - 1897

97

22

Millie G. Boyd

1893 - 1894, n.d.

97

23

Gamaliel Bradford

1917 - 1925

97

24

Nettie Houston Bringhurst

1891 - 1895

97

25

Nettie Houston Bringhurst

1896 - 1921, n.d.

98

1

Guy M. Bryan

1890 - 1896, n.d.

98

2

Guy M. Bryan, Jr.

1897, n.d.

98

3

Hally Ballinger Bryan

1893 - 1896

98

4

Hally Ballinger Bryan

1897

98

5

Hally Ballinger Bryan

1900 - 1925

98

6

Hally Ballinger Bryan

n.d.

98

7

J. W. Campbell

1897 - 1908, n.d.

98

8

J. M. Carlisle

1896 - 1897

98

9

Paul B. Cassidy

1904 - 1905

98

10

Louise N. Cleveland

1896

98

11

O. B. Colquitt

1911 - 1912

98

12

Crescent News and Hotel Company

1904

98

13

Annie Cooke

1906 - 1907

98

14

Nellie Stedman Cox

1906 - 1908, n.d.

98

15

Kate S. Curry

1920 - 1925

98

16

Katie Daffan

1906 - 1926

98

17

Ella Dancy Hall

1894 - 1895

98

18

Josephine F. Daniels

1892 - 1904

98

19

Josephine F. Daniels

1906 - 1930

98

20

Katharine M. Darden (Mrs. L. H.)

1906 - 1907

98

21

Stephen H. Darden

1894 - 1896

98

22

James T. Davis

1919 - 1924, n.d.

Location

Title

Dates

98

23

Mollie Moore Davis

1897, n.d.

98

24

Delaware Punch Company

1928 - 1930

99

1

Adina De Zavala

1893 - 1897

99

2

Adina De Zavala

1902 - 1904

99

3

Adina De Zavala

1905

99

4

Adina De Zavala

1906

99

5

Adina De Zavala

1907

99

6

Adina De Zavala

1908 - 1909

99

7

Adina De Zavala

1911 - 1931

99

8

Adina De Zavala

n.d.

99

9

Adina De Zavala

n.d.

99

10

Adina De Zavala (fragments)

n.d.

99

11

Mary De Zavala

1904 - 1930, n.d.

99

12

Louise O. Dickson

 1895 - 1899

99

13

Dr. Alex Dienst

1915 - 1922

99

14

Dr. Alex Dienst

1923 - 1924

99

15

Dr. Alex Dienst

1925 - 1931, n.d.

99

16

J. Frank Dobie

1926 - 1928

99

17

George P. Donehoo

1915

99

18

H. C. Duffy

1897 - 1902

99

19

William H. Egle

1892, n.d.

99

20

Anna Ehinger

1892 - 1896

100

1

Belle Fenn

1895 - 1897

100

2

R. M. Fenn

1893 - 1895

100

3

Tom Finty, Jr.

1911 - 1920

100

4

Rebecca Jane Fisher

1892 - 1893

100

5

Rebecca Jane Fisher

1894

100

6

Rebecca Jane Fisher

1895

100

7

Rebecca Jane Fisher

1896

100

8

Rebecca Jane Fisher

1897, n.d.

100

9

Fannie Fox (Mrs. A. S.)

1895

100

10

Carrie Fraser

1921 - 1930

100

11

W. J. Frederick

1896 - 1897

100

12

James H. French (Mrs.)

1891 - 1892

100

13

Z. T. Fullmore

1909

100

14

George P. Garrison

1897 - 1902

100

15

George P. Garrison

1903 - 1910

100

16

M. E. Gibson

1897

100

17

A. C. Gray

1894 - 1907

100

18

R. Greenhill

1896

100

19

Joseph W. Hale

1929 - 1933

100

20

Lewis Hancock

1896

100

21

William D. Hardeman

1892 - 1894

100

22

D. N. Harris

1906

Location

Title

Dates

100

23

Dilue Rose Harris

1903 - 1909, n.d.

100

24

J. T. Harris

1898

100

25

T. G. Harris

1896

100

26

Mattie B. Harrison

1894 - 1895, n.d.

100

27

Sara Hartman

1894 - 1895

100

28

Mattie Austin Hatcher

1928

101

1

Margaret Roberts Hodges

1911 - 1912, n.d.

101

2

James S. Hogg

1894 - 1897

101

3

Sallie Hogg

1893

101

4

A. J. Houston

1896 - 1931

101

5

Jennie Martha Hunter

1895 - 1898, n.d.

101

6

Julia Ideson

1905 - 1927

101

7

Jeffords Schoenman Produce and Brokerage Co.

1915

101

8

Cone Johnson (Mrs.)

