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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the John Bowen Bynum Papers, #2344-z, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Mary Bynum Ricks of Mount Olive, N.C., May 1941.

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A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1.

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• Bynum, John Bowen, d. 1858.
• College orations.
• Fourth of July orations.
• Temperance--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.
• War--Moral and ethical aspects--History--19th century.

John Bowen Bynum (d. 1858) was a lawyer of Northampton County, N.C.; member of University of North Carolina class of 1848; and member of N.C. state legislature, 1853.

The collection includes diplomas, licences, a poem, and three speeches of John Bowen Bynum. The speeches include one about war as a necessary evil, given by Bynum while he was a student at the University of North Carolina, 1 May 1848; a Fourth of July oration given in Northampton County, N.C. in 1849; and a speech about temperance.

Oversize papers (X-OPF-2344/1).