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Alfred Quincy Wooster
(see Bio)
Adoue and Lobit were French
merchants who immigrated to Galveston and had a substantial business and
building on the Strand. Tom Nelson
Wooster is named after
Quincy Wooster. Wooster was formed in 1892 and was originally where present
day Brownwood is.
Q. A. Wooster named Weaver Avenue after Gen.
James B. Weaver (Greenback party nominee) who he supported for president in
1880. Wybra Wooster Holland
Q. A. Wooster named Steinman Street after his
son-in-law,
Steve
Steinman. Wybra Wooster Holland
Q. A. Wooster named Shreck Avenue after his
son-in-law, W.A. Shreckengaust. Wybra
Wooster Holland
Q.
A. Wooster named Crow Road after his friend and business partner, W. D. Crow.
Wybra Wooster Holland
Q. A. Wooster named Mapleton Avenue after
Mapleton, Iowa, which is where he lived before coming to Texas.
Wybra Wooster Holland
Below are photos of the Woosters/Steinmans
in Texas and Kansas.
Mabel Inez Ashcraft, 84, died at the Dunn County
Health Care Center in Menomonie on Friday, March 27, 1998. Mabel was born in
Wooster, Texas. She was the first-born child of Thomas Edward and Mabel Ida
(Steinman) Archer. At the age of five, the family moved to a farm in rural St.
Paul, Kansas. (See
her Obituary here)
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