urn:taro:utexas.cah.00239 A Guide to the Ernest H. Greene Papers, 1902-1952 Edited with XMetal 2 by Cherie Baker and Evan Hocker according to instructions in TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions, 20030826. Finding aid written in English. Descriptive SummaryGreene, Ernest H.Ernest H. Greene Papers 1902-1952 Most materials are inEnglish; some correspondence in Spanish.7ft., 9 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at AustinPapers consist of personal and business records of Ernest H. Greene, who came to the United States in the early 1900's and became involved in several business ventures such as oil, lumber, and cattle. Biographical Note

Born in England, Greene joined two brothers in the United States in 1893 to learn mining and ranching in Utah and Montana, obtaining citizenship in 1917. Based in New York City, Greene was involved in tungsten, silver, and gold mining, participated in a timber consortium in Mexico, and took part in oil exploration in Kansas, Oklahoma, and Mexico prior to World War I and later in Texas and other states. He eventually settled in Medina County, Texas, where in 1924 he purchased 1,000 acres of pecan orchard lands on which at various times he grew pecans and other crops, and raised Brahman and dairy cattle and sheep. He was also involved in real estate and land management in Medina County and in the San Antonio area.

 Scope and Contents

Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, reports, maps, charts, printed materials, and photographs document the life of Ernest H. Greene. The bulk of the material consists of correspondence relating to his various business endeavors.

 Organization

Organized into two series: Business records. Personal papers. Alphabetical folder arrangement within subseries.

