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.
Historical marker, Recorded Texas Historic
Landmark, 1977.
THE DULANEY
COTTAGE
A SURGEON IN THE CONFEDERATE
ARMY, DR. JOSEPH E. DULANEY (D. 1877)
CAME TO McKINNEY AFTER THE CIVIL
WAR (1861-65) AND MARRIED LUCY
ANN FIELD (1844-1941), DAUGHTER OF
COLLIN COUNTY PIONEERS. IN 1875 HE
BUILT THIS VICTORIAN HOME WITH
ITS NUMEROUS GABLES AND FINE
PORCH DETAILING. MRS. DULANEY LIVED
HERE UNTIL 1910 WITH HER CHILDREN.
CORINNE (D. 1960) AND JOSEPH FIELD
DULANEY (D. 1968), A PHARMACIST WHO
DONATED THE LAND ACROSS THE STREET
FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY.
Historical
marker, Recorded Texas Historic Landmark, 1988
DULANEY HOUSE
BUILT IN 1916 BY DALLAS BANKER
JOHN FIELD FOR HIS SISTER, MRS.
JOSEPH E. (LUCIE) DULANEY, THIS HOME
REMAINED IN THE DULANEY FAMILY
FOR OVER FIFTY YEARS. JOSEPH FIELD
DULANEY (1876-1968) INHERITED THE
HOME FRM HIS MOTHER AND LIVED
HERE UNTIL HIS DEATH. A LOCAL
PHILANTHROPIST, HE DONATED LAND
ACROSS THE STREET FOR THE McKINNEY
PUBLIC LIBRARY. EXHIBITING INFLUENCES
OF THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL STYLE
OF ARCHITECTURE, THE HOUSE ALSO
FEATURES A WRAPAROUND VERANDA.
Surname Index
Recommended Citation:
"Dulaney and Field families,
EARLY SETTLERS OF COLLIN COUNTY." Collin County, Texas History
and Genealogy Webpage by Genealogy Friends of Plano Libraries, Inc., <http://www.geocities/genfriendsghl>
[Accessed Fri February 13, 2004 ].
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