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The Old Dougherty House was the location of the noted St. Paul's Academy for Boys and the home of school owner Robert Dougherty, who lived from 1827 to 1881. A refugee from the Irish famine of the 1840s, Dougherty was educated at St. Mary's College, Kentucky, and worked as a journalist and merchant before settling in Texas and marrying Rachel Sullivan here. From 1867 to 1874, he served as principal of Hidalgo Seminary in Corpus Christi. In 1876, he built his school here on Round Lake near his wife's family. He taught geography, history, mathematics, Latin, Greek, classical literature, and Gaelic, subjects rare in that era, and all seven of his children began their careers as teachers.
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