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Size | 6.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 40 items) |
Abstract | Alice Noble (1891-1972) was a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., librarian and secretary of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, staff member of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation, and associate secretary and associate editor of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. The collection includes genealogical and historical data, notes and copies, mounted clippings and pictures, writings, typescripts, and pertinent correspondence, compiled by Alice Noble, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The volumes are organized by family name or topic, and include genealogical scrapbooks on the Barron, Brice, Consolvo, Ellis, Graves, Hawks, Hooper, Jones, Lillington, Lister, Noble, Primrose, Robinson, Stephens, Turner, Watters, Yarborough, and related families; genealogical and historical scrapbooks on New Bern, Wilmington, and Hillsborough, N.C., and on the Reverend John La Pierre and the Palatine settlers in North Carolina; a history of the Chapel Hill, N.C., chapter of the American Red Cross during World War I; and a paper on "Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina." Also included are photographs of Noble family members, a photograph album for the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation from circa 1920s to 1960s, and a 1959 volume titled "They Fought the Good Fight" containing editorials by Alice Noble and correspondence with alumni of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy, who were serving in the armed forces during the Second World War. |
Creator | Noble, Alice. |
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, October 2009
Updated: March 2019
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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Alice Noble (1891-1972) was a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., librarian and secretary of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, staff member of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation, and associate secretary and associate editor of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association.
Back to TopThe collection includes volumes, chiefly genealogical units of family and historical data, notes and copies, and mounted clippings and pictures, writings, typescripts, and pertinent correspondence, compiled by Alice Noble, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The volumes are organized by family name or topic, and include genealogical scrapbooks on the Barron, Brice, Consolvo, Ellis, Graves, Hawks, Hooper, Jones, Lillington, Lister, Noble, Primrose, Robinson, Stephens, Turner, Watters, Yarborough, and related families; genealogical and historical scrapbooks on New Bern, Wilmington, and Hillsborough, N.C., and on the Reverend John La Pierre and the Palatine settlers in North Carolina; a history of the Chapel Hill, N.C., chapter of the American Red Cross during World War I; and a paper on "Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina." Also included are photographs of Noble family members, a photograph album for the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation from circa 1920s to 1960s, and a 1959 volume titled "They Fought the Good Fight" containing editorials by Alice Noble and correspondence with alumni of the University of North Carolina's School of Pharmacy, who were serving in the armed forces during the Second World War.
Back to TopFolder 1 |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1a |
Volume 1: Barron and OsborneIncludes information on John C. Osborn; David Barron; Samuel Graves Barron (died 1807); and New Bern, N.C. |
Folder 2 |
Volume 2: Brice, Rice, and CarruthersIncludes 18th century records, chiefly of Craven County, N.C.; information on William Brice, Nathaniel Rice, and others; and Carruthers family data and references to colonial records. |
Folder 3 |
Volume 3: Consolvo (Gonzales) family |
Folder 4 |
Volume 4: Ellis, James |
Folder 5 |
Volume 5: Ellis, Richard |
Folder 6 |
Volume 6: EllisIncludes information on many other members of the Ellis family by name, also, Joseph Nelson, Sallie Sitgreaves and her two sisters who married George Ellis and Tom Ellis. |
Folder 7 |
Volume 7: GravesIncludes data on Thomas Graves, Lancelot G. Berry, Richard Graves and his son Thomas, the Fonvielle family, Elizabeth Graves Henry, Mary Graves Bright, Ann Graves Barron Ellis, Sarah Graves Oram, and Mary Graves Nixon. |
Folder 8 |
Volume 8: Hawks, John |
Folder 9 |
Volume 9: HooperWilliam Hooper (1742-1790) and his descendants, their families and lives. William's brother George Hooper and George's father-in-law Archibald Maclain, and Thomas Hooper. |
Folder 10 |
Volume 10: JonesFrederick Jones and Thomas Jones in colonial Craven County, N.C.; Mary Vail, widow of Frederick Jones; also, Dobbs, Nash, and Abner families, and John Knox Witherspoon (1791-1853). |
