Solomon Lea family papers, 1856-1936.

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Solomon Lea family papers, 1856-1936.

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Materials include letters between Solomon Lea and his wife Sophia Ainger Lea and their children. In the 1900s, there are letters written to the Lea children from other relatives. Also included is an account book containing entries for tuition, board, schoolbooks, and supplies for students at Somerville Female Institute, 1856-1859, probably kept by principal Solomon Lea.

About 30 items.

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7447299

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Lea family.

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Lea, Solomon, 1807-1897

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Solomon Lea (1807-1897) was the son of William and Sarah McNeil Lea. He graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1833. In 1837, Lea married Sophia Ainger, an English woman. In 1846, he became the first president of Greensboro Female College, the first regularly chartered female college in North Carolina and the second one "south of the Potomac." He returned to Leasburg, N.C, in 1847 and, in 1848, founded the Somerville Female Institute, a school for young women; the school closed in 18...

Somerville Female Institute (Leasburg, N.C.)

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