Caroline Mallett Hooper Papers, 1835-1880

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Caroline Mallett Hooper Papers, 1835-1880

1835-1880

Family correspondence of Hooper, including letters from her father, Charles Peter Mallett, of Fayetteville, N.C.; from her fiance and husband, George DeBerniere Hooper, lawyer, of Lafayette, Ala.; and from other relatives. The letters deal largely with family and personal matters, but include references to the Creek War in letters from Lafayette in 1836 and a discussion by Charles P. Mallett in 1853 of his slaves and their religious faith.

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Mallett, Charles Peter, 1792-1873

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Charles Peter Mallett (1792-1873) was a white banker, businessman, planter and merchant. One of the first successful producers of spun cotton in Cumberland County, N.C., he was a major stockholder in the Union Manufacturing Company of Fayetteville, N.C. In 1853 he left North Carolina for a business venture in New York. When it failed three years later, he returned to North Carolina to open a textbook store in Chapel Hill. He was in Chapel Hill when Union troops occupied the town during the Ameri...

Hooper, Caroline Mallett, 1814-1875

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Caroline Eliza Mallett (1814-1875) was the daughter of Charles Peter Mallett (1792-1874), a prominent manufacturer and banker of Fayetteville, North Carolina. She lived in North Carolina until her marriage in 1836 to George De Berniere Hooper (1809-1892). Hooper was the son of Archibald Maclaine Hooper (1775-1853), journalist and lawyer of Wilmington, North Carolina. He taught school in Wilmington and Charleston, studied law in Wilmington, and began practice in Alabama in 1833. The...

Hooper, George DeBerniere.

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