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Size | About 6300 items (6.0 linear feet). |
Abstract | Orin Datus Davis was a banker of Salisbury, N.C. The collection includes banking papers of Dolphin Alston Davis (1802-1881), his father-in-law, William H. Horah, and his son, Orin Datus Davis, and their several predecessors and associates at the Salisbury, N.C., branch of the State Bank of North Carolina. Most papers are from the period before D.A. Davis came from Fayetteville, N.C., to become cashier in 1835. Bank correspondence with prominent North Carolinians and records of routine financial transactions is included. Other papers are mainly of D.A. Davis and concern antebellum businesses in which he had an interest and the common schools of Rowan County, N.C., of which he was chairman of the Board of Superintendents, 1854-1866. Included are bills, notes, checks, and lists; estate account books from Fayetteville and Salisbury, and account books for merchandising and transportation enterprises, and the bank; records of a temperance society at Salisbury, 1842-1849; and Davis family letters, 1891-1905. Also present are federal tax returns and applications for business and professional licenses received by United States Internal Revenue district officers H.H. Helper, Samuel W. Wiley, and others, mainly 1865-1868. |
Creator | Davis, Orin Datus, 1851-1924. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Nancy Kaiser, October 2020
Finding aid updated by Laura Smith, November 2019
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Orin Datus Davis, born 1851, was a banker of Salisbury, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes banking papers of Dolphin Alston Davis (1802-1881), his father-in-law, William H. Horah, and his son, Orin Datus Davis, and their several predecessors and associates at the Salisbury, N.C., branch of the State Bank of North Carolina. Most papers are from the period before D.A. Davis came from Fayetteville, N.C., to become cashier in 1835. Bank correspondence with prominent North Carolinians and records of routine financial transactions is included. Other papers are mainly of D.A. Davis and concern antebellum businesses in which he had an interest and the common schools of Rowan County, N.C., of which he was chairman of the Board of Superintendents, 1854-1866. Included are bills, notes, checks, and lists; estate account books from Fayetteville and Salisbury, and account books for merchandising and transportation enterprises, and the bank; records of a temperance society at Salisbury, 1842-1849; and Davis family letters, 1891-1905. Also present are federal tax returns and applications for business and professional licenses received by United States Internal Revenue district officers H.H. Helper, Samuel W. Wiley, and others, mainly 1865-1868.
Back to TopBox 1 |
1812-1820 |
Box 2 |
1821-1828 |
Box 3 |
1829-April 1831 |
Box 4 |
May 1831-October 1832 |
Box 5 |
November 1832-1834 |
Box 6 |
1835-1849 |
Box 7 |
1851-1858 |
Box 8 |
1859-1865 |
Box 9 |
1866-October 1885 |
Box 10 |
November 1885-1915, undated |
Box 11 |
Volume 1: Accounts, 1816-1823 |
Volume 2: Accounts, 1817-1876 |
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Volume 3: Accounts, 1826-1840 |
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Volume 4: Minutes and records of the Washington Temperance Society, Salisbury, N.C., April 1842-1849 |
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Volume 5: Accounts, June 1853-July 1860 |
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Box 12 |
Volume 6: Receipt book, July 1855-july 1881 |
Oversize Volume SV-00208/7 |
Volume 7: Accounts, December 1873-June 1883 |
Box 12 |
Volume 8: Pages of accounts, 1880-1882 |
Oversize Volume SV-00208/9 |
Volume 9: Bank records, January 1883-July 1887 |
Oversize Volume SV-00208/10 |
Volume 10: Bank records, July 1887-February 1890 |
Reel M-00208/1 |
Microfilm |