Grimes-Bryan Papers, 1780-1969, undated (bulk 1808-1924)

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Grimes-Bryan Papers, 1780-1969, undated (bulk 1808-1924)

1780-1969

Papers (1780-1969; bulk 1808-1924) including correspondence, land records, legal papers, financial papers, ledgers, etc., of two prominent Eastern North Carolina families--Grimes and Bryan--related through marriage. Other material concerns the Wharton and Conrad families of Clemmonsville, North Carolina, in Davidson County, who are also related by marriage to the Grimes family.

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Bryan, John Heritage, 1798-1870

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John Herritage (Heritage) Bryan (1798-1870) was an attorney of New Bern and later Raleigh. He represented Craven County in the State Senate (1823-1825) and was elected to Congress in 1825 as a National Republican. After serving in Congress for two terms, Bryan returned to his New Bern law practice until moving to Raleigh around 1839. In 1863, Charlotte, daughter of John Herritage and Mary Shepard Bryan, married Confederate Major General Bryan Grimes of Grimesland in Pitt County....

Grimes, Charlotte Emily Bryan, 1840-1920

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Daughter of John Herritage Bryan (1798–1870) and Mary Williams Shepard (1801–1881). Grimes married Confederate General Bryan Grimes (1828-1880) in 1863. The Grimes family made their home in Grimesland, N.C....

Grimes, Junius D., 1878-1959

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Junius Daniel Grimes, son of Bryan and Charlotte Grimes, was born in Grimesland, NC (1878). He attended the Raleigh Male Academy, received a BA from the University of North Carolina (1899) and an LLB from Georgetown University (1902). He was admitted to the bar in 1902 and became solicitor in the First Judicial District. He practiced law in partnership with Hallett Sydney Ward in the firm of Ward and Grimes from 1905 until 1941 when his son, J. Bryan, joined the firm, which then became Grimes an...

Grimes, J. Bryan (John Bryan), 1868-1923

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John Bryan Grimes, the second of nine children born to Major General Bryan Grimes and Charlotte Emily Bryan, grew up on the family plantation, Grimesland, in Pitt County. He began his education at several North Carolina private schools, including Trinity School at Chocowinity. Grimes studied at the University of North Carolina (1882-1885) before completing his education at Bryant and Stratton Business College in Baltimore. An active farmer, he served as president of the North Carolina Tobacco Gr...

Grimes, Bryan, 1828-1880

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Bryan Grimes (1828-1880), the son of Bryan Grimes Sr. and Nancy Grist, was a Confederate General and an enslaver who owned a cotton plantation. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1848, and the following year, his father gave him the family plantation Grimesland in Pitt County, N.C., along with approximately 100 enslaved persons. Bryan Grimes lived the life of plantation owner until the eve of the Civil War in 1861. He then attended North Carolina's state convention and took a ...

Wood, Benjamin, 1820-1900

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Conrad family.

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Grimes family.

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Confederate states of America. Army

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The Savannah Ordnance Depot, Savannah, Georgia, was organized as a field depot during the Civil War. In April 1864, it became the Savannah Arsenal under the supervision of the Chief of Ordnance. From the description of Savannah Ordnance Depot employment roll, 1864. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 38477938 The Confederate States of America Army may have created the position of Purchasing Commissary of Subsistence to oversee the distribution of food and other supplies to the Co...

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Bryan family.

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Wake Forest College

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Wharton family.

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Hill, Ambrose Powell, 1785-1858

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Democratic Party (N.C.)

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During the 1960 election, the North Carolina Democratic Party was led by Bert L. Bennett, state executive committee chairman, and operated out of headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. Democratic candidates for whom the state party campaigned in 1960 included John F. Kennedy for President of the United States and Terry Sandford for Governor of North Carolina. From the guide to the Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters Records, ., 1960, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. S...