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Size | 15 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 8000 items) |
Abstract | Contains the papers of the white Morehead Family, primarily John Motley Morehead III and his cousin John Lindsay Morehead. Materials include correspondence, business records, family materials, and planning materials. Topics include the Morehead Family; John Motley Morehead III’s work with Union Carbide; Morehead’s involvement in politics; and Morehead’s work with the University of North Carolina, including the gift and planning of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, the construction and donation of the planetarium building and the purchase of the Zeiss planetarium instrument, and the establishment of the John Motley Morehead Foundation (since 2007, the Morehead-Cain Foundation). |
Creator | Morehead, John Motley, III, 1870-1965. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Rebecca Stubbs, July 2023
Encoded by: Laura Smith, July 2023
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John Motley Morehead III (1870-1965), a white chemist, politician, diplomat, and philanthropist, was the son of Union Carbide founder James Turner Morehead and the grandson of North Carolina governor John Motley Morehead (1796-1866). An alumnus of the University of North Carolina, Morehead III endowed the John Motley Morehead Foundation, which awards annual undergraduate scholarships. He also served as mayor of Rye, N.Y., and as the United States Ambassador to Sweden. Morehead III's cousin, John Lindsay Morehead (1894-1964), was a white textile executive and principal officer of the John Motley Morehead Foundation.
Back to TopContains the papers of the Morehead Family, primarily John Motley Morehead III and his cousin John Lindsay Morehead. Materials include correspondence, business records, family materials, and planning materials. Topics include the Morehead Family; John Motley Morehead III’s work with Union Carbide; Morehead’s involvement in politics; and Morehead’s work with the University of North Carolina, including the gift and planning of the Morehead-Patterson Bell Tower, the construction and donation of the planetarium building and the purchase of the Zeiss planetarium instrument, and the establishment of the John Motley Morehead Foundation (since 2007, the Morehead-Cain Foundation).
Business and company correspondents include: the John Motley Morehead Foundation; Union Carbide Company; Diebold Safe & Lock Co.; Julien P. Friez & Sons, Inc.; Charles H. Schuman, Inc.; Thomas E. Sears, Inc.; Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company; Ideal Power Lawn Mower Co.; Taylor Instrument Companies; United States Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau; Wahl & Ferguson Tree Surgery and Landscape Forestry; Rock Wool Insulation Corporation; Yale & Towne Manufacturing Company; Hale Desk Company; School of Electrical Engineering, Cornell University; Frederic Blank & Company, Inc.; Williams & Harvey Nursery; Moeller Instrument Company; York Safe and Lock Co.; Erb Electrical Supply Co.; First Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Greensboro, NC; Barber & Coccola, Inc.; Armour Fertilizer Works; Artistic Painting Company, Inc.; New York Board of Fire Underwriters; Pietro Sforza & Sons; Lockwood & Almquist; Spray Water Power & Land Co.; Insurance Exchange; West Virginia Hydro Electric Co.; Henry Claws & Co.; George Pick & Co.; Gulf Oil Corporation; Florida East Coast Railway; Federal Reserve Bank of New York; Sedgwick Machine Company; US Department of Justice Immigration and Naturalization Service; Bethlehem Steel Company; Eggers & Higgins; Leaksville Woolen Mills, Inc.; Order of the Golden Fleece; Phi Beta Kappa; New York State Department of Labor, Division of Employment; R.C.A. Service Company; Jeddo-Highland Coal Company; Evangelical Covenant Church; American Museum of Natural History; United States Olympic Association; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Morehead Cotton Mills; North Carolina Business Hall of Fame; and others.
Individual correspondents include: John Motley Morehead III; John Lindsay Morehead; Lily C. Mebane; President Herbert Hoover; Judge Isaac Meekins; Landscape Architect L. Lundquist; Attorney Roger Faherty; Grant G. Simmons; Mrs. Von Lindern; Fred Starek; Norman A. Cocke; Dr. Frank Porter Graham; William Carmichael; Bob Fetzer; Claude E. Teague; Judge Shepard Bryan; Arthur Roe; D. Hidden Ramsey; Fred. H. Weaver; Lambert Davis; Edward P. F. Eagen; Francis Vandeveer Kughler; Fred L. Bumgardner; J. Maryon Saunders; Richard T. Chatham; William C. Friday; Robert Hanes; Governor Luther Hodges; Gordon Gray; Harold Tribble; Lily Connally Wiley; Orene Fagge; Mrs. J. P. Campbell; Harry Stewart; Hunter Williams; W. J. O'Shaughnessy; Walter J. Benko; Roy Armstrong; James A. Gray; and others.
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