William J. Klattenhoff: An Inventory of His Papers, 1900-1977 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Klattenhoff, William J.
	Title:	William J. Klattenhoff Papers,
	Dates:	1900-1977 and undated
	Abstract:	The collection consists of personal and business records generated by the activities of William J. Klattenhoff, his father M. F. Klattenhoff, and other family members.
	Collection #	S546.2
	Quantity:	5 boxes (5.0 linear feet)
	Language	English.
	Repository:	Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University

Biographical Sketch

An early Lubbock County, Texas, settler, farmer, landowner, and civic and political leader, Klattenhoff was born in 1899 in Taylor, Williamson County, Texas to M. F. and Lina Pfluger Klattenhoff. In 1883, at the age of 16, M. F. Klattenhoff came to the United States from Germany. He later left his store in Williamson County and brought his family to West Texas in 1911, settling on a farm three miles east of Slaton, Texas. William, a long-time Rural Letter Carrier, was active in the Republican Party, the Lutheran Church, land settlement, and farming activities. He died in 1979.

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Scope and Contents

Includes business and personal correspondence, legal and financial materials, scrapbook materials, and printed materials pertaining to the business, political, religious, and personal activities of William J. Klattenhoff, his father, M. F. Klattenhoff, and other family members. Much of the correspondence pertains to arrangements for agricultural leases of pasture and cultivated land. Of particular interest are details of Klattenhoff's day to day farming activities during World War II as described in letters written to Ben C. Klattenhoff, who served in the Pacific (1942-1945).

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Organization
	The collection is organized into the following series:

		Correspondence (Boxes 1-2)
		Financial Material (Boxes 2-3)
		General Files (Box 4)
		Legal Material (Boxes 4-5)
		Literary Production (Box 5)
		Printed Material (Box 5)
		Scrapbook Material (Box 5)

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

Open for research

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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)
		Klattenhoff, Ben C.
		Klattenhoff, M. F. (Magnus Friedrich), 1867-1945
		Klattenhoff, William J., 1899-1979
	Subjects (Organizations)
		Republican Party of Texas
	Subjects
		Agriculture--history
		Lubbock County (Tex.)--History

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Related Material


	For related materials located in the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, see the following collections:
		William J. Klattenhoff Papers, 1887-1979 and undated William J. Klattenhoff Photograph Collection William J. Klattenhoff Film Collection Lutheran Church (Texas) Records, 1911-1972 [1 microfilm reel]

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

William J. Klattenhoff Papers, 1900-1977 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

Collection accession #(s):
86-0026-B

Gift, 1985

Processed by

Karen Hicks, 2004

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Collection Inventory



Correspondence, 1906-1966 and undated
box	folder
1	1	Klattenhoff, Ben, 1930-1937 and undated
		Klattenhoff, M. F. (Magnus)
box	folder
1	2		General, 1912-1943 and undated
	3		D. S. Schreiber, 1930-1937
	4		John Windham, 1930-1937
		Klattenhoff, William J.
box	folder
1	5		Charles Aderholt, 1929-1930
	6		T. E. Allen, 1938-1942
	7		L. A. Armstrong, 1934-1935
	8		Automobiles, 1934-1936
	9		Plant Nurseries, 1930-1931
	10		Marion B. Benton, 1930
	11		E. J. Brandt, 1945-1947
	12		W. W. Brunson, 1930-1936
	13		Foster Carroll, 1943-1944
	14		Collecting, 1936-1961
	15		J. O. Currie, Carl Ganzert, 1929-1930
	16		Elliott and Waldren Abstract Companies, Rankin, Texas, 1947-1948
	17		Estate of M. F. Klattenhoff, 1945-1947
	18		Family Correspondence, 1907-1962 and undated
	19		Farm Labor, 1942-1944
	20		Farm Rental, General, 1934-1948
	21		General, 1928-1969 and undated
	22		J. V. Gilliam, 1945-1946
	23		"Goldwater for President", 1960
	24		Government Employees Insurance Company, 1944-1961
	25		Grass Lease, General, 1929-1937
	26		John Griffith, 1944
	27		Henry Halff, 1929
	28		P. J. Hart, 1935-1936
	29		High Plains Underground Water District, 1965
	30		A. C. Hoover, 1930-1937
	31		Mary E. Jamison, 1933-1943
	32		Ben C. Klattenhoff, 1942-1945
	33		Land in Mexico, 1942-1946
	34		H. O. Lown, 1936
	35		Carlos Minvielle Roca, 1947-1951
	36		Jess Neal, 1947-1948
	37		Oil/Gas Lease, 1929-1963
	38		R. N. Rau (Holland), 1950-1951
	39		Rural Mail Carriers, 1925-1954
	40		Clara E. Schreiber, 1931-1953 and undated
	41		John Schreiver, 1921-1931
	42		H. V. Seggern, 1930-1935
	43		Southwest Publishing Company, 1930-1931
	44		Robert Stumhofer, 1930-1931
	45		F. H. Teggeman, 1930-1936
	46		Terry County Land (SW¼ Section 172, Block T), 1929-1944
	47		Terry County Land, 1944-1948
	48		United States Department of Commerce re: Schuster and Flores, Mexico, 1930-1931
	49		Mrs. W. G. Weber, 1929-1942 and undated
	50		Rosilio Ybarra, 1947
		Schreiver, John
box	folder
1	51		General, 1925
		United States Department of Agriculture
box	folder
1	52		Re: Farm Programs, 1942-1966

