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Size | 19.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 15,800 items) |
Abstract | Augustus Washington Graham (1849-1936) was born in Hillsborough, N.C., the son of Susannah Sarah Washington Graham (1816-1890) and William Alexander Graham (1804-1875), a United States senator, 1841-1844, and governor of North Carolina, 1845-1849. A.W. Graham was an attorney for most of his professional life, but also held numerous elected offices in North Carolina. He was married to Lucy Ann Horner and with her had five children. The collection includes correspondence and other papers documenting the law practice and the business and political interests of A.W. Graham, as well as some material about his family and Confederate veterans' affairs, especially the United Confederate Veterans. Major topics include copper mining in North Carolina and Virginia; railroads, especially the Oxford and Coast Line Railroad, the North Carolina Railroad, and the Seaboard Air Line Railway; Granville County politics; North Carolina state politics, including Graham's terms in the North Carolina General Assembly; Graham's work as a cotton futures attorney for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange; and his activities as trustee of the University of North Carolina. Major correspondents include William A. Graham (1839-1923), Walter Clark (1846-1924), Josephus Daniels (1862- 1948), and Julian S. Carr (1845-1924). Also included are some papers of Robert Davidson Graham (1842-1905). The Addition of 2006 consists of an autograph book Robert Davidson Graham kept while he was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., circa 1868. The Addition of 2011 consists chiefly of family correspondence of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham, their children and grandchildren, and members of the extended Graham, Horner, Shirley, and associated families in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. Letters document family news, health, professional life and travel, social events, and other local affairs in Hillsborough, Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Oxford, N.C., from the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century. Topics include the Valle Crucis Industrial School; grief following the deaths of infant and adult children; suicide; academic and social life at the University of North Carolina; and religion and politics, especially school integration, the civil rights movement in the South, anti-communism, anti-catholicism, the Democratic party, and Christianity in America. Additional materials include correspondence documenting A.W. Graham's work as a cotton futures attorney and for the American Cotton and Grain Exchange; personal and informal business correspondence of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875); professional papers of Robert Davidson Graham; and legal, business, and financial papers of the Graham family. |
Creator | Graham, A. W. (Augustus Washington), 1849-1936. |
Curatorial Unit | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection. |
Language | English |
Processed by: Tim West and Ginny Briggs; Robert Tinkler, December 1994
Encoded by: Eben Lehman, February 2007
Updated because of addition by Margaret Dickson, July 2007, and by Virginia Ferris, January 2013.
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Augustus Washington Graham was born in Hillsborough, N.C., on 8 June 1849, the son of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) and Susannah Sarah Washington Graham (1816-1890). His father served as United States senator, 1841-1844, and as governor of North Carolina, 1845-1849.
Augustus Washington Graham had six brothers and a sister who lived to adulthood:
Joseph Graham (1837-1907) was a physician in Lincoln County and Charlotte, N.C.
John Washington Graham (1838-1928) was an Episcopalian; Confederate major; Orange County solicitor, 1866-1868; delegate to the North Carolina Constitutional Convention of 1868; state senator, 1868-1872, 1876, 1907-1908, 1911; railroad trustee; and lawyer with his brother James in Hillsborough. He married first Rebecca Bennehan Cameron (1840-1883), with whom he had eight children, and then, in 1887, Margaret Forrester Bailey, with whom he had one child.
William Alexander Graham Jr. (1839-1923) received an A.B. from Princeton in 1860. He was a Confederate major and farmed his grandfather Joseph Graham's plantation in Lincoln County. He was a Baptist; white supremacist; state senator, 1874, 1878; member of the North Carolina House, 1905; president of the Farmers Alliance, 1901, 1902, 1905; and North Carolina commissioner of agriculture, 1908-1923. He married first Julia Lane (1845-1909) and with her had eleven children, and then Sallie Hill Clark (1864-1936).
James Augustus Graham (1841-1909) was a Confederate captain and lawyer with his brother John in Hillsborough. He married Elizabeth Cheshire Webb (1845-1915), with whom he had four children.
Robert Davidson Graham (1842-1905) was a Confederate captain; farmer in Mecklenburg County; lawyer; secretary of the United States Civil Service Commission, 1884-1886; chair of the United States Board of Pension Appeals, 1886-1888; and principal examiner, United States General Land Office, 1888-1898. He never married.
George Washington Graham (1847-1923) was a physician. He married first Sallie Shaver (1847-1887), and with her had four children, then Alice Leonora Alexander (1842-1905), and then Imogene Tunstall.
Susan Washington Graham (1851-1909) married Walter Clark (1846-1924), associate justice (1889-1903) and chief justice (1903-1924) of the North Carolina Supreme Court, and with whom she had eight children.
Augustus Washington Graham was graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1868 and was admitted to the North Carolina bar in 1872. He practiced law in Hillsborough for sixteen years until 1888 when he moved to Oxford, N.C., and formed a partnership with Robert W. Winston, which was dissolved in 1890. Graham served on the superior court for two years (1895-1896), then returned to private practice, forming a partnership with William A. Devin in 1900, which lasted to 1913. From 1913 to 1927, when Devin retired, Graham practiced with his son, Augustus W. Graham Jr.
Graham held numerous positions related to his law practice over the course of his career. He was secretary of the Board of Arbitration created by the legislatures of Virginia and Maryland to settle a long-standing boundary dispute and served on the Board, 1873-1876. He served on the Board of Town Commissioners of Oxford, 1889-1892, and as chair of the Board of Education of Granville County, 1907-1908. In 1915, Graham became cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service and was president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange Inc., 1919-1922, living in Washington, D.C., and New York.
Graham was also active in state politics. He served in the North Carolina Senate in 1885 and in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1901-1905, 1909, and 1913, including a stint as speaker of the House in 1909. He served as a trustee of the University of North Carolina for thirty-four years.
