Papers, 1876-1949.

ArchivalResource

Papers, 1876-1949.

Correspondence, legal documents, printed material, and ephemera, documenting Stoddard's business and personal activities. Business records are related to cattle organizations, meat-packing, land development, the oil industry, and a brick-making plant. Includes material relating to the Texas Dressed Beef and Packing Company, Aransas Harbor City and Improvement Company, and the cowboy Charles Goodnight (1836-1929), and to Stoddard's involvement with the Knights Templar at the state and national level.

2.6 linear ft.

Related Entities

There are 6 Entities related to this resource.

Goodnight, Charles, 1836-1929

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6dv242g (person)

Charles Goodnight is best known as a cattleman and co-founder of the Goodnight-Loving Trail to bring cattle from Texas to market in New Mexico. However, Charles Goodnight and his wife, Mary Ann, played a pivotal role in saving the Great Southern Bison Herd from extinction. Separated from the Northern Herd by busy wagon trails and the railroad and slaughtered by hundreds of eager "buffalo hunters," by 1895 the Great Southern Herd, once numbering in the millions, was almost gone. Charles and Mary ...

Texas Mineral Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6t778k8 (corporateBody)

Stoddard, Henry Bates, 1840-1925

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6183wkd (person)

Businessman and cattleman, of Bryan, Tex. From the description of Papers, 1876-1949. (Daughters of the Republic of Texas Library). WorldCat record id: 70939879 ...

Aransas Harbor City and Improvement Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w61z8wh9 (corporateBody)

Knights Templar (Masonic order)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6tn1112 (corporateBody)

Texas Dressed Beef and Packing Company

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64n3wjp (corporateBody)