Loula Hendon Donnell papers, 1838-1960.

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Loula Hendon Donnell papers, 1838-1960.

Letters, 1838-1841, from Robert W. Donnell in Missouri to his cousin Jane Donnell in Guilford County, N.C., discussing Mormons, Indians, and the Whig "Log Cabin" campaign of 1840; letters, 1858-1861, from W.T. Hendon of Newbern, Ala., to family members about domestic matters and war fever; diary (typed transcription, 4 p.) of Annie Olympia Donnell of Statesville and Salisbury, N.C., April to June 1865, describing Stoneman's raid; correspondence, 1897-1910, between Loula Hendon Donnell in Chapel Hill, N.C., and Cornelia Phillips Spencer and Julia S. Love in Cambridge, Mass., discussing family matters and the "old days" in Chapel Hill; letters by Lucy P. Russell of Rockingham, N.C., 1942 and 1960, about the "old days" in Chapel Hill; and a few other items.

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Hendon, W. T., fl. 1858-1861.

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Donnell, Loula Hendon, b. 1860.

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Loula Hendon Donnell was the daughter of Margaret Johnston Hendon and John Albert Hendon. She spent most of her life in Chapel Hill, N.C., where she married George Emsley Donnell in 1898. From the description of Loula Hendon Donnell papers, 1838-1960. WorldCat record id: 25696739 These letters span over a hundred years and concern three generations of people related to the Donnell family of Guilford and Orange Counties, North Carolina, including the Hendon famil...

Whig Party (U.S.)

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Donnell, Annie Olympia, fl. 1865.

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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 ...

Harrison, William Henry, 1773-1841

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Epithet: of Add MS 34580 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x00030c American Indian fighter and president of the United States. From the guide to the William Henry Harrison letter, 1795, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) U.S president, Mar.-Apr. 1841; territorial governor of Indiana, 1801-1813; Ohio congressman, 1816-1819, state senator, 1819-1821, senator 1825-1828. From ...

Donnell, Robert W., fl. 1838-1841.

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Spencer, Cornelia Phillips, 1825-1908

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Cornelia Phillips Spencer, writer and community leader of Chapel Hill, N.C., was the daughter of University of North Carolina mathematics professor James Phillips (1792-1867) and Judith Vermeule Phillips (1796-1881), wife of lawyer James Monroe Spencer (1827-1861), and mother of Julia Spencer Love (b. 1859), who married Harvard University mathematician James Lee Love (1860-1950). From the description of Cornelia Phillips Spencer papers, 1833-1975 (bulk 1839-1942). WorldCat record id:...

Love, Julia Spencer, b. 1859.

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Donnell, Jane, fl. 1838-1841.

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