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Sunday, April 29,2018
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Texas town’s namesake
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What is the line
between fame and
infamy? Many figures in
American history have
blurred the borders
between those ideas,
leading to endless KEN
speculation about their BRIDGES
character and their im- Texas History
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pact. Jacob Brown was -----------------------
one such figure. He was
In 1837, a year after Arkansas state-
hood, Brown was named president of the
Real Estate Bank, a bank established by
Arkansas legislators specializing in real
estate loans and investments. He soon
became the focus of intense criticism by
his successor at the Removal and Sub-
sistence Office. Captain Richard Collins
accused Brown of feeding the Native
Americans rotten food. Others began to
criticize Brown for holding two positions
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a veteran of two wars, a leading financial at once, through the army and through
figure in early Arkansas, a defender of the bank. Brown stepped away from both
early Texas, and one of the chief officials positions, but continued with other army
directing the Trail of Tears.
As a young man, Brown enlisted in the 1843.
positions, rising to the rank of major by
army early during the War of 1812. His
war service was otherwise respectable.
He stayed in the military after the war
and slowly moved up the ranks as peace-
time promotions in the reduced army of
that time were rare. From about 1818 to
1825, his infantry unit was assigned to
the area along the borders of Missouri
and the Arkansas Territory to keep the
peace between the settlers and the
Native American tribes of the area.
In 1831, at the insistence of President
Andrew Jackson, Congress passed the
Indian Removal Act, stating that the
The army reassigned Brown. With the
admission of Texas into the Union and
Mexico’s accompanying threat of war
against the United States if Texas were
so admitted forced American planners to
reinforce the American claim. Gen. Zach-
ary Taylor arrived on the scene to enforce
the claim and established Fort Texas
on the Rio Grande in March 1846 just
across from Matamoros. Brown was given
command of the fort while Taylor rushed
up and down the Lower Rio Grande Valley
preparing to defend American positions.
On May 3, Mexican artillery in Mat-
southeastern tribes would be moved from amoros opened fire on the fort. Brown
their ancestral lands. Removal of the directed his own artillery as he was slow-
tribes was to be the responsibility of the ly surrounded. On May 6, one shell struck
army. Tens of thousands of people were inside the fort and exploded. Shrapnel
removed from their homes and marched wounded Brown, but the wounds were
at gunpoint to the Indian Territory (pres- too severe to treat. Taylor charged to
ent-day Oklahoma) where the federal
government had set aside land for tribal
reservations. Countless individuals died
on the way.
To facilitate these removals, a branch
of the Office of Removal and Subsis-
tence was established in Little Rock,
and Brown eventually came to lead it.
His role in this office was to coordinate
removal of tribes through the area and
their movements from Arkansas into the
Indian Territory and also to make sure
they were fed. Once the tribes were at
their reservations, Brown’s office would
continue to send food.
relieve the fort, temporarily blocked by
the Mexican Army at the Battle of Palo
Alto on May 8. After sweeping aside Mex-
ican forces, Taylor was able to reach the
fort and break the siege later that day.
Reinforcements poured in. Brown died
just hours later on May 9, and the United
States declared war on Mexico on May 13.
After Brown’s death, Taylor ordered
Fort Texas renamed Fort Brown. The
city of Brownsville, next to the fort, was
named in his honor. The Jacob Brown
Auditorium is on the campus of Texas
Southmost College near the site of the
old fort.
The Colony High School on Monday hosted Multicultural Day. The event included 21 countries represented by 48 student
presenters. Principal Tim Baxter said 44 classes attended, with an estimated overall attendance of 1,300 students.
Collin College hosts student
invitational exhibition
Art show runs through May 30
STAFF REPORT
FYI
For more information
about this or other
exhibitions, contact
Gallery Director Julie
Shipp at 972-516-
5070 or jshipp@collin.
edu. THE ARTS gallery
webpage is collin.edu/
THEARTSgallery.
THE ARTS gallery will host the Col-
lin College Student Invitational exhibi-
tion from May 2 through May 30.
A select group of returning students
nominated by a member of the arts
faculty of Collin College will exhibit
L one or two pieces of their recent art
works from all media. The artwork
will be drawn from courses offered
at Collin, which include 2-D design,
I I 3-D design, ceramics, communication
design, digital arts, drawing, figure
drawing, jewelry/art metals, painting,
photography, printmaking, sculpture
H and water col or.
COURTESY OF COLLIN COLLEGE
THE ARTS gallery student exhibition begins May 2 through May 30.
A reception for the show, free and
open to the public, is planned Thurs-
day, May 3 from 4-6 p.m. The gallery
is located on Collin College’s Spring
Creek Campus, Room A175, 2800 E.
Spring Creek Parkway in Plano. Reg-
ular gallery hours are: 9 a.m.-8 p.m.,
Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Fri-
day-Saturday.
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McGathey, Liz & Roark, Chris. The Colony Courier-Leader (The Colony, Tex.), Vol. 38, No. 12, Ed. 1 Sunday, April 29, 2018, newspaper, April 29, 2018; Plano, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1622461/m1/4/: accessed July 8, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting The Colony Public Library.