Albert Maverick was born in San Antonio, Texas, on 1854 May 8, the youngest surviving child of Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870), a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and Mary Ann Adams (1818-1898). Albert attended but was expelled from the Texas Military Institute in Bastrop and later attended the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, where he met his future wife, Jane Lewis Maury (1858-1954). Albert spent a year in England and France before marrying Jane on 1877 March 20. The couple had eleven children: Jessie (1877-1958), Agatha (1879-1954), Ellen (1881-1910), Albert, Jr. (1883-1962), Reuben (1885-1907), Phillip (1887-1977), Virginia (1889-1975), James Slayden (1890-1987), Mary (1892-1988), George Madison (1893-1980), and Fontaine Maury (1895-1954).
Relocating his family to San Antonio, Albert eventually ran the land office in the Maverick building downtown. He died on 1947 January 24 at the age of ninety-two.
Jane Maverick was long involved in San Antonio civic affairs and a charter member of the Conservation Society, Battle of Flowers Association, and other organizations. She took up painting at age sixty-five and the Art League met at her home, the Sunshine Ranch. She died on 1954 February 15 at age ninety-five.
Albert Maverick biographical file, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.
The collection contains a letter from Jane Maverick describing her sixtieth wedding anniversary, invitations to Jane and Albert Maverick's fiftieth anniversary reception, a brief reminiscence of the Civil War by Jane Maverick, and newspaper clippings. Items were received or gathered by relatives of the Mavericks.
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Papers of Jane Lewis Maury Maverick, ca. 1887, 1927-1944, Accession #1946, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
[Identification of item], Albert and Jane Lewis Maury Maverick Papers, 1927-1954, Doc 9928, Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library, San Antonio, Texas.
Gift of Hillis F. McLemore, 1990 February.
Processed by Warren Stricker, 1997.
Finding aid edited and encoded by Tom D'Amore, 2011 September.