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Mary Camp Gober

Description: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Mary Camp Gober, age 46, looking into the camera. In writing on the back of the photograph: "Mrs. Mary Camp Gober, mother of Mrs. W. C. Wright. Mama's photograph was taken in Atlanta, GA, May 2, 1872, Age 46 yrs, 2 months, 12 days. The first Confederate woman from Denton County to be enrolled in the Stone Mountain Book of Memory is Mrs. Mary Camp Gober. The name of Mrs. Gober is the 3rd from Texas to be entered in the Silver Book memorializing wives of Confede… more
Date: May 2, 1872
Creator: J. T. Jones
Item Type: Refine your search to only Photograph
Partner: Denton Public Library

[Letter, July 2, 1872]

Description: This document is from the Charels B. Moore Collection. It is a letter by Charles B. Moore that is badly torn and unintelligible. Keywords deciphered from the visible writing include: Ziza, bushel weight, thrasher weight, number of bushels which was 38, Rowlett Creek, wheat, Baltimore, cotton prospects, emigration, Henry and Clarence, and Mill. In the letter's closing, Moore states that the receipeint should write to him and Ziza.
Date: July 2, 1872
Creator: Moore, Charles B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. William E. Burnett, cause no. 811, 1873

Description: Documents related to the case of The State of Texas vs. William E. Burnett, accused of "selling mortgaged property," filed October 31, 1873. Documents include a letter of indictment signed by grand jury foreman E. A. Caroll, alias capiases, capiases, an arrest warrant, subpoenas, an affidavit, a request for witnesses, and a bond.
Date: 1872-03-02/1874-07
Creator: Richardson, M. E.; Thompson, Jeff. E. & Bishop, J. B.
Item Type: Refine your search to only Legal Document
Partner: Henderson County District Clerk's Office

[Letter from William Chappell to J. D. Giddings - November 2, 1872]

Description: Letter from William Chappell to J. D. Giddings. Chappell begins by stating that he has seen a copy of the order that the Soule University Board of Trustees gave to the Building Committee to hypothecate all of the estate real and personal in order to secure a loan to build a "stone edifice." However, the committee failed to include the Rock Building and donated lands in the hypothecation, and this failure is not the fault of the Board of Trustees because it was explicit in its instructions to i… more
Date: November 2, 1872
Creator: Chappell, William
Item Type: Refine your search to only Letter
Partner: Southwestern University

Improvement in Throttle-Valve Stands and Stems.

Description: Patent for "a new arrangement of support for the stem of a throttle-valve, and has for its object to facilitate the lubricating of the screw and cause the parts to be firmly held in place." (Lines 19-23) Includes instructions and illustrations.
Date: April 2, 1872
Creator: Compant, John M. & Krauskopf, Engelbert
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Axles for Vehicles

Description: Patent for "an Improvement in Wagon-Axle Skeins" that "has for its object to furnish an improved iron axle for wagons and other vehicles which shall be stronger without being heavier than iron axles made in the ordinary manner."
Date: July 2, 1872
Creator: Ahrenbeck, Charles
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Improvement in Bailing-Presses.

Description: Patent for an improved bailing press consisting of "a novel arrangement of levers, connecting-bars, and cords, in combination with the follower and windlass, whereby the follower is worked in the downward direction for pressing, and in the opposite direction for elevating it to recharge the press, by the said windlass" (lines 5-11).
Date: January 2, 1872
Creator: Randolph, Jeremiah
Item Type: Refine your search to only Patent
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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