Mary Daggett Lake

She wrote a series of articles on Tarrant County's first settlers, based on interviews and written accounts from surviving family members, which ran in the Fort Worth Star-Telegram from 1926 to 1938.

[4] Mary Daggett Lake was a charter member of The Woman's Club of Fort Worth establishing its Texana library in 1932.

[1][5] Mary Daggett Lake studied botany at Cottey College and worked for twelve years in the private herbarium of Dr. Albert Ruth,[4] which is now part of the Botanical Research Institute of Texas collection.

[4] She organized conferences at state colleges and universities on soil conservation and the benefits of native plants before World War II; during wartime she promoted gardening as a patriotic duty and the propagation of native fruit- and nut-bearing plants to bolster the limited food supply.

[7] In 1926, Mary Daggett Lake wrote The Legend of the Bluebonnet, a short book on the folklore of the state flower of Texas.