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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Heartt and Wilson Family Papers, #1373, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mrs. W. A. Heartt of Hillsboro, N.C., September 1947.

Received from the North Carolina Historical Society, 1947.

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.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 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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• Caldwell Institute (N.C.)--History.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Greensboro (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Heartt family.
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Irish Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Melville (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Sermons, American.
• Teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Wilson family.
• Wilson, Alexander, 1799-1867.

The Heartt and Wilson families of North Carolina were united by the marriage of Alice E. Wilson, daughter of Alexander Wilson (1799-1867), and Edwin A. Heartt.

Alexander Wilson emigrated from Ireland in 1818 and settled in Raleigh, N.C. Wilson taught at Dr. William McPheeters's Raleigh Academy, 1818-1822; was principal of Williamsborough Academy, Greenville County, N.C., 1822-1829; was licensed to preach in 1830 by Orange Presbytery and served as pastor of Spring Garden Church in Granville County, N.C. Wilson was also heavily involved in the founding and administration of the Caldwell Institute (first located in Greensboro, N.C., 1836-1845, and then in Hillsborough, 1845-1850) and of an academy named for him at Melville in Alamance County, N.C. He was married to Mary Willis, also an Irish immigrant.

Other family members include the children of Mary Willis and Alexander Wilson, Mary Jane Wilson(died 1842), Alexander Wilson, Robert Willis Wilson (1828-1868), John B. Wilson, and John W. Wilson; Mary E. Heartt Bragg; and Caroline Heartt.

The collection includes family and personal correspondence of Alexander Wilson including letters from him, his sons, Alexander and Robert W. Wilson, and daughters, and from educators and historians. Also included are papers of his Heartt grandchildren; sermons; commonplace books and personal memoranda books; and clippings. There are also two letters, 1862, addressed to Robert E. Lee from General Joseph E. Johnston and Major General R. S. Ewell.

• Photographs (PF-1373/1 and SF-P-1373/1)