On 21 November 1876, Graham married Lucy Ann Horner, whose father had founded the Horner Military Academy in 1851. Lucy Horner Graham had at least two sisters: Sophronia Horner and Mary E. Horner (Mollie). Augustus Washington Graham and Lucy Horner Graham had five children: Susan Washington; Augustus Washington Jr.; Sophronia Moore; Alice Robertson, who married Henry Garrett Shirley and died in 1916; and a child who died in infancy in 1884. Graham and his family were members of the Oxford Baptist Church where he held numerous positions of leadership over the years. Graham died on 12 October 1936 at age 87.
(Adapted from Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, volume 2.)
Back to TopThis collection contains correspondence and other papers that document the law practice and the business and political interests of Augustus Washington Graham of Hillsborough, N.C., and Oxford, N.C. There is also some material related to his family and other materials about his interest in Confederate veterans' affairs, especially his participation in the United Confederate Veterans. Major topics include copper mining in North Carolina and Virginia; railroads, especially the North Carolina Railroad, the Oxford and Coast Line Railroad, and the Seaboard Air Line Railway; county and state political interests, including terms in the North Carolina General Assembly; and Graham's work as cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service, as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange Inc., and as trustee of the University of North Carolina.
There are also some papers of Robert Davidson Graham, primarily material relating to his job as chair of the United States Board of Pension Appeals and to his job as principal examiner of the United States General Land Office. There is also correspondence between Robert Graham and former Confederate soldiers and letters relating to the acquisition of land, including some from Seaboard Air Line Railroad.
The Addition of October 2006 consists of an autograph book belonging to Robert Davidson Graham while he was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., circa 1868. The Addition of 2011 consists chiefly of family correspondence of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham, their children and grandchildren, and members of the extended Graham, Horner, Shirley, and associated families in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. Letters document family news, health, professional life and travel, social events, and other local affairs in Hillsborough, Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Oxford, N.C., from the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century. Topics include the Valle Crucis Industrial School; grief following the deaths of infant and adult children; suicide; academic and social life at the University of North Carolina; and religion and politics, especially school integration, the civil rights movement in the South, anti-communism, anti-catholicism, the Democratic party, and Christianity in America. Additional materials include correspondence documenting A.W. Graham's work as a cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service and as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange; personal and informal business correspondence of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875); professional papers of Robert Davidson Graham; and legal, business, and financial papers of the Graham family.
Back to TopArrangement: chronological, then undated items alphabetical by writer.
This subseries covers the seventeen-year period from the beginning of Graham's legal career until his move from Hillsborough to Oxford.
Material from the 1870s consists largely of letters to Graham from relatives and friends concerning family matters, such as the death of Graham's father, events in the careers of his brothers (especially William, who was farming in Lincoln County, N.C.), travels and sicknesses, etc.; upper class social life of those in their twenties in Hillsborough, including courtships, parties, and weddings (including Graham's own); and Orange County and North Carolina politics. There is also some correspondence about legal cases Graham was handling; other North Carolina affairs, including a Ku Klux lynching in 1875; and the conclusion of the Maryland/Virginia border arbitration. Chief correspondents include Graham's brothers; his sister; his parents; some of his sisters-in-law; his brother-in-law Walter Clark (1879); and numerous cousins, especially Alfred J. Morrison and A.W. Knox. Also included are two letters in 1879 from Paul A. Michailowskey, a resident of Odessa, Russia, discussing immigration prospects.
Correspondence for 1880-1887 continues to deal with Graham's law practice, county and state politics, and family affairs. Other topics discussed substantially include mining interests, both in North Carolina and in Mexico (see especially letters of December 1881, November 1885, and March 1887) and land deals and speculation. Other topics are running telephone lines in Hillsborough (May 1883), affairs of Paul A. Michailowskey, hunting dogs, the University of North Carolina, and Graham's move to Oxford (late 1887). Letters about Graham's legal work relate to a variety of cases, mostly in Durham and Orange counties, including estate settlements, debt collections, divorces, pardons of prisoners, and land claims.
Political affairs are covered in numerous letters about Democratic Party affairs in Orange County and elsewhere; Graham's election to the state Senate in 1884 and activities in 1885 while he was in the Senate, especially the Stock Law; his brother John's unsuccessful campaign for the United States House in 1886; and judicial and other appointments. Among Graham's many correspondents on legal and political matters were Walter Clark (about fifty letters during this period); his brothers, especially James, Robert, and William, who also wrote about family matters; Kemp Battle; George T. Winston; E. J. Parrish; Bennehan and Paul Cameron; H. G. Conner (1886); and Josephus Daniels (25 May 1887). Additional correspondents include Graham's mother, his other brothers, and various cousins.
Folder 1 |
1871-1872 |
Folder 2 |
1873 |
Folder 3 |
1874 |
Folder 4 |
1875 |
Folder 5-6
Folder 5Folder 6 |
1876 |
Folder 7 |
1877 |
Folder 8 |
1878 |
Folder 9 |
1879 |
Folder 10a-10c |
1880 |
Folder 11-12
Folder 11Folder 12 |
1881 |
Folder 13 |
1882 |
Folder 14-15
Folder 14Folder 15 |
1883 |
Folder 16 |
1884 |
Folder 17-20
Folder 17Folder 18Folder 19Folder 20 |
21-23 |
Folder 21-23
Folder 21Folder 22Folder 23 |
1886 |
Folder 24 |
1887 |
This subseries covers the period from Graham's partnership with Robert W. Winston, 1888-1890, through his tenure on the state superior court, 1895-1897. Law, business, and politics are major topics, with little in the way of intimate family material. In addition to his brothers (mainly George), correspondents include Kemp Battle, Bennehan Cameron, Walter Clark, Josephus Daniels, S. H. Webb, and Zebulon Vance. There is also a letter from Jefferson Davis requesting a copy of speeches by Graham's father William Alexander Graham (30 September 1889).
