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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Dickson Family Papers, #1528, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received with some items on loan from Mrs. George K. Taylor, 1948.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 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.

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.

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• Asheville (N.C.)--History--19th century.
• Charleston (S.C.)--History--19th century.
• Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Congregational churches--North Carolina--Clergy--History--19th century.
• Dickson family.
• Dickson, John Augustus, 1828-.
• Dickson, John, 1795-1847.
• Dickson, Louisa O'Hear.
• Dickson, Samuel Henry, 1798-1872.
• Estates (Law)--North Carolina.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Families--South Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Fathers and sons--Correspondence.
• Medical education--United States--History--19th century.
• O'Hear family.
• O'Hear, Joseph F., fl. 1840-1849.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Physicians--South Carolina--History--19th century.

Members of the Dickson family of Charleston, S.C., and Asheville, N.C., included John Dickson (1795-1847), a Congregational minister, teacher, and physician; his first wife, Mary Augusta Flinn Dickson; their children Mary Joanna (1823-1824), Andrew Flinn (1825-1879), John Augustus (born 1828), Samuel Howard (born 1831), Henry Robertson (born 1833), and Charles McIntyre (1835-1836); his second wife, Louisa O'Hear Dickson; and their children, James (1840-1840) and Sarah (born 1841). Other related persons include Samuel Henry Dickson (1798-1872), Henry S. Dickson, Joseph O'Hear, and John O'Hear.

The collection includes correspondence, chiefly 1839-1877, of members of the Dickson family. Included are letters to John A. Dickson from his father John Dickson, his uncle Samuel Henry Dickson of the Medical College of South Carolina at Charleston, and other relatives; and from Joseph F. O'Hear in Charleston to his sister, Louisa O'Hear Dickson, wife of John Dickson. Papers mostly concern family matters with occasional references to national and North Carolina politics, medical education, and the estate of John Dickson. There are also some later papers, 1902-1914, of Mary Dickson regarding family genealogy.