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Size | 3.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 2,300 items) |
Abstract | Daniel Moreau Barringer of Cabarrus County and Raleigh, N.C., was a lawyer; North Carolina state legislator; United States representative, 1843-1849; minister to Spain, 1849-1853; active Whig and later Democrat; and member of the North Carolina Democratic Party state executive committee, 1860, and chair, 1872. The collection includes family, business, and political correspondence and other papers of Daniel Moreau Barringer and members of his family. Included are letters, 1830s-1870s, from numerous North Carolina politicians and public officials, including Daniel Laurens Barringer, David F. Caldwell, Thomas L. Clingman, William Gaston, James Graham, William Alexander Graham, Willie P. Mangum, David L. Swain, and Calvin H. Wiley. Letters concern such issues as state and national politics; positions to be filled by President Zachary Taylor, 1848-1849; slavery; railroads; the University of North Carolina; and gold mining in Cabarrus and Mecklenburg counties, N.C. Papers for the period of Barringer's diplomatic service in Spain are especially full and include material relating to Americans taken prisoner after an expedition against the Spanish in Cuba. Letters, 1844-1860, from Barringer's brother, Paul Brandon Barringer, cotton planter near Oxford, Miss., discuss agricultrual, economic, social, and political affairs in Mississippi. There are also letters from Franklin L. Smith, a student at the University of North Carolina, 1827 and 1829; about politics during the Civil War; about race relations just after the Civil War; and about student life at Washington College, Lexington, Va., 1867-1869. Papers of Barringer's wife, Elizabeth (Wethered) Barringer (1822-1867) of Baltimore, Md., document her life, including treatment she received for cancer, 1866-1867, and the lives of members of the Wethered family. There are also two color photographs of oil portraits of Daniel Moreau Barringer and Elizabeth Barringer painted by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz during the Barrigers' stay in Madrid. |
Creator | Barringer, Daniel Moreau, 1806-1873. |
Curatorial Unit | Southern Historical Collection |
Language | English |
Processed by: Southern Historical Collection Staff, June 1965
Encoded by: Mara Dabrishus, October 2004
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Daniel Moreau Barringer was born in Cabarrus County, N.C., 30 July 1806, the son of Paul and Elizabeth (Brandon) Barringer. He was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1826, studied law with Judge Thomas Ruffin, and practiced in Concord, N.C. Barringer served in the North Carolina General Assembly, 1829-1835, 1840, 1845; in the state of constitutional convention of 1835; in the United States Congress, 1843-1849; and as minister to Spain, 1849-1853. In 1861, he was a delegate to the Peace Convention in Washington and, in 1866, to the National Union Convention in Philadelphia. He was a Whig in the 1830s and 1840s, but, in 1856, supported James Buchanan for the presidency and thereafter was affiliated with the Democrats. He was active in the campaign of 1868 and chair of the State Executive Committee of the Democratic Party in 1872.
Barringer was married on 15 August 1848 to Elizabeth Wethered (1822-1867), daughter of Lewin and Elizabeth (Ellicott) Wethered of Baltimore. They had two sons who lived to maturity, Lewin Wethered Barringer (b. 1850) and Daniel Moreau Barringer, Jr. (b. 1860). They also had a daughter, Elizabeth Brandon, who died in 1864 at the age of thirteen, and several other children who died in infancy.
Barringer lived in Cabarrus County and Concord until his marriage. In the year between their marriage and their departure for Spain, he and his wife lived with relatives in Cabarrus County and in Baltimore. On their return, they were again unsettled until June 1859, when they moved to Raleigh, N.C. During 1865-1866, they were in Baltimore for several months, but returned to Raleigh in 1866. Elizabeth Barringer was ill and went to the home of her brother James and his wife Mollie in Brooklyn for medical treatment, staying there until her death in May or June 1867. Daniel Moreau Barringer continued to live in Raleigh until his death on 1 September 1873.
The Barringer family was descended from a German immigrant, John Paul Barringer, who settled before the Revolution at Poplar Grove in what later became Cabarrus County. Paul Barringer (1778-1844) was one of his sons and had several sons and daughters: Daniel Moreau, the oldest; Margaret, who married first John Boy and second Andrew Grier; Paul Brandon, who married Mary Pickens Carson and moved to Mississippi; Mary Ann, who married Charles W. Harris and lived at Mill Grove; William, a Methodist preacher, whose wife was Lavinia Alston; Elizabeth, who married Edwin Harris; Rufus, who married first Eugenia Davidson, second Rosalie Chunn, and third Margaret Long; Catherine, who married William C. Means and lived at Bellevue; and Victor Clay, who married Maria Massey.
