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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:

Robert Anderson Booklet

 Collection
Identifier: A-0184
Scope and Contents

World War II booklet about the 5th Bomber Command during the move from Owi Airfield to the Island of Leyte.

Dates: -

William W. Arnett Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0142
Scope and Contents

These reminiscences are of people and events encountered during Arnett's early years and travels to and in Texas and his life there until 1848. At the end of the volume are some typescripts of letters written in 1879 and 1880 and genealogical material.

Dates: 1828-1929; Event: Donated in 1957

Gregory Arriola Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0233
Scope and Contents

This collection has Gregory Arriola's discharge papers from two stints in the Texas Rangers (1850-1851) and two turn-of-the-century newspaper articles with biographical information on Arriola.

Dates: 1850-1851, 1901, 1904

Levi Henderson Ashcroft Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0060
Scope and Contents This collection contains the reminiscences of Levi Ashcroft (Ashcraft) during the turbulent years from 1838-1855 in Louisiana and East Texas. Ashcroft's reminiscences begin with an account of abuses of the legal system arising from the influx of lawless characters into the Neutral Ground between Texas and Louisiana. He writes of the murder of Joseph G. Goodbread by Charles W. Jackson, who, upon being acquitted of the murder, formed the band of Regulators to suppress crime. When the...
Dates: 1835-1855; Event: Donated in 1925; Event: Addendum donated in 1943

Atkinson Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0186
Scope and Contents

The collection contains photographs, letters, genealogical information, and news articles related to the Atkinson-Gray families.

Dates: 1854-1963; Event: Donated in 1984

Stephen F. Austin Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0123
Scope and Contents The letters in this small collection were written by Stephen F. Austin during trips to Mexico which were undertaken on behalf of the Texas colonists in an attempt to work out differences between the settlers and the Mexican government. The letters are addressed to Samuel M. Williams, a business associate of Austin, and Austin's sister and brother-in-law, Emily Austin Bryan Perry and James Franklin Perry, who were all living in or near San Felipe de Austin, Texas. All the letters except the...
Dates: 1832-1836; Event: Donated in 1946

Martin Parmer (Palmer) Manuscript by William Physick Zuber

 Collection
Identifier: A-0103
Abstract

Biographical sketch of Parmer, a Texas Revolution participant and Convention delegate (1835-1836), with material on Parmer's involvement in the Fredonian Rebellion (1826-1827) in an Indian battle near Gonzalez, as well as activities of Parmer's son, Isom. Includes Palmer/Parmer family history material.

Dates: 7/23/1902

Antonio Gil Y'Barbo Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0175
Scope and Contents

This collection contains land records, maps, newspaper articles, and genealogical records pertaining to Antonio Gil Y'Barbo. Most of the materials are photocopies and photostats.

Dates: 1791-1977

Mildred Wyatt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0217
Scope and Contents

Ms. Mildred Wyatt's library career at Stephen F. Austin State University spanned four decades (1930-1971). This collection contains personal and some professional material.

Dates: 1900-1987

Steele M. Wright Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0033
Scope and Contents

Correspondence of Wright, Chairman of the Board of Texas Farm Products Company, with prominent public officials; material relating to the Federal Reserve System; genealogical material on Adams and Wright families; and items pertaining to Texas Farm Products Company, Nacogdoches.

Dates: 1943-1975

Wortham Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0147
Scope and Contents

Photocopies of newspaper articles, including obituaries of members of the related Ashcroft family, an invitation, a letter, a will, and some other items relating to the Hopkins County family.

Dates: 1852-1891

Clyde J. Woodward Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: A-0078
Scope and Contents

Reminiscences of Oil Springs, Texas, of the lumbering industry and the history of the Shay locomotive in East Texas by the Nacogdoches lumberman and locomotive engineer.

Dates: 1963-1966

Woldert Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0095
Scope and Contents Chiefly writings on East Texas history by William Albert and Albert Woldert of Tyler, Texas. Also includes some papers relating to William W. Wingfield of Nacogdoches County, Texas. The collection includes: - A letter from Albert Woldert, M. D., to Rev. George L. Crocket and a carbon copy of a typed manuscript (with handwritten notes and corrections) called THE ACTUAL LOCATION OF THE TEJAS VILLAGE (SAN PEDRO) AND THE SPANISH MISSIONS IN HOUSTON COUNTY,...
Dates: 1838-1934

Robert Wilson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: A-0081
Abstract

Robert Wilson was a businessman, soldier in the Republic of Texas Army and congressman of Harrisburg, Texas. Photostats of Wilson's letters to his son, James Theodore Dudley Wilson, and some miscellaneous other documents.

Dates: 1835-1856

Kate Florence Montgomery Wilson Journal

 Collection
Identifier: A-0097
Abstract

Mother of poet and novelist, Karle Wilson Baker. Journal gives an account of family activities in Little Rock, Arkansas, including church life, social gatherings, concerts and special events, and health. Traces Baker's literary beginnings and charts her progress in music, school, and sports. The family later moved to Nacogdoches where Kate died.

Dates: 1890-1897

Francis Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0049
Scope and Contents

Original letters; autobiographical, religious and creative writing manuscripts; business and legal documents of Francis Wilson and other Wilson family members.

Dates: 1839-1935

Washington Whitesides Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0236
Dates: 1941-1945

Robert D. Baker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0174
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of an April 1998 copy of Baker's manuscript "Timbered Again: The Story of the National Forests in Texas", and a copy of his 1956 doctoral dissertation.

Dates: 1956, 4/25/1998; Event: Donated in 1998

Madison G. Whitaker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A-0045
Scope and Contents

Included in these papers are deeds, survey plats, indentures, field notes, land grants, receipts, promissory notes, a limited amount of personal and business correspondence, and estate papers of Madison G. Whitaker. Also included are some genealogical materials on the Fitts and Whitaker families.

Dates: 1839-1915

Whitaker-Fenley Letters

 Collection
Identifier: A-0115
Scope and Contents This collection consists of photocopies and typed transcripts of Civil War letters written from John P. Whitaker to his wife Mary S. ("Dollie") Fenley Whitaker. His letters were written from Louisiana and Arkansas and contain descriptions of camp conditions, war news and rumors, and reports on friends and family, including Mary's brothers John and William, Lawrence and Charles S. Taylor, Henderson Muckleroy, John Baugh, and Capt. Joseph H. Bruton. Whitaker assisted with nursing the...
Dates: 1862-1864