Burges-Perrenot family papers, 1890-1986 1890-1945.

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Burges-Perrenot family papers, 1890-1986 1890-1945.

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Contains personal correspondence and scrapbooks that include genealogical and historical research, speeches and addresses, and research material relating to Richard Burges's many interests including literature, history, law, forestry, conservation, irrigation, politics, and the military. Also contains social invitations, programs, pamphlets, and postcards including many of early El Paso and Juarez. Most of the scrapbooks were produced by Richard Fenner Burges, but four belonged to his brother William, two to his daughter Jane, and one to his father-in-law, E.A. Shelton. The correspondence primarily belonged to Richard and Jane.

ca. 26 linear ft.

University of Texas at El Paso

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SNAC Resource ID: 7584661

University of Texas at El Paso

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Perrenot, Jane Rust Burges.

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Burges, R. F. (Richard Fenner), 1873-1945

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Lawyer, soldier, politician, and conservationist Richard Fenner Burges (1873-1945), the son of Bettie Rust and William H. Burges, was born in Seguin, Texas. He attended Texas A&M University for one year and was admitted to the bar in 1894 after reading law in the offices of his father in El Paso and J. D. Guinn in New Braunfels. In 1898, he married Ethel Petrie Shelton, with whom he had a daughter. Burges served as El Paso city attorney and wrote the charter for the establishmen...

Burges, William H. (William Henry), 1867-1946

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