Robert McCollom Family Papers
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Scope and Content Note
Letters and other documents pertaining to the McCollom and Clark families of Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Texas, and Arkansas, especially as regards the personal, domestic, familial, religious, business, and other affairs, 1862-1893, of Robert McCollom, his wife Sephronia Clark McCollom, and his son Ransom Clark McCollom, of Washington County, Arkansas; and to the military affairs of his son Albert O. McCollom, a private soldier in Co. E, 1st Arkansas Cavalry, Confederate States Army from 1861 until his death in 1864.
Letters, court orders, receipts, statements of account, poems, photographs, clippings, license, contract, list, recipes, currency, book, land patent.
Dates
- 1835-circa 1958
Creator
- McCollom family (Family)
Language of Materials
Materials are in English.
Access Information
Access restrictions apply: Typescripts to be used where available to limit handling of originals.
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
Robert McCollom came to Arkansas from New England, accompanied by his wife, Sephronia Clark McCollom, and his sons William, Albert O., and Ransom Clark McCollom, the latter named for his mother's brother, a school teacher in New Goshen, Indiana. Arriving first in Boone County, Robert and his family subsequently removed to Washington County, where he had been granted 40 acres of bounty land for his service as a private in the Black Hawk War. Settling in the vicinity of Cato Springs, three miles south of Fayetteville, he engaged in the business of nurseryman and orchardist.
Extent
0.08 Linear Feet (7 folders)
Arrangement of the Papers
Materials are arranged in two series:
- Series 1. Correspondence, 101 items
- Series 2. Miscellaneous papers, 25 items.
Acquisition Information
The Robert McCollom Family Papers were donated to the Special Collections Department by Mr. C. W. Stewart of Fayetteville, Ark. on Jan. 23, 1967.
Processing Information
Processed by Samuel Sizer; completed in December 1968.
- Title
- Robert McCollom Family Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Samuel Sizer
- Date
- December 1968
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid is written in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Special Collections Department Repository
University of Arkansas Libraries
365 N. McIlroy Avenue
Fayetteville AR 72701 United States
(479) 575-8444
specoll@uark.edu