Document Registry

 

Tittle, Leon H. (Lem) Manuscript Collection

Coverage: 
1891–1903
Source: 
Papers, .10 foot

Description
Attorney. Legal documents (1891–1900), including tax and pay receipts; and judicial documents (1894–1899), including injunction bonds, writs of injunctions, and transcripts of court judgments, all from Greer County, Texas, and, after 1896, Greer County, Oklahoma Territory. Also included in this collection are sheriff deputization certificates (1895–1899); citizen announcements of cattle brands claimed (1894); one homestead certificate (1903); and one teacher certificate (1899), also from Greer County, Oklahoma Territory. The homestead certificate bears the signature of President Theodore Roosevelt, and a number of earlier documents bear the official stamp of Greer County, Texas. The teacher certificate is among the first issued in Greer County, Oklahoma Territory.