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Organized in 1901; founder John Henry Kirby continued as president of the enterprise until his death in 1940; during the Great Depression control passed into the hands of the Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railroad Company which continues to own and operate it.
John Henry Kirby, lawyer, lumberman, and financier, formed the Kirby Lumber Company in 1901 in his native East Texas. With the discovery of oil at Spindletop in mind, Kirby sought to create a unique business arrangement. He would organize dual corporations, one oil and one timber, with the lumber company to buy and manufacture timber from the oil company. The Kirby Lumber Company would gain timber rights on its extensive East Texas properties, while the Houston Oil Company would hold mineral rights. Kirby also agreed to help the oil company gain title to approximately 800,000 acres of East Texas timber land. The failure by Kirby and his eastern financiers to determine clear title to their various properties, as well as Kirby's overestimate of the worth of the timber, resulted in litigation. After the Maryland Trust Company, the primary backer of the scheme, brought suit, a Texas court placed both the Kirby Lumber Company and the Houston Oil Company into receivership between 1904 and 1908 allowing the two sides to determine their respective responsibilities. Despite its initial troubles, the Kirby Lumber Company prospered, selling lumber throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. By the 1920s, it had become the largest yellow timber manufacturer in the Gulf Southwest. The company owned numerous lumber mills and rail connections. John Henry Kirby died in 1940, seven years after declaring personal bankruptcy. The Kirby Lumber Company, however, continued operations, passing into the Santa Fe Railroad's control by the 1950s.
John Henry Kirby, lawyer, lumberman, and financier, formed the Kirby Lumber Company in 1901 in his native East Texas. With the discovery of oil at Spindletop in mind, Kirby sought to create a unique business arrangement. He would organize dual corporations, one oil and one timber, with the lumber company to buy and manufacture timber from the oil company. The Kirby Lumber Company would gain timber rights on its extensive East Texas properties, while the Houston Oil Company would hold mineral rights. Kirby also agreed to help the oil company gain title to approximately 800,000 acres of East Texas timber land.
The failure by Kirby and his eastern financiers to determine clear title to their various properties, as well as Kirby's overestimate of the worth of the timber, resulted in litigation. After the Maryland Trust Company, the primary backer of the scheme, brought suit, a Texas court placed both the Kirby Lumber Company and the Houston Oil Company into receivership between 1904 and 1908 allowing the two sides to determine their respective responsibilities.
Despite its initial troubles, the Kirby Lumber Company prospered, selling lumber throughout the United States, Europe, and Latin America. By the 1920s, it had become the largest yellow timber manufacturer in the Gulf Southwest. The company owned numerous lumber mills and rail connections.
John Henry Kirby died in 1940, seven years after declaring personal bankruptcy. The Kirby Lumber Company, however, continued operations, passing into the Santa Fe Railroad's control by the 1950s.
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968
Title:
Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968
Records of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897-1968. Part 4 of 7.
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968
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Pedigo, J. W.,. Oral history interview, 1963 Aug. 12.
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Oral history interview, 1963 Aug. 12.
Conversation about Kirby Lumber Company cutover lands and attempts of the Southwestern Settlement and Development Company to sell them.
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Kirby Lumber Company. [Pamphlets. Financial history].
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Howard C. Williams Photograph Collection 90-184., 1890-1986
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Howard C. Williams Photograph Collection 1890-1986
Collection documents the town of Orange, Texas from 1890-1986, with the majority of the images in the 1900s to 1930s.
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Kirby Lumber Company. Records, 1885-1985.
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Records, 1885-1985.
Letterbooks, ledgers, and other business records relating to logging and sawmill operations in Texas, including correspondence, sales records, appraisals, accounts, inventories, charters, invoices, payrolls, vouchers, bills of sale, and cash books. Also includes by-laws, stock certificates, bonds, annual reports, budgets, balance sheets, vouchers, abstracts, leases, deeds, audits, personnel records, contracts, maps, blueprints, pamphlets, and sketches; together with personal papers of John H. Kirby, including bankruptcy estate records, and publications both written by and about Kirby.
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968
Records of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897-1968. Part 1 of 7.
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968
Records of the Gulf, Colorado, and Santa Fe Railroad Company, 1897-1968. Part 5 of 7.
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection RG D 004., 1897-1968
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Santa Fe Railroad Collection 1897-1968
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Kirby Lumber Company Collection RG D-34., ca. 1900-1940's
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Kirby Lumber Company. Kirby Lumber Company Collection ca. 1900-1940's.
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Kirby Lumber Company Collection ca. 1900-1940's.
This collection provides valuable information on labor and living conditions in East Texas lumber towns, as well as data on domestic and foreign lumber sales, charitable activities, stumpage and freight contracts, and the company's financial standing. It also contains correspondence and financial statements for the Houston Oil Company and the Texas and Louisiana Lumber Company, John Henry Kirby's first lumber venture.
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