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McNeill family. McNeill-Poteat Family Papers, 1820-1888

Title: McNeill-Poteat Family Papers, 1820-1888

Incoming correspondence, financial and legal records of Hosea McNeill (ca. 1784-1857) and his son-in-law James Poteat (1808-88). These records are concerned primarily with the Norfleet, Williams and Graves families and include the Civil War letters of Felix L. Poteat, and John M. Poteat, and a journal of a trip to Tennessee in 1833. There are miscellaneous records and family photographs of James, John, Miles, Linday, James Preston, William Louis, Mrs. Julia A., and Edwin McNeill Poteat..

ArchivalResource: 1 linear foot 2 boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690739 View

Poteat, William Louis, 1856-1938. Christ among the doctors / by W. L. Poteat.

Title: Christ among the doctors / by W. L. Poteat. [1922]

ArchivalResource: [7] leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/58385736 View

E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482), 1901-1955

Title: E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482) 1901-1955

Edwin Yates Webb of Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., a lawyer, was Democratic Party United States Representative for the Ninth North Carolina District (Burke, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, and Mecklenburg counties), 1903-1919, and United States judge for the Western District of North Carolina, 1919-1948. The collection contains primarily correspondence documenting Webb's career in Congress and on the bench. Congressional correspondence concerns the interests of constituents; prohibition, of which Webb was a leading advocate; agricultural and labor legislation; the tariff; nativism; women's suffrage; pure food and drug laws; issues surrounding World War I; Democratic Party politics; Webb's re-election campaigns; and other matters. Beginning in 1919, correspondence relates to law; the judiciary; politics; civic and personal concerns, including Gardner-Webb College; and national, state, and local prohibition. Also included are papers relating to bankruptcy proceedings against the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway Company. Prominent correspondents include Odus M. Mull, Webb's law partner in Shelby, N.C.; Charles A. Jonas; Robert N. Page; Herbert L. Davis; Josiah W. Bailey; David Clark; Heriot Clarkson; Henry Groves Connor; Josephus Daniels; O. Max Gardner; Wade Hampton Harris; Clyde R. Hoey; Claude Kitchin; Isaac M. Meekins; Lee S. Overman; John J. Parker; Clarence H. Poe; William Louis Poteat; Joseph Hyde Pratt; Daniel A. Tompkins; and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: About 8,000 items (12.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03482/ View

Josiah William Bailey Papers, 1833-1967

Title: Josiah William Bailey Papers, 1833-1967

ArchivalResource: ca. 422,400 Items and 10 volumes

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/baileyjw/ View

Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Title: Richard Gaither Walser Papers, 1918-1988

Richard Gaither Walser (1908-1988) was a professor of English at North Carolina State University in Raleigh and author of numerous works, chiefly relating to North Carolina's literary heritage. The collection contains correspondence, clippings, photographs, and other materials chiefly relating to North Carolina' literary heritage. Files on individual authors and literary subjects dominate, with special emphasis on the life and works of Thomas Wolfe. Other authors represented in the collection include Doris Betts, Helen Bevington, James Boyd, Richard Chase, Jonathan Daniels, Wilma Dykeman, Charles Edward Eaton, John Ehle, Paul Green, Bernice Kelly Harris, George Moses Horton, Gerald W. Johnson, Frederick H. Koch, Guy Owen, Robert C. Ruark, Wilbur D. Steele, Hardin E. Taliaferro, and Jonathan Williams. There is also material on North Carolina folklore and other topics not directly connected to literature. A small number of items relate to Walser's life as a student at the University of North Carolina and to his service with the United States Naval Reserve during World War II.

ArchivalResource: About 27,800 items (32.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/04168/ View

Van Ness, Isaac Jacobus, 1860-1947. Papers, 1903-1944.

Title: Papers, 1903-1944.

The collection documents Van Ness's career at the Baptist Sunday School Board including his time as the editorial secretary and as the executive secretary and treasurer.The collection includes a large portion of Van Ness's correspondence as well as some photographs, reports, pamphlets, and other papers. Includes information about the Board's publications, events in the life of the Southern Baptist Convention and the various ministries of the Board.

ArchivalResource: 17 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/164844822 View

E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482), 1901-1955

Title: E. Y. Webb Papers (#3482) 1901-1955

Edwin Yates Webb of Shelby, Cleveland County, N.C., a lawyer, was Democratic Party United States Representative for the Ninth North Carolina District (Burke, Cleveland, Catawba, Lincoln, Gaston, and Mecklenburg counties), 1903-1919, and United States judge for the Western District of North Carolina, 1919-1948. The collection contains primarily correspondence documenting Webb's career in Congress and on the bench. Congressional correspondence concerns the interests of constituents; prohibition, of which Webb was a leading advocate; agricultural and labor legislation; the tariff; nativism; women's suffrage; pure food and drug laws; issues surrounding World War I; Democratic Party politics; Webb's re-election campaigns; and other matters. Beginning in 1919, correspondence relates to law; the judiciary; politics; civic and personal concerns, including Gardner-Webb College; and national, state, and local prohibition. Also included are papers relating to bankruptcy proceedings against the Atlantic and Yadkin Railway Company. Prominent correspondents include Odus M. Mull, Webb's law partner in Shelby, N.C.; Charles A. Jonas; Robert N. Page; Herbert L. Davis; Josiah W. Bailey; David Clark; Heriot Clarkson; Henry Groves Connor; Josephus Daniels; O. Max Gardner; Wade Hampton Harris; Clyde R. Hoey; Claude Kitchin; Isaac M. Meekins; Lee S. Overman; John J. Parker; Clarence H. Poe; William Louis Poteat; Joseph Hyde Pratt; Daniel A. Tompkins; and Woodrow Wilson.

