William Geer Collection on Oliver Max Gardner and Other Materials, 1939-1961

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William Geer Collection on Oliver Max Gardner and Other Materials, 1939-1961

William Geer was a history professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Oliver Max Gardner was a lawyer of Shelby, N.C., and Washington, D.C., and state senator, 1910-1915, lieutenant governor, 1916-1920, and governor, 1929-1933, of North Carolina. Upon O. Max Gardner's death in 1947, Geer became interested in writing a biography of him. For some time, Geer held in trust the personal papers of O. Max Gardner, which were donated to the Southern Historical Collection in 1962. While he did much research on the subject, the biography was never finished. The collection represents William Geer's efforts to write a biography on O. Max Gardner. It includes letters to and from friends, family, and colleagues of Gardner from whom Geer tried to gather personal information and stories about Gardner; a series of notebooks kept by Geer on Gardner; notes taken from papers at the North Carolina State Archives about Gardner; transcriptions of Gardner's correspondence and excerpts from his speeches; and one 33-1/3 record album, 6 February 1947. Other materials in the collection relate to Geer's career as a history professor. J. Melville Broughton on the death of O. Max Gardner,

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William Geer was a history professor at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. Oliver Max Gardner was a lawyer of Shelby, N.C., and Washington, D.C., and state senator, 1910-1915, lieutenant governor, 1916-1920, and governor, 1929-1933, of North Carolina. Upon O. Max Gardner's death in 1947, Geer became interested in writing a biography of him. For some time, Geer held in trust the personal papers of O. Max Gardner, which were donated to the Southern Historical Collection in 1962....