urn:taro:ttu.sw.00256 Khleber Miller Van Zandt: An Inventory of His Papers, 1774-1953 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Abel Ramirez The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
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March 10, 2005 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided Karen Hicks, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, March 2005 Finding aid written in English. Inventory for the Khleber Miller Van Zandt Papers, 1774-1953 and undated Abel Ramirez Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, 2005 Descriptive Summary Van Zandt, Khleber Miller, 1836-1930 Khleber Miller Van Zandt Papers, 1774-1953 and undated The collection concerns Khleber Miller Van Zandt, a Civil War veteran and banker of Fort Worth, Texas. S1121.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 box (1.0 linear foot) English Biographical Sketch

Van Zandt was a Confederate soldier, legislator, merchant, banker, and community leader. He was born in 1836 in Salem, Tennessee, and moved to Texas in 1839. He also spent part of childhood in Washington D.C. where his father, Isaac Van Zandt (1813-1847), negotiated the annexation of the Republic of Texas. He served as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and became a merchant and advocate of railroad construction. In 1873, he organized the Tarrant County Construction Company which supervised the grading for the Texas and Pacific Railroad. In 1874, he established the Fort Worth National Bank, of which he served as president for fifty-six years. He also served as president of the K. M. Van Zandt Land Company and as a director of the Fort Worth Life Insurance Company. Van Zandt served for twenty years on the Fort Worth school board and served in the Texas House of Representatives during Reconstruction. He supported educational and religious movements and, for over sixty years, was a member and elder of the First Christian Church at Fort Worth. Van Zandt died in 1930 in Fort Worth.

 Scope and Contents

The collection includes correspondence, financial materials, legal materials, scrapbook material, printed material, and photographs. Bulks (1835-1942) with material related to Van Zandt's Civil War, business, and personal experiences. Also contains genealogical material, including the reminiscences of Van Zandt's son on the Mexican Revolution and a copy of Van Zandt's memoirs which were edited and published as Force Without Fanfare: The Autobiography of K. M. Van Zandt.

 Organization

The collection is arranged into the following series:

Dated Manuscripts Undated Manuscripts Financial Documents Legal Documents Literary Production Printed Material 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) Van Zandt, Khleber Miller, 1836-1930 Van Zandt, Isaac, 1813-1847 Subjects (Organizations) Fort Worth National Bank Subjects (Places) Fort Worth (Tex.)--History Tarrant County (Tex.)--History Subjects Banks and banking--Texas--History Civic leaders--Texas--Fort Worth Confederate States of America--Veterans Land settlement--Texas--History Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865 Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950 United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Veterans

Collection accession #(s): None for the record.

Gift and Purchase, 1965-1984

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

 Processed by

Abel Ramirez, 2005

 Preferred Citation

Khleber Miller Van Zandt Papers, 1774-1953 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

 Additional Sources Van Zandt, Khleber Miller. Force Without Fanfare: the Autobiography of K. M. Van Zandt.Fort Worth, Texas Christian University Press, 1968.

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

James Addison Abney Papers, 1838-1916 Charles Anderson Papers, 1884 Harry Wynne oral history interview [sound recording], 1969 Alice Van Zandt Williams oral history interview [sound recording], 1964 Collection Inventory Dated Manuscripts 1 1 Correspondence, 1843-1867 1 2 Correspondence, 1872-1893 1 3 Legal and Financial Documents, 1774-1869 1 4 Legal and Financial Documents, 1872-1893 1 5 Correspondence, Legal and Financial Documents, 1894-1896 1 6 Correspondence, Legal and Financial Documents, 1897-1903 1 7 Correspondence, Legal and Financial Documents, 1907-1920 1 8 Correspondence, Legal and Financial Documents, 1922-1940 1 9 Van Zandt, Isaac, Personal Correspondence, 1950-1953 Undated Manuscripts 1 10 Correspondence, Legal and Financial Documents, undated 1 11 Financial Documents, undated Financial Documents 1 12 Cancelled Checks, Property Receipts and Check Stubs, 1858-1948 Legal Documents 1 13 Warrenty Deeds and Lien Notes, 1864-1900 Literary Production 1 14 Seventh Texas Regiment, History and List, Company C and D, undated Printed Material 1 15 Bank Notes magazine, 1930 1 16 Newspaper and Magazines, 1923-1926 1 17 Miscellaneous, undated Scrapbook Material 1 18 Cards, Flyers and Miscellaneous, 1905-1956 and undated 1 19 Photographs, undated 1 20 Memorandum Booklets, 1867-1942