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Financial Material, 1903-1968 and undated
box	folder
2	1	Building Materials Inventory - Type, Grade, Cost, etc., circa 1962 and undated
	2	Check Register and Bank Statements (Alvin M. Pfluger), 1958-1960
	3	Farm Account Information, 1951-1957
	4	Financial Statement, 1942-1945
	5	Income Tax, 1920-1929
	6	Irrigation pipe, pumps, etc., 1952-1964
	7	Irrigation pipe, pumps, etc. (Clowe and Cowan, Inc.), 1962-1966
		Klattenhoff, M. F. (Magnus)
box	folder
2	8		Bank Statements and associated records, 1925-1929
	9		Bank Statements and associated records, 1939-1940
	10		Bank Statements and associated records, 1941
	11		Bank Statements and associated records, 1942
	12		Deposit Slips, 1935-1944
	13		Deposit Slips, 1935-1945
box	folder
3	1		Deposit Slips, 1943-1945
	2		Income Tax Reports 1917, 1919, and 1927, 1917-1928
	3		Promissory Notes, 1908-1912
	4		Returned Checks, 1911-1940
	5		Returned Checks, 1934-1939
	6		Statements/Invoices, 1938
	7		Statements/Invoices, 1939
	8		Statements/Invoices, 1940
	9		Tax Receipts, 1903-1916
	10		Tax Receipts, 1905-1916
	11		Tax Receipts, 1910-1930
	12		Tax Receipts, 1911-1917
	13		Tax Receipts, 1916-1918
	14		Tax Receipts, 1919
	15		Tax Receipts, 1919-1920
	16		Tax Receipts, 1920-1922
	17		Tax Receipts, 1920-1922
	18		Tax Receipts, 1921-1923
	19		Tax Receipts, 1924
	20		Tax Receipts, 1924-1926
	21		Tax Receipts, 1925
	22		Tax Receipts, 1927
	23		Tax Receipts, 1927-1930
	24		Tax Receipts, 1929-1930
	25		Taxes - Mexico land, 1938-1939
	26		West Texas Hospital charges, 1929
		Klattenhoff, William J.
box	folder
3	27		Bank Deposits, 1924-1969
	28		Receipts/Statements, 1917-1955
	29	Ledger, 1936-1943
	30	Ledger "Texas Farm Record Book" Farm Accounts, 1940-1945
	31	Plumbing Materials for Klattenhoff Mobile Home Sites, Slaton, Texas, 1968

