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Collection Number: 00055

Collection Title: Oliver Beirne Papers, 1860-1896.

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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.

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Size 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 350 items)
Abstract Oliver Beirne (fl. 1860-1896) was a landowner of West Virginia and Louisiana and postmaster of Sweet Springs, W. Va. The collection includes business papers, including letters from a business associate, John Echols (1823-1899), and correspondence between Beirne's son-in-law, William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) and Beverly R. Johnston over a lawsuit involving a property dispute with John Smith Preston (1809-1881) of Abingdon, Va. Also included are bills, receipts, financial records, railroad stocks, and papers relating to the management of the Houmas Plantation, Ascension Parish, La.
Creator Beirne, Oliver, 1811-1888.
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Restrictions to Use
No usage restrictions.
Copyright Notice
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 Oliver Beirne Papers, #55, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Loaned by Sallie B. Miles prior to 1940. Received from Ken Jamail in September 2007 (Acc. 100773).
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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Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, July 2010; Nancy Kaiser, November 2020

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.

Updated because of addition in 2018.

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Oliver Beirne (fl. 1860-1896) was a landowner of West Virginia and Louisiana and postmaster of Sweet Springs, W. Va.

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The collection includes business papers of Oliver Beirne, including letters related to banking from a business associate, John Echols (1823-1899), and correspondence between Beirne's son-in-law, William Porcher Miles (1822-1899) and Beverly R. Johnston over a lawsuit involving a property dispute with John Smith Preston (1809-1881) of Abingdon, Va. Also included are bills, receipts, financial records, railroad stocks, and papers relating to the management of the Houmas Plantation, Ascension Parish, La. Other correspondents represented in the collection include Wade Hampton, B. R. Johnston, John S. Manning, Charles Richardson Miles, and John McEnery.

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Contents list

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Folder 1a

Original finding aid

Folder 1

1860-1863, 1865-1869

Oversize Paper Folder OPF-55/1

Pardon from Andrew Johnson, 1865

Folder 2

1870-1872

Folder 3

January-July 1873

Folder 4

September-December 1873

Folder 5

1874-1877, 1879

Folder 6

1880-1885

Folder 7

1886-1896

Folder 8

Bills and receipts

Folder 9

Bills and receipts

Folder 10

Bills and receipts

Folder 11

Bills and receipts

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2 items.

Acquisition Information: Accession 100773

Box 1

Contracts, 1884

Memorandum and Addresses

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Oversize papers (OPF-55/1)

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