Rena Maverick Green
Rena Maverick Green | |
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Born | |
Died | November 29, 1962 San Antonio, Texas, US | (aged 88)
Resting place | Mission Burial Park South, San Antonio, Texas |
Spouse | Robert Berrien Green |
Children | 4 |
Rena Maverick Green (February 10, 1874 – November 29, 1962) was an artist, a suffragist and a co-founder of the San Antonio Conservation Society. She was a pioneer woman member of the San Antonio School Board and served on the board of trustees of the San Antonio Public Library. She was a preservationist for San Antonio history, including the San Antonio Missions National Historical Park and the saving of many city parks. Green helped preserve the Spanish Governor's Palace and the San Antonio River Walk. She was the granddaughter of a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and the widow of a Texas state Senator.
Early life
Mary Rowena Maverick, known her entire life as Rena, was the eldest child of George Madison Maverick and Mary Elizabeth Vance Maverick. She was born February 10, 1874, in
Her grandparents,
She married Robert Berrien Green in 1897, and was widowed by 1907. The couple had four children. At the time of the marriage, her husband was judge of the Thirty-seventh Judicial District of Texas. In 1900, he was elected County Judge, and in 1906 was elected to the state Senate from the Twenty-fourth Senatorial District.[7]
Editor and publisher
In 1921, she edited and published the Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick. She also edited The Swisher Memoirs , Mavericks, Samuel Maverick : Texan and Robert B. Green: A Personal Reminiscence.[4]
Civic activities and historic preservation
She was a member of the board of the local
San Antonio Conservation Society
Green was an artist in the mediums of sculpture, painting and watercolor. She won first prize for watercolor in the Southern Artists Show and first prize in the Texas Small Sculpture Contest. Green became interested in the Arts and Crafts movement inspired by William Lethaby. She studied with Charles Martin and Maurice Stern in Provincetown, Massachusetts, San Francisco, California.[9] In 1924, Green became acquainted with artist Emily Edwards who had been renting a house from Green's sister Lucy Madison Maverick. Sharing a common perspective about protesting the razing of a house that lay in the path of a proposed San Antonio River bypass, the two women formed the San Antonio Conservation Society (SACS). Edwards served as the organization's first president. Green served as SACS president 1933–1935.[10] In 1929, Green was appointed chair of a city committee to restore the Spanish Governor's Palace.[11] When a proposal was made calling for draining and cementing over the part of the river that today is known as the San Antonio River Walk, SACS joined with the City Federation of Women's Clubs to successfully stop the proposal.[12][13]
She championed saving what later became known as
Green became a driving force in the SACS efforts of saving city parks. In 1946, she led SACS into a successful campaign to save
Death
Robert Green died on December 1, 1907. Rena never remarried and outlived her husband by 55 years, dying on November 29, 1962.[17]
Bibliography
- Maverick, Mary Adams; Green, Rena Maverick; Maverick, Geo. Madison (1921). Memoirs of Mary A. Maverick. Alamo Printing Company.
- Green, Rena Maverick; Swisher, John Milton (1932). The Swisher Memoirs. The Sigmund Press. OCLC 2588659.
- Green, Rena Maverick; Maverick, George M (1937). "Mavericks"; Authentic Account of the Term "Maverick" as Applied to Unbranded Cattle. Guessax & Ferlet. OCLC 602361270.
- Green, Rena Maverick (1952). Samuel Maverick : Texan, 1803–1870. H. Wolff. OCLC 732847189.
- Green, Rena Maverick (1962). Robert B. Green: A Personal Reminiscence. OCLC 52109.
References
- ^ "Lucy Madison Maverick". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ "Lewis Adams Maverick Papers, 1929–1959". Southern Illinois University. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ "Maverick Family Papers" (PDF). New York Public Library. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 31, 2010. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ a b c d Fenstermaker, Anne Leslie. "Mary Rowena Maverick Green". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ Marks, Paula Mitchell. "Samuel Augustus Maverick". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ Marks, Paula Mitchell. "Mary Ann Adams Maverick". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ Fenstermaker, Anne Leslie. "Robert Berrien Green". Handbook of Texas Online. Texas State Historical Association. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ "A Guide to the Yanaguana Society (San Antonio, Tex.) Records, 1931–1960". University of Texas Library. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-8078-5580-5.
- OCLC 759158374.
- ^ ISBN 978-0-89672-372-6.
- ^ "San Antonio River Walk". Texas Historical Commission. Retrieved September 5, 2012.
- ISBN 978-0-7603-2973-3.
- ISBN 978-0-8229-4163-7.
- ^ "The Granary". San Antonio Conservation Society. Archived from the original on 2013-12-27. Retrieved September 14, 2012.
- ^ "Texas State Historical Theater". SACS. Archived from the original on 2016-03-29. Retrieved September 6, 2012.
- ^ McNay Art Museum