Atascosa County Texas Map Land Plat New Pleasanton Home Parcel Dr Simmons c 1908

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Atascosa County Texas Map Large Double Sided Land Plat Pleasanton New Artesia Home Parcels Dr. Simmons, circa 1908.
Charles Franklin Simmons (1853–1910), rancher and land promoter, was born Calvin Franklin Simmons in Iuka, Mississippi, one of three sons of Dr. M. A. Simmons, inventor of Dr. M. A. Simmons's Vegetable Liver Medicine. Simmons received his early schooling in Mississippi.
He reportedly studied law at the University of Virginia and Cumberland University at Lebanon, Tennessee, and attended Jefferson Medical College and the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy. He apparently practiced law in Lebanon prior to 1879, when he purchased his father's St. Louis patent-medicine business.
Simmons sold his interest in the St. Louis medicine business in 1900 and moved to Live Oak County, Texas, to reside on the 60,000-acre ranch he purchased that year. After subdividing the ranch and establishing the town of Simmons City in 1907, he moved to San Antonio in 1908.
That same year he purchased a 95,000-acre ranch in Atascosa County from Daniel and Anton Oppenheimer. He founded a town, first called New Artesia and then Christine, which was incorporated 1910, and platted the townsite of Imogene.
He chartered the Artesian Belt Railroad Company in 1908 and laid 38.7 miles of track from Kirk, a siding on the International-Great Northern Railroad southwest of San Antonio, through Poteet, Jourdanton, and his ranch, to Christine.
To attract settlers to Christine and Imogene, Simmons wrote and published a pamphlet advertising package deals for lots in town and farm acreage. Simmons suffered from kidney disease for many years and died from Bright's disease in Excelsior Springs, Missouri, on November 4, 1910.
The item measures approximately 31" X 43", approximate shipping weight 6 ounces.
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