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George Dickinson Parks Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0253s
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of a short letter from Parks to another trustee, Rev. B.S. Krinder, announcing a meeting of the Board on July 18, 1865.

Dates: 1865
Found in: Manuscript Collections

George Laurens Petrie Speech

 Collection
Identifier: DC0072s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of a debate speech, "Which contributes more to a man's happiness, Wealth or Literary Attainments," given in 1856.

Dates: 1856
Found in: Manuscript Collections

George Washington Finley Harper Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0188s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence and school work. The letters are from family and friends in Lenoir, North Carolina to Harper while he was a student at Davidson College. The school work includes 2 essays and 2 grade reports. There is also a typescript of Harper's diary for 1855-1856 in his Alumni file. It was copied from records in the manuscript collections at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Dates: 1855 - 1856
Found in: Manuscript Collections

George Wilson McPhail Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC061
Scope and Contents The files contain a copy of McPhail's Inaugural Address to the trustees of Davidson College upon receiving the office of presidency, handwritten copies of his lectures on religious topics, several miscellaneous papers, a handwritten copy of his prayer book with prayers for each hour of the day, and two folders full of handwritten copies of his sermons. McPhail had several of his sermons bound and put into volumes. His "Sermons on Important Topics" Volume I-II, VII-VIII, and X-XI were placed...
Dates: Existence: 1815 - 1871
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Gilmer Brenizer Speech

 Collection
Identifier: DC0011s
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of Brenizer's Inaugural Address as president of the Philanthropic Society in 1882.

Dates: 1882
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Gordon Clift Horton Collection

 Collection
Identifier: DC020
Scope and Contents The collection is organized in the following series: 1) Biographical; 2) Correspondence; 3) Manuscripts; 4) Sketches; 5) Photographs; 6) Printed Material; 7) Memorabilia; 8) Estate; 9) Oversize. The collection contains little biographical information. There are certificates from Gordon's confirmation and from his involvement in the Kappa Alpha fraternity. For more information, see his alumni file (1942). There is correspondence with his mother while he was a student at Davidson College,...
Dates: 1935 - 1977
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Harlee Morrison Speech

 Collection
Identifier: DC0104s
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of Morrison's salutatory address for the Davidson College Commencement of 1916.

Dates: 1916
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Harris Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: DC0039s
Scope and Contents The collection consists of two sets of documents. The documents related to Ervin Harris include his copy of the 1870 Davidson College catalogue and five handwritten speeches for the Philanthropic Society. The speeches are "Is War a Greater Evil than Intemperance?" (Novembe 24, 1871), his inaugural address as president of Philanthropic Society (December 2, 1871), "The Spirit of Discovery" (November 17, 1871), and "Life" (March 9, 1872) The final speech "Truth and My Country", dated June 27,...
Dates: 1870 - 1885
Found in: Manuscript Collections

Hay Watson Smith Speeches

 Collection
Identifier: DC0082s
Scope and Contents

This collection consists Smith's Respondent Address delivered June 19, 1889 and his Inaugural Address as president of the Philanthropic Society in December of 1889.

Dates: 1889
Found in: Manuscript Collections

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
Found in: Manuscript Collections