1904 - 1907

101

9

Janie Moore Johnson

1898

101

10

Mary Jones

1892 - 1897

101

11

W. Goodrich Jones

1927 - 1928

101

12

May L. Kehoe

1925 - 1927

101

13

Mark J. Kelly

1871 - 1872

101

14

Carrie Franklin Kemp

1893 - 1895, n.d.

101

15

Margery Lamar Kendall

n.d.

101

16

M. C. Kimball

1892, n.d.

101

17

Nettie J. Kuykendall

1894 - 1896

101

18

F. R. Lubbock

1894 - 1905

101

19

Clarence Martin

1904 - 1905

101

20

Tom P. Martin

1927

101

21

H. A. McArdle

1894

101

22

H. A. McArdle

1895 - 1896

101

23

E. P. McIlhenny

1896, n.d.

101

24

May F. McKeever (Mrs. J. J.)

1894 - 1909, n.d.

101

25

Lena White McKenzie (Mrs. E. W.)

1904 - 1905

101

26

P. E. McMahon

1901 - 1907, n.d.

101

27

Sister Mary Barromes

1901 - 1902

101

28

Sister Mary Stanislaus Campbell

1889 - 1897

101

29

Lucy B. Mills

1900 - 1908

101

30

Emily Perry Moore

1895 - 1899

101

31

Jno. M. Moore

1904

101

32

M. J. Munger (Mrs. S. S.)

1892 - 1895

101

33

Pat Neff

1922 - 1925

101

34

Elisabet Ney

1894, n.d.

101

35

Emma B. Nixon

1909, n.d.

101

36

Lucie Norton

1921

101

37

Adele Monssier O'Keefe

1931

101

38

J. E. Pearce

1920 -1923

Location

Title

Dates

101

39

Anna J. H. Pennybacker

1895 - 1909

101

40

Emily M Perry

1894, n.d.

101

41

Robert S. Perry

1899

102

1

C. W. Raines

1895 - 1905

102

2

John H. Reagan

1893 - 1902

102

3

C. D. Redding

1894 - 1911

102

4

Terese Bryan Robbins

1907

102

5

Eva H. Robertson

1915 - 1926

102

6

James Jeffrey Roche

1897 - 1898

102

7

Mary Saunders

1894 - 1899

102

8

Mary Saunders

1900 - 1909

102

9

Mary Saunders

n.d.

102

10

Mary Saunders

n.d.

102

11

Mary Saunders

n.d.

102

12

William Gwinn Scarff

1894 - 1895

102

13

William Gwinn Scarff

1896 - 1897

102

14

R. E. Siegmund

1898

102

15

Carrie H. Simmons

1903 - 1904

102

16

W. W. Simpson

1904 - 1907

102

17

Julie Lee Sinks

1894 - 1904

102

18

N. H. Skinner

1895 - 1897

102

19

F. H. Snider

1882 - 1891

102

20

Mary E. Springfield

1926 - 1930

102

21

Cornelia Branch Stone

1893 - 1894

102

22

Cornelia Branch Stone

1895

102

23

Cornelia Branch Stone

1896

102

24

Cornelia Branch Stone

1897 - 1905, n.d.

103

1

Martha A. Taber

1911, n.d.

103

2

Kate S. Terrell

1893 - 1907

103

3

Mary Y. Terrell

1899 - 1904

103

4

John G. Tod

1901 - 1907

103

5

Adella Turner (Mrs. E. P.)

1903 - 1904

103

6

L. de L. Tuttle (Mrs.)

1906 - 1916

103

7

George W. Tyler

1902 - 1927

103

8

Kate Underwood

1894, n.d.

103

9

United State Government:  Treasury Department and War Department

1911 - 1923

103

10

Marie Bennet Urwitz

1892 - 1899

103

11

Marie Bennet Urwitz

n.d.

103

12

Minnie P. Vasmer

1891 - 1897, n.d.

103

13

W. Von Rosenberg

1898

103

14

D. R. Wallace

1893 - 1897

103

15

William M. Walton

1893

103

16

T. N. Waul

1889 - 1897

Location

Title

Dates

103

17

T. N. Waul

1898 - 1902

103

18

Kate Beatty Wheeler

1904 - 1905

103

19

Virginia S. Wiegers

1907 - 1910

103

20

Cora B. Willcox

1897

103

21

Olivia Tuttle Willrich

1905 - 1932

103

22

William H. Wilson

1897 - 1934

103

23

A. V. Winkler

1893 - 1907

103

24

Ernest Winkler

1905 - 1914

103

25

L. W. Yarrington

1894 - 1897

103

26

L. W. Yarrington

1902 - 1905

103

27

L. W. Yarrington

1907 - 1908, n.d.

103

28

W. P. Zuber

1904

104

1

General  A

1892 - 1928, n.d.

104

2

General  BA - BO

1894 - 1928, n.d.