Items related to Graham's judgeship chiefly include commissions to hold court and requests for jobs as clerks of court. Among legal matters covered is a case against a "New York yankee" who was acting as George Vanderbilt's agent in buying land in western North Carolina (June and July 1891, especially 9 June 1891).
Business matters include Graham's interest in railroads (e.g., 9 September 1895) and in a cigarette-making machine apparently developed by his brother Robert (16, 20, and 21 April 1897 and 1 and 11 May 1897).
There are many political letters from January to October 1893 and a few thereafter about the disputed outcome of the 1892 congressional election between Archibald H. A. Williams and Thomas Settle. Williams, the incumbent Democrat who lost to Republican Settle, claimed that many African-Americans had voted illegally; Graham served as Williams' attorney when he challenged the election result. In an early letter about this election, S. H. Webb wrote Graham about the "general conspiracy to defeat Williams" and how "every negro from 18 years old up voted for Settle." He also noted that "[Benjamin?] Duke's money seemed to have been used against Williams with considerable effect" (13 January 1893 [misdated internally as 1892 but filed with 1893]). Some of the correspondence between Williams and Graham concerns a dispute about Graham's fee for his services.
In 1894, Graham himself unsuccessfully challenged Thomas Settle for this congressional seat (see especially September-October 1894). Much of his opposition came from Populists (see July, 16 August, 17 October, November-December 1894). A related topic covered is the North Carolina State Farmers' Alliance (e.g., 10 September 1890 and 11 May 1893).
Folder 25-27
Folder 25Folder 26Folder 27 |
1888 |
Folder 28-29
Folder 28Folder 29 |
1889 |
Folder 30-32
Folder 30Folder 31Folder 32 |
1890 |
Folder 33-34
Folder 33Folder 34 |
1891 |
Folder 35-36
Folder 35Folder 36 |
1892 |
Folder 37-38
Folder 37Folder 38 |
1893 |
Folder 39-43
Folder 39Folder 40Folder 41Folder 42Folder 43 |
1894 |
Folder 44 |
1895 |
Folder 45-47
Folder 45Folder 46Folder 47 |
1896 |
Folder 48-51
Folder 48Folder 49Folder 50Folder 51 |
1897 |
This subseries covers fifteen years during which Graham, for the most part, practiced law with William A. Devin in Oxford, N.C. Graham also served in the North Carolina House of Representatives, 1901-1905, and again in 1909 when he was speaker. Correspondents include George Graham, Julian Carr, Walter Clark, and Samuel M. Gattis.
Graham's business ventures are the subject of much of the correspondence in this subseries. For instance, beginning around September 1898 and continuing through 1907, letters document his involvement in several mining companies--the Boston and Carolina Copper Mining Company, the Blue Wing Mining Company, and Seaboard Copper--all with operations near the North Carolina-Virginia border. Graham's railroad dealings are also covered, including his appointment by Governor Aycock as a director of the North Carolina Railroad in June 1901 and his interest in the Oxford and Coast Line Railroad in 1902 and thereafter.
Political correspondence during this period not only covers Graham's own legislative races and his election as speaker of the North Carolina House in January 1909, but also his role as an informal adviser to Walter Clark in his races for supreme court chief justice and, in 1912, for the United States Senate. Letters also document Graham's unsuccessful efforts to obtain the Democratic nomination for State Corporation Commissioner (see May-June 1910). Earlier, there is some material about the Republican-Populist fusion (e.g., 15 and 28 September 1898).
The "Kilgo trial" ( Gattis vs. Kilgo ) is the subject of numerous letters beginning in the fall of 1901 and continuing through at least January 1906. (See Subseries 2.1 for more information on this trial.)
A number of letters relate to Civil War veterans' affairs. They document Graham's efforts to publish a Confederate regimental history (June 1901) and C. C. Wheeler's efforts to enlist Graham's aid in obtaining a Civil War pension (20 June and 19 October 1901, 27 August 1902). Among other veteran-related correspondence is a letter from the commander-in-chief of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans comparing the movement to encourage the commercial development of the South to the cause for which their fathers had fought (18 February 1911). Another letter sought the reappointment of General James Longstreet's widow as postmaster of Gainesville, Ga. (22 November 1912). Other materials related to Confederate veterans may be found in Subseries 2.6.
As a trustee of the University of North Carolina, Graham corresponded with others on the selection of a new University president in 1900. Graham's brother George suggested some informal religious criteria for the job: "For President of the University get a Presbyterian if you can, next an Episcopalian or a sinner without a God or a church. For as soon as you elect either a Baptist or a Methodist the devil is going to get the institution and the fullness thereof" (18 April 1900).
Folder 52-56
Folder 52Folder 53Folder 54Folder 55Folder 56 |
1898 |
Folder 57-60
Folder 57Folder 58Folder 59Folder 60 |
1899 |
Folder 61-65
Folder 61Folder 62Folder 63Folder 64Folder 65 |
1900 |
Folder 66-75
Folder 66Folder 67Folder 68Folder 69Folder 70Folder 71Folder 72Folder 73Folder 74Folder 75 |
1901 |
Folder 76-82
Folder 76Folder 77Folder 78Folder 79Folder 80Folder 81Folder 82 |
1902 |
Folder 83-91
Folder 83Folder 84Folder 85Folder 86Folder 87Folder 88Folder 89Folder 90Folder 91 |
1903 |
Folder 92-97
Folder 92Folder 93Folder 94Folder 95Folder 96Folder 97 |
1904 |
Folder 98-103
Folder 98Folder 99Folder 100Folder 101Folder 102Folder 103 |
1905 |
Folder 104-107
Folder 104Folder 105Folder 106Folder 107 |
1906 |
Folder 108-112
Folder 108Folder 109Folder 110Folder 111Folder 112 |
1907 |
Folder 113-120
Folder 113Folder 114Folder 115Folder 116Folder 117Folder 118Folder 119Folder 120 |
1908 |
Folder 121-126
Folder 121Folder 122Folder 123Folder 124Folder 125Folder 126 |
1909 |
Folder 127-134
Folder 127Folder 128Folder 129Folder 130Folder 131Folder 132Folder 133Folder 134 |
1910 |
Folder 135-140
Folder 135Folder 136Folder 137Folder 138Folder 139Folder 140 |
1911 |
Folder 141-146
Folder 141Folder 142Folder 143Folder 144Folder 145Folder 146 |
1912 |
This subseries covers the last twenty-four years of Graham's life. Graham formed a law partnership with his son at the beginning of this period that he maintained until his death. During these years, Graham served as cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service, February 1915-August 1919, and as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange, September 1919-September 1922, both of these positions generating a great deal of correspondence.
