Robert Brent Drane papers, 1694-1975 (bulk 1866-1933).

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Robert Brent Drane papers, 1694-1975 (bulk 1866-1933).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/27190196

The collection includes family, business, historical, and genealogical correspondence and other items of Robert Brent Drane. Early correspondence is of Drane's parents, Catherine Caroline Parker and Robert Brent Drane Sr., and of Robert Brent Drane with friends and family while studying theology in New York. Correspondence, 1877-1932, reflects Drane's genealogical and historical interests, including his involvement with the Roanoke Colony Memorial Association and the proposed construction of a memorial at Fort Raleigh, N.C. There is corrrepondence with his cousin, North Carolina bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire, as well as letters to Drane from his children, including some from his daughter Marian while at Saint Mary's School in Raleigh, N.C., and some, 1915-1925, from his son Frederick Blount Drane, serving as a missionary and later Archdeacon of the Yukon among the native peoples in the Yukon and Alaska. Later correspondence includes letters to Frederick Blount Drane from American soldiers serving in World War II and the Korean War and letters from prominent alumni of the University of North Carolina Class of 1912. Notable correspondence includes letters relating to the Wright brothers' flight trials: two letters, 1908, addressed to Eliza Drane from Collier's Weekly editor Arthur Ruhl describing his attempts to photograph the trials at Kill Devil Hills, N.C., and one 1929 letter mentioning Frederick Blount Drane's having taken a piece from one of the Wright gliders. The collection also includes original and transcribed copies of wills, indentures, and deeds; church records; financial records; historical research materials; genealogical notes, charts, and sketches; printed material; and clippings relating to Drane and Webb family members and to ecclesiastical history in the American colonies. Some papers relate to Josiah Collins and Josiah Collins Jr. of Edenton, N.C., and their mercantile endeavors and involvement with the North Carolina Diocese, Saint Paul's Church, and the establishment of the Edenton Academy in Edenton. There are also some records of religious services performed by Frederick Blount Drane at Monroe, N.C., 1925-1955; sermons of Robert Brent Drane and others; blueprints and architectural plans, chiefly relating to the Fort Raleigh monument; and photographs, including a set of portraits, circa 1910, of University of North Carolina athletes in uniform.

ca. 2200 items (5.0 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7241028

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Drane, Robert Brent, 1851-1939

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Robert Brent Drane was rector, 1876-1932, of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Edenton, N.C. From the description of Robert Brent Drane papers, 1694-1975 (bulk 1866-1933). WorldCat record id: 27190196 Robert Brent Drane (1851-1939) was rector, 1876-1932, of Saint Paul's Episcopal Church, Edenton, N.C. He was born in Wilmington, N.C., to Reverend Robert Brent Drane and Catherine Caroline Parker Drane. After his father's death in 1862, he was raised in the homes of h...

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Episcopal Church. Diocese of North Carolina

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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Edenton Academy (N.C.)

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Saint Mary's School (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Drane family.

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Church of England

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According to the Canons of 1604, XLIX-LII, of the Church of England, only those persons whose faith and learning are known to their bishop are licensed to preach. Such is the case because the Anglican bishop has pastoral charge of his entire diocese, and the ministers of that diocese, and the ministers of that diocese are considered to be his assistants. From the description of Church of England licensing document, 1886. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122406060 The major mis...

Webb family.

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Collins, Josiah, 1808-1863

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Drane, Frederick Blount, 1891-1982.

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Webb, Eliza Drane, 1879-1932.

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Drane, Catherine Caroline Parker, fl. 1837-1876.

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Roanoke Island Historical Association

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Chartered in 1932 for the purpose of depicting by exhibitions, pageants, reproductions, and public broadcasts the efforts Sir Walter Raleigh made between 1584 and 1587 to establish a colony in the new world at Roanoke Island. From the description of Records, 1894-1986. (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 122291961 ...

Cheshire, Joseph Blount, 1850-1932

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Collins, Josiah, 1768-1839.

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Ruhl, Arthur, 1876-1935

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American visitor to Russia. From the description of Russia revisited : typescript, 1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122500366 ...