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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Mrs. Tench Coxe Papers #996-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Received from Mrs. Tench Coxe and Frank Coxe of Asheville, N.C. in 1945 and May 1980.

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Processed by: F. Gamel, June 1980

Encoded by: Gergana Abernathy, October 2016

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• Burgwyn, Wm. H. S. (William Hyslop Sumner), 1845-1913.
• Coxe, Eliza, 1909-1952.
• Coxe, Tench C., Mrs. (Sarah Potter), 1874-1960.
• Wright, Florence DeRosset.

Members of the Coxe family of Asheville, N.C., were prominent in the development of the Western North Carolina Railroad and in the development of Asheville as a resort center. Tench C. Coxe was a descendent of Daniel Coxe, an early land grant holder in North Carolina, and of Tench Coxe, who served as assistant secretary of the treasury under Alexander Hamilton and later as commissioner of revenue by appointment of President Washington. Mrs. Tench C. Coxe was Sarah ("Sally") Potter, daughter of Florence DeRosset Wright and William F. Potter of Wilmington, N.C.

Collection primarily consists of letters written to Mrs. Coxe congratulating her on the birth of her daughter, Eliza, on 5 August 1909. Other items are telegrams, an invitation to the wedding of Mrs. Coxe's mother, and a University of North Carolina 1868 commencement ball invitation, with a note from William Hyslop Sumner Burgwyn.