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Size | 6.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,500 items) |
Abstract | Alexander Boyd Andrews of North Carolina (1841-1915) was a Confederate Army officer, planter, and railroad executive. The collection includes papers, 1859-1891, consist of correspondence and other business papers of Andrew Boyd Andrews relating to his career as a railroad executive and capitalist, chiefly correspondence, bills, routine reports and monthly returns, receipts, and bills of lading. Railroads with which Andrews was connected include the Raleigh & Gaston, Chatham, Richmond & Danville, Atlantic & North Carolina, Western North Carolina, and the Southern. The earlier papers relate to railroad construction and specific arrangements for and the volume of business of a ferry on the Roanoke River at Gaston, N.C., including records of individual agents, boatmen, and other employees. In the late 1870s there is correspondence relating to the consolidation of railroads, financing, and the changes of ownership and management. The papers become less numerous after 1875. Also included are a scattering of personal and family letters, personal bills, and accounts, and papers relating to the planting of cotton and the selling of that and other crops through Baltimore commission merchants. The sixteen volumes include records relating to the operation of the ferry, 1866; farm records and accounts, including accounts with tenants and sharecroppers; personal and bank accounts; two volumes relating to Mrs. Andrews's housekeeping and church work, and a volume of data about births, marriages and deaths in the Andrews family, Johnston family, and Hawkins family. |
Creator | Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1841-1915. |
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, November 2009; Nancy Kaiser, January 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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1841 | Alexander Boyd Andrews born to William J. and Virginia (Hawkins) Andrews. |
1859-1860 | Purchasing agent, paymaster, and general superintendent for his uncle Phil B. Hawkins, who had a building contract on the Blue Ridge Railroad in South Carolina. |
1861 | Enlisted in 1st North Carolina Cavalry, C.S.A., under Robert Ransom. |
1862 | Promoted to captain, 1st North Carolina Cavalry, C.S.A. |
1863 | Wounded near Charlottesville, Va. |
1865-1866 | Operated ferry at Gaston, N.C. |
1867-1875 | Superintendent, Raleigh & Gaston Railroad. |
1868 | Became superintendent, Chatham Railroad. |
1869 | Married Julia Johnston of Charlotte, N.C. |
1875 | Representative of Richmond & Danville Railroad Company (later part of Southern Railroad) in North Carolina; superintendent of North Carolina Division, Richmond & Danville Railroad Company. |
1876 | Acquired the title of colonel as aide-de-camp to Governor Vance. |
1878-1880 | Superintendent of Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad |
1879-1880 | Instrumental in the reorganization of Western North Carolina Railroad. |
1881 | President, Western North Carolina Railroad. |
1894-1915 | Vice president, Southern Railroad. |
1915 | Death of Alexander Boyd Andrews. |
Papers, 1859-1891, consist of correspondence and other business papers of Alexander B. Andrews relating to his career as a railroad executive and capitalist. Also included are a scattering of personal and family letters, personal bills and accounts, and papers relating to the planting of cotton and the selling of that crops through Baltimore, Md., commission merchants.
The business papers are chiefly communications addressed to Alexander Boyd Andrews, or addressed to other railroad officers and referred to Andrews; also bills, routine reports and monthly returns, receipts and bills of lading.
The correspondence includes complaints and claims for losses and damage of freight shipments; applications for positions; requests for special arrangements in connection with freight rates, passenger excursion rates and individual passes; reports of accidents and damage to tracks and trestles; arrangements for right of way for new tracks; personnel problems; traffic of freight cars and schedule problems; rate agreements; negotiations with dealers in equipment for railroads, wood, and other purchases; continual communication with other railroads about freight shipments, schedule connections, rates, competition, and policies; storekeeping and housing for railroad laborers.
The earlier papers relate to railroad construction and specific arrangements for and the volume of business of the ferry at Gaston, N.C., including records of individual agents, boatmen, and other employees. Between 1867 and 1874, when Andrews was superintendent of Raleigh & Gaston Railroad, he was in constant communication with the agents at the stations on the line at Raleigh, Neuse, Wake, Franklinton, Kittrells, Henderson, Junction, Ridgeway, Warrenton, Macon, Littleton, Gaston, and Weldon, N.C.
The sixteen volumes include records relating to the operation of the ferry at Gaston, N.C., in 1866; farm records and accounts; personal and bank accounts; two volumes relating to Mrs. Andrews's housekeeping and church work, and a volume of family data pertaining to the Andrews, Johnston, and Hawkins families.
There are also tables of rates, storekeepers' reports, packages of rountine bills of lading, graphs, printed notices of schedules, rates, routes, sale of railroad bonds and a group of printed advertisements for specialized railroad equipment.
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Original finding aid |
Folder 1-2
Folder 1Folder 2 |
1859-1864 |
Folder 3-4
Folder 3Folder 4 |
1865 |
Folder 5-11
Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10Folder 11 |
1866 |
Folder 12-18
Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17Folder 18 |
1867 |
Folder 19-23
Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23 |
1868 |
Folder 24-26
Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26 |
1869 |
Folder 27-32
Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32 |
1870 |
Folder 33-36
Folder 33Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36 |
1871 |
Folder 37-43
Folder 37Folder 38Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43 |
1872 |
Folder 44-53
Folder 44Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51Folder 52Folder 53 |
1873 |
Folder 54-65
Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64Folder 65 |
1874 |
Folder 66-77
Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77 |
1875 |
Folder 77 |
1875-1878 |
Folder 78 |
1879-1891, 1902 |
Folder 79-81
Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81 |
Undated |
Folder 82a |
Portfolio of printed schedules, circulars, etc. |
Folder 82b |
Portfolio of printed schedules, circulars, etc. |
Folder 83a |
Portfolio of railroad material advertisements |
Folder 83b |
Portfolio of railroad material advertisements |
Folder 84a |
Permits |
Folder 84b |
Permits |
Folder 85-90
Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89Folder 90 |
Freight bills |
Folder 91-94
Folder 91Folder 92Folder 93Folder 94 |
Bills of lading |
Folder 95 |
Bank checks |
Folder 96 |
Reports |
Folder 97 |
Time tables |
Folder 98 |
Freight schedule |
Folder 99 |
Folder number not used |
Rolled Item R-3245/1 |
Map of railway line |
Folder 100 |
Printed advertisements |
Folder 101 |
Volume 1: Account book, Alexander Boyd Andrews; ledger and daybook, A. B. Hawkins, 1859-1862 |
Folder 102 |
Volume 2: Ferry agent's records, 1863-1866 |
Folder 103 |
Volume 3: Ledger, R. H. Andrews, 1865-1866 |
Folder 104 |
Volume 4: Account book, Alexander Boyd Andrews, 1865-1866 |
Folder 105-110
Folder 105Folder 106Folder 107Folder 108Folder 109Folder 110 |
Volumes 5-10: Ferry agent's records, Alexander Boyd Andrews and others, 1865-1866 |
Folder 111 |
Volume 11: Account book and mailing list, Sewing Society of the Church of Holy Innocents (?), 1867-1870 |
Folder 112 |
Volume 12: Bank book, Alexander Boyd Andrews, 1868-1870 |
Folder 113 |
Volume 13: Account book, Alexander Boyd Andrews, 1870 |
Folder 114 |
Volume 14: Housekeeping records, [Mrs. Alexander Boyd Andrews], 1870-1871 |
Folder 115 |
Volume 15: Bank book, Alexander Boyd Andrews, 1874-1876 |
Folder 116 |
Volume 16: Genealogical records, Andrews, Johnston, and Hawkins families, undated |
Rolled item (R-3245/1).
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