Texas Oral History Collection - 41 Matching Results
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- Oral History Interview with Alena Mosley, October 16, 1979
- Interview with Alena Mosley. Topics include the Hstory of Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Alice Fayle
- Interview with Alice Fayle. Topics include her life in early Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with B. E. Wilson, February 20, 1976
- Interview with B. E. Wilson. Topics include the Humble dormitory, work in the refinery, the 1930's, company benefits, World War II era and post-World War II, and his Civil War interests.
- Oral History Interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, October 2, 1979
- Interview with Bessie Jane Kilgore Busch, a resident of Cedar Bayou, Texas circa 1900-1925. Busch details her childhood and early life in Cedar Bayou as well as the oil boom and early days of Baytown, Texas.
- Oral History Interview with Blanche DuPlantis, February 9, 1976
- Interview with Blanche DuPlantis, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include 1923 through post World War II: Baytown in the 1920's and 1930's, the effect of World War II, banking business, the founding of Trinity Episcopal Church.
- Oral History Interview with C. M. Dickerson, June 29, 1976
- Interview with C. M. Dickerson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the petroleum industry and trade in Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Dora Geneva Clement
- Interview with Dora Geneva (Clement) Talkington (1886-1976) discussing how her family came to Texas and about growing up on her parents' farm, as well as other events including Theodore Roosevelt's visit to Waco when he was campaigning to be president.
- Oral History Interview with E. C. Wood, Winter 1975
- Interview with E. C. Wood, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Ella Williams
- Interview with Ella Williams, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include a discussion about the 1915 hurricane on Hog Island in the San Jacinto River.
- Oral History Interview with Exxon Oilers Baseball Players, July 18, 1975
- Interview with J. W. Carroll, B. B. Williams, Melvin Barry, and Bob Kalbitz, all members of the Exxon Oilers baseball team from Baytown, Texas. After a short introduction by Webber, these men all answer questions and describe their experiences before they arrived in Baytown and during their playing days for the Oilers.
- Oral History Interview with Fay Butcher Lathrop, May 14, 1977
- Interview with Fay Butcher Lathrop, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the Houston Riot of 1917.
- Oral History Interview with George Ellender, May 1976
- Interview with George Ellender, a longtime resident of Baytown, Texas after being born in Cedar Bayou, Texas in 1888. Ellender answers questions about his early life as well as the early growth of both Cedar Bayou and Baytown, and the impact of Hurricane Carla in 1961.
- Oral History Interview with Grover C. Edge, December 30, 1975
- Interview with Grover C. Edge, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1921. Topics include the early history of Baytown and the Humble Refinery, the VFW and the Bayshore Rod, Reel and Gun Club
- Oral History Interview with J. B. Cummings, November 14, 1976
- Interview with J. B. Cummings, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Hurricane Carla.
- Oral History Interview with J. Bryan Stratton, August 29, 1979
- Interview with J. Bryan Stratton, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the consolidation of the tri-cities into the incorporated city of Baytown, the depression, the beginning of life insurance business, his service in World War II as a staff member of General Omar Bradley's Headquarters Unit, the Charter Commission, and the adoption of the City Charter.
- Oral History Interview with James E. Roche, May 1976
- Interview with James E. Roche, a carpenter from Baytown, Texas after moving from New Britain, Connecticut the previous year. Roche answers questions concerning his moving to Texas in search of a job, the national economy, the overall job market, and if he knows others who are in his same situation.
- Oral History Interview with Jim Nelson, April 7, 1977
- Interview with Jim Nelson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since 1919. Nelson describes life prior to moving to Baytown, his family history in the area, and his later work with the oil rigs.
- Oral History Interview with Jimmy Carroll, 1976
- Interview with Jimmy Carroll, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Joan Johnson, 1976
- Interview with Joan Johnson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Joyce Calhoon, November 20, 1979.
- Interview with Joyce Calhoon, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the Texas book depository system, Jefferson County, and Liberty County
- Oral History Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, March 11, 1976
- Interview with Julia Lancaster Pierson, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown.
- Oral History Interview with L. Karl Grimes, September 25, 1979
- Interview with L. Karl Grimes, born in Ellis County in 1895 and moved to Baytown, Texas in 1925. Grimes answers a few questions about his experiences and tells lengthy stories concerning his early life in Ellis County as well as his move to Baytown. Grimes covers his employment at Humble Oil and Refining Co. as well as issues concerning Mexican American children being allowed to go to school in Baytown.
