Inventory of the Pleasant Daniel Gold Papers, 1862-1896

Collection Number 1595-z


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
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
Gold, Pleasant Daniel, 1833-1920.
Title
Pleasant Daniel Gold Papers, 1862-1896.
Call Number
1595-z
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 140 items.
Abstract
Colporteur and hospital nurse during the Civil War, elder of the Primitive Baptist Church, and editor of Zion's Landmark, a Primitive Baptist publication published in Wilson, N.C.; from Cleveland County, N.C. Family correspondence, almost entirely letters between Gold and his wife, Julia Pipkin Gold, before they were married and later during intervals when they were separated, containing mainly family and Primitive Baptist religious news.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Acquired 1949.
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 Pleasant Daniel Gold Papers, #1595-z, 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.

Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Gold, Julia Pipkin, fl. 1863-1865.
Gold, Pleasant Daniel, 1833-1920.
North Carolina--Religious life and customs.
North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Primitive Baptists (N.C.)--History--19th century.
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Biographical Note

Colporteur and hospital nurse during the Civil War, elder of the Primitive Baptist Church, and editor of "Zion's Landmark," a Primitive Baptist publication published in Wilson, N.C.; from Cleveland County, N.C.

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Collection Overview

Family correspondence, almost entirely letters between Gold and his wife, Julia Pipkin Gold, before they were married and later during intervals when they were separated, containing mainly family and Primitive Baptist religious news.