John Rawlings & Co. Cotton Books

Collection

Identifier: MC 625

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Scope and Content Note

Cotton purchase record books kept by the John Rawlings Company of Waldron, Scott County, Arkansas. Books record producers’ names, bale weights, cotton grades, prices, and purchasers’ names. Two volumes, each 160 pp.

Dates

1905-1912
Majority of material found within 1910-1912

Creator

John Rawlings Company (Waldron, Ark.) (Organization)

Language of Materials

Materials are in English.

Access Information

Please call (479) 575-8444 or email specoll@uark.edu at least two weeks in advance of your arrival to ensure availability of the materials.

Use Information

No Use Restrictions Apply.

No Interlibrary Loan.

Standard Federal Copyright Laws Apply (U.S. Title 17).

Biographical Note

John Rawlings was born in Illinois on February 14, 1834 and was left at an orphanage at an early age until he went to live with his grandmother in Missouri at the age of two. Rawlings married Nancy J. Smith, and the couple had eight children together. In 1861, he enlisted in the Confederate Army as lieutenant, but was soon promoted to captain, a role in which he served until discharged in January 1863. In 1866, he returned home to begin cultivating his land and eventually opened up a cotton business in Waldron, Arkansas.

For more information on Rawlings, see Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Western Arkansas (Chicago: Southern Publishing Co., 1891), pp. 420-421.