Elizabeth (Wethered) Barringer had one sister, Mary Lewin Wethered, who married William G. Thomas of Baltimore. She had four brothers: Charles; John, member of Congress 1843-1845; Samuel; and James. The family operated woolen mills at Wetheredville near Baltimore.
Back to TopThe papers include family, business, and political correspondence and other papers of lawyer, North Carolina legislator, United States Representative, United States minister to Spain, and member of Whig Party and later the North Carolina Democratic Party's executive committee Daniel Moreau Barringer of Cabarrus County, N.C., and Raleigh, N.C., and members of his family. Included are letters, 1830s-1870s, from numerous North Carolina politicians and public officials, including Daniel Laurens Barringer, David F. Caldwell, Thomas L. Clingman, William Gaston, James Graham, William Alexander Graham, Willie P. Mangum, David L. Swain, and Calvin H. Wiley. Letters concern such issues as state and national politics; positions to be filled by President Zachary Taylor, 1848-1849; slavery; railroads; the University of North Carolina; and gold mining in Cabarrus County and Mecklenburg County, N.C. Papers for the period of Barringer's diplomatic service in Spain are especially full and include material relating to Americans taken prisoner after an expedition against the Spanish in Cuba. Letters, 1844-1860, from Barringer's brother, Paul Brandon Barringer, cotton planter near Oxford, Miss., discuss agricultrual, economic, social, and political affairs in Mississippi. There are also letters from Franklin L. Smith, a student at the University of North Carolina, 1827 and 1829; about politics during the Civil War; about race relations just after the Civil War; and about student life at Washington College, Lexington, Va., 1867-1869. Papers of Barringer's wife, Elizabeth Barringer (1822-1867) of Baltimore, Md., document her life, including treatment she received for cancer, 1866-1867, and the lives of members of the Wethered family. There are also two color photographs of oil portraits of Daniel Moreau Barringer and Elizabeth Barringer painted by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz during the Barrigers' stay in Madrid.
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1797-1808, 1812 |
Folder 2 |
1824-1826Includes a letter from F. L. Smith to Daniel M. Barringer, 2 June 1826. |
Folder 3 |
1827-1828 |
Folder 4 |
1829-1830 |
Folder 5 |
1831-1833 |
Folder 6 |
1834-1835 |
Folder 7 |
1836-1838 |
Folder 8 |
1839-1840 |
Folder 9 |
1841 |
Folder 10 |
1842-1843 |
Folder 11 |
1844-1845 |
Folder 12 |
1846-1847 |
Folder 13a |
1848 |
Folder 13b |
1848 |
Folder 14-16
Folder 14Folder 15Folder 16 |
1849 |
Folder 17-19
Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19 |
1850 |
Folder 20-24
Folder 20Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24 |
1851 |
Folder 25-30
Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30 |
1852 |
Folder 31-32
Folder 31Folder 32 |
1853 |
Folder 33-34
Folder 33Folder 34 |
1855 |
Folder 35 |
1856 |
Folder 36 |
1856 |
Folder 37 |
1857 |
Folder 38 |
1858 |
Folder 39 |
1859 |
Folder 40 |
1860 |
Folder 41 |
1861 |
Folder 42 |
1862 |
Folder 43 |
1863-1864 |
Folder 44 |
1865 |
Folder 45 |
1866 |
Folder 46a |
1867 |
Folder 46b |
1867 |
Folder 47a |
1868 |
Folder 47b |
1869 |
Folder 48 |
1870-1871 |
Folder 49-51
Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51 |
1872 |
Folder 52 |
1873-1885, 1919, 1928, 1936 |
Folder 53 |
Family records, obituaries, reminiscences |
Folder 54-58
Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56Folder 57Folder 58 |
Papers relating to Spanish mission, 1849-1853 and undated |
Folder 59 |
European bills, 1848-1854 |
Folder 60 |
Undated letters |
Folder 61 |
Undated miscellaneous |
Folder 62 |
Clippings before 1861 |
Folder 63 |
Clippings and other items after 1865 |
Folder 64 |
Welheardville map description |
Oversize Paper OP-3359/1 |
Welheardville map |
Folder 65 |
Barringer, Brandon: Lists and comments |
Folder 66 |
Congressional autograph album |
Folder 67 |
Copy of the detailed inventory of the Daniel Moreau Barringer Papers that was produced by Manuscripts Department staff, 1965-1973 |
Image Folder PF-3359/1 |
Two color photographs of oil portraits of Daniel Moreau Barringer and Elizabeth Barringer painted by Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz during the Barrigers' stay in Madrid.The portraits, 4'7" x 3'3" (5'10" x 4'3" framed), were in the possession of Mrs. Philip W. Rabinowitz, daughter of Brandon Barringer, in 1972. |
Separated items include photographs (P-3359) and oversize papers (OP-3359).
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