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Copyright Notice

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the J. W. Umstead Papers, #3910, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Frank G. Umstead of Chapel Hill, N.C., September 1970.

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

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, December 2009

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.

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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• College trustees--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Legislators--North Carolina--Correspondence.
• North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control.
• Psychiatric hospitals--North Carolina--History--20th century.
• Umstead, J. W. (John Wesley), 1889-1968.
• Universities and colleges--Law and legislation--North Carolina.

J. W. (John Wesley) Umstead (1889-1968), University of North Carolina trustee, 1939-1963, and state legislator from Orange County, 1940-1963, was an advocate of prison reform, public education, mental health programs, and improved hospital facilities. He was appointed by Governor R. Gregg Cherry in 1945 to the Hospitals Board of Control and served as its chairman in the 1950s.

The collection includes correspondence and other materials, chiefly 1957-1960, concerning J. W. Umstead's activities on behalf of the University of North Carolina, as a member of the North Carolina General Assembly, and with the North Carolina Hospitals Board of Control, which supervised mental hospitals throughout the state.