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![Founders' Memorial Park Cemetery Entrance image, Touch for more information](Photos2/220/Photo220204.jpg)
By Jim Evans, September 16, 2012
Founders' Memorial Park Cemetery Entrance
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| On Valentine Street at West Dallas Street, on the right when traveling south on Valentine Street. |
| | Houston in 1836 was a humid swamp overgrown with sweet gum trees and coffee bean weeds. In this spot, however, two brothers from New York recognized the future "commercial emporium of Texas."
John Kirby Allen was born and lived in New York . . . — — Map (db m59839) HM |
| On Valentine Street at West Dallas Street, on the right when traveling south on Valentine Street. |
| | Augustus Chapman Allen was born to Roland and Sarah (Chapman) Allen in Canaseraga, New York on July 4, 1806. He graduated from the Polytechnic Institute at Chittenango, New York, where he taught mathematics until 1827. That year, he became a . . . — — Map (db m59588) HM |
| On West Dallas Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Texas War for Independence soldier; served also in Somervell Expedition against aggressors in Republic of Texas.
Born in New York state. Came to Texas in 1830s. Settled 1838 in Houston, to help his brothers, Augustus C. and John Kirby Allen, . . . — — Map (db m129875) HM |
Jun. 16, 2024