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Muir papers, 1763-1969, bulk 1935-1969 (MS 17)

Correspondence and research notes reflecting the interests of former Rice history professor Andrew Forest Muir, including 19th century Texas and Houston history; free African Americans in Texas pre-Civil War; William Marsh Rice; 19th century missionary work in Texas and Hawaii by the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches. (81 boxes)

TABLE OF CONTENTS


Descriptive Summary

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Contents

Arrangement

Restrictions

Index Terms

Administrative Information

Detailed Description of the Collection

Series I: Personal and family, 1872-1969

Series II: Muir student records, 1933-1944

Series III: Rice Institute papers, 1957-1968

Series IV: General correspondence, 1931-1969

Series V: Alphabetical subject research files, 1935-1969

Series VI: Original treasury notes and manuscripts, 1763-1908

Series VII : Microfilm, 1800s

Guide to the Andrew Forest Muir papers,
1763-1969, bulk 1935-1969


Descriptive Summary

Repository: Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University, Houston, TX
Creator: Muir, Andrew Forest, 1916-1969
Title: Andrew Forest Muir papers
Dates: 1763-1969, bulk 1935-1969
Extent 40.5 linear feet (81 boxes)
Abstract: This material includes correspondence, research and genealogical notes which reflect the interests of historian and Rice University professor Andrew Forest Muir. They relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; free African Americans in Texas pre-Civil War; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These research files were created and maintained by Andrew Forest Muir circa 1935-1969, with subjects covering a wide range of dates, circa 1750-1969, bulk 1800s, especially Republic of Texas era and Civil war era. These subject files would be of particular use to researchers and genealogists as they draw upon and cite other primary source materials which are found in other repositories, such as deed records, court records, church records, newspapers, and more. Other topics include Muir's academic career and personal life.
Identification: MS 17
Languages Materials are in English.

Biographical Sketch

Andrew Forest Muir was born January 8, 1916 in Houston Heights, Texas. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree (1938) and a Master of Arts (1942) from Rice Institute, as well as a Ph.D. from the University of Texas (1949). While in Austin he taught at St. Luke’s school and tutored English at the University of Texas (1942-44), also serving as acting director of the San Jacinto Museum of History (1943-44). Muir next traveled to Hawaii where, from 1945 to 1949, he worked as a civilian employee for the U.S. Engineers in Honolulu, Hawaii, taught history at the Iolany School, and later was Educational Advisor to the Commanding General at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii. He served as an Assistant Professor of History at Daniel Baker College in Brownwood, Texas, from 1951-53, before moving on to teach at the Polytechnic Institute, in San German, Puerto Rico for the 1953-54 academic year. Honored as a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial fellow for 1957-58, he then joined the history department at Rice Institute in 1958.

As a historian, Muir published numerous studies on religion and church leaders in Hawaii during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as several studies on free blacks in the Houston area. He also authored Early Missionaries in Texas (1941), Railroad Enterprise in Texas, 1936-1841 (1944), The Thirty-Second Parallel Pacific Railroad in Texas 1872 (1949), and Thomas Jefferson Ewing, Texas Ward: Politician (1952) as well as Texas in 1837, which he edited in 1958.

Known as an authority on William Marsh Rice, his work William Marsh Rice and His Institute: A Biographical Study was edited by Sylvia Stallings Morris and posthumously published in 1972. In addition, Muir contributed to The Handbook of Texas, Southwestern Historical Quarterly, the Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Tennessee Historical Quarterly, and served as associate editor of the Journal of Southern History.

Andrew Forest Muir died on February 3, 1969.

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Scope and Contents

Correspondence, research and genealogical notes compiled by former Rice professor Andrew Forest Muir. Subjects include early Texas history, early Texans, particularly Houston and Harris county, and the Episcopal Church in Texas, as well as the Anglican Church in Hawaii. Muir made the notes as a student at Rice Institute and at the University of Texas. The largest group of materials is Muir’s alphabetical subject research files which relate to 19th century Texas and Houston history; the life and death of William Marsh Rice; the growth of the Catholic, Anglican, and Episcopal Churches in the 19th century via missionary work in Texas and Hawaii; and Hawaiian history, specifically clergymen in Hawaii. These research files were created and maintained by Andrew Forest Muir circa 1935-1969, with subjects covering a wide range dates, circa 1750-1969, bulk 1800s.

