Lemuel Bingham Wetmore papers, 1834-1925.

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Lemuel Bingham Wetmore papers, 1834-1925.

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Chiefly papers relating to Wetmore's legal practice: court-related documents, such as motions, briefs, and appeals; documents used in evidence, such as deeds and contracts; letters; papers pertaining to Wetmore's legal strategies, such as notes and texts of instructions to juries; memo pads; and an account book listing legal services performed and fees charged. Types of cases handled include debt collection, contract disputes, divorce, slander, personal injury, a stock transfer dispute, and a missing baggage claim against a railroad. Other papers of Wetmore include law office administrative papers, petitions and political endorsements, letters concerning political attacks on Wetmore, letters from North Carolina politicians, notes and an outline written by Wetmore for an article on lynching, and a photograph of a 1904 train wreck. Also included in the collection are antebellum letters from William Robards Wetmore writing from Sumter County, Ala., to Lemuel's grandmother, primarily about family life and the Episcopal Church, a letter from Episcopal Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire discussing William Robards Wetmore, and a set of humorous Civil War poems about wine and ammunition production.

About 600 items (1.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7121369

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Wetmore, Lemuel Bingham, d. 1918.

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Lemuel Bingham Wetmore of Lincolnton, N.C., son of Episcopal rector William Robards and Mary Bingham Wetmore, practiced law in Lincoln County, N.C., from the late 1880s until his death in 1918. From the description of Lemuel Bingham Wetmore papers, 1834-1925. WorldCat record id: 23810866 Lemuel Bingham Wetmore, circa 1867-1918, of Lincolnton, N.C., the oldest son of the Reverend William Robards Wetmore and Mary Bingham Wetmore, practiced law in Lincoln County, N...

Wetmore, William Robards.

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Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932

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Joseph Blount Cheshire (1850-1932) was Episcopal bishop of North Carolina from 1893 until 1932. From the description of Joseph Blount Cheshire papers, 1758-1954. WorldCat record id: 22500696 Joseph Blount Cheshire, son of the Reverend Joseph Blount Cheshire (1814-1899) and Elizabeth Toole Parker Cheshire, was born in Tarboro, N.C., 27 March 1850. In 1869, he received a B.A. from Trinity College, in Hartford, Conn. After he graduated from college, Cheshire taught...

Whitmore family.

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