Box 8
Container
Contains 71 Results:
Box 8
Box — Box: 8
Dates:
1826-1942; Event: Donated in 1963
Found in:
East Texas Research Center
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Bennett Blake Papers
Political broadsides for Bennett Blake's election to Chief Justice of Nacogdoches Co. (3 items), 1856
File — Box: 8, Folder: 2
Texas Veteran Association papers of Bennett Blake (5 items), 1870-1886
File — Box: 8, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
Includes certificates, Letters
Dates:
1870-1886
Eastern Texas Railroad Company papers of Bennett Blake (8 items), 1860-1871
File — Box: 8, Folder: 4
Texas Constitutional Convention papers of Bennett Blake (5 items), 1875, undated
File — Box: 8, Folder: 6
Nacogdoches University papers of Bennett Blake (5 items), 1845-1846
File — Box: 8, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
Blake served as treasurer and as a trustee of Nacogdoches University.
Dates:
1845-1846
Nacogdoches University papers of Bennett Blake (resolution, deed, receipts) (4 items), 1847-1884
File — Box: 8, Folder: 8
School fund papers of Bennett Blake (6 items), 1857-1/5/1858
File — Box: 8, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
Includes letters from teachers.
Dates:
1857-1/5/1858
School fund papers of Bennett Blake (9 items), 1858
File — Box: 8, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from teachers and a contract.
Dates:
1858
School fund papers of Bennett Blake (7 items), 1859
File — Box: 8, Folder: 11
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence from teachers and a receipt.
Dates:
1859
Letters to the McKnight family (8 items), 1870-1899
File — Box: 8, Folder: 12
Scope and Contents
The letters are about financial concerns, family matters, horses, land, and an estate settlement. The correspondence includes the names James McKnight, Mary Addie L. Blake Bowler McKnight, and William Bonaparte McKnight [2nd husband of Mary Addie Blake]. One letter from 3/14/1876 is about horses, measurement in hands, and the desire to trade for cattle and sheep near Melrose, Texas.
Dates:
1870-1899
Letters from George F. Ingraham to Addie McKnight and W. B. McKnight re: Bennett Blake's estate (12 items), 1896-1905
File — Box: 8, Folder: 13
McKnight family letters re: legal and financial concerns (4 items), 1900-1901
File — Box: 8, Folder: 14
Letters from James I. Blake and Myrta Blake Perkins to W. B. McKnight re: land and financial concerns (3 items), 1901-1903
File — Box: 8, Folder: 15
Letters from J. L. M. Pirtle to W. B. McKnight re: insurance, timber rights, a dispute over the Bennett Blake league, and oil near Conroe (6 items), 1901-1908
File — Box: 8, Folder: 16
W. B. McKnight family letters re: Wettermark Bank failure, family matters, financial concerns, and timber thieves (8 items), 1903
File — Box: 8, Folder: 17
Letters from Ed Pierson to W. B. McKnight re: land in Falls County (includes field notes and plats) (8 items), 1904
File — Box: 8, Folder: 18
