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[Identification of item], in the Orin Datus Davis Papers, #208, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Account books.
• Banks and banking--North Carolina.
• Davis family.
• Davis, D. A. (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.

Orin Datus Davis, born 1851, 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.