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Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 700 items) |
Abstract | Members of the Riddick family include Wallace C. Riddick (1864-1942), professor of civil engineering and administrator at North Carolina State College, Raleigh, N.C., 1892-1937; his nephew, Ivy G. Riddick (1890-1956), an agent of the British-American Tobacco Company, Shanghai, China, 1918-1943; and Ivy Riddick's wife, Margaret Riddick. Wallace Riddick's material consists largely of items relating to land he bought and sold in Wake County, N.C., but includes some items relating to N.C. State College and engineering education. Papers of Ivy Riddick and his wife include personal letters discussing conditions in Shanghai and the Philippines, 1939-1943, and some items relating to Riddick's employment by the British-American Tobacco Company. Also included are photograph albums and scrapbooks kept by the Riddicks in China. |
Creator | Riddick (Family : Riddick, W. C. (Wallace Carl), 1864-1942) |
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, September 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.
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Wallace Carl Riddick (1864-1942), son of Wiley Goodman Riddick and Anna Ivy Jones Riddick, was raised in Wake County, N.C., and was educated at Wake Forest College, the University of North Carolina, and Lehigh University. After working briefly as an engineer he joined the faculty of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College in Raleigh, N.C., as a professor of hydraulics and also coached athletic teams. He became the vice president of North Carolina State College in 1908 and the president in 1916. In 1923 he resigned that post to organize the School of Engineering at that institution and became its dean. He remained dean until his retirement in 1937. While at State College he served on the State Highway Commission, the Conservation Commission, and for one year on the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy. He married Lillian Daniel in 1893.
Ivy Goodman Riddick Junior (1890-1956), son of Ivy Goodman Riddick and grandson of Wiley Goodman Riddick, began work in the sales department of the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina in 1914. In 1916 he was transferred to the leaf department and in 1919 he was sent to manage the leaf department of the American Tobacco Company's sister company, the British-American Tobacco Company, in Hankow, China. He worked as a factory supervisor, 1920-1939, and thereafter worked for another tobacco company in Shanghai. He remained in Shanghai until 1943 when he was forced to evacuate to the United States. He returned to North Carolina with his wife Margaret and daughter Frances.
Back to TopThe collection includes papers of Ivy Goodman Riddick; his wife, Margaret; his uncle, Wallace C. Riddick; and Wallace Riddick's father, Wiley G. Riddick. Wallace C. Riddick's material consists largely of items relating to land he bought and sold in Wake County, N.C., but includes some items relating to North Carolina State College and engineering education. Papers of Ivy Riddick and his wife include personal letters discussing conditions in Shanghai, China, and the Philippines, 1939-1943, and some items relating to Riddick's employment by the British-American Tobacco Company. Also included are photograph albums and scrapbooks kept by the Riddicks in China.
Back to TopFolder 1a |
Original finding aid |
Folder 1-2
Folder 1Folder 2 |
Riddick Family history and genealogy |
Wiley Goodman Riddick's papers include a tax in kind certificate for 1864-1865; a loyalty oath to the United States; a vote registration certificate; and Wiley G. Riddick's will.
Folder 3 |
1865-1909See also Folder 34. |
Extra Oversize Paper Folder XOPF-4120/1 |
1865-1909See also Folder 34. |
More than half of Wallace C. Riddick's papers are legal documents, mostly deeds to land he bought and sold in Wake County, N.C. There are also obituaries, recommendations for Riddick when he applied to be a civil engineer with the United States Navy; a report of instruction and facilities in the Department of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at North Carolina State College, 1893; an address given by Riddick in 1938 to the North Carolina Society of Engineers on engineering education and professionalism; a 1938 Proposed Constitution and By-Laws of the North Carolina Society of Engineers; 14 picture postcards of North Carolina State College, circa 1940; and a letter to Riddick in which an engineer friend explains how he got an engineering job through Tammany Hall backing in New York.
