Theodore Bryant Kinsbury papers, 1840-1915.

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Theodore Bryant Kinsbury papers, 1840-1915.

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Business and personal letters, editorials and other writings, and other materials of Theodore Bryant Kingsbury. Corresopndence, 1840-1849, is to him while a student in Oxford, N.C.; at Lovejoy's Military Academy in Raleigh, N.C.; and at the University of North Carolina from friends in Oxford and students at several schools and colleges. Later letters, beginning in 1858, are from educational, literary, and political leaders in North Carolina and elsewhere, including Josephus Daniels, Zebulon Baird Vance, Charles B. Aycock, Walter Hines Page, John Spencer Bassett, Kemp P. Battle, Henry E. Shepherd, John O. Guion, Calvin H. Wiley, Seaton Gales, V. C. Barringer, and members of the Kittrell and Kingsbury families. Some letters relate to University of North Carolina history. Also included are newspaper clippings and a letter book entitled "Some old letters of my boyhood," dating 1840-1849. There are also undated drafts and fragments of Kingsbury's writings.

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919

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Wiley, C. H. (Calvin Henderson), 1819-1887

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Bassett, John Spencer, 1867-1928

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Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918

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Kingsbury, Theodore Bryant, 1828-1913

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Theodore Bryant Kingsbury (1828-1913) was a Methodist minister and journalist of Oxford and Wilmington, N.C. He attended the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, 1848-1849. Bryant was editor of The Leisure Hour: A Literary and Family Journal before becoming a Methodist minister in 1859 and moving to Wilmington. About 1866, he left the Methodist Church to become a Baptist because of his changed views on baptism. In 1869, he left the ministry entirely and became associate editor of the Ral...

Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Guion, John A. (John Amos), 1816-1894.

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Gales, Seaton, 1828-1878

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Shepherd, Henry E. (Henry Elliot), 1844-1929

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Aycock, Charles B. (Charles Brantley), 1859-1912

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Barringer, Victor C. (Victor Clay), 1827-1896

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