Franklin L. Yoakum papers : Tyler, Texas, 1886-1887.

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Franklin L. Yoakum papers : Tyler, Texas, 1886-1887.

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Dictation and partial draft of a revised edition of the History of Texas (New York, 1856), written by his brother, Henderson King Yoakum (1810-1856). Franklin L. Yoakum, born in Tennessee, was a college president in Cherokee County, Texas, until the Civil War, then Botanist and Mineralogist of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States of America. After the war he engaged with the International & Great Northern Railway Company in collecting specimens of products and minerals of Texas for exhibition at centennial expositions.

Originals : 2 items.Copies : partial microfilm reel (10 exposures) : negative (Rich. 117:18) and positive.

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