ArchivalResource: About 8,000 items (12.5 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03482/ View

Poteat, William Louis, 1856-1938. William Louis Poteat Papers, 1856-1938

Title: William Louis Poteat Papers, 1856-1938

His papers contain biographical information; correspondence, 1878-1938; his writings, addresses, and speeches, 1876-1937; family papers, 1837-1936 [broken series]; and several volumes from his library.

ArchivalResource: 12 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690779 View

General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2011

Title: General Faculty and Faculty Council of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Records, 1799-2011

The university's earliest , adopted by its Board of Trustees in 1795, defined the duties and rights of the faculty. Formal faculty meetings have been held since at least 1799; the amended adopted by the trustees in December 1799 included guidelines for the conduct of such meetings. Throughout the antebellum period, the faculty was responsible for enforcing social as well as academic regulations and for handling cases of student misconduct. After 1875 the faculty assumed an increasing role in establishing policies governing educational activities and the awarding of degrees by the university. The , originally titled , was adopted by the General Faculty in 1947 and has been amended numerous times. In 1950 the General Faculty authorized the creation of the Faculty Council to act as its legislative body. The council, composed of elected members from the various faculty divisions and ex-officio members from the university administration, held its first meeting on 5 January 1951. Officers of the faculty include the chair and the secretary. The university's chancellor presides over meetings of the Faculty Council. Much of the Faculty Council's work is carried on by its standing and special committees. Laws and Regulations Laws of the University Faculty Code of University Government Faculty Legislation Records include minutes of meetings of the General Faculty, 1799-2011, and of the Faculty Council, 1951-2011; files of the secretary of the faculty and of the chair of the faculty; minutes of the meetings of various faculty divisions; and files of standing and special committees. Beginning in the mid-1990s, there are scattered meeting transcripts among the minutes. There are also recordings of many General Faculty and Faculty Council meetings, 1984-2010, on 283 audiocassettes, 31 data compact discs, and three digital video discs.

ArchivalResource: About 43,000 items (71.0 linear feet)

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/40106/ View

Morgan, S. L. (Samuel Lewis), 1871-1972. S.L. Morgan papers, 1895-1970 [manuscript].

Title: S.L. Morgan papers, 1895-1970 [manuscript].

The collection includes correspondence and writings of Samuel Lewis Morgan. The correspondence consists chiefly of copies of Morgan's letters to friends, family members, Baptist ministers, editors, and readers of his writings, written during the 1950s and 1960s when Morgan was in his eighties and nineties. Most letters are of a personal nature, relating to Morgan's family, his ministerial activities, and his reading and writings. Scattered letters to businessmen, senators, and presidents concern requests for information, reponses to published articles, and calls for action on various social issues from "immoral movie houses" in the 1920s to civil rights in the 1960s. Major correspondents include William Louis Poteat, John Morgan, James I. Miller, William W. Finlator, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Jr., Willis Richard Cullom, John W. Kincheloe, Charles E. Maddry, J. Marse Grant, Samuel Talmadge Ragan, Charles Bennett Deane, Thomas J. Lassiter, Jr., Eugene Norfleet Gardner, Hubert P. Warden, Rexford Squires, and LaReine Warden Clayton. Most of the remaining papers are writings of some type, including a fifty-year, twenty-five-hundred-page "journalistic" diary, nearly two thousand clippings of articles, several hundred sermons and other addresses, and other items. The topics of Morgan's writings include pastoral ministry, Scripture, Baptist doctrine, women's roles, death and dying, stories of inspiration, and men and women whom Morgan had known and admired.

ArchivalResource: About 15700 items (14.0 linear ft.).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/25723823 View

Truett, George W. (George Washington), 1867-1944. Collection, 1882-1961.

Title: Collection, 1882-1961.

Collection includes addresses, articles, Baptist World Alliance files, biographical information, books written by Truett, correspondence, travel files, diaries, material related to First Baptist Church, Dallas, lectures, maps, photographs, poems, prayers, and sermons. The collection documents Truett's influence as an evangelist and denominational spokesman.

ArchivalResource: 334 microfiches.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34063313 View

Van Ness, Isaac Jacobus, 1860-1947. Papers [microform], 1903-1944.

Title: Papers [microform], 1903-1944.

