David McMichen Lees Papers, 1825-1960

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David McMichen Lees Papers, 1825-1960

1825-1960

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03705/

David McMichen Lees (1807-1872) was the son of William Lees and Jane Lees of Mecklenburg County, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1829. The collection includes five family letters, 1825-1829, to and from David McMichen Lees while he was a student at Ebenezer Academy, Iredell County, N.C., and at the University of North Carolina; scattered later family letters; undated orations and essays by Lees, at least some of which were written while he was a college student; and genealogical data about the Lees (later Lee) family compiled by Ellie P. Grier of Charlotte, N.C.

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627637

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

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Ebenezer Academy (Iredell County, N.C.)

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Lease family.

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

Lee family.

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Lees, David McMichen, 1807-1872.

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David McMichen Lees (1807-1872) was the son of William Lees and Jane Lees of Mecklenburg County, N.C. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1829. In more recent years, the family name was spelled Lee. The University of North Carolina Alumni Catalog spells the middle name McMicken. From the guide to the David McMichen Lees Papers, 1825-1960, (Southern Historical Collection) David McMichen Lees (1807-1872) was the son of William Lees and Jane Lees of Mecklenbur...