Lawrence D. Kessler collection, 1820-1989.

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Lawrence D. Kessler collection, 1820-1989.

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George Ralph Marvell was a career United States Navy officer, who retired from active service in 1931 as a rear admiral. His papers, many of which relate to travels and work in China and the Philippines, contain personal correspondence, financial and legal papers, photographs, and other materials relating to him; his wife, Anna Nippes Wynkoop Marvell; and their son, George, who served as a submarine officer in the Navy, 1917-1935. The North Carolina China Council, a regional affiliate of the Asia Society, was established in 1977 and remained active until at least 1989. Records consist of administrative materials, including newsletters, annual reports, minutes from meetings, memoranda, funding and grant proposals, and a correspondence file, and research materials, including photographs and audio-visual recordings relating to the Council's traveling exhibit and presentation, North Carolina's China Connections, 1840-1949. Publications include pamphlets, flyers, posters, and a bound print version of the text and photographs that were in the exhibit. There are also research materials and publications related to other Council activities on topics such as the One-Child Policy and United States-China trade. The Lawrence Kessler papers relate to his activities in radical politics. They include organizational materials and public documents of the North Carolina Legal Defense Fund and the Chapel Hill chapter of the New University Conference. The organizational papers include minutes from meetings, annual reports, press releases, project proposals, correspondence, fund raising letters, and posters. The public documents include pamphlets, position papers, and serial publications of the New University Conference. Ruth Elizabeth Newton (fl. 1888-1957) was the daughter of John C. Calhoun Newton (1849-1931) and Letty Lay Newton (1848-1924?) of Kobe, Japan, where her father, a minister, taught theology and ethics at the Kwansei Gakuin, a secondary school run by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1905, Ruth Newton married Emory Marvin Underwood, a lawyer who later served as a federal judge in Atlanta, Ga. The Newton and Underwood family papers consist of the personal letters received or written by Ruth Elizabeth Newton Underwood, the sermons and other unpublished writings of John C. Calhoun Newton, United States and Japanese publications of the Episcopal Methodist Church, South, and photographs of the Newton family and their friends from Kobe, Japan. The Addition of December 2006 consists of materials relating to activism and activist groups on the UNC-Chapel Hill campus and in the Chapel Hill community at large, including publications relating to activist groups, such as newsletters of the Chapel Hill Peace Center, Bread and Roses socialist community newsletters, issues of The Southern Patriot, and other printed materials.

ca. 4700 items (17.0 linear ft.)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7660336

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Kessler, Lawrence D.

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Lawrence D. Kessler, emeritus professor of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, gathered the unrelated papers of George R. Marvell, the North Carolina China Council, Lawrence D. Kessler, and the Newton and Underwood families. From the description of Lawrence D. Kessler collection, 1820-1989. WorldCat record id: 52863178 Lawrence Kessler, professor emeritus of Chinese history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, assem...

North Carolina Legal Defense Fund.

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Chapel Hill Peace Center (N.C.)

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Underwood family.

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New University Conference (U.S.). University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Underwood, Emory Marvin, 1877-1960.

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Marvell, George Ralph, 1869-1941

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George Ralph Marvell was born September 25, 1869, in Fall River, Mass. He received his commission as Lieutenant in the U.S. Navy in Mar. 1899, and advanced through grades to the rank of rear admiral in December 1931. He commanded the Cruisers Scouting Force from 1930 to 1931. Marvell died on November 12, 1941. From the description of Marvell, George Ralph, 1869-1941 (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration). naId: 10615012 ...

North Carolina China Council

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Asia Society

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The Asia Society is located in Washington, D.C. From the description of Asia Society records, 1971-1976. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64756711 The Asia Society was founded in 1956 under the guidance of John D. Rockefeller 3rd to increase American understanding and appreciation of the poeples of Asia. A non-political educational organization, the Asia Society sponsors seminars and special studies to promote discussion of public af...

United States. Navy

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Built and launched at New York Navy Yard; commissioned Nov. 12, 1944; scraped in 1993. Served in World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. From the description of USS Bon Homme Richard (CV/CVA-31) photograph collection 1944-1971. (The Mariners' Museum Library). WorldCat record id: 41657866 The federal government decided in 1941 to send Supply Corps personnel to Harvard Business School for training in the business of equipping the Navy. This was effected by a transfer...

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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United States Naval Academy

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Taffinder was born on March 18, 1884, graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1906, attained the rank of Vice Admiral, retired from the Navy in 1947, and died in 1965. From the description of Diploma, June 14, 1906. (Naval War College). WorldCat record id: 704931343 Founded in 1845, the United States Naval Academy trains students in a four-year Officer Development Program, preparing them for assignments as midshipmen after graduation. The courses focus on moral...

Marvel family.

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Underwood, Ruth Elizabeth Newton, fl. 1888-1957.

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Wynkoop family.

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Newton family.

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Newton, John C. Calhoun, b. 1848

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John Caldwell Calhoun Newton spent his career as a minister, missionary, and college professor in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. From the guide to the John C. Calhoun Newton papers, 1870-1931, (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University) ...

Methodist Episcopal Church, South.

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In 1845, as a result of the North-South tensions, the Methodist Episcopal Church conferences in the Southern states withdrew to form the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. In 1874 at the General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South held in Louisville, Kentucky, a Board of Commissioners was appointed to meet with a similar board from the Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC). The Board was empowered to begin talks the MEC board that would resolve differences between the two denomination...