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Abstract | Thomas Settle Jr. (1831-1888) of Greensboro, N.C., was a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, 1868-1871; chair of the Republican National Convention, 1872; and United States district judge at Jacksonville, Fla., 1877-1888. Settle's son, Thomas Settle III (1865-1919), was a lawyer in Rockingham County and Guilford County, N.C.; state district solicitor, 1886-1893; and Republican United States representative, 1893-1897. The collection includes political, personal, legal, and business papers of Thomas Settle Jr. and his son, Thomas Settle III. Correspondence with many individuals concerns the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina during Reconstruction, and thereafter party organization, activities, patronage, conventions, factions, finances, and campaigns and elections in North Carolina and nationally; political issues in North Carolina, Florida, and the nation, mainly 1872-1897, including amendments to the North Carolina state constitution of 1876, charges of election fraud, election law reform, taxes, tariff, currency, banking regulations, prohibition, suffrage, state and national activities of the Populist Party; federal legislation, 1892-1897; and African Americans. Also included are papers concerning personal business, finances, lands, and legal cases. Judge Settle's Florida letters concern both his interest in North Carolina politics and cases he tried in northern Florida involving railroads, shipping, and homestead entries. The papers of Thomas Settle III date from 1884 to 1897. Also included are four political scrapbooks, 1866-1912, and clippings and scattered papers relating to the political activities of Mary Settle (Mrs. B.C.) Sharpe, 1902-1904. The Addition of February 2012 is a bound volume with manuscript notes attributed to Judge Thomas Settle. The notes relate to five political speeches delivered by Settle in support of post-Civil War Reconstruction and civil rights during his 1876 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign as Republican candidate. Settle's notes document Reconstruction politics and mention the Ku Klux Klan, African Americans, and anti-Union Democrats. |
Creator | Settle, Thomas, 1831-1888. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2010
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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Finding aid updated in June 2012 by Armando Suarez because of addition.
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Thomas Settle Jr. (1831-1888) of Greensboro, N.C., was a North Carolina Supreme Court justice, 1868-1871; chair of the Republican National Convention, 1872; and United States district judge at Jacksonville, Fla., 1877-1888. His son, Thomas Settle III (1865-1919), was a lawyer in Rockingham and Guilford counties, N.C.; state district solicitor, 1886-1893; and Republican United States representative, 1893-1897.
Back to TopThe collection includes political, personal, legal, and business papers of Thomas Settle Jr. and his son, Thomas Settle III. Correspondence with many individuals concerns the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina during Reconstruction, and thereafter party organization, activities, patronage, conventions, factions, finances, and campaigns and elections in North Carolina and nationally; political issues in North Carolina, Florida, and the nation, mainly 1872-1897, including amendments to the North Carolina state constitution of 1876, charges of election fraud, election law reform, taxes, tariff, currency, banking regulations, prohibition, suffrage, state and national activities of the Populist Party; federal legislation, 1892-1897; and African Americans. Also included are papers concerning personal business, finances, lands, and legal cases. Judge Settle's Florida letters concern both his interest in North Carolina politics and cases he tried in northern Florida involving railroads, shipping, and homestead entries. The papers of Thomas Settle III date from 1884 to 1897. Also included are four political scrapbooks, 1866-1912, and clippings and scattered papers relating to the political activities of Mary Settle (Mrs. B.C.) Sharpe, 1902-1904.
The Addition of February 2012 is a bound volume with manuscript notes attributed to Judge Thomas Settle. The notes relate to five political speeches delivered by Settle in support of post-Civil War Reconstruction and civil rights during his 1876 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign as Republican candidate. Settle's notes document Reconstruction politics and mention the Ku Klux Klan, African Americans, and anti-Union Democrats.
