Papers, 1893-1897.

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Papers, 1893-1897.

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Papers include Reid's report, 1893, as president of the Greensboro Female College; letters of Solomon Lea, first president of the college; report, 1893, of Reid to the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; and report of Dred Peacock, Reid's sucessor as president of the college, to the North Carolina Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1896; memoir of Mary Fleming Black; sketch of the Emerson Literary Society; and the alumnae address of Sallie S. Cotten, 1897, on the 50th anniversary of the college.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6993846

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Black, Mary Fleming.

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Cotten, Sallie Southall

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Sallie Swepson Sims Southall Cotten (1846-1929) of Pitt County, N.C., was a writer and campaigner for women's issues. Cotten was a leader in both the North Carolina Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Congress of Mothers, through which she worked to advance the legal and educational status of women. She also published articles and poetry, most notably The White Doe (1901), a verse history of the Lost Colony. From the guide to the Sallie Southall Cotten papers, 1857-1929, (Un...

Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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In 1845, as a result of the North-South tensions, the Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the Southern states withdrew to form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1874 at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South held in Louisville, Kentucky, a Board of Commissioners was appointed to meet with a similar board from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). The Board was empowered to begin talks the MEC board that would resolve differences between the two denomination...

Greensboro Female College (Greensboro, Ga.)

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Peacock, Dred.

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Reid, Frank L. (Frank Lewis), 1851-1894

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President of Greensboro Female College, Greensboro, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1893-1897. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20115589 ...

Lea, Solomon, 1807-1897

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Solomon Lea (1807-1897) was the son of William and Sarah McNeil Lea. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1833. In 1837, Lea married Sophia Ainger, an English woman. In 1846, he became the first president of Greensboro Female College, the first regularly chartered female college in North Carolina and the second one "south of the Potomac." He returned to Leasburg, N.C, in 1847 and, in 1848, founded the Somerville Female Institute, a school for young women; the school closed in 18...