Charles Alston Cook Papers, 1813-1926 (bulk 1860s-1870s)

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Charles Alston Cook Papers, 1813-1926, (bulk 1860s-1870s)

Charles Alston Cook Papers, 1813-1926 (bulk 1860s-1870s)

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Charles Alston Cook of Warrenton, N.C., and Muscogee, Okla.,was a lawyer; planter; active Republican; associate justice of the North CarolinaSupreme Court, 1901-1903; and member of the Oklahoma state legislature, 1909-1910. The collection includes letters from Cook, principally to his wife Marina JonesCook, occasionally mentioning political events in Oklahoma, but making littlereference to political or judicial affairs in North Carolina; considerablecorrespondence with and about John Graham (born circa 1847), founder of theWarrenton High School, Warrenton, N.C., and his family, chiefly on education topics;scattered letters from Daniel Lindsay Russell (1845-1908), Republican governor ofNorth Carolina; other personal and family correspondence of Marina Jones Cook and ofthe Cooks' children at school in North Carolina and Tennessee; a letterpresscopybook used by Cook in his legal work, 1877-1880, and by lawyer E. H. Plumer,1868-1869; legal papers of Cook; newspaper clippings about family members; andfamily photographs.

900; 1.5

eng,

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