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{{Infobox person
| name=Malouf Abraham, Jr.<br>
(Texas physician and art collector
|nationality=[[Lebanon|Lebanese]]-[[United States|American]]
|birth_date=March 29, 1939
|birth_place=Canadian, Hemphill County<br> [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|spouse= Therese Browne Abraham (married December 1963)<br>
'''Three sons''':<br>
Eddie Christopher Abraham<br>
Salem Abraham<br>
Jason Abraham<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
[[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]]<br>
Iris Lewis Abraham<br>
Nahim Abraham (grandfather)<br>
[[Tom Abraham]] (uncle)<br>
'''Alma mater''': <br>
Trinity University ([[San Antonio]]<br>
[[University of Texas]] Southwestern Medical School ([[Dallas]])
}}
'''Malouf Abraham, Jr.''' (born March 29, 1939), is a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]]-[[United States|American]] retired [[physician]] and active art collector from Canadian in Hemphill County n the [[Texas]] Panhandle.
==The Citadelle==
The Citadelle, operated by the Citadelle Art Foundation, is centered around Abraham's combination $7 million residence/art museum in Canadian, Texas, called "The Citadelle" or "Citadel Garden."<ref>{{cite web|title=Official site|url=http://www.thecitadelle.org/|publisher=The Citadelle|accessdate=October 13, 2014}}</ref> The mansion is located in the former First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church building.,<ref>"Three Generations of Abrahams Attend Texas Tech," ''Texas Tech Business,'' Winter 1984, p. 16.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.lubbockonline.com/travel/2013-05-04/canadian-texass-far-north-offers-green-oasis-music-art-history-and-fun#gsc.tab=0|title=Canadian: Texas's far north offers a green oasis of music, art, history and fun|author=Barbara Brannon|date=May 4, 2013|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=September 29, 2014}}</ref> and has been featured on Home and Gardens Television.<ref name=heraldtribune>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20111121/article/111129903?tc=ar|title=Doctor created medication and founded art museum|author=Jay Brady|date=November 21, 2011|publisher=''Sarasota Herald-Tribune''|accessdate=September 22, 2014}}</ref>
The Citadelle includes the Abraham mansion, gardens and grounds, furnishings, decorative arts and the Iris & Oofie Abraham Gallery.
==Biography==
Abraham was born to [[oil]] and [[natural gas] [[]business]]man [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971, and the former Iris Lewis (1918–2001), a descendant of a pioneer Hemphill County family,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rivervalleymuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151:malouf-abraham-oil-a-gas&catid=37:commerce-history&Itemid=261|title=Malouf Abraham, Oil & Gas|publisher=''Amarillo Globe Times,'' reproduced on River Valley Pioneer Museum website|date=May 19, 2000|accessdate=September 21, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref> which included his grandfather, Nahim Abraham,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fab10|title=Abraham, Nahim|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|author=H. Allen Anderson|accessdate=September 20, 2014}}</ref> and his uncle, [[Tom Abraham]], the ownes of a former regionally known department store called "The Fair Store".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rivervalleymuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152:tom-abraham-merchant&catid=37:commerce-history&Itemid=262|title=Tom Abraham, Merchant|publisher=River Valley Pioneer Museum|accessdate=September 21, 2014}}</ref>
In 1961, Abraham obtained his undergraduate degree from Trinity University in [[San Antonio]],
Texas. There is an endowed scholarship there in his name, underwritten by his parents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trinity.edu/departments/academic_affairs/course_catalogue05-06/pages/general_frame.htm|title=Trinity University Endowed Scholarship Funds|publisher=trinity.edu|accessdate=September 22, 2014}}</ref> He then procured his medical degree in 1964 from the [[University of Texas]] Southwestern Medical School] in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]].
After graduation from medical school, Abraham interned in [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]]. Thereafter, on receipt of a draft notice for the [[Vietnam War]], he enlisted as a captain and military doctor in the [[United States Air Force]], [[Strategic Air Command]]. He remained stateside, mostly in [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], across the Red River from [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], and for his work treating military personnel returning from Vietnam with allergies received the Air Force Commendation Medal.
Until 2001, Abraham had operated an allergy clinic in Canadian for thirty-five years.<ref>"News, Sniffles, Sneezes, and Aches," ''Southern Methodist University Daily Campu,'' November 10, 2004.</ref>
==Patron of the arts==
In 1972, the Abrahams obtained a [[Norman Rockwell]] painting, ''The First Day of School,'' and started a collection which now includes works by J. C. Leyendecker, William Bouguereau, and Craig Bone.
