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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 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.

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.

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.

• Beirne, Oliver, 1811-1888.
• Echols, John, 1823-1896.
• Houmas Plantation (Ascension Parish, La.)
• Johnston, Beverly R. (Beverly Randolph), 1803-1873.
• Miles, William Porcher, 1822-1899.
• Plantations--Louisiana.
• Preston, John Smith, 1809-1881.
• Virginia--Trials, litigation, etc.
• West Virginia--Economic conditions.
• West Virginia--Trials, litigation, etc.

• See also William Porcher Miles papers (#508); Wade Hampton papers (#871); James Amedee Gaudet papers (#2334) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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 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.

Oversize papers (OPF-55/1)