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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the William H. Biggers Papers #5359-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from William H. Biggers, M.D., in April 2007 (Acc. 100784).

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Processed: May 2019

Encoded by: Laura Smith

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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• Anson County (N.C.)--History.
• Biggers, William H.
• Families--North Carolina--History.
• Slavery--North Carolina.
• Solar eclipses--1900.

William Thomas Brasington was born in Lancaster County, S.C., in 1859. He was a contractor and brick manufacturer in Chesterfield, S.C., later moving to Wadesboro, N.C., where he continued in the same business.

The William H. Biggers Collection of Family Papers, 1843-1962, document scattered aspects of family history. Included are an 1843 bill of sale for a thirteen-year-old enslaved girl, Minto, who was owned by Thomas Gaddy; an 1849 note certifying William Cone as a local preacher for the Methodist Episcopal Church South; an 1852 receipt for salt and molasses; Confederate money; photocopies and reprints of photographs of William Thomas Brasington and others and the temporary buildings he constructed in Wadesboro, N.C., in May 1900, for the solar eclipse viewing party from the Yerkes Observatory; the scientific paper that resulted from the eclipse viewing; and time tables, 1945-1946 and 1962, for the Carolina and Virginia divisions of the Seaboard Air Line Railroad Company.