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[Identification of item], in Memoirs of My Life #1994, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Autobiographies--United States.
• Cabinetmakers--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.
• Children--France--Social life and customs.
• Children--Switzerland--Social life and customs.
• Education--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• French Americans--History.
• Frontis, Stephen, 1792-1867.
• Oxford (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.
• Presbyterians--North Carolina--History--19th century.
• Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.

MICROFILM ONLY. Account of the early life of Frontis, later a Presbyterian minister in North Carolina, who grew up in France and Geneva, where his parents had fled from Santo Domingo. Frontis migrated to Philadelphia in 1810, worked there as a cabinet maker unitl 1817, was converted from Catholicism, and was a teacher in Oxford and Raleigh, N.C., while educating himself to enter Princeton Theological Seminary in 1820.