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Size | 1.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 300 items) |
Abstract | W. J. (William Joseph) Peele (1855-1919) was a Raleigh, N.C., lawyer, publisher, and trustee of the state College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University). The collection includes correspondence of Peele concerning his law practice, his interest in bimetallism and the activities of the North Carolina Populist Party, his efforts in the prohibition movement, his connection with the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts, and his interest in literary and historical matters in North Carolina. Correspondents include Marion Butler and Locke Craig. |
Creator | Peele, W. J. (William Joseph), b. 1855. |
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, August 2009; Dawne Howard Lucas, July 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.
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William Joseph Peele (1855-1919) was a Raleigh, N.C., lawyer, publisher, and trustee of the University of North Carolina and later the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University). Peele was educated at Bush Horn Academy and the University of North Carolina. He studied and practiced law in Raleigh, N.C., forming a partnership with Ernest P. Maynard. In 1884, Peele founded the Watauga Club, a group promoting the establishment of an institution of industrial and agricultural education in North Carolina. The Watauga Club was instrumental in the allocation of funds to found the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. In 1897, Peele formed the North Carolina Publishing Society which produced his work Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians (1897). He was also the author of Index to the Law of Exemptions in North Carolina of Homestead and Personal Property (1892) and Civil Government of North Carolina and the United States (1907) and was involved in the founding of the North Carolina Literary and Historical Association.
Peele was married to Elizabeth Bellamy of Raleigh, N.C., in 1909.
Back to TopThe collection includes correspondence of W. J. Peele chiefly concerning his law practice but also his interest in bimetallism and the activities of the North Carolina Populist Party, his efforts in the prohibition movement, his connection with the North Carolina College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts (later North Carolina State University), his interest in literary and historical matters in North Carolina, and the publication of Lives of Distinguished North Carolinians (1897) and other writings. Correspondents include Archibald Hunter Arrington, Marion Butler, Collier Cobb, Locke Craig, William Edward Dodd, Samuel James Ervine, Alexander Graham, John Bryan Grimes, Ashley Horne, Charles Duncan McIver, William Shepherd Pettigrew, Thomas Merritt Pittman, Leonidas L. Polk, W. H. Polk, and Peele's future wife, Lizzie Bellamy.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1 |
1872-1881 |
Folder 2a |
1882-1890 |
Folder 2b |
1890-1892 |
Folder 3 |
1893-1894 |
Folder 4 |
1895-1896 |
Folder 5 |
1897 |
Folder 6 |
1898 |
Folder 7-8
Folder 7Folder 8 |
1899 |
Folder 9 |
1900 |
Folder 10 |
1901 |
Folder 11a |
1902 |
Folder 11b |
1904 |
Folder 11c |
1905-1909 |
Folder 11d |
1910-1948 |
Folder 12-13
Folder 12Folder 13 |
Undated |
Folder 14 |
Volume 1: Autograph album, Mary Johnson, 1858-1863 |
Folder 15 |
Volume 2: Notebook, W. J. Peele, 1878 |
Image Folder PF-1881/1-2
PF-1881/1PF-1881/2 |
PhotographsIncludes photographic portraits of Judge Gaston and Nathan Macon and a photograph of an unidentified soldier, apparently from the Spanish-American War. |