urn:taro:ttu.sw.00075 Finch Brothers Company: An Inventory of Its Records, 1837-1945 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez 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://www.swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
April 2003 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Abel Ramirez, April 2003. Finding aid written inEnglish Tue Jul 22 15:21:49 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00075 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Finch Brothers Records, 1837-1945 and undated Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, May 2002 Descriptive Summary Finch Brothers Company Finch Brothers Records, 1837-1945 and undated Records and activities of the Finch Brothers in the Texas Panhandle. S 324.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 4 boxes (4.0 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Austin Finch and his son, John, came to Burlingame, Kansas, in 1875 and established ranching and banking interests. In 1905, John began to divest his property to his children, Frank, Fred, Winnie, Orville, and Howard, by establishing the Finch Brothers Company. Part of the property included ranch lands near Dalhart, Texas, which brothers Frank and Orville took over. Orville eventually became mayor of Dalhart in 1921.

 Scope and Contents

The collection contains business correspondence, bank statements, cancelled checks, check stubs, land deeds and contracts, four diaries, and some scrapbook material concerning the Finch Brothers ranching activities in the Texas Panhandle.

 Organization

The records are organized in the following series:

Box 1: Correspondence Box 2-4: Financial Documents Box 4: Legal Documents Box 4: Literary Production Box 4: Photographs Box 4: Printed Material Box 4: Scrapbook Material 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) Finch, Austin, 1806-1893 Finch, John, 1848-1928 Finch, Orville, 1880- Finch, Howard, 1882- Finch, Frank, 1878- Finch, Fred, 1876-1905 Subjects (Organizations) Finch Brothers Company Subjects Ranching--Texas Ranching--Texas--Dalhart Ranching--Texas, West Places Finch Brothers Ranch (Tex.)

Gift, 1969

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, May 2002

 Preferred Citation

Finch Brothers Records, 1837-1945 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

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

Finch Brothers Ranch Papers, 1913-1945 [microfilm] Mr. and Mrs. Orville Henry Finch oral history interview [sound recording], 1969 Mr. and Mrs. Orville Henry Finch oral history interview [sound recording], 1971 Collection Inventory Correspondence 1 1 Personal and Professional, 1860-1912 1 2 Professional, 1913-1914 1 3 Professional, 1915 1 4 Professional, 1916 1 5 Professional, 1917-1919 1 6 Professional, 1920-1921 1 7 Professional, 1922 1 8 Professional, 1923 1 9 Professional, 1924 1 10 Professional, 1925 1 11 Professional, 1926 1 12 Professional, 1927 1 13 Professional, 1928 1 14 Professional, 1929 1 15 Professional, 1930 1 16 Professional, 1931 1 17 Professional, 1932 1 18 Professional, Jan.-Sept. 1933 1 19 Professional, Oct.-Dec. 1933 1 20 Professional, Jan.-Aug. 1934 1 21 Professional, Sept.-Dec. 1934 1 22 Professional, 1935 1 23 Professional, 1936 1 24 Professional, 1937 1 25 Professional, 1938 1 26 Professional, 1939-1942 1 27 Professional, 1943-1944 1 28 Professional, undated 1 29 Finch, J. A., 1888-1909 1 30 Strowger, A. B., 1866-1880 Financial Documents 2 1 Bank Notes, 1920-1923 2 2 Bank Notes, 1923-1926 2 3 Bank Notes, 1927-1929 2 4 Bank Statements and Check Stubs, 1913-1917 2 5 Bank Statements and Check, 1918-1919 2 6 Bank Statements and Check, 1920-1921 2 7 Bank Statements and Check, 1921 2 8 Bank Statements and Check, 1922 2 9 Bank Statements and Check, 1923-1924 2 10 Bank Statements and Check, 1925-1926 2 11 Bank Statements and Check, 1927 3 1 Bank Statements and Check, 1929 3 2 Bank Statements and Check, 1930-1933 3 3 Bank Statements and Check, 1944-1945 3 4 Check Stubs, 1921-1925 3 5 Check Stubs, 1925-1929 3 6 Check Stubs, 1929-1924 3 7 Expenses, 1916-1942 3 8 Livestock Information, 1921-1938 3 9 Property Taxes and Receipts, 1858-1912 4 1 Receipts, 1866-1912 Legal Documents 4 2 Assorted Deeds, 1837-1903 4 3 Assorted Deeds, 1888-1911 4 4 Chattel Mortgage, 1919-1926 4 5 Contracts, 1917-1942 4 6 Oil and Gas Leases, 1919-1921 4 7 Miscellaneous, 1917-1927 Literary Production 4 8 Diaries (4 items), 1858-1902 4 9 Genealogy Notes, 1873-1896 4 10 The Old Homestead, author unknown, undated 4 11 Out Where the Sun Goes Down by Howard A. Finch, undated 4 12 Photographs: Miscellaneous, 1902 and undated 4 13 Printed Material: News clippings, 1843-1865 and undated Scrapbook Material 4 14 Mayoral Certificate for O.H. Finch, 1921 4 15 Miscellaneous, 1845-1898