Craven-Pegram family papers, 1785-1966 (bulk 1892-1958).

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Craven-Pegram family papers, 1785-1966 (bulk 1892-1958).

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Chiefly correspondence between the children and grandchildren of Irene (Leach) and Braxton Craven, first president of Trinity College, later Duke University. First located in Trinity, N.C., Trinity College was moved to Durham, N.C., in 1892. Described are the effects upon the Trinity community after the college was relocated as well as the struggle to maintain Trinity High School. Letters of George Braxton Pegram and Annie McKinnie Pegram, children of Craven's daughter, Emma and her husband, William Howell Pegram, provide information about the institution where they worked. George, whose association with Columbia University spanned 58 years, taught in the Physics Department, became one of the country's leading physicists, and worked on the creation of the atomic bomb. Annie taught German and mathematics at Greensboro College, N.C. for most of the period between 1901 and 1948. The collection documents the roles of women and young girls; faculty life; the impact of the 1930s depression upon the Pegram family; and the family as an economic and social unit. Among the correspondents are M.H. Lockwood, Jerome Dowd, and Thomas Arthur Smoot. Contains photographs of family members and persons associated with Trinity college and genealogical information about the Leach, Craven and Pegram families.

6,565 items (11.4 linear ft.)

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7131940

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Leach family.

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Smoot, Thomas Arthur, 1871-1937.

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Pegram, George Braxton, 1876-1958

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Pegram, Annie McKinnie, d. 1966.

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Trinity College (Durham, N.C.)

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Lockwood, M. H.

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