{"id":30674,"date":"2025-11-01T08:45:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:45:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30674\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T08:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T08:45:18","slug":"humble-creates-holiday-honoring-citys-namesake-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/30674\/","title":{"rendered":"Humble creates holiday honoring city\u2019s namesake, founder"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSept. 14 has been dubbed \u201cFounder\u2019s Day\u201d<\/a> in Humble to honor the city’s namesake after Humble City Council<\/a> unanimously approved the holiday Sept. 11.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe embrace our history,\u201d Mayor Norman Funderburk said. \u201cWe’re fortunate that we have such a rich history.\u201d<\/p>\n

The history <\/p>\n

Pleasant Smith Humble, a justice of the peace and ferry operator for whom the city is named, opened a post office in his home for the community in 1886, according to the city\u2019s website<\/a>. He was named U.S. postmaster on Sept. 14, 1886, Mayor Pro Tem Bruce Davidson said Sept. 11.<\/p>\n

When Pleasant Smith Humble opened his post office, he listed the town as \u201cHumble, Texas,\u201d and the name stuck when the federal government approved the post office, Humble Museum<\/a> Executive Director Robert Meaux said via email Sept. 26.<\/p>\n

He took on the responsibility of handling local mail because the local community of Lord faced challenges and that post office closed down, according to an article by Meaux<\/a> posted on the Humble Museum\u2019s website.<\/p>\n

A little known fact about Pleasant Smith Humble is that he was also a politician and was elected as a Harris County commissioner in 1876, Meaux said. During his lifetime, Pleasant Smith Humble also served as a store clerk, an attorney and in the Confederate Army during the U.S. Civil War.<\/p>\n

\"cardsThe catalyst <\/p>\n

In the early 1900s, oil was discovered<\/a> in present-day Beaumont, sparking a search in the Humble area, Meaux said. The Moonshine Company is credited with finding oil first in the area in 1904, which raised property values and brought a temporary influx in population.<\/p>\n

Humble did not become an official city until 1933, however, when the citizens voted for incorporation for the second time. In the 1910s, Humble voters opted to incorporate, but the local government created fell apart, Meaux said in an Oct. 2 email. John Brown Dubose<\/a>, a medical doctor and former Humble ISD president and board member, was the city\u2019s first mayor.<\/p>\n

Looking ahead <\/p>\n

Funderburk said the city didn\u2019t have time to organize a celebration for the first Founder\u2019s Day this year, but he said he will work with city committees to organize community events for next year.<\/p>\n

\u201cGoing forward, we’ll try to do something each year just to make sure everybody recognizes the significance of that day,\u201d Funderburk said.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 14 has been dubbed \u201cFounder\u2019s Day\u201d in Humble to honor the city’s namesake after Humble City Council…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":30675,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[17041,56,58,57,1542,17040,20482,20478,20483,20477,20479,20481,20480],"class_list":["post-30674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-city-of-humble","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-humble","tag-humble-city-council","tag-humble-history","tag-humble-museum","tag-humble-tx-history","tag-norman-funderburk","tag-pleasant-humble","tag-pleasant-smith-humble","tag-robert-meaux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}