Frontier life
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Anderson-Greenwood Family History records
Collection
Identifier: MS 0534
Overview
Benjamin and Mary Greenwood Anderson of Houston, Texas, were experienced genealogists and traveled extensively to collect their family history records, as well as on numerous collateral lines. Family connections reached into the East Coast, Northeast, Midwest, South, and into Europe. Benjamin Anderson founded Anderson-Greenwood and Co. in 1945, intending the company to design and manufacture aircraft. After the Korean War, the firm switched to valve design and developed the first line of...
Dates:
1850-2004
Britton Collection of Early Texas and U.S. Civil War documents
Collection
Identifier: MS 0009
Abstract:
Legal documents and correspondence related to the Jose de Escandon expedition of the Gulf Coast (1765-1766) and the establishment of missions in the Seno Mexicano, and U.S. Civil War and Reconstruction documents, as well as other documents related to Texas and American history.
Dates:
1597-1903
David G. Burnet letters
Collection
Identifier: MS 0188
Abstract:
Letters to and from David Gouverneur Burnet (1788-1870) of the Republic of Texas, in typescript form and as reprinted in the "La Grange Journal."
Dates:
1836 - 1859
Dillingham Family papers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0257
Abstract
The Dillingham Family Papers, consisting of approximately 900 items or 1.25 linear feet, follows the history of a prominent Texas family from 1858 to 1958. Correspondence, manuscripts, printed material, photographs, journals, poetry, and newspaper clippings show the life style of a family who moved into Texas during the prosperous era of the late nineteenth century and played an important role in developing both the social and economic framework of Houston.
Dates:
1858 - 1958
Dr. John McNeill Stewart Medical Log
Collection
Identifier: MS 0452
Overview
This collection includes medical records of Doctor John McNeil Stewart as he practiced in Brazoria County, Texas from November 1836 to October 1837. The collection also includes a one page history of one his ancestor's journey through wars in Britain to peace in the United States.
Dates:
1836-1837
Elizabeth Craw diary
Collection
Identifier: MS 0386
Abstract:
The collection consists of the personal diary of Elizabeth Craw (1819-ca.1909), which records her journey from Ohio to see her soldier fiancé in Texas, and her experiences there. Craw’s fiancé fought and died at the Battle of the Alamo.
Dates:
1833-1841
Jared Ellison Groce biographical manuscript, 1936
Collection
Identifier: MS 0179
Abstract:
Biographical sketch of Jared Ellsion Groce, one of the Old Three Hundred (Austin's first colony), who emigrated to Texas in January 1822. Time period described ranges from 1782-1836.
Dates:
1936
Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar travel journal
Collection
Identifier: MS 0311
Abstract:
On his 1835 trip from Georgia to Texas, Mirabeau Buonaparte Lamar kept a manuscript diary. The journal is written in continuous narrative form, with frequent historical or descriptive passages inserted, covering the months June-October, 1835, the period during which Lamar apparently made his decision to settle in Texas permanently and join in the Texian battle for independence from Mexico.
Dates:
1835
M.T. Jones Lumber Co. records and business ledgers
Collection
Identifier: MS 0629
Overview
The M.T. Jones Lumber Co. Records & Business Ledgers, 1890-1920, consist of business records, correspondence, letterpress books, invoices, orders, shipping records, and ledgers for the daily operations and administration of the lumber company for Texas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and Colorado.
Dates:
1880 - 1940