An Honored Benefactor

ID: 965 ~ Source: Image courtesy of the Texas Collection, Baylor University

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Portraits of benefactors, contributors, and artists line the walls of Armstrong Browning Library in order to honor them. This portrait of Mary Maxwell Armstrong hangs next to a similarly styled portrait of her husband in the John Leddy-Jones Research Hall.

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Mary Maxwell Armstrong

By Dayton Kelley, ed., The Handbook of Waco and McLennan County, Texas

Mary Maxwell Armstrong’s intelligence, insight, and perseverance made her an influential figure in twentieth-century Waco. Her determination combined with her love for great literature aided in the establishment of a world-renowned library on Baylor…