Box 4
Container
Contains 10 Collections and/or Records:
Names of witnesses, arranged alphabetically
File — Box: 4, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Dates of hearings, persons present, witnesses examined
File — Box: 4, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Complainant’s exhibits A-F, photographs of Rice property Dunellen, in New Jersey, photos dated November 6, 1899.
File — Box: 4, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Transcripts in the record of No. 219 Equity of O.T. Holt, Executor vs. T.W. House et al, District Court of Washington County, Texas, June 6, 1898. Suit relates to disputed interests in various tracts of land. House is a co-defendant of William M. Rice.
File — Box: 4, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Memorandum, No. 339 Equity, Rice vs. Holt. Summary of case, undated.
File — Box: 4, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Correspondence: James A. Baker Jr. to Spencer Hutchins, August 29, 1899 with enclosure to William M. Rice, August 29, 1899.
File — Box: 4, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Correspondence: Collection of letters re. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice and her estate, and to and from A.T. Patrick and O.T. Holt, ca. 1896-1902
File — Box: 4, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
United States Circuit Court, Southern District of Texas at Houston, Holt vs. William Marsh Rice Institute, C.L. No. 27. Records of case proceedings with index, 1897-1903.
File — Box: 4, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Letter from Hutcheson, Campbell and Hutcheson to O.T. Holt regarding Rice estate case, May 15, 1901. This letter describes the essential strengths and weaknesses of Holt’s case against W.M. Rice’s estate and begins to set the groundwork for the eventual settlement.
File — Box: 4, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916
Baldwin vs. Rice, summary, 1903
File — Box: 4, Folder: 10-11
Scope and Contents note
From the Series:
These cases are filed chronologically based on each case’s beginning date. Major cases include cases challenging William Marsh Rice’s late wife’s will and William Marsh Rice’s murder trial. Each generally includes correspondence, notes, and legal documents such as testimony, exhibits, trial documents, affidavits, releases, published versions of the trials, and newsclippings.The first case is that of William Marsh Rice vs. Orren T. Holt, executor of Mrs. Elizabeth Baldwin Rice’s...
Dates:
1844 - 1941; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1916