Charles Phillips papers, 1807-1968 [manuscript].

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Charles Phillips papers, 1807-1968 [manuscript].

https://finding-aids.lib.unc.edu/02462/

The collection includes family and personal correspondence among members of the Phillips family. long associated with Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina, including mainly letters from University professor Charles Phillips; his wife, Laura (Battle) Phillips; their daughter, Lucy (Phillips) Russell (1862-1962), writer, of Rockingham, N.C.; and Lucy's son, Charles Phillips Russell (b. 1884), journalist of New York and London, author, and University professor from 1931. Also included are personal and social letters from other relatives and friends, mostly female; miscellaneous short writings, including Laura's recollections of the school run by Lucien and Caroline (Fraser) Murat at Bordentown, N.J.; and letters, 1841-1861, from the Murats.

About 900 items (3.5 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7139232

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Phillips family.

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Russell, Phillips, 1884-1974

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Charles Phillips Russell was a journalist, biographer, and member of the faculty of the English Department, 1931-1937, and the School of Journalism, 1937-1954, at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. From the description of Charles Phillips Russell papers, 1861-1974 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 25300732 5 August 1884 Born, Rockingham County, N.C., oldest child of Moses Harris and Lucy (Ph...

Murat, Caroline Fraser.

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Russell, Lucy Phillips, 1862-1962.

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Lucy Phillips Russell was the daughter of Davidson College professor Charles Phillips. she moved to Davidson with her family in 1868. She became a school teacher in Rockingham, N.C. and married M.H. Russell in 1883. From the description of Reminiscences, undated. (American Museum of Natural History). WorldCat record id: 722301813 ...

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...

Russell family.

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Phillips, Laura Battle, 1824-1919

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Murat, Lucien, 1803-1878

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Battle family.

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Phillips, Charles, 1822-1889

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Charles Phillips (1822-1889) was the son of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips of Chapel Hill, N.C. He was a graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1841; a tutor, 1844-1854; professor of mathematics, 1854-1868 and 1875-1879; and professor emeritus, 1879-1889. He taught at Davidson College, 1868-1874. Cornelia Phillips (1825-1908) daughter of James and Julia Vermeule Phillips, married James Munroe Spencer in 1855 and went with him to Alabama. At his death in 1861, s...