Much correspondence in 1913 concerns the efforts of Graham and W. H. Osborn to obtain positions in Woodrow Wilson's administration. By July 1913, Osborn became commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, and Graham was appointed cotton futures attorney for the Internal Revenue Service in February 1915.
This subseries also contains correspondence between Graham as cotton futures attorney and other cotton futures officials. Their correspondence contains information concerning the New York and New Orleans Cotton Exchanges and suggestions for modifications to the Cotton Futures Act and improvements in handling cotton exchange transactions. This correspondence is mainly from C. B. Griffith and W. R. Cochran.
Despite living in Washington, D.C., and New York during much of this period, Graham maintained a keen interest in North Carolina politics, where he continued to vote. Included is correspondence about the Granville County Democratic convention in 1916 (20 April 1916). There is also an account of a near riot that occurred just after the 1920 elections when Republican mill workers from Carrboro, N.C., paraded through Chapel Hill, where they clashed with egg-throwing, Democrat college boys (13 November 1920). Other important political letters outline Graham's opposition to women's suffrage (7 June 1920, 1 June 1920), document textile executive W. S. Forbes's complaints about labor's gains under Woodrow Wilson (1 November 1920), and reveal Graham's own unhappiness with Wilson (e.g., 7 January 1922). In a letter written during the closing days of World War I, Walter Clark suggested his appointment to the Peace Commission (6 November 1918).
There is also Civil War-related material, including items documenting Graham's attendance at the 50th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg in July 1913 and letters about a United Confederate Veterans convention in San Antonio (March 1913).
Correspondence also documents Graham's continued interest in the University of North Carolina, including his efforts to arrange an alumni directory in time for his class's 50th reunion (May 1918). Other organizations with which Graham was involved included the North Carolina Good Roads Association (e.g., 11 June 1917) and the New York Southern Society (e.g., its 31 August 1920 financial statement).
There are several letters about a memorial to Stephen Moore, Graham's Revolutionary War ancestor (October-November 1925) and a letter to Graham from a Frank Fleming about his observations in Russia, where he worked for a tobacco export firm during shortly before the revolution (12 January 1914).
Folder 147-154
Folder 147Folder 148Folder 149Folder 150Folder 151Folder 152Folder 153Folder 154 |
1913 |
Folder 155-158
Folder 155Folder 156Folder 157Folder 158 |
1914 |
Folder 159-164
Folder 159Folder 160Folder 161Folder 162Folder 163Folder 164 |
1915 |
Folder 165-170
Folder 165Folder 166Folder 167Folder 168Folder 169Folder 170 |
1916 |
Folder 171-177
Folder 171Folder 172Folder 173Folder 174Folder 175Folder 176Folder 177 |
1917 |
Folder 178-188
Folder 178Folder 179Folder 180Folder 181Folder 182Folder 183Folder 184Folder 185Folder 186Folder 187Folder 188 |
1918 |
Folder 189-199
Folder 189Folder 190Folder 191Folder 192Folder 193Folder 194Folder 195Folder 196Folder 197Folder 198Folder 199 |
1919 |
Folder 200-204
Folder 200Folder 201Folder 202Folder 203Folder 204 |
1920 |
Folder 205-211
Folder 205Folder 206Folder 207Folder 208Folder 209Folder 210Folder 211 |
1921 |
Folder 212-215
Folder 212Folder 213Folder 214Folder 215 |
1922 |
Folder 216 |
1923 |
Folder 217 |
1924 |
Folder 218-219
Folder 218Folder 219 |
1925 |
Folder 220 |
1927-1928, 1934, 1936 |
Arrangement: by subject.
Arrangement: roughly chronological.
Copies of legal documents and notes pertaining to the suit the Reverend Thomas J. Gattis brought against John C. Kilgo and B. N. Duke in the early 1900s. Gattis sued Kilgo and Duke on charges of libel. Two juries in Granville County heard the case as did the North Carolina Supreme Court. Supreme Court Justice Moore ruled, at a pre-trial hearing, that there was not sufficient evidence for a trial by jury. Ironically, two men were found guilty of trying to influence the juries to rule in favor of Kilgo and Duke. A petition to rehear the case was denied. Correspondence related to this case may be found in Subseries 1.3.
Folder 225 |
1899-1906 |
Folder 226 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Information about the lawsuit Bennehan Cameron and others brought against the North Carolina State Highway Commission and others. The purpose of the suit was to halt the grading, construction, and hard surfacing of the Creedmoor Route. Included are a petition of the plaintiffs to rehear the case, affidavits, and an explanation of the State Highway Commission Act. There is also a copy of Senate Bill 2470, which provided for the repair and construction of North Carolina's highways; a memo on alternative routes between Durham and Oxford; and a copy of the Road Fund by Bond Issue for Orange County. Correspondence related to this case may be found in Subseries 1.4.
Folder 227 |
1919(?) |
Folder 228 |
1924 |
Folder 229 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Documents about Hubbard Brothers and Company vs. John Z. Lowe Jr. , which tested the validity of the United States Cotton Futures Act. Also included are excerpts from the Act concerning the Open Board of Trade. There is also a document entitled "Rules and Regulations for Collection of Tax on Transfers of Stock and on Sales for Future Delivery," as well as material concerning the trust for Mintie Companies Limited.
