Smoot-Graham
Biographical notes:
Papers relate primarily to the Smoot family of Austin, particularly patriarch John N. Smoot (1786-1859) of Rowan County, North Carolina; Richmond Kelley Smoot (1836-1905), pastor of the First Southern Presbyterian Church in Austin (1876-1905), professor at the University of Texas, and cofounder of the Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary; his brothers Benjamin and Thomas R. Smoot (b. 1834) in Tennessee; his son Asher Graham Smoot (1869-1915), journalist, editor and manager of the Austin Statesman newspaper, and cofounder of the Austin American in 1914; son Lawrence Kelley Smoot (1875-1968), photographer, librarian, and editorial reporter for the Texas Supreme Court; and Lawrence's daughter Jane Smoot (b. 1919). Also included are papers relating to the family of Sallie Graham Smoot (1837-1916), wife of Richmond K. Smoot, particularly Judge Asher W. Graham of Bowling Green, Kentucky, and other family members including Lawrence A. Graham (1833-1917), an Austin merchant. Of special note is a history of the R. K. Smoot home with descriptions and inventory of its contents.
From the guide to the Smoot-Graham Family Papers, 1811-1968, 1986, 1987., (Center For American History, The University of Texas at Austin)
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Subjects:
- Floods
- Religion
- Austin American (newspaper)
- Austin Dam (Colorado River)
- Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
- Bicycles
- Boats and boating
- Buggies and carriages
- Bull Creek (Travis County)
- Camps, Recreational
- Cartes de visite
- Presbyterian Church
- Cityscapes
- Clergy
- Colorado River
- Death and dying
- Deer
- Devils River
- Diaries
- Enchanted Rock (Gillespie County)
- First Southern Presbyterian Church (Austin)
- Frio River
- Funerals
- Furniture
- Garden of the Gods (Colorado park)
- Houses and housing
- Houses and housing
- Hunting and fishing
- Journalists and journalism
- Judges and judiciary
- Llano River
- Log cabins
- Louisiana Purchase Exposition (Saint Louis)
- Medicine, Practice of
- Merchants and Stores
- Mississippi River
- Mount Bonnell (Travis County)
- Packsaddle Mountain (Llano County)
- Photographers and Photography
- Picnics and barbecues
- Poultry
- Railroads
- Rivers and streams
- Royal Gorge (Colorado)
- Samaritan Ranch (Hays County)
- Sheet music
- State Lunatic Asylum Park (Austin)
- Texas
- UT Old Main Building
- Yellowstone National Park (Wyoming)
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Places:
- Kingsland, Texas (as recorded)
- Honolulu, Hawaii (as recorded)
- Union City, Tennessee (as recorded)
- Hays County, Texas (as recorded)
- Saint Louis, Missouri (as recorded)
- Austin, Camp Pajama (Kingsland), Texas (as recorded)
- Nashville, Tennessee (as recorded)
- Salt Lake City, Utah (as recorded)
- Bowling Green, Kentucky (as recorded)
- Rowan County, North Carolina (as recorded)
- Colorado (as recorded)
- Llano County, Texas (as recorded)
- Austin, Texas (as recorded)
