Rogers-Neill Collection
Scope and Contents
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Business correspondence and papers (1871-1935) of Fritz Sittell relating to the Choctaw Coal and Railway Company, the Choctaw Trading Company, Sittel's other business interests, and the development of the town of McAlester, Oklahoma; personal correspondence (1871-1943) including letters from Tams Bixby, Peter Pitchlynn, members of the Pitchlynn family, Green McCurtain, Robert L. Owen, Moritz Lippman and others; certificates (1890 & 1900) of Sittell's appointment as a United States Marshal, and as a Special Deputy of Tobucksy County, Choctaw Nation; along with clippings, business cards, a sketch of house floor plans, government documents and biographical materials relating to Sittell's family. Rogers-Neill Photograph Collection also in repository.
Dates
- 1865-1943
Restrictions on Access
Available for public access.
Extent
1 ft. (1 ft.)
Language of Materials
English
Ownership and Custodial History
Gift of Mrs. Fred Rogers and Fritz Neill.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Papers: Source of acquisition--Rogers, Mrs. Fred and Fritz Neill. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1949.
- Bixby, Tams, 1854-1922
- Certificates Subject Source: Ftamc
- Chadick, Edwin D.
- Choctaw Coal and Railway Company
- Choctaw Indians -- Business enterprises Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Choctaw Trading Company
- Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Lippman, Moritz
- McAlester (Okla.) Subject Source: Naf
- McAlester (Okla.) -- History Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- McCurtain, Green, 1848-1910
- Owen, Robert L. (Robert Latham), 1856-1947
- Pitchlynn family
- Pitchlynn, Peter Perkins, 1806-1881
- Pitchlynn, William B.
- Railroads -- Indian Territory Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Railroads -- Oklahoma Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Sittel, Fritz
- Sittell family
- United States marshals Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Western History Collections Repository
630 Parrington Oval
Room 300
Norman Oklahoma 73019 United States
westernhistorycollections@ou.edu
