Marmaduke Swaim Robins papers, 1825-1887; 1900-1903 [manuscript].

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Marmaduke Swaim Robins papers, 1825-1887; 1900-1903 [manuscript].

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Scattered papers of Robins include family letters and business papers; official correspondence and records about internal military affairs of the state during the Civil War, particularly about deserters and lawlessness; letters from friends and relatives in the army and civilians in Randolph County, N.C., during the war; papers pertaining to a railroad investigation by the legislature in 1867; and slight political correspondence. Correspondents include Thomas J. Jarvis, Davis Lowry Swain; C. H. Wiley; Thomas Ruffin, Zebulon B. Vance, and Jonathan Worth.

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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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Swain, David Lowry, 1801-1868

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Robins, Marmaduke Swaim, 1827-1905.

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Vance, Zebulon Baird, 1830-1894

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Jarvis, Thomas Jordan, 1836-1915

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

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Born in Guilford County, N.C., Wiley was a lawyer, editor, novelist, legislator, state superintendent of schools (1853-1865), Presbyterian minister, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and agent for the American Bible Society for Tennessee, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Wiley lived in Jonesboro, Tenn., 1870-1874, and, after May 1874, Winston, N.C. From the description of Papers, 1868-1886 [microform]. (Rutherford B Hayes Presidential Center). WorldCat record id: 645957...

Ruffin, Thomas, 1787-1870

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Thomas Ruffin, chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, planter, and politician, served in the North Carolina House of Commons, 1813-1816; as judge of the Superior Court, 1816-1818; as reporter of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1820-1822; and as judge of the Superior Court in 1825-1828. Ruffin became president of the State Bank of North Carolina in 1828. He was elected judge of the Supreme Court of North Carolina in 1829 and became chief justice in 1833. He served as chief justic...