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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 Frank Nash Papers #539, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Alternate Form of Material

All or part of this collection is available on microfilm from University Publications of America as part of Southern Women and their Families in the 19th Century, Series A.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Jesse Powell Baker Nash before 1940 and in 1955 and from Mrs. Lenoir Chambers in the 1970s.

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: Roslyn Holdzkom, 1993

Encoded by: Roslyn Holdzkom, May 2005

Updated by: Laura Hart, March 2021

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.

• Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Federal Party (N.C.).
• Hillsborough (N.C.)--History.
• Historians--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Judges--North Carolina--History.
• Lawyers--North Carolina--History.
• Nash and Kollock School (Hillsborough, N.C.).
• Nash family.
• Nash, Frank, 1855-1932.
• Nash, Frederick, 1781-1858.
• North Carolina--History--19th century--Fiction.
• North Carolina--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
• North Carolina--Politics and government.
• Prohibition--North Carolina.
• Roads--North Carolina--History.
• Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Strudwick family.
• United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Causes.
• Women--Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.

• Abner Nash Papers (#1223)

Frederick Nash (1781-1858) was the son of Abner Nash, governor of North Carolina, and his second wife, Mary Whiting Jones Nash. He graduated from Princeton and began practicing law in New Bern, N.C., moving to Hillsborough in 1807. He served in the General Assembly, was a Superior Court judge, and a member of the Supreme Court of North Carolina, 1844-1858, serving as chief justice from 1852. He married Mary Goddard Kollock of Elizabethtown, N.J., in 1803. The couple had seven children, among them the Reverend Frederick Kollock Nash (1813-1861).

Francis Nash (1855-1932), known as Frank, was the son of the Reverend Frederick Kollock Nash, a Presbyterian minister, and his second wife, Anne Maria McLean Kollock. Frank Nash served as assistant attorney general of North Carolina, 1918-1931, and clerk of the state Supreme Court, 1931-1932. He made an unsuccessful bid to be the Democratic Party nominee for attorney general in 1924.

Two other children of Frederick Nash and Mary Goddard Kollock Nash were daughters Maria J. Nash (1819-1907) and Sally K. Nash (1811-1893), who, along with their cousin Sara Kollock, operated the Nash and Kollock School, a school for young ladies in Hillsborough from 1859 to 1890. The school was in the Nash home that Frederick Nash purchased from Duncan Cameron, one part of which had been built in the 18th century by Isaac Edwards, secretary to Governor Tryon.

The collection includes legal, business, and personal correspondence, chiefly 1900-1919, of North Carolina lawyer Frank Nash and members of his family. The papers, 1729-1859, consist of land grants, deeds, indentures, copies of wills, and correspondence of the Nash and Strudwick families of Hillsborough, N.C. Of special note are the letters of North Carolina federalists during the early 1800s. Also included are the personal letters of Frank Nash's grandfather, Frederick Nash (1871-1858), who served as Superior Court judge, 1818-1826 and 1836-1844; as justice of the State Supreme Court, 1844-1852; and as chief justice of the Court, 1852-1858. Papers, 1859-1865, deal with events leading up to and during the Civil War. Following the war, papers are mainly legal and business records with scattered reference to state and national politics. There are also items relating to the Nash and Kollock School for girls in Hillsborough; the Good Roads Movement, 1911-1913; and the campaign for prohibition, 1915. Also present are 37 volumes that are account books, scrapbooks, legal notebooks, and notebooks of historical and biographical writings, including writings on history and historical fiction by Frank Nash.

Note that original letters relating to the Nash and Kollock School are interfiled in Series 1.1. Series 2.2. contains writings and other materials relating to the school.

• Oversize volume (V-539/S-8)
• Photographs (P-539/1-22)