Material for Iredell and adjacent counties, N.C., 1793-1924 (bulk 1867-1901).

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Material for Iredell and adjacent counties, N.C., 1793-1924 (bulk 1867-1901).

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Papers collected by William S. Powell pertaining to Iredell and adjacent counties of North Carolina. The bulk consists of family correspondence, 1867-1901, and account books of two generations of the Goodman family. Letters are personal correspondence of Tobias Goodman (1814-1880) of Amity, Iredell County; his wife Ellen; and his sons and a nephew, including a building materials merchant at Hillsboro, Ill., a railroad employee at Birmingham, Ala., a resident of Lavon, Tex., and others. Letters from Hillsboro, Ill., discuss weather, prices, wages, opportunity that led to leaving North Carolina, the high cost of food in Illinois, and homesickness. Other personal letters discuss farming and give family news, especially about illnesses, deaths, and estates. Account books, chiefly from Iredell County, are for general merchandise and lumber sales, 1853-1856; church contributions (perhaps Presbyterian), 1855-1856; farm crops and miscellaneous labor, 1891; and a blacksmith, Goodwin and White, of Statesville, N.C., 1891-1893. Also included are miscellaneous Goodman family bills and receipts; deeds of other persons; and fourteen letters, 1922-1924, from a North Carolina black medical student, William D. Washington, at Howard University, Washington, D.C., to a friend, Janie Lee Norton, in Davidson, N.C.

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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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Howard University

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Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black research university in Washington, D.C. Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. The institution was named for General Oliver Otis Howard, a Civil War hero who was both the founder of the university and, at the time, commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau. The U.S. Congress chartered Howard on March 2, 1867 and much of its early funding came from endow...

Goodman family.

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Norton, Janie Lee.

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Powell, William S., 1919-

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William Stevens Powell, author, historian, and professor of history emeritus at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. From the description of William Stevens Powell papers, 1880s, 1930s-2006. WorldCat record id: 44442258 William Stevens Powell, author, historian, and professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, was born in Johnston County, N.C., on 28 April 1919. He grew up in Statesville, N.C. He graduated from the Univers...

Goodman, Ellen (Ellen Margot)

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Ellen Goodman (A.B., Radcliffe, 1963) is a columnist for the Boston Globe and the author of Close to Home (1979) and At Large (1981). For biographical information, see Who's Who of American Women, 1987-1988. From the description of Papers, 1981-1982 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007577 ...

Goodman, Tobias, 1814-1880.

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Washington, William Dickinson, 1833-1870

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African American owner of a single hack livery in Lexington, Va. From the description of Lexington, Va., town licences for William Washington [manuscript], 1878-1903. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 433594225 ...