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Size | 2.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 1,800 items) |
Abstract | Francis Donnell Winston (1857-1941) held several positions in North Carolina: he was a lawyer in Windsor, N.C.; clerk of the North Carolina superior court, 1881-1882; member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1889-1900; a state senator from 1887 to 1889, and served again in the legislature in the late 1920s; a judge of the superior court, 1901-1902 and 1916; lieutenant governor, 1905-1909; United States district attorney, 1913-1916; a trustee of the University of North Carolina and president of the North Carolina Bar Association; and an active Mason and member of the Episcopal Church. Also represented in the papers are Winston's brothers George Tayloe Winston (1852-1932), Patrick Henry Winston (1847-1904), and Robert W. Winston, along with his sister Alice Spruill. The collection contains correspondence, speeches, and photographs of Francis Donnell Winson. The earliest papers are Winston and Kenney family letters, along with business papers, including a few related to the sale of slaves and merchandise in Bertie County, N.C., 1828-1830; as well as commissions, orders, and other material of Dr. S. B. Kenney, Winston's father-in-law, 1863-1882. The bulk of the papers date from the 1890s through the 1930s and consist of Francis Donnell Winston's correspondence relating to his law practice and experiences as a judge, Democratic Party politics and his own campaigns, Masonic and Episcopal Church activities, University of North Carolina alumni activities, Windsor and Bertie County community affairs and history, genealogical inquiries in connection with the Winston and other Bertie County families, speaking engagements, and miscellaneous writings. Other papers reflect Winston's interest in New Deal projects for North Carolina such as the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, Coastal Improvement Organization, the Governor's Farm Debt Adjustment Commission, the educaton of African American children in Bertie County, and his participation on committees for historical, culural, and patriotic celebrations. Also included are scattered letters relating to personal and family matters. Additionally, there are a number of mostly undated speeches given by Francis Donnell Winston, many of which were delivered while he was lieutenant governor of North Carolina. His speeches were given at Masonic groups, civic clubs, church groups, alumni groups at the University of North Carolina, as well as some radio speeches. |
Creator | Winston, Francis Donnell, 1857-1941. |
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: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, February 2011
Updated by: Laura Hart, December 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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Francis Donnell Winston (1857-1941) attended Cornell University, 1873-1874, and took an A.B. from the University of North Carolina in 1879. He held several positions in North Carolina: he was a lawyer in Windsor, N.C.; clerk of the North Carolina superior court, 1881-1882; member of the North Carolina General Assembly, 1889-1900; a state senator from 1887 to 1889, and served again in the legislature in the late 1920s; a judge of the superior court, 1901-1902 and 1916; lieutenant governor, 1905-1909; United States district attorney, 1913-1916; a trustee of the University of North Carolina and president of the North Carolina Bar Association; and an active Mason and member of the Episcopal Church.
Winston married Rosa Kenney, daughter of Dr. S. B. Kenney of Maine, who came south with the United States Navy during the Civil War and remained in Hampton Roads, Va., as a government employee after the war, later settling in Windsor, N.C. Also represented in the papers are Winston's brothers, George Tayloe Winston (1852-1932), sometime president of the University of Texas, the University of North Carolina, and North Carolina State University; Patrick Henry Winston (1847-1904), who became a prominent lawyer in the state of Washington; and Robert W. Winston (1860-1944), judge, lawyer, and in his later years a writer. Winston's sister, Alice, married Frank Spruill and lived in Rocky Mount, N.C.
Back to TopThe collection contains correspondence, speeches, and photographs of Francis Donnell Winson (1857-1941). The earliest papers are Winston and Kenney family letters, along with business papers, including a few related to the sale of slaves and merchandise in Bertie County, N.C., 1828-1830; as well as commissions, orders, and other material of Dr. S. B. Kenney, Winston's father-in-law, 1863-1882. The bulk of the papers date from the 1890s through the 1930s and consist of Francis Donnell Winston's correspondence relating to his law practice and experiences as a judge, Democratic Party politics and his own campaigns, Masonic and Episcopal Church activities, University of North Carolina alumni activities, Windsor and Bertie County community affairs and history, genealogical inquiries in connection with the Winston and other Bertie County families, speaking engagements, and miscellaneous writings. Other papers reflect Winston's interest in New Deal projects for North Carolina such as the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, Coastal Improvement Organization, the Governor's Farm Debt Adjustment Commission, the educaton of African American children in Bertie County, and his participation on committees for historical, culural, and patriotic celebrations. Also included are scattered letters relating to personal and family matters. Additionally, there are a number of mostly undated speeches given by Francis Donnell Winston, many of which were delivered while he was lieutenant governor of North Carolina. His speeches were given at Masonic groups, civic clubs, church groups, alumni groups at the University of North Carolina, as well as some radio speeches.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological.
The earliest papers are Winston and Kenney family letters, along with business papers, including a few related to the sale of slaves and merchandise in Bertie County, N.C., 1828-1830; as well as commissions, orders, and other material of Dr. S. B. Kenney, Winston's father-in-law, 1863-1882. The bulk of the papers date from the 1890s through the 1930s and consist of Francis Donnell Winston's correspondence relating to his law practice and experiences as a judge, Democratic Party politics and his own campaigns, Masonic and Episcopal Church activities, University of North Carolina alumni activities, Windsor and Bertie County community affairs and history, genealogical inquiries in connection with the Winston and other Bertie County families, speaking engagements, and miscellaneous writings. Other papers reflect Winston's intrest in New Deal projects such as the Civilian Conservation Corps camps, Coastal Improvement Organization, the Governor's Farm Debt Adjustment Commission, the educaton of African American children in Bertie County, and his participation on committees for historical, culural, and patriotic celebrations. Also included are scattered letters relating to personal and family matters.
Copies of mostly undated speeches given by Francis Donnell Winston, many of which were delivered while he was lieutenant governor of North Carolina, are present in this series. Winston's speeches were given at Masonic groups, civic clubs, church groups, alumni groups at the University of North Carolina, as well as some radio speeches. Also included is a tribute to Robert W. Winston by R. C. Lawrence.
This series consists of pictures of Francis Donnell Winston along with some unidentifed individuals. Numerous formats are represented including cabinet cards, carte-de-visites, salt prints, mounted albumen prints, photographs, and tintypes.
Folder 95 |
Volume 2: Picture album of Hanover, Me. |
Image P-2810/1-27
P-2810/1P-2810/2P-2810/3P-2810/4P-2810/5P-2810/6P-2810/7P-2810/8P-2810/9P-2810/10P-2810/11P-2810/12P-2810/13P-2810/14P-2810/15P-2810/16P-2810/17P-2810/18P-2810/19P-2810/20P-2810/21P-2810/22P-2810/23P-2810/24P-2810/25P-2810/26P-2810/27 |
Loose images, circa 1845-1930
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Special Format Image SF-P-2810/1-7
SF-P-2810/1SF-P-2810/2SF-P-2810/3SF-P-2810/4SF-P-2810/5SF-P-2810/6SF-P-2810/7 |
Special format images, circa 1864-1910
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Extra Oversize Image XOP-P-2810/1 |
Photograph: Group portrait at Social Service Welfare Conference, Charlotte, N.C., 1924 |
Extra Oversize Image XOP-P-2810/2 |
Photograph: Group portrait of members of the House of Representatives of North Carolina, 1929 |
Reel M-2810/1-5
M-2810/1M-2810/2M-2810/3M-2810/4M-2810/5 |
Microfilm copy of collection |