Francis Marion Bralley arrived in Denton in 1913 to become the new president of the College of Industrial Arts, the predecessor of what’s now Texas Woman’s University.
DENTON — Interest in the talent and work of Denton native and prolific author Sophie Kerr attracted dozens of new fans and existing aficionados to two events Saturday, Nov. 4,
Louisiana “Louisa” Owsley was born in 1832 in Kentucky to the Rev. James and Mildred Mansfield. A descendant of an old Virginia family, she was not quite 15 when her
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Famous American architect OâNeil Ford, who grew up in Denton, admired Dentonâs Courthouse on the Square. He once said: âI was in Denton the other day, and I went over to look at the courthouse again, and I still donât know how they got that blessed thing up.â
Little has been said about Tom Lovell, who built the courthouse. He was born in West Kilbride, Scotland, in 1852. Scottish census records show 18-year-old Tom working as a servant on a farm in 1900. Tom married Theresa Begley in County Armaugh, Ireland, in 1877. They had two sons, Ed and Tom Jr., while they lived in Ireland. Mary, their daughter, was born in 1881 after they moved to Scotland, just before immigrating to the United States. The Lovells moved to Brownwood, Texas, where daughters Sadie, Anne and Teresa were born.