Merchants and Planters OilCompany archives 1894-1941, Bulk Dates 1930-1945

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Merchants and Planters OilCompany archives 1894-1941, Bulk Dates 1930-1945

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Correspondence,contracts, credit reports, and leases in this collection document the businessof Houston, Texas based Merchants & Planters Oil Company, particularlyduring the last period of its existence, 1930 through 1941. This company wasowned by William Marsh Rice and associated with Rice Institute after Mr. Rice'sdeath.

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

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Rice, William Marsh, 1816-1900

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The life of William Marsh Rice -- cotton merchant, realtor, philanthropist, and entrepreneur extraordinaire -- is intimately connected with the early history and development of the city of Houston, his involvement in Houston's civic life spanning a period of some sixty years. Born in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1816, the enterprising young Rice moved to Houston in 1839 attracted by the wide-open possibilities of the young city, which had been founded only three years before. For the next twent...

Baker & Botts.

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Rice University.

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Rice University's Office or Research and Graduate Studies oversees research and graduate programs. From the guide to the Research and Graduate Studies office records UA 130., 1996-2001, (Rice University Archives, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University) William Marsh Rice University (commonly called Rice University and opened in 1912 as The William Marsh Rice Institute for the Advancement of Letters, Science and Art) is a private, comprehensive research uni...

Merchants and Planters Oil Company

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Merchants and Planters Oil Company, manufacturers of cottonseed oil, oil cake, meal and linters, based in Houston, Texas, was founded in 1890. The business was one of a number of cotton-based business owned by Rice Institute founder, William Marsh Rice at the time of his death in 1900. From the description of Merchants and Planters Oil Company archives, 1894-1941. (Rice University). WorldCat record id: 28424783 Merchants and Planters Oil Company, manufacturers o...