Folder 230 |
1915 |
Folder 231 |
1916-1917 |
Folder 232 |
1918-1919 |
Folder 233 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Documents pertaining to Graham's work as cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service, including a chart plotting the number of contracts for the cotton exchange as well as statements of transactions on the New Orleans Cotton Exchange. There is also a fiscal report from 1917 on the number of bales of cotton raised and a scrapbook containing articles about the Cotton Futures Act and cotton productions. Correspondence related to Graham's work as cotton futures attorney may be found in Subseries 1.4.
Folder 234 |
1915 |
Folder 235 |
1916 |
Folder 236 |
1917 |
Folder 237 |
1918 |
Folder 238 |
1919 |
Folder 239 |
Undated |
Folder 240 |
Scrapbook |
Arrangement: chronological.
Reports on income, debts, and mortgages of the American Cotton Exchange. There are also numerous letters notifying members of the Cotton Exchange of board of directors elections and many proxy letters. There is a list of by-laws of the American Cotton Exchange, a copy of the lawsuit C.R. Doughtery vs. A.W. Graham, and a copy of the fixed charges of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange. Also included are papers relating to legal affairs and other business of the Exchange, 1916-1922 and undated; a report, "John Doe Cotton Exchange Investigation," which contains a transcript of testimony in New York City Magistrate's Court charging the American Cotton Exchange with "bucket shop" operations in cotton. There are also a Cotton Exchange notebook and a 1922 diary kept by Graham as president of the American Cotton Exchange, which includes notes on his daily business activities, especially legal problems and board meetings. Letters, other than proxies, related to the American Cotton Exchange are filed in Series 1.
Folder 241 |
1919-1920 |
Folder 242-243
Folder 242Folder 243 |
1921 |
Folder 244 |
1922 |
Folder 245 |
Undated |
Folder 246 |
Notebook |
Folder 247 |
"John Doe Cotton Exchange Investigation" |
Folder 248 |
Diary |
Arrangement: chronological.
Personal accounts from soldiers who served in the Civil War and information concerning the United Confederate Veterans reunions of Confederate soldiers. Included are papers promoting membership in the United Confederate Veterans and camps for Confederate Veterans or disabled soldiers. There are also lists of Granville County Confederate Veterans. Correspondence about the United Confederate Veterans is filed in Series 1.
Museum Item MU-955/1 |
United Confederate Veterans state convention badge, 1905 |
Folder 249 |
1891-1900 |
Folder 250 |
1901-1908 |
Folder 251 |
1909-1913 |
Folder 252 |
1914-1923 |
Folder 253 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Papers of Graham's brother Robert Davidson Graham, primarily material relating to his job as chair of the United States Board of Pension Appeals and as principal examiner of the United States General Land Office. Also included is correspondence with former Confederate soldiers. There is also correspondence concerning the acquisition of land, including some from Seaboard Air Line Railroad and a document about coal and timber in Cullman County, Ala. Letters from Robert Davidson Graham to Augustus Washington Graham are found in Series 1.
Folder 255 |
1870-1891 |
Folder 254 |
1896-1898 |
Arrangement: by family.
Letters from Mary Stanford to others, especially Richard Stanford, about family history; genealogical records relating to the families of Richard Stanford and General Stephen Moore; and lesser files of genealogical records of other families. Included are typed tombstone records; excerpts from colonial and state records of Stephen Moore; records from the United States War Department; a biographical sketch of W. A. Graham; and miscellaneous notes on other family histories.
Folder 256 |
Stanford family |
Folder 257-258
Folder 257Folder 258 |
Moore family |
Folder 259 |
Graham and Washington families |
Folder 260 |
Miscellaneous genealogical material |
Arrangement: chronological.
Information pertaining to the Fisheries Committee of the North Carolina General Assembly. Included are a copy of the general fish laws of North Carolina, a report of a committee appointed to investigate fisheries, and minutes from meetings in coastal counties relating to the fish industry.
Folder 261-264
Folder 261Folder 262Folder 263Folder 264 |
Fisheries Committee |
Arrangement: chronological within each subject file.
A report from the committee for enlarging the Capitol, a resolution concerning bond money, a copy of resolutions to the North Carolina General Assembly from the Committee on Education of the North Carolina Teacher's Assembly, and a copy of an act to amend the North Carolina Constitution giving the governor veto power.
Records pertaining to the Maryland/Virginia border dispute include Volume S-7, "The Journal of the Board of Arbitrators for the Settlement of the True Boundary Line between the States of Maryland and Virginia," 1875-1876 (81 pages). The Board of Arbitrators met in Washington, D.C., Saratoga Springs, N.Y., and Cape May, N.J. Arbitrators were Jeremiah S. Black, William A. Graham, and Charles J. Jenkins; Graham served as secretary.
There are also documents relating to Cullman County, Ala.; mining projects and to copper mining in North Carolina and Virginia; and Granville County, N.C., canvass books, 1902, 1908, and 1910, listing voters with party affiliation, voting record, and sometimes race.
Folder 265-266
Folder 265Folder 266 |
UNC Class of 1868 50th Reunion, 1918 |
Folder 267 |
Oxford and Coast Line Railroad |
Folder 268-269
Folder 268Folder 269 |
North Carolina General Assembly |
Folder 270 |
North Carolina politics |
Folder 271a-271b |
Maryland/Virginia Border Dispute |
Oversize Volume SV-955/7 |
"The Journal of the Board of Arbitrators for the Settlement of the True Boundary Line between the States of Maryland and Virginia," 1875-1876 (81 pages) |
Folder 272 |
Alabama Mining Project |
Folder 273-275
Folder 273Folder 274Folder 275 |
Copper mines |
Folder 276 |
Oxford and Granville County civic affairs |
Folder 277 |
Canvass books, Granville County, N.C. |
Folder 278 |
North Carolina history |
Folder 279 |
Miscellaneous |
Arrangement: by type of material.
