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WAGGONER FAMILY PAPERS

Correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other papers, 1865-1945
Manuscript Collection MC 1337

• Series 1. Correspondence, 1887-1921. Box 1.
• Series 2. Financial and Legal Papers, 1896-1923. Box 1.
• Series 3. Miscellaneous Family Papers, ca. 1865-1945. Box 1.
• Series 4. Newspaper clippings, photographs, autograph album, and monographs. Box 1.

WAGGONER FAMILY

THE COLLECTION

The Waggoner Family Papers contain correspondence, financial and legal papers, miscellaneous family documents, newspaper clippings, photographs, autograph album, and three monographs.

Processed by Vera Ekechukwu, February 1996. Special Collections Division, University of Arkansas Libraries, Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Series 1. Correspondence, 1887-1921. Box 1.

This series contains twenty-nine family letters. The primary correspondents are William H. Waggoner, his children, Mary, Robert, and Daniel, and other family members and friends. The official correspondence, spanning from 1902-1921, pertains to Waggoner's claim for pension as a Civil War veteran.

Box 1

1. Family correspondence, 1887-1899.
2. Family correspondence, 1900-1915.
3. Family correspondence, 1916-1945.
4. Official correspondence, 1902-1921.

   Series 2. Financial and Legal Papers, 1896-1923. Box 1.

   Tax and other miscellaneous receipts, poll taxes, warranty deeds, certificates, and a marriage license.

   Box 1 (cont.)

5. Tax receipts (William H. Waggoner), 1896, 1901-1919.
6. Other family tax receipts, 1907-1923.
7. Legal papers (William H. and Catharine W. Waggoner), 1899- 1918.
8. Legal and financial papers (Chas. A. Wenzel), 1888-1896.
9. Other family financial and legal papers, ca. 1883-1920.

   Series 3. Miscellaneous Family Papers, ca. 1865-1945. Box 1.

   Original Company Muster Roll (February-April, 1865), original of William H. Waggoner discharge from the United States Army in 1865, handwritten pocket journal, address and note books, war ration books, handwritten and printed song lyrics, handwritten remedies for various ailments, and instructions on producing tintype photographs.

   Box 1 (cont.)

10. Military service (William H. Waggoner), 1865.
11. Miscellaneous personal papers (Robert H. Waggoner), 1890- 1924.
12. Miscellaneous family papers and printed documents.

    Series 4. Newspaper clippings, photographs, autograph album, and monographs. Box 1.

    Newspaper obituaries of family members, eighteen photographs and one tintype (only three photographs are identified), Mary Waggoner's autograph album with entries from her parents, William H. and Catharine Waggoner, 1898, and three monographs.

    Box 1 (cont.)

13. Newspaper clippings.
14. Photographs, 1-18 (includes one tintype photograph).
15. Autograph album (Mary Waggoner).
16. Monographs.
    • Rev. H.C. Morrison. The Two Lawyers: A Story for the Times. The Pentecostal Pub. Co. (Inc.), Louisville, Ky., 1898. [Inscribed: William H. Waggoner, Rosebud, White Co. Ark..]
    • Rev. J. B. Waterbury, D.D. Southern Planters and the Freedmen. American Tract Society, New York.
    • Clarence Elsworth Cornell. Hints to Fishermen or How to Win Souls. Christian Standard Co., 1901.