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Size | 0.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 21 items) |
Abstract | George Monro Yoder was a Catawba County, N.C., farmer, teacher, merchant, coroner, surveyor, county commissioner, census taker, justice of the peace, postmaster, and elder in the Lutheran church. Yoder's papers include a diary, 1868-1920, with brief entries concerning weather, farm work, church and court attendance, neighborhood activities, trips, funerals, and other matters. Also present is a volume with descriptions of lots and lands surveyed and bought or sold, presumably in Catawba County; a history of the Yoder family; and George M. Yoder's autobiography. |
Creator | Yoder, George Monro, 1826-1920. |
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, April 2009; Nancy Kaiser, 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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George Monro Yoder (1826-1920) of Catawba County, N.C., was a farmer, teacher, merchant, coroner, surveyor, county commissioner, census taker, justice of the peace, postmaster, and elder in the Lutheran church.
Back to TopGeorge Monro Yoder's papers include a diary, 1868-1920, with brief entries concerning weather, farm work, church and court attendance, neighborhood activities, trips, funerals, and other matters. Also present is a volume with descriptions of lots and lands surveyed and bought or sold, presumably in Catawba County, N.C.; a history of the Yoder family; and George M. Yoder's autobiography.
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Original finding aid |
Oversize Volume SV-3426/1 |
Diary, Section 1: 1868-1869Includes detached diary pages, also Register of Common School in District 19 of Catawba County, N.C., 1861-1862. |
Folder 2 |
Diary, Section 2: 1868-1870; 1871-1873 |
Folder 3 |
Diary, Section 3: 1874-1881 |
Folder 4 |
Diary, Section 4: 1881-1896 |
Folder 5 |
Diary, Section 5: 1897-1901 |
Folder 6 |
Diary, Section 6: 1901-1906 |
Folder 7 |
Diary, Section 7: 1906-1911 |
Folder 8 |
Diary, Section 8: 1911-1916 |
Folder 9 |
Diary, Section 9: 1916-1920 |
Folder 10 |
Yoder family history by George Monro Yoder |
Folder 11 |
Land survey book, 1899 |
Folder 12 |
Miscellaneous papers: 1891-1894 and undated |
Oversize volume (SV-3426/1).
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