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Martin, William Joseph, Jr., 1868-1943 (Class of 1888) 4
Shaw, Cornelia Rebekah 4
Lacy, Drury, 1802-1884. (Class of 1859) 3
Lingle, Walter L. (Walter Lee), 1868-1956 (Class of 1892) 3
Ney, Michel, duc d'Elchingen, 1769-1815. 3
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Ney, Peter Stuart, d. 1846 3
Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) 3
Athletics - Baseball 2
Chambers, Maxwell (1780-1855) 2
Cunningham, John Rood, 1891-1980 2
Davidson, Chalmers G. (Chalmers Gaston), 1907-1994 (Class of 1928) 2
Davidson, Edward Lee Baxter, 1958-1944 (Class of 1891) 2
Erwin, Edward Jones, 1885-1954 (Class of 1906) 2
Gamma Sigma Epsilon. Chemical Fraternity 2
Holshouser, James E. (Class of 1956) 2
Kirkpatrick, John Lycan, 1813-1885 2
Lingle, Thomas Wilson, 1871- (Class of 1893) 2
Martin, David Grier, 1910-1974 (Class of 1932) 2
Martin, William Joseph, 1830-1896 2
Morrison, Robert Hall, 1798-1889 2
Morrow, James, 1820-1865 (Class of 1843) 2
Omicron Delta Kappa Honorary Fraternity 2
Pfohl, James Christian 2
Robinson, Joseph (Class of 1962) 2
Sentelle, Mark Edgar (Class of 1894) 2
Shewmake, Edwin F. 2
Smith, Egbert W. (Egbert Watson), 1862-1944 (Class of 1882) 2
Smith, Hay Watson, 1868-1940 (Class of 1890) 2
Smith, Henry Louis, 1859-1951 (Class of 1881) 2
Wilson, Woodrow (Thomas Woodrow), 1856-1924 (Class of 1877) 2
Workman, William Gatewood, 1940- (Class of 1962) 2
Abbot, William Wright, 1922- (Class of 1943) 1
Alexander, Charles Carroll, 1832-1866 (Class of 1853) 1
Alexander, John McCoy, 1828-1846 (Class of 1847) 1
Alexander, Thomas H. (Class of 1843) 1
Allison, Thomas Johnston, 1849-1919 (Class of 1871) 1
Arbuckle, Howard 1
Arnold, John David, 1869-1895 (Class of 1894) 1
Arrowood, Robert Sylvanus, 1854-1917 (Class of 1877) 1
Athletics - Basketball 1
Bailey, William S. 1
Baker, Heather L. (Class of 2000) 1
Baker, William Hoge, 1868-1932 (Class of 1888) 1
Bank of Davidson (Davidson, NC) 1
Bannerman, A. W. (Class of 1857) 1
Barnes, Frank Arthur (Class of 1895) 1
Barr, Julius McCann 1
Batte, James Herbert (Class of 1935) 1
Battle, William H. 1
Bean, Eugene Holmes, 1874-1933 (Class of 1897) 1
Belk, James Thomas Ketchen, 1825-1878 (Class of 1847) 1
Bell Family 1
Bell, Samuel Henry (Class of 1870) 1
Bell, Vereen McNeill, 1911-1944 (Class of 1932) 1
Blue, Larkin McLaurin, 1860-1939 (Class of 1886) 1
Blythe, LeGette, 1900-1993 1
Bogle, Alexander M., 1822-1880 (Class of 1843) 1
Boris III, Czar of Bulgaria, 1894-1943 1
Boston, Louis Edgar, d. 1901 (Class of 1892) 1
Brady, Archibald, 1852-1916. (Class of 1882) 1
Breedlove, J. P. 1
Brenizer, Gilmer, 1864- (Class of 1882) 1
Broughton, J. Melville (Joseph Melville), 1888-1949 1
Brown, Aubrey Neblett (Class of 1929) 1
Brown, James Stephen, 1866-1958. (Class of 1889) 1
Brown, Peter Marshall, 1859-1913. (Class of 1880) 1
Broyhill, James T. 1
Bryson, John Henry 1
Buckner, Albert Gallatin, 1850-1941. (Class of 1879) 1
Burgess, Thomas Peterson, 1860-1942. (Class of 1883) 1
Burke, Henry Theodore, 1830-1894. (Class of 1850) 1
Burton, Samuel Smith, 1853-1880. (Class of 1873) 1
Burwell, Dandridge Spottswood, 1847-1929 (Class of 1865) 1
Bynum, William Preston, 1820-1909 (Class of 1842) 1
Byrd, Harry Flood 1
Cade, William A. (Class of 1937) 1
Caldwell, Walter Pharr, 1823-1888. (Class of 1841) 1
Campbell, William Henry Ruffner, 1889-1960 (Class of 1910) 1
Cannon, John Chambers Rankin, 1833-1908. (Class of 1852) 1
Carnegie, Dale, 1888-1955 1
Carson, James Holmes. (Class of 1916) 1
Carson, William Waller, 1845- 1
Carter, William Franklin (Class of 1876) 1
Cassell, J. Erisman 1
Cather, Willa, 1873-1947 1
Chambers, Henry Alexander, 1841-1925 (Class of 1864) 1
Chambers, Joseph Lenoir, 1854- (Class of 1873) 1
Chambers, Pinckney Brown, 1821-1905 (Class of 1840) 1
Chapman, J. Garfield 1
Charlotte Engraving Company 1
Charlotte Opera Association 1
Clark, John McMillan, 1858- (Class of 1886) 1
Clifford, Mary Scofield 1
Cobb, Paul Whitlock (Class of 1950) 1
Colgate-Palmolive Company 1
Common Ground 1
Cool Springs Academy (Croft, NC) 1
Cooper, William James (Class of 1923) 1
Cornwell, Patricia D. , 1956- (Class of 1979) 1
Cox, Warren Murdock, 1902-1994 (Class of 1924) 1
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