Correspondents include fellow Texas historians, librarians and publishers such as Frank Wardlaw, Alfred A. Knopf, A.C. Greene, Angus Cameron (Editor, Alfred A. Knopf), attorney Cooper Ragan, William H. Masterson (regarding Journal of Southern History), Diana and Bill Hobby, J.W. Petty Jr. (Book Mart, Victoria, TX)

Also of interest is Muir's collection of original treasury notes and manuscripts (Series VI) which dates mainly from the Republic of Texas Era and the U.S. Civil War era, reflecting everyday life through local (county, city, state, Confederate) currency from Texas and Southern states, as well as correspondence, receipts, military orders, and more.

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Arrangement

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

This materials is open for research.

Use Restrictions

Permission to publish from the Andrew Forest Muir papers, MS 17, must be obtained from the Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University.

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Index Terms

Subjects (Persons)

Autry, James L., 1830-1862
Austin, Stephen F.
Gray, Peter William, 1787-1841
Hammeken, George Louis, 1811-1881
Houston, Sam
Muir family
Muir, Andrew Forest, 1916-1969
Rice, William Marsh, 1816-1900

Subjects (Organizations)

Anglican Church -- Hawaii -- 19th century
Catholic Church -- Hawaii -- 19th century
Catholic Church -- Texas -- 19th century
Christ Church Cathedral (Houston, Tex.) -- history
Episcopal Church -- Hawaii -- 19th century
Episcopal Church -- Texas -- 19th century
Rice University. Dept. of History

Subjects (Places)

Brazoria County, Tex. -- history -- 19th century
Burleson County, Tex. -- history -- -- 19th century
Fort Bend County, Tex. -- history -- -- 19th century
Galveston County, Tex. -- history -- 19th century
Harris County, Tex. -- history -- 19th century
Hawaii -- history -- 19th century
Houston, Tex. -- history -- 19th century
Jefferson County, Tex. -- history -- -- 19th century
Matagorda, Tex. -- history -- 19th century
Texas -- history -- 19th century

Subjects

Banks and banking -- Texas -- 19th century
Free African Americans -- Texas
Marriage -- Texas -- 19th century
Money -- Confederate States of America
Money -- Republic of Texas
Religion -- Hawaii -- 19th century
Religion -- Texas -- 19th century
Slavery -- Texas -- 19th century

Formats

Correspondence
Money
Newsclippings
Notes
Photographs
Scrapbooks
Typescripts

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Andrew Forest Muir papers, MS 17, Woodson Research Center, Fondren Library, Rice University

