McBee family papers, 1754-1937.

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McBee family papers, 1754-1937.

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Family correspondence and business papers including Lincoln County, N.C., deeds; contracts, bills, accounts, promissory notes, and receipts; estate settlements, bankruptcy proceedings, and guardianship papers; records of two Lincoln County clerks of court; and minutes of the Lincoln County Agricultural Society. Family letters written at Greenville, S.C., 1849-1869, give information about the McBees' varied enterprises, building construction, and property there, and activities of members of the family. Other correspondence refers to efforts to establish a college at Lincolnton, college students at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and East Tennessee College in Knoxville, plank road plans, slaves, the Civil War, and postwar conditions in Greenville. Papers, 1872-1900, relate chiefly to business, especially railroads and the development of industrial sites in Greenville, including Camperdown Mills. Twentieth century correspondence, largely personal, includes letters from Silas McBee (1853-1924) and other McBees, North Carolina Episcopal Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire (1850-1932), and one from Sumner McBee, giving a first-hand account of the chase of Pancho Villa by United States cavalry. Also included are diaries, 1857-1860, 1878, of Vardry Alexander McBee, with brief entries concerning plantation and slave work, news of family and friends, court and railroad activities, and weather, and account books, 1852-1872, and papers relating to his position as the treasurer of the Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railroad.

ca. 1950 items (3.0 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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University of Tennessee, Knoxville

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McBee, Vardry Alexander, 1818-1904.

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McBee, Vardry, 1860?-1938.

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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...

McBee, Vardry, 1775-1864

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Southern businessman. From the description of Letters, 1818-1857. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 39390405 Planter and businessman of Greenville, S.C.; developer of textile industry during antebellum era, including Camperdown Mills on the Reedy River; born in Spartanburg County in 1775, McBee was called 'The Father of Greenville.' Vardry founded many business and civic organizations; he contributed land for various churches and academi...

McBee family.

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The McBee family of Lincoln County, N.C., and Greenville, S.C., included Vardry McBee (1775-1864), planter, railroad official and promoter, and mill owner of Lincolnton and Greenville; his son, Vardry Alexander McBee (1818-1904), lawyer, planter, and railroad official and promoter, of Lincolnton; and his grandson, Vardry McBee (1860?-1938), Episcopal clergyman and musician in Wilkes County, N.C. From the description of McBee family papers, 1754-1937. WorldCat record id: 25031576 ...

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...

Wilmington, Charlotte, and Rutherford Railway Company.

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Villa, Pancho, 1878-1923

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Revolutionary leader in Mexico. From the description of Pancho Villa letter, 1921. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122536890 From the guide to the Pancho Villa letter, 1921, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

McBee, Silas, 1853-1924

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Native of North Carolina, active Episcopal layman, author, editor of "The Churchman" and founder of "The Constructive Quarterly." From the description of Silas McBee papers, 1872-1923 [manuscript]. WorldCat record id: 24923931 Silas McBee (1853-1924) was a native of North Carolina, active Episcopal layman, author, editor of The Churchman and founder of The Constructive Quarterly, and vice president of the Brotherhood of St. Andrew. McBee was married to Estelle Sutton of Jack...