O.J. Coffin papers, 1879-1991.

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O.J. Coffin papers, 1879-1991.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/26320011

The collection includes correspondence, writings, and other items of Oscar Jackson Coffin and family members. The original deposit includes correspondence with friends, colleagues, and former students concerning jobs and newspaper affairs, 1926-1956. Among the correspondents are John Harden, John D. Langston, Holt McPherson, and Roy Parker. Few items pertain to the University of North Carolina directly. Also included are clippings about Randolph County and Asheboro, N.C., especially of Coffin's column, "Shucks and Nubbins," which appeared in the "Greensboro Daily News," and, after 1956, personal letters of Coffin's widow, Gertrude Wilson Coffin. The addition of 1995 includes letters, writings, photographs, and other items chiefly relating to Coffin's journalism career. Of note are letters from former students, including a few women journalists, who reported on their career progress, and letters from and photographs of Robert Ruark. Other papers include verses, articles, lectures, and newspaper clippings about and by Coffin. There is a small amount of school materials and writings of Gertrude Wilson Coffin. The addition of 2003 includes letters, writings, photographs and other items relating to Coffin's journalism career, especially while he was editor of the "Raleigh Times." Also included are family letters, school materials, church materials, financial materials, and photographs relating to Gertrude; her father, J. E. Wilson (Joseph Edward Wilson), a physician, and her mother, Cordelia Mann Wilson, a school teacher, both of Haywood County, N.C.; her sister, Inez Wilson Dixon; and other members of the Mann and Wilson families.

About 5,700 items (10.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7160763

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Langston, John D. (John Dallas), 1881-1963

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U.S. Army colonel from North Carolina. From the description of Papers, 1842-1963. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 41435280 ...

Harden, John.

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Coffin family.

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Wilson family.

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McPherson, Holt, 1906-

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Holt McPherson, editor of the High Point Enterprise, was born in High Point, N.C., in 1906. In 1928, McPherson graduated from the University of North Carolina with a BA in journalism. When he became editor of the "High Point Enterprise" in 1930 at age 24, McPherson was the youngest editor of a daily newspaper in North Carolina. He served as editor 1930-1937 and 1952-1972. He also served as an editor in the Fort Lauderdale bureau of the "Miami Herald," 1937-1941, and editor of the "Shelby Daily S...

Ruark, Robert Chester, 1915-1965

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Journalist and novelist. From the description of Papers 1962. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 36437709 Born in Wilmington, N.C.; received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina, 1935, and became a journalist, author, world traveler, sportsman, and syndicated columnist, eventually residing in London, England, and Palamos, Spain. From the description of Robert Chester Ruark papers, 1942-1965 (bulk 1942-1945). WorldCat record id: 26320033 ...

Coffin, O. J. (Oscar Jackson), 1887-1956

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Oscar Jackson Coffin was a journalist, professor of journalism, 1926-1956, and the first dean of the School of Journalism at the University of North Carolina, 1950-1953. From the description of O.J. Coffin papers, 1879-1991. WorldCat record id: 26320011 From the guide to the O.J. Coffin Papers, 1879-1991, (Southern Historical Collection) ...

University of North Carolina (1793-1962). School of Journalism

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Coffin, Gertrude Wilson.

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Parker, Roy, Jr., 1930-2013

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Joseph Roy Parker, Jr., was born in Ahoskie, N.C., the son of Joseph Roy Parker, Sr., journalist and professor of journalism at the University of North Carolina. In 1953, Parker began his career in journalism as editor of three family-owned weekly newspapers serving Hertford, Bertie, and Northampton counties, N.C. In 1957, after graduation from the University of North Carolina (A.B. Journalism, 1955), he became a political reporter for the News and Observer of Raleigh. From 1963 to 1971, Parker ...

Mann family.

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