Folder 4 |
Obituaries and miscellany, 1895-1970 |
Folder 5 |
Letters, 1893-1951 |
Folder 6 |
Letters, 1898 |
Folder 7 |
Family legal papers, 1804-1899 |
Folder 8 |
Legal papers, 1900-1909 |
Folder 9 |
Legal papers, 1910-1912 |
Folder 10 |
Legal papers, 1913-1916 |
Folder 11 |
Legal papers, 1917-1919 |
Folder 12 |
Legal papers, 1921-1925 |
Folder 13 |
Legal papers, 1931-1938 |
Folder 14 |
Legal papers, 1940-1949 |
Folder 15 |
Miscellany, 1901-1922 and undated |
Arrangement: chiefly chronological.
Includes Ivy and Margaret Riddick's personal correspondence from Shanghai and Hankow, China to each other, and from friends and relatives in the United States. Letters relate to Ivy Riddick's employment at British-American Tobacco Company, Margaret Riddick's exporting of Chinese linens and lace for sale in North Carolina, and conditions for Americans and American businesses in China. Included are letters between Margaret Riddick and Ivy Riddick, 1939-1941, during which period Margaret and daughter Frances were living in an American community in Manila, Philippines after having been evacuated from China. After 1943, there are scattered personal letters to the Riddicks, living in North Carolina, from friends and relatives. The series also includes many pictures, photographs,and postcards.
Volumes related to Ivy and Margaret Riddick can be found in Series 6, Folders 35-36.
Folder 16 |
Letters, 1908-1919Letters contain mostly family news; a letter from a soldier in France during World War I describing his activities behind the front; and a contract between Ivy G. Riddick and the British-American Tobacco Company in Shanghai, China. |
Folder 17 |
Letters, 1920-1929Letters concern Ivy G. Riddick's passing several Chinese language exams; Riddick's attempt to seek employment as a tobacco dealer for another company; and an eyewitness' account to the aftermath of the Kanto earthquake in Yokohama, Japan in 1923. |
Folder 18-19
Folder 18Folder 19 |
Letters, 1930-1939Correspondence of the 1930s includes business letters of Ivy G. Riddick, business letters of Margaret Riddick and the personal letters of both. The business correspondence of Ivy G. Riddick is primarily related to aspects of his employment with the British-American Tobacco Company, but other items mention the American reaction against Chinese in Shanghai in 1934 and Japanese justifications for not locating factories in occupied China in 1936. Margaret Riddick's business correspondence, mostly letters and receipts, concerns her partnership with Sarah Jones to whom Margaret Riddick sent linens and lace to sell in a dress shop in Raleigh, N.C. Personal letters concern family news of relatives in the United States to 1939. There are also letters, 1939 and 1941, between Margaret Riddick and daughter Frances, who were evacuated to Manila, Philippines, and Ivy G. Riddick, who remained in Shanghai. These letters describe personal feelings, conditions in Shanghai and conditions in the American community in the Philippines. |
Folder 20 |
Letters, 1940-1949Includes the remainder of the letters, 1941, between Ivy G. Riddick in Shanghai and Margaret Riddick in the Philippines and several letters containing family news from relatives in the United States. Also included is an essay by Ivy G. Riddick concerning the ineffectiveness of the American Army protecting American people and business in China and other topics. |
Folder 21 |
Letters, 1951-1954Scattered personal letters to the Riddicks from relatives and friends. |
Folder 22 |
Miscellany, undated |
Folder 23 |
Passports |
Image Folder PF-4120/1-14
PF-4120/1PF-4120/2PF-4120/3PF-4120/4PF-4120/5PF-4120/6PF-4120/7PF-4120/8PF-4120/9PF-4120/10PF-4120/11PF-4120/12PF-4120/13PF-4120/14 |
Photographs and postcardsSee also Photograph Album PA-4120/1. |
Folder 24-30
Folder 24Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30 |
Folder numbers not used |
Folder 31 |
Miscellany, 1937 |
Legal and business papers mostly concern contracts to have a commercial building built in Raleigh, N.C.
Folder 32 |
Business and legal papers, 1939-1964 |
Folder 33 |
Volume 1: Wiley Charles Goodman Riddick diary, 1874 |
Folder 34 |
Volume 2: Autograph album, Margaret Riddick, 1913-1940 |
Photograph Album PA-4120/1 |
Volumes 3, 4, 6: Photograph albums, 1918-1943 |
Folder 35 |
Folder number not used |
Folder 36 |
Volume 5: Ledger, Ivy G. Riddick family in China, 1925 |