Asa Biggs Papers, 1832-2003

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Asa Biggs Papers, 1832-2003

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Asa Biggs (1811-1878) was a North Carolina lawyer, legislator, judge, congressman, and United States senator. The collection consists of a short biographical sketch, 1857, possibly by Cushing B. Hassell, of Biggs; a photocopy of a diary (7 p.) kept by Biggs on a trip from Williamston N.C., to Ocracoke, N.C., in 1832, describing travel by ship, lodgings, and other matters; and compiled by Edwin R. MacKethan III, July 2003. Some Bible and Cemetery Records of the Asa Biggs Family,

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection

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Asa Biggs

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Biggs, Asa, 1811-1878

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Asa Biggs was born in Williamston, N.C., on 4 February 1811, and died in Norfolk, Va., on 6 March 1878. He attended the Williamston Academy, studied law, and passed the bar in 1831. Biggs served in the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1835; the North Carolina House of Commons in 1840 and 1842; the state Senate in 1844 and 1854; the United States House of Representatives, 1845-1847; and the United States Senate, 1855-1858. Biggs also served as United States District Judge for North Car...

Hassell, Cushing Biggs, 1808-1880

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Cushing Biggs Hassell (1808-1880) was a merchant and Primitive Baptist clergyman of Williamston, N.C. From the description of Cushing Biggs Hassell papers, 1809-1880. WorldCat record id: 24144914 From the guide to the Cushing Biggs Hassell Papers, 1809-1880, (Southern Historical Collection) Merchant and clergyman, of Williamston (Martin Co.), N.C. From the description of Papers, 1814-1926. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19642808 ...

Biggs

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