Mrs. Edna Westbrook Trigg

Edna Westbrook Trigg was a pioneer leader of Texas women in rural club work. While serving as principal of a school near Milano, she was asked by the United States Department of Agriculture in 1911 to supervise Texas' first Girls' Tomato Club, with duties that included organization, teaching, and experimentation. In Aug. 1912, her clubs showed canned products at the Milano Fair in the state's first exhibit of this kind, and it was a great success. In 1913-1914, she worked in Childress and Milam counties, holding canning schools financed by local groups and the U. S. Department of Agriculture. After national and state legislation enacted in 1914-1915 established the Agricultural Extension Service at land grant colleges, she became in 1916 the first county home demonstration agent in Texas. Stationed in Denton, she also served on the staff of the College of Industrial Arts, now Texas Woman's University, overseeing courses in methods for home demonstration work and helping assure its professionalism. A native of Milam County, she was the daughter of Ervin and Rachel Walker Westbrook, married Charles Letman Trigg in 1892, was the mother of Charles Westbrook Trigg and Eloise Trigg, later Mrs. Johnson, and is buried in I.O.O.F. Cemetery in Denton.

Cameron, Texas · United States