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Size | 68 items |
Abstract | Eli West Hall (1827-1865?) was a lawyer and North Carolina state senator. The collection includes papers of Hall consisting of compositions and speeches written by him in Fayetteville, N.C., where he was a student in the early 1840s and at Chapel Hill, where he received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1847, and letters from him while he was studying law in Hillsborough, N.C.; letters, 1856-1868, from Hall and his wife, Margaret Dawson Hall, from Wilmington, N.C., where he was a lawyer, to his brother William, who was studying medicine in New York; a few letters, 1860-1861, from Hall while he was a state senator; and some civilian letters during the Civil War from members of the Hall family. Topics discussed include family matters, slavery, local and national politics, the University of North Carolina in 1853, and practicing law. Postwar items consist of a few scattered family letters. |
Creator | Hall, Eli W. (Eli West), 1827- |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English |
Processed by: Suzanne Ruffing, August 1996
Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, September 2004
This collection was processed with support from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.
Funding from the State Library of North Carolina supported the encoding of this finding aid.
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Eli West Hall (1827-1865?) was a lawyer and North Carolina state senator of Wilmington, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection includes papers of lawyer and North Carolina legislator Eli West Hall consisting of compositions and speeches written by him in Fayetteville, N.C., where he was a student in the early 1840s and at Chapel Hill, N.C., where he received his A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1847, and letters from him while he was studying law in Hillsborough, N.C.; letters, 1856-1868, from Hall and his wife, Margaret Dawson Hall, from Wilmington, N.C., where he was a lawyer, to his brother William, who was studying medicine in New York; a few letters, 1860-1861, from Hall while he was a state senator; and some civilian letters during the Civil War from members of the Hall family. Topics discussed include family matters, slavery, local and national politics, the University of North Carolina in 1853, and practicing law. Postwar items consist of a few scattered family letters.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
Folder 1 |
1841-1849
Digital version: "Rise and Destiny of the Union," Senior Speech of Eli W. Hall, March 1847 |
Folder 2 |
1850-1859 |
Folder 3 |
1860-1864 |
Folder 4 |
Undated |