Isabel Plummer Bain and Charles Wesley Bain Papers, circa 1900s-1960s

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Isabel Plummer Bain and Charles Wesley Bain Papers, circa 1900s-1960s

circa 1900s-1960s

The collection of Isabel Plummer Bain and her husband Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915), a white educator, author, and professor at the University of North Carolina, contains a scrapbook about Charles Bain, newspaper clippings, notebooks, miscellaneous papers, and letters, including a 1917 letter to Isabel Bain from Elizabeth Blackwell describing her sudden departure from Chapel Hill, N.C., in 1862 during the American Civil War.

0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100 items)

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Bain, Charles Wesley, 1864-1915

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Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) was the son of George McK. and Willie Frances Cherry Bain of Norfolk, Va. He was educated at Colonel William Gordon McCabe's school in Virginia, was graduated from the University of Virginia, and received an M.A. from the University of the South in 1895. He taught school at Savannah, Ga.; was joint headmaster at Rugby School in Louisville, Ky.; classical master at McCabe's School in Petersburg, Va.; and headmaster at Sewannee Grammar School. He was married in 1891...

Bain, Isabel Plummer, 1868-1964

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Isabel Plummer Bain (1868-1964) of Petersburg, Va., married Charles Wesley Bain (1864-1915) of Portsmouth, Va., in 1891. Charles Wesley Bain was an educator, professor of Greek and Latin at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C....

Blackwell, Elizabeth, fl. 1862-1917.

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