Adele Briscoe Looscan Papers

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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