Marker
Title:
Samuel
Tubbs
Angier,
M.D.
County:
Brazoria
City:
West
Columbia
Marker
Location:
Old
Columbia
Cemetery,
Jackson
at
16th
St.
Marker
Text:
Samuel
Tubbs,
born
in
Pembroke,
Massachusetts
in
1792,
took
the
surname
of
his
paternal
grandmother,
Katurah
Angier,
in
1812.
He
received
his
medical
degree
from
Brown
University
in
1823
and
in
1824
came
to
Texas
as
a
member
of
Austin's
Old
300
colony.
Prominent
area
doctor,
Angier
also
was
active
in
civic
affairs,
was
a
Freemason,
and
served
as
a
judge
for
the
election
of
local
delegates
to
the
1836
Constitutional
Convention.
He
also
participated
in
efforts
to
establish
a
system
of
public
education
for
the
Republic
of
Texas.
Angier
died
in
West
Columbia
in
1867.
  
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