Records, 1913-1943, 1923-1943.

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...

Perry, E. H.

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Reed, Malcolm Hiram, 1876-1945.

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Badger, Walter L. (Walter Lucius), 1886-1958

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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...

Badger, Robert

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Brownlee, Houghton.

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Reed, D. C.

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Reed, Walter Seldon.

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Plains Investment Company

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Littlefield, George W.

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Cocke, Joseph.

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Austin, Texas, attorney. Trustee for the Yellow House Land Company and son-in-law of Malcolm H. Reed, organizer of the company. Cocke heard many cases directly involving his relations and the Yellow House Company, which bought 300,000 acres of land in Lamb and Hockley Counties of Texas from the George W. Littlefield estate and resold it in small plots to farmer. Also taught courses for the Austin, Texas, chapter of the American Institute of Banking. From the description of Papers, 19...