Stewart Title Company records, ca. 1870-1965.

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Stewart Title Company records, ca. 1870-1965.

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The Stewart Title Company records are, in part, a compilation of the land records obtained by Stewart Title Company as a result of its acquisition of Bexar Abstract Company in 1911. The records also include the company's own land records, which were built upon those acquired, from 1911 forward. Additionally, there are some administrative and client records that were maintained by both Stewart and its parent companies. The land records consists of mostly handwritten transcriptions of public records, bound in volumes and legal-size Abstracts of Title, which are chronological listings of the public records pertaining to a particular tract of land. The records represented were made between the 1870's and the 1960's and include transcriptions of documents made as early as 1731. They are divided into three series.

227 linear feet (456 boxes)

University of Texas at San Antonio, John Peace Library (JPL)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7752271

University of Texas at San Antonio, John Peace Library (JPL)

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Stewart Title Company

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The first abstract companies in Bexar County were established in San Antonio during the mid-1870's by Dr. Theodore Roziene and by a group of five prominent citizens who formed the Occidental Land Company, which changed its name to the West Texas Abstract and Guarantee Company in 1890. In that same year, Henry Hildebrand and Ben Stribling formed Hildebrand & Stribling Abstract Company, and five years later, formed Bexar Abstract Company in 1895. They allowed the charter of Hildebrand & St...

Hildebrand & Stribling Abstract Company.

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Stewart Title

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West Texas Abstract and Guarantee Company.

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Roziene, Theodore, Dr.

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Watkins, Richard P.

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Richard Leigh Watkins was born circa 1878 and raised in Tennessee. Between 1910 and 1911 Watkins was business manager for the Beeville Manufacturing Company. Also in 1910 Watkins and five other men formed the Texas Title Guaranty Company. Watkins was active in a variety of associations and clubs in San Antonio, and in 1910 was one of the vestry of St. Mark's Church. From the description of Richard Leigh Watkins papers, 1896-1911 (bulk 1905-1911). (University of Texas at San Antonio)....

Occidental Land Company.

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Bexar Abstract Company.

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