Back to TopCorrespondence, 1850-1860, is primarily letters to Thomas Settle from other young North Carolinians, relating chiefly to state and sectional politics, party machinery and campaigns, personal ambitions and careers, and matters before the legislature. Papers, 1861-1864, include scattered items related to Settle's service in the Confederate Army and correspondence concerning the calling of a state convention to protest actions of the Confederate Government and to protect the interests of the people of North Carolina. Between 1865 and 1871, Settle's correspondence relates to the establishment of the Republican Party in North Carolina; alignment of political allies; patronage; efforts to get representatives to the U. S. Congress accredited; politcal rallies and activities; control of the University of North Carolina; U. S. loyalty oaths; claims for property damage against the U. S. government by loyal citizens; homestead act; corruption in legislature; events in district court; personal business in regard to finances, lands, and legal practice; and comments on public matters and mention of family and religious matters. Settle was a member of the state senate in 1865 and became an associate justice of the North Carolina supreme court in 1868. Correspondence, 1872-1876, relates almost entirely to political matters, and letters often requested favors and appointments. In January 1877 Settle was appointed as U. S. District Judge for Northern Florida, and served in this position until December 1888. Correspondence during this period was concerned with National Party matters, patronage, his personal influence, and with cases in the Northern Florida district court, especially cases relating to railroads, shipping, and homestead entry. Papers documenting the period from 1890 to 1898 are almost entirely letters received by Thomas Settle III during the period when he was solicitor for the 9th judicial district of North Carolina, was a Republican member of Congress (1893-1897), a practicing attorney in Rockingham and Guilford counties, and a campaigner and leader in the Republican Party at the state and regional levels. These letters relate to party organization and work, requests for political patronage, and political issues of the time. Scattered personal and family letters, as well as letters about court cases, are also present.
Folder 1 |
Biographical sketches |
1784, 1850-1854 |
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Folder 2 |
1855-1859 |
Folder 3 |
1860-1866 |
Folder 4 |
1867-1869 |
Folder 5 |
1870-1871 |
Folder 6-7
Folder 6Folder 7 |
1872 |
Folder 8-10
Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10 |
1873 |
Folder 11-12
Folder 11Folder 12 |
1874 |
Folder 13-14
Folder 13Folder 14 |
1875 |
Folder 15-17
Folder 15Folder 16Folder 17 |
1876 |
Folder 18-25
Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25 |
1877 |
Folder 26-28
Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28 |
1878 |
Folder 29-31
Folder 29Folder 30Folder 31 |
1879 |
Folder 32-33
Folder 32Folder 33 |
1880 |
Folder 34-36
Folder 34Folder 35Folder 36 |
1881 |
Folder 37 |
1882-1883 |
Folder 38-39
Folder 38Folder 39 |
1884 |
Folder 40-41
Folder 40Folder 41 |
1885 |
Folder 42-43
Folder 42Folder 43 |
1886 |
Folder 44 |
1887 |
Folder 45-47
Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47 |
1888-1889 |
Folder 48-50
Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50 |
1890 |
Folder 51-52
Folder 51Folder 52 |
1891 |
Folder 53-54
Folder 53Folder 54 |
January-June 1892 |
Folder 55 |
July 1892 |
Folder 56 |
August 1892 |
Folder 57 |
September 1892 |
Folder 58 |
October 1892 |
Folder 59-60
Folder 59Folder 60 |
November 1892 |
Folder 61-62
Folder 61Folder 62 |
December 1892 |
Folder 63-64
Folder 63Folder 64 |
January 1893 |
Folder 65-66
Folder 65Folder 66 |
February 1893 |
Folder 67 |
March 1893 |
Folder 68 |
April 1893 |
