Blackburn, William A., papers, 1869-1909.

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Blackburn, William A., papers, 1869-1909.

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Papers concern legal activities, land speculation, and estate management for the Townsend family and the activities of W. A. Blackburn, mining engineer, and N. T. Blackburn, engineering professor. The papers contain correspondence, bills, receipts, powers of attorney, wills, photographs, daybooks, journals, diary, scrapbook materials, and record books for the First Presbyterian Church and for the German Methodist Episcopal Church of Austin, the latter in German. Photographic collection consists of photographs and Townsend family members and commercially produced stereographs of Colorado, Fairmont Park in Philadelphia, and San Jose Mission in San Antonio. Also contains early snapshots, possibly of sharecroppers' houses.

7 ft., 5 in.

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Blackburn, Nathaniel Townsend

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Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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In 1845, as a result of the North-South tensions, the Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the Southern states withdrew to form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1874 at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South held in Louisville, Kentucky, a Board of Commissioners was appointed to meet with a similar board from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). The Board was empowered to begin talks the MEC board that would resolve differences between the two denomination...

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First Presbyterian Church (Austin, Tex.?)

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Presbyterian Church.

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