Bennehan Cameron papers, 1866-1962.

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Bennehan Cameron papers, 1866-1962.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31693259

Correspondence, diaries, financial papers, farm account books, breeding records, family history materials, and other items relating to Bennehan Cameron's many interests and activities. Documented are his involvement in agricultural organizations, farming and dairying operations, the North Carolina National Guard, railroads, the "Good Roads" movement in North Carolina and elsewhere in the South, the North Carolina legislatures of 1915-1921, the construction of Revolutionary and Confederate monuments, horse breeding and racing, the Society of the Cincinnati, and Anglo-American amity organizations. Included is extensive correspondence reflecting the activities of the Cameron family of Hillsborough, N.C., and the family of Bennehan Cameron's wife Sallie Mayo Cameron of Richmond, Va.; genealogical materials relating to the Bland, Broadnax, Cameron, Mayo, Nash, Roane, and Ruffin families; and broadsides opposing women's suffrage.

ca. 39300 items (54.0 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7323293

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Society of the Cincinnati

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The Society of the Cincinnati was formed on 10-13 May 1783 by American Revolutionary Army officers who met at Mount Gulian, the American Army's cantonment on the east bank of the Hudson River. After resigning his post as General, George Washington (1732-1799) accepted an invitation to become the society's first president. Major General Henry Knox (1750-1806) was the secretary and for years the guiding spirit of the organization. Membership extended to those officers of the Continental Army and N...

Broadnax family.

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North Carolina. Militia

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Bland family.

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Cameron, Bennehan, 1854-1925

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Bennehan Cameron, planter, railroad executive, industrialist, and promoter of good roads, of Fairntosh and Stagville plantations, Durham County, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C. From the description of Bennehan Cameron papers, 1866-1962. WorldCat record id: 31693259 Bennehan Cameron was born 9 September 1854, at Fairntosh Plantation, Orange (now Durham) County, N.C., the ninth child and second son of Paul Carrington (1808-1891) and Anne Ruffin (1814-1897) Cameron. He att...

Roane family.

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Mayo family.

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Cameron family.

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Ruffin family.

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Cameron, Sallie Mayo, 1865-1932.

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Nash family.

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