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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11N2_american-national-insurance-company_Galveston-TX.html
Founded in 1905 by Galveston business pioneer W. L. Moody, Jr. (1865-1954), American National opened for business on third floor of the Moody Building at 22nd and Strand streets in Galveston. At that time the home office staff numbered ten. By 191…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZP0_st-patrick-catholic-church_Galveston-TX.html
Galveston Bishop C.M. Dubus established this parish in 1870 to serve Catholics in Galveston Island's fast-growing west end district. A wood sanctuary was built at this site and the mostly Irish congregation named the church for St. Patrick, the pa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMZLI_the-moody-home_Galveston-TX.html
Family residence, W.L. Moody, Jr, built about 1894, and for many years home of Mr. Moody prominent financier and philanthropist who established the Moody Foundation.
Late Victorian architecture, said to have been Texas residence built on steel…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYM7_victor-gustafson-home_Galveston-TX.html
This raised one-story cottage originally was located at 620 Market Street. Before the property was purchased by Victor Gustafson in 1895, it had belonged to Swiss immigrant Henry Rosenburg, who is remembered as a prominent businessman and public b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLL_carmelo-charles-bertolino_Galveston-TX.html
Born in Galveston in 1887, Carmelo Bertolino was the son of Salvatore Bertolino (d.1891) and Rosalia Trapani Bertolino (d.1942), who immigrated to Texas from Palermo, Italy in the early 1880s. Salvatore Bertolino drowned in Galveston Bay when Carm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLJ_galveston-childrens-home_Galveston-TX.html
Founded in 1878 by George Dealey (1829-1891), the Galveston Children's Home moved to this location in 1880. Henry Rosenberg gave money to construct a massive Gothic revival building here in 1894-95. It was destroyed by the storm of 1900. Newspaper…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLG_sacred-heart-church_Galveston-TX.html
The earliest Catholic services in the Galveston area were conducted in 1838. In 1884, as a result of the church's growth under the direction of such leaders as Bishop J.M. Odin, the Galveston Diocese established Sacred Heart as the fourth church o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYLE_ursuline-convent-in-the-civil-war_Galveston-TX.html
Before the Confederate recapture of Galveston on January 1, 1863, the nuns of this monastery declined the evacuation offer. During and after the battle the east wing was used as a hospital for treatment of the wounded from both sides.
Young Li…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYL5_the-rosenberg-library_Galveston-TX.html
The oldest free public library in continuous operation in Texas. Established and endowed in 1900 by the will of Henry Rosenberg (1824-1893), a native of Switzerland who came to Galveston in 1843 and achieved prominence as a banker and merchant. In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMYL0_scottish-rite-masonry_Galveston-TX.html
Born in 1867 in Galveston. One of major systems of celebrated Masonic fraternal organization.
Philip C. Tucker, the Deputy Inspector General of the Masons, read charter establishing "San Felipe Lodge of Perfection." It was named after San Felip…