Arrangement: chronological.
Documents probably collected by Graham. The earliest item is a certificate of the birth and baptism dates of Margaret Jane Taylor. Another items include "General Rules for the Superior Courts 1815 from Supreme Court"; an 1836 inventory of the William Kirkland effects; and letters and other papers of John G. Morgan and S. D. Morgan of Palatka, Fla., and various places in Alabama, Louisiana, and Arkansas. There are also a few letters of Stephen Moore in 1869 (see also genealogical material in Series 2).
Many items appear to have been used in Graham's law practice. These include numerous deeds and wills and forms claiming pensions for Mexican War service. Briefs and other papers, 1889-1890, relate to the County Board of Education of Granville County vs. the North Carolina State Board of Education .
Other items include minutes of a meeting of the Bethel Grange, 1 July 1876; minutes of a meeting of Centre Grange, 13 April 1876; minutes of a committee to organize the Orange Guards, 18 September 1875; bylaws of the Granville County Farmers Alliance Tobacco Manufacturing Co., [1888?]; and statements from witnesses about events in Stokes County, N.C., following the election of 1892.
Folder 280 |
1805-1869 |
Folder 281 |
1870-1881 |
Folder 282 |
1886-1889 |
Folder 283 |
1890 |
Folder 284 |
1891-1899 |
Folder 285 |
1900-1901 |
Folder 286 |
1902-1903 |
Folder 287 |
1904-1910 |
Folder 288 |
1911-1913 |
Folder 289 |
1914-1916 |
Folder 290 |
1918-1923 |
Folder 291-293
Folder 291Folder 292Folder 293 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Invitations to dances, banquets, commencements, weddings, and other functions given by organizations and individuals in Raleigh, Greensboro, Tarboro, Kinston, and other places in North Carolina and in Texas, Georgia, Maryland, and other states.
Folder 294 |
1872-1898 |
Folder 295 |
1899-1903 |
Folder 296 |
1904-1905 |
Folder 297 |
1906-1916 |
Folder 298 |
1917-1922 |
Folder 299 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Clippings, mostly from North Carolina newspapers, apparently collected by Graham. Most have to do with political and legal topics.
Folder 300 |
1875-1898 |
Folder 301 |
1900-1912 |
Folder 302 |
1914-1919 |
Folder 303 |
1920-1926 |
Folder 304 |
Undated |
Arrangement: chronological.
Broadsides, circulars, pamphlets, and other printed material, including the 1875 announcement of the reopening of University of North Carolina listing courses of study; calendars of the superior court of Granville County; printed statements, briefs, and other items from the supreme court, 1889-1895; the constitution of the Farmers' State Alliance of North Carolina, 1892; reports of the secretary and treasurer of the North Carolina Railroad Company, 1901; annual report of the president of the News and Observer Publishing Company, 1901; programs of events at the Horner Military School; circulars of John L. Williams & Sons of Richmond, Va., about the affairs of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, 1905; the American Tobacco Company's circular to security holders, 9 December 1911; Good Roads circulars, 1911-1913; Underwoood for president circulars; and programs and bulletins relating to the Chatauqua of the South.
Folder 305 |
1873-1899 |
Folder 306 |
1900-1905 |
Folder 307 |
1907-1913 |
Folder 308 |
1914-1918 |
Folder 309 |
1919-1922 |
Folder 310-311
Folder 310Folder 311 |
Undated |
Folder 312 |
V-955/1Voter lists, Cates Precinct, Bingham Township, Orange County, N.C., circa 1870s-1880s. Lists white, then African-American voters alphabetically. |
V-955/2Voter lists, White Cross Precinct, Bingham Township, Orange County, N.C., circa 1870s-1880s. Lists white, then African-American voters alphabetically. |
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V-955/3Notes by Graham on debate speeches by himself and Thomas Settle, his opponent in the campaign for the Democratic nomination United States House of Representatives, September-October 1894. The notes are somewhat cryptic. |
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V-955/4"Drill Reports," Co. E, 3rd Regiment, North Carolina State Guards, March 1897-November 1901. |
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Folder 313 |
V-955/5Lists of names arranged by North Carolina county, presumably relating to a political campaign, circa 1900-1913. |
V-955/6Lists of names, some arranged by North Carolina county, presumably relating to a political campaign, undated. |
One autograph book, belonging to Robert Davidson Graham when he was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C. (A.B. 1868). Each page has the signature of a fellow classmate, as well as his hometown, date of birth, profession, class, a quote, and the names of societies to which he belonged. In some cases, the pages are annotated with the names of Confederate regiments in which the men served and their ranks and the names of women to whom they later were married.
Folder 314 |
Autograph book |
Arrangement: Chronological.
The Addition of 2011 is arranged into Graham Family Correspondence and Related Materials; A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham Correspondence; and Legal, Business, and Financial Papers. Graham family materials consist chiefly of family correspondence of A.W. Graham and his wife Lucy Horner Graham and their children and grandchildren and other members of the Graham, Horner, Shirley, and associated families in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland. Letters contain family news of health, social events, and other local affairs in Hillsborough, Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Oxford, N.C., from the late nineteenth- to the mid-twentieth century. Topics include the Valle Crucis Industrial School; caring for children during family illnesses; visits to sanatoriums for dental problems and rheumatism; an 1887 diphtheria outbreak in Raleigh, N.C.; grief following the deaths of infant and adult children; a death by defenestration that may have been a suicide; academic and social life at the University of North Carolina, 1914-1916; and religion and politics, especially school integration, the civil rights movement in the South, anti-communism and Khrushchev, anti-catholicism and the Kennedy family, the Democratic party, and Christianity in America. Also included are materials documenting A.W. Graham's work as a cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service, and later as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange; a small amount of personal and informal business correspondence of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) with his family, friends, and legal clients, chiefly relating to family affairs, life in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, N.C., and isolated legal and financial matters; and some professional papers of Robert Davidson Graham. The A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham Correspondence is extensive and intimate and documents family life in Oxford, N.C., and Graham's professional life and travel, primarily from North Carolina to New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. Topics discussed are similar to those in the Graham Family Correspondence and Related Materials. Legal, Business, and Financial Papers document the affairs of the Graham family.
