TABLE OF CONTENTS
Descriptive Summary
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Contents
Restrictions
Index Terms
Related Material
Administrative Information
Additional Sources
Description of Series
Correspondence
Financial Documents
Legal Documents
Literary Productions
Notes
Printed Material
Photographs
Scrapbook Material
Memorabilia
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C. C. (Christopher Columbus) Slaughter:
An Inventory of His Papers, 1877-1953 and undated, at the
Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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| Creator | Slaughter, C. C. (Christopher Columbus),
1837-1919 |
| Title: | C. C. Slaughter Papers,
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| Dates: | 1876-1953 and undated |
| Abstract: | The papers of C. C.
Slaughter, a rancher who established a frontier ranch in Palo Pinto County,
Texas, in 1857. |
| Collection # | S 929.1 |
| Quantity: | 1 box (1.0 linear
feet) |
| Language | English. |
| Repository: | Southwest Collection/Special Collections
Library, Texas Tech University |
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).
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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).
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Access Restrictions
Open for research
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| 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 |
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For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special
Collections Library, see the following collections:
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- 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
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Christopher Columbus (C. C.) Slaughter Papers, 1877-1953 and
undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, Texas
Gift, 1969
Abel Ramirez, 2000
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Murrah, David J.
"C. C. Slaughter, Rancher, Banker, Baptist.
"Austin: University of Texas Press, 1981.
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Murrah, David J.
"A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C.
C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch. "Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Tech University,
1970.
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Correspondence
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 1 | | Averill, A. M.,
1876 |
| 2 | | Averill, Alex,
1876 |
| 3 | | Averill, Walter,
1876 |
| 4 | | Slaughter, Carrie Averill,
1876-1877 |
| 5 | | Slaughter, Carrie Averill,
1876-1877 |
| 6 | | Slaughter, Christopher Columbus,
1876 |
| 7 | | R. G. Dun and Company,
1876 |
| 8 | | General,
1904-1930 |
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Financial Documents
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 9 | | C. C. Slaughter's Estate,
1920-1931 |
| 10 | | Board of Directors Reports,
1915-1917 |
| 11 | | Tax Receipts,
1885-1920 |
| 12 | | Account of Promissory Notes,
undated |
| 13 | | Audit of C. C. Slaughter Company,
1921 |
| 14 | | Property Inventories for Taxation,
1912-1919 and undated |
| 15 | | List of Purchasers Effected by Shortage in Survey of
Running Water Ranch Lands,
undated |
| 16 | | Tax Return,
1919 |
| 17 | | Land Books,
1919-1920 |
| 18 | | Land Books,
1919-1920 |
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Legal Documents
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 19 | | Distribution of C. C. Slaughter Lands,
1921 and undated |
| 20 | | Distribution Plan of Slaughter's Estate, Exhibit A,
1920 |
| 21 | | Field Notes, Corrected,
1909-1924 |
| 22 | | Field Notes,
1909-1924 |
| 23 | | Promissory Notes,
1920 |
| 24 | | Howard County Lands,
1912-1918 and undated |
| 25 | | General,
1909-1920 and undated |
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Literary Productions
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 26 | | Passing of the Range Speech,
1907 |
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Notes
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 27 | | Children of C. C. Slaughter and Cynthia Ann Jowell,
undated |
| 28 | | Children of C. C. Slaughter and Carrie Averill,
undated |
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Printed Material
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 29 | | Miscellaneous,
1924-1953 |
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Photographs
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 30 | | Slaughter, C. C. and Carrie Averill,
1876 and undated |
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Scrapbook Material
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 31 | | Confederate Reunion Association Scrapbook,
1901-1902 |
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Memorabilia
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| box | folder |
| 1 | 32 | | Original Capsules for drawing concerning division of
Long S Ranch,
undated |
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