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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Edward Conigland Papers, #859, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Daisy H. Moseley of Glen Ridge, N.J., 1944 and 1959.

Items lent for photocopying by Henri G. Noordberg of Huntsville, Tex., February 1966.

Location of Originals

Original items privately owned as of 1966

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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• Catholics--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Conigland family.
• Conigland, Edward, 1819-1877.
• Conigland, Mary Wyatt Ezell, fl. 1838-1866.
• Diaries.
• Ezzell family.
• Farinholt, Frances Conigland, fl. 1890-1907.
• Halifax County (N.C.)--Social conditions.
• Irish Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1861-1865.
• North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• North Carolina--Social conditions.
• Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--North Carolina.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Personal narratives, Confederate.
• Women--North Carolina--Diaries.
• Women--North Carolina--Social conditions.

Edward Conigland (1819-1877) was an Irish immigrant, lawyer, member of the North Carolina constitutional convention of 1865, and counsel for Governor William W. Holden at his impeachment, 1871.

Conigland was married to Mary Eliza Tillery in 1847. In 1854 he was married to Mary Wyatt Ezell (fl. 1838-1866) of Northampton County, N.C. His daughter was Frances "Fanny" Conigland Faringholt (fl. 1890-1907).

The collection contains, in part, microfilm versions and photocopies of primarily letters of Edward Conigland concerning politics, the Civil War, Reconstruction, and domestic life. They are from other lawyers, Roman Catholic churchman, and editors, but are mainly Conigland and Ezell family letters from Halifax and Northampton counties and Raleigh, N.C. Also included is the diary, 1861-1862, of Conigland's second wife, Mary Wyatt (Ezell) Conigland; speeches; clippings; and a biography of Conigland, literary writings, and reminiscences, 1899, by his daughter, Frances (Conigland) Farinholt.

• Photographs (PF-859/1)
• Microfilm (M-859/1)