Connor, Otelia Carrington Cunningham, 1892?-1969. Otelia Carrington Cunningham Connor papers, 1888-1968.
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Otelia Carrington Cunningham Connor papers, 1888-1968.
The papers consist of correspondence and other items of Otelia (Cunningham) Connor and her mother, Mrs. John S. Cunningham. Included are materials concerning the genealogy of the Cunningham, Carrington, Codrington, and Cabel families and to a lesser extent, the Ruffin, Wilson, and Alston families; activities of the Colonial Dames, Daughters of the American Revolution, and other women's patriotic and historical societies; Mrs. Cunningham's suffragette activities, 1917-1919, as a member of the North Carolina Equal Suffrage Association, and attendance as a delegate to the Democratic Convention in San Francisco, 1920; Mrs. Connor's work at the Emergency Hospital in Washington, N.C., and the Veterans' Hospital in Durham, N.C.; and problems of the Governor Morehead School, Durham, N.C., 1944. Also included are writings by Mrs. Connor for Durham and Edenton, N.C., newspapers in the 1940s and 1950s; a scrapbook, 1888-1948, of local political, social, and Episcopal church events; and letters received from David W. Connor at the Episcopal High School, Alexanderia, Va., 1951-1952, the University of North Carolina, 1953-1957, while serving in the United States Navy, 1956-1960, and while living in Wilson, N.C. Other correspondents include James M. Carrington, Lenoir Chambers, Walter Clark, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Rose Lawless Geyer, Henry R. Luce, John H. Manning, Henry G. Riely, William H. Ruffin, and Archibald Rutledge.
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About 480 items (4.0 linear feet)
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