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The letterpress and other volumes are extremely fragile and may not be photocopied.
(Identify the item and cite the series), Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Samuel Bell Maxey spent his early years in Tompkinsville, Monroe County, Kentucky. His family lived in nearby Clinton County when Maxey was appointed to United States Military Academy at West Point. Upon graduation in 1846, he was breveted a Second Lieutenant in the regular army and served in the Mexican War until its close in 1848. In 1849 he resigned from the United States Army and returned to his home in Clinton County, Kentucky, where he studied law under his father, Rice Maxey. In 1850 he entered law practice with his father and in 1857 they moved their families and business to Paris, Texas.
In 1862 Maxey was made a Brigadier General in the Confederate Army and served briefly in the Trans-Mississippi Department. In December, 1863, he was made Commander of the Indian Territory where he served until February, 1865.
As an attorney, Maxey became acquainted with many of the prominent lawyers and politicians of Texas. He traveled to Austin and other places over the state in order to conduct his legal business. He was acquainted with Richard Coke, James W. Throckmorton, Oran M. Roberts, Guy M. Bryan, John H. Reagan and others of political note in Texas. He maintained his acquaintance with his political friends in Kentucky, namely, Governor Preston J. Leslie and U. S. Attorney-General James Speed. The culmination of this period of Maxey's life came in 1874 when he was elected to the United States Senate.
Among Maxey's contributions during his Congressional career were his support of the establishment of new mail routes in the frontier West in his capacity as chairman of the Senatorial Committee on Post Office and Post Roads, the introduction of bills for river and harbor improvements across the nation, and his speeches for the improvement of Indian relations.
Maxey was defeated for reelection in 1887. In 1888 he returned to his law practice in Paris, Texas, and spent his last years there. He had five law partners during his lifetime. They were Rice Maxey, William H. H. Long, Henry William Lightfoot, Ben H. Denton, and W. F. Gill.
Samuel Bell Maxey's wife, Marilda, was the daughter of George N. Denton, a Baptist preacher and farmer of Overton County, Tennessee. The letters she received from Maxey during the years 1875 to 1887 were almost a daily journal of the events taking place in Washington at that time.
Dora Rowell Maxey was the daughter of Thomas Rowell of Florida. Her father was a Confederate soldier who died in the Civil War. She was left an orphan and was legally adopted in 1863 by Samuel Bell Maxey and his wife. She attended a girl's school in Danville, Kentucky, from 1872 to 1874. The bulk of her letters is contained in the correspondence of Mrs. Samuel Bell Maxey.
Sam Bell Maxey Long, grandnephew and foster son of Samuel Bell Maxey, attended Schools in Washington, D. C., and was a page in the United States Senate, and later obtained a degree from the University of Texas in 1892. He accompanied Maxey to Washington in 1876 when he was a small boy and continued to do so for a number of years. He accompanied Maxey everywhere, even when Maxey called on government officials. Sam Bell Maxey Long's letters to Mrs. Maxey and to his mother, Mary Gatewood Long, reveal details of events in Washington.
The Samuel Bell Maxey Papers, dating 1847 to 1948, contain approximately 10,000 items, (including some fifteen bound items). They consist of correspondence and other papers of Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-1895), attorney, general in the Confederate Army, and, from 1875-1887, United States Senator from Texas. The collection also contains the correspondence of Samuel Bell Maxey's wife, Marilda Cassa (Denton) Maxey (1833-1908), and his father, Rice Maxey (1800-1876).
A collateral collection acquired as a part of the Maxey Papers consists of correspondence of relatives who were members of the Lightfoot, Long, and Williams family; notable are the correspondence of the great-nephew and heir of Samuel Bell Maxey, Sam Bell Maxey Long (1869-1948), who served as a page in the United States Congress and was later an attorney in Paris, Texas, and the correspondence of the adopted daughter of Samuel Bell Maxey, Dora Rowell Maxey (1856-1884), who married Henry William Lightfoot.
The collateral collection also contains some correspondence of Henry William Lightfoot (1846-1901), law partner of Samuel Bell Maxey during the years 1872 to 1895; Democratic delegate to the National Convention at St. Louis which nominated Tilden and Hendricks; a Texas State Senator from 1880-1882; and Chief Justice of the Fifth Supreme Court of Appeals at Dallas, 1893-1897.
