The family lived and worked on a cotton farm along the Mississippi River.
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Outside of the busy town centre, the Sauer-Beckmann farmstead in the Lyndon B Johnson State Park, 18 miles east of town, showcases how German settlers livedonthefarm.
Dr. Gowden later told me that he found me shy and difficult to talk to, but if I appeared timid to him it was because I was not used to dealing with people apart from my family and the three servants: Paddy, my nanny Kitty Lee, and Norah Maloney, a cheerful woman who livedon a farm in the hills behind Brook Lodge.
As the years passed, this passionate scientist, who had never taken a degree and lived most of the time onthefarm where she had been born, accumulated eight honorary doctorates.