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General Files, 1919-1974
box	folder
4	1	Candidates' Campaign Cards, 1936
	2	Christmas Card List, undated
	3	Consumer Report, 1956
	4	Cotton, 1934-1973
	5	Diet/Recipes, undated
	6	Drawing for terraces built by Civilian Conservation Corps, Lubbock County, Texas, 1937
	7	First State Bank of Shallowater, Shallowater, Texas, 1960-1974
	8	Insurance, 1944-1967
	9	Ben Klattenhoff - Application for Discharge, 1944-1945
	10	Ben Klattenhoff - Miscellaneous, 1934-1945
	11	M. F. (Magnus) Klattenhoff, Information for Obituary, ca. 1945
	12	M. F. (Magnus) Klattenhoff, Miscellaneous Business and Personal Records, 1921-1925
	13	M. F. (Magnus) Klattenhoff, Partnership with J. S. Edwards, 1937-1938 and undated
	14	Lutheran Church, 1946-1968
	15	Massie Wholesale Grocery, Floydada, Texas, 1919-1926
	16	Patent #1869057 granted to Walter C. Gannon "Shaving Aids", 1932
	17	Proposed Texas Tech recognition of R. A. Baldwin, 1967 and undated
	18	Republican Party/Politics, 1960-1964 and undated
	19	Republican Party of Texas, 1948-1970 and undated
	20	1960 Republican National Convention, 1960
	21	John Schreiver - Miscellaneous, 1929 and undated
	22	Slaton Savings and Loan Association - Bylaws, Correspondence, Stock offering, etc., 1958-1971
	23	Slaton School Homecoming/General Ben Schreiver, 1965
	24	T-Bar Farmers Cooperative Society, 1953-1954
	25	Texas Rural Letter Carriers Association Annual Meeting, 1938-1953
	26	John Tower Senate Campaign, 1960-1961
	27	Water Wells - Permit, Registration, and Drillers Log - Lubbock and Hockley Counties, Texas, 1952-1959
	28	West Texas Hospital - Statements, Stockholders, Sale, 1957-1969
	29	Wilson Cooperative Gin, 1963
	30	Miscellaneous, undated

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Legal Material, 1900-1977 and undated
box	folder
4	31	Agricultural Lease, 1922-1924
	32	Agricultural Lease, 1924-1926
	33	Agricultural Lease, 1926-1927
	34	Agricultural Lease, 1927-1929
	35	Agricultural Lease, 1929-1931
box	folder
5	1	Agricultural Lease, 1931-1933
	2	Agricultural Lease, 1934-1938
	3	Agricultural Lease, 1938-1939
	4	Agricultural Lease, 1939-1940
	5	Agricultural Lease, 1960-1971
	6	Agricultural Lease - M. H. Edgar, 1933-1939
	7	Case No. 2072 - John Schreiver vs. W. J. Klattenhoff - Terry County, Texas, 1936-1940
	8	Case No. 6839 - John F. Schreiver, et ux. Vs. M. F. Klattenhoff et al., Lubbock County, Texas, 1932-1944
	9	Correspondence and Documents re Terry County Land and Litigations with John Schreiver, 1923-1937
	10	General, 1907-1961
	11	Chloe Klattenhoff Estate -Inventory, 1977
	12	M. F. Klattenhoff (Magnus), 1900-1938
	13	M. F. Klattenhoff (Magnus) - Blank Forms, undated
	14	William J. Klattenhoff - Amos Knight Vendor's Lien, 1956-1966
	15	William J. Klattenhoff - Paving Lien, Slaton, Texas, 1965-1966
	16	William J. Klattenhoff vs. Swerno Garza et al., 1961-1966
	17	Mineral Rights/Royalty, 1950-1975
	18	Re: Section No. 13, Block 8, Lynn County, Texas, 1933-1945

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Literary Production, 1974 and undated

box

folder

"The M. F. Klattenhoff Farm House, Slaton, Texas" by Kathy G. Johnson, Architecture Conservation, 1974

Notebook, undated

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Printed Material, 1920-1965 and undated
box	folder
5	21	Agriculture, 1938-1942 and undated
	22	Re: American Lutheran Church, 1939-1963
	23	"Civil Service Retirement Act of May 29, 1930", 1951
	24	"Lubbock Daily Business Report", January 1 to September 1, 1936
	25	Newsclippings, 1926-1965 and undated
	26	Otto Goedecke Cotton, Hallettsville, Texas, undated
	27	"Regulations Governing United States Savings Bonds", 1945
	28	Soil Survey of Lubbock County, Texas, 1920
	29	Re: Water, 1931-1954

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Scrapbook Material, 1902-1966 and undated
box	folder
5	30	County Plat Maps, 1902-1948 and undated
	31	Scrapbook Material and Memorabilia, 1928-1966 and undated
	32	Artifact: 16mm film cartridge, undated

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

William J. Klattenhoff:

An Inventory of His Papers, 1900-1977 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library

Organization

Access Restrictions

Correspondence, 1906-1966 and undated

Financial Material, 1903-1968 and undated

General Files, 1919-1974

Legal Material, 1900-1977 and undated

Literary Production, 1974 and undated

Printed Material, 1920-1965 and undated

Scrapbook Material, 1902-1966 and undated