Reception in library Thursday to celebrate collection opening
By: Chad Lyons
Issue date: 10/8/09 Section: News
The reception marking the official opening of the Hodges, Greve, and Pierce collection will be held from 3 to 5 p.m. Thursday on the second floor of SFA's Steen Library
The reception will be open to the public and may be particularly beneficial to people in the history, law or pre-law fields. Although this is a casual event, business attire is expected, and light refreshments will be served.
The Center for Regional Heritage Research and the East Texas Research Center (ETRC) are hosting this vent in order to celebrate National Archives Month and the discovery of these once lost files.
Angie Hermenitt, ETRC assistant, said, "The collection consists of about 19 boxes of documents about their legal practice. Letters, land deeds, timber deeds, civil and criminal court cases and much more . . . from 1910 to 1960." In addition, the collection will include correspondence, oil and gas leases, debt collection estate matters, various miscellaneous legal matters, maps and approximately five photographs.
The Hodges, Greve, and Pierce Law Firm, located in downtown Nacogdoches, was believed to first belong to Charles Hodges. J. J. Greve began at the firm with Hodges in 1918 and continued working at the firm well after Hodges' death. Nacogdoches native and SFA alum us Charles Aubert Jack Pierce went into practice with Greve a few years after graduating from law school in 1958.
The documents that constitute the collection were cleared out to make way for renovations to the building after the owners sold it in March 2008. During this time, the documents were accidentally discovered by SFA faculty and then transferred into the possession of the University.
The reception will be open to the public and may be particularly beneficial to people in the history, law or pre-law fields. Although this is a casual event, business attire is expected, and light refreshments will be served.
The Center for Regional Heritage Research and the East Texas Research Center (ETRC) are hosting this vent in order to celebrate National Archives Month and the discovery of these once lost files.
Angie Hermenitt, ETRC assistant, said, "The collection consists of about 19 boxes of documents about their legal practice. Letters, land deeds, timber deeds, civil and criminal court cases and much more . . . from 1910 to 1960." In addition, the collection will include correspondence, oil and gas leases, debt collection estate matters, various miscellaneous legal matters, maps and approximately five photographs.
The Hodges, Greve, and Pierce Law Firm, located in downtown Nacogdoches, was believed to first belong to Charles Hodges. J. J. Greve began at the firm with Hodges in 1918 and continued working at the firm well after Hodges' death. Nacogdoches native and SFA alum us Charles Aubert Jack Pierce went into practice with Greve a few years after graduating from law school in 1958.
The documents that constitute the collection were cleared out to make way for renovations to the building after the owners sold it in March 2008. During this time, the documents were accidentally discovered by SFA faculty and then transferred into the possession of the University.
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