A Guide to the James Pearson Newcomb, Sr. Papers, 1835-1942


Descriptive Summary
	Creator	Newcomb, James P. (James Pearson), 1837-1907
	Title	NEWCOMB (JAMES PEARSON, SR.) PAPERS,
	Dates:	1835-1941
	OCLC Record Number:	21509352
	Extent	7 ft.
	Language	English.
	Repository	Center for American History The University of Texas at Austin

Biographical Note

Newcomb's San Antonio pro-Union newspaper, the Alamo Express, was destroyed by a mob on 13 November 1861, and his life was threatened. He fled to Mexico and then California where he joined Col. J.H. Carleton's California Column on its trek through Arizona and New Mexico. He later went on mining expeditions in Arizona and published a newspaper in San Francisco before returning to Texas in 1867.

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence; letterbook; notebooks and scrapbook; journals and diaries; speeches and reports; business, political, and legal documents; newspaper clippings; and copies of the WPA Historical Records Survey of the Newcomb material as well as photographs and genealogy arranged chronologically by subject.

Papers concern the career of James Pearson Newcomb, a newspaper publisher and journalist who, as a Union supporter, was forced to flee to California by way of Mexico during the Civil War but returned to Texas after the war, served in the Reconstruction government, founded and wrote for newspapers in the San Antonio area, and was a leader in state Republican politics. Papers document his activities as registrar of voters during Reconstruction and secretary of the state of Texas under Governor Edmund J. Davis (1869-1873), his appointment as San Antonio postmaster (1883), and his role as a member and officer of various important Republican organizations. Included also are papers of James Pearson Newcomb, Jr., and his notes on his father's papers.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

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Index Terms

	Subjects (Persons)
		Carleton, James Henry, 1814-1873.
		Clark, William T. (William Thomas), 1831-1905.
		Davis, Edmund Jackson, 1827-1883.
		DeGress, Jacob C., 1842-1894.
		Evans, Ira Hobart, 1844-1923.
		Hamilton, Morgan Calvin, 1809-1893.
		MacGregor, Henry Frederick, 1855-1923.
		Newcomb, James Pearson, Jr., b. 1881.
		Newcomb, James P. (James Pearson), 1837-1907--Archives.
		Newcomb family.
		Ruby, George T., b. 1841.
		Siemering, August, 1828-1883.
	Subjects (Organizations)
		Historical Records Survey (Tex.).
		Republican Party (Tex.)--History--19th Century--Sources.
		Republican Party (Tex.) State convention (1896: Houston)
		Union League of America--History--Sources.
		Texas. Constitutional Convention, 1868-1869.
		Alamo express (San Antonio, Tex.: 1860-1861)
		Evening light (San Antonio, Tex.: 1881)
		San Antonio express (San Antonio, Tex.: 1875)
	Subjects
		Elections--Texas--History--19th century.
		Journalists--Texas.
		Newspapers--Texas.
		Politicians--Texas.
		Reconstruction--Texas.
		Statesmen--Texas.
	Places
		San Antonio (Tex.)--History--Sources.
		San Francisco (Cal.)--History--Sources.
		Texas--Governors.
		Texas--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
		Texas--Politics and government--1865-1950.
	Other Authors
		Davis, Edmund Jackson, 1827-1883.

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Separated Material


	James Pearson Newcomb Papers, San Antonio Public Library, 203 Saint Mary's Street, S., San Antonio, Texas 78205, U.S.A.

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Newcomb papers:

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General correspondence:

1857-May 1871.

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2F106

June 1871-July 1872.

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2F107

August 1872-1881.

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2F108

1882-1907 and undated.

James Pearson Newcomb, Jr., correspondence, 1908-1941.

Letters to Nettie (Mrs. James Pearson Newcomb, Sr.), 1871-1873.

Letters to his children from James Pearson Newcomb, Sr., 1887-1907.

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2F109

Political documents, 1861-1900 and undated.

Letterpress pages, 1870-1875.

Letterpress, 1870-1875.

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Legal papers, 1879-1906.

Notebooks, 1835-1856 and undated.

Journals and diaries, 1857-1871.

Thomas Newcomb [?] travel journal, (transcript, 2 copies). 1836-1837

Family history, 1836-1872 and undated.

Receipts and certificates, 1847-1882.

Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, 1862-1905 and undated.

Clippings scrapbook, 1867-1876.

Land and mines stock certificates, 1864-1907.

Newcomb letter inventory (alphabetical).

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WPA Historical Records Survey:

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2F111

Letter inventory
(2 copies)

1839-1870.

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2F112

1871.

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2F113

1872-1873.

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2F114

1874-1888.

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1889-1907 and undated.

Newspaper inventory
(2 copies):

Alphabetical.

Chronological.

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2F116

Book inventory
(2 copies):

Fiction and miscellaneous.

Textbooks and miscellaneous.

Texas-related and miscellaneous.

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Magazine inventory
(2 copies).

Pamphlet and circular inventory
(2 copies).

Miscellaneous document inventory
(2 copies).

Art work inventory
(2 copies).

Map inventory and miscellaneous
(2 copies).

Bibliography and document inventory, WPA arrangement.

Books and pamphlets, WPA arrangement.

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2F118

Newspaper inventory, WPA arrangement.

Working papers:

Kennedy-Pitts.

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Kennedy-Pitts.

Spain-Kennedy.

Kennedy-Rogers.

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Kennedy-Rogers.

Seymour-Barnes.

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3S34

Photographs.

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4L858

Newcomb family Bible.

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Oversize documents.

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