Inventor Name
Fondren, Walter
Repository
Woodson Research Center, MS 44
Fondren Library
Rice University
P O Box 1892
Houston, TX 77251-1892
713-348-2586
http://www.rice.edu/fondren/woodson/research_at_wrc.html
Physical Description
7.75 Cubic Feet
Summary
The Fondren Papers provide a record of the Fondren family's acquisition and dispersal of money in Houston and across Texas during the first three-quarters of this century and offers additional information on the financial workings of several well-known institutions and corporations. Formats include correspondence and financial documents. Walter W. Fondren was born in 1877 in Tennessee, the son of a farmer, who moved the family to Arkansas in 1883. Orphaned at the age of nine or ten, W. W. Fondren began working on farms in Arkansas and Texas. Then in 1897 he worked as a helper on a drilling rig at Corsicana, Texas, developing rapidly and becoming an independent driller during the first decade of this century. While he was working at Corsicana, he met and married Ella F. Cochrum. Box 9, folder 6 includes patents and correspondence concerning W.W. Fondren inventions, 1918-1927
Finding Aid
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/taro/ricewrc/00024/rice-00024.html