James W. Patton Papers (#1739) 1798-1923, 1999

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James W. Patton Papers (#1739) 1798-1923, 1999

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Papers of a 19th-century Asheville, N.C., family and their relatives in South Carolina and Maryland. The collection consists chiefly of personal correspondence, including antebellum letters received by Asheville merchant James W. Patton (1803-1861) and his wife, Henrietta Kerr Patton, mostly from Kerr relatives in Charleston, S.C., about family matters; letters of their son, Thomas Walton Patton (1841-1907), politician and mayor of Asheville, while he was a captain in the 60th North Carolina Regiment during the Civil War in Tennessee and Georgia, and while he was a volunteer officer in the Spanish-American War; and letters from Fannie Patton, a student at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., 1862. There are also letters exchanged, 1798-1808, by James Calder (d. 1808), Maryland planter, and his son George Calder (1778-1809), United States Navy officer, relatives of Martha Turner Patton, wife of Thomas Walton Patton, concerning the Calders' Maryland plantation, naval affairs, yellow fever, and other matters. Also included are newspaper clippings of articles about members of the Patton, Turner, and Parker families; an account and notebook, 1892, of Thomas Walton Patton on a European trip; a memorial volume, 1918-1923, by the Asheville chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy; a photograph, ca. 1886, of the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity at the University of North Carolina, one of whose members was Haywood Parker, husband of Thomas Walton Patton's daughter Josie; and a videotape, . Thomas Walton Patton: Asheville's Citizen and Soldier

About 250 items (1.0 linear feet)

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

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SNAC Resource ID: 6628436

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

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