Inventory of the Orin Datus Davis Papers, 1812-1915

Collection Number 208


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
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
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Davis, Orin Datus, b. 1851.
Title
Orin Datus Davis Papers, 1812-1915.
Call Number
208
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 6300 items (6.0 linear feet).
Abstract
Orin Datus Davis was a banker of Salisbury, N.C. The collection includes banking papers of Dolphin Alston Davis (1802-1881), his father-in-law, William H. Horah, and his son, Orin Datus Davis, and their several predecessors and associates at the Salisbury, N.C., branch of the State Bank of North Carolina. Most papers are from the period before D.A. Davis came from Fayetteville, N.C., to become cashier in 1835. Bank correspondence with prominent North Carolinians and records of routine financial transactions is included. Other papers are mainly of D.A. Davis and concern antebellum businesses in which he had an interest and the common schools of Rowan County, N.C., of which he was chairman of the Board of Superintendents, 1854-1866. Included are bills, notes, checks, and lists; estate account books from Fayetteville and Salisbury, and account books for merchandising and transportation enterprises, and the bank; records of a temperance society at Salisbury, 1842-1849; and Davis family letters, 1891-1905. Also present are federal tax returns and applications for business and professional licenses received by United States Internal Revenue district officers H.H. Helper, Samuel W. Wiley, and others, mainly 1865-1868.


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Administrative Information

Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
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 Orin Datus Davis Papers, #208, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Account books.
Banks and banking--North Carolina.
Davis family.
Davis, Dolphin Alston, 1802-1881.
Davis, Orin Datus, b. 1851.
Horah, William H., fl. 1837.
North Carolina--Economic conditions.
Rowan County (N.C.)--History--19th century.
Salisbury (N.C.)--History.
Schools--North Carolina--Rowan County.
State Bank of North Carolina. Salisbury Branch.
Temperance--North Carolina--Societies, etc.
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Biographical Note

Orin Datus Davis, born 1851, was a banker of Salisbury, N.C.

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Collection Overview

The collection includes banking papers of Dolphin Alston Davis (1802-1881), his father-in-law, William H. Horah, and his son, Orin Datus Davis, and their several predecessors and associates at the Salisbury, N.C., branch of the State Bank of North Carolina. Most papers are from the period before D.A. Davis came from Fayetteville, N.C., to become cashier in 1835. Bank correspondence with prominent North Carolinians and records of routine financial transactions is included. Other papers are mainly of D.A. Davis and concern antebellum businesses in which he had an interest and the common schools of Rowan County, N.C., of which he was chairman of the Board of Superintendents, 1854-1866. Included are bills, notes, checks, and lists; estate account books from Fayetteville and Salisbury, and account books for merchandising and transportation enterprises, and the bank; records of a temperance society at Salisbury, 1842-1849; and Davis family letters, 1891-1905. Also present are federal tax returns and applications for business and professional licenses received by United States Internal Revenue district officers H.H. Helper, Samuel W. Wiley, and others, mainly 1865-1868.