J. Bryan Grimes Papers, 1760-1935, 1880-1935

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J. Bryan Grimes Papers, 1760-1935, 1880-1935

1760-1935

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/0054

Papers (1760 [1880] - 1935) including correspondence, financial papers, account books, daybooks, essays, speeches, legal records, land records, notebooks, etc. of Eastern North Carolina farmer, leader of the NC Tobacco Growers Association, and NC Secretary of State (1901-1923), etc.

3 Cubic Feet, 8 archival boxes and 1 oversize folder

eng, Latn

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11628632

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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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....

North Carolina. Board of Agriculture

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Grimes, Alston, 1866-1914

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Tobacco Growers Association of North Carolina

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Grimes family.

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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...

North Carolina. Secretary of State

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Laughinghouse family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

North Carolina Appomattox Commission.

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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 ...