Bruce Engstler collection, 1857-1920.

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Bruce Engstler collection, 1857-1920.

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Letters and documents collected by Engstler include business correspondence from H.W. Johns Manufacturing Company, New York City to agent J. Arthur Johnston, Petersburg, Va., 1890-1892, furnishing advice on conducting business and making reports. Letters, 1857-1859, from Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank, Wheeling, W. Va. and Bailey Brown & Company, Pittsburgh, Pa., to Henry T. Kirtland, Poland, Oh., concern his business affairs. Miscellaneous personal correspondence, 1875-1902, includes letters to Lizzie Henry, Vicksburg, from friends "Annie" in school at St. Mary's [Raleigh?] and New Orleans, and "Hannah Maria" and "Nancy Jane" at Warm Springs, [N.C.?], describing their activities. Letters from Alice Lyell, New York, N.Y., to "Josie," Petersburg, Va., convey family news and travel plans. The collection also contains a form letter, 1920 December 3, from Louis R. Wilson, University of North Carolina to S.E. Matthews, soliciting money for a student activities building; and a letter, 1902, conveying family and church news to family in Virginia from an unidentified place in Texas.

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University of Virginia. Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7608631

University of Virginia. Library

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Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank,

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Wilson, Louis Round, 1876-1979

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Louis Round Wilson (27 December 1876-10 December 1979) was born in Lenoir, N.C., and, in the 1890s, attended Davenport College in Lenoir; Haverford College in Haverford, Pa.; and the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., from which he graduated in May 1899. After teaching for a few years, Wilson embarked on a long and distinguished career in librarianship, library science education, and university administration. Wilson served as librarian and first director of the School of Library...

Kirtland, Henry T., fl. 1857-1859,

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Johnston, J. Arthur, fl. 1890-1892,

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Lyell, Alice,

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University of North Carolina (1793-1962)

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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...

Matthews, S. E.

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Bailey Brown & Company,

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Johns-Manville, Incorporated

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