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Clinton Bill Glasgow Collection

 Collection
Identifier: AC-257

Scope and Content Note

This collection includes Civil War era papers and receipts, and items pertaining to Beaumonter Andrew J. Tevis' position(s) as Jefferson County Sheriff, Deputy U.S. Marshal, and Beaumont, Texas, Postmaster, including his attempt to collect payment from the United States Government after the end of the Civil War for mail he delivered in 1861. This collection includes some of the earliest legal papers and receipts produced in Jefferson and Harris County, Texas. It also includes vintage truck and bus photographs (1926-1939) of some of Beaumont's most prominent businesses.

Dates

  • Creation: 1838-2001

Creator

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Restrictions

Some restrictions may apply.

Copyright

The Tyrrell Historical Library does not hold copyright for most of its collections. The researcher must secure permission to publish. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the Tyrrell Historical Library. The researcher assumes full responsibility for complying with copyright, literary property rights, and libel laws.

Biographical Note

Clinton Bill Glasgow, Jr. (1917-1995), son of Clinton Bill Glasgow (1888-1949) and Flossie Fields Glasgow (1891-1974), was born on January 8, 1917, in Jefferson County, Texas. Clinton Bill Glasgow, Sr., was born in Illinois and in 1900 was living with his widowed mother and siblings in Bee County, Texas. Ten years later, he and his mother had made their way to Port Arthur, Jefferson County, Texas, and at this time he was employed by a private family as a chauffeur at the age of 22. The Jefferson County, Texas, marriage index on microfilm lists the union of Clinton B. Glasgow and Miss Flossie M. Fields in 1913. In 1918, Glasgow, Sr., is listed in Morrison & Fourmy's Beaumont City Directory without his spouse or children, and in the 1920 United States Census, he and his spouse with two children are located in Beaumont on McFadden Avenue. At this time, Clinton B. Glasgow, Sr., was also employed by a private family as chauffeur. By 1927, Glasgow, Sr., gained employment with the Jackson Motor Company as a salesman, and later city directories list several companies for which he was employed as salesperson or manager.

C. Bill Glasgow, Jr., married Mary Anna, and is listed in the city directories as president of the Texas Storage Company of Beaumont, Texas, from 1950-1979. The Texas Storage Company was incorporated in 1922 with S. G. Epstein as president. Located at 656 Neches Street, they advertised crating, shipping, storage and packing for local and long distance moving. The 1927-1928 Beaumont city directory lists Orren Mathews as Texas Storage Company president. Then in 1950, Clinton B. Glasgow became its president with his wife, Mary Anna, as secretary-treasurer.

Extent

1.94 Cubic Feet (1.94 cubic feet in four boxes)

Additional Description

Abstract

This small collection includes fifty-six photographs of Dodge trucks sold by the Jackson Motor Company in Beaumont, Texas, with logos of local area businesses painted on them. Some of the businesses displayed on the trucks are for bakeries, coffee companies, feed companies, the fire department, florists, funeral homes, furniture companies, grocery stores, hardware stores, ice companies, lumber companies, newspaper companies, office suppliers, oil companies, plumbers, and tobacco companies during the time period from 1926 to 1939. Also included in this collection are six photographs of a Beaumont flood that occurred on the night of May 17, 1923, a photograph album of Rebecca Marble's collected portraits, 1830-1890, Jefferson and Harris County legal papers, 1838-1943, and the papers of A. J. Tevis, Nancy Tevis Hutchinson, John W. Bergin, and V. Wiess.

Organization of Collection

This collection is organized into nine series.
  1. Legal Papers, Receipts, and Correspondence, 1838-1943
  2. A.J. Tevis Papers, 1859-1963
  3. Nancy Tevis Hutchinson Papers, 1839-1915
  4. John W. Bergin Papers, 1846-1915
  5. V. Wiess Papers, 1874-1891
  6. Photographs, 1926-1939
  7. Photograph Album Portraits, 1830-1890
  8. Early 20th Century Magazines, 1907-1911
  9. Newspapers, 1945-2001

Acquisition Information

Donated by Mary Anna Glasgow.

Accruals

No further accruals are expected.

Related Material

AC-273, Jackson, Broocks, Osbourne Collection

Processing Information

Processed by Tyrrell Historical Library staff.

Finding aid revised and encoded by Tyrrell Historical Library staff, 2012 August.

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Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Finding Aid for the Clinton Bill Glasgow, Jr., Collection, 1838-2001
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Repository Details

Repository Details

Part of the Tyrrell Historical Library Archives Repository

Contact:

  • Tyrrell Historical Library
  • P.O. Box 3827
    695 Pearl Street
  • Beaumont, TX 77704-3827
  • (409) 833-2759

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