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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 Snow Family Papers #5389, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from James Snow in April 2008 (Acc. 100909).

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Processed by: Jennifer Thompson, September 2008

Encoded by: Jennifer Thompson, September 2008

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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• Automobile dealers--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Elkin (N.C.)--Commerce.
• Elkin (N.C.)--History.
• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• McNeil family.
• Snow family.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Snow, Guy L. (Guy Lafayette), 1910-1989.

Guy L. Snow was born to Preston H. and Sarah Goins Snow of Mount Airy, N.C., in 1910. He graduated from Duke University. He worked as a stock broker; as a Buick dealer in Elkin, N.C., for 20 years; and at the Thompson McKinon Brokerage Firm in Winston-Salem, N.C. Guy L. Snow married Virginia McNeil on 11 February 1939. Virginia McNeil Snow was born to James Calvin McNeil and Daisy Badger McNeil of Bina, N.C., in 1917. Virginia McNeil Snow was a graduate of the Virginia Intermount College for Women and the Bristol Commercial College. She worked as vice-president and secretary of Snow Motor Company and for the Northwestern Bank. The Snows had two sons, Guy Leighton Snow of Charlotte, N.C., and James McNeil Snow of High Point, N.C. James McNeil Snow graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Law in 1976. Guy L. Snow died in 1989, and Virginia McNeil Snow died in 2007.

The collection contains family correspondence and other materials relating to the Snow Family of Elkin, N.C. Correspondence, 1928-1981, includes letters discussing personal issues, education, travel, and news of family and friends. The collection also contains grade reports, school notebooks, and drawings of Virginia McNeil Snow and James McNeil Snow; financial records; family photographs; and clippings.