How Fort Concho’s Chaplains Helped Build San Angelo’s Early Civic Life
A lecture recounted how 19th-century Army chaplains at Fort Concho — notably Norman Badger, George W. Dunbar and Francis Heyer Weaver — served as teachers, librarians, gardeners and ministers, seeding churches, schools and civic institutions in what became San Angelo.
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Unidentified Speaker, editor of the West Texas Historical Association newsletter, described how Army chaplains stationed at Fort Concho in the late 19th century served far beyond religious duties and helped shape the nascent community that became San Angelo.
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