Edwin R. MacKethan papers, 1794-1970, 2003 (bulk 1884-1932) [manuscript].

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Edwin R. MacKethan papers, 1794-1970, 2003 (bulk 1884-1932) [manuscript].

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Correspondence, financial material, legal papers, and other items of Edwin R. MacKethan and family of Fayetteville, N.C. Included is correspondence among MacKethan brothers in North Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, and between the MacKethan children at college, in New York City, and aboard United States Navy ships and their parents. There are letters and other papers pertaining to MacKethan's legal practice and other businesses in Fayetteville and to his political career in the North Carolina legislature and as mayor of Fayetteville. Other business papers from the 1840s and 1850s refer to the Clarendon Bridge Company, the Fayetteville and Northern Plank Road Company, and the Dobbin Horse Company. Some materials relate to disfranchisement of African Americans; to students and teachers at the United States Naval Academy and at the University of North Carolina; to the Civil War experiences of a relative stationed near Wilmington, N.C.; and to the stock market crash of 1929. Also included are printed items pertaining to White Supremacy and Prohibition, poems, essays, maps, photographs, and genealogical material.

3,800 items (8.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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