Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick papers, 1843-1890.

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Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick papers, 1843-1890.

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Early items are chiefly Hedrick and Sherwood family letters from Davidson County while Hedrick was a student at UNC and employee at the Nautical Almanac. Among letters, 1851-1858, are several from UNC President David L. Swain and professors Charles Phillips and Elisha Mitchell. Beginning around 1854, there is correspondence with agricultural and other scientists. After the dismissal from UNC, there are many letters of support or condemnation; letters relating to potential jobs; and letters of recommendation, including one from Horace Greeley, 2 December 1856. There is also considerable correspondence, 1857-1869, with Hinton Rowan Helper, a North Carolina writer who published The Impending Crisis of the South in 1857, and correspondence, 1856-1862, with Henry Harrisse, historian of early American history and exploration, who wrote to Hedrick chiefly on political and literary issues. Most 1861-1863 letters are to Hedrick from his brother John A. Hedrick, a Unionist and abolitionist who was a U.S. Treasury Dept. customs collector in Beaufort, N.C., during the Civil War. John wrote about life in occupied Beaufort; North Carolina politics; war news; and actions of northern soldiers, black recruits, and southern Unionists. Materials 1861-1886 chiefly relate to Hedrick's Patent Office work. There are also many family letters during this period. Also included are a few writings, clippings, financial materials, and photographs.

About. 1100 items (2.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868

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Greeley, Horace, 1811-1872

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Horace Greeley (February 3, 1811 – November 29, 1872) was an American newspaper editor and publisher who was the founder and editor of the New-York Tribune, among the great newspapers of its time. Long active in politics, he served briefly as a congressman from New York, and was the unsuccessful candidate of the new Liberal Republican party in the 1872 presidential election against incumbent President Ulysses S. Grant, who won by a landslide. Greeley was born to a poor family in Amherst, New ...

Helper, Hinton Rowan, 1829-1909

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American writer and diplomat. From the description of Autograph letter signed : New York, to A.H. Rathbone, 1893 Aug. 23. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270470872 Author and diplomat. From the description of Letters of Hinton Rowan Helper, 1860-1901. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450859 Hinton Rowan Helper, born December 27, 1829 in Davie County, North Carolina, was a Southern critic of slavery whose books inflamed the South. His objection to the syst...

Sherwood family.

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United States. Patent Office

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Charles F. Brush, of Cleveland, Ohio, was an electrician, inventor, and the founder of the Brush Electric Company. From the description of Patents granted to Charles F. Brush relating to electric machinery and apparatus, 1878-1894. (Smithsonian Institution Libraries). WorldCat record id: 154324631 Newell was from Haverhill, Mass. From the description of Letters patent, 1890 January 14 : issued to Isaiah Newell. (American Textile History Museum Library). WorldCat ...

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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889

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Charles Phillips (1822-1889) was the son of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips of Chapel Hill, N.C. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1841; a tutor, 1844-1854; professor of mathematics, 1854-1868 and 1875-1879; and professor emeritus, 1879-1889. He taught at Davidson College, 1868-1874. Cornelia Phillips (1825-1908) daughter of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips, married James Munroe Spencer in 1855 and went with him to Alabama. At his death in 1861, s...

Mitchell, Elisha, 1793-1857

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Elisha Mitchell was a native of Connecticut, student and tutor at Yale College, Presbyterian minister, and professor of geology and chemistry and bursar at the University of North Carolina, 1818-1857. From the description of Elisha Mitchell papers, 1816-1905. WorldCat record id: 23658466 Elisha Mitchell (19 August 1793-27 June 1857) of Connecticut was a graduate of Yale who taught at Jamaica, Long Island, N.Y. and at New London, Conn., and was a tutor at Yale be...

Hedrick, Benjamin Sherwood, 1827-1886

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Professor of chemistry and U.S. Patent Office official. From the description of Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick papers, 1848-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19642975 Benjamin Sherwood Hedrick was born near Salisbury, Davidson County, N.C. After graduation from the University of North Carolina in 1851, he worked for the Nautical Almanac in Cambridge, Mass., 1851-1853. In 1854, he became professor of analytical and agricultural chemistry at UNC. On 11 October 18...

United States naval observatory. Nautical almanac office

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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Hedrick, Mary Ellen Thompson.

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Harrisse, Henry, 1829-1910

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Harrisse, native of France, bibliographer, historian, and author of books, pamphlets, and articles mostly relating to early American history and exploration, came to America in the 1840s, taught in South Carolina and at the University of North Carolina, practiced law in Chicago and New York until 1870, and then returned to France. From the description of Henry Harrisse papers, 1855-1910 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24864145 Henry Harrisse (1829-1910), native of France, ...