Kirby Lumber Company: 410-466

State of Texas vs. Houston Oil Company concerning contracts between the Houston Oil Company and the Kirby Lumber Company, 1914-1916. In the District Court of Travis County

Box 406: n.d.

State of Texas vs. Houston Oil Company concerning contracts between the Houston Oil Company and the Kirby Lumber Company, 1914-1916. In the ; District Court of Travis County

Boxes 407-438: 1908-1909; 1913-1916; 1963; 1965-; 1967

Bank statements and canceled checks
Receipts of paid utility bills
Journal entries
Contracts regarding extensions on loans
Invoice forms from the Sales Dept.

Box 439:

Kirby Lumber Company, Charter and by-laws, 1903, copy 1923.
Documents relating to Kirby Lumber Company (stocks, bonds, etc.), l909-l9l0.
Documents relating to Kirby Lumber Company (stocks, bonds, etc. with some additions) 1909-1910.
Various Kirby Lumber Company bonds, 1924, 1925, 1931, 1933, 1936.
John H. Kirby's Kirby Lumber Company stock certificates! 1901; 1969.
Kirby Lumber Company stock, 1902, 1903, 1909, 1910, 1912.

Box 440:

Board of Directors, 1903.
Reorganization record of Kirby Lumber Corporation after Bankruptcy, ca. 1936.
Annual reports, 1950-1959.
Annual reports, 1960-1969.
Annual reports, 1970-

Box 441:

Classification of accounts, 1922.
Classification of accounts, 1929.
Classification of accounts, 1939.
Audits, 1909, 1910, 1923.
Audit reports, l925, 1930-1933, 1936-1938, 1940-l941, 1943-1950, 1952.

Box 442:

Banks and bank accounts, 1923.
Bankruptcy, order appointing receiver. 1934.
Southwestern Lumber Company vs. A. E. Kerr, Trustee In bankruptcy, 1928.
Kirby Lumber Company, indentures, 1936.
income tax data, 1923.
Kirby Lumber Company, First and Second Mortgages, 1936.
Kirby Lumber Corporation, Second Mortgage under Trust indenture.
1936.

Box 443:

John Henry Kirby, bankrupt estate, 1931, 1933, 1934, 1939.
John Henry Kirby, bankrupt estate, 1931-1969.
John Henry Kirby, financial difficulties, 1929--1934.

Box 444:

Receivership, 1936.
Statement showing cost of lumber and realization, 1913.
Operating statement, 1967.
Analysis of special expenditures. Christmas gifts and Safety
meetings, l922-1929, 1936.
Personnel directories, 1922-1972.

Box 445:

Personnel records, Supervisory and office, 1940-1955.
Newspaper clipping with photo of the Houston office employees
Kirby Petroleum Company and Kirby Lumber Company, cat 1920.
Newspaper photograph and article of employees of Kirby Lumber
Company, The Kountze News, September 5, 1967.
Appointments and resignations, 1922-1933.
INDIVIDUALS

Bonner, B. F., 1911, 1923.
Cox, Joyce, Kirby attorney and Member of Board of Directors, 1963-1964.
Hodges, J. B., 1925.
Kendall, Harry T., 1926-1928, 1930, 1951, 1954.
Link, J. W., 1929.
Orth, T. M., Copy of his biography, 1927.
Rawcliffe, J. F. B., 1924.

Box 446:

Legal contracts no. 1-15, 1936-1939.
Legal contracts no. 16-25, 1939-1941.
Legal contracts no. 26-75, 1941.
Legal contracts no. 76-130, 1941-1942.
Legal contracts no. 131-200, 1942.
Legal contracts no. 201-250, 1942-1943.
Legal contracts no. 251-300, 1943.

Box 447:

Legal contracts no. 301-320, 1943.
Legal contracts no. 321-360, 1943.
Legal contracts no. 361-400, 1943-1944.
Legal contracts no. 401-45G, 1944.
Legal contracts no. 451-480, 1944.
Legal contracts no. 481-484, 1944.
Legal contracts WI-2-A, 1936.
Recording reference, 1934.
Deed and contract, Earl Hankamer, et al to Kirby Lumber
Corporation, 1949.
General Warranty Deed, Southern Neches Corporation to Kirby Lumber
Corporation, 1961.
Certificate of cremation, Kirby Lumber Corporation, 1936.

