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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Smith, Cornelius Cole |
Collection Name: | Oury Family papers, |
Inclusive Dates: | 1799 - 1933 |
Bulk Dates: | (bulk 1862-1894) |
Physical Description: | 1 Linear Feet |
Abstract: | Correspondence, diary, photographs, deeds, articles and speeches chiefly relating to Arizona territorial military experiences of Oury family members. |
Collection Number: | AZ 016 |
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Repository: |
University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/ E-Mail: LBRY-askspcoll@email.arizona.edu |
The Oury family was an Arizona pioneer family, prominent in territorial political and military affairs. William S. Oury served as first Mayor of Tucson, 1864, and sheriff of Pima County, 1873-1877; he was a participant in the Camp Grant Massacre in which about 100 Aravaipa Apaches were killed. With Sylvester Mowry, he purchased the "Arizonian" newspaper of Tubac and moved it to Tucson. His brother, Granville Henderson Oury, served with the Confederate Army in the Civil War, and held various public offices including Arizona legislator, 1866, and U.S. congressman, 1880-1884. Gilbert Cole Smith, William Oury's son-in-law, was a U.S. Army officer who served as quartermaster for Fort Lowell, Tucson, Ariz. in the 1860s.
Correspondence, diary, photographs, deeds, articles and speeches chiefly relating to Arizona territorial military experiences of Oury family members. Includes William Oury's address to the Society of Arizona Pioneers, 1885, regarding the Camp Grant Massacre; and letters to his daughter relating events in Tucson, 1883-1885; as well as items pertaining to Granville Oury's Civil War service with the Confederate Army and a letter from Sylvester Mowry to Granville from an 1860 political convention. Gilbert C. Smith materials consist of his diary, 1857-1856; letters to relatives while serving with the California Volunteers in Arizona, 1862- 1863; a letterbook kept while at Fort Lowell. Photographs, chiefly of army officers, but also family members and Zuni Indians, 1862- 1894; military commissions; and annotated articles from "Frontier Times", 1928-1933. Also included are four photocopies of early land transactions involving George, August, and Wendell Oury in Virginia and Texas. Most of this material appeared in William Sanders Oury: History- maker of the Southwest, by C.C. Smith, Jr., published by the University of Arizona Press, 1967.
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Oury Family papers (AZ 016). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series 1: William Sanders Oury 1799 - 1885 | |||||||||||
Subseries 1: Legal Document September 28, 1849 | |||||||||||
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1 | 1 | Land Deed,(photocopy) September 28, 1849 | |||||||||
Subseries 2: Correspondence, Outgoing, (William Sanders Oury to Lola Oury Smith) 1883 - 1885 | |||||||||||
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1 | 2 | November 29, 1883 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | September 8, 1884 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | October 18, 1884 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | November 15, 1884 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | February 22, 1885 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | May 13, 1885 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | November 20, 1885 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | December 24, 1885 | |||||||||
Subseries 3: Correspondence, Incoming, (Senah Oury to William Sanders Oury) 1864 | |||||||||||
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1 | 4 | May 17, 1864 | |||||||||
Subseries 4: Speech: "To the Society of Arizona Pioneers," 1885 | |||||||||||
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1 | 5 | "To the Society of Arizona Pioneers," April 6, 1885 | |||||||||
Subseries 5: Military Documentation 1837 - 1838 | |||||||||||
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1 | 6 | Pay Voucher, (photocopy) June 14, 1837 | |||||||||
1 | 6 | Pay Voucher,(photocopy) May 28, 1837 - January 4, 1838 | |||||||||
1 | 6 | Auditor's Report, (photocopy) January 1838 |
Series 2: Granville Oury, 1860 - 1864 1860 - 1864 | |||||||||||
Subseries 1: Correspondence, Incoming 1860 | |||||||||||
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1 | 7 | Incoming, (photocopy) April 22, 1860 | |||||||||
Subseries 2: Correspondence, Outgoing 1863 - 1864 | |||||||||||
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1 | 8 | Outgoing No Date | |||||||||
1 | 8 | Outgoing No Date | |||||||||
Subseries 3: Military Documentation 1862 - 1863 | |||||||||||
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1 | 9 | "To The Public"-- an address to the citizens of Mesillia, Arizona, (photocopy) May 21, 1862 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | Muster Roll-- Confederate States of America, (photocopy) May 21, 1862 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | Resignation Petition-- Confederate States of America, (photocopy) February 24, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | Severance Pay Voucher-- Confederate States of America, (photocopy) March 8, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | Physical Description of Granville Oury-- Confederate States of America, (photocopy) October 8, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | "Oath of Allegiance"-- United States, (photocopy) October 8, 1865 |
