Parker, H. H., Papers 1837-1879

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Parker, H. H., Papers 1837-1879

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A bound volume of correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and literary productions compose the H. H. Parker Papers, 1837-1879, chronicling Parker’s career as a physician and planter in Mississippi, and later as secretary of the Texas State Grange.

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Dolph Briscoe Center for American History

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Texas State Grange

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The Patrons of Husbandry, or the Grange as they were more widely known, was a national agricultural, fraternal, and co-operative organization founded in 1867 to improve the economic and social situation of the United States’ farm population. The Grange spread rapidly in a grass roots manner following the Panic of 1873, turning the Grange into a political power. The organization opened schools, organized social meetings, and became a powerful political group, lobbying for free trade,...

Parker, H. H.

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A resident of Brandon, Mississippi, H. H. Parker was a physician and planter. During the Civil War, he tended to wounded soldiers from his community. Parker was later appointed state secretary of the Texas State Grange. From the guide to the Parker, H. H. Papers, 1837-1879, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) ...