The A.C. Purvis House
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PeterNoG
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This Texas Historical Marker is in front of the Purvis House at 441 North Reagan Street in San Benito, Texas.
Waymark Code: WMJXGZ
Location: Texas, United States
Date Posted: 01/12/2014
Views: 2
Marker Title: A.C. Purvis House
Index Entry: Purvis, A.C., House
The Actual Index Entry: Purvis, Albanus Clemens
Address: 441 N. Reagan
City:
County: Cameron
Subject Codes: houses, residential buildings; women, women's history topics; pioneers
Year Marker Erected: 1973
Designations: na
Marker Location: 441 N. Reagan, San Benito.
Marker Size: 18" x 28"
Marker Number: 50
Marker Text:
San Benito was a "paper" town with no Anglo-American residents when Albanus Clemens Purvis (1850-1919) came here from Ohio to seek health. He became first Justice of the Peace, sold real estate, and farmed. His daughter Kate (later Mrs. J. Scott Brown) taught first school in 1907; daughter Emma (later Mrs. Asa Agar) was an early Postmaster, in 1911. A former mill owner and a skilled craftsman, Purvis in 1911 built this house for himself, his wife Margaret Ann (householder), and the two youngest of their nine children.
The property still remains in the ownership of a descendant.
(1974)
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