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[Letter from E. E. Kimball to C. C. Cox, March 29, 1896]
Letter from E. E. Kimball to C. C. Cox asking Cox to send him some bananas. Envelope is included.
Date:
March 29, 1896
Creator:
Kimball, E. E.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. P. Markham to C. C. Cox, September 28, 1896]
Letter from J. P. Markham of the Houston East & West Texas Railway to C. C. Cox discussing an order of wood. The envelope is included.
Date:
September 28, 1896
Creator:
Markham, J. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from J. P. Masechan to C. C. Cox, August 28, 1896]
Letter to from J. P. Masechan(?) to C. C. Cox discussing a shipment of wood. Envelope is included.
Date:
August 28, 1896
Creator:
Masechan, J. P.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conroe Enterprise. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 16, Ed. 1 Friday, July 1, 1892
Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
July 1, 1892
Creator:
Mayfield, Fred F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Conroe Enterprise. (Conroe, Tex.), Vol. 1, No. 45, Ed. 1 Friday, January 20, 1893
Weekly newspaper from Conroe, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date:
January 20, 1893
Creator:
Mayfield, Fred F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Car-Coupling
Patent for a car coupling that improves their construction by "providing a link which may be readily directed to the draw-head of a car to be coupled without necessitating going between cars" (lines 12-14).
Date:
January 10, 1893
Creator:
McDade, James
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from M. W. Neal to C. C. Cox, February 5, 1896]
Letter from M. W. Neal to C. C. Cox discussing a shipment of seeds, and asking if Cox could inform him of the whereabouts of a Conroe resident against whom his company has a claim. Envelope is included.
Date:
February 5, 1896
Creator:
Neal, M. W.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Receipt for Montgomery County Taxes, 1893]
Receipt for property taxes paid by H. M. Trueheart & Company to Montgomery County for property owned by S. J. McAlpine for the year 1893.
Date:
November 2, 1893
Creator:
Office of Collector of Taxes
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Postcard from the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture to M. S. King, January 30, 1896]
Postcard from the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture J. Sterling Morton to M. S. King of New Caney, Texas, informing him that the department has no seeds for distribution.
Date:
January 30, 1896
Creator:
Office of the Secretary of Agriculture
Object Type:
Postcard
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Deed for Land Sold by W. and M. C. Patton to R. L. Wooten, 1899]
A handwritten deed for land in Montgomery County, Texas, sold from William Patton and his wife to R. L. Wooten.
Date:
April 12, 1899
Creator:
Patton, William & Patton, M. C.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Gate-Latch.
Patent for a new and useful gate latch, including instructions and illustrations.
Date:
May 16, 1899
Creator:
Perkins, Oscar P.
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Certificate of Trusteeship for C. C. Cox, September 12, 1895]
A "form P" document of Montgomery County, Texas, certifying C. C. Cox as school trustee for "the Cox community" (Cox's Switch, later changed to Splendora).
Date:
September 12, 1895
Creator:
Powell, B. H.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from B. H. Howell to C. C. Cox et al, May 1st, 1895]
Letter from Montgomery County Judge B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox, J. P. Carter, and J. S. Welch, discussing "community lists" in their school districts and the process for enrolling students.
Date:
May 1, 1895
Creator:
Powell, B. H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox et al, July 30, 1894]
Letter from Montgomery County Judge B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox, J. S. Welch, and J. P. Carter discussing their school's "community lists." The envelope is included.
Date:
July 30, 1894
Creator:
Powell, B. H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox et al, September 1, 1895]
Official letter from Montgomery County Judge B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox, WIlliam G. Richardson, and J. S. Welch, appointing them as trustees for schooling at Cox's Switch, later to be Splendora, Texas. Envelope is included.
Date:
September 1, 1895
Creator:
Powell, B. H.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox, March 29, 1895]
Letter from judge B. H. Powell to C. C. Cox discussing appointment of school district employees and pay. Envelope is included.
Date:
March 29, 1895
Creator:
Powell, B. H.
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Teaching Contract Between Cox School Board of Trustees and W. W. Hedges, September 30, 1895]
A Montgomery County, TX "Form C" contract signed by B. H. Powell, approving W. W. Hedges' position as a third grade teacher at the Cox school in Splendora, Texas, and his agreement with the school's trustees on pay and length of contract.
Date:
October 1, 1895
Creator:
Powell, B. H.
Object Type:
Legal Document
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Invoice for Groceries, November 23, 1896]
Invoice for items sold to C. C. Cox by grocer T. A. Presswood, including bacon, sugar, coffee, and baking powder. The envelope is included.
Date:
November 23, 1896
Creator:
Presswood, T. A.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Harry Rawson to C. C. Cox, May 4, 1894]
Letter from Harry Rawson to C. C. Cox (written on Missouri, Kansas, and Texas R.R. stationary) discussing Cox's health, and people and events in New Caney, Texas.
Date:
May 4, 1894
Creator:
Rawson, Harry
Object Type:
Letter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Apparatus for Baling Cotton.
Patent for a cotton baling machine in which, it would provide a mechanism for baling the fiber in packages, for the ease of transporting and handling; and to prevent the loss of cotton or fiber in transporting from the gin to the baling-press. Illustration is included.
Date:
February 24, 1891
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton cleaner that provides "certain improvements in machines for cleaning lint cotton, and especially to provide a machine of this character which is intended to be arranged in the common lint flue, so as to occupy a position between the ordinary condenser in the lint room, and the nearest gin thereto" (lines 9-16). The cotton is thoroughly cleaned after leaving the gin, so that motes, stems, sticks, dry leaves, sand, &c. will be separated from the cotton.
Date:
October 3, 1893
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Cleaner.
Patent for a cotton-cleaner that has the flue leading from the gin to the condenser. It is an improvement previously granted to the inventor (No. 506,134), where "dust-laden air will be effectually prevented from passing through the cleaning drum of the cleaner and mingling again with the cleaned cotton which is fed to the condenser" (lines 16-20).
Date:
December 4, 1894
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Baling Cotton.
Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "is to gin, condense, and bale the cotton in one continuous operation and to so effectually reduce the size of the resulting bale of cotton in this first, original, initial process as to make it of suitable dimensions and density for market or transportation by rail or sea to final destination" (lines 13-19). It consists "in compressing the same in the form of a continuous sheet, lapping said sheet before it has time to expand in the form of a bale, and subsequently applying pressure to expel the air from between the layers" (lines 29-33).
Date:
November 18, 1890
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Method of Compressing and Baling Cotton Batting.
Patent for a new and improved method of baling cotton. This design "consist[s] in, first, folding the cotton in successive layers and slightly compressing the same at their folds; second, severing the web at intervals into sections; third, subjecting the sections successively and independently to compression; fourth, piling the sections; fifth, subjecting the mass thus formed to final compression, and sixth, binding or baling the same while under such compression" (lines 90-100).
Date:
June 10, 1890
Creator:
Rembert, Henry
Object Type:
Patent
System:
The Portal to Texas History