William Alexander Smith papers, 1765-1949 [manuscript].
 Author: Smith, W. A. (William Alexander), b. 1843.
 Format: Manuscript
 Language: English
 Summary:
Merchant, textile manufacturer, and businessman, of Ansonville, N.C.
Correspondence, account books, business records, and other papers, relating to Smith's career as a merchant, cotton textile manufacturer, farmer, and investor. Includes material relating to the family's agricultural, mercantile, and milling enterprises during the antebellum period, with references to Smith's interests in educat... (see more)
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Item Description
  • 11,674 items.
  • OCLC Number: 20159129
Notes
  • For a more complete description see Davis and Miller, Guide to the Cataloged Collections in the Manuscript Department of the William R. Perkins Library, Duke University (1980).
  • Several pages cut from middle of ledger (F:6141)
  • Source of Acquisition: . Purchase 1957-1966
  • Other Format: Partially microfilmed.
DUKE000874815
Title Summary
Merchant, textile manufacturer, and businessman, of Ansonville, N.C.
Correspondence, account books, business records, and other papers, relating to Smith's career as a merchant, cotton textile manufacturer, farmer, and investor. Includes material relating to the family's agricultural, mercantile, and milling enterprises during the antebellum period, with references to Smith's interests in education, the Protestant Episcopal Church, the Civil War, and the United Confederate Veterans, and to automobile manufacture, banking, commercial finance, cosmetics, furniture, insurance, lumbering, patent medicine, personal loans, self-propelled railway passenger cars, real estate development, tobacco processing, and the mining of gold in Alaska and Montana, copper in Arizona, and mica in North Carolina. Correspondents include Bishop Joseph Blount Cheshire, Francis Johnstone Murdoch, and George Stephens.

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