Inventory of the David Franklin Caldwell Papers, 1830-1898
Collection Number 126
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Caldwell, David Franklin, 1814-1898.
- Title
- David Franklin Caldwell Papers, 1830-1898.
- Call Number
- 126
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 3000 items (2.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the David Franklin Caldwell Papers, #126, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Copyright Notice
- Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- Banks and banking--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Caldwell family.
- Caldwell, David Franklin, 1814-1898.
- Greensboro (N.C.)--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Economic conditions.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1775-1865.
- North Carolina--Politics and government--1865-1950.
- Railroads--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Textile industry--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Whig Party (N.C.)
Biographical Note
David Franklin Caldwell (1814-1898) was a politician and businessman of Greensboro, N.C. Caldwell was a member of the North Carolina legislature, 1848-1858, 1864, and 1879.
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The collection includes correspondence concerning family matters; railroads, banking and textile interests; and politics. Caldwell was a member of the North Carolina legislature, 1848-1858, 1864, and 1879. Political correspondents (except in 1864) include constituents and fellow legislators, most of the prominent Whig politicians of the state in the 1850s, and many prominent postwar Democrats and conservative Republicans. There are few Civil War items.