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Franklin L. Yoakum papers, 1886-1887.
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Title:

Franklin L. Yoakum papers, 1886-1887

Creator/Contributor:

Yoakum, Franklin L., 1819-, creator

Abstract:

Dictation and partial draft of a revised edition of the History of Texas (New York, 1856), written by his brother, Henderson King Yoakum (1810-1856).

Date:

1886 (issued)

Subject:

n-us-tx -- n-usu--
College presidents -- Texas -- Cherokee County
Présidents et recteurs d'université -- Texas -- Cherokee (Comté)
College presidents
Texas -- Cherokee County
Confederate States of America. -- Trans-Mississippi Department.
International & Great Northern Railroad.
International & Great Northern Railroad.
Yoakum, Franklin L -- 1819- -- Archives

Note:

Also available on microfilm.
Forms part of the Hubert Howe Bancroft Collection.
Franklin L. Yoakum, born in Tennessee, was a college president in Cherokee County, Texas, until the Civil War, then Botanist and Mineralogist of the Trans-Mississippi Department of the Confederate States of America. After the war he engaged with the International & Great Northern Railway Company in collecting specimens of products and minerals of Texas for exhibition at centennial expositions.
In English.
Preferred citation: Franklin L. Yoakum papers, BANC MSS P-O 75, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Type:

manuscripts for publication.
Archives.
Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

print
1 folder.
partial microfilm reel (10 exposures) : negative (Rich. 117:18) and positive.

Language:

English

Origin:

Texas

Related Item:

History of Texas : Yoakum, Henderson King, : 1810-1856