Arrangement: Chronological.
Primarily correspondence between A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham and their close family and friends. Chief correspondents include Graham's children, Susan Washington Graham, Augustus Washington Graham Jr., Sophronia Moore Graham, Alice Robertson Graham Shirley, Henry Garnet Shirley, and grandchildren Robert Shirley, Lucy Graham Shirley, Augustus Shirley ("Gus"), and Alice Shirley. Additional correspondence is with members of the Graham, Horner, Shirley, and associated families in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, and Maryland.
There is a small amount of personal and informal business correspondence, 1829-1859, of William Alexander Graham (1804-1875) with his family, friends, and legal clients, chiefly relating to family affairs, life in Hillsborough and Chapel Hill, N.C., and isolated legal and financial matters.
After 1871, correspondence is between A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham and their friends and relatives in North Carolina, regarding family news, health issues, social events, and other local affairs in Hillsborough, Raleigh, Charlotte, Durham, Chapel Hill, and Oxford, N.C. Also included are isolated letters, circa 1873-1883, to Robert Davidson Graham. The majority of correspondence is between Lucy Horner Graham and close relatives, including her mother-in-law Susan Washington Graham in Raleigh, N.C., and her sister Mary E. Horner ("Mollie"), in Valle Crucis, N.C. Letters from Mary E. Horner describe her work as a missionary and as principal of the Valle Crucis Industrial School, circa 1910-1922.
Family illnesses and deaths are central topics of discussion in personal correspondence. Letters indicate that young children frequently were cared for by close relatives in the Graham and Horner families in Oxford or Raleigh, N.C., when their parents were ill. Correspondence, circa 1880-1935, refers to frequent illnesses suffered by Lucy Horner Graham, including dental problems and rheumatism, that placed her in sanatoriums including the Church Home and Infirmary in Baltimore, Md. (1915, 1916), Tucker Sanatorium in Richmond, Va. (1919, 1921), and the Westbrook Sanatorium in Richmond, Va. (1927, 1928). Correspondence from 1884 documents the death of the infant child of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham and the mourning that followed. A letter from 1887 describes an outbreak of diphtheria in Raleigh and Wake and Orange counties. Correspondence from 1913 debates the possibility that Sophronia Horner's death by defenestration may have been a suicide.
Between 1915 and 1922, letters from A.W. Graham to his family reflect his work as cotton futures attorney for the United States Internal Revenue Service (1915-1918), and later as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange (1919-1922), which required him to spend extended periods in Washington, D.C., and New York, N.Y. There are many letters, circa 1914-1916, from Augustus Washington Graham Jr. to his parents describing his academic and social life as an undergraduate studying law at the University of North Carolina. Augustus Graham Jr.'s letters includes descriptions of a visit to campus by former President William Howard Taft (23 March 1915) and the inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham as president of the university (26 April 1915). Correspondence increased significantly between Henry Garnet Shirley and the four Shirley children in Towson, Md., and A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham, following the death of Alice Robertson Graham Shirley in 1916. The Shirley family continued to be major correspondents of the Graham family through the 1940s.
After the deaths of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham in 1936, most letters are to Susan Washington Graham from the Shirley family, and from relatives Nina Horner Manning in Spartanburg, S.C., and Susan Clark Erwin in Greensboro, N.C. After 1957, correspondence is almost exclusively between Susan Washington Graham and Susan Clark Erwin. Erwin's letters mention family news and local affairs in Greensboro and discuss religion and politics in great detail, with strongly conservative, Christian, segregationist, anti-Communist, and anti-Catholic views. Regarding the 1960 presidential election, Erwin wrote that she would not vote in the election because, despite identifying as a Democrat, she "will never vote for any Catholic" (22 August 1960). Other topics discussed include school integration, the civil rights movement in the South, Communism, Khrushchev, the Kennedy family, the Democratic party, J.D. Salinger's book The Catcher in the Rye, and Christianity in America.
Other materials include railroad timetables (1887-1888); printed items, mainly pamphlets relating to the Valle Crucis Industrial School, circa 1916; and clippings, which are found mostly in correspondence from Susan Clark Erwin to Susan Washington Graham, circa 1957-1963.
