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Founders and Pioneers

  • Adams, Rebecca Ann Patillo Bass
  • Aguayo, Marqués de San Miguel de
  • Alarcon, Francisca [Doña Paca]
  • Allen, Charlotte Marie Baldwin
  • Allen, Frances Daisy Emery
  • Altgelt, Ernst Hermann
  • Álvarez Travieso, Vicente
  • Ames, Harriet A. Moore Page Potter
  • Anderson, Hannah English Payne
  • Andrews, Willie Ann Hudson
  • Aoy, Olives Villanueva
  • Austin, Mary Brown
  • Ayres, Claudia [Mother Mary Angelique]
  • Baine, Noel Moses
  • Baird, Raleigh William
  • Ballas, George Charles, Sr.
  • Barlough, Delilah Bennett Manning
  • Barnard, Juana Josefina Cavasos
  • Barrios, Viola Botello
  • Baylor, Robert Emmett Bledsoe
  • Beales, John Charles
  • Behrns, Francis Marion
  • Belcher, Edward
  • Bell, Paul Carlyle
  • Bell, Paul Gervais, Jr.
  • Benavides, Placido
  • Berryman, Helena Dill
  • Bethel, George Emmett
  • Béthencourt, María Robaina de
  • Bibra, Baron August Ludwig Karl Georg Friedrich Von
  • Bickler, Jacob
  • Black, James Harvey
  • Blocker, Truman Graves, Jr.
  • Blücher, Maria Augusta Imme Von
  • Boos-Waldeck, Count Ludwig Joseph von
  • Borden, John Pettit
  • Boughton, Ivan Bertrand
  • Bowie, Anna Mary
  • Bowman, Bobby Neil, Sr. [Bob]
  • Boyle, Andrew Michael
  • Bracht, Viktor Friedrich
  • Brown, Jack Taylor
  • Burchill, Kate Belle Murray
  • Burleson, Mary R. B. Christian
  • Burt, Marie Anita
  • Bush, George Herbert Walker
  • Byars, Noah Turner
  • Cabell, Earle
  • Cabet, Étienne
  • Cade, James Robert
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