Houston, TX, topics in, 1830s-1840s

File — Box: 54, Folder: 1-3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

Correspondence, research and genealogical notes compiled by former Rice professor Andrew Forest Muir. Subjects include early Texas history, early Texans, particularly Houston and Harris county, and the Episcopal Church in Texas, as well as the Anglican Church in Hawaii. Muir made the notes as a student at Rice Institute and at the University of Texas. The largest group of materials is Muir’s alphabetical subject research files which relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These research files were created and maintained by Andrew Forest Muir circa 1935-1969, with subjects covering a wide range dates, circa 1750-1969, bulk 1800s.

Correspondents include fellow Texas historians, librarians and publishers such as Frank Wardlaw, Alfred A. Knopf, A.C. Greene, Angus Cameron (Editor, Alfred A. Knopf), attorney Cooper Ragan, William H. Masterson (regarding Journal of Southern History), Diana and Bill Hobby, J.W. Petty Jr. (Book Mart, Victoria, TX)

Also of interest is Muir's collection of original treasury notes and manuscripts (Series VI) which dates mainly from the Republic of Texas Era and the U.S. Civil War era, reflecting everyday life through local (county, city, state, Confederate) currency from Texas and Southern states, as well as correspondence, receipts, military orders, and more.

Dates

Creation: ca. 1916-1969

Creator

From the Collection: Muir, Andrew Forest, 1916-1969 (Person)

Access Restrictions

This material is open for research.

Stored offsite at the Library Service Center and require 24-hour notice for retrieval. Please contact the Woodson Research Center at 713-348-2586 or woodson@rice.edu for more information.

Extent

From the Collection: 41 Linear Feet (82 boxes)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Additional Description

General note

Notes on Houston arranged by subject in alphabetical order. Folder 1: hangings, hardware, Harrisburg (town), Harrisburg County, Harris County, Harris County before Revolution, Harrisburg municipality, health, Hibernia Society, hides & peltries, history, horse racing, horses, hospitals, hotels, household supplies, Houston Dragoons, Houston (beginnings of), Houston (founding of), Houston (growth of), Houston (seat of government), Houston (temporary seat of government 1842), Houston Town Company), H.R. Allen & Co., hunting, ice, ice cream, illumination, Indians, insurance, jewelry, John Carlos & Co., John Huffman & Co., Kelley (Cornelius), Kesler's Arcade, land agencies, land laws, lard oil and stearine factories, lawyers, lethal weapons, Liberty Pole, libraries, liquors, livery stables, loafers, long Row, lotteries, Louisville (once Point Pleasant), lumber, Lynchburg. FOLDER 2: matches, mechanics and workingmen, medicine, merchants' supplies, Mexicans, Mexican Invasions (1842), Milan Guards, militia, milk, milliners, money lending, Morning Star newspaper, Morrell & Tyler, mosquitoes, moss, mud, music, musquito, National Banner, Banner of the Lone Star (newspaper), National Intelligencer (newspaper), national politics, natural history, navigation of Buffalo Bayou and Port of Houston, New Washington, New year's Day, newspapers, nurses, Odd Fellows, oranges, Order of Equal Fellows, oxen, painting, patents, pecans, pedlars, perfumery, Philosophical Society of Texas, phrenology, pictures, Piney Point, Pitkin Guards, planters' supplies, plats, population, post office, poultry, powder magazine, President's house, printing, privies, promissory notes, provisions, Protection Fire Company No.1. FOLDER 3: railroads, rats, religion, rental property, restaurants, roaches, roads, Rockey Well (town), room rentals, Sabbath, saddlery, salesmen, San Jacinto Day, San Jacinto (precinct of), San Jacinto (town of), San Saba Company, sawmill, scavengers, scenery, seafood, seamstresses, 2nd of March, sheep, shinplasters, shoemakers, shorthand, sidewalks, silversmiths, slaves, snakes, soda fountains, spectacles, Spilman's Island, Spring Creek, Spring Creek County, stage lines, steam engines, stoves, streets, subdivisions, Sunday school, swine, tailors, tanyards, Telegraph and Texas Register (newspaper), ten pin alleys, tents, Texas Typographical Association, Texian Democrat (newspaper), theater, Times (newspaper), title, tobacco, tombstones, town lots, translation, treasury notes, trees turtle oil, unemployed, ventriloquists, veterans, visitors, wages, washerwomen, watchmakers, water, wax tallow and honey, W.D. & R.M. Lee, wearing apparel, weather, weeds, Weekly Houstonian (newspaper), Weekly Times (newspaper), whipping and branding, whitesmiths, whittling, whores.