urn:taro:utexas.cah.01488 A Guide to the George Purl Childers Papers, 1856-1919 Original EAD encoding by Jessi Fishman according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. April 2010 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Childers, George Purl Childers, George Purl Papers 1856-1919 Materials are written in English. 10 in. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin Papers concern the career and family of Childers (b. 1876), first lieutenant with the 143rd Infantry of the American Expeditionary Forces, and relate to World War I and to the White, Peebles, and Bozman families in the nineteenth century. Included are correspondence, genealogy, memoranda, notes, account papers, legal documents, minutes and resolutions, newspaper clippings, poems, and deeds. Biographical Sketch

George Purl Childers (1876-1923) was a first lieutenant with the 143rd Infantry of the American Expeditionary Forces during World War I.

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, genealogy, memoranda, notes, account papers, legal documents, minutes and resolutions, clippings, and poems, deeds, book list, guidebooks, broadsides, maps, and magazines concerning the career and family of George Purl Childers comprise the George Purl Childers Papers, 1856-1919. The papers relate to World War I, the Women’s Christian Temperance union, the Presbyterian Church, and the Daughters of the Republic of Texas. Additionally, the papers concern the White, Peebles, and Bozman families in the nineteenth century. The papers also include Childers’s collection of French and German newspapers, pamphlets and posters, a practically complete set of The Stars and Stripes, an army uniform, German coins, medals, and an insignia.

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 Index Terms Subjects (Persons) Childers, George Purl, 1876-1923--Archives. Bozman, Richard M. Peebles, J. A. Peebles, Richard R. White, Rachel W. Subjects (Organizations) Woman's Christian Temperance Union Daughters of the Republic of Texas Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Presbytery of Texas Subjects Agriculture Genealogy World War, 1914-1918 Places Austin (Tex.) Hempstead (Tex.) Walker County (Tex.) Texas--Politics and government Preferred Citation

George Purl Childers Papers, 1856-1919, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Separated Material

Some material has been separated to the Map, Newspaper, and Artifact Collections.

 Processing Information

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Inventory 2C443 Legal correspondence, 1856-1880 and undated 2C443 Miscellaneous correspondence, 1868-1877, 1912-1918, and undated 2C443 Receipts and paid accounts, 1873-1874 and 1877 2C443 Memorandum books and family history, 1873-1907 2C443 Miscellaneous printed material, 1881-1919 and undated 2C444 Military record book, 1897-1902 and 1917-1918 2C444 Military correspondence, instructions and directives, 1917-1919 and undated 2C444 Scrapbooks: World War I military scrapbook, 1917-1919 2C444 Miscellaneous scrapbook, 1917-1918 3S111 Photographs of Waco, 1906 3S167 Oversize newspaper clippings 2.116 OD/1220 Oversize newspaper clipping and map