Acquisition Information

Gift of the estate of Andrew Forest Muir and through Ellis Rudy, 1973 and 2004.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Series I: Personal and family, 1872-1969
Dates appearing after a person's name relate to that person's birth and death dates, not to the actual contents of the file.
Box Folder
1 1 Genealogical correspondence, 1934-1950
2 Genealogical research, British vital statistics
3 Alberts, Hattie Merdora (McNew), 1893-
4 Bailey, Alfonzo Miles, 1894-1918
5 Bailey, Alfred Benjamin, 1853-1931
6 Bailey, Alfred James, 1888-1956
7 Bailey, Eleanor Jane, 1866
8 Bailey, Isabella (Royal), 1854-1931
9 Bailey, James, 1773/74 - 1852
10 Bailey, Jane (Miles), 1830-1866
11 Bailey, John, 1822/23-1866
12 Bailey, John James, 1851-1919
13 Bettridge, Effie Hannah (Bailey), 1896-
14 Bettridge, Effie May, 1918-
15 Bettridge, James, 1925-
16 Bettridge, Joseph Orton, 1895-
17 Bettridge, Paul, 1945
18 Bingle, Georgia Hannay
19 Blanke, Charles David, 1912-
20 Blanke, Charles Thomas, 1935-
21 Blanke, Fannie May (Melton), 1913-
22 Bond, Ella Bertha (Meineke) Kittman, 1880-1940
23 Brown, George James Ewing, 1922-
24 Brown, James Steven, 1895-
25 Brown, John Samuel Aaron, 1925-
26 Brown, Myrtle May (Charwane), 1893-
27 Buckingham, Beatrice (Bailey), d.1960
28 Carrick, Nolie Anita (McNew) Ayrand, 1907-
29 Cash, Bernice Mary Elaine (Brown), 1923-
30 Cash, Raymond J., 1919-
31 Charwane, Fannie Emily, 1895-1903
32 Charwane, Martin Joseph, 1839-1916
33 Charwane, Mary Hayes (Ewing) James, 1857-1932
34 Clegg, Jake Barnes, 1892-1958
35 Crenshaw, Frances Eliza (Meriwether), 1812-1898
36-37 Ewing, Thomas Jefferson, 1810/11-1870
38 Ewing, Thomas Jefferson, III, 1878-1942
39 Foster, James W., 1824/25
40 Goodbee, Cynthia Annie (Ewing), 1848-1868
41 Goodbee, Frank, 1837-1878
42 Gray, Samuel C.
43 Hallmark, Elizabeth E. (Love), 1832-1907
44 Hallmark, Jefferson Davis
45 Hallmark, Joseph Love, 1870-
46 Huff, William P., 1811-1886
47 James, George Henry, 1881-1958
48 James, George Henry Hermann, 1881-1958
49 James, Thomas Jefferson, 1885-1954
50 James, William, 1830-1888
51 James, William Ewing, 1880-1926
52 Jones, David Howell
53 Jones, Jane (Williams) James, 1808/09-1868
54 Jones, Margaret (James), 1833-1911
55 Jones, Richard S., 1861-
56 Jones, William R., 1859-1889
Box Folder
2 1 Kittman, Arnold (1918-1919)
2 Kittman, William Plaze (1870-1918)
3 Love, Allen (-1853)
4 McNew, Arthur John (1923-)
5 McNew, Clarence Adolf (1925-1927)
6 McNew, Dorsey Mason (1903-)
7 McNew, George Hermann (1895-)
8 McNew, Hugh (1838/39 - 1868)
9 McNew, John Ewing (1896-)
10 McNew, John Hugh (1868-1942)
11 McNew, Thelma Elizabeth (1905-1918)
12 Meineke, Henrietta Merdora (Ewing) McNew (1850-1915)
13 Meineke, Loretta (Albrecht) (1888-1937)
14 Meineke, Theodore (1850-1936)
15 Meineke, Robert Price (1916-)
16 Meineke, William Henry Anton Thomas
17 Melton, Henry Clay (-1930)
18 Meriwether family of Lowdnes County, Alabama
19 Meriwether, David (1755-1822)
20 Meriwether, James S. (1814/15 -)
21 Meriwether, Jeremiah W. Doctor (1821-1851)
22 Meriwether, John Garland (1784?-1836)
23 Meriwether, Mary (Hays)
24 Meriwether, Samuel W. (1809/10)
25 Miles, Jane (1745/46-1818)
26 Miles, Joseph (1794/95-1861)
27 Miles, Mary (Willis) (-1862)
28 Miles, Reuben (1831-)
29 Miles, Robert
30 Mosbruker, Ellouise (Meineke)
31 Muir family, transcribed letters, 1901-1938
32 Muir, Andrew Forest, photographs, 1916-1969
33 Muir, Andrew Forest, Daniel Baker College, Brownwood, TX, 1950-1964
34 Muir house and family (real estate records)
35 Muir, Annie Jane (James) (1878-1927)
36 Muir, Annie Margarete (1912-1917)
37 Muir, Carol Ruth (1947)
