M.T. Jones Lumber Company Records, 1883-1914

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M.T. Jones Lumber Company Records, 1883-1914

The M.T. Jones Lumber Company Records, 1883-1914, consist of correspondence, business records, letterpresses, invoices, journals, analyses and reports, purchase orders, check registers, acknowledgements and receipts, contracts, ledgers, financial statements, and shipping records.

31 ft., 6 in.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7951185

University of Texas Libraries

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There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Jones, M. T. (Mortyn T.)

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Jones, Jesse H. (Jesse Holman), 1874-1956

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Builder, financier, statesman, and publisher of the Houston Chronicle. From the description of Jones, Jesse Holman, papers, 1880-1965. (University of Texas Libraries). WorldCat record id: 23285513 U.S. secretary of commerce and financier. From the description of Papers of Jesse H. Jones, 1916-1960 (bulk 1926-1945). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 81653217 Biographical Note ...

M.T. Jones Lumber Company

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M.T. Jones was a widely known and wildly successful lumberman, who started his firm, the M.T. Jones Lumber Company, around 1880, in Houston, Texas. Jones was probably best known as the uncle of Jesse H. Jones, Houston politician and businessman, who went to work for the Lumber Company’s branch in Hillsboro in 1895. Jesse Jones later managed the Dallas branch and, as stipulated by his uncle’s will, in 1898, moved to Houston to manage M.T. Jones’s estate and business holdings. ...