Archibald Henderson papers relating to family history, 1891-1964 [manuscript].

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Archibald Henderson papers relating to family history, 1891-1964 [manuscript].

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Papers of Henderson, a University of North Carolina professor of mathematics and author, and materials collected by him, relating to his family history and his biographical and historical writing about individual ancestors and numerous related North Carolina historical topics. Materials include typescripts, drafts of Henderson's writings, copies of relevant 18th- and 19th-century manuscripts, notes, compilations, clippings, photographs, and other data, as well as pertinent correspondence. Also included are similar papers of his father, John Steele Henderson of Rowan County, N.C., and of Archibald's two sisters, concerning the same subjects. Included are a series on the family and descendants of Richard Henderson (1734-1785) of North Carolina and Kentucky; a series concerning Brownrigg, Bailey, Cain, and allied families of North Carolina and Mississippi; and a John Steele (1764-1815) and Ferrand family series.

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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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Henderson family

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Ferrand family

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Brownrigg family

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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...

Cain family

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Bailey family

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Henderson, Archibald, 1877-1963

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Archibald Henderson was an author and University of North Carolina professor of mathematics. From the guide to the Archibald Henderson Papers Relating to Family History, 1891-1964, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) Mathematician, historian, and author. From the description of Archibald Henderson : miscellaneous papers, 1920-1922. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 49242271 From the ...

Steele, John, 1764-1815

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Army officer, public official, and U.S. representative from North Carolina, 1789-1793. From the description of John Steele correspondence, 1782-1792. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70980527 John Steele of Rowan County, N.C., was a merchant; planter; banker; influential Federalist; U.S. representative, 1790-1792; state and federal Indian commissioner; U.S. comptroller of the currency, 1796-1802; major general of the militia; and member of the N.C.-S.C. boundary commission. He...

Henderson, Richard, 1735-1785

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Henderson, John S. (John Steele), 1846-1916

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John Steele Henderson, member of the North Carolina General Assembly, United States congressman, lawyer, and a founder of rural free delivery of the mail, was born 6 January 1846 in Salisbury, N.C., the son of Archibald II and Mary Ferrand Henderson, a descendant of General John Steele, comptroller of the United States Treasury. In October 1874, Henderson married Elizabeth Brownrigg Cain (1850-1929). They were the parents of Elizabeth Brownrigg Henderson, who married United States Navy Captain L...