Martin A. Row Papers
Scope and Contents
The Martin A. Row Collection (1766-1957; nine boxes) contains materials belonging to attorney Martin A. Row. The collection includes legal briefs and arguments concerning Sun Oil Company as well as Martin A. Row’s professional notes on Padre Island and photographs of the Texas coast. The collectionalso contains Martin A. Row’s personal books and a small amount of his professional correspondence concerning the Texas Tidelands case. The Tidelands controversy between the United States and Texas involved submerged and coastal lands in the Gulf of Mexico. The focus of the dispute was the royalties and leasing of the submerged lands of Texas and whether the rights belonged to the Federal government or the Texas government.
Dates
- 1766 - 1957
Conditions Governing Use
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Extent
8 boxes
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The correspondence in the collection is arranged in the order previously assigned. The legal pamphlets are arranged by the court and district of their origination.
- Coastal zone management
- Commerce
- Correspondence
- Court Records
- Geography
- Government Documents
- Gulf Region (Tex.)
- Gulf Region (Tex.) -- Pictoral works
- Journals
- Land grants
- Land grants -- Texas
- Lawsuits
- Lawyer
- Legislation
- Letters
- Litigation
- Manuscripts
- Maps
- Notices
- Oil fields
- Padre Island (Tex.)
- Padre Island (Tex.) -- History
- Photographs
- Row, Martin A.
- Row, Martin A. -- Correspondence
- Ship Island
- Submerged lands
- Submerged lands -- Law and legislation
- Submerged lands -- Law and legislation -- Texas
- Sun Oil Company
- Texas
- Texas Lawyers
- Texas. Supreme Court
- Tide Water Associated Oil Company
- Tide-waters
- Tide-waters -- Law and legislation
- Tide-waters -- Law and legislation -- Texas
- Topography
- United States -- Politics and government
- Title
- Martin A. Row Papers
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Trent Shotwell
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Thomason Special Collections & SHSU University Archives Repository