Though none of his family members are [[Southern Baptist]], Abraham in 1996 donated the "Malouf Abraham Family Art Center" to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. One of the pieces in the collection is Rockwell's ''The First Day of School'' in which a mother readies her son as he leaves home for the first day of school, while the boy's sister looks on in disinterest. The collection includes a mosaic cross bought at the Vatican Mosaic School and personally blessed by [[Po]] [[John Paul II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/news/092796/doctor.htm|title=Doctor talks about his art|date=September 27, 1996|author=Steven Barrett|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=September 22, 2014}}</ref>
In 1995, then [[Governor]] [[George W. Bush]], appointed Abraham to the Texas Commission on the Arts.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/texasregister/text/1995/1103gov.txt|title=The Governor: Appointments Made October 23, 1995|publisher=texinfo.library.unt.edu|accessdate=August 16, 2010}}</ref>
Abraham is married to the former Therese Browne (born 1936), a native of Mount Airy in eastern [[North Carolina]]. The couple married c. 1964 in the Mount Air Catholic Church, which the Browne family helped to build with [[granite]] from their own quarry. Like her father-in-law, Therese Abraham is a former mayor of Canadian, having served from 1981 to 1991.<ref name=heraldtribune/><ref>"City elects first woman mayo,r" ''Canadian Record,'' April 9, 1981, p. 6.</ref> The Abrahams have three sons, all residing in Hemphill County, Eddie Christopher Abraham, a cattle rancher; Salem Abraham, a futures trader with offices in the Moody Building in Canadian, and Jason Abraham, a horse rancher.
Malouf and Therese Abraham divide their time between Canadian and a second home in Sarasota, [[Florida]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abraham, Malouf, Jr.}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Art]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:United States Air Force]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Catholics]]
| name=Malouf Abraham, Jr.<br>
(Texas physician and art collector
|nationality=[[Lebanon|Lebanese]]-[[United States|American]]
|birth_date=March 29, 1939
|birth_place=Canadian, Hemphill County<br> [[Texas]], [[United States|USA]]
|party=[[Republican Party|Republican]]
|religion=[[Roman Catholic]]
|spouse= Therese Browne Abraham (married December 1963)<br>
'''Three sons''':<br>
Eddie Christopher Abraham<br>
Salem Abraham<br>
Jason Abraham<br>
'''Parents''':<br>
[[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]]<br>
Iris Lewis Abraham<br>
Nahim Abraham (grandfather)<br>
[[Tom Abraham]] (uncle)<br>
'''Alma mater''': <br>
Trinity University ([[San Antonio]]<br>
[[University of Texas]] Southwestern Medical School ([[Dallas]])
}}
'''Malouf Abraham, Jr.''' (born March 29, 1939), is a [[Lebanon|Lebanese]]-[[United States|American]] retired [[physician]] and active art collector from Canadian in Hemphill County n the [[Texas]] Panhandle.
==The Citadelle==
The Citadelle, operated by the Citadelle Art Foundation, is centered around Abraham's combination $7 million residence/art museum in Canadian, Texas, called "The Citadelle" or "Citadel Garden."<ref>{{cite web|title=Official site|url=http://www.thecitadelle.org/|publisher=The Citadelle|accessdate=October 13, 2014}}</ref> The mansion is located in the former First [[Southern Baptist|Baptist]] Church building.,<ref>"Three Generations of Abrahams Attend Texas Tech," ''Texas Tech Business,'' Winter 1984, p. 16.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://m.lubbockonline.com/travel/2013-05-04/canadian-texass-far-north-offers-green-oasis-music-art-history-and-fun#gsc.tab=0|title=Canadian: Texas's far north offers a green oasis of music, art, history and fun|author=Barbara Brannon|date=May 4, 2013|publisher=''Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=September 29, 2014}}</ref> and has been featured on Home and Gardens Television.<ref name=heraldtribune>{{cite web|url=http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20111121/article/111129903?tc=ar|title=Doctor created medication and founded art museum|author=Jay Brady|date=November 21, 2011|publisher=''Sarasota Herald-Tribune''|accessdate=September 22, 2014}}</ref>
The Citadelle includes the Abraham mansion, gardens and grounds, furnishings, decorative arts and the Iris & Oofie Abraham Gallery.
