Col. Samuel McDowell Tate collection / 1811-1941 1850-1859, 1865-1892.

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Col. Samuel McDowell Tate collection / 1811-1941 1850-1859, 1865-1892.

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This collection contains Samuel McDowell Tate's correspondence and financial documents from his many years as a banker. It also includes an engraving of Samuel McDowell Tate by F.E. Kernan, a small number of House Bills Tate had prepared, and items of governmental propaganda. There is no material from Tate's time in the Civil War.

.8 linear feet (2 manuscript boxes)

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7915475

Berea College, Hutchins Library

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Tate, Samuel McDowell, 1830-1897

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Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897) was a Confederate colonel; president of the Western North Carolina Railroad after the Civil War, except when removed by Republicans; representative of Burke County, N.C., to the General Assembly, 1874-1884; bank examiner, 1886; state treasurer, 1893-1894; and longtime Democratic Party leader of western North Carolina. He married Jennie Pearson, daughter of R. C. Pearson, in 1866. From the description of Samuel McDowell Tate papers, 1810-1918. WorldCat...

North Carolina School for the Deaf

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Western North Carolina Railroad Company

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Incorporated in North Carolina in 1855 to build a railroad to connect the North Carolina Railroad with the Mississippi Valley; main line opened in 1881 from Salisbury to Paint Rock, N.C. (185 miles); part of Richmond and Danville system (1880-1894); controlled by Southern Railway Company after 1894. From the description of Papers, 1855-1895. (Virginia Tech). WorldCat record id: 28414163 ...

Tate, Samuel McDowell Col., 1830-

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Samuel McDowell Tate (1830-1897), born in Morganton, North Carolina, prospered as a merchant in Philadelphia and Morganton before becoming a manager for the Western North Carolina Railroad. He also was a federal census taker, postmaster of Morganton, and justice of the peace. During the Civil War Tate took command of the Sixth Regiment of North Carolina on the battlefield at Gettysburg and led his men through the fighting on Seminary Ridge. Later he rebuilt the bankrupt Western North Carolina Ra...