Semans family papers, 1809-2008 (bulk 1920-1991)

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Semans family papers, 1809-2008 (bulk 1920-1991)

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Correspondence, financial papers, legal papers, writings and speeches, scrapbooks, pictures, and miscellaneous material reflecting the philanthropic, cultural and social activities of the Semans family. A major focus is the interrelationship of the Semans family with the Biddle, Duke, and Trent families. Additionally, the papers document the roles of Mary Duke Biddle, James H. Semans and Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans have taken in the development of arts and educational programs throughout North Carolina. To a lesser degree, the papers reflect on childcare during the early 20th century. Individuals represented include Anthony Joseph Drexel Biddle, Nicholas Benjamin Duke Biddle, Angier Biddle Duke, Angier Buchanan Duke, Benjamin Newton Duke, Sarah Pearson Angier Duke, Elizabeth Lucina Gotham, and Josiah Charles Trent as well as other members of the Biddle, Duke, Trent and Semans families. Political and educational leaders are represented. Also includes correspondence, notes, writings, clippings, pamphlets, and brochures relating to the activities of Mary Duke (Biddle) Trent Semans, including her service as city councilwoman and mayor pro tem of Durham; her membership on various civic committees; her service as first president and member of the Board of Directors of the United Fund of Durham; her membership on the Board of Trustees of Duke University, and on the Board of the Duke Endowment; her service on the National Advisory Committee on Vocational Rehabilitation; her interest in art and music; her interest in the Woman's College of Duke University, of which she was an alumna; and other matters relating to civic needs, race relations, and the arts. The papers of Dr. James Hustead Semans consist of correspondence, papers, reports, financial accounts, clippings, printed material, and pictures relating to his chairmanship of the Board of Trustees of the North Carolina School of the Arts, and their summer sessions in Siena at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana. Subject areas represented in the correspondence and subject files include arts, charities, childcare, Duke Endowment, Duke University, Durham politics and social life, education, genealogy, North Carolina School of the Arts, philanthropy, universities and colleges, and the Methodist Church.

40,000 items (64.5 lin. ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6997714

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

Related Entities

There are 19 Entities related to this resource.

Gotham, Elizabeth Lucina, 1887-1968.

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Nurse and companion to the Biddle, Trent, and Semans families of N.C. and N.Y. From the description of Family papers, 1902-1968 (bulk 1920-1929). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 25913029 ...

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, Sarah Pearson Angier, 1902-1936.

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Duke University. Medical Center

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Residential psychiatric hospital located in Asheville, N.C. and partly operated by Duke University from 1944 through 1980. From the description of Highland Hospital papers, 1934-1980. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 60812123 Duke Health Sector Conferences (formerly known as The Private Sector Conferences) are a series of healthcare-related conferences hosted by Duke University Medical Center and Health System. From the description of Duke Health Sector Con...

Biddle, Anthony Joseph Drexel, 1896-1961

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Joseph Biddle was a Burlington County, New Jersey, assemblyman. ...

Biddle, Benjamin Duke, 1921-

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North Carolina School of the Arts. Board of Trustees.

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Biddle, Mary Duke, 1887-1960

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Philanthropist and supporter of the arts. Born Mary Lillian Duke. From the description of Family papers, 1894-1960 (bulk 1920-1939). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 25912931 ...

Semans, James H.

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Student, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine class of 1936. Semans was a urologist in Atlanta, Ga., from 1947-1953. From the description of Family papers, 1878-1953 (bulk 1930-1953). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 25912997 ...

Duke, Angier Biddle, 1915-1995

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Chief of Protocol and ambassador to Spain and Denmark under the Kennedy and Johnson administrations; resident of New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. From the description of Angier Biddle Duke Papers, 1915-1995 and n.d. (bulk 1940-1995). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 45279792 1915 Born in New York City, Nov. 30. Son of Angier Buchanan and Cordelia (Biddle) Duke ...

Trent family.

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Semans, Mary Duke Biddle Trent

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Interviewee married James H. Semans; interviewee b.1920. From the description of Reminiscences of Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans : oral history, 1964. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122597351 Member of the Duke family and a female philanthropic leader in health care at Duke and in the Durham community. From the description of Oral history interview with Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, 2007. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: ...

Trent, Josiah C. (Josiah Charles), 1914-1948

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U. S. thoracic surgeon. Intern in surgery at Duke Hospital from 1939 to 1940; assistant resident in general surgery at Duke from 1940 until 1944; resident in general surgery at Duke from 1944 to 1945; associate professor of surgery and chief of the Division of Thoracic Surgery at Duke from 1947 until his death in 1948. Married Mary Duke Biddle in 1938. From the description of Josiah C. Trent papers, 1930-1957. (Duke University). WorldCat record id: 731030577 U. S. thoracic ...

Duke University. Board of Trustees

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The Duke University Board of Trustees has existed since 1924, and grew out of the Trinity College Board of Trustees that existed from 1859 to 1924. The Board is responsible for making major steering decisions in the administration of the school. From the description of Board of Trustees records, 1860-2004. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 58974462 The Board of Trustees of Duke University was originally formed when the Union Institute Society's 1839...

United Fund of Durham (Durham, N.C.)

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Duke Endowment

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Philanthropic trust established by James Buchanan Duke in 1924. Educational beneficiaries are Duke University, Davidson College, Furman University, and John C. Smith University. Support is given to hospitals and childcare institutions throughout North Carolina and South Carolina as well as to Methodist Episcopal Church, South congregations in rural North Carolina. From the description of The Duke Endowment archives : records, 1902 - [ongoing] (bulk [1920s]-[1990s]) [manuscript]. (Duk...

Duke, Angier Buchanan, 1884-1923.

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Semans family.

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Bedell family.

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