Heriot Clarkson (1863-1942) Papers, PC.175
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Heriot Clarkson (1863-1942) Papers
- Call Number
- PC.175
- Creator
- Clarkson, Heriot, 1863-1942
- Date
- 1756-1942
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers and scrapbooks of Heriot Clarkson, Charlotte lawyer, legislator, and North Carolina supreme court justice (1923-1942). There is much material on Charlotte and Mecklenburg Co. politics and on state and local Democratic organizations, some concerning party reorganization in 1896 and Clarkson's term in the state House of Representatives (1899). From Cameron Morrison's Democratic primary campaign for governor against Robert N. Page and O. Max Gardner (1920) there are letters, lists of county managers, speaking schedules, records of contributions and expenses, and campaign literature on such issues as woman suffrage and labor legislation. There are many letters, minutes, reports, speeches, pamphlets, and clippings about the Anti-Saloon League, temperance societies, and United Dry Forces (1903-1941). Other material pertains to the white supremacy movement, with constitution and bylaws of the local club (1896); the good roads movements; establishment of textile school at NC A&M; and the Protestant Episcopal church, YMCA, Salvation Army, St. Peter's Hospital, Old Ladies Home, Florence Crittenton Home, Thompson Orphanage, King's Daughters, Society of the Cincinnati, Sons of the Revolution, and the Scottish-American Memorial Association. Many letters, papers, and photographs concern the McDowell Co. real estate development Little Switzerland (founded 1910), and some relate to its battle with the Blue Ridge Parkway (1938). For Charlotte Military Institute (1873-1882) there are lecture notes, letters, and the final register kept by founder John P. Thomas. A few items relate to the Depression, inaugurations of Frankin D. Roosevelt (1933) and Gov. J. M. Broughton (1941), and WWII before Pearl Harbor. There is biographical material on noted men and women of Mecklenburg Co., on Clarkson, including a Wake Forest University thesis (1972), and on his brother William of Corsicana, Tex., as well as genealogical information on Clarkson North and South Carolina and related Families.
Miscellaneous items include poems by Maude Waddell and H. M. Clarkson; photographs; invitations and programs; and printed items such as THE WESTMINSTER SHORTER CATECHISM, ratified by the Presbyterian Church in the U. S. (Augusta, Ga., Dec. 4, 1861); Catechism by John Clarkson of South Carolina for instruction of his slaves, n. d. (published 1885); THE LAW AND ITS IDEALS by John A. Livingstone (Raleigh, 1926); History of the Law Library Association, Charlotte, N. C., by Heriot Clarkson (1941); and other material about Charlotte.
Correspondence is with family, relatives, and friends, some in Scotland, England, and WWI army camps in the U. S. and France; leading Democrats; lawyers, Judges, deans of law schools; presidents of the major North Carolina colleges and universities, Negro colleges, and Pineland College; newspaper editors; ministers and bishops; and others. Among them are S. A. Ashe, Josiah Baily, T. W. Bickett, William E. Borah, Joseph B. Cheshire, Walter Clark, Josephus Daniels, Jerome Dowd, O. Max Gardner, Archibald Henderson, Clyde R. Hoey, Mrs. Thomas J. (Stonewall) Jackson, Mrs. Thomas Jarvis, T. L. Kirkpatrick, Frank R. McNinch, E. A. Osborne, Lee S. Overman, Edwin A. Penick, Garland Pollard, James H. Pou, Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937), Theodore Roosevelt, Michael Schenck, Maude Waddell, and J. Frank Wilkes.