Papers, 1879-1965, 1887-1963.
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Matador Land and Cattle Company
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Established in 1879 by Alfred Markham Britton, Henry Harrison Campbell, and associates, the ranch covered one and a half million acres in Motley, Cottle, Floyd and Dickens counties of Texas. In 1882 the founders sold their cattle and range rights to a syndicate based in Dundee, Scotland. Additional acreage was leased in south central Kansas, the Texas Panhandle, Canada, South Dakota and Montana and by 1933, the Matador's Texas holdings totaled nearly 900,000 acres. With rare exceptions during pe...
Goodwin, James Allen, 1873-1961
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Cotton gin owner and operator. Born in 1873 in San Augustine, Texas. Began cotton ginning at age 19. Came to West Texas in 1908 and began a gin in King County. He later erected gins in Cottle County and bought a gin in Spur, Texas. He also operated two gins in Lubbock County during the 1940s. He sold all his ginning interests in 1952 but remained active in farming in Lubbock and Hockley Counties until his death in 1961. From the description of Papers, 1879-1965, 1887-1963. (Texas Tec...
