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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Wetmore Broadfoot Papers, #87, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Kate, Frances, and Margaret Broadfoot of Fayetteville, N.C., circa 1939.

Additions received from Robert P. Pell of Spartanburg, S.C., June 1970, and transferred from the North Carolina Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, April 1975.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2009

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Broadfoot, Charles Wetmore, 1842-1919.
• Dobbin, James C. (James Cochran), 1814-1857.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Executors and administrators.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Economic conditions.
• Guardian and ward.
• Huske, John Winslow, 1809-1841.
• Huske, John, 1786-1848.
• Law firms--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Shepherd, Jesse George, 1820-1869.

Charles Wetmore Broadfoot (1842-1919) was a Confederate officer, state legislator, 1870-1872, trustee of the University of North Carolina, and lawyer, of Fayetteville, N.C. He married Kate Huske, daughter of William Huske and granddaughter of John Huske, in 1877.

John Huske (1786-1848?) was a lawyer of Fayetteville, N.C. His eldest son was John Winslow Huske (1809-1841), also a lawyer.

The collection includes papers of the successive and overlapping law practices of John Huske (1786-1848); his son, John Winslow Huske (1809-1841); J. W. Huske's brother-in-law, James C. Dobbin (1814-1857); Dobbin's brother-in-law, Jesse George Shepherd (1820-1869); Dobbin's son, James C., Jr.; and Charles W. Broadfoot, John Huske's son-in-law, all of Fayetteville, N.C. The collection also includes correspondence with clients and pertinent business records. The practice was mainly concerned with estate settlement, guardianships, and debt collection. There are numerous bills, receipts, accounts, insurance policies, deeds, notes, and lawyers' business correspondence. There are also some business and financial papers and personal correspondence of the lawyers concerned.

John Huske's papers extend from about 1806 to about 1847, during which period he had at one time a law partnership with John Winslow and later a partnership with his oldest son, John Winslow Huske. Huske's papers are concerned with his Hogg family inheritance, the estate of Peter Mallett, the guardianship of the children of Catharine Mitchell, and the estate of John Winslow Huske, among other affairs. There are also references to the affairs of the McNeill, Simpson, McLaughlin, Webb, and many other families in the region.

The papers of Jesse Shepherd begin in 1847 and are similar to those of John Huske, relating to estate settlements, guardianships, and collections. Shepherd's papers reflect the affairs of A. C. Simpson, the Philemon H. Conely estate, Ann P. Huske, William T. Smith, J. C. Dobbin, Walter A. Huske, Mallett, and Robinson families, and others. In 1866 James C. Dobbin, Jr., entered a partnership with Shepherd and his papers are mingled with Shepherd from that point forward.

Papers, 1870-1891 and 1907-1919, are of Charles W. Broadfoot and relate to debt collection undertakings; bankruptcies and foreclosures; Cumberland County, N.C., school funds in the 1870s; and personal investments.

There is also a group of clippings and broadsides, mostly dated in the 1870s, related to political and civic issues, and three volumes of accounts.

• Oversize papers (X-OPF-87/1)