Box 448:

Proceedings of the reorganization of a corporation, Kirby Lumber
Company, 1936.
Various deeds to and from Kirby Lumber Company, 1909, 1920-1921,
1923, 1925.
Trade acceptance agreements, judgments, and miscellaneous, 1916,
1922-1923, 1930, 1945.
Articles of agreement between Southwest Lumber Company and Kirby
Lumber Company, 1922, 1923, 1928, 1929.
Miscellaneous documents, 1927-1928.
Various Vendor Line dates and deeds of trust, 1921-1932.
Deed, McDonald Meachum,Trustee, Southwestern Lumber Company and Kirby Lumber Company to Kirby Lumber Corporation, (2 copies), 1936.

Box 449:

Agreement between D. L. Gallup and John H. Kirby (option on timber property), 1909.
Numerical list of contracts, J. E. Jones, Trustee, Kirby Lumber Company, Second Mortgage, 193~.
Proposed deed, and deed from Kirby Lumber Company to Kirby Lumber Corporation, 1936.
Decree, settling litigation between Houston Oil Company of Texas and Kirby Lumber Company, (stumpage contract and trust instruments), 1908.
List of Lands owned by The Houston Oil Company of Texas, 1908.
Legal transcript of Kirby Lumber Company vs. Houston Oil Company of Texas, et al, 1906.
Legal transcript of Kirby Lumber Company vs. Houston Oil Company of Texas, et al, 1906.
Legal transcript of Kirby Lumber Company vs. Houston Oil Company of Texas, et al, 1907.
Legal transcript of Houston Oil Company vs. Cornelia G. Goodrich, et al, 1911.

Box 450:

Houston Oil Company contract, 1920-1954.
Original copy - J. H. Kirby Hypothecation Agreement, 1928-1931.

Box 451:

Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, Printed interventions and applications, 1903.
Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1904.
Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, (2 copies), 1905.

Box 452:

Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1905.
Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1905.
Brief on behalf of the Maryland Trust Company, case against Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1905.
Complainant's amended bill, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1905.
Maryland Trust Company, answer to Cross-Bill made by Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1905.

Box 453:

Supplemental brief for Kirby Lumber Company, in case brought against them by Maryland Trust Company, 1905.
Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, tables showing timber cut on Houston Oil Company lands, 1906.
Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1906.
Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1907.
Legal transcript, Maryland Trust Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company, et al, 1907
Legal transcript, John H. Kirby vs. Maryland Trust Company, et al, 1906
Legal transcript, T. H. Mastin and Company vs. Kirby Lumber Company (inventory of receiver), 1934.

Box 454:

National Recovery Act, 1933.
Instructions to scalers, 1917, specifications for untreated stock, n.d., volume, yield, and stand tables, 1929.
Construction specifications for Silsbee mill, 1952-1955 .
Construction papers, Silsbee mill, 1954.
Newspaper articles pertaining to Kirby Lumber Company, 1982-1983.

Box 455:

B. P. Bonner's pension fund idea, 1922.
Christmas gifts, 1922.
Holidays and vacations, 1921-1931
Kirby Lumber Company magazine, The Mill, 1926.
Cross Ties, production and scales, 1909-1938.
Departmental functions, 1925-1934
General instructions (working rules), 1930.
Houston Oil Company, 1910, 1912
Inventories, 1925-1927
Kirby-Bonner Lumber Company, 1917, 1923.
Kirby Klubber, company memorandum, 1925.
Logging camp scale, 1940-1948.
Lumber sales and shipments, 1924-1933.
Meat markets, 1904-1923
Meetings, 1916-1924
Mills, planning market conditions, production, 1929, 1933.

Box 456:

Memorandum of informal conference, Kirby Lumber Company and National Labor Relations Board, 1941.
National Homes Finance Corporation, 1932-1933.
Nine-hour work day put into effect, 1930.
Kirby Lumber Company, early oil leases, 1932- 1933.
Physicians and Medical department, 1926-1949.
Political policy of Kirby Lumber Company, 1930.
Population data, 1960-1990.
Price list of lumber, 1906.
Production, 1921-1937.
Radios, 1923.
Sales department, 1914-1931.
Telephones, 1922-1934.
Tentative Kirby-Booth plan, 1961.
Timberlands, management and holdings, 1927, 1931.
Trams, 1936.

Box 457:

Notes and collection correspondence, 1921-1935.
Business management study, 1959.

Box 458:

Folder with pictures and brief histories of 5 Kirby Lumber Company mills, ca. 1951.
History, Texas land and land surveying, 1967-1968.
History, Indians, ca. 1970.
50th anniversary papers, 1951
50th anniversary publication, 1951.
Other publications re company, ca. 1955, ca. 1965.

