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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the James W. Cox Papers #3653, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Talbot F. Parker, Jr., of Goldsboro, N.C., in August 1963.

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Updated by: Kathryn Michaelis, January 2010

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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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• Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad Company.
• Cox, James G.
• Cox, James W.
• Domestics--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Duke, Washington, 1820-1905.
• Goldsboro (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Kinston (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Labor--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Law--Study and teaching--Virginia--History--19th century.
• Lenoir County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Minor, John B. (John Barbee), 1813-1895.
• Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• School board members--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• University of Virginia--Students--History--19th century.

Scattered papers, chiefly 1830s-1870s, of Cox, businessman, local official at Kinston, N.C., and mayor of Goldsboro, N.C. These papers include accounts and receipts of Cox, his father, and other relatives; financial records of Cox as board chairman of the Lenoir County, N.C., common schools, 1852-1861; general merchandise accounts, 1865-1867; accounts with labor and domestic help, 1884-1889; accounts, receipts, and vouchers of Cox as an agent of the Atlantic and North Carolina Railroad, 1868-1869; letters, 1860, from Cox's son, James G. Cox, a student at the University of Virginia, 1860, and notes, presumably made by James G. Cox, from law lectures given by Professor John Barbee Minor at the University of Virginia, 1860; two items, 1863, relating to hiring slaves, signed by Washington Duke (1820-1905); and various other personal, public, and business papers.

• Oversize volumes (SV-2653/2-4)