Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.4 and 1.5) [manuscript].

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Lenoir family papers, 1763-1936, 1975 (Series 1.4 and 1.5) [manuscript].

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Political correspondence includes 1866 letters about freedmen; an 1866 letter about the superiority of the southern female to women in the North; letters, 1866-1873, of William Bingham of the Bingham School; and letters, 1870s-1880s, about the currency question, the African-Aemrican exodus northward, and Walter Waightstill Lenoir's 1883 service in the N.C. General Assembly. Business letters relate chiefly to the dealings, beginning around 1867, of Walter Waightstill Lenoir and other family members in land development, especially around Linville, N.C.; specie speculation; silver mining; and agriculture. After Walter's death, Thomas Ballard Lenoir became a prime mover in the Linville Improvment Company. Routine family correspondence accounts for the bulk of the letters, with many items relating to the lives of the women of the family. Included are letters, 1867-1869, about Mary Elizabeth Garrett Lenoir's apparent eating disorder; letters, beginning in September 1877, from Julia Adeliade Torry Oertel, wife of artist and Episcopal clergyman Johannes Adam Simon Oertel; letters of Rufus Theodore Lenoir, Jr., at the Rutherford Military Institute and other schools, and, after 1897, from him and his wife Clyde Lyndon Lenoir in Athens, Ga.; and a letter in 1937 giving a brief history of the Bingham School.

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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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Linville Improvement Company.

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Bingham School (Orange County, N.C.)

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Lenoir family.

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Series 1.4. Correspondence, 1866-1890 (about 1050 items) and Series 1.5. Correspondence, 1891-1937 (about 1050 items): Correspondence chiefly relating to Sarah Jones Lenoir, Rufus Theodore Lenoir, and his wife Sarah Lenora Gwyn Lenoir at Fort Defiance, Caldwell County, N.C.; Thomas Isaac Lenoir and his wife Mary Elizabeth Garrett Lenoir at East Fork of Pigeon, Haywood County, N.C.; Walter Waightstill Lenoir, who lived in Watauga County and was heavily involved in land development in Linville, N....

Rutherford Military Institute (Rutherfordton, N.C.)

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Oertel, Julia Adelaide Torrey, d. 1907.

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North Carolina. General Assembly

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Bingham, Wm. (William), 1835-1873

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Oertel, Johannes Adam Simon, 1823-1909

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Johannes Adam Simon Oertel, artist and Episcopal clergyman, was born in Bavaria and came to the United States in 1848. In 1851, he married Julia Adelaide Torrey (d. 1907), with whom he had four children. His works include decorations for the ceiling of the House of Representatives in the Capitol in Washington, D.C.; "Rock of Ages," which was widely circulated in reproduction; and many religious paintings and wood carvings for churches. Oertel served as rector in Lenoir and Morganton, N.C.; Glen ...