urn:taro:ttu.sw.00116 Issac L. Ellwood: An Inventory of His Papers, 1878-1938, 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://swco.ttu.edu Contact Person: Reference Archivist
August 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, October 2000. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 15:22:32 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.sw.00116 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Issac L. Ellwood Papers, 1878-1938 Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, August 2000 Descriptive Summary Ellwood, Isaac Leonard, 1833-1910 Isaac L. Ellwood Papers, 1878-1938 Papers concerning the financial activities of Isaac L. and William L. Ellwood. S 309.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 small box (0.3 linear feet) English. Biographical Sketch

Co-inventor and manufacturer of barbed wire, businessman, and land owner, Isaac L. Ellwood was born in 1833 in New York. With his sons, William L. and Erwin P., he began purchasing Texas ranch lands in 1889, including the Spade and Renderbrook ranches. After his death in 1910, his sons, along with A. W. Fisk, managed the estate. Beginning in 1924, portions of the Spade Ranch were sold for farming and colonization.

The Handbook of Texas has published a more in-depth online biography of Isaac L. Ellwood at http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/search.html

 Scope and Contents

The collection consists of financial material concerning Isaac L. Ellwood, of DeKalb, Illinois, and William L. Ellwood, of Lubbock, Texas, and their business activities. Also includes legal materials and correspondence, primarily concerning debt collections, and business affairs.

 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) Ellwood, Isaac Leonard, 1833-1910 Ellwood, William L., 1859-1933 Subjects (Organizations) Ellwood Estates Ellwood Farms Places Renderbrook Ranch (Tex.)--History Spade Ranch (Tex.)--History Subjects Barbed wire Land settlement--Texas, West Ranches--Texas Ranch life--Texas--History Acquisition

Gifts, 1958-1959

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, August 2000

 Preferred Citation

Isaac L. Ellwood Papers, 1878-1938, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Hopping, R. C. (Richard Coke). The Ellwoods: Barbed Wire and Ranches. Lubbock: Texas Technological College, 1962. Kelton, Steve. Renderbrook: a Century Under the Spade Brand. Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1989. Ludeman, Mayme Carol. The Land Phase of the Colonization of the Spade Ranch. Thesis (M.A.)--Texas Technological College, 1939.

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

David Nathan Arnett Papers, 1866-1939, 1866-1925 William F. Eisenberg oral history interview [sound recording], 1969 Ellwood Estates Records, 1860-1966 R. C. (Richard Coke) Hopping Papers, 1950 Virgil H. Lawyer Papers, 1960 Collection Inventory Isaac L. Ellwood 1 1 Correspondence, 1885-1938 1 2 Financial Documents, 1878-1919 1 3 Legal Documents, 1893-1933 William L. Ellwood 1 4 Correspondence, 1887-1933 1 5 Financial Documents, 1888-1928 1 6 Legal Documents, 1887-1935