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Lawyers -- Arkansas

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 37 Collections and/or Records:

Elsijane Trimble Roy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1394
Scope and Content Note Materials in the collection focus on Judge Roy's law career, especially her tenure as a Supreme Court and federal judge. They also include general information about the legal profession in Arkansas, and the Eighth United States Judicial Circuit. Other materials reflect her interest in issues relating to the status and achievements of women, as well as her involvement with women's groups. The collection also includes materials reflecting her deep religious faith. Finally, the collection...
Dates: 1944-1999

Lee A. Seamster Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 637
Scope and Content Note

The Lee A. Seamster Papers include Seamster's correspondence, copies of his judicial decisions, and legal documents. Fannie Presley Seamster, Seamster's wife, was a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; her papers, and Seamster's collection of sermons, are contained here as well. The collection concludes with family photographs.

Dates: ca 1880-1986

Jonas M. Tebbetts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1553
Scope and Content Note

The collection contains three types of materials: a folder of family and secondary writings concerning Jonas Tebbetts, his family, and the Tebbetts Collection; thirty volumes of diaries, memo books, expense and account books, and other miscellaneous notebooks, written by Jonas M. Tebbetts. The volumes span the period 1847-1905.

Dates: 1847-2011

Walker Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 584
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, property records, newspaper clippings, and other materials pertaining to Judge David Walker and the Walker family. Included are materials related to the service of David Walker and other family members in the Confederate Army during the U. S. Civil War, as well as materials related to David Walker's judicial and legal career, and to Senator James David Walker's legal and political career.

Dates: circa 1778-1980

George D. Walker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1802
Scope and Content Note

Materials in this collection include biographical information, World War II correspondence, counter intelligence corp manuals, financial materials, deeds, and photographs.

Dates: 1919-1989; Majority of material found within 1942-1945

Washington County Historical Society Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1368
Scope and Content Note The historical papers which comprise Series 1 were maintained to support historical and genealogical research at Headquarters House in Fayetteville, where the society has its offices and a historical museum. The original order of the files has been retained as far as possible, with some adjustments to provide easier access to the materials. There is great variation in the type and quantity of materials in these files, reflecting their existence in a continuing research and publishing...
Dates: circa 1833-1995

Alfred McElroy Wilson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS W69
Scope and Content Note 10 items. Correspondence, bound volume listing "claims for collection and disposition thereof, "and certificates of appointment, pertaining to the law practice of the Fayetteville, Arkansas attorney, 1847-1869, and to his appointment to the offices of Prosecuting Attorney for the Fourth Judicial District, 1840, attorney for the Fayetteville branch of the Bank of the State of Arkansas, 1845, and United States Attorney for the Western District of Arkansas, 1854 and 1858. Correspondents include...
Dates: 1840-1897

Earl R. Wiseman, Sr., Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1464
Scope and Content Note

Scrapbook and photographs pertaining to Earl R. Wiseman, Sr.

Collection has a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings about Earl R. Wiseman's work enforcing the Prohibition Amendment, repeal, and the regulation and taxation of liquor and other goods; one photograph, "Bench and Bar of Little Rock, Arkansas 1936"; and a panoramic group photograph, "Arkansas Delegation Nat'l Convention at Whitehouse, Wash. D.C., June 22, 1936."

Dates: 1934-1939

Arley Ray Woodrow File

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1524
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of about 350 photocopied pages from the files on Woodrow held by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Dates: circa 1944-1967

Henry Woods Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1386
Scope and Content Note

The papers consist of materials documenting Judge Woods' career from the 1940s to the 1990s, and are arranged in three series. Series 1 contains personal and professional correspondence and other papers and photographs. The bulk of the collection is in Series 2, pertaining to Little Rock school desegregation cases, 1950s-1990s. Series 3 contains papers and videocassettes pertaining to other court cases.

Dates: ca 1940s to 1990s

Henry Woods Papers Addendum

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1386a
Scope and Content Note

The collection consists of correspondence, legal documents, travel information, daily calendars, plaques and awards received by Henry Woods during his career.

Dates: 1936-2002

Pendleton Woods Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC 1566
Content Description The collection consists of papers related to Pendleton Woods and his family, including materials related to his father, John Powell Woods, Sr., a University of Arkansas graduate and Fort Smith-based lawyer; to his brother, John Powell Woods, Jr., a University of Arkansas graduate and Siloam-Springs-based lawyer; to his brother, Daniel H. Woods, a University of Arkansas graduate who served as Timex Corporation's human resource director and legal administrator; to his aunt, University of...
Dates: circa 1916-1996