Mallett, Charles Peter, 1792-1873

Charles Peter Mallett (1792-1873) was a white banker, businessman, planter and merchant. One of the first successful producers of spun cotton in Cumberland County, N.C., he was a major stockholder in the Union Manufacturing Company of Fayetteville, N.C. In 1853 he left North Carolina for a business venture in New York. When it failed three years later, he returned to North Carolina to open a textbook store in Chapel Hill. He was in Chapel Hill when Union troops occupied the town during the American Civil War, and left a diary of that time. After the war he left the state to help his sons reestablish themselves financially on a farm in Bastrop, La.