Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr. (1873-1946) Collection, PC.125
Descriptive Summary
- Title
- Alexander Boyd Andrews, Jr. (1873-1946) Collection
- Call Number
- PC.125
- Creator
- Andrews, Alexander Boyd, 1873-1946
- Date
- 1861-1945
- Repository
- State Archives of North Carolina
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], PC.125, Alexander Boyd Andrews Jr. Colelction, Private Collections, State Archives of North Carolina, Raleigh, NC, U.S.A.
Collection Overview
Papers of Andrews, Raleigh lawyer and son of railroad executive Col. A. B. Andrews (1841-1915). Included in his correspondence are letters from John Motley Morehead, grandson of Governor Morehead, describing Rockingham Co. hanging of Negro woman Tildy Carter in 1881; from H. A. Page, Sr., on the Walter Hines Page home in Cary; and from S. A. Ashe and Bierne Lay on the friendship between Gen. R. E. Lee and Bishop Thomas Atkinson. Other letters concern routing of a highway through Raleigh (1930); a parachute jump (1934); Fort Bragg, Calif.; Col. Charles C. Tew of the Citadel and Hillsborough Academy; and Episcopal missionaries in Liberia. Also a typed report on Masonic educational loan funds (1924); printed material about Roanoke Island, including review (1931) of film on the "Lost Colony" made by North Carolina for school instruction; and printed eulogy for educator John J. Blair (1938).
Civil War material includes cavalry commissions and parole of Capt. A. B. Andrews; certification of vote by Orange Co. soldier (1864); letter from a Confederate soldier (Mar., 1865); photograph of site of skirmish (Sept., 1863) at Jack's Shop, Va.; photograph of Henry Lawson Wyatt, first Confederate killed in battle; New Testament published by Confederate States Bible Society, 1862; and Confederate Soldier's Prayer Book by the Rev. Joseph W. Murphy (n.d.). Also in collection are appoint- ment and invitations for A. B. Andrews, Sr., to the World's Columbian Exposition (1893); and a pamphlet, WASHINGTON: HIS PERSON AS REPRESENTED BY THE ARTISTS. THE HOUDON STATUE, ITS HISTORY AND VALUE, by Sherwin McRae (published by order of the Senate of Virginia, 1873).