Papers, 1894-1967 (bulks 1900-1950).

Federal writer's project

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Hinton was a former slave who was living in North Carolina at the time of the interview. From the guide to the Martha Adeline Hinton interview, 1937, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) One of the first actions by President Franklin D. Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930s was to extend federal work relief to the unemployed. One such relief program was the Works Progress Administration, which FDR established in 1933. By 1941 the WPA had provided empl...

Hamner, Laura Vernon.

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Lone Star Land Company

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Land company. Formed in 1924 by William Pulver Soash and members of the C.C. Slaughter famiy for the purpose of selling Slaughter lands in West Texas, primarily in Howard, Borden, Dawson, Martin, Lamb, Cochran, Hale, Hockley, and Hartley counties of Texas. Most of the company's activities were completed by 1944 and the firm dissolved in 1955. From the description of Records, 1879-1955, (bulks 1915-1955). (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24324054 ...

Storey, W. B.

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Small, Sam V.

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Gulf, Soash, and Pacific Railroad.

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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...

Mahon, George Herman, 1900-1985

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George Herman Mahon was born on September 22, 1900, near Haynesville, Louisiana to John Kirkpatrick and Lola Willis (Brown) Mahon. In 1908 the family moved to Loraine, Mitchell County, Texas. Mahon graduated from Loraine High School in 1918. On December 21, 1923 he married Helen Stephenson. The couple had one daughter. Mahon received his BA in 1924 from Simmons College (later known as Hardin-Simmons). He graduated from the University of Texas Law School in 1925. After additional pos...

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...

Slaughter, R. L.

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W. P. Soash Land Company

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Founded by William Pulver Soash in 1905, the W.P. Soash Land Company sold land tracts in the Texas Panhandle, and the land developer and colonizer used excursion trains to promote lands which were available through his company. A company magazine entitled The Golden West was used to advertise and create an interest in the areas being opened. The magazine also included social, economic, and political discussions. In 1912, Soash was forced to close the land company due to three years ...

Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919

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Trial driver, Texas Ranger, banker, philanthropist, and cattleman. Born 1837 Sabine County, Texas. With his father George Webb Slaughter and brothers, established frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857. Participated in Civil War as frontier militia and Texas Rangers. Drove cattle over Chisholm Trail and later moved operations to West Texas where by 1905 he owned 40,000 cattle and controlled over one million acres. Founder of American National Bank of Dallas (1884), and cofounder of ...