Inventory of the John Gluyas Papers, 1789-1911
Collection Number 3062
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
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Gluyas, John, 1796-1858.
- Title
- John Gluyas Papers, 1789-1911.
- Call Number
- 3062
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 125 items.
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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 John Gluyas Papers, #3062, 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.
- Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
- Flour mills--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Gluyas family.
- Gluyas, John, 1796-1858.
- Gluyas, Mary.
- Gold mines and mining--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Industries--North Carolina--Mecklenburg County--History--19th century.
- Mathematics--Tables--History--19th century.
- McCulloch Mine.
- Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company.
- Mineral industries--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Mining engineers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
- Mining machinery--Maintenance and repair--History--19th century.
- North Carolina--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
- Treloar, William.
- Wales--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
Gluyas, a Welsh mining engineer, immigrated to the United States and in 1835 settled in Mecklenburg County, N.C., where he worked on various mining projects, ran a gristmill on the Catawba River, and became a large landowner.
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Business correspondence, chiefly before 1851, concerning mining and milling in Wales and North Carolina, especially the Mecklenburg Gold Mining Company and the McCulloch Mine, which Gluyas operated in partnership with William Treloar. Also included are a handwritten book of mathematical tables; a record of work on mining machinery, 1818-1822; memoranda concerning property titles, 1789-1825; a history (4 pages) of the Gluyas family, 1834-1909, written in 1911; and a few letters to Gluyas's wife Mary and to their sons.