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[Identification of item], in the Emma Louise Hodge papers #4894-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Purchased from Lionheart Antiques and Gifts, Burlington, N.C., on 24 September 1997 (Acc. 97127).

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• College students--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Courtship--History--19th century.
• Diaries (Blank-books)
• Elon College--Students.
• Families--North Carolina--Photographs.
• Families--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
• Hodge, Emma Louise, 1849-1933.
• Photographs.
• Salem College (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--Students.
• Sheldon family.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students.
• Welton family.
• Women--Education--New York (State)--History--19th century.
• Women--New York (State)--Diaries--History--19th century.
• Women--New York (State)--Social life and customs.

Emma Louise Hodge was born 21 May 1849 in Jefferson, Ohio, the daughter of Varnum Joseph Hodge and Adelia Maria Loomis Hodge. She married physician Charles Stuart Sheldon on 30 October 1868. The couple had five children: William Hodge Sheldon (1869-1874); Sidney Roby Sheldon (1873-1959), who was a professor of engineering; surgeons Walter Hodge Sheldon (b. 1874) and Stuart Sheldon (b. 1876); and Helen Miriam Sheldon Lyman (b. 1884), whose daughter Sydney married Dr. David Welton and lived in Charlotte, N.C. Emma Louise Hodge died on 15 March 1933 in Madison, Wisc.

The collection includes diaries of Emma L. Hodge and photographs. The diaries, 1867-1868, span her last year of high school when she lived with her uncle William Hodge in Buffalo, N.Y., and attended the Buffalo Femal Seminary. Entries discuss visits to her parents; her courtship and eventual marriage to Charles Stuart Sheldon, a medical student at Buffalo University; social events; daily chores; family traditions; and the health of various family members and friends. Also included is a photograph album, which was annotated by its owner and chiefly contains photographs of family, friends, and students at Elon College, Salem College, and the University of North Carolina, 1916-1917. Also included are 25 unidentified loose photographs. The photographs may have belonged to the family of David Welton, husband of Emma Louise Hodge Sheldon's granddaughter.

• PF-4894/1-2