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Clingman and Puryear family papers, 1810-1908 [manuscript].

Title: Clingman and Puryear family papers, 1810-1908

The collection includes Family, political, and business papers of several prominent western North Carolinians, including Mrs. Jane (Poindexter) Clingman of Yadkin county, chiefly family correspondence; her son-in-law, Richard Clauselle Puryear (1801-1867), Yadkin planter, Whig U.S. representative, 1853-1857, and member of the Confederate Congress, including bills, receipts, accounts, letters written from Washington, D.C., letters written and received at Richmond, Va., during the Civil War, and an account book for blacksmith and wagon-body work; and her son, Thomas Lanier Clingman (1812-1897), U.S. senator and Confederate general. T. L. Clingman's papers, 1828-1890, chefly concern his mining and mineral interests, including gold mines in Georgia, the Chestatee Hydraulic Company of New York and Georgia, the Yahoola Rver and Cane Creek Hydraulic Hose Mining Company of Boston, and lands and minerals in western North Carolina. Political correspondence for the 1850s is included, relating primarily to North Carolina. Also available is an account of General George Stoneman's Raid, April 1865, on the Puryear family home in Yadkin County.

ArchivalResource: 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 400 items)

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Lanman, Charles, 1819-1895. Charles Lanman papers, 1858-1859; 1868 [manuscript].

Title: Charles Lanman papers, 1858-1859; 1868 [manuscript].

Brief autobiographical sketches submitted to Lanman by members of Congress for inclusion in his "Dictionary of the United States Congress," first published in 1859. The sketches contain some unpublished material. Subjects include Thomas Bragg (1810-1872), Aaron Venable Brown (1795-1859), Clinton Levering Cobb (1842-1879), Francis Burton Craige (1811-1875), John Thomas Deweese (1835-1906), John Adams Gilmer (1805-1868), Richard Clausell Puryear (1801-1867), Edwin Godwin Reade (1812-1894), William N. H. Smith (1812-1889), Zebulon Baird Vance (1830-1894), and Felix Walker (1753- 1828), by his grandson.

ArchivalResource: 11 items.

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