Samuel Tubbs Angier, M.D.

In the early 1830s the Brazoria ayuntamiento, the town council under Mexican rule, named four physicians to examine anyone who wished to practice medicine or surgery, and Angier was one of the four. His land came in August 1824: a sitio on Chocolate Bayou shared with Thomas Bradley and George Hall, plus a labor on the Brazos. He married four times, and in 1845 his wife headed the Columbia Female Seminary, a school he was connected with.

What the plaque says

Samuel Tubbs Angier, M.D. 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. (1997)

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Varner-Hogg Plantation State Historic Site — 1.7 mi
  A Brazos sugar plantation built by enslaved people for the Patton family, later leased convict labor and Hogg family oil, now told through Rachel Patton and Sarah Ford.
• Levi Jordan Plantation State Historic Site — 9.8 mi
  A sugar and cotton plantation on the San Bernard River whose enslaved builders and their descendants left one of the best-preserved African American archeological sites in Texas.
• Brazos Bend State Park — 17 mi
  Oak and pecan bottomland, lakes and alligators on the Brazos River 45 miles from downtown Houston, with the museum's George Observatory in the woods.
• Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge — 21 mi
  Coastal prairie, salt marsh and bays between Freeport and Christmas Bay, where an auto tour along Big Slough passes wintering geese, ducks and wading birds in the tens of thousands.

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