Papers, 1889-1928.

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Papers, 1889-1928.

Business and personal correspondence, journals, daybooks, order books, trial balance books, ledgers, profit-and-loss accounts, bill books, inventory records, rent book, ckeck stubs, mill contract book, letter book, and an account book of Joseph D. Cox. Business topics dealt with include banks and banking, insurance, textile industry, lumber trade, and mercantile business. There is significant political correspondence, chiefly for 1908, when Cox was an unsuccessful candidate on the Republican ticket for governor of North Carolina. Among other subjects represented are universities and colleges (Guilford and Peabody, later part of Vanderbilt University), North Carolina roads, and American participation in World War I.

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