1896 Letterhead HOUSTON Texas JACAMIAH SEAMAN DAUGHERTY General Land Agent For Sale

When you click on links to various merchants on this site and make a purchase, this can result in this site earning a commission. Affiliate programs and affiliations include, but are not limited to, the eBay Partner Network.

---

1896 Letterhead HOUSTON Texas JACAMIAH SEAMAN DAUGHERTY General Land Agent:
$279.30

PLEASE READ BEFOREBUYING. I sell ONLYORIGINAL items and NOT ANY reproductions.

THREE SCANS ARE SHOWN

They are the front and back of the pages

2 page HISTORICAL,

advertisingLETTERHEAD

from

J. S. DAUGHERTY

( Jacamiah Seaman Daugherty ),

GENERAL LAND AGENT of

HOUSTON , TEXAS

with offices in Dallas and Houston

during the year1896.

His office was in room 508 of the Kiam Building .

J. S. DAUGHERTYis who hand wrote and signed this 2 page letter !

CONDITION:Normal letter folds, file holes at the top, minor flaws, still in goodcondition. The \"ITEM\" thing is just a loose piece of paper that is not attachedtotheletterhead.

Approximate sizeis8 1/2\" X11\" in size.

VERY IMPORTANT HISTORICAL NOTES ON J. S. DAUGHERTY:

DAUGHERTY, JACAMIAH SEAMAN (1849–1919).

Jacamiah Seaman Daugherty, entrepreneur and land dealer, the son of Robert W. and Lydia E. Seaman (Bryan) Daugherty, was born in Sullivan County, Missouri, on August 25, 1849. He attended the University of Kentucky for three years before moving to Texas in 1872. He taught school for a year at the Cedar Hill district school in Dallas and in 1873 opened a real estate office that expanded to become the firm of Daugherty, Connellee, and Ammerman, which had large holdings in Eastland County. The firm was instrumental in laying out Eastland and in making the new community the Eastland county seat in place of Merriman. In 1879 the Texas Trunk Railroad built a depot named for Daugherty on land he had purchased and improved in Kaufman County.

In 1888 Daugherty organized what may have been the first real estate association in Texas and theTexas Bureau of Immigration.He also obtained contracts to supply thirteen United States military posts in Texas with grain and hay obtained from Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas. When the crop failed, financial reversals took him to Houston, where he developed mineral resources and real estate. In 1894 he acquired 6,000 acres in Harris County, provided a right-of-way and obtained a siding for the San Antonio and Aransas Pass Railway, founded Dairy (later Alief, TX), and introduced the production of rice there.

Daugherty was active in the conflict over requiring Texas cattlemen to pay rent to the public school fund for school lands used in grazing cattle, the conflict that led to the formation of the Railroad Commission, and the effort to require banks to provide funds to protect depositors against loss. His Silver Day speech delivered at the Chicago World\'s Fair in 1893 became campaign literature for advocates of free silver. He is credited with the idea for the \"business league\" and served as chairman of the first league in Dallas from 1882 to 1888. From 1890 to 1895 he promoted efforts of the Good Roads Committee and by 1909 was chairman of the Harris County Drainage District and active in working for a deep-water harbor at Galveston.

Daugherty married Margaret Cartmell Bryan on December 19, 1878; the couple had at least three children. He died in a railway-crossing accident at Fulton, Kentucky, on September 27, 1919

TERMS & CONDITIONS:

Payment to upon purchase.

When you receive your item, PLEASE consider response (I will see it) and I will reciprocate response at that time. Free shipping to the continental U.S. only.

PLEASE view my other store items for related ephemera, antique documents, and paper collectibles at TEXASJOHNNYBOY EPHEMERA.

Thank you very muchand good luck y\'all.

Antique 1896 Letterhead Manhattan New York Doctor Hinckley w/ Private Sanitarium

$79.20

Vtg 1896 W S Frazier Builders Vehicles & Bicycles Aurora Illinois Letterhead

$69.29

1896 Hinckley NY Chas. G. Butts Lumber Co Letterhead

$6.95

1896 Letterhead Oswego Falls Pulp and Paper Co. Fulton, NY

$6.99

1896 Letterhead NEWTON CENTRE TRUST CO Newton Centre Massachusetts

$2.95

1896 General Electric Company Letterhead New York

$6.99

Vintage Antique 1896 Letterhead Hotel Stationery Peoria IL Hotel Fey S.O. Spring

$29.99

1896 Antique Letterhead: Mississippi River Lumber Minneapolis MN Kasota Block

$55.20