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Brannon, Henry, 1837-1914

 Person

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Brannon, Lawyer, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 3116
Overview Letters and tax papers deal with lawyer-client matters between Weston attorney Henry Brannon and Boston capitalist, Robert H. Waters. Subjects include Waters' suit against Equitable Oil and Mining Co. and purchase of 1,500 acres on Three Lick Run of Oil Creek in Lewis County, taxation of the property, redemption of the property from its sale for delinquent taxes, tenant relations, the sale of timber, illegal cutting of timber, and efforts to sell the land. Brannon also addresses his 1881...
Dates: 1867-1881

Marmaduke Herbert Dent (1849-1909) Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1958
Scope and Contents

The correspondence contains one letter from Judge M.H. Dent to his son, Herbert W., on his twenty-first birthday, and one letter from Mary Dent Grinnan commenting on M.H. Dent. The newspaper clippings are a tribute to Judge Dent by Judge Henry Brannon, 1909, and an article on the death of Carrie Dent Armstrong, daughter of Judge Dent. The pictures are of Judge Dent, his wife and children; Robert A. Armstrong; Marmaduke Dent, and Will R.D. Dent.

Dates: 1885-1917, 1967, undated

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