References:-
A. E. Stilwell and Jas.
R. Crowell, I Had A Hunch (Port Arthur: 1972), 44-52, 75-85, as reprinted from
Stilwell's memoirs published in Saturday Evening Post during months subsequent
to Dec., 1927; T. W. L. Scheltema, "A Dutch-American Railroad: The Kansas City
Southern," Knickerbocker Weekly Free Netherlands (Nov. 23, 1942). 15-18. The writer
is indebted to John Vandenberg, now deceased, for translations of numerous Dutch-language
articles.
-
Stilwell and Crowell, I Had A Hunch, 77.
-
Ibid., pp. 50-52; Scheltema, "Dutch-American Railroad," 15.
- Port
Arthur News, March 18, 1897; J. van Hinte, Nederlanders in Amerika II (Dutch-language,
Groningen, Holland: 1928), 268.
-
For Nolthenius' unsuccessful efforts to buy right-of-way for a terminus at Cameron,
La., and later at Sabine Pass, TX, see his Dutch-language memoirs, Nieuwe Wereld:
Indrucken en Aanteekeningen Tijdens Eene Reis Door De Vereenigde Staten Van Nord
Amerika (Dutch language: Haarlem, Holland: 1902).
- Port
Arthur Herald, Nov. 11, 1897; Jan. 28 and March 18, 1898; Van Hinte, Nederlanders
II, pp. 268-272, 293; Henry Lucas, Netherlanders in America (Ann Arbor, MI.: 1955),
436.
- John R.
Rochelle, Port Arthur, TX: A History of Its Port To 1963 (unpublished M. A. thesis,
Beaumont: Lamar University, 1969), 45; Vols. 42, pp. 64-74, and 22, p. 50, Deed
Records, Jefferson County, TX; deed records indicate that A. E. Stilwell, E. L.
Martin, C. A. Braley, and J. M. Trimble organized Port Arthur Land Company. Martin
was Stilwell's closest associate and president of Kansas City Suburban Belt Railroad,
the parent company of K. C. S. Braley and Trimble was Kansas City attorneys and
genersl counsel for the firms. See Stilwell, I Had A Hunch, 23, 32-33.
- Port
Arthur Herald, January 27, 1898; Holland, Mich. DeGrondwet, Dutch language, April
12, 1897 and May 24, 1898; Orange City, Iowa DeVolkswriend, Dutch language, August
20, 1896.
- Anna
A. Cooley, "From The Netherlands in Europe to Nederland, Texas, U. S. A.," (Devers,
TX, unpublished 27-page manuscript, 1969), 4; Letter, G. J. Rienstra to Jan de
Geoijen, Liverpool, TX, May 17, 1897, as published in Albert Kuipers, Waarheen?
Wegwijzer Voor Den Nederlandsche Landbouwer, Veeboer, Tuinder, Bloemist, Boomkweeker,
enz met Beperkte Middelen (publ. booklet, 2nd ed., N. P., N. D., but about 1900),
60, copy owned by Mrs. Christine Stappers.
- Van
Hinte, Nederlanders, 271; Galveston Daily News, Nov. 15, 1897; clipping, Advertisement
of B. J. Nauta, Port Arthur Land Company, published in Leeuwarden, Holland, on
March 30, 1898; (Netherlands) Heerenveensche Courant, December 4, 1897; Letter,
A. Kuipers to deGeoijen, Nov. 15, 1897, as reprinted in Kuipers, Warheen?, 62-63.
-
Port Arthur News, March 18, 1897, Port Arthur Herald, July 22, 1897.
-
Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 4, 1897 and March 17, 1900; Cooley, "From The Netherlands
in Europe to Nederland," 2; Marie Fleming, "History of The Orange Hotel," (unpublished
manuscript, Nederland, 1972), 1-3.
-
Map Record No. 1, p. 38, Jefferson County, TX Archives. Mena Park is still city-owned,
but King's Park has reverted to private ownership. The original townsite is bounded
by present-day Ninth and Fifteenth Streets and by Nederland and Chicago Avenues.
- Port
Arthur Herald, Oct. 28 and Dec. 30, 1897; Jan. 20, July 2, 14, Aug. 25, and Sept.
