Holeman Collection, MfP.110
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Holeman Collection
- Call Number
- MfP.110
- Creator
- Unknown
- Date
- 1779-1922
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Collection Overview
Papers of the family of Kindle Van Hook (d. 1854) of Person Co. and his wife Anne Dobbin, widow of Hugh Dobbin. Van Hook's papers include business correspondence with stepson John M. Dobbin of Fayetteville, John G. Williams, and others about land, debts, slaves, and crops, with related accounts. Papers of his sons David and Solomon include letters from Solomon in Texas (1852-1867) concerning family, travel through Tennessee and Arkansas (1855), politics, churches, typhoid fever, railroad, social events, abolitionists and the vigilance committee, and postwar conditions. Letters (1830-1845) to Solomon from nephew James C. Dobbin of Fayetteville, later secretary of the navy (1853-1857), concern family, land, crops, and slaves in Person Co.; father's estate; his law practice in Fayetteville; panic of 1837; and his election to Congress (1845). There are also business letters to Solomon from John W. Huske and others, with some comments on politics in 1840. Papers of brother-in-law James Holeman (1800-1874) of Person Co. include letters from Tennessee about family business, railroads, politics (1836-1846), and plank roads (1850), and a letter from William A. Graham about Winfield Scott's qualifications for president (1852). Holeman's business and financial papers (1822-1874) include estate papers (Cates, Chambers, Evans, Holeman, Nickols) and a few accounts as treasurer of the court of wardens of the poor (1836). Correspondence of his son, Capt. James Holeman, includes his letters from Co. A, 24th Regt. NCT, about their position at Petersburg (1862) and Confederate politics and postwar letters from Tennessee and Texas. Family deeds and grants are for land in Orange, Person, and Caswell counties (1779-1890), and later papers concern genealogy, UDC, and Durham local history. Collection also contains some correspondence of James M. Sneed (1864-1865), and legal and financial records of the Sneed and Stallings families of Person Co.