Dr. Grady Early, Distinguished Professor Emeritus, taught math and computer science at Texas State University for 29 years, serving briefly as interim chair of the newly-formed Computer Science department. After retirement, Early began researching his family history and gained some familiarity with various research tools: ancestry, familysearch, newspapers, San Marcos Record archives, findagrave and many more. This made it easy for him to segue into the histories of non-family members, which is how he began to write a story about Southwest Texas Normal in San Marcos, also known as San Marcos Normal, which is now Texas State University. This series will highlight the first staff at Southwest Texas Normal.
The 1907 Pedagogue described her in this way: “Katherine E. White was a unified rhetorical structure; has a special affinity for themes; advocate of circuses, rambles of all kinds, entertainments, etc.”
“Kate” White was born in 1871 in Smith County, probably in Tyler where her father Charles G. White was a lawyer and, later, a judge.
