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Khleber Miller Van Zandt:An Inventory of His Papers, 1774-1953 and undated, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
Biographical SketchVan Zandt was a Confederate soldier, legislator, merchant, banker, and community leader. He was born in 1836 in Salem, Tennessee, and moved to Texas in 1839. He also spent part of childhood in Washington D.C. where his father, Isaac Van Zandt (1813-1847), negotiated the annexation of the Republic of Texas. He served as a Confederate officer during the Civil War. Following the war, he moved to Fort Worth, Texas, and became a merchant and advocate of railroad construction. In 1873, he organized the Tarrant County Construction Company which supervised the grading for the Texas and Pacific Railroad. In 1874, he established the Fort Worth National Bank, of which he served as president for fifty-six years. He also served as president of the K. M. Van Zandt Land Company and as a director of the Fort Worth Life Insurance Company. Van Zandt served for twenty years on the Fort Worth school board and served in the Texas House of Representatives during Reconstruction. He supported educational and religious movements and, for over sixty years, was a member and elder of the First Christian Church at Fort Worth. Van Zandt died in 1930 in Fort Worth. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and ContentsThe collection includes correspondence, financial materials, legal materials, scrapbook material, printed material, and photographs. Bulks (1835-1942) with material related to Van Zandt's Civil War, business, and personal experiences. Also contains genealogical material, including the reminiscences of Van Zandt's son on the Mexican Revolution and a copy of Van Zandt's memoirs which were edited and published as Force Without Fanfare: The Autobiography of K. M. Van Zandt. Return to the Table of Contents
Return to the Table of Contents RestrictionsAccess RestrictionsOpen for research. Some archival collections may be housed in storage outside of the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library building. Requests to retrieve such materials may take up to 10 business days to complete. Please contact our Reference Department to arrange retrieval. Audio, video, and film recordings may not be immediately accessible due to format, condition, or copyright status. All items must be digitized prior to patron use. Because not all collections materials have been digitized, please contact the Reference Archivist at least 10 days prior to arrival in order to coordinate digitization. Though we can digitize much of our holdings within two weeks, some media may be fragile and require specialized digitization outsourcing, which can take up to three months for completion. Return to the Table of Contents
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Return to the Table of Contents Administrative InformationPreferred CitationKhleber Miller Van Zandt Papers, 1774-1953 and undated, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas Accession InformationCollection accession #(s):
Gift and Purchase, 1965-1984 Processing InformationProcessed by: Abel Ramirez, 2005 Return to the Table of Contents Bibliography
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