15, 1898; March 30, 1899; and Feb. 24, 1900; Beaumont Journal, Dec. 11, 1899 and
July 23, 1905; (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1903; Lucas, Netherlanders
in America, 436.
-
Actually a group of Hollanders led by J. E. Kroes, a land company representative
in Holland, had arrived via New York two weeks earlier. See Port Arthur Herald,
Nov. 4, 1897.
- Galveston
Daily News, Nov. 15, 1897.
-
Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 18, 1897.
-
Letter, A. Kuipers to Jan deGeoijen, Port Arthur, Texas, Nov. 15, 1897, archives
of Port Arthur Land Co., Amsterdam, Holland, as reprinted in the (Netherlands)
Heerenveensche Courant, Dec. 4, 1897, and in Kuipers, Warheen?, 62-63.
- Port
Arthur Herald, Nov. 18, 1897.
-
Galveston Daily News, March 2, 1898; Cooley, "From Netherlands in Europe to Nederland,"
1-2; Koelemay family exit permit, entitled "Getuigschrift van Verandering van
Werkelijke Woonplaats," issued by the Burgomaster of Hoogkarspel, North Holland,
on Feb. 2, 1898, original in Windmill Museum, Nederland.
- Galveston
Daily News, March 29, 1898; Port Arthur Herald, March 31,1898.
-
Galveston Daily News, April 17 and Dec. 28, 1898; Baucus Westerterp family exit
permit, entitled as in footnote 20, issued by the Burgomaster of Oldeboorn, Vriesland,
Holland, Nov. 25, 1898, original owned by Rev. Ralph Koelemay.
- Holland
(Mich.) DeGrondwet, April 12, 1898.
- "History
of The Louis A. Spencer Family," (Nederland, unpublished manuscript, 1972), p.
4; (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1903; Port Arthur Herald, May 18, 1898.
- Yearbook
of The Christian Reformed Church-1899, pp. 34-35, Dutch Heritage Collections,
Calvin College and Library, Grand Rapids, Michigan; Scheltema, "Dutch-American
Railroad," p. 18; van Hinte, Nederlanders, p. 271; Lucas, Netherlanders in America,
p. 437; Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, May 24, 1898. Although unverified except on
baptismal records, D. Ballast apparently served as lay minister throughout the
church's existence.
-
Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, May 24, 1898; "History of Nederland Schools," (Nederland,
unpublished manuscript, 1972), pp. 1-3; "Nederland: The Story of Our Town," (Nederland
Independent School District: 1971), 22, 24.
- Port
Arthur Herald, May 5, 1898; March 17, 1900; van Hinte, Nederlanders, 273.
- P.
J. van Heiningen and W. Beukers, "Vraag en Antwoord," Neerlandia (publication
for the Algemeen Nederlandsche Verboon for Dutch emigrants overseas) July, 1898,
pp. 38-39.
-
Ibid.
- Port
Arthur Herald, May 26 and Sept.1, 8, 1898; (Port Arthur) The Evening News, May
13, 1902.
- Port
Arthur Herald, September 8, 1898.
-
Ibid.
- Port Arthur
Herald, Sept. 8, 1898.
-
Ibid., Oct. 14, 21, 28. 1899; June 9, 1900; July 6, 1904.
-
Port Arthur Herald, Aug. 25, 1898; June 9, 1900; July 6, 1904; also Map Record
No. 1; plat of A. Burson Addition, townsite of Nederland, 1902, Jefferson County,
Texas Archives.
-
(Port Arthur) The Evening News, May 13, 1903; Port Arthur Herald, Aug. 30; Oct.
11, 25; Nov. 22, 1902; and March 7, 1903.
-
"History of The Orange Hotel," pp. 1-3; Port Arthur Herald, Nov. 21, 1903; Beaumont
Journal, April 30 and May 7, 1905.
-
Holland (Mich.) DeGrondwet, January 18, 1910 and June 1, 1920; also A. Kuipers,
Der Hollandsche Kolonie van 'Nederland' in Jefferson County, Zuid Oost Texas,
Een Spoorwegstation Tusschen Beaumont en Port Arthur, published booklet, N. P.,
N. D., p. 60, courtesy Mrs. Christine Stappers.
- Letter,
Rev. Ralph Koelemay to W. T. Block, Plover, Wisconsin, Feb. 18, 1973.
-
Lucas, Netherlanders in America, 440.
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