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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
Abstract | John M. Lyle was a physician, businessman, and state legislator of North Carolina. His wife was Laura (Siler) Lyle. The collection includes personal, professional, and business correspondence, 1841-1864, of John M. Lyle at Murphy, N.C., and Franklin, N.C., Laura (Siler) Lyle. Their correspondents included Laura's friends and relatives before and after her marriage, especially James H. Bryson and Cornelia (Siler) Bryson at Murphy; other physicians in the area; Lyle's relatives in Jefferson County, Tenn.; creditors; and Confederate soldiers in Virginia. The letters contain chiefly household and neighborhood news from western North Carolina and the eastern Tennessee mountains, but included also are references to lands, financial notes, debts, medical problems, horse trading, the committee for building the Macon County, N.C., courthouse in 1859, and Lyle's sojourn in Raleigh, N.C., November-December 1864. |
Creator | Lyle (Family : Franklin, Macon County, N.C.)
Siler (Family : Chatham County, N.C.) |
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, 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.
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John M. Lyle, son of Daniel Lyle of Dandridge, Tenn., was a physician and business man of Murphy, N.C., and later in Franklin, N.C. He was also a member of the North Carolina state leglislature, 1862-1863 and 1864-1865. Lyle's wife was Laura A. Siler (fl. 1841-1854), daughter of William Siler of Macon County, N.C., and Althea Swain Siler. Laura's sister Cornelia was married to James H. Bryson of Murphy, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes personal, professional, and business correspondence, 1841-1864, of John M. Lyle and of his wife, Laura (Siler) Lyle. Letters to Laura are from friends and relatives before and after her marriage, especially James H. and Cornelia (Siler) Bryson at Murphy, N.C., relating family news and social activities. There are also letters from her husband at Raleigh, N.C., serving in the legislature. Letters to John M. Lyle are from his father, Daniel Lyle in Jefferson County, Tenn.; R. A. Edmondston and other physicians in the area; creditors; and a Confederate soldier in Virginia. The letters contain chiefly household and neighborhood news from western North Carolina and the eastern Tennessee mountains, but included also are references to lands, financial notes, debts, attitudes toward the Civil War, medical problems and practice, machinery, horse trading, and the committee for building the Macon County, N.C., courthouse in 1859.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1841-1846 |
Folder 2 |
1847 |
Folder 3 |
1848 |
Folder 4 |
1849-1850 |
Folder 5-6
Folder 5Folder 6 |
1851 |
Folder 7 |
1852-1853 |
Folder 8 |
1854-1855 |
Folder 9 |
1856-1857 |
Folder 10 |
1858 |
Folder 11 |
1859-1861 |
Folder 12 |
1862-1864, 1884-1885, 1907 |
Folder 13-15
Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15 |
Undated |