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Size: 2 boxes (1 linear feet) Acquisition: Gift, 1978 Access: Open for research Processed by: Jane Dye & Linda Nicklas, 1978 Texas Tide Link: J.M. Cartwright Papers |
J. M. Cartwright lived in the Nat community in Nacogdoches County, Texas. He was a farmer and peddler who visited and noted in his Day Book activities and events occurring in such area communities as Nacogdoches, Wells, Douglass, Alto, Atoy, Looneyville, Crossroads, and Rusk. Mr. Cartwright also served as a Deputy Sheriff of Nacogdoches County.
(Frazier, Shonda."Cartwright, James M." Nacogdoches County Families. Dallas: Curtis Media Corp., 1985. p. 203; "J. M. Cartwright Papers." East Texas Research Center. Ralph W. Steen Library. Stephen F. Austin State University).
Day books, account books and bills from J. M. Cartwright's store in Nat, Texas from which he peddled into other East Texas towns. Also includes tax receipts, correspondence, and business advertisements, genealogical material concerning Lewis, Campbell and Radley families. The bulk of the collection covers the period of the 1870's through the 1890's.
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BOX 1
Folder 1: J. M. Cartwright's Day Book, 1895-96. Typed notes of extracts from Day Book.
Folder 2: Personal items: incomplete correspondence; church membership certification; Star-News clipping, 1890; recipe; public notice; appearance bond; 1876-1890.
Folder 3: Genealogical materials concerning Lewis, Campbell and Bradley families. Typed excerpts from letters of W. M. Shaw, Monroe County, Mississippi; 1860-1900.
Folder 4: Five small books containing handwritten business transactions, usually accounts due; 1858-1899.
Folder 5: Promissory note; bills; notes of accounts; circular announcing sale at H. Getz' store, Alto; 1871-1903.
BOX 2
Folder 1: Advertising booklets and brochures; Plaindealer's price list for printing jobs; 1895 time table for the Cotton Belt Route, including Texas, St. Louis Southwestern Railway Co.; 1895-1931.
Folder 2: Papers associated with the appointment of Mr. Cartwright as an enumerator of the 1900 U.S. census; Mrs. Eddie Thompson's life insurance policy and other insurance forms; 1900-1931.
Folder 3: Election tickets; farm statistics report; inventory of property form; attachment bond form; 1887-
Candidate tickets for Democratic, Independent and People's Parties, 1898.
Folder 4: Tax receipts for individuals in Nacogdoches County, 1876-1886.
Folder 5: "Poll" book, Douglass, 1888, with many names listed; J. M. Cartwright, Deputy Sheriff, Douglass, book of tax receipts for 1876-1879.
*Books Cataloged for Special Collections stacks :
(1) The Houston Post Almanac, 2nd ed., 1897.
(2) The Constitution of the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons of Texas ... Houston, A. C. Gray, 1873.
(3) Uniform Constitution for the Government of Subordinate Lodges, I.O.O.F. of Texas; also, Uniform Constitution for the Lodges of the Daughters of Rebekah . . ., Galveston, The "News," 1876.
(4) The Gospel According to Saint Matthew . . . New York, American Bible Society, 1915.
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