Kemp Plummer Lewis Papers, 1908-1946

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Kemp Plummer Lewis Papers, 1908-1946

1908-1946

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03819/

A lifelong textile executive with Erwin Mills in Durham, N.C., Kemp Plummer Lewis was the son of Richard Henry Lewis and Cornelia Viola Battle. He attended the University of North Carolina, where he was later president of the alumni association and a member of the first board of trustees of the consolidated university. He was also active in Durham civic affairs and Episcopal church work. The collection contains family and financial correspondence of Kemp Plummer Lewis, including materials relating to Erwin Mills; the North Carolina Diocese of the Protestant Episcopal Church; the University of North Carolina, including information concerning the Order of the Gorgon's Head Lodge and Zeta Psi Fraternity; Durham City Schools; Durham Rotary; and a variety of charitable institutions. Business letters reveal labor union activities and management response in various North Carolina textile mills, especially those in Durham, Cooleemee, and Erwin, N.C. The Durham and Southern Railway Company, the Bank of Harnett, and the Erwin Yarn Company are other businesses represented in the collection, as are the American Cotton Manufacturers' Association and the North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers' Association. A great deal of family correspondence concerns the Battles of Chapel Hill and Nell Battle Lewis, Lewis's half-sister and feature writer, who wrote a column called "Incidentally" for the Raleigh News and Observer. Papers also reflect Lewis's involvement in settling the estates of William Allen Erwin and William Allen Erwin, Jr.

39.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 31,000 items)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627672

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

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North Carolina Cotton Manufacturers Association, Inc.

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Lewis, Nell Battle, 1893-1956

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Durham Southern and Railway Company.

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Erwin, William Allen, 1856-1932.

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Bank of Harnett (N.C.)

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Lewis family.

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Erwin Cotton Mills

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1892 Erwin Cotton Mills incorporated, the Duke family owning a controlling interest with Benjamin N. Duke as president and William Allen Erwin as manager. 1893 Mill No. 1 in West Durham began operation 1896 Mill No. 1 doubled in size ...

Rotary Club of Durham (Durham, N.C.)

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Erwin, William Allen, d. 1931.

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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...

Battle family.

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American Cotton Manufacturers Association

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Order of Gorgon's Head (University of North Carolina)

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Lewis, Kemp Plummer, 1880-1952

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A lifelong textile executive with Erwin Mills in Durham, N.C., Kemp Plummer Lewis was the son of Richard Henry Lewis and Cornelia Viola Battle. He attended the University of North Carolina, where he was later president of the alumni association and a member of the first board of trustees of the consolidated university. He was also active in Durham civic affairs and Episcopal church work. From the description of Kemp Plummer Lewis papers, 1908-1946. WorldCat record id: 31908583 ...