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Cook, Charles Alston, 1848-1916. Charles Alston Cook papers, 1813-1926 (bulk 1860s-1870s) [manuscript].

Title: Charles Alston Cook papers, 1813-1926 (bulk 1860s-1870s) [manuscript].

Letters from Cook, principally to his wife Marina Jones Cook, occasionally mentioning political events in Oklahoma, but making little reference to political or judicial affairs in North Carolina; considerable correspondence with and about John Graham (b. ca. 1847), founder of the Warrenton High School, Warrenton, N.C., and his family, chiefly on education topics; scattered letters from Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845- 1908), Republican governor of North Carolina; other personal and family correspondence of Marina Jones Cook and of the Cooks' children at school in North Carolina and Tennessee; a letterpress copybook used by Cook in his legal work, 1877-1880, and by lawyer E. H. Plumer, 1868-1869; legal papers of Cook; newspaper clippings about family members; and family photographs.

ArchivalResource: 900 items (1.5 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25264954 View

Daniel Lindsay Russell Papers, ., 1839-1910

Title: Daniel Lindsay Russell Papers, . 1839-1910

Daniel Lindsay Russell was a Wilmington, N.C. lawyer; Confederate Army officer; Republican leader of eastern North Carolina; judge; United States Representative, 1879-1881; and Republican-Populist governor, 1897-1901. Half of the collection consists of papers, 1900-1905, related to the South Dakota Bond Case, a famous and complicated litigation over North Carolina's repudiation of bonds issued during Reconstruction. Correspondents include Marion Butler, Alfred Russell, and Addison G. Ricard. The collection includes extensive political correspondence, chiefly 1874-1897, about the efforts to strengthen the Republican Party in North Carolina. Other papers include correspondence with Russell's New York cotton brokers; papers concerning his Confederate Army court martial, 1863-1864; a biography of Russell by two friends, Louis Goodman and Alice Sawyer Cooper (typescript, 111 pages); and a biography of his wife, Sarah Amanda (Sanders) Russell (1844-1913). Also included is some correspondence with his law partner, Louis Goodman.

ArchivalResource: 2,000; 2.5

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Russell, D. L. (Daniel Lindsay), 1845-1908. Daniel Lindsay Russell papers, 1839-1910 [manuscript].

Title: Daniel Lindsay Russell papers, 1839-1910 [manuscript].

Half of the collection consists of papers, 1900-1905, related to the South Dakota Bond Case, a famous and complicated litigation over North Carolina's repudiation of bonds issued during Reconstruction. Correspondents include Marion Butler, Alfred Russell, and Addison G. Ricard. Also, an extensive political correspondence, chiefly 1874-1897, about the efforts to strengthen the Republican Party in North Carolina. Other papers include correspondence with Russell's New York cotton brokers, papers concerning his Confederate Army court martial, 1863-1864, a biography of Russell by two friends, Louis Goodman and Alice Sawyer Cooper (typescript, 111 p.); and a biography of his wife, Sarah Amanda (Sanders) Russell (1844-1913). Also, some correspondence with his law partner, Louis Goodman.

ArchivalResource: 2,000 items (2.5 linear feet).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/23765343 View

Russell, Daniel Lindsay, 1845-1908. [Scrapbook].

Title: [Scrapbook]. [1875-1902]

ArchivalResource: 2 v. ; 27-31 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/50757145 View

Butler, Marion, 1863-1938. Marion Butler papers, 1862-1938 (bulk 1890-1927).

Title: Marion Butler papers, 1862-1938 (bulk 1890-1927).

Personal, political, and business correspondence and other papers of Marion Butler, chiefly 1890-1927. Personal letters include correspondence with his brothers George Butler, Lester Butler, and Henry Butler; his wife Florence Faison Butler; and his sons Marion Butler, Jr., and Edward F. Butler. Business and legal papers document Butler's work as a lawyer in Washington, D.C., and newspaper owner in Clinton and Raleigh, N.C., as well as his interest in mining and oil investment in Mexico and the western United States, in new inventions, in securing government contracts for various corporations, and in establishing a colony of South Africans in Mexico. His activities as attorney in cases of claims against the United States government, including Civil War claims cases and Indians claims cases as well as other legal cases involving Indians, are also documented. Prominent business correspondents include Josiah M. Vale, Richard Franklin Pettigrew, Baylus Cade, and Lester Butler. Political papers reflect Butler's activities in the state and national Farmers' Alliances, 1892-1895; his campaigns as a Populist candidate and chairman of the national Populist Party; his legislative interests, especially in postal services and agriculture; and his activities as a leader in the North Carolina Republican Party. Political correspondence reflects the major state and national issues in turn-of-the- century politics, including currency reform and free silver, trusts, the white supremacy campaigns in North Carolina in 1898 and 1900, and political patronage. Political correspondents include Daniel Lindsay Russell, Walter Clark, J.H. (Cyclone) Davis, Benjamin Orange Flower, Cyrus Thompson, Jeter Conley Pritchard, William Jennings Bryan, Spencer Adams, W.S. O'B. Robinson, Tom Watson, John Motley Morehead, and many others.

ArchivalResource: About. 28000 items (31.0 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31966159 View

Russell, Daniel Lindsay. Letters, 1872-1873.

Title: Letters, 1872-1873.

Letters are from Russell to his overseer concerning cotton, corn, ditching, and laborers.

ArchivalResource: 7 items.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/36635483 View