Adele Looscan Texana collection, 1826-1928.

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Adele Looscan Texana collection, 1826-1928.

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Subject files, correspondence, financial and legal records, printed materials, notes and memorandum, and surveyor's notes represent the documents located in the Adele Looscan Texana Collection. The subject files illustrate early Houston life and Texas history and include documents associated with A.C. and J.K. Allen, William Garrett, Nathaniel Lynch, Daniel Richardson, Stephen Richardson, Sidney Sherman, Thomas William Ward, and Abel H. White. Correspondence consists of individual letters (many authors or recipients unknown) written from 1837-1849; correspondents include L.M. Hitchcock, Bartlett Sims, and William M. Eastland, veteran of San Jacinto. The 56 financial records include bank drafts, certificates, promissory notes, receipts, statements of account, and general records. The legal records consist of an abstract of title, an 1839 bill to charter the Bank of Texas, contracts and agreements, certificates, deeds, estate and probate records, a power of attorney and a summons. Of interest is an 1842 indictment issued by the Republic of Texas against James M. McGee for playing cards. The Texana printed materials contain broadsides dating from the time of the Texas Revolution to the Civil War era, a Stephen F. Austin calling card, Confederate and Texian bond certificates, and election tickets. The collection also contains nine notes and memorandum and four surveyor's sketches and field notes. All fragments and photostats associated with the Adele Briscoe Looscan Collection are arranged within this collection.

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San Jacinto Museum of History

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San Jacinto Museum of History

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Sherman, Sidney, 1805-1873

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Born in Marlboro, Massachusetts, Sidney Sherman (1805-1873) was one of ten children of Micah Sherman and Susanna Frost. Orphaned at the age of 12, Sherman began working as a clerk in a Boston mercantile house four years later. After five years in New York City, he moved in 1831 to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he founded a cotton bagging company. In 1835, Sherman became captain of a volunteer militia company and sold his business in order to equip fifty-two soldiers to fight in the Texas ...

Allen, J. K. (John Kirby), 1819-1838

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McGee, James P.

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Sims, Bartlett, 1793-ca. 1862

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Looscan, Adele Briscoe, 1848-1935

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The Adele Looscan Texana Collection was derived from documents located in the Adele Briscoe Looscan Collection which could not be directly related to a specific group of records. The previous arrangement of the original collection, chronological without regard to creator or series, destroyed any provenance which may have indicated the original order of the documents. The Adele Looscan Texana Collection holds documents with no identifiable relationship to members of the Harris-Briscoe-Looscan fam...

Richardson, Stephen, 1794-1860

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Hitchcock, L. M. (Lent Munson), 1816-1869

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Ward, Thomas William, 1807-1872

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Allen, A. C. (Augustus Chapman), 1806-1864

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White, Abel H.

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Lynch, Nathaniel, d. 1837

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Eastland, William M., 1806-1843

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Barrett, William, b. ca. 1811

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