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Woman cattle rancher born in San Antonio
On this day in 1901, Armel Keeran, the granddaughter of Texas cattleman
John N. Keeran, was born in San Antonio. As a child she developed an
interest in Brahman cattle on her father's ranch, and after graduating
from college she moved back to the ranch and spent her life raising
Brahmans. She was widely known as a Brahman breeder and was an outspoken
advocate of the hump-backed cattle. She was the first woman in the
United States to raise Brahmans and the second woman to sit on a board
of a major cattle association. She developed the largest herd of Brahman
cattle in the United States at that time. She was married to Henry Clay
Koontz II of the Koontz Ranch in 1928, but the couple divorced after
eleven years of marriage. She later married Hugh Baker. She died of a
stroke and complications of diabetes in 1967 in Victoria.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- BAKER, ARMEL KEERAN KOONTZ
- KEERAN, JOHN NEWBANKS
- BRAHMAN CATTLE
- KOONTZ RANCH
- RANCHING
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
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- "Great Captain" of the rangers retires (1906)
- Lorenzo de Zavala dies (1836)
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