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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Charles Oscar Beers Papers, #4161, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Special Collections Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received as a gift in 1979

Additional Descriptive Resources

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

Sensitive Materials Statement

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, January 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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• Beers, Charles Oscar, 1834-1910.
• Diaries.
• Gault, Charles B., 1911-
• Industries--North Carolina--Beaufort County--History--19th century.
• Memphis and Little Rock Railroad Company.
• North Carolina Lumber Company.
• North Carolina--Biography.
• Railroads--Southern States--History--19th century.
• Surveying--Southern States--History--19th century.

Charles Oscar Beers (1834-1910) was the co-founder of the North Carolina Lumber Company, Lake Waccamaw, N.C. Beers was born in Fairfield, Conn., and moved with his family to Oneida County, N.Y., in 1838. In 1857, he began working for the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad. He later started the C. O. Beers and Company lumber works in Wades Point, N.C., and co-founded the North Carolina Lumber Company in 1869.

The collection includes pocket diaries, 1857-1860 and 1862, of Charles Oscar Beers and a biography of Beers (typed photocopy) written by Charles Beers Gault, which includes maps, photographs, and some genealogical material. The diaries for 1857-1860 include discussions of Beers's work surveying for the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad and perhaps other railroads with some financial and accounting notes. The 1862 diary chiefly relates to Beers's business ventures at Wades Point, Beaufort County, N.C.