Hassell family papers, 1924-1964 [manuscript].

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Hassell family papers, 1924-1964 [manuscript].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/39850864

Papers of the Hassell family include letters discussing family affairs to, from, and among Eva Hassell Hackney Bonner, her daughter Eva Hackney Hargrave, and Eva Bonner's sister, Mary Clyde Hassell. Also included are letters from an American Foreign Legion Pilgrimage to Europe made by Herbert and Eva Bonner in 1937 and a diary Eva Bonner kept during a 1934 trip to Europe. Diary entries chiefly record visits to museums and other tourist attractions, but there are also a few entries about visiting Berlin and observing Nazi activities. Also included are a few picture postcards and photographs.

250 items (1.0 linear ft.).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7417372

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Hargrave, Eva Hackney, 1909-1941.

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Bonner, Eva Hassell Hackney, -1975

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Hasell family.

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Hassell family.

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Hassell family members include Eva Hassell Hackney Bonner (d. 1975), who was born in Washington, N.C., but lived in Washington, D.C. Her husband, Herbert Covington Bonner (1891-1965), was secretary to Representative Lindsay C. Warren (D., N.C.) and was elected to fill Warren's seat in the United States Congress after Warren resigned in 1940. Other family members were Eva Hackney Hargrave (1909-1941), Eva Bonner's daughter from a previous marriage, who married C. Hamilton...

Bonner, Herbert Covington, 1891-1965

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Herbert Covington Bonner, of Washington, N.C., was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1940 until his death in 1965. He was chairman of the House Merchant Marine and Fisheries Committee, 1955-1965, and chairman, 1951-1955, of the Intergovernmental Relations Subcommittee ("watchdog committee") of the Expenditures in the Executive Departments Committee, which made changes designed to eliminate waste in the handling of war surplus material and in military supply procurement....

Hassell, Mary Clyde.

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