104

3

General  BR - BY

1882 - 1930, n.d.

104

4

General  CA - CL

1894  - 1931, n.d.

104

5

General  CO - CU

1892 - 1926, n.d.

104

6

General  DA - DE

1871 - 1932, n.d.

104

7

General  DI - DU

1893 - 1925, n.d.

104

8

General  E

1892 - 1928, n.d.

104

9

General  F

1893 - 1932, n.d.

104

10

General  G

1886 - 1930, n.d.

104

11

General  HA - HE

1892 - 1930, n.d.

104

12

General  HI - HY

1893 - 1930, n.d.

104

13

General  I - J

1893 - 1929, n.d.

104

14

General  K

1894 - 1926, n.d.

104

15

General  L

1892 - 1926, n.d.

105

1

General  MA - McC

1894 - 1931, n.d.

105

2

General  McG - MU

1883 - 1930, n.d.

105

3

General  N - Q

1886 - 1930, n.d.

105

4

General  RA - RI

1894 - 1931, n.d.

105

5

General  RO - RU

1894 - 1930, n.d.

105

6

General  SA - SJ

1893 - 1928, n.d.

105

7

General  SM - SY

1890 - 1931, n.d.

105

8

General  T - Y

1888 - 1930, n.d.

105

9

General  WA - WE

1894 - 1931, n.d.

105

10

General  WH - Z

1891 - 1931, n.d.

105

11

Correspondent Unknown

1895 – 1914, n.d.

105

12

Correspondent Unknown:  Postcards

1906 - 1927, n.d.

105

13

Greeting Cards:  Christmas, signed

1905 - 1925, n.d.

105

14

Greeting Cards:  Christmas, unsigned

n.d.

105

15

Greeting Cards:  Easter, signed

1916 - 1925, n.d.

105

16

Greeting Cards:  Easter, unsigned

n.d.

Series:  Correspondence:  Received:  Family

Location

Title

Dates

106

1

Andrew Birdsall Briscoe

1868 - 1907

106

2

Andrew Birdsall Briscoe

1908 - 1911, n.d.

106

3

Annie Payne Briscoe

1879 - 1891, n.d.

106

4

Birdsall Parmenas Briscoe

1889 - 1927

106

5

Carrie Briscoe West

1896 - 1921, n.d.

106

6

Clara Briscoe Shaifer

1890

106

7

Emily Briscoe

1890, n.d.

106

8

Louise Briscoe

1920 - 1924, n.d.

106

9

Mary Payne Briscoe Windsor

1895 - 1907

106

10

Mary Payne Briscoe Windsor

1914 - 1930

106

11

Mary Jane Harris Briscoe

1886 - 1896, n.d.

106

12

Parmenas Briscoe

1865 , 1905

106

13

Payne Briscoe

1914 - 1929

106

14

Briscoe -  General

1889 - 1919, n.d.

106

15

Sarah E. and Anna M. Buell

1907

106

16

Julie Hite Gallagher

1909 - 1910

106

17

Julie Hite Gallagher

1911 - 1912

106

18

Julie Hite Gallagher

1919 - 1929, n.d.

106

19

Julia Hite Gallagher (fragments)

1910, n.d.

107

1

Adele Harris

1896 - 1921, n.d.

107

2

Belle [Harris]

1907, n.d.

107

3

Lew B. Harris

1896 - 1922

107

4

Minnie S. Harris

1889 - 1906, n.d.

107

5

Minnie S. Harris

1921 - 1928

107

6

Sally Latimer Harris

1910 - 1922

107

7

Harris -  General

1865 - 1926

107

8

Margaret B. Howard (Mrs. S. E.)

1898 - 1912, n.d.

107

9

Jesse Wade Briscoe Howe

1870 - 1919

107

10

Joseph Milton Howe

1920 - 1931, n.d.

107

11

Knox Briscoe Howe

1925 - 1926

107

12

Annie Hume

1896 - 1930, n.d.

107

13

Bradner Lee

1911 - 1921

107

14

Mary Looscan

1897 - 1900

107

15

Mary Looscan

1901 - 1905

107

16

Mary Looscan

1906 - 1920, n.d.

107

17

Michael Looscan

1888 - 1896

107

18

Michael Looscan

1921, n.d.

107

19

Looscan -  General

1898 - 1902

107

20

Winefred Looscan McAran

1897 - 1904

107

21

Winefred Looscan McAran

1905 - 1906

107

22

Winefred Looscan McAran

1907 - 1916, n.d.

108

1

Mollie McQueen (Mrs. C. R.)

1908 - 1908

Location

Title

Dates

108

2

Mollie McQueen (Mrs. C. R.)

1910 - 1922

108

3

Mary S. Michie

1899  - 1922, n.d.

108

4

J. E. and Amy Morris

1898 - 1899

108

5

Clara Beard Northington

1927, n.d.

