urn:taro:ttu.sw.00071 C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Slaughter: An Inventory of His Papers, 1877-1953 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, February 2001. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:21:48 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00071 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Slaughter Papers, 1877-1953 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2000 Descriptive Summary Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919 C. C. Slaughter Papers, 1876-1953 and undated The papers of C. C. Slaughter, a rancher who established a frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County, Texas, in 1857. S 929.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box (1.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Born 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.

He 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).

 Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence, financial and legal material, photographs, and printed material pertaining to Slaughter and his family. A large portion of the materials deal with legal materials pertaining to Slaughter's death and the division of his estate (1921).

 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) Handley, W. B. Slaughter, Alexander Averill, 1881-1931 Slaughter, Dorothy L. Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919 Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919--Archives Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), 1837-1919--Estate Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus), Jr. Slaughter, Carrie Averill, 1852-1928 Slaughter, Robert Lee, 1870-1938 Subjects (Organizations) C. C. Slaughter Cattle Company Places Castro County (Tex.)--History Cochran County (Tex.)--History Grayson County (Tex.)--History Hockley County (Tex.)--History Howard County (Tex.)--History Lamb County (Tex.)--History Levelland (Tex.)--History Palo Pinto County (Tex.)--History Roswell (N.M.)--History Slaughter Ranch (Tex.) Slaughter Ranch (Tex.)--Employees Salughter Ranch (Tex.)--History Subjects Agriculture--Texas--History Businesswomen--Texas Cattle breeders--Texas--History Cattle trade--Texas--History Livestock--Breeding Oil well drilling--Texas, West Petroleum industry and trade--Texas Petroleum industry and trade--New Mexico Ranches--New Mexico Ranchers--Texas Ranches--Texas Women ranchers--Texas Acquisition

Gift, 1969

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

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Abel Ramirez, 2000

 Preferred Citation

Christopher Columbus (C. C.) Slaughter Papers, 1877-1953 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Murrah, David J. C. C. Slaughter, Rancher, Banker, Baptist. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981. Murrah, David J. A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C. C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch. Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Tech University, 1970.

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

Ira Byrd oral history interview [sound recording], 1969 Hiley Thompson Boyd, Jr. oral history interview [sound recording], 1970 Nettie Hyatt and Joe Bridges oral history interview [sound recording], 1975 Mr. and Mrs. Robert Jennings oral history interview [sound recording], 1973 Mrs. M.C. Lindsey oral history interview [sound recording], 1975 Lynn County (Tex.), Photographs, 1900-1950 Ralph McWhorter oral history interview [sound recording], 1979 Mrs. J. F. Reeves oral history interview [sound recording], 1970s Jot Smyth oral history interview [sound recording], 1959 Collection Inventory Correspondence 1 1 Averill, A. M., 1876 1 2 Averill, Alex, 1876 1 3 Averill, Walter, 1876 1 4 Slaughter, Carrie Averill, 1876-1877 1 5 Slaughter, Carrie Averill, 1876-1877 1 6 Slaughter, Christopher Columbus, 1876 1 7 R. G. Dun and Company, 1876 1 8 General, 1904-1930 Financial Documents 1 9 C. C. Slaughter's Estate, 1920-1931 1 10 Board of Directors Reports, 1915-1917 1 11 Tax Receipts, 1885-1920 1 12 Account of Promissory Notes, undated 1 13 Audit of C. C. Slaughter Company, 1921 1 14 Property Inventories for Taxation, 1912-1919 and undated 1 15 List of Purchasers Effected by Shortage in Survey of Running Water Ranch Lands, undated 1 16 Tax Return, 1919 1 17 Land Books, 1919-1920 1 18 Land Books, 1919-1920 Legal Documents 1 19 Distribution of C. C. Slaughter Lands, 1921 and undated 1 20 Distribution Plan of Slaughter's Estate, Exhibit A, 1920 1 21 Field Notes, Corrected, 1909-1924 1 22 Field Notes, 1909-1924 1 23 Promissory Notes, 1920 1 24 Howard County Lands, 1912-1918 and undated 1 25 General, 1909-1920 and undated Literary Productions 1 26 Passing of the Range Speech, 1907 Notes 1 27 Children of C. C. Slaughter and Cynthia Ann Jowell, undated 1 28 Children of C. C. Slaughter and Carrie Averill, undated Printed Material 1 29 Miscellaneous, 1924-1953 Photographs 1 30 Slaughter, C. C. and Carrie Averill, 1876 and undated Scrapbook Material 1 31 Confederate Reunion Association Scrapbook, 1901-1902 Memorabilia 1 32 Original Capsules for drawing concerning division of Long S Ranch, undated