The collection documents Van Ness's career at the Baptist Sunday School Board including his time as the editorial secretary and as the executive secretary and treasurer.The collection includes a large portion of Van Ness's correspondence as well as some photographs, reports, pamphlets, and other papers. Includes information about the Board's publications, events in the life of the Southern Baptist Convention and the various ministries of the Board.

ArchivalResource: 39 microfilm reels.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/225082084 View

Isaac Melson Meekins Papers, 1905, 1922-1925, 1933, 1936?

Title: Isaac Melson Meekins Papers, 1905, 1922-1925, 1933, 1936?

Isaac Melson Meekins (1875-1946) of Elizabeth City, N.C., was a lawyer, U.S. district court judge, and Republican political leader. The collection includes a journal, 1905, kept by Isaac Meekins on a trip to Ireland, Scotland, England, and France, with Dr. William Louis Poteat; a volume containing an expense account, January-February 1922, kept by Meekins as manager for Enemy Insurance Company; clippings, 1924-1925, related to Meekins's gubernatorial campaign and his appointment as U.S. District Court judge in 1924; a letter, 1933, from Meekins to his daughter, Mary Purefoy Meekins, conveying his library to her and describing his reading habits; and a speech, 1936?, by an unknown author to the North Carolina Republican Convention, seconding the nomination of William C. Meekins ... to lead that great corps of Republican candidates over the roads and this great labyrinth of highways in the state of N.C. and plant the banner of the Grand Old Party at the door of the Capital in Raleigh ... .

ArchivalResource: 4 items

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/Meekins,Isaac_Melson.html View

Alexander W. McAlister Papers, 1886-1946

Title: Alexander W. McAlister Papers, 1886-1946

Alexander Worth McAlister was founder and president of Pilot Life Insurance Company and a leader in the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare. Correspondence, writings, pictures, and other material of Alexander W. McAlister chiefly includes correspondence with associates in business and civic organizations and versions of published and unpublished writings by McAlister. Most items date from 1930 through 1943, although there is some earlier correspondence and some writings from as early as the 1880s. Well-documented in these papers are McAlister's activities as a member of the North Carolina Conference for Social Service and the North Carolina State Board of Charities and Public Welfare, as well as his association with various civic organizations in Greensboro. Much of the correspondence and many writings relate to particular concerns of McAlister, including prohibition, the New Deal, golf, child welfare, prison reform, the Community Church in Greensboro, and education. Although there is some material relating to McAlister's business activities, documentation in these papers of his work as an insurance executive and in other business ventures is incomplete. There also is little personal material regarding McAlister's family and close friends.

ArchivalResource: About 8500 items (15.0 linear feet)

http://www2.lib.unc.edu/mss/inv/m/McAlister,Alexander_W.html View

Moore, Hight C., 1871-1957. Collection, 1884-1956.

Title: Collection, 1884-1956.

Papers includes manuscripts for articles, books, speeches, and seminars related to Moore. Includes correspondence about Baptist life in North Carolina during his tenure as editor of the state Baptist newspaper, his work as editor at the Sunday School Board and his role as Recording Secretary of the SBC. Biographical information, photographs, clippings, Bibles, manuscript drafts, Bible study material, and other various materials are found in the papers.

ArchivalResource: 35 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/150901306 View

Poteat, William Louis, 1856-1938. The old method for the new world / by William Louis Poteat.

Title: The old method for the new world / by William Louis Poteat. [1920]

ArchivalResource: 10 leaves ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/76969708 View

Poteat family. Poteat Gunter Family Scrapbook, 1938-1958

Title: Poteat Gunter Family Scrapbook, 1938-1958

This family scrapbook contains photographs, mounted and loose clippings, and other items relating to the Poteat, Bender, Gunter, Hendrix, Williamson and Dodson families. There is information on Ida Isabelle Poteat, William Louis Poteat, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Edwin McNeill Poteat, Jr., Hubert McNeill Poteat, J. Douglas Poteat, Ernest Lindsay Poteat, and James P. Gunter.

ArchivalResource: 1 reel.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60690777 View

Josiah William Bailey Papers, 1833-1967

Title: Josiah William Bailey Papers, 1833-1967

ArchivalResource: ca. 422,400 Items and 10 volumes

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/baileyjw/ View

Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Title: Walter Hines Page letters from various correspondents, American period

Letters from various correspondents to American editor and diplomat Walter Hines Page concerning his editorial work and his interest in education in the South.

ArchivalResource: 24 boxes (8 linear ft.)

http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01471/catalog View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-P.xml View

North Carolina Academy of Science Collection, 1858, 1883-2016

Title: North Carolina Academy of Science Collection, 1858, 1883-2016

Minutes, programs, correspondence, journals, reprints, reports, posters, and miscellaneous records (1902-2016) documenting the North Carolina Academy of Science, journal issues for the Elisha Mitchell Scientific Society (1883-2007, some missing), and memoir of the Rev. Elisha Mitchell, D.D. (1858).

ArchivalResource: 31.25 Cubic Feet, 40 boxes

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0282 View