Mary Eliza Battle letters, 1840-1865 (bulk 1850-1860).

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Mary Eliza Battle letters, 1840-1865 (bulk 1850-1860).

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Chiefly letters from Pittman's first husband, William Francis Dancy, her brothers and sisters and their spouses, and her friends and cousins; together with bills, inventory, invitations, slave records, tax records, and other papers. Correspondents include her father, James Smith Battle (1786-1854); brothers William Smith Battle (1823-1915) and Turner Westray Battle (1824-1850) and his wife, Lavinia Basset (Daniel) Battle; sisters Cornelia Viola Battle Dancy (1824-1844), Penelope Bradford Battle Cox (1830-1880) and her husband, Gen. William Ruffin Cox, and Martha Ann Battle (1833-1913) and her husband, Kemp P. Battle; and friend Ellen Douglas Brownlow. Topics include family news, politics, life in Raleigh, N.C., goings on at the University of North Carolina, time spent at resorts such as White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and the Episcopal Church.

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Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919

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Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) of Chapel Hill and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer and president of the Chatham Railroad. He was active in state affairs during the Civil War and served as state treasurer and as University of North Carolina president, 1876-1891, and professor of history, 1891-1907. From the description of Kemp P. Battle Montgomery Ward Catalog Competition papers, 1915, 1962-1966. WorldCat record id: 56417388 Kemp Plummer Battle (1831-1919) of Chap...

Battle, William Smith, 1823-1915

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Battle, Martha Ann, 1833-1913

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Battle, Turner Westray, 1827-1850

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Dancy, Cornelia Viola Battle, 1824-1844

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Pittman, Mary Eliza Battle, 1829-1905

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Born Mary Eliza Battle; married William Francis Dancy (1818-1860) in 1858; married Dr. Newsom Pittman. From the description of Mary Eliza Battle letters, 1840-1865 (bulk 1850-1860). (North Carolina Division of Archives & Hist). WorldCat record id: 70955941 ...

Battle, James Smith, 1786-1854

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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...

Cox, William R. (William Ruffin), 1831-1919

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William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court judge; United States congressman from North Carolina, 1881-1887; and secretary of the United States Senate, 1893-1900. From the guide to the William R. Cox Papers, ., 1860-1921, (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.) William Ruffin Cox was a planter of Edgecombe County, N.C.; Confederate brigadier general; superior court j...

Battle, Lavinia Basset Daniel

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Brownlow, Ellen Douglas

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Episcopal Church

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In 1982, the General Convention of the Church deleted the words "Protestant" and "in the United States of America" from the official title of the Church, making it the Episcopal Church. From the description of Records of the Protestant Episcopal Church of the United States of America, Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society, 1823-1975 (inclusive). (Yale University). WorldCat record id: 702152635 ...

Cox, Penelope Bradford Battle, 1830-1880

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