38 Muir, Cynthia Anne (1939-)
38 Muir, James Thomas (1948-)
Box Folder
3 1 Muir, James Bailey (brother of AFM) (1914-1941)
2 Muir, Joseph William (Bailey) (1863-1929)
3 Muir, Joseph William (Bailey) infant daughter of (1908)
4 Muir, Joseph William (Bailey) infant son of (1919)
5 Muir, Juanita Jean (Ohlman) (1911-)
6 Muir, Lawrence Windham Bailey (1921-)
7 Muir, Letsy Jane (1945-)
8 Muir, Marion George Bailey (1906-1958)
9 Muir, Marion George III (1942)
10 Muir, Mattie Ruth (Hill) (1910-)
11 Muir, Samuel Ewing Bailey (1910-)
12 Muir, Sophia Elizabeth (Druitt) (1857-1943)
13 Muir, William (1845-1938) - transcriptions and notes
14 Muir, William (1845-1938) - mss letters dated 1894-1936
Box Folder
4 1 Muir, William Joseph Bailey (1904-)
2 Muir and related families - newsclippings (obituaries, etc.)
3 Scanlan, Flora May (Smith)
4 Smith, Addison Whittaker (1867-1925)
5 Smith, Addison Whittaker, infant son of (1894)
6 Smith, Addison Whittaker II (1900-1914)
7 Thomas, Ann (James)
8 Vetter, Jennie (Bailey) (1876-1948)
9 Wedeking, Annie Mary (Meineke) Walter Samperi (1878-)
10 Wells, Henrietta Merdona (Charwane) Melton Fitzpatrick (1892-1930)
11 Wells, Moritz Madison (1885-1931)
12 Wells, Sarah (Ivy) Light James
13 Genealogical research notecards (alphabetically arranged notecards with names, birth & death dates)
14 Letter register
15 Gifts to libraries and museums (AFM correspondence regarding)
Muir family scrapbooks
Box Folder
5 - Scrapbook featuring ship on front, dated 1860-1934. Includes photographs, correspondence, calling cards, school report cards, event programs, and other ephemera, some belonging to Andrew Forest Muir and some to his ancestors.
- Scrapbook featuring horse and rider on front, dated 1877-1932. Includes family tax records, photographs, social invitations, church events, baptism records, birth certificates, some belonging to Andrew Forest Muir and some to his ancestors.
Box Folder
6 - Scrapbook dated 1872-1934. Includes family obituaries, newsclippings, correspondence related to AFM's parents.
- Panoramic views (2) of members of Order of de Molay, 1928 & 1931
1 Photographs: Friends, A-F, 1930s-1960s
2 Photographs: Friends, G-Z, 1930s-1960s
Box Folder
7 1 Photographs: unidentified persons
2 Photographs: places
3 Personal correspondence, 1958-1967
4 Journal, 1950s
5 Appointment books, 1958-59
6 Appointment books, 1960-63
7 Appointment books, 1964-65
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Series II: Muir student records, 1933-1944
Rice Institute, 1933-37
Box Folder
8 - Diary / appointments, 1933-34
- Diary / appointments, 1935
- Diary / appointments, 1936
- Reading list
Box Folder
9 - Scrapbook, 1934-1937. Includes report cards, athletic game tickets, photographs from published materials, and other ephemera such as a green bow tie worn on Fridays while a freshman at Rice.
1 Transcripts and ephemera
Map dr 34 - Diplomas, Bachelors and Masters degrees
University of Texas at Austin, 1944 and n.d.
Box Folder
9 2-3 Class notes, 1944
4 Class notes, Geology, n.d.
5 Research notes, n.d.
6 Transcripts
Map dr 34 - Diploma, Ph.D., 1949
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Series III: Rice Institute papers, 1957-1968
Includes lists of research topics and publications, administrative correspondence regarding salary and grant funding.
Box Folder
10 1 Guggenheim Fellowship at Rice to study William Marsh Rice, 1957-1958
Lectureship at Rice Institute
Box Folder
10 2 1958
3 1959
4 1960
5 1961
6 1962, includes promotion to Associate Professor
Associate Professorship
Box Folder
10 7 1963
8 1964
9 1965, includes promotion to Professor
Professorship
Box Folder
10 10 1966
11 1967
12 1968
