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...

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The Sexton Family Papers document the career of Texan Attorney, Confederate Legislator, Texan Supreme Court Judge, and United States Commissioner, Franklin Barlow Sexton. The materials consist of personal, professional, state, and federal legal documents covering subjects such as correspondence, deeds, receipts, payment requests, land dealings, and settlement cases. The Newspaper clippings cover topics on agriculture, national defense, oil in Texas, poetry, churches, and Texas history.