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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 | 4.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2200 items) |
| Abstract | Members of the Nisbet family resided in Macon, Ga. Junius Wingfield Nisbet (1858-1933) was a lawyer and civic leader. The collection consists mainly of correspondence and genealogical and historical writings of Nisbet, as well as family and business correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and three manuscript plays he wrote. Nisbet kept diaries and/or commonplace books at Macon, 1869 and 1875-1883; at the University of Georgia, 1873; and while in Washington, D.C., as clerk of a committee of the United States House of Representatives, 1884-1885. Also included is some correspondence, 1840s to 1890s, of Junius Wingfield Nisbet's father, James Taylor Nisbet (1828-1894), lawyer, and of his grandfather, Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871), jurist and United States Representative, both of Macon, Ga., mostly relating to the practice of law. A scrapbook, correspondence, and other papers relate to Nisbet's father-in-law, John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900), officer of the Confederate privateer Alabama. |
| Creator | Nisbet (Family : Macon, Ga.) |
| Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
Members of the Nisbet family resided in Macon, Ga. Junius Wingfield Nisbet (1858-1933) was a lawyer and civic leader.
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Scope and Content
The collection consists mainly of correspondence and genealogical and historical writings of Junius Wingfield Nisbet (1858-1933). Also present are family and business correspondence, diaries, scrapbooks, and three manuscript plays he wrote. Nisbet kept diaries and/or commonplace books at Macon, 1869 and 1875-1883; at the University of Georgia, 1873; and while in Washington, D.C., as clerk of a committee of the United States House of Representatives, 1884-1885. Also included is some correspondence, 1840s to 1890s, of Junius Wingfield Nisbet's father, James Taylor Nisbet (1828-1894), lawyer, and of his grandfather, Eugenius Aristides Nisbet (1803-1871), jurist and United States Representative, both of Macon, Ga., mostly relating to the practice of law. A scrapbook, correspondence, and other papers relate to Nisbet's father-in-law, John McIntosh Kell (1823-1900), officer of the Confederate privateer Alabama.
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Series 1. Correspondence, 1752-1936 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series contains personal, business, and genealogical correspondence of Junius Wingfield Nisbet. Included are some ancestral papers, many in French and German that relate to Jean Jaques Stromer of Cologne, Germany and the Stromer and Schmits families; papers of Eugenius A. Nisbet and James T. Nisbet; biographical sketches; bills and receipts; and newspaper clippings.
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Series 2. Volumes, 1869-1925 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological.
This series contains volumes of scrapbooks, diaries, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts.
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Items Separated
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2010; Nancy Kaiser, January 2021
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.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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