Folder 69 |
May 1893 |
Folder 70 |
June 1893 |
Folder 71 |
July 1893 |
Folder 72-74
Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74 |
August 1893 |
Folder 75-77
Folder 75Folder 76Folder 77 |
September 1893 |
Folder 78-80
Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80 |
October 1893 |
Folder 81 |
November 1893 |
Folder 82 |
December 1893 |
Folder 83-87
Folder 83Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87 |
January 1894 |
Folder 88-89
Folder 88Folder 89 |
February 1894 |
Folder 90-91
Folder 90Folder 91 |
March 1894 |
Folder 92-94
Folder 92Folder 93Folder 94 |
April 1894 |
Folder 95-97
Folder 95Folder 96Folder 97 |
May 1894 |
Folder 98-99
Folder 98Folder 99 |
June 1894 |
Folder 100-101
Folder 100Folder 101 |
July 1894 |
Folder 102-103
Folder 102Folder 103 |
August 1894Includes a resolution from African Americans employed in D.C. asking that Settle not run for office again. |
Folder 104-106
Folder 104Folder 105Folder 106 |
September 1894 |
Folder 107-109
Folder 107Folder 108Folder 109 |
October 1894 |
Folder 110-112
Folder 110Folder 111Folder 112 |
November 1894 |
Folder 113-114
Folder 113Folder 114 |
December 1894 |
Folder 115-116
Folder 115Folder 116 |
January 1895 |
Folder 117 |
February 1895 |
Folder 118 |
March-April 1895 |
Folder 119 |
May-July 1895 |
Folder 120 |
August 1895 |
Folder 121 |
September 1895 |
Folder 122-123
Folder 122Folder 123 |
October 1895 |
Folder 124-125
Folder 124Folder 125 |
November 1895 |
Folder 126-128
Folder 126Folder 127Folder 128 |
December 1895 |
Folder 129-133
Folder 129Folder 130Folder 131Folder 132Folder 133 |
January 1896 |
Folder 134-137
Folder 134Folder 135Folder 136Folder 137 |
February 1896 |
Folder 138-142
Folder 138Folder 139Folder 140Folder 141Folder 142 |
March 1896 |
Folder 143-146
Folder 143Folder 144Folder 145Folder 146 |
April 1896 |
Folder 147-148
Folder 147Folder 148 |
May 1896 |
Folder 149 |
June 1896 |
Folder 150-151
Folder 150Folder 151 |
July 1896 |
Folder 152-153
Folder 152Folder 153 |
August 1896 |
Folder 154 |
September 1896 |
Folder 155 |
October 1896 |
Folder 156 |
November 1896 |
Folder 157-158
Folder 157Folder 158 |
December 1896 |
Folder 159-166
Folder 159Folder 160Folder 161Folder 162Folder 163Folder 164Folder 165Folder 166 |
1897 |
Folder 166 |
1898 |
Folder 167 |
1902-1924 |
Folder 168 |
Undated |
Folder 169 |
Clippings, campaign literature, and broadsides |
Folder 170 |
Volume 1: Political scrapbook, 1866-1874Contains clippings about national and North Carolina politics, also broadsides and pamphlets, printed items, voting summaries, and Congressional speeches. |
Folder 171 |
Volume 2: Notebook, Thomas Settle, 1875 |
Folder 172 |
Volume 3: Political records and scrapbook, 1886-1912Contains pamphlets; leaflets; cliippings; ballots; and political records, including tables, charts, lists relating to votes and political committees and chairpeople. |
Folder 173 |
Volume 4: Scrapbook, 1888 |
The Addition of February 2012 is a bound volume with manuscript notes attributed to Judge Thomas Settle. The notes relate to five political speeches delivered by Settle in support of post-Civil War Reconstruction and civil rights during his 1876 North Carolina gubernatorial campaign as Republican candidate. Settle's notes document Reconstruction politics and mention the Ku Klux Klan, African Americans, and anti-Union Democrats. The notes are laid out as individual entries, presenting the talking points for the speeches delivered by Settle while running against Democratic opponent, Governor Zebulon B. Vance. Consisting of about 16 pages of pencil manuscript, the notes are primarily written on pages at the beginning, middle, and end of a volume containing legislative documents from the North Carolina General Assembly sessions of 1865 and 1866.
Folder 174 |
Thomas Settle manuscript notes: North Carolina gubernatorial campaign, 1876 |