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INDIAN WARS AND PIONEERS OF TEXAS.
been collected in this vicinity by Mr. Frank B.
Armstrong, a well-known naturalist, who has contributed
thousands of valuable and interesting specimens
to the museums of this country and Europe,
and furnished many extremely rare products to
private collectors.
Mr. Armstrong has been in business here for
several years. He began the study of Natural
History at his home in Boston, where he made his
first essays in the interesting branches of that subject
which have become his specialties, viz.:
Ornithology, mammology and oology. He left
Boston when a very young man, and after an
extensive tour through Mexico, during which he
made a complete collection of birds and animals of
that country, he settled in Laredo, Texas, where
he began a systematic search for specimens in this
border section. In pursuance of the latter undertaking
he came to Brownsville in March, 1890, and
finding it an excellent point for securing the services
of hunters and trappers, as well as for his personal
excursions, he located his business here and married
the following year, 1891, April 2d.
His establishment at the corner of Washington
and Eleventh streets is crowded with specimens of
natural history, and is well worth the careful attention
and examination which the courteous proprietor
freely accords to all who visit it.The price list of birds' skins bears the names of
275 different species, which he constantly carries
in stock and furnishes to naturalists, scientists and
dealers.
The proprietor is a skillful taxidermist himself
and employs four assistants, all of them constantly
employed in selecting and properly treating the
numerous subjects found in this vicinity.
The birds of this section are more numerous
than those in any other known to Mr. Armstrong.
It is owing to that fact that he has found such encouragement
in his chosen field.
He married Miss Marie Isabel Schodts, a daughter
of the lamented Michael Schodts, a portrait and
biography of whom appears in this volume. Mrs.
Armstrong is a lady of superior educational attainments
and rare social accomplishments.
Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have two little daughters,
Sylvia, age 4 years, 6 months, and Jennie, age
2 years and four months. One (aughter, Susie, is
deceased. Mr. and Mrs. Armstrong have one of
the most spacious and luxurious homes in the city
of Brownsville and a summer seaside home at
Point Isabel.
Mr. Armstrong is thoroughly identified with the
interests of Brownsville and Southwest Texas, and
is highly esteemed by a wide circle of friends
throughout all parts of Texas.CHARLES B. COMBE, M. D.,
BROWNSVILLE,Is a native of Kentucky, born near the city of
Owensboro, in Daviess County, October 1st, 1836.
His father, John Combe, was a planter by occupation,
and successful business man; his mother (nee
Helen Berthoud) was of French descent, a native
of the Isle of St. Thomas, and a lady of domestic
culture and many feminine graces. Dr. Combe
received his early education at St. Joseph's College,
Bardstown, Ky., one of the leading educational
institutions of that day. He there nearly
ended his classical course in the year 1854, when,
owing to the untimely death of his father, he relinquished
his studies. Soon after he took up the
study of medicine under Dr. Louis Rogers, an
eminent physician of Louisville, Ky., with whom
he remained nearly three years, at the same time
attending lectures at the Louisville University.Dr. Rogers then sent him to the Charity Hospital
at New Orleans, that he might get the clinical advantages
which that institution afforded. He then
went to the Jefferson College of Medicine at
Philadelphia, from which celebrated university he
was graduated in the year 1858. The following
year he came to Texas and engaged in the practice
of his profession at Brownsville, which has since
been his home, with exception of a few years residence
in the border city of Matamoros, Mexico,
and the time he was absent from Texas, on several
prolonged visits to different parts of the United
States and Mexico. Dr. Combe has seen much of
pioneer life on the Mexican border, and experienced
many of its dangers and vicissitudes. He accompanied
Col. John S. Ford on his advance against
Juan N. Cortina in 1859-60. He also served as a
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