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Size | 10 items |
Abstract | The Lenoir family and Patterson family of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Andrew Henry Patterson, and others. The collection contains miscellaneous items of the Lenoir and Patterson families of North Carolina including a diary, June-July 1841, kept by an unidentified woman on a trip from Raleigh, N.C., to New Haven, Conn., with particulary detailed descriptions of activity in New Haven and sights of Washington, D.C., with some entries by a child of the diarist; notes, circa 1890, by Andrew Henry Patterson (1870-1928) on lectures on electricity by Prof. J. J. Thomson, presumably at Harvard University; three letters, 1895-1896, to Eben Alexander (1851-1910), United States minister to Greece; and an address, circa 1850, by the president of the Dialectic Society, University of North Carolina. |
Creator | Lenoir (Family : Lenoir, William, 1751-1839)
Patterson (Family : Patterson, Andrew Henry, 1870-1928) |
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, January 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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The Lenoir and Patterson families of North Carolina included Thomas Lenoir, Mary Fries Patterson, Sam F. Patterson, Mary Patterson Fisher, Andrew Henry Patterson, William Lenoir, and others.
Back to TopThe collection includes miscellaneous items including a diary, June-July 1841, kept by an unidentified woman on a trip from Raleigh, N.C., to New Haven, Conn., with particulary detailed descriptions of activity in New Haven and sights of Washington, D.C., with some entries by a child of the diarist; notes, circa 1890, by Andrew Henry Patterson (1870-1928) on lectures on electricity by Prof. J. J. Thomson, presumably at Harvard University; three letters, 1895-1896, to Eben Alexander (1851-1910), United States minister to Greece; and an address, circa 1850, by the president of the Dialectic Society, University of North Carolina. Also genealogical and historical correspondence and a copy of the will of Thomas Lenoir, 1765.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Original finding aid |
1765-1929 |
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Folder 2 |
Diary fragment, 1841Entries desribe a trip from Raleigh, N.C., to Virginia. |
Folder 3 |
Notebook, undatedContains A. H. Patterson's notes on lectures of J. J. Thomson on electricity. |