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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the D. A. Brigham Books, #3390-z, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Purchased 1958.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

Sensitive Materials Statement

Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the North Carolina Public Records Act (N.C.G.S. § 132 1 et seq.), and Article 7 of the North Carolina State Personnel Act (Privacy of State Employee Personnel Records, N.C.G.S. § 126-22 et seq.). Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill assumes no responsibility.

Processed by: SHC Staff

Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, May 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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The following terms from Library of Congress Subject Headings suggest topics, persons, geography, etc. interspersed through the entire collection; the terms do not usually represent discrete and easily identifiable portions of the collection--such as folders or items.

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• Brigham, D. A., fl. 1885-1887.
• Church records and registers--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Clarksville (Tenn.)--Church history.
• Cumberland Presbyterian Church--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Presbyterians--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Sunday school libraries--Tennessee--History--19th century.

D. A. Brigham (fl. 1885-1887) was a Presbyterian minister who served the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation at Clarksville, Tenn., beginning in April 1885.

The collection includes minutes of sessions, 1867-1887, and a register of communicants, baptisms, and funerals of the Cumberland Presbyterian congregation at Clarksville, Tenn., of which Reverend D. A. Brigham took charge in April 1885; and a catalog of Sunday school library books and their circulation, 1872-1873, probably of the Cumberland Presbyterian church at Dyersburg, Tenn.