Douglass family papers, 1830-1875.

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Douglass family papers, 1830-1875.

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Consisting of correspondence exchanged among family members in the Carolinas, Virginia, and elsewhere. Letter, 29 Dec. 1830, [Crane Creek, Richland County, S.C.] from James Douglass to "Dr. George Douglass / [delivered] By Tom," re construction of a house, with instructions and diagram for structure 20 by 16 feet, and offering labor of Tom, an African American slave, who could saw and frame the structure with help of another hand in four weeks. Letter, 26 Oct. 1858, Univ[ersity] of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C., G. Lucius Smith, to "Dear Jim" [James T. Douglass, The Oakes plantation, Goshen Hill, Union County, S.C.] advising that James study to pass his junior class entrance exam since he had withdrawn from South Carolina College. Letter, 2 Sept. 1861, Richmond, Va., H.F. Jones, to Dr. George Douglass, seeking field address of Jim [James T. Douglass?] and reporting that Jones was a member of a cavalry company attached to "Capt. Dabney Cobb's Legion"; and letter, 23 Apr. 1875, from Mrs. Frances Jeter Hardy Douglass to her son, Dr. George Douglass, Jr., Peaks Station [Newberry County?], S.C., re family news, expressing approval at Douglass' accomodations in a boarding house, noting noise around her home, but she continues to work in her garden, neighbors suffering with measles, planting of cotton, etc.

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Douglass, George

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A George Douglass of Philadelphia is listed as a matriculant in the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania for the years 1814 and 1822-1824. He is not listed as a graduate in the alumni catalogue. According to his signature in the manuscript, he lived for a time in Berks County, Pa. No other information on Douglass could be found. From the description of Notes on Chapman, with classification of Cullen, [between 1814 and 1824] / George Douglass. (College of Physicians of...

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Jones, F. T.

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Douglass, Frances Jeter Hardy

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The University of North Carolina was chartered by the state's General Assembly in 1789. Its first student was admitted in 1795. The governing body of the University, from its founding until 1932, was a forty-member Board of Trustees elected by the General Assembly. The Board met twice a year; at other times the business of the University was carried on by the Board's secretary-treasurer and by the presiding professor (called president beginning in 1804). Other faculty members later assumed the r...

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