108

6

Kate Briscoe Shaifer Sholars

1895 - 1897

108

7

Kate Briscoe Shaifer Sholars

1904 - 1925

108

8

Mildred S. Thatcher

1897 - 1912

108

9

Fenton Michie Tod

1924, n.d.

108

10

Ki B. Venchiarutti

1901 - 1910, n.d.

108

11

Louis Venchiarutti

1901

108

12

T. M. Windsor

1920 - 1926

108

13

General

1892 - 1930

108

14

Unknown Correspondent

1920 - 1927, n.d.

Series:  Correspondence:  Sent

108

15

R. V. Davidson

1907

108

16

Jefford Schoenman Produce and Brokerage Co.

1915

108

17

Mark Kelly

1871, n.d.

108

18

Mrs. J. J. McKeever

1907 - 1909

108

19

F. H. Snider

1882 - 1883

108

20

General  A - H

1882 - 1925

108

21

General  J - W

1883 - 1931

108

22

Unknown

n.d.

Series:  Correspondence:  Third Party

108

23

Ladies’ Reading Club

n.d.

108

24

Wilson, Dabney & King

1915 - 1917

108

25

General   A - W

1881 - 1927

108

26

Family - General

1899 - 1912, n.d.

Series:  Envelopes

109

1

Received

1868 - 1880

109

2

Received

1882 - 1889

109

3

Received

1890 - 1893

109

4

Received

1894 - 1895

109

5

Received

1896

109

6

Received

1897

109

7

Received

1898 - 1899

109

8

Received

1901

109

9

Received

1902

110

1

Received

1903

Location

Title

Dates

110

2

Received

1904 - 1905

110

3

Received

1906

110

4

Received

1907

110

5

Received

1908

110

6

Received

1909 - 1910

110

7

Received

1911 - 1914

111

1

Received

1915 - 1919

111

2

Received

1920 - 1921

111

3

Received

1922 - 1924

111

4

Received

1925 - 1927

111

5

Received

1928 - 1933

111

6

Received

1930 - 1933

112

1

Received   "Adele Briscoe"

Pre 1881 - n.d.

112

2

Received   "Adele Briscoe"

Pre 1881 - n.d.

112

3

Received

n.d.

112

4

Third Party

1902 - 1917, n.d.

112

5

Family

1888 - 1935

112

6

Fragments

n.d.

112

7

Cancelled Stamps

n.d.

Financial:  1873 - 1935 (Bulk:  1898 - 1925)

Size:  .6 linear feet

Boxes:  2

Banking records, receipts and statements of account, bills of lading, stumpage reports, and promissory notes reveal Adele Briscoe Looscan as a woman taking charge of her financial affairs after the death of her husband.  Rental property records document a strong businesswoman and landlord.  The Harrisburg Lumber Company accounts and stumpage reports record her use of inherited land to produce income and document the amount of lumber harvested from the land 1911 - 1931.  Receipts concerned with the care of Winefred McAran reveal Looscan's generosity and sense of duty.  Of interest are receipts from William L. Foley 1880 - 1881 for her trousseau purchased prior to her marriage in September 1881.

Series:  Financial:  Banking

113

1

American State Bank, Harrisburg, Texas:  Account Book

1922 - 1927

113

2

The Farmers State Bank, Crawford, Texas:  Statements, deposit slips

1925 - 1935

113

3

First National Bank of Houston, Houston, Texas:

Account Book

1903 - 1906

113

4

First National Bank of Houston, Houston, Texas:

Account Book

1903 - 1904

Location

Title

Dates

113

5

First National Bank of Houston, Houston, Texas:

Checks

1879 – 1920

113

6

First National Bank of Houston, Houston, Texas:

Statements

1923 – 1925, n.d.

113

7

First National Bank of Houston, Houston, Texas:

General

1909 – 1931, n.d.

113

8

T. W. House, Houston, Texas:

Account Book

1897 - 1901

113

9

T. W. House, Houston, Texas:

Account Books

1898 – 1904

113

10

T. W. House, Houston, Texas:

Statement

1898 – 1903

113

11

Memoranda

1923, n.d.

Series:  Financial:  Receipts / Statements of Account

113

12

Receipt Books

1898 - 1904

113

13

Receipt Books

1908 – 1909

113

14

Receipt Books

1909 – 1911

113

15

Court Costs

1899 – 1900

113

16

William L. Foley

1880 – 1881, 1903

113

17

Insurance

1930 – 1934

113

18

Levy Brothers Dry Goods

1932 – 1934

113

19

Winefred McAran

1902 – 1910, n.d.

113

20

Postal

1894 – 1910

113

21

Organizations

1892 – 1928, n.d.

113

22

Tax:  City of Houston

1898 – 1909

113