Henry C. Brown Papers, PC.163

[Identification of item], PC.163, Henry C. Brown Papers, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.

Papers of Brown of Mt. Airy and Raleigh, clerk and later commissioner of the North Carolina Railroad Commission and the Corporation Commission (1891-1911). Concerning the commissions are a few letters and bills; a speech on history of banking in North Carolina to 1907, with statistics; and items concerning independent telephone companies and Brown's sale of land for the Railroad Commission (1887-1896). Personal letters and papers relate to his property and interests in Surry Co. and Raleigh, the Exchange Bank of Mt. Airy and its dissolution (1889,1898), Mt. Airy municipal bonds, settlemant of an estate in Mississippi (1892-1893) and receipts and bills from Raleigh firms (1891-1911). A letter from James Pou (1910) concerns plans for the Raleigh Country Club. Papers of Mrs. Brown (Mollie E. Merritt) include some personal letters (1883-1929) and an autograph album (Greensboro Female College, 1976); those relating to Dr. John R. Brown consist mainly of unsuccessful recommendations (1884-1901) for his appointment as assistant and later supervisor of the North Carolina Hospital for the Insane, citing work in Indiana and Tennesssee. A group of Civil War letters (1861-1865) are to Mrs. Jane Talley of Granville Co. from her sons, especially Henry C. Talley, 14th Va. Regt., in camps and hositals in Virginia and David's Island, N. Y. (Aug., 1863), listing company casualties during two battles in May, 1864, and commenting on bombproof shelter and Negro pickets (1864). Also in the collection are a Granville Co. guardian bond (1796) and school census reports from two Granville Co. districts (1881).

300 items; 6 folders

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• •  Correspondence
  PC.163.1 Folder 1

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• •  Letters of Recommendation, Dr. John Brown
  PC.163.1 Folder 2

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• •  Accounts
  PC.163.2 Folder 3

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• •  Talley Civil War Letters
  PC.163.2 Folder 4

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• •  Miscellaneous Legal Documents
  PC.163.2 Folder 5

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• •  Miscellaneous
  PC.1363.2 Folder 6

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• •  Two plat maps on textile (previously in PC.163.2 Folder 5, separated for flat storage)
  PC.163.OS

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Brown, Henry C.

Brown, Mollie E. Merritt

Talley, Jane

Talley, Henry C.

Brown, John R.

Pou, James

Confederate States of America. Army. Virginia Infantry Regiment, 14th

Greensboro Female College

Exchange Bank of Mount Airy

Raleigh Country Club

North Carolina Hospital for the Insane

North Carolina Corporation Commission

North Carolina Railroad Commission

Physicians

Military camps

Battle Casualties

Hospitals

African Americans

Soldiers

Bombproofs

Schools

School census

Guardian

Battles

Employment References

Administration of estates

Autographs

Clerks

Land titles--Registration and transfer

Banks and banking

Railroads

Corporate Dissolutions

Municipal Bonds

Business

Country clubs

Mothers

Women

College students

Telephone Companies

Statistics

Applications for Office

Appointment to Office

Commissioners

Raleigh (N.C.)

Mississippi

Indiana

Tennessee

Virginia

David's Island (N.Y)

Surry County (N.C.)

Mount Airy (N.C.)

United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865