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No restrictions. Open for research.

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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 Benjamin Robinson Huske Papers, #2323, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

Partial microfilm copy available.

Acquisitions Information

Acquired 1936; 1948

Gifts 1936; 1948

Additional Descriptive Resources

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Sensitive Materials Statement

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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Finding Aid Updated by: Amanda Loeb, September 2012; Laura Hart, December 2021

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.

Clicking on a subject heading below will take you into the University Library's online catalog.

• Attmore family.
• Attmore, William, d. 1800.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Episcopal Church--Clergy--History--19th century.
• Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--History.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Religion--19th century.
• Fayetteville (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Huske family.
• Huske, Benjamin Robinson, 1862-1937.
• Huske, Joseph C. (Joseph Caldwell), 1822-1897.
• Merchants--North Carolina--History--18th century.
• Merchants--Pennsylvania--History--18th century.
• New Bern (N.C.)--Commerce--History--18th century.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Commerce--History--18th century.
• Sermons, American--North Carolina--19th century.
• Spanish-American War, 1898.
• St. John's Episcopal Church (Fayetteville, N.C.)--History.
• Strange family.
• Strange, Robert, 1796-1854.
• Travelers--United States--Diaries.
• United States--History--War of 1812--Poetry.
• United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.

Benjamin Robinson Huske and family lived chiefly in Fayetteville, N.C.

The collection includes scattered papers of relatives and ancestors of Huske, including the following: late 18th- and early 19th-century papers of the Huske, Attmore, and Strange families, including correspondence; a travel diary and lettercopy books, 1783-1799, of William Attmore, merchant of Philadelphia, Pa., and New Bern, N.C.; and a long patriotic poem written during the War of 1812 by Robert Strange (1796-1854) of Fayetteville, N.C. Also included are family and church correspondence, sermons, and other ministerial records of Joseph Caldwell Huske (1822-1897), rector of St. John's Episcopal Church, Fayetteville, N.C., chiefly 1840s and 1870s-1890s, and military reports and returns of B.R. Huske (son of J.C. Huske) as major of in the North Carolina volunteers in the Spanish-American War.