DULANEY
THE PIONEER FIELD-DULANEY FAMILIES
Biography.
Dr. Joseph E. Dulaney left his plantation “Medical Grove” in Blountville, Tennessee and emigrated to Collin County, Texas at the close of the Civil War in which he had served as a surgeon. He was the third generation of Dulaney physicians in Tennessee, and after coming to Collin County, entered practice with Dr. B. S. Shelburne at old Lebanon on Preston Trail.
On November 27, 1869 Dr. Dulaney was married to Lucie Ann Field, daughter of Jesse and Martha Ann Oglesby Field who lived nine miles west of McKinney. In 1870 he bought property on Chestnut Street in McKinney an d built the home that is now a part of Chestnut Square owned and operated as a museum by the Collin County Heritage Guild. Upon the death of Dr. Dulaney’s father, Dr. Dulaney moved his family back to Bristol, Tennessee to help settle his father’s affairs. While there he was elected president of the Bristol Academy of Medicine. While there his only son, Joseph Field Dulaney was born, October 21, 1876.
After the death of Dr. Dulaney, Mrs. Joseph Dulaney moved her family back to her home on Chestnut Street, where she made her home and reared her three children, Annie, Corrie, and Joseph. Annie died in 1893.
Joseph Dulaney was educated in Pharmacy in Chicago and in Philadelphia. He never practiced his profession for long because in the great oil exploration of 1905-1910 oil was discovered on land his father had once owned in Jack and Young counties and it was discovered that Joseph Dulaney still held the mineral rights to all the land. He soon became a very rich man and gave up his other interests to devote himself to his properties and investments. In 1966 he was one of the largest stockholders in the First National Bank of Dallas and on his 90th birthday the Trust Department of the bank honored him with a birthday dinner. He died May 7, 1968 but during his lifetime he was a great philanthropist giving people of his town many lasting gifts, one of which was land for a Public Library.
Jesse Field, 1801 - 1869 - father of Lucy Field Dulaney, settled nine miles west of McKinney in 1859, having first settled in Dallas. His large home in Southeast McKinney was scene of many early parties for his daughters who grew up there. The home was destroyed by fire. A complete story of this prominent family may be read on microfilm at the McKinney Library: McKinney Democrat, May 15, 1941 and the McKinney Courier Gazette of April 29, 1902.
The Dulaney home built in 1875 and the later one built in 1910 are a part of the Heritage Guild properties and are a part of the Annual Christmas Tour of Homes, furnished in the period in which they were built.
Biography.
Dr. Joseph E. Dulaney left his plantation “Medical Grove” in Blountville, Tennessee and emigrated to Collin County, Texas at the close of the Civil War in which he had served as a surgeon. He was the third generation of Dulaney physicians in Tennessee, and after coming to Collin County, entered practice with Dr. B. S. Shelburne at old Lebanon on Preston Trail.
On November 27, 1869 Dr. Dulaney was married to Lucie Ann Field, daughter of Jesse and Martha Ann Oglesby Field who lived nine miles west of McKinney. In 1870 he bought property on Chestnut Street in McKinney an d built the home that is now a part of Chestnut Square owned and operated as a museum by the Collin County Heritage Guild. Upon the death of Dr. Dulaney’s father, Dr. Dulaney moved his family back to Bristol, Tennessee to help settle his father’s affairs. While there he was elected president of the Bristol Academy of Medicine. While there his only son, Joseph Field Dulaney was born, October 21, 1876.
After the death of Dr. Dulaney, Mrs. Joseph Dulaney moved her family back to her home on Chestnut Street, where she made her home and reared her three children, Annie, Corrie, and Joseph. Annie died in 1893.
Joseph Dulaney was educated in Pharmacy in Chicago and in Philadelphia. He never practiced his profession for long because in the great oil exploration of 1905-1910 oil was discovered on land his father had once owned in Jack and Young counties and it was discovered that Joseph Dulaney still held the mineral rights to all the land. He soon became a very rich man and gave up his other interests to devote himself to his properties and investments. In 1966 he was one of the largest stockholders in the First National Bank of Dallas and on his 90th birthday the Trust Department of the bank honored him with a birthday dinner. He died May 7, 1968 but during his lifetime he was a great philanthropist giving people of his town many lasting gifts, one of which was land for a Public Library.
Jesse Field, 1801 - 1869 - father of Lucy Field Dulaney, settled nine miles west of McKinney in 1859, having first settled in Dallas. His large home in Southeast McKinney was scene of many early parties for his daughters who grew up there. The home was destroyed by fire. A complete story of this prominent family may be read on microfilm at the McKinney Library: McKinney Democrat, May 15, 1941 and the McKinney Courier Gazette of April 29, 1902.
The Dulaney home built in 1875 and the later one built in 1910 are a part of the Heritage Guild properties and are a part of the Annual Christmas Tour of Homes, furnished in the period in which they were built.
Joseph Dulaney
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Lucy Field Dulaney
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