Sarah Rosalie Patten Buchanan
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This Texas historical marker located at 200 North Pacific in Mineola, TX describes the life of Sarah Rosalie Patten Buchanan.
Waymark Code: WMNT8D
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 04/29/2015
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Sarah Buchanan was the first woman in Texas to be named as a full professor in a state college, Sam Houston State Normal College in Huntsville, where she taught for 24 years.
Marker Number: 11662
Marker Text:
(April 23, 1855-February 24, 1941)
Quitman native Sarah Rosalie "Rosa" Patten married future State Senator John Creighton Buchanan in 1877. They moved to Mineola, and in 1884 Sarah was left a 29-year-old widow with three young children to support. She became a schoolteacher, and in 1892 was appointed by her friend Governor James S. Hogg to a teaching position at Sam Houston State Normal College in Huntsville. She became a full professor, Dean of Women, and head of the English department. Retiring to her family's home at this site in 1916, she supervised Wood County war work during World War I and served on the school board from 1928 to 1932. She died at age 85, and was buried next to her husband in the Mineola City Cemetery. (1999)
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