Papers, 1844-1955.

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Papers, 1844-1955.

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Correspondence, business records, and other papers, pertaining chiefly to family matters, business affairs, opposition to the Civil War, politics in North Carolina, fertilizer manufacturing and marketing, textile industry, Zebulon Baird Vance, and patronage during the early years of Woodrow Wilson's presidency. Includes letters to Jonathan Worth (1802-1869), lawyer and governor of North Carolina, to his son, David Gaston Worth (1831-1897), commission merchant and manufacturer, when he attended the University of North Carolina and when he was superintendent of the salt works at Wilmington, N.C., during the Civil War; correspondence of David with his wife, Julia Anna (Stickney) Worth, and his son, Charles William Worth, when attended Bingham School and the University of North Carolina; and letters of Barzillai Gardner Worth. Other correspondents include Edwin Anderson Alderman, Robert Bingham, Josephus Daniels, Hannibal Lafayette Godwin, John Wilkins Norwood, Lee Slater Overman, James Hinton Pou, Cornelia (Phillips) Spencer, and George Tayloe Winston.

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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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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Confederate general; governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator. From the description of Autograph letter signed : [Washington], to William F. Vilas, 1888 May 1. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270574072 Confederate Army officer, governor of North Carolina, and U.S. senator from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1857-1893. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20460648 Zebulon Baird Vance, a native of Buncombe County, N.C., was go...

Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948

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Josephus Daniels, son of Josephus and Mary (Cleves) Daniels, was born in Washington, North Carolina, May 18, 1862. He attended the Wilson Collegiate Institute. On May 2, 1888, he married Addie W. Bagley. At the age of eighteen, he was editor of the "Wilson Advance"; admitted to the bar in 1885; state printer for North Carolina, 1887-1893; chief clerk, Department of the Interior, 1893-1895; editor of the "Raleigh State Chronicle", 1885; editor of the "Raleigh State News and Observer", 1894-1919; ...

Worth, Jonathan, 1802-1869

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Governor of North Carolina and lawyer. From the description of Pardon of Jonathan Worth, 1865 August 11. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71067019 Jonathan Worth, 1802-1869, was the son of David Worth of Guilford County, N.C. He studied law under Archibald D. Murphy, married Martitia Daniel, and started practicing law at Asheboro, N.C., in 1825. Worth was a member of the North Carolina state legislature in 1830, 1831, 1840, 1858, and 1860-1863, and was...

Worth, David Gaston, 1831-1897

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Norwood, John Wilkins, 1865-1945

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Alderman, Edwin Anderson, 1861-1931

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Educator and orator. From the description of Letter to a former student [manuscript], 1920 June 4. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647976354 From the description of Edwin Anderson Alderman papers [manuscript], 1881-1950. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647925708 University of Virginia president. From the description of Sketch of Edwin Anderson Alderman [manuscript], ca. 1925. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 64781...

Godwin, Hannibal L. Hannibal Lafayette), 1873-1929.

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Worth, Charles William, 1897-1973

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Overman, Lee S. (Lee Slater), 1854-1930

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Lee Slater Overman, lawyer, legislator, and U.S. senator, was born in Salisbury, N.C., where he opened a law office and served as president of the Salisbury Savings Bank. In 1878, he married Mary Paxton Merrimon, and they had three daughtrs. In 1882, he was elected to the state House of Representatives and was reelected four times, serving as speaker of the House for the 1893 session. In 1914, Overman became the first U.S. senator from North Carolina to be elected by popular vote, h...

Bingham School (Orange County, N.C.)

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Worth family.

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Worth, Julia Anna Stickney.

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Worth, Barzillai Gardner.

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Bingham, Robert E.

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Pou, James H. (James Hinton), 1861-1935

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North Carolina lawyer. From the description of Papers, 1898-1923. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 32520391 ...

Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908

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Cornelia Phillips Spencer, writer and community leader of Chapel Hill, N.C., was the daughter of University of North Carolina mathematics professor James Phillips (1792-1867) and Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881), wife of lawyer James Monroe Spencer (1827-1861), and mother of Julia Spencer Love (b. 1859), who married Harvard University mathematician James Lee Love (1860-1950). From the description of Cornelia Phillips Spencer papers, 1833-1975 (bulk 1839-1942). WorldCat record id:...

Winston, George Tayloe, 1852-1932

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George Tayloe Winston taught Latin and German, 1875-1891, at the University of North Carolina; was president, 1891-1896, of the University of North Carolina; president, 1896-1899, of the University of Texas; and president, 1899-1908, of the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (now North Carolina State University). From the description of George Tayloe Winston papers, 1868-1940s [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 23444076 George Tayloe Winston ...