Rufus Reid papers, 1772-1911.

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Rufus Reid papers, 1772-1911.

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Business and legal papers, family papers, account books, and other items relating to Rufus Reid; members of the Reid family; and members of related families, including the Davidson, Guy, Morrison, Smith, and Torrance (Torrence) families, chiefly of Rowan and Iredell counties, N.C. Business papers relate to the planter and merchant activities primarily of members of the Guy, Reid, and Davidson families, and include bills, tax receipts, merchandising licenses, magazine subscription receipts, cotton sales receipts, accounts, and promissory notes. Included in business correspondence are references to a runaway slave and to economic conditions in Tennessee and Mississippi. Legal materials relate primarily to Rufus Reid and include several documents granting powers of attorney. Family papers include land records relating to Iredell County land and to land in Tennessee and Mississippi, family correspondence, and other items. Family correspondence includes letters from Franklin L. Smith, a student at the University of North Carolina, to his mother, 1825 and 1827. Several letters from Rufus Reid to his daughter and stepdaughter attending school in Salem, N.C.; and several letters from J.R. Satterfield describing an extended trip to Europe, 1866-1867. There are also letters from W.I. Brawley, Frank Davidson, George F. Davidson, and Robert Hall Morrison. Volumes include a detailed account book of a merchant, 1854-1855. An account book of James F. Torrance showing work done by his slaves on the Mississippi Central Railroad, 1852-1861; and an account book of Isabella Torrance Smith Reid that lists slaves' names and clothes and blankets distributed to them, 1845-1855.

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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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Morrison 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...

Reid, Rufus, 1797-1854.

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Rufus Reid (1797-1854) of Rowan and Iredell counties, N.C., was a planter and merchant and also served in the North Carolina House of Commons in the late 1840s. From the description of Rufus Reid papers, 1772-1911. WorldCat record id: 25031586 Rufus Reid (1797-1854) was the son of Sara and Captain John Reid of Catawba Springs, Lincoln County, N.C. John Reid received a commission during the Revolution and owned much land at the Springs, renowned locally for their...

Satterfield, J. R.

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Reid, Isabella Torrance Smith, 1818-1893

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Davidson family.

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Davidson, George, fl. 1717

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Reed family.

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Guy family.

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Smith family.

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Morrison, R. H. (Robert Hall), 1798-1889

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Robert Hall Morrison was the first President of Davidson College serving from 1836 to 1840. A graduate of the University of North Carolina (1816), Morrison was licensed as a Presbyterian minister by the Concord Presbytery. He founded the North Carolina Telegram, the first religious gazette in the South while in Fayetteville in 1822. He was pastor of Sugar Creek Presbyterian Church from 1827 until accepting the presidency of Davidson College. He left Davidson due to ill health and retired to a Li...

Torrence, James F.

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Smith, Frederick Stanley

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Confederate officer, 7th Regiment, South Carolina Volunteers. From the description of Papers, 1863-1863. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 20314774 Confederate Army officer and commissary first for Kershaw's Brigade, South Carolina Volunteers (Infantry) and later for Butler's Brigade, S.C. Volunteers (Cavalry). From the description of F.L. Smith military records, 1862-1864. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 37521830 ...

Davidson, Frank, 1934-

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Brawley, W. I.

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Mississippi Central Railroad Company (1897-1967)

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The Mississippi Central Railroad Company was incorporated under the laws of Mississippi on March 10, 1852, and consolidated into the New Orleans, St. Louis & Chicago Railroad Company in 1874. The company completed a railroad from Canton, Miss., to the Tennessee line on January 31, 1860. On July 1, 1859, the company absorbed the Mississippi Central & Tennessee Railroad Company (1853-59) which extended its line to Jackson, Tenn. With the New Orleans, Jackson & ...