Mary Alexander Scott Nix Hassell was the daughter of Alexander Dudley Scott and Mary Ann (Woolsey) Scott of Cooke county, Texas.
Her father Alexander Dudley Scott was hanged during the "Great Hanging at Gainesville" Oct,1862 for being a Union sympathizer. Mary was born about three months later in Jan 1863.
The 1800s where the end of the industrial revolution and the birth of scientists.
The Industrial Revolution began around 1760 and ran through the 1840's. Then began the birth of the profession of science. Louis Pasteur, Charles Darwin, Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison, and Nikola Te...
Old photos of workers and businesses from past decades
While we don't know what the first business transaction was, it is easy to imagine that thousands of years ago a good hunter bartered his excess meat for something more useful to him. In the history ...