Papers, 1806-1944.

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Papers, 1806-1944.

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Correspondence, financial records, legal and other papers of Michael Cronly, Sr., auctioneer and real estate broker of Wilmington, N.C., of his wife, Margaret McLaurin Cronly, and of their nine children. Subjects include auctions and auctioneering, Wilmington social life, Civil War experiences, the Wilmington, Charlotte and Rutherford Railway Company, railroad bonds issued in North Carolina during Reconstruction, an earthquake that struck the Carolinas in 1886, the Democratic Party and politics in North Carolina, and blacks during Reconstruction. Includes information on the Beatty, McLaurin and Murphy families of North Carolina, and descriptions of Charleston, Atlantic City (N.J.), Denver, Genoa (Italy), and the Hudson Fulton Celebration in New York City (1909). Correspondents include Thomas Walter Bickett, Jr., Harley Lyman Clarke, Stephen William Cole, Newton Martin Curtis, William Darius Jamieson, Herbert Putnam, Don Carlos Seitz, William Nathan Harrell Smith, Waddy Thompson, and Platt Dickinson Walker.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railway Company.

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Thompson, Waddy

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Beatty family.

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Seitz, Don Carlos, 1862-1935

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American journalist, historian and biographer; business manager of Joseph Pulitzer's New York World. From the description of Letters of Don Carlos Seitz, 1918 and 1928. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 34689876 Seitz was a journalist and editor with the Brooklyn "Eagle" from 1887-1891, the New York "Recorder" from 1892-1893, and the Brooklyn "World" from 1893-1923. He was also the author of several biographies and was married to Mildred E. Blake in 1890. ...

Democratic Party (N.C.)

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During the 1960 election, the North Carolina Democratic Party was led by Bert L. Bennett, state executive committee chairman, and operated out of headquarters in Raleigh, N.C. Democratic candidates for whom the state party campaigned in 1960 included John F. Kennedy for President of the United States and Terry Sandford for Governor of North Carolina. From the guide to the Democratic Party Campaign Headquarters Records, ., 1960, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. S...

Cronly family.

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Walker, Platt Dickinson, 1849-1923

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Cole, Stephen William.

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Curtis, Newton Martin, 1835-1910

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Curtis was born in De Peyster, New York. Upon graduating from the Gouverneur Wesleyan Seminary, Curtis became a teacher, lawyer, and postmaster of De Peyster. In the year prior to the Civil War, he was working as a farmer. Curtis stood an impressive 6' 7" tall and weighed 225 pounds. His enormous size for the time period prompted even Abraham Lincoln to quip, "Mr. Curtis, how do you know when your feet are cold?" His stature became an issue of concern to his family when the Civil War began as...

Jamieson, William Darius.

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McLaurin family.

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Bickett, Thomas Walter, 1869-1921

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Clarke, Harley Lyman.

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Smith, William N. H. (William Nathan Harrell), 1812-1889

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Lawyer, politician, member of the Confederate Congress, and chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court. From the description of Papers, 1838-1886. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20315171 ...

Cronly, Margaret McLaurin, d. 1891.

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Murphy family.

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