urn:taro:ttu.sw.00018 Alice Duggan Gracy: An Inventory of Her Papers 1910-1951, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806) 742-3749 Fax: (806) 742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
June 1, 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, September 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:20:32 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00018 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Alice Duggan Gracy Papers, 1910-1951 Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, June 1, 2000 Descriptive Summary Gracy, Alice Duggan Alice Duggan Gracy Papers, 1910-1951 The papers of Alice Duggan Gracy concern her family and includes news clippings about the death of Arthur P. Duggan, Sr., Texas State Senator and civic leader from Littlefield, Texas. S 378.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box (1.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Arthur Pope Duggan, Sr., was a real estate developer and sales manager for the Littlefield Lands Company in Littlefield, Texas, president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce, and a Texas State Senator. Born in 1876 in Hays County, Texas, Duggan attended the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas (now Texas A&M University), where he received a bachelor of civil engineering degree in 1895. He then went to attend the University of Texas, from which he received a law degree in 1898. In 1900, Duggan opened a law office in Stamford, Texas, and married Sarah Elizabeth Harral, a niece of Maj. George W. Littlefield, on June 18, 1902, in Austin. They had two children.

Duggan owned the Duggan Abstract Company from 1904-1911. From 1925-1927, he was president of the West Texas Chamber of Commerce in Littlefield, Texas. His civic activities eventually led him to serve as a Texas senator from 1933-1935. He died of heart failure on September 6, 1935.

The donor of the collection, Alice Duggan Gracy, was his daughter.

 Scope and Contents

This collection includes correspondence, printed material, and scrapbook materials. It bulks (1935) with news clippings concerning the death of Arthur P. Duggan, Sr., Texas State Senator and civic leader from Littlefield, Texas.

Of special interest are the photographs which include family portraits and snapshots. The card scrapbook was badly deteriorated, crumbling, and stained, and the greeting cards were removed.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Persons) Boyce, Katie E. Gracy, Alice Duggan Duggan, Alston Duggan, Arthur Pope, 1876-1935 Duggan family Soash, W. P. (William Pulver), 1877-1961 Subjects (Organizations) Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway Company Halsell Farms (Tex.) Spade Ranch (Tex.) Yellow House Land Company Places Lamb County (Tex.)--History Littlefield (Tex.)--Social life and customs Subjects Civic leaders--Texas--Littlefield Farms--Texas--History Land companies--Texas--History Legislators--Texas Land titles--Registration and transfer--Texas--History Transportation--Texas, West Acquisition

Gifts, 1962 and 1981

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Lynn Whitfield, June 1, 2000

 Preferred Citation

Alice Duggan Gracy Papers, 1910-1951, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources The Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online biography of Arthur Pope Duggan (1876-1935) at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html Seymour V. Connor, ed., Builders of the Southwest. Lubbock: Southwest Collection, Texas Technological College, 1959. David B. Gracy II. Littlefield Lands. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1968.

For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:

Arthur P. Duggan Sr. Papers, 1898-1899 Yellow House Land Company Records, 1913-1943 Collection Inventory Manuscript Files 1 1 Cards, 1910-1922 1 2 Correspondence, 1944-1945 1 3 Family Bible: Duggan, Alston, undated 1 4 Lamb County: Yellow House Ranch, undated 1 5 Lamb County: Land Abstracts and Sales, 1940-1942 1 6 Littlefield News, 1912-1913 1 7 Maps: Ellwood's Lands and Texas Trails, undated 1 8 Miscellaneous Advertisements and Pamphlets, undated News Clippings 1 9 News Clippings: Duggan, Arthur P., Senator, 1935 1 10 News Clippings: Duggan Airfield, 1945-1946 1 11 News Clippings: Halsell Farms, undated 1 12 News Clippings: Irrigation and Rainfall in Lamb County, 1945-1947 and undated 1 13 News Clippings: Lamb County, Littlefield and Olton History, 1939-1951 and undated 1 14 News Clippings: Santa Fe System Lines Railroad, 1945-1947 and undated 1 15 News Clippings: Texas Agriculture, 1935-1950 and undated 1 16 News Clippings: Texas Politics, 1934-1935 and undated 1 17 News Clippings: Texas Sales Taxes, 1935 and undated 1 18 News Clippings: University of Texas 1935 Photographs 1 19 Photograph Inventory, 1956 1 20 Photographs, undated Negatives, black and white- 6 (35 mm), 7 (4 x 5) Prints, black and white- 61 (various sizes) 1 21 Rainfall Chart: Amarillo, Texas, 1910-1937 1 22 Soash, W. P., 1944 and undated 1 23 Spade Ranch: Payment Totals, undated