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Henry Alexander Chambers Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0141s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written to Miss Cornelia Shaw, librarian of Davidson College. The letter gives some family history and describes college life and the faculty in the 1860s. For the typescript of "The Chambers Family of Iredell County" by Henry Chambers, see the Farmville file in Chalmer Davidson's Plantation files (DC058).

Dates: 1917

Hugh Wilson Scott Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0155s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written to Miss Cornelia Shaw describing Scott's college experiences.

Dates: 1917

James Parks McCombs Letters

 Collection
Identifier: DC0117s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of letters written by McCombs to his brother about family matters and college life. The majority of the letters date from 1854 to 1856. There are four letters from the period 1870 to 1885. Several letters in 1855 discuss the student unrest at Davidson over student suspensions and the donation by Maxwell Chambers.

Dates: 1854-1885 and undated

Jethro Rumple Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC0222s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence concerning the Concord Presbytery, the manuscript of a biography of Rev. John Bunyan Shearer by Rumple, and manuscript notes about Davidson College in the 1840s.

Dates: 1878 - 1905

John William Stuart Gilchrist Letter

 Collection
Identifier: DC0145s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a letter written to Glichrist from his mother describing a visit to Davidson College in May of 1917.

Dates: 1917

Kirkpatrick Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0252s
Scope and Contents This collection consists of two pieces; a typescript and manuscript of a letter written to the mother of William S. Bailey, of Petersburg, VA reporting to her the details of her son's sickness and death at Davidson. Bailey entered Davidson in 1863, but died of a sudden illness in April of 1864. The second piece is a photocopy and typescript of a letter written by Dr. Kirkpatrick to an unknown recipient in April of 1866. In it, Kirkpatrick gives news of the family and details conditions in...
Dates: 1864 - 1866

Lacy Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0147s
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence (1851-1859) primarily from Mrs. Mary Lacy to her stepdaugther Bess; an article on the letters (1980), and the manuscripts for seven of Dr. Lacy's sermons (1855-1860). - The collection consists of nine handwritten, double-sided correspondence letters (1851-1859) from Mrs. Mary Lacy to her stepdaughter Elizabeth 'Bess' Dewey, typed transcripts of the letters, copied pages of a ledger, reproductions of a Reverend Dr. Drury Lacy photograph...
Dates: 1851-1860, 1980

Lucy Phillips Russell Reminiscences

 Collection
Identifier: DC0157s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a handwritten account of life in Davidson in the 1870s and copies of newspaper articles "A Girl of the Seventies" written by Russell. No date is given for the newspaper articles, the handwritten account was probably done in 1920 at the request of Cornelia Shaw as she researched her history of the College.

Dates: 1920 and undated

Mary Hamilton Stephens Memoirs

 Collection
Identifier: DC0327s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Stephen's memoirs, "Living Through the Changes of the 20th Century

Dates: 2017

Mary Richards Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0266s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notes on the town of Davidson, North Carolina during the first decade of the twentieth century. The notes include information about moving to Davidson, descriptions of the town and college.

Dates: 1973

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Names
Shaw, Cornelia Rebekah 5
Bailey, William S. 1
Baker, Heather L. (Class of 2000) 1
Chambers, Henry Alexander, 1841-1925 (Class of 1864) 1
Chambers, Maxwell (1780-1855) 1
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Clifford, Mary Scofield 1
Cobb, Paul Whitlock (Class of 1950) 1
Common Ground 1
Davidson (NC) Newspaper 1
Davidson Senior Center 1
Douglas Family 1
Dyer, Mrs. Goudyloch Erwin 1
Erwin, Edward Jones, 1885-1954 (Class of 1906) 1
Eumenean Society 1
Gilchrist, John William Stuart, 1894-1970 (Class of 1915) 1
Harrison, Thomas Perrin Jr., 1897- 1
Helper, Hanson Pinckney, 1825-1902 1
Jackson, Julia 1
Jackson, Thomas "Stonewall", 1824-1863 1
Justice, Zoro Knox 1
Kincaid, Randall, Jr., 1940-2023 1
Kirkpatrick Family 1
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan, 1813-1885 1
Kirkpatrick, Mary Elizabeth 1
Lacy Family 1
Lacy, Drury, 1802-1884. (Class of 1859) 1
Lacy, Mary Rice, 1816-1880 1
Long, McKendree Robbins, 1888-1976 (Class of 1910) 1
McCombs, James Parks, 1836-1902 (Class of 1859) 1
McDowell, Franklin Brevard, 1849-1927 (1869) 1
McGeachy, Daniel Patrick, 1901-1970 (Class of 1922) 1
McKay, Wilson James, 1848-1921 (1870) 1
McKeown, Calvin Brice, 1854- (1874) 1
Morrison, Robert Hall, 1798-1889 1
Munroe, Colin Alexander, 1844-1919 (1872) 1
Richards, Mary 1
Rockwell, Elijah Frink, 1809-1888 1
Rockwell, Elijah Frink, 1809-1888. 1
Rumple, Jethro, 1827-1906 (Class of 1850) 1
Russell, Lucy Phillips, 1862- 1
Sampson, Anne E. 1
Scott, Hugh Wilson, 1845- (Class of 1867) 1
Shearer, J. B. (John Bunyan), 1832-1919 1
Silliman, Benjamin, 1779-1864 1
Smith, James C. (Class of 1997) 1
Smith, W. A. (William Alexander), 1843-1934 (Class of 1865) 1
Stephens, Mary Hamilton 1
Thornbury, John W. (Class of 2000) 1
Wilds, Louis Trezevant, 1885- (Class of 1906) 1
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