James Buchanan Duke papers, 1777-1990 (bulk 1890s-1930s).

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James Buchanan Duke papers, 1777-1990 (bulk 1890s-1930s).

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Correspondence; business, legal, and financial papers; estate and inheritance records; printed materials; miscellaneous materials; architectural drawings and blueprints; and pictures chiefly relating to the businesses, enterprises and philanthropy of James Buchanan Duke in North Carolina, South Carolina, New York, and New Jersey. About one-half of the collection documents the administration of his estate. Subject areas represented include: American Tobacco Company; business; finance; tobacco industry, marketing and taxation; hydroelectric power; textile mills; charitable works; architecture; interior decoration; genealogy of branches of the Duke family; inheritance and succession; and legal procedure for wills, inheritance and business. Correspondents include George G. Allen, Lida Duke Angier, Charles Caldwell, Clarence E. Case, Benjamin N. Duke, Nanaline H. Duke, Washington Duke, William P. Few, William R. Perkins, and Alexander H. Sands. Other individuals represented in the collection include Artelia Roney Duke, Benjamin Newton Duke, Doris Duke, Washington Duke, and Horace Trumbauer.

24, 000 items (33 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6965508

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Caldwell, Charles, 1943-2003

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Sands, Alexander H. (Alexander Hamilton), 1828-1887

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Few, W. P. (William Preston), 1867-1940

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William Preston Few was an educator, President of Trinity College from 1910-1924, and President of Duke University from 1924-1940. From the description of William Preston Few records and papers, 1814-1971 (bulk 1911-1940). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 55635814 Born in Greenville, S.C. on December 29, 1867, the son of Benjamin Franklin and Rachel Kendrick Few, William Preston Few attended Wofford College, Spartanburg S.C. (A.B., 1889), and Harva...

Trumbauer, Horace, 1869-1938

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Horace Trumbauer Born in the Frankford section of Philadelphia in 1868, Horace Trumbauer left school at the age of fourteen and entered the architectural firm of G. W. and W. D. Hewitt as an "errand boy". He was soon promoted to draftsman. Trumbauer's advancement and acquisition of knowledge enabled him to eventually open his own office in 1890. Trumbauer's first major commission was a mansion in Glenside, Pennsylvania, for sugar baron William Welsh Harrison....

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. ...

Duke family.

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Perkins, William Robertson, 1875-1945

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Lawyer, of New York, N.Y. From the description of Papers, 1903-1945. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20019508 ...

Allen, George Garland, 1874-1960

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Duke, Washington, 1820-1905

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Tobacco manufacturer and philanthropist, of Durham, N.C. From the description of Washington Duke papers, 1764-1987. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19405939 From the description of Papers, 1764-1987, bulk 1873-1905. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122569741 1820, Dec. 20 Born eighth of ten children of Taylor and Dicey (Jones) Duke; Little River, Orange Co., N.C. ...

Duke, Doris, 1912-1993

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Born on November 22, 1912, Doris Duke was the only child of James Buchanan (J.B.) Duke, a founder of the American Tobacco Company and Duke Energy Company and a benefactor of Duke University, and Nanaline Holt Duke. Inheriting a bulk of her father's estate in 1925, which included Duke Farms in New Jersey, Rough Point in Newport, R.I., and a mansion in New York City, Doris was soon dubbed by the press as "the richest girl in the world." Although Doris did her best to live a private life, she carri...

American Tobacco Company

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Duke, Nanaline H.

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Case, Clarence E.

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Duke, Artelia Roney, 1829-1858.

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Angier, Lida Duke.

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Duke, James Buchanan, 1856-1925

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Tobacco manufacturer, industrialist, and philanthropist, of Durham, N.C., and New York City. From the description of Papers, 1764-1998 ; (bulk 1917-1928). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122561097 From the description of James Buchanan Duke papers, 1777-1990 (bulk 1890s-1930s). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536504 1856, Dec. 23 Born, Orange County, N.C. ...