Series 3: Gilbert Cole Smith 1862 - 1895 | |||||||||||
Subseries 1: Correspondence, Outgoing 1862 - 1863 | |||||||||||
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1 | 11 | July 4, 1862 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | August 21, 1862 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | March 27, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | April 18, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | June 23, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | July 20, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | July 26, 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 11 | Outgoing No date | |||||||||
Subseries 2: Military Commendations, Commissions, "Personal Reports," Promotions, and "Letter Books," 1857 - 1895 | |||||||||||
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2 | 1 | Commendations-- United States. Army July 5, 1871 | |||||||||
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1 | 12 | Commendations-- United States. Army January 1, 1879 | |||||||||
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2 | 2 | Commission-- United States. Army January 9, 1862 | |||||||||
2 | 3 | Commission-- United States. Army May 4, 1864 | |||||||||
2 | 4 | Commission-- United States. Army April 9, 1885 | |||||||||
2 | 5 | Commission-- United States. Army May 12, 1866 | |||||||||
2 | 6 | Commission-- United States. Army January 18, 1867 | |||||||||
2 | 7 | Commission-- United States. Army September 10, 1867 | |||||||||
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1 | 13 | "Letters Sent Book," 1863 | |||||||||
1 | 14 | "Letter Book, Tucson Depot"-- United States Army July 1868 - February 1870 | |||||||||
1 | 15-16 | "Personal Report" or Diary-- United States Army, with accompanying Typescript January 1857 - June 1867, 1903, | |||||||||
1 | 17 | Promotion-- United States. Army May 16, 1895 | |||||||||
Subseries 3: Miscellaneous Documents 1868 - 1883 | |||||||||||
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2 | 8 | Freemasonry-- Membership Certificate June 17, 1883 | |||||||||
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1 | 18 | Marriage Certificate July 1, 1868 |
Series 4: Cornelius Cole Smith, Jr. 1913 - | |||||||||||
Subseries 1: Correspondence, Incoming 1964 | |||||||||||
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1 | 19 | July 1964 | |||||||||
Subseries 2: Periodicals 1927, 1928, 1930, 1933 | |||||||||||
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1 | 20 | "Frontier Times," 1927, 1928, 1930, 1933 | |||||||||
Subseries 3: Oury Family Land Transactions 1780, 1799, 1823 | |||||||||||
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1 | 21 | (photocopies) 1780, 1799, 1823 |
Series 6: Photographs 1875 - 1927 | |||||||||||
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1 | 22 | Bell, J.M. (Major) 1922 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Cole, Cornelius (Senator) ca. 1922 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Crook, George (Brigadier General) ca. 1872 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Cusack, J.C. (Lieutenant) 1892 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Febeger (Admiral) ca. 1875 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Fish, Edward N. (Mrs.); Kerr, J.B. (Lieutenant); Nesmith, Mary D.; Smith, Gilbert Cole; Smith, Lola Oury 1876 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Gregg, J.C. (Lieutenant) No Date | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Indian Runners-- Fort Wingate 1894 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Lindsay, J.R. (Lieutenant) 1927 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Madden, John M. (Lieutenant) 1927 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Oury, Francis ca. 1884 | |||||||||
1 | 22 | Oury, Genevieve 1878 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Oury, Genevieve ca. 1884 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Oury, Granville, H. ca. 1862 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Oury, Granville, H. ca. 1880 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Oury, Inez Garcia ca. 1890 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Oury, Malvina ca. 1865 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Pershing, John J. (Captain); Evans, Bob (Captain) ca. 1904 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Poillon, Arthur (Lieutenant) | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Smith, Cornelius C. (Colonel)-- "Regiment on Maneuvers," 1918 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Smith, Gilbert C. (Colonel) ca. 1900 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Smith, Lola Oury ca. 1877 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Zuni Village 1894 | |||||||||
1 | 23 | Zuni Village-- "Indians Dancing," 1893 |