E. Frank Stephenson Jr. Collection, 1736-2018, undated

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E. Frank Stephenson Jr. Collection, 1736-2018, undated

1736-2018

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0692

Papers (1736–2018) including correspondence, financial documents, legal documents, personal and family materials, printed materials, and photographic materials collected by E. Frank Stephenson Jr. relating to the Benjamin B. Winborne Family, the R. J. Gatling Family, E. Frank Stephenson Jr., and other people in North Carolina and Virginia, especially the Murfreesboro, North Carolina, area. The documents were collected by E. Frank Stephenson Jr. for research use while writing numerous historical publications and to make the items available for other researchers to utilize. Many of Mr. Stephenson's publications are also included in the collection.

44.317 Cubic feet, 78 containers plus oversize folders

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Vaughan, Uriah, 1813-1890

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Gatling, Richard Jordan, 1818-1903

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Murfreesboro Historical Association (Murfreesboro, N.C.)

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Wynns family

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Winborne, Stanley, 1886-1966

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Stanley Winborne was an attorney, member of both the North Carolina House of Representatives and North Carolina Senate, and North Carolina Corporation Commissioner. He was born in Hertford County, North Carolina on August 25, 1886, the son of Benjamin B. Winborne and Cornelia Hartshorn Vaughan Winborne. He died February 4, 1966 in Wake County, N.C....

Winborne, Benj. B. (Benjamin Brodie), 1854-1919

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Benjamin Brodie Winborne (April 14, 1854-1919) practiced law in Hertford County, North Carolina. He was the son of Major Samuel Darden Winborne and Mary H. Pretlow Winborne (d. August 24, 1900) and the grandson of Martha Warren Winborne, possibly the daughter of Robert Warren. In his youth, he attended Buckhorn Academy near Como under the tutelage of J.H. Picot, a school teacher of recent French ancestry. In 1871 he entered Wake Forest College and stayed until 1872. He graduated from Columbia Un...