Alice Duggan Gracy Papers, 1910-1951

Duggan, Alston

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Halsell Farms (Tex.)

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Soash, W. P. (William Pulver), 1877-1961

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A real estate developer and land colonizer in the early twentieth century, Soash was born in 1877. He founded the W. P. Soash Land Company in 1905. Operating from Waterloo, Iowa, and later in Florida and West Texas, he sold land developments in the Midwest, the Plains States, and Florida, but principally in Texas. Soash founded, with members of the C. C. Slaughter family, the Lone Star Land Company in 1924, and was extensively engaged in the sale and purchase of oil leases and royal...

Duggan family

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Spade Ranch (Tex.)

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Boyce, Katie E.

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Gracy, Alice Duggan

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Arthur Pope Duggan, Sr., was a real estate developer and sales manager for the Littlefield Lands Company in Littlefield, Texas, president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, and a Texas State Senator. Born in 1876 in Hays County, Texas, Duggan attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), where he received a bachelor of civil engineering degree in 1895. He then went to attend the University of Texas, from which he received a law degree ...

Duggan, Arthur P. (Arthur Pope), 1876-1935

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A real estate developer, attorney, civic leader, and politician, Duggan was born in 1876 in San Marcos, Texas. He was awarded a B.S. by the Agriculture and Mechanical College of Texas (1895) and an L.L.B. by the University of Texas (1899). He married Sarah Elizabeth Harral in 1902 and the marriage produced two children. Duggan worked as an abstractor in Denton, Texas, until 1912 when hired by Major George W. Littlefield as a general agent for the Littlefield Land Company. He also helped found th...

Yellow House Land Company

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This trust estate, an agency of Malcolm Hiram Reed, organized in 1923 to purchase 300,000 acres of land in Hockley and Lamb counties of Texas from the heirs of George W. Littlefield. The land was then resold in small plots to farmers. It is the successor of the Littlefield Lands Company. Like other land developers their company helped to settle the West Texas region, which eventually prospered through the decades. From the guide to the Yellow House Land Company Records, S1226. 1., 19...

Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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U.S. railroad, primarily in the Midwest and West; headquarters: Chicago, Ill. Name changed from Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad to Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway after bankruptcy reorganization in 1895. From the description of Santa Fé train robberies, 1890-1895. (Kansas State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 228418621 The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company (AT&SF) was founded by Cyrus K. Holiday in Kansas in 1859. By 1888 the railroad s...