This same collection contains correspondence of J. Shelby (Sheb) Williams (1850-1931), who was appointed United States Marshal for East Texas and the Indian Territory by President Grover Cleveland and who was reappointed by President William McKinley. Williams was owner of the first ship above White Horse Rapids in the Yukon Territory and of the first steam dredge for mining gold there. He was advisor to the United States Department of Agriculture, Chairman of the American Cotton Congress, and campaign manager for Governor Oscar B. Colquitt.
These papers are organized into three groups and 12 series:
Louise Horton, 1969
Accession numbers: 1966/090, 1968/020
The papers were deposited in the Archives Division of the Texas State Library in 1966 by Mrs. Sam M. Stone of Paris, Texas, the niece of Samuel Bell Maxey Long's wife.
The Samuel Bell Maxey papers consist of correspondence and other papers, 1847-1895, of Samuel Bell Maxey (1825-1895), attorney, general in the Confederate Army, and, from 1875-1887, United States Senator from Texas. Samuel Bell Maxey's correspondence consists of some 22 linear inches or an estimated 2200 items. Maxey's financial, legal, and political papers total 20 linear inches, including 8 bound volumes.
These papers are organized into five series:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The general correspondence, 1855-1895, of Samuel Bell Maxey includes two letters of February and March, 1855, while Samuel Bell Maxey was a lawyer in Clinton County, Kentucky; one letter dated July 24, 1844, from Tom C. to William Henry Maxey, brother of Samuel Bell Maxey; about fourteen letters from Maxey, from October 1, 1858, to August 31, 1861, while Maxey was an attorney with a law office in Paris, Texas; one letter from Camp, near Corinth, May 5, 1862; one letter from Headquarters, District Indian Territory, Fort Towson, Choctaw Nation, June 2, 1864; a bound ledger of 431 copied letters from December 26, 1863, to September 20, 1864, Headquarters Indian Territory, while Maxey was serving as a general in the Confederate Army; some 200 letters from July, 1866, to January, 1875, while Maxey was a practicing attorney in Paris, Texas; an estimated 13 inches of correspondence from January, 1875, to December, 1887, while Maxey was a United States Senator from Texas.
The majority of the letters by Samuel Bell Maxey in this part of the collection are addressed to his wife, Marilda (Denton) Maxey, and to his grand-nephew and foster son, Sam Bell Long. These letters are the most complete source of information about his activities and attitudes, especially after 1875.
There are letters in Maxey's correspondence from Thomas F. Bayard and Eli Saulsbury of Delaware, both of whom were fellow senators. There is a letter from Postmaster General Thomas L. James and several from General William Tecumseh Sherman who was introduced to Maxey by his brother, Senator John Sherman. There are two letters from General Winfield Scott Hancock, whom Maxey had known since his days at West Point. There are two letters from Colonel Fitz John Porter, one of which thanks Maxey for his efforts on Porter's behalf during his exoneration from court martial and dismissal.
Kentuckians who wrote incoming letters were James Speed, federal attorney-general and lawyer, and Governor Preston H. Leslie whom Maxey had known since boyhood in Clinton County, Kentucky.
Another correspondent was C. P. Huntington, Chairman of the Board of the Southern Pacific Railway, who asked Maxey's aid in persuading the Indians in the Indian Territory to grant right-of-way through the Indian Territory to the railway company.
Among correspondents from Texas were Ashbel Smith, Guy M. Bryan, and John H. Reagan. Maxey's fellow Congressmen from Texas, James W. Throckmorton, John Ireland, Richard Coke and Roger Q. Mills wrote letters. There is also material relating to the death of Samuel Bell Maxey.
These papers are arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), General correspondence, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Bills, receipts, expense books of Samuel Bell Maxey, dating 1847 to 1875.
These papers are arranged by type of material and then chronologically.
(Identify the item), Financial file, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Legal account books, letterpress book, legal memorandum book of Samuel Bell Maxey, dating 1855-1880.