Folder 11 |
Volume 11: LillingtonIncludes data on Lillington, Vail, Merrick, Howe, and Spaight families, and Mary Whiting Jones Ellis. |
Folder 12 |
Volume 12: Lister in EnglandInformation on the Lister family of Shibden Hall, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England. |
Folder 13 |
Volume 13: Lister in the coloniesIncludes information on William Lister; his daughters, Phoebe Lister van Dam and Mary Lister Stephens; and his widow, Susannah Lewes, who married Joseph Balch after William's death. |
Folder 14 |
Volume 14: NobleVolume includes material on Alice Noble's father, M. C. S. Noble and immediate family. |
Folder 15 |
Volume 15: Primrose, Robert S.Information related to the family of Robert Stuart Primrose (1782-1856) of Scotland. |
Folder 16 |
Volume 16: Primrose, Cicero StephensVolume includes Williams, Guion, Ferrand, Backhouse, Daily, Snead, Gillespie-Snead, Dudley-Hill, Chapman, and Primrose families. Also includes data from and correspondence with Mary F. Henderson. |
Folder 17 |
Volume 17: Robinson and Smith |
Folder 18 |
Volumes 18-20: StephensVolumes include material on Richard Nassau Stephens, Marcus Cicero Stephens (born circa 1774-1775), Mary Anne Ellis Stephens, Anne Stephens Primrose, Robert Primrose, Sam Barron Stephens (1812-1881 or 1882), and other family data. |
Folder 21 |
Volume 21: TurnerIncludes descendants of Robert Turner of Beaufort County, N.C. |
Folder 22 |
Volume 22: WattersIncludes descendants of John Watters and Joseph Watters of Brunswick County, N.C., and William Watters. |
Folder 23 |
Volume 23: YarboroughIncludes genealogical material on the family of Alice Noble's mother, Alice Jackson Yarborough Noble (1863-1902). Also information on history and people of Salisbury, N.C., and Rowan County, N.C. |
Folder 24 |
Volume 24: New Bern, N.C., biographies and familiesContains brief sections on friends of the family and other New Bernians, not related to Alice Noble. |
Folder 25 |
Volume 25: Wilmington and Hillsborough, N.C., biographies and familiesContains sections on John Burgwyn (1731-1803); John Butler; Giles family; William Soranzo Hassell (1780-1815; James Hogg (1729-1805); and others. |
Folder 26 |
Volume 26: Hillsborough's Burwell School: its pupilsCompiled sheets on the individual pupils of the Burwell School, Hillsborough, N.C. |
Folder 27 |
Volume 27: Supplementary material concerning the Burwell SchoolIncludes a list of Hillsborough, N.C., cemetery lots, brochures and bulletins published by the Hillsborough Historical Society in the 1960s, and some letters to Alice Noble about Hillsborough historical matters. |
Folder 28-30
Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30 |
Volumes 28-30: "Historical Gleanings," 1959-1963Notebooks contain mounted clippings from Elizabeth Moore's column, "Historical Gleanings," in the New Bern Mirror concerning New Bern and Craven County, N.C., history. See also Volume 31. |
Folder 31 |
Volume 31: Miscellaneous clippings, 1954-1964Includes mounted and loose clippings mainly from New Bern, Greensboro, and Raleigh, N.C., newspapers. They include articles related to North Carolina history, especially to the New Bern area. |
Folder 32 |
Volume 32: Reverend John LapierreIncludes two papers by Lillian Fordham, memoranda, and other material related to John Lapierre. |
Folder 33 |
Volume 33: "The Chapel Hill Chapter of American Red Cross in World War I"Compiled by Alice Noble. |
Folder 34 |
Volume 34: "Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina", 1963Preliminary study by Alice Noble. |
Folder 35 |
Volume 35: Sermons and papers, Reverend Herbert N. TuckerIncludes sermons and papers on theological topics written by Tucker either while he was in Chapel Hill, N.C., in the late 1960s as chaplain to Episcopal students and the University of North Carolina, or during 1969-1970 while he was at the Seminary at Alexandria, Va. |
Image Folder PF-3849/1 |
Photographs |
Acquisitions Information: Accession 102615
Volumes received as an addition. Includes a binder of photographs documenting annual meetings of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation that includes images of Frank Porter Graham and R.B. House, a binder of V-mail received during the Second World War from UNC's School of Pharmacy alumni, and a book with typed letters from School of Pharmacy alumni and editorials written by Alice Noble.
Box 5 |
Correspondence, circa 1941-1945V-mail received during the Second World War from alumni of the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina. |
"They Fought the Good Fight", 1959Typed letters received from alumni of the School of Pharmacy at the University of North Carolina and editorials written by Alice Noble. |
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Photograph Album PA-3849/1 |
Photograph album, circa 1920s-1960sPhotographs document annual meetings of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation and includes images of Frank Porter Graham, Robert B. House, and others affiliated with the University of North Carolina at that time. |