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Size | 2 items |
Abstract | Walter Everett Philips (1860-1939) was a farmer, teacher, and business owner of Rocky Mount, N.C., and Edgecombe County and Nash County, N.C. The collection is the recollections of the boyhood of Walter Everett Philips in Rocky Mount, N.C., and in Edgecombe and Nash counties, N.C., including attendance at Frank S. Wilkinson's Tarboro Male Academy, visits with relatives in Tennessee, and student years at the University of North Carolina, 1878-1881. |
Creator | Philips, Walter Everett, 1860-1939. |
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: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 2009
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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Walter Everett Philips (1860-1939) was a farmer, teacher, and business owner of Rocky Mount, N.C., and Edgecombe and Nash counties, N.C., and a student at Frank Wilkinson's Tarboro Academy, the University of North Carolina, 1878-1881, and Harvard University.
Back to TopThe collection is the recollections of the boyhood of Walter Everett Philips in Rocky Mount, N.C., and in Edgecombe and Nash counties, N.C., including attendance at Frank Wilkinson's Tarboro Academy, visits with relatives in Tennessee, and student years at the University of North Carolina, 1878-1881.
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Original finding aid |
Folder 1-3
Folder 1Folder 2Folder 3 |
MemoirsHandwritten, 311 pages. |
Folder 4 |
MemoirsMimeographed typescript, 78 pages. |