==Biography==
Abraham was born to [[oil]] and [[natural gas] [[]business]]man [[Malouf Abraham, Sr.]], who served in the Texas House of Representatives from 1967 to 1971, and the former Iris Lewis (1918–2001), a descendant of a pioneer Hemphill County family,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rivervalleymuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=151:malouf-abraham-oil-a-gas&catid=37:commerce-history&Itemid=261|title=Malouf Abraham, Oil & Gas|publisher=''Amarillo Globe Times,'' reproduced on River Valley Pioneer Museum website|date=May 19, 2000|accessdate=September 21, 2014; no longer on-line}}</ref> which included his grandfather, Nahim Abraham,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/fab10|title=Abraham, Nahim|publisher=Texas State Historical Association|author=H. Allen Anderson|accessdate=September 20, 2014}}</ref> and his uncle, [[Tom Abraham]], the ownes of a former regionally known department store called "The Fair Store".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.rivervalleymuseum.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=152:tom-abraham-merchant&catid=37:commerce-history&Itemid=262|title=Tom Abraham, Merchant|publisher=River Valley Pioneer Museum|accessdate=September 21, 2014}}</ref>
In 1961, Abraham obtained his undergraduate degree from Trinity University in [[San Antonio]],
Texas. There is an endowed scholarship there in his name, underwritten by his parents.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.trinity.edu/departments/academic_affairs/course_catalogue05-06/pages/general_frame.htm|title=Trinity University Endowed Scholarship Funds|publisher=trinity.edu|accessdate=September 22, 2014}}</ref> He then procured his medical degree in 1964 from the [[University of Texas]] Southwestern Medical School] in [[Dallas, Texas|Dallas]].
After graduation from medical school, Abraham interned in [[Savannah]], [[Georgia]]. Thereafter, on receipt of a draft notice for the [[Vietnam War]], he enlisted as a captain and military doctor in the [[United States Air Force]], [[Strategic Air Command]]. He remained stateside, mostly in [[Bossier City]], [[Louisiana]], across the Red River from [[Shreveport]] in northwestern [[Louisiana]], and for his work treating military personnel returning from Vietnam with allergies received the Air Force Commendation Medal.
Until 2001, Abraham had operated an allergy clinic in Canadian for thirty-five years.<ref>"News, Sniffles, Sneezes, and Aches," ''Southern Methodist University Daily Campu,'' November 10, 2004.</ref>
==Patron of the arts==
In 1972, the Abrahams obtained a [[Norman Rockwell]] painting, ''The First Day of School,'' and started a collection which now includes works by J. C. Leyendecker, William Bouguereau, and Craig Bone.
Though none of his family members are [[Southern Baptist]], Abraham in 1996 donated the "Malouf Abraham Family Art Center" to Wayland Baptist University in Plainview, Texas. One of the pieces in the collection is Rockwell's ''The First Day of School'' in which a mother readies her son as he leaves home for the first day of school, while the boy's sister looks on in disinterest. The collection includes a mosaic cross bought at the Vatican Mosaic School and personally blessed by [[Po]] [[John Paul II]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lubbockonline.com/news/092796/doctor.htm|title=Doctor talks about his art|date=September 27, 1996|author=Steven Barrett|publisher=''The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal''|accessdate=September 22, 2014}}</ref>
In 1995, then [[Governor]] [[George W. Bush]], appointed Abraham to the Texas Commission on the Arts.<ref>{{cite web|url= http://texinfo.library.unt.edu/texasregister/text/1995/1103gov.txt|title=The Governor: Appointments Made October 23, 1995|publisher=texinfo.library.unt.edu|accessdate=August 16, 2010}}</ref>
Abraham is married to the former Therese Browne (born 1936), a native of Mount Airy in eastern [[North Carolina]]. The couple married c. 1964 in the Mount Air Catholic Church, which the Browne family helped to build with [[granite]] from their own quarry. Like her father-in-law, Therese Abraham is a former mayor of Canadian, having served from 1981 to 1991.<ref name=heraldtribune/><ref>"City elects first woman mayo,r" ''Canadian Record,'' April 9, 1981, p. 6.</ref> The Abrahams have three sons, all residing in Hemphill County, Eddie Christopher Abraham, a cattle rancher; Salem Abraham, a futures trader with offices in the Moody Building in Canadian, and Jason Abraham, a horse rancher.
Malouf and Therese Abraham divide their time between Canadian and a second home in Sarasota, [[Florida]].
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Abraham, Malouf, Jr.}}
[[Category:Texas]]
[[Category:Florida]]
[[Category:Art]]
[[Category:Physicians]]
[[Category:United States Air Force]]
[[Category:Republicans]]
[[Category:Catholics]]