Inventory of the James K. Jones Papers, 1900-1921
Collection Number 387
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Jones, James K. (James Kimbrough), 1839-1908.
- Title
- James K. Jones Papers, 1900-1921.
- Call Number
- 387
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 7,000 items (15.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the James K. Jones Papers, #387, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Arkansas--Politics and government--To 1950.
- Democratic Party (Ark.)--History--20th century.
- Democratic Party (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Gold mines and mining--Nevada--History--20th century.
- Jones, James K. (James Kimbrough), 1839-1908.
- Jones, James Kimbrough, 1867-1922.
- Oil and gas leases--United States--History--20th century.
- Oklahoma--Social life and customs.
- Petroleum industry and trade--Mexico--History--20th century.
- Petroleum industry and trade--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Petroleum pipeline industry--Oklahoma--History--20th century.
- Railroads--Arkansas--History--20th century.
- Railroads--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Real property--West (U.S.)--History--20th century.
- Standard Oil Company.
- United States--Economic conditions--1865-1918.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Claims.
- United States. Congress. Senate--History.
Biographical Note
James Kimbrough Jones (1839-1908) was a United States Senator from Arkansas, 1885-1903; and Washington, D.C., attorney for oil developers in Oklahoma.
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The collection includes legal, political, and business correspondence (including 21 letterpress copybooks) of James Kimbrough Jones; and of his son, J. K. Jones Junior (1867-1922), lawyer for oil pipeline companies. The collection covers only the last years of the elder Jones's political career but includes letters from prominent national and Arkansas Democrats. The bulk of the papers concerns the oil industry in Oklahoma and other states. The Joneses represented developers seeking to lease government and Indian lands and appeared before Congress, executive agencies, the Interstate Commerce Commission, and federal courts for oil pipeline firms, most of which were connected with the Standard Oil Company. Also included are papers relating to other business interests: oil in Wyoming, Utah, Kansas, and Texas; Nevada gold mines; railroads in Arkansas and other western states; real estate in Arkansas, Texas, and South Dakota; oil and mining in Mexico; and Civil War claims of Arkansas citizens against the federal government. Correspondence includes letters from many prominent early oil entrepreneurs and gives a picture of society in Oklahoma in the early 20th century.