General university records, 1866-1978.

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General university records, 1866-1978.

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Materials include correspondence; newsletters; annual reports; report of Dean T.E. McKinney (1937-1938); photographs; memorial service programs of employees and students (1940-1978); and photographs and biographical data of founders and benefactors of the institution including McKinney, Jane Smith, widow of Johnson C. Smith; John M. Gaston, a Presbyterian minister and a member of the Board of Missions for Freedmen of the Presbyterian Church, U.S.A.; Samuel C. Alexander, a Presbyterian minister and a co-founder of the institution; Col. William R. Myers, a wealthy landowner and the donor of the institution's first land parcel; Willis L. Miller, a white Presbyterian minister and co-founder of the institution; James Buchanan Duke, tobacco and utility tycoon and benefactor of the institution via the Duke Endowment.

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Johnson C Smith University, J B Duke Memorial Library

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Johnson C Smith University, J B Duke Memorial Library

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Biddle University

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Smith, Jane Berry, -1929

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Miller, Willis L.

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Johnson C. Smith University

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Founded April 1867 at a meeting to the Catawba Presbytery, Biddle Memorial Institute was chartered in 1869 as a private men's institution affiliated with the Presbyterian Church; named for Major Henry Biddle; changed name in 1876 as Biddle University; in 1923 name changed to Johnson C. Smith University; became a four year college in 1924; women were admitted to the senior division in 1932 and to the freshman class in 1941 making the college fully co-educational. From the description ...

Myers, William Rayford

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Alexander, Samuel C. (Samuel Carruthers)

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Duke, James Buchanan, 1856-1925

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Tobacco manufacturer, industrialist, and philanthropist, of Durham, N.C., and New York City. From the description of Papers, 1764-1998 ; (bulk 1917-1928). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 122561097 From the description of James Buchanan Duke papers, 1777-1990 (bulk 1890s-1930s). (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 19536504 1856, Dec. 23 Born, Orange County, N.C. ...

McKinney, Theophilus Elisha, 1899-1962

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Gaston, John M. (John Montgomery), 1868-1960

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