- Oral History Interview with Laurene Douglas, January 27, 1976
- Interview with Laurene Douglas, a former junior high teacher from Baytown, Texas. Mrs. Douglas answers questions regarding life in Baytown during the Depression and specific events such as Hurricane Carla in 1961.
- Oral History Interview with Loris Williams Gunn, January 27, 1977
- Interview with Loris Williams Gunn, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Mount Belvieu.
- Oral History Interview with Lorraine Silva, November 28, 1976
- Interview with Lorraine Silva, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Chambers County and Anahuac, Texas.
- Oral History Interview with Millicent W. Bounds, November 22, 1976
- Interview with Millicent W. Bounds, a longtime resident of the Pelly/Baytown, Texas area. Mrs. Bounds answers questions relating to her family history in Texas, noting that her grandparents arrived in Texas in 1875. She goes on to talk about her husband T. Hubbard Bounds, the former fire marshal of the Pelly and Goose Creek Fire Department.
- Oral History Interview with Mrs. E. L. Scott, February 26, 1976
- Interview with Mrs. E. L. Scott, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include John P. Sjolander and the history of Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Mrs. R. W. Matthews, August 17, 1976
- Interview with R. W. Matthews, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the Priscilla Club
- Oral History Interview with Mrs. William H. Wade, December 8, 1976
- Interview with Mrs. William H. Wade, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include Hurricane Carla.
- Oral History Interview with Norman Brooks Culver, February 25, 1976
- Interview with Norman Brooks (Doc) Culver, a Humble Oil Refining Company hospital worker, after World War One, from Baytown, Texas. Mr. Culver answers questions and describes his experience in Baytown working as a hospital worker for Humble, after he arrived in 1919.
- Oral History Interview with Norman Brooks Culver, September 19, 1979
- Interview with Norman Brooks Culver, a hospital worker for Humble Oil Refining Company in Baytown, Texas. Culver tells of his experiences working for Humble and the medical are given for the company, as well as a few anecdotes concerning the history of Baytown such as Humble Day celebrations.
- Oral History Interview with Phyllis Busch, October 9, 1979
- Interview with Phyllis Busch, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include her early life and family background, including a description of tent city, Horace Mann school, 1923, the picture show in Pelly, and her religious and community life in Cedar Bayou.
- Oral History Interview with Ruth Mageors, November 10, 1975
- Interview with Ruth Mageors, a resident of Baytown, Texas beginning in 1921 when the town was named Pelly. Mageors explains living in town during the early days of Baytown as being very tough, and also discussing the ferry boat and Herring's Drug Store.
- Oral History Interview with Sara Snyder, 1975
- Interview with Sara Snyder, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include her coming to Baytown and Baytown history.
- Oral History Interview with Steele M. McDonald, January 6, 1977
- Interview with Steele M. McDonald, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include early Baytown, TX history through consolidation to the present.
- Oral History Interview with W. Orville Tidmon, August 11, 1976
- Interview with W. Orville Tidmon, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include the history of Baytown, TX, including local politics and government.
- Oral History Interview with Wilburn L. Snyder, 1979
- Interview with Wilburn L. Snyder, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include World War Two and the history of Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interview with Willadene Hines, February 11, 1976
- Interview with Willadene Hines, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include her life growing up in Baytown.
- Oral History Interview with William T. Busch, 1979
- Interview with William T. Busch, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Topics include his early life and youth in Cedar Bayou, his early employment, and his involvement in World War I, employment in banking institutions of Baytown, TX, development of Goose Creek after the oil field boom, and the effects of the Depression on Baytown, TX.
- Oral History Interviews with Don McLeod, February and March 1975
- Interview with Don McLeod, who moved to Mont Belvieu in 1929 from Beaumont, Texas. McLeod answers questions and describes the growth of the oil business in Mont Belvieu and Baytown, including what companies were already here and how the business has changed from then until now.
- Oral History Interviews with Margaret B. Davis, 1976
- Interview with Margaret B. Davis, a resident of Baytown, Texas since approximately 1920. Mrs. Davis talks about the Baytown area from 1915 to 1976.