Box 1
Container
Contains 38 Results:
Business papers - Receipts and promissory notes (15 items), 1900-1961
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1900-1961
Prescriptions and recipes - Dr. John M. Sparks' recipe for rheumatism, a recipe for making wine and a recipe for making "mechanic's favorite soap" (6 items)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Business documents - Concerning Dr. John M. Sparks' business of manufacturing and selling "direct force acting pumps" (2 items), 1882
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1882
Sparks Manufacturing Co. (Hair Vigor) documents - Correspondence, advertisements, testimonials, orders, and letters of recommendation (19 items), 1887-1936
File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1887-1936
Speeches, essays and radio programs - Short speeches, essays and radio programs relating chiefly to historical events and persons in Nacogdoches by Johnnie May Sparks Wyres
File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Johnnie May Sparks Wyres' notebook (20 items, loose and stapled chapters)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Miscellaneous documents - Poems, rough drafts of articles, recipe, and outline of a pageant written or copied by Johnnie May Sparks Wyres (18 items), 1911-1950
File — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1911-1950
Nacogdoches families (24 items)
File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Scope and Contents
Rough handwritten and typed histories pertaining to Nacogdoches county people and families: Weatherly, Costley, Clute, Perritte, Baucom, McKnight, Clevenger, Fuller, Black, Martin, Orton, Baker, Matteson, Stripling, Whitaker, Birdwell, Cruse, Garrett, Hoya; asketch of Douglass in 1908-1909; and Texas history material, 1908-1909.
Dates:
1835-1971
Address of General Thomas J. Rusk to first Grand Jury (2.5 pages, 2 copies)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Autobiography of Allen Thomas Garrard (12 pages)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
A criminal code, Nacogdoches (12 pages), 1873
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1873
The family of Judge Fuller (2 pages)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
First Protestant public school in Republic of Texas (3 pages)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
General Sam Houston appoints David Rusk as Sheriff (2 pages, 2 copies)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Nacogdoches - notes on early history (2 pages, 2 copies)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Nacogdoches history (three chapters)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971
Notes from Adolphus Sterne's diary (1 page)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 9
Scope and Contents
1 page, 1 copy.
Dates:
1835-1971
Odd names and old places (2 pages)
Item — Box: 1, Folder: 12, Item: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
Correspondence, receipts, essays, newspaper articles, legal documents, photos, and other papers, relating to John Marion Sparks and his daughter, Johnnie May (Sparks) Wyres of Nacogdoches, Texas. Includes records relating to Sparks Manufacturing Company, producers of Hair Vigor, a hair restorer developed by Dr. Sparks; genealogical material on the Sparks family; material on Nacogdoches history and families for a proposed book by Wyres; and on Old North Church, Nacogdoches, the first...
Dates:
1835-1971