Box 459:

Barclay-Barkley families, 1944.
Copies of articles written about Mr. Kirby, 1939, 1940.
John Henry Kirby, 1923-1940 (booklet).
"J. H. K. - A Biographical Sketch," 1918.
Texas Pythian Banner-Knight, pg. 12, article about John H. Kirby, July, 1927.
Found - A Practical Idealist, by Charles M. Shepard, Jr., n.d.
John Henry Kirby - Personal, general, 1940-1979.
Resolutions on the Life of John Kirby, 1941.
History - John Henry Kirby, 1940.

Box 460:

Liberty Under the Constitution of the United States, by J. H. Kirby, 1924.
"Ten Commandments of Industry," by John H. Kirby, 1924.
Kirby speeches, 1920-1940.
The Tariff: A Handbook of History, by J. H. Kirby, n.d.
Index to J. H. Kirby's personal files, cat 1924.
Disposition of John H. Kirby's records, 1963-1970.
John H. Kirby, horoscope, 1930.
Copy of John H. Kirby's application to practice law, 1885.
History of John H. Kirby's indictment and trial in Austin for bribery, 1932.
Copies of John H. Kirby's personal checks, n.d.
Bess Kirby Rawcliffe's death notice, April, 1932.
Mrs. Kirby's death notices, January 1955.
Reunion of the "Crow School", held at Peachtree Village, July 12--13, 1929.
Peachtree Village (Kirby's birth place), 1936.

Box 461:

- Dedication of Peachtree Village by John H. Kirby as a memorial to his mother and father, 1914.
- John H. Kirby - personal (after death in 1940), 1950.
- John H. Kirby's 70th birthday, November 18, 1930.
- John H. Kirby's 75th birthday, November 18, 1935.
- Testimonial banquet honoring John H. Kirby, November 17, 1923.
- Resolution to John Henry Kirby, passed by Board of Directors, 1941.
- John H. Kirby's death notices, 1940.

Box 462:

- Railroads, 1950-1972.
- List of mills on railroads, 1904.
- Rail lines to mills, 1940.
- Relations between Kirby Lumber Company and Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Co., 1909.
- Gulf, Beaumont and Kansas City Railroad, 1931.
- "Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe Railway Company, Early Issues of Capital Stock," by Elinore M. McDonough, 1983.
- History, Santa Fe Railway, n.d.
- Burr's Ferry, Browndel and Chester Railroad to Commonwealth Trust Company, 1907.
- The Pine Needle, 1964, 1965 and 1966.

Box 463:

- Texas as a lumber market, 1909-1931.
- Lumber industry in Texas, 1914-1976.
- Logging, 1970-1973.
- Sawmills, 1952-1977.
- Texas Forestry Exposition, 1962.
- Southern Forest Research Institute pamphlet, cat 1963.
- Forest Practice Acts, 1973-1976.
- Texas Forestry Association, 1947-1966.
- East Texas Forest Overview, 1972.
- Hardin County Cooperative Pasture/Game Reserve (big Thicket Preserve Commission), 1936-1957.

Box 464:

- Sawmill Town, USA, 1973.
- City of Silsbee, 1942-1973.
- City of Kirbyville, 1961, 1970.
- The Gulf Coast Lumberman, 1954
- "Wonders of the Southern Woodlands," n.d.
"Texas Southern Yellow Pine Lumber," n.d. Forestry Digest,
September 1955. "Sawlogs," April 1984. The Timberman, 1930.

Box 465:

Southern Tariff Advocate, February 1930 (issue on John H. Kirby).
Securities and Exchange Commission - Time, Incorporated, December 1978.
Lamar University - Golden Anniversary, 1973.
"Amber Waves," 1982.
"Milepost,;' 1984.
Texas Parade, June 1971.
Houston, 1909, 1969, 1976, 1985.
Hardin County, "Your County Program," 1965.
Jasper County, 1961.
East Texas, general, 1960-1970.
Park history, 1970.

Box 466:

Kirby Hospital Association, charter, by-laws and general rules, 1934. -
50th anniversary of Lufkin Foundry, publication. 1952.
Owens-Illinois, centennial issue, 1973.
Front page of New York Herald Tribune, 1945.
With the Camera Through Southeast Texas, ca 1955.
Bovay Engineers, Inc.: The First 25 Years, 1971.
The Waters Pierce Case in Texas, 1908.

Bundle 1:

Resolution for a memorial dedicated to John Henry 'Kirby by the Dr. Pepper Company, includes a letter addressed to Mrs. Kirby, 1940.
"Building with Pine", a dedication booklet by the Southern Forest Products Association, 1978.

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