C. B. Mallett Papers, 1829-1954

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C. B. Mallett Papers, 1829-1954

1829-1954

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/03165/

C. B. (Charles Beatty) Mallett (1816-1872), of Fayetteville, N.C., was a manufacturer, merchant, and the president of the Western North Carolina Railroad. With James Browne of Charleston, S.C., he formed the partnership Mallett and Browne. The Mallett family is descended from Peter Mallett (1744-1805). The collection consists primarily of business papers and family correspondence of C. B. Mallett. Included are antebellum correspondence, bills, and accounts related to a textile mill; letters, contracts, bills, accounts, and other records pertaining to the operation of coal mines in Chatham County, N.C., during the Civil War by Mallett and Browne and and of the partnership's supplying the Confederate War Department with coal, iron, nails, and other materials; a volume with accounts, 1845-1854, for cotton bales, cotton cloth, cotton sheeting, meal, and miscellaneous merchandise, a daybook of a kerosene oil works, 1864-1865, and a daybook of a river freight firm, 1867-1868; and miscellaneous records of Mallett and Browne, the Union Manufacturing Company, the Western North Carolina Railroad, and Saint John's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C. Also included are correspondence and other family papers, chiefly letters from the family of C. B. Mallett's father, Charles Peter Mallett, in North Carolina and in Balstrop, La., in the 1870s. Of particular interest are letters by Charles Peter Mallett in Chapel Hill, N.C., during the town's occupation by Union forces in the spring of 1865.

1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 750 items)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6627820

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

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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...

St. John's Episcopal Church (Fayetteville, N.C.)

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St. John's Episcopal Church was established 7 April 1817, Fayetteville, N.C....

Mallett family.

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Mallett and Browne (Firm)

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Mallett and Browne (1862-1865), was a coal mining and shipping business, founded by C.B. Mallett of Fayetteville, N.C. and James Browne of Charleston, S.C....

Union Manufacturing Company (Fayetteville, N.C.)

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Union Manufacturing Company, a cotton factory, was organized in 1848 by C.B. Mallett. It was destroyed in 1865 when Fayetteville, N.C. was burned by General Sherman's troops....

Western North Carolina Railroad Company

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Incorporated in North Carolina in 1855 to build a railroad to connect the North Carolina Railroad with the Mississippi Valley; main line opened in 1881 from Salisbury to Paint Rock, N.C. (185 miles); part of Richmond and Danville system (1880-1894); controlled by Southern Railway Company after 1894. From the description of Papers, 1855-1895. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28414163 ...

Mallett, Peter, 1744-1805

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St. John's Church (Fayetteville, N.C.)

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Mallett, C. B. (Charles Beatty), 1816-1872

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C. B. (Charles Beatty) Mallett (1816-1872), of Fayetteville, N.C., was a manufacturer, merchant, and the president of the Western North Carolina Railroad. With James Browne of Charleston, S.C., he formed the partnership Mallett and Browne. The Mallett family is descended from Peter Mallett (1744-1805). From the description of C. B. Mallett papers, 1840-1954. WorldCat record id: 26380320 C. B. Mallett was born in Fayetteville, N.C., on 8 June 1816, the second chi...