Papers, 1845-1951, 1935.

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Papers, 1845-1951, 1935.

Includes correspondence, printed material, and scrapbook materials. Collection bulks (1935) with newsclippings concerning the death of Arthur P. Duggan, Sr., Texas State Senator and civic leader from Littlefield, Texas. Papers give details of his service during his lifetime. Of special interest are the photographs which include family portraits and snapshots. Also of interest is a card scrapbook (ca. 1911).

394 leaves

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Littlefield, George.

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Atchison, Topeka, and Santa Fe Railway Company

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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...

Gracy, Alice Duggan.

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Daughter of Arthur P. Duggan, Sr., 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. From the description of Papers, 1845-1951, 1935. (Texas Tech University). WorldCat record id: 24282169 ...

Ellwood, Isaac L., 1855-1910.

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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...

Duggan, Alston.

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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...

Isaac L. Ellwood Estate.

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W. E. Halsell Farms Company.

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Hopping, R. C. (Richard Coke), 1875-

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Sheriff, judge, land manager, author. Born in Hood County, Texas. Moved to Clovis, New Mexico, in 1901. Lived at Texico-Farwell from 1905-1910, and served as sheriff. Moved to Littlefield, Texas, in 1918 and was county judge for five years. Moved to Lubbock, Texas, in 1924, where he managed Ellwood Estates and the colonization of the Spade Ranch. The Spade Ranch was owned by Isaac Ellwood, and was located in Lamb, Hockley, Hale, and Lubbock Counties of Texas. He also wrote a book, "A Sheriff-Ran...