Harper-Beall family papers, 1826-1959 bulk 1840-1890.

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Harper-Beall family papers, 1826-1959 bulk 1840-1890.

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The Harper-Beall Family Papers consist of nineteenth century correspondence, medical advertisements, and financial documents from the Beall and Harper families of Lenoir, North Carolina and Davidson County, North Carolina. James Harper of Lenoir, North Carolina and his daughter Mary "Mollie" Beall and son-in-law Robert Beall generated the majority of this collection and document the life of a North Carolina Foothill upper class family involved in business, medicine, and politics.

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Appalachian State University, ASU

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SNAC Resource ID: 7098946

Appalachian State University, ASU

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Appalachian State University. W.L. Eury Appalachian Collection. Archives.

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Beal family.

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Harper family.

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The Beall family of Davidson County lived in Beallmont near Linwood, North Carolina. The Beallmont property was originally owned by Robert Moore, who immigrated to Pennsylvania and married Martha Cunningham of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Dr. Burgess Lamar Beall married Moore's granddaughter Eleanor "Ellen" Moore, and they built Beallmont near the Moore home. Much more biographical and historical information available in electronic finding aid. From the description of Harper-Beall...