Departmental papers
Box Folder
10 13 1959
14 1960
15 1961
16 1962
17 1963
18 1964
19 1965
20 1966
21 1967
22 1968
Instructional materials
Box Folder
11 1 History 110, Fall 1958
2 History 110, Spring 1959
3 History 110, Fall 1959
4 History 390, Fall 1959
5 History 110, Spring 1960
6 History 390, Spring 1960
7 History 110, Fall 1960
8 History 110, Spring 1961
9 History 110, Spring 1961
9 History 110, Fall 1961
10 History 110, Spring 1962
11 History 404, Spring 1962
12 History 110, Fall 1962
13 History 404, Fall 1962
14 History 110, Spring 1963
15 History 404, Spring 1963
16 History 110, Fall 1963
17 History 110, Spring 1964
Box Folder
12 1 History 390b, Spring 1964
2 History 110, Spring 1965
3 History 590b, Spring 1965
4 History 110, Fall 1965
5 History 110, Spring 1966
6 History 390b, Spring 1966
7 History 535b, Spring 1966
8 History 110, Spring 1967
9 History 110, Fall 1966
10 History 390b / 590b, Spring 1967
11 History 390b / 590b, Spring 1967
12 History 110, Spring 1968
13 History 535b, Spring 1968
14 History 315, Fall 1968
Graduate students - History
Box Folder
12 15 1958
16 1959
17 1960
18 1961
19 1962
20 1963
Box Folder
13 1 1964
2 1965
3 1966
4 1967
5 1968
Graduate Committee
Box Folder
13 6 1963
7 1965
8 1966
9 1967
Fondren Library Committee
Box Folder
13 10 1962
11 1963
12 1964
13 1965
14 1966
15 1967
16 1968
University Committee on Undergraduate Curriculum
Box Folder
13 17 1965
18 1966
19 1967
20 1968
Journal of Southern History
Box Folder
13 21 1958
22 1959
23 1960
24 1961
25 1962
26 1963
27 College Lecture Series, 1959-60
28 Proposed Urban Studies Center, Rice University, 1965-66
29 Rice University Semicentennial Year, 1962-63
Box Folder
14 1 Mary Hayes Ewing Publication Prize in Southern History, 1967
Fondren Library
Box Folder
14 2 Edward Watson Kelley Collection, 1967
3 Peden Memorial Collection, 1964
4 Fondren Manuscript Collections, 1966-67
5 Fondren Manuscript Collections: James Lockhart Autry papers, 1959-1963
6 Fondren Manuscript Collections: James Lockhart Autry papers, 1959-1963
7 Fondren Manuscript Collections: Don Carlos Buell papers, 1961-1962
8 Fondren Manuscript Collections: Mary Pauline Dillingham papers, 1959
9 Fondren Manuscript Collections: Hallie Rienzi (Johnston)Russell Thomas Flint papers, 1959
10 Fondren Manuscript Collections: William Harrison Hamman papers, 1967
11 Fondren Manuscript Collections: Masterson Family papers, 1957
12 Fondren Manuscript Collections: Osterhout Family papers, 1957
13 Accessions to Fondren Library
14 Exhibits in Fondren Library
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Series IV: General correspondence, 1931-1969
Box Folder
14 15 Postcards, 1941-1957
16 1958
16 1958
Box Folder
15 1-2 1959
3 1960
Box Folder
16 1-5 1961
Box Folder
17 1-5 1962
Box Folder
18 1-5 1963
Box Folder
19 1-4 1964
5 1965
Box Folder
20 1-3 1965
4-5 1966
Box Folder
21 1 1966
2-4 1967
5 1968-69
Box Folder
22 1 1968-69
2 Undated correspondence
Alphabetical correspondence
Box Folder
22 3 Academic correspondence, 1936-1949
4 Clegg family, 1941-1954
5 Clopper, Edward Nicholas, 1942-1954
6 Connerly, Doris, 1952-1953
7 Coulter, Ellis Merton, 1942-1948
8 Craig, Alta M., 1953
9 Cross, Wilford Oakland, 1951-1955
10 Culpepper, Eva Jean Hyndman, 1931
11 Davidson, Dixie, 1953
12 Deats, Mrs. E.T., 1942
13 DeForest, Lionel Theodore, 1936-1939
14 Denison, Charles C., n.d.
15 Dix, William S., 1951
16 Dobie, J. Frank, 1941-1958
17 Douglas, Joseph B., 1941
18 Druitt, Florence, 1943
19 Dunlop, William Ernest, 1933
20 Dutton, Meirick, 1951-1952
21 Edwards, Benjamin Franklin Jr., 1943
22 Federal, 1941-1949
23 Fletcher, Herbert, 1943-1955
24 Flye, James Harold, 1938-1953
25