Collection Details:

Collection Name and Number: Oscar Bomar Taylor Papers (Z/0033).
Creator/Collector: Oscar Bomar Taylor; and others.
Date(s): 1908-1940.
Size: 2.50 cubic feet.
Language(s): English.
Processed by: MDAH staff, 1957.
Provenance: Gift of Oscar Bomar Taylor of Jackson, MS, on October 7, 1957.
Repository: Archives & Records Services Division, Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Rights and Access:

Access restrictions: Collection is open for research.

Publication rights: Copyright assigned to the MDAH. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to Reference Services. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the MDAH as the owner of the physical items and as the owner of the copyright in items created by the donor. Although the copyright was transferred by the donor, the respective creator may still hold copyright in some items in the collection. For further information, contact Reference Services.

Copyright notice: This material may be protected by copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code).

Preferred citation: Oscar Bomar Taylor Papers (Z/0033), Mississippi Department of Archives & History.

 

Biography:

Oscar Bomar Taylor

Biography to come.

 

Scope and Content Note:

Letters and papers of Judge Oscar Bomar Taylor, attorney, of Jackson, Mississippi. Judge Taylor, a native of Winona, Montgomery County, was chairman of the Board of Directors of the Mississippi Valley Title Insurance Company, Jackson, was a former vice-president of the Merchants Bank and Trust Company, Jackson, and was a former judge of the Chancery Court. Most of the correspondence concerns business matters and the temperance movement, in which Judge Taylor was a leader.

Among the correspondents are the following:

  • Ross R. Barnett
  • John B. Brunini
  • Ross A. Collins
  • A. B. Cook
  • W. R. Cook
  • J. R. Countiss
  • D. H. Cowan
  • Isidore Dreyfus
  • Eugene Fly
  • Senator Pat Harrison
  • T. M. Hederman
  • Zach T. Hederman
  • E. E. Laird
  • Allie May Millsaps
  • Niles Moseley
  • H. V. Watkins
  • John C. Williams

The correspondence is distributed by date as follows:

  • undated, 177 items
  • 1908–1936, 228 items
  • 1936–1939, 591 items
  • 1939–1940, 641 items
 
Series Identification:

Series Identification to be completed at a later date.

 

Box List:

Box 1

Box List to be completed at a later date.