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A. Personal & Family Collection

 Classification
Identifier: A
The Family and Personal Collection offer sources for the study of a variety of topics such as agriculture, economic conditions, the Civil War, the role of Texan women, and family history in Texas history. Such collections contain diaries, letters, land records, memoirs, and other papers collected by, and centered on, an individual or successive generations of a family. Among the collections is material from Karle Wilson Baker, Stephen F. Austin, Archie P. McDonald, and local NAACP leader Arthur Weaver. These collections document the social, cultural and economic history of East Texas from European colonialism to the present day and provide a view into southern culture and life.

Found in 377 Collections and/or Records:

Joe E. Ericson Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0248
Scope and Contents

The Joe E. Ericson Research Collection is a collection of research materials on banks and bankers, published articles, research papers, and notes on Nacogdoches history from 1914-1979.

Dates: 1914-1981; Event: Donated in 1998

Bob Fagelson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0247
Scope and Contents

This collection contains articles, magazines, maps, newsletters, photographs, magazines, pamphlets, and other published material relating to the China-Burma-India theater of World War II. The bulk of the collection consists of full and partial issues of the Hump Pilot's Association quarterly newsletter and the China-Burma-India Veteran Association's monthly magazine 'CBI Sound-Off'.

Dates: 1940-2005; Event: Donated 9/21/1992; Event: Addendum donated 5/1/2006

C. A. "Neal" Pickett Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0164
Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, newspaper and magazine articles, speeches and biographical information.

Dates: 1920-1985

Annette Penman Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0229
Scope and Contents

The collection mostly consists of photographs taken during the 1930's and 1940's.

Dates: 1890-1940

Samuel Houston Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0068
Scope and Contents These papers relate to the activities of Sam Houston mainly while he was governor of Tennessee, President of the Republic of Texas, and U. S. Senator from Texas. Included among the legal documents are photocopies from a lengthy land dispute with James H. Starr. The correspondence includes copies of seven letters to Eber Worthington Cave, mostly written in the last year of Houston's life, as well as one to Adolphus Sterne in 1842. All were omitted from the publication of 'The Writings of Sam...
Dates: 1827-1975

Pena-Chireno Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0024
Scope and Contents

The collection contains letters from Isabel Chireno to her parents, and from the Mother Superior of Sacred Heart to Mrs. Chireno. The Mother Superior in these letters may be Rosalie Pepin (Sister Mary Euphrosine), who was in charge of the Convent of the Sacred Heart at the time of Sister Maria Theresa's death, on August 31, 1874.

Dates: 1800-1936

James R. Parrish Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0179
Scope and Contents

The material in the collection is an example of the publishing process for the book "Between Loaded Guns". It includes the original manuscript pages, the galley proof, newspaper articles, and film script adaptations.

Dates: 1982-1983

Parks Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0197
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of newspaper clippings from the late 1800s to the early 1900s as well as family photographs.

Dates: 1880-1970

Howe-Piper Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0105
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of sheet music for voice and piano from 1850 to 1920. There are also stamping patterns from 1883-1885.

Dates: 1850-1978

Pamela Lynn Palmer Collection on Karle Wilson Baker

 Collection
Identifier: A-0180
Scope and Contents

This is a small collection consists of the unpublished manuscript, 'Let Me Grow Lovely: A Biography of Karle Wilson Baker, Texas Writer', with photographs of Karle Wilson Baker and her home.

Dates: Event: Donated 11/3/1998

Dorthy Palmer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0222
Scope and Contents

The bulk of this collection consists of deeds, but there are also promissory notes, photographs, negatives, several land surveys, some estate papers, a land grant, and a plat map. The majority of the documents pertain to Nacogdoches County.

Researchers may find several of the c.1920s photographs and negatives in folder 1 to be of particular interest.

Dates: 1854-1935

Owens-Stephens Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0167
Scope and Contents

This collection consists entirely of photocopies of the day books of William E. Stephens and letters, diaries, tax receipts, and other documents relating to Alice Stephens Owens. The diaries record family events, the weather, vacation trips, and daily activities.

Dates: 1898-1976

James Carlton Owens WWII Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0161
Scope and Contents

This collection consists predominantly of letters from James Carlton Owens to his parents, wife, and children written during his Naval service in World War II. Also included are a letter from Rosa Lee Owens to James C. Owens, telegrams to the family from the military confirming the death of Owens, sympathy letters, military memorabilia, medals (including the Purple Heart), books, and certificates.

Dates: 1911-1952

Hubert Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0058
Dates: 1838-1942; Donated in 1971

George F. Ingraham Acknowledgement Record

 Collection
Identifier: A-0064
Scope and Contents

Record of acknowledgments taken by Ingraham, notary public of Nacogdoches County. Shows number, kind and date of instrument, description and location of land, name of original grantee, name and residence of grantor and similar information.

Dates: 1914-1918

George F. Ingraham Letter Book

 Collection
Identifier: A-0065
Scope and Contents

Blotter copy of letters relating to Ingraham's duties as County Judge and to personal business.

Dates: 1912-1915

Ingraham-Blount-Gough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0168
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of original documents and research materials collected by Mary Martha Hackney on the Ingraham family of Nacogdoches County, the Blount family of San Augustine County, the Gough family, and other families connected to them, including the B. F. Prices, Landons and Tuckers. The collection contains photocopies, carbons, typescripts, and original manuscript materials.

Dates: 1763-1994

Paul Overall WWII Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0226
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of the photographs taken by Overall from the liberation of a World War II concentration camp and his honorable discharge certificate.

Dates: 1946; Event: Donated 9/21/1992

Orton Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0023
Scope and Contents

The letters and business papers included in the Orton Family Papers concern mostly the Sidney Maury Orton family. In addition, many letters concern the Mt. Enterprise Male and Female Academy, where Sidney and Louisa's children attended school. Many of the letters in the collection have typed transcripts.

Dates: 1833-1889

Johnson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0120
Scope and Contents

This collection includes a daybook with minutes of the Johnson Chapel Sunday School (1919-1921), two marriage licenses, and newspaper clippings related to the church, the Erasmus Johnson family and the Otis Sadler family.

Dates: 1867-1984