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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Gluyas Papers, #3062, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Loaned by Lucy Gluyas of Charlotte, N.C., April 1961.

Received from Alice Gluyas Whaley of Annapolis, Md., September 1990 (Acc. 91006) and August 1994 (Acc. 94114).

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, June 2009

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• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Flour mills--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Gluyas family.
• Gluyas, John, 1796-1858.
• Gluyas, Mary.
• Gold mines and mining--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Industries--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County--History--19th century.
• Mathematics--Tables--History--19th century.
• McCulloch Mine.
• Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company.
• Mineral industries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mining engineers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Mining machinery--Maintenance and repair--History--19th century.
• North Carolina--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
• Treloar, William.
• Wales--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

John Gluyas (1796-1858), an English-born mining engineer who worked in Wales, immigrated to the United States and in 1835 settled in Mecklenburg County, N.C., where he worked on various mining projects, ran a gristmill on the Catawba River, and became a large landowner. He was involved particularly with the Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company and the McCulloch Mine. Gluyas was married to Mary Bennetts, 1824, with whom he had three children who survived infancy: John Bennetts (born 1825), Thomas (born 1826), and William (born 1832).

The collection includes business correspondence of John Gluyas, chiefly before 1851, concerning mining and milling in Wales and North Carolina, especially the Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company and the McCulloch Mine, which Gluyas operated in partnership with William Treloar. There are also some scattered family letters, letters of introduction and reference, and three letters to Gluyas from North Carolina Governor John Morehead. Also included are a handwritten book of mathematical tables; a record of work on mining machinery, 1818-1822; memoranda concerning property titles, 1789-1825; a history (4 pages) of the Gluyas family, 1834-1909, written in 1911; other genealogical materials; and a few letters to Gluyas's wife Mary and to their sons.