Papers, 1834-1984 (bulk 1884-1929).

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Papers, 1834-1984 (bulk 1884-1929).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122600897

Personal, business, financial and legal papers. The collection contains important materials on the tobacco, textile, electric power, and banking industries, and information about W. Duke, Sons and Company, the American Tobacco Company, Erwin Mills, Mayo Mills, Durham Electric Lighting Company, the Spray Water Power and Land Company, the Dallas Cable Railroad, and the Durham Fertilizer Company. There is information on Trinity College (later Duke University) in correspondence with college officials, faculty and students; and in photographs of the college buildings. There is also material pertaining to B.N. Duke's other beneficiaries, primarily educational institutions. Financial records include the papers of Benjamin's wife, Sarah Pearson Angier Duke and children: Angier Buchanan Duke and Mary Duke Biddle. Legal records include deeds and plats of land for Duke's real estate holdings in Durham. There is also personal material dealing with his children and his homes in North Carolina, Florida, and New York. There is some material on the gubernatorial race between Julian Shakespeare Carr and Daniel Lindsey Russell, and record books for the Alaska Dredging and Power Company and the Solomon River Hydraulic Mining Company. Personal papers of B.N. Duke's secretaries, Richard B. Arrington and Alexander H. Sands, Jr., are included in this collection.

50,850 items (69 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6784152

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

Related Entities

There are 18 Entities related to this resource.

Trinity College (Durham, N.C.)

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The Trinity College (Randolph County) Reference collection materials were compiled from a variety of sources by University Archives staff for reference and research. From the description of Trinity College (Durham, N.C.) Reference Collection, 1889-1992. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 166325766 The Columbia Literary Society was first organized in 1846 at Union Institute. The Society grew with the school, witnessing the founding of Trinity College ...

American Tobacco Company

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Arrington, Richard B., d. 1913.

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Semans, Mary Duke Biddle Trent

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Interviewee married James H. Semans; interviewee b.1920. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597351 Member of the Duke family and a female philanthropic leader in health care at Duke and in the Durham community. From the description of Oral history interview with Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, 2007. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: ...

Duke, Sarah Pearson Angier, 1856-1936.

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Mayo Mills.

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Dallas Cable Railroad.

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Sands, Alexander H., 1891-1960.

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W. Duke, Sons & Co.

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W. Duke, Sons & Co. was a tobacco manufacturer founded by Washington Duke in 1881. His son, James B. Duke, later became president of the American Tobacco Company. For more information on Duke family history, please visit the University Archives . From the guide to the W. Duke, Sons & Co. Advertising Materials, 1880-1910, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) ...

Alaska Dredging and Power Company.

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Durham Electric Lighting Company.

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Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel, 1896-1961

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Joseph Biddle was a Burlington County, New Jersey, assemblyman. ...

Solomon River Hydraulic Mining Company.

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Duke, Benjamin N. (Benjamin Newton), 1855-1929

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Tobacco manufacturer, industrialist, and philanthropist, of Durham, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1834-1984 (bulk 1884-1929). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122600897 From the description of Benjamin Newton Duke papers, 1834-1984. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405927 1855, Apr. 27 Born to Washington and Artelia Roney Duke; Orange Co., N.C. ...

Durham Fertilizer Company.

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Erwin Mills (Firm : Durham, N.C.)

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Spray Water Power and Land Company.

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Duke, Angier Buchanan, 1884-1923.

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