William H. McLaurin papers, 1789-1913 (bulk 1866-1880).

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William H. McLaurin papers, 1789-1913 (bulk 1866-1880).

Bills, receipts, accounts, and slight family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1880, of McLaurin. Also included are letters McLaurin wrote when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in the late 1850s; a volume containing stud records and remedies for horse and cow diseases, 1887-1889; and scattered antebellum accounts for purchases, slave records, estate settlement papers, and letters of members of the McLaurin family, planters in Richmond County, N.C., and other locations.

About 250 items.

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McLaurin, William H., 1840-1913.

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William H. McLaurin (1840-1913) was a Scotland County, N.C., planter and a student, 1859-1861, at the University of North Carolina. From the description of William H. McLaurin papers, 1789-1913 (bulk 1866-1880). WorldCat record id: 24111773 William H. McLaurin (1840-1913) was a Scotland County, N.C., planter and a student, 1859-1861, at the University of North Carolina. McLaurin was one of the Confederate veterans awarded his degree from UNC in 1911. From the gui...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

McLaurin family.

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