Preferred Citation

Ernest H. Greene Papers, 1902-1952, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Subjects (Persons)Greene, Ernest Hardman, 1878-1967 SubjectsHardwood industry--Mexico--History--20th century--Sources. Land companies--Texas--Medina County--History--20th century-Sources. Mines and mineral resources--United States--History--20th century--Sources. Pecan industry--Texas--Medina County--History--20th century--Sources. Petroleum mining--United States--History--Sources. Ranches--Texas--Medina County--History--20th century--Sources. Timber--Mexico--History--20th century--Sources. Medina County (Tex.)--History--20th century--Sources. Detailed Description of the Papers Business Records3E1 3E1 Ranch business, 1923-1941: Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 3E1 Accounting 3E1 Bexar-Medina-Atascosa Water Improvement and Irrigation Company 3E1 Bibliography 3E1 Brahman cattle 3E1 Clippings on ranch 3E1 Corn 3E1 Cotton 3E1 Crop leases 3E1 Crop loans 3E1 Dairy 3E1 Dates 3E1 Experimental planting 3E1 Fences 3E1 Fertilizer 3E1 Fire on #1 3E1 Buck Freeman, lessor #5 3E1 Grapes 3E1 Gidley 3E1 Hay, etc. 3E1 Hegera 3E1 Hired hands, miscellaneous 3E1 Hogs 3E1 House 3E2 Insurance 3E2 Intercom system 3E2 Inventories 3E2 Livestock, miscellaneous 3E2 Luling Foundation 3E2 Miscellaneous oil business (Texas) 3E2 Manager, Charley Brieden 3E2 Manager, Col. H. B. Farrar, Pecan-Sheep Company 3E2 Manager Newton Johnson 3E2 Mason, F. E., Lessor/Manager 3E2 Office 3E2 Onions 3E2 Orchard sales packet 3E2 Outbuildings 3E2 Pasture 3E2 Pesticides/fungicides 3E2 Poultry 3E2 Ranch operations, 1924-1934 3E3 Ranch operations, 1935-1941 3E3 Ranch sale 3E3 Roads 3E3 Roses 3E3 F. L. Salvagio 3E3 Sheep 3E3 Supplies 3E3 Truck crops 3E3 U. S. Farm Administration 3E3 Work applications Personal Records 3E4 Pecan business, 1923-1929: Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 3E4 J. A. Burkett speech on pecans 3E4 Clippings 3E4 Correspondence, general 3E4 Equipment 3E4 Extension correspondence [Department of Agriculture] 3E4 General 3E4 Greene and Corbin syndicate 3E4 Helen H. Howe 3E4 Dean E. J. Kyle [Texas A&M] 3E4 Nursery 3E4 National Pecan Association 3E4 Other pecan lands 3E4 Pecan Grove Association 3E4 Pests and pesticides 3E4 Planting: 3E4 Planting and grafting 3E4 Evans-Gray Nursery 3E4 1925, with letters regarding 10,000 Halbert buds 3E4 Replanting trees, 1927-1928 3E4 Publications 3E4 Orchard prior to Greene purchase, Medina [County] 3E4 Report on orchard, 1927 (Kischuk) 3E4 Sales 3E4 Shelling 3E4 Texas Pecan Growers Association 3E4 Varieties 3E4 Workers, managers 2.325/D8c Chart, E. E. Evans Citrus Fruit Orchard, Mercedes, Texas, shipping rates 3E5-3E6 Mexican Hardwoods Company, 1911-1937: 3E5 Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 3E5 Francisca D. Davis/Catalina Hart materials 3E7 Wilbur Barker 3E7 Bocanchital, Veracruz 3E7 C. L. Chester 3E7 Chivela 2.325/D8c Chart, Serial Lumber Bonds, 1928? 2.325/D8c Advertising circular, Mexican Isthmus Land Company, 1911 2.325/D8c Coahuila 2.325/D8c C. M. Harvey 2.325/D8c C. H. Knight 2.325/D8c Myra Martin 2.325/D8c Miscellaneous 2.325/D8c Printed materials 2.325/D8c C. W. Ramsey 2.325/D8c Rancho Mecatal, Tamazula, Durango, Mexico 2.325/D8c Real Estate Company of Mexico 2.325/D8c Report on the Tutla and Serabia Tracts, 1935 2.325/OD10 Map, Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico, undated 3S49.5 Two photographs of trees, undated 3S49.5 Rubber in Mexico 3S49.5 Timber, U. S. A. 3S49.5 Tampico Tribune clippings 3S49.5 Tropical Products Company 3S49.5 Promotional photograph album: A Picture Story of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec - in Southern Mexico, undated 3E8 Oil business, 1916-1941: Correspondence, financial records, legal documents and other materials: 3E8 Ackerman 3E8 T. R. Battle 3E8 Big Lake Oil Company 3E8 C. L. Chester 3E8 Claims 3E8 H. C. Cockburn 3E8 Correspondence, miscellaneous 3E8 Cosden and Company 3E8 Cuban refinery 3E8 Darby-Lynde Company 3E8 Dielectroscope Syndicate 3E8 Equipment 3E8 Carl Dresser/Malta-McConnelsville Company 3E8 Financing 3E8 Flag Oil Company 3E8 S. L. Gale 3E8 E. O. Gilbert 3E8 Gilcrease Oil Company, G. B. Bancroft 3E8 Greene Petroleum 3E8 Hall and Piper 3E8 J. W. Hall 3E8 Hall/Piper/Sansome 3E8 C. J. Haskell 3E8 G. C. Hollister 3E9 Kansas: 3E9 Miscellaneous oil business 3E9 Douglas Company, 1918 3E9 Lincoln County 3E9 Kentucky oil prospects 3E9 Lauderdale County, Mississippi 3E9 Lea County, New Mexico 3E9 Leases, miscellaneous 3E9 Manhattan Oil Company, 1918 3E9 