These papers are generally grouped by type of material.
(Identify the item), Legal file, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The letterpress and other volumes are extremely fragile and may not be photocopied. Researchers should use the photocopy of the letterpress volume dated 1872-1873.
Handwritten and printed speeches, proofs, printed Senate bills, scrapbooks of newspaper clippings of Supreme Court Decisions belonging to Samuel Bell Maxey, dating 1875-1889.
These papers are arranged by type of material and then chronologically.
(Identify the item), Political file, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Masonic Degrees, West Point Military Academy Diploma (photo copy), invitations, calling cards, subscription list and lithograph of Washington Monument. Materials date from the 1800s and possibly the 1900s and belonged to Samuel Bell Maxey, Rice Maxey, and possibly other members of the Maxey family.
(Identify the item), Memorabilia, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Mrs. Maxey's correspondence, dating 1854 to 1908 and undated, contains many letters to and from Dora Maxey, Sam Bell Maxey Long, and Mary Long. Some of the early incoming letters are from relatives in Kentucky. There is also some material relating to the death of Mrs. Maxey. Mrs. Maxey's letters to her husband are contained in his correspondence. They give much information about Maxey's family life.
These papers are arranged chronologically.
(Identify the item), Mrs. Sam Bell Maxey correspondence, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
The group contains correspondence, dating 1850-1854 and 1864-1948, of the Lightfoot family, namely Dora Rowell Maxey Lightfoot; her husband, Judge Henry William Lightfoot; and their daughter, Sallie Lee Lightfoot; and the Long family, namely, Mary Gatewood Long, niece of Samuel Bell Maxey; her husband, William H. H. Long; and their son, Sam Bell Maxey Long; and the father-in-law of Sam Bell Maxey Long, J. Sheb Williams.
Letters from Sam Bell Long to Samuel Bell Maxey are in Samuel Bell Maxey's correspondence, and those from Sam Bell Long and Dora Maxey Lightfoot to Mrs. Samuel Bell Maxey are in the correspondence of Mrs. Samuel Bell Maxey. The letters exchanged between Sam Bell Long and his wife, Lala Williams Long, are filed together. The correspondence of J. Sheb Williams, father of Lala Williams Long, is in a separate folder.
The papers of related families total about 6000 items.
These papers are organized into seven series:
(Identify the item and cite the series), Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Included in the correspondence of Dora Maxey, dating 1872 to 1874, is the correspondence of her father, Thomas Rowell, 1850-1854, and his bills and receipts. The bulk of the letters from Dora Maxey was placed in the correspondence of Samuel Bell Maxey and Mrs. Maxey.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), Dora Maxey Lightfoot (1856-1884) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Mainly incoming letters from Sallie Lee Lightfoot's father, Henry William Lightfoot, and from her girlhood friends. Some undated invitations. Materials date from 1881 to 1908.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), Sallie Lee Lightfoot (1882-1966) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Letters from Henry William Lightfoot's daughter, Sallie Lee Lightfoot, and some of his literary efforts, dating 1879-1898.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), Henry William Lightfoot (1846-1901) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence between Mary Long, Sam Bell Long and William H. H. Long, dating 1867-1883. There is a small memorandum book, 1869-1872.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), Mary Gatewood Long (1846-1883) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence between Sam Bell Maxey Long and his wife, Lala Williams Long. Some material relating to the death of Sam Bell Maxey Long. Materials date from 1877 to 1948.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), Sam Bell Maxey Long (1869-1948) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence with William H. H. Long's wife, Mary Long, and his father, Jacob Long. Some literary efforts. Materials date 1864 to 1871.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), William H. H. Long (1849-1871) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.
Correspondence with Clarence Ousley, Department of Agriculture, Washington, D. C. and with Williams' associates in the State Farmer's Union. There are some letters relating to the cotton bale controversy. Newspaper clippings, stock shares, reprints. Materials date 1894 to 1920.
Arrangement is chronological.
(Identify the item), J. Sheb Williams (1850-1931) correspondence, Collateral collections, Samuel Bell Maxey Papers. Archives and Information Services Division, Texas State Library and Archives Commission.