Folder 7, R. G. Dun and Company, 1876.

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dc.date.accessioned2019-03-07T17:57:42Z
dc.date.available2019-03-07T17:57:42Z
dc.date.issued1876
dc.descriptionBorn in 1837 in Sabine County, Texas, C. C. established frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857 with his father, George Webb Slaughter, and his brothers. During the civil war, C. C. served in the frontier militia and in the Texas Rangers. Afterwards, he drove cattle over Chisholm Trail and later moved operations to West Texas where, by 1905, he owned 40,000 cattle and controlled over one million acres.
dc.descriptionHe married twice, first to Cynthia Anna Jowell in 1861, with whom he had five children, and then to Carrie Averill in 1877, with whom he had four children. Before his death in 1919, he had founded the American National Bank of Dallas (1884) and cofounded the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association (1877), the Texas Baptist Education Commission (1897) and the Baylor Hospital of Dallas, Texas (1904).
dc.descriptionThe collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal material, photographs, and printed material pertaining to Slaughter and his family. A large portion of the materials deaf with legal materials pertaining to Slaughter's death and the division of his estate (1921).
dc.descriptionBox 1, Folder 7
dc.format.extent2 pdf pages
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10605/352413
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.rightsThe images in this collection are for study purposes, teaching, classroom projection and research only. Permission to publish these digital files in any form must be obtained from the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, 806-742-9070 or email reference.swco@ttu.edu.
dc.subjectHandley, W. B.en_US
dc.subjectSlaughter, Alexander Averill, 1881-1931en_US
dc.subjectSlaughter, Dorothy L.en_US
dc.subjectSlaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919en_US
dc.subjectSlaughter, Carrie Averill, 1852-1928en_US
dc.subjectSlaughter, Robert Lee, 1870-1938en_US
dc.subjectC. C. Slaughter Cattle Companyen_US
dc.subjectCastro County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectCochran County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectGrayson County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectHockley County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectHoward County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectLamb County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectLevelland (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectPalo Pinto County (Tex.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectRoswell (N.M.)--Historyen_US
dc.subjectSlaughter Ranch (Tex.)en_US
dc.subjectAgriculture--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.subjectBusinesswomen--Texasen_US
dc.subjectCattle breeders--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.subjectCattle trade--Texas--Historyen_US
dc.subjectLivestock--Breedingen_US
dc.subjectOil well drilling--Texas, Westen_US
dc.subjectPetroleum industry and tradeen_US
dc.subjectRanchesen_US
dc.subjectRanchers--Texasen_US
dc.subjectWomen ranchers--Texasen_US
dc.titleFolder 7, R. G. Dun and Company, 1876.en_US
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