J. C. Maxwell 3E9 Mid-Continental Oil Company 3E9 Miscellaneous oil business: 3E9 Louisiana 3E9 Mexico 3E9 Mississippi 3E9 Oklahoma: 3E9 Miscellaneous oil business 3E9 Kay County, 1932 3E9 Pottawatomie County, 1930 3E9 Oil prospects 3E9 Reports on wells 3E9 Rodessa 3E9 Ed Salrin, Tidal Oil Company 3E9 South Central Drilling Company 3E9 C. R. Smith 3E10 Texas oil business: 3E10 Bee County 3E10 Brewster County 3E10 Caldwell County, J. W. Pierce lease 3E10 Crockett County, 1918 3E10 Duval County 3E10 Goliad County 3E10 McMullen County 3E10 Medina County Drilling Company, John E. Neeley, 1933 3E10 Parker County, 1918 3E10 Shackelford County 3E10 Zapata County: 3E10 South Escobas Field 3E10 General 3E10 Zavala County 3E10 U. S. Department of Interior 3E10 Mining properties, 1902-1937: Correspondence, reports, legal documents and other materials: 3E10 Alpine, Texas, mercury 3E10 Bay Horse or Jack Claim, San Bernardino County, California, 1910 3E10 Copete Mines, Sonora, Mexico 3E10 Walter Glasser, Economic Method of Recovering Mercury from Ores 3E10 Hamberg Claim, Clark Mining District, San Bernardino, California, 1908 3E10 Kennecott Copper Corporation, 1930 3E10 Lucia Mining Company, Durango, Mexico 3E10 Mining Prospects 3E10 Molusk Mine and Mill, Los Angeles, California, 1910 3E10 Monterde Gold Mine, Chihuahua, Mexico 3E10 Montreal Rouyn Mines 3E10 Piano business, 1902 3E10 Potash 3E10 Thumb Butte Gold Mining Company 3E10 United States Tungsten Mining and Products Company, 1910 3E11 Medina County land business, 1924-1952: Correspondence, financial records, legal documents, and other materials: 3E11 Address lists 3E11 Land promotion letters, A - W 3E11 Flavia [Segnitz] Bjorkman 3E11 T. E. Boudinot 3E11 James T. Bowles 3E11 J. H. Bradford 3E11 Louis Cansler 3E11 J. M. Cavender 3E11 Harold Circuit 3E11 Vota Cochran 3E11 H. W. Corbin 3E12 C. L. Day 3E12 L. E. Devendorf 3E12 J. J. Dickenson 3E12 Charles Exarky 3E12 H. B. Farrar 3E12 R. N. Fitzpatrick 3E12 Felix Frazer 3E12 J. R. Gahan 3E12 Martin Gauldin 3E12 Col. William Gilbert 3E12 Ralph Gilpin 3E12 David Goodall 3E12 Ernest H. Greene/H. W. Corbin 3E12 Idalene Guertin 3E12 Charles A. Hane 3E12 John W. Harris 3E12 Frank Haskell 3E12 Jack Hettinger 3E12 J. M. Higdon 3E12 G. W. Hirsch 3E12 Thomas T. Hopper 3E13 Helen Harrington Howe 3E13 C. F. Hull 3E13 Walter S. Jenkins 3E13 Jim Jenkins 3E13 George C. Johnson 3E13 William Walker Kennedy 3E13 Leonard R. Leonard 3E13 Alice Fuller LeRoy 3E13 Alexander J. Lindsay 3E13 Louis W. Lipscomb 3E13 Raymond Lowes 3E14 William G. Magoffin 3E14 Walter B. Manny 3E14 W. R. Manny 3E14 Edward Markle 3E14 C. W. McNear 3E14 V. H. McNutt 3E14 Medina Irrigation Project 3E14 Medina Valley Irrigated Farms 3E14 F. M. Miller 3E14 MoPac [Missouri-Pacific] Railroad 3E14 C. E. Mitchell 3E14 George Murray 3E14 Lloyd Musselman 3E14 Charles Orchard 3E14 H. H. Padgett 3E14 Pecan-Sheep Company 3E14 Albert H. Peyton 3E14 H. A. Pressey 3E15 Theo Rivers 3E15 E. H. Salrin 3E15 San Antonio Suburban Irrigated Farms 3E15 San Antonio Papershell Pecan Company 3E15 Herbert R. Sargent 3E15 O. S. Schairer 3E15 M. E. Schmidt 3E15 [Mrs.] M. H. Segnitz 3E15 L. M. Shadbolt 3E15 C. F. Shallcross 3E15 E. B. Shawver 3E15 C. R. Sickels 3E16 W. M. Small/Marie J. Small 3E16 R. A. Smith 3E16 L. B. Springer 3E16 C. W. Stewart 3E16 Jack Summers 3E16 Fred Swenson 3E16 Telegrams 3E16 Arthur P. Thissel 3E16 Aurora Violland 3E16 Lillian E. Wilson 3E16 Fred Wise 3E16 D. K. Woodward 3S49.5 Three photographs of Hotel Wildacres, North Carolina, 1927 and undated 3E16 Willard H. York 3E17 PERSONAL PAPERS, 1915-1943: Correspondence and other materials: 3E17 Automobile 3E17 Ada Bordman 3E17 C. M. Carrier 3E17 Champ Clark (Marguerite Greene's cousin) 3E17 Richard Colman 3E17 H. W. Corbin 3E17 Elizabeth Crockett, Secretary 3E17 Dentist 3E17 Doctor 3E17 Ralph Gilpin 3E17 Grand Isle [Vermont] 3E17 E. H. Greene biographical sketch 3E17 George C. Hollister 3E17 Thomas Hopper 3E17 Cleotilde Martinez, maid 3E17 Meyer Potter, Atascosa County, Texas 3E17 Miscellaneous 3E17 Charles E. Mitchell 3E17 W. B. Moore 3E17 Other land business, Long Island Park 3E17 Victor Ivan Ovenden 3E17 Politics 3E17 Prohibition 3E17 Hugh Robertson 3E17 Seventh New York National Guard 3E17 L. M. Shadbolt 3E17 C. R. Sickels 3E17 Walter Small 3E17 J. R. Smith 3E17 Sterling Sugar Refinery 3E18 Telegrams, 1937-1938 3E18 Telephone log 3E18 Texas real estate 3E18 E. D. Thomas 3E18 Travel log 3E18 Trinchera Ranch 3E18 L. A. Turney 3E18 William M. Vogel 3E18 Wintergarden Land Development 3E18 R. M. Whitman 3E18 George Wright