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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Hector James McNeill Letters #475-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gifts, circa 1940 and 1963.

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Encoded by: Peter Hymas, November 2004

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• Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• McNeill, Ann, fl. 1852-1854.
• McNeill, Daniel C., fl. 1852-1854.
• McNeill, Hector James, d. 1860.
• North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

Hector James McNeill was a student at the University of North Carolina. The UNC Alumni History states that McNeill received his A.B. in 1855 and died in 1860. Kemp P. Battle's History of the University of North Carolina calls him a Presbyterian preacher and a colonel.

The collection consists of three letters from Hector James McNeill to his parents, Daniel C. McNeill and Ann McNeill, at St. Pauls, Robeson County, N.C., discussing activities at the University of North Carolina, friends and relatives, trips to and from Chapel Hill, N.C., and other matters.