Folder 315 |
1828 |
Folder 316 |
1831 |
Folder 317 |
1834 |
Folder 318 |
1843Includes a letter from Willie P. Mangum to William Alexander Graham, discussing his support for Graham's nomination as a candidate for governor of North Carolina and the prospects of Charles Manly as a gubernatorial candidate. |
Folder 319 |
1850 |
Folder 320 |
1852 |
Folder 321 |
1859 |
Folder 322 |
1871 |
Folder 323 |
1873 |
Folder 324 |
1875 |
Folder 325 |
1876 |
Folder 326 |
1879 |
Folder 327 |
1882 |
Folder 328 |
1883 |
Folder 329 |
1884Correspondence concerns the death of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham's young child. |
Folder 330 |
1885 |
Folder 331 |
1886 |
Folder 332 |
1887Includes a letter, 28 September 1887, from Susan Washington Graham describing an outbreak of diphtheria in Raleigh and Wake, and Orange counties. |
Folder 333 |
December 1887-January 1888Includes railroad timetables and rates from Texas to Hillsborough. |
Folder 334 |
1889 |
Folder 335 |
1891 |
Folder 336 |
1892 |
Folder 337 |
1893 |
Folder 338 |
1894 |
Folder 339 |
1895 |
Folder 340 |
1896 |
Folder 341 |
1897 |
Folder 342 |
1898 |
Folder 343 |
1899 |
Folder 344 |
1900 |
Folder 345 |
1901 |
Folder 346 |
1902 |
Folder 347 |
1903 |
Folder 348 |
1904Family correspondence concerns the marriage of Alice Robertson Graham Shirley to Henry Garnet Shirley in Oxford, N.C., 29 November 1904, and includes letters to from Alice while the couple honeymooned in Florida and Cuba. |
Folder 349 |
1905 |
Folder 350 |
1906 |
Folder 351 |
1907 |
Folder 352 |
1908 |
Folder 353 |
1909 |
Folder 354-355
Folder 354Folder 355 |
1910 |
Folder 356 |
1911 |
Folder 357 |
1912 |
Folder 358 |
1913Following 28 February 1913, correspondence chiefly reflects the death of Lucy Horner Graham's sister, Sophronia Horner, who was being treated in a mental hospital in Philadelphia. Letters raise the possibility that the cause of death was suicide, rather than defenestration, though this is debated in correspondence between Lucy Horner Graham and Mary E. Horner. |
Folder 359-360
Folder 359Folder 360 |
1914Many letters from Augustus Washington Graham Jr. in Chapel Hill, N.C., to his parents, A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham, regarding his life as an undergraduate studying law at the University of North Carolina. |
Folder 361-362
Folder 361Folder 362 |
1915Includes letters from Augustus Washington Jr. describing a campus visit from former United States President William Howard Taft (23 March 1915), and the inauguration of Edward Kidder Graham as president of the University of North Carolina (26 April 1915). |
Folder 363-366
Folder 363Folder 364Folder 365Folder 366 |
1916Correspondence relates chiefly to the death of Alice Robertson Graham Shirley. |
Folder 367-368
Folder 367Folder 368 |
1917 |
Folder 369-370
Folder 369Folder 370 |
1918 |
Folder 371-372
Folder 371Folder 372 |
1919 |
Folder 373 |
1920 |
Folder 374 |
1921 |
Folder 375-376
Folder 375Folder 376 |
1922Includes some professional correspondence related to A.W. Graham's work at the American Cotton and Grain Exchange; other correspondence concerns the marriage of Augustus Washington Graham Jr. to Mary Webb Graham, and includes letters describing their honeymoon in California. |
Folder 377 |
1923 |
Folder 378 |
1924 |
Folder 379 |
1925 |
Folder 380 |
1926 |
Folder 381-382
Folder 381Folder 382 |
1927 |
Folder 383 |
1928 |
Folder 384 |
1929 |
Folder 385 |
1930 |
Folder 386 |
1931 |
Folder 387 |
1933 |
Folder 388 |
1934 |
Folder 389 |
1935 |
Folder 390 |
1936Letters to Susan Washington Graham indicate that she closed the family home in Oxford, N.C., following the deaths of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham, and lived with a relative in Spartanburg, S.C. |
Folder 391 |
1937 |
Folder 392 |
1938 |
Folder 393 |
1940 |
Folder 394 |
1945 |
Folder 395 |
1946 |
Folder 396 |
1949 |
Folder 397 |
1952 |
Folder 398 |
1957Correspondence from Susan Clark Erwin in Greensboro, N.C., regards her opposition to the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (5 May 1957 and 17 July 1957), racial integration in the South (11 October 1957), and other religious and political concerns. |
Folder 399-400
Folder 399Folder 400 |
1958 |
Folder 401 |
1959 |
Folder 402 |
1960Correspondence primarily concerns racial integration (5 May 1960) and the 1960 presidential campaign. |
Folder 403 |
1961Includes a letter from Susan Clark Erwin expressing disdain for civil rights activists in the South, including the Freedom Riders, and for Robert Kennedy (20 June 1960). |
Folder 404 |
1962 |
Folder 405 |
1963 |
Folder 406-409
Folder 406Folder 407Folder 408Folder 409 |
Undated correspondence |
Folder 410 |
Clippings |
Folder 411 |
Printed materialIncludes blank postcards, dance cards from Hillsborough circa 1874, and a November 1907 edition of "The Horner Cadet," a publication of the Horner Military School in Oxford, N.C. |
Arrangement: Chronological.
Chiefly letters from A.W. Graham to his wife Lucy Horner Graham, documenting early twentieth-century family life and concerns in Oxford, N.C., and Graham's professional life and travel, primarily from North Carolina to New York, N.Y., and Washington, D.C. Correspondence is extensive and intimate and covers topics that include work on the family home and in the garden; Graham's work as cotton futures attorney for the U.S. Internal Revenue Service and as president of the American Cotton and Grain Exchange; Lucy Horner Graham's dental problems and rheumatism that placed her in the Church Home and Infirmary in Baltimore, Md. (1915, 1916), Tucker Sanatorium in Richmond, Va. (1919, 1921), and the Westbrook Sanatorium in Richmond, Va. (1927, 1928); and grief following the death of their daughter Alice Robertson Graham Shirley, then a young mother. Also included is a 1912 day planner that may have belonged to Lucy Horner Graham.
Folder 412 |
1888 |
Folder 413 |
1889 |
Folder 414 |
1890 |
Folder 415 |
1891 |
Folder 416 |
1892 |
Folder 417 |
1893 |
Folder 418 |
1894 |
Folder 419 |
1895 |
Folder 420 |
1896 |
Folder 421 |
1897 |
Folder 422 |
1900 |
Folder 423 |
1901 |
Folder 424 |
1903 |
Folder 425 |
1905 |
Folder 426 |
1906 |
Folder 427 |
1910 |
Folder 428 |
1911 |
Folder 429 |
1912, day planner |
Folder 430 |
1913 |
Folder 431-433
Folder 431Folder 432Folder 433 |
1915 |
Folder 434-438
Folder 434Folder 435Folder 436Folder 437Folder 438 |
1916 |
Folder 439-442
Folder 439Folder 440Folder 441Folder 442 |
1917 |
Folder 443-446
Folder 443Folder 444Folder 445Folder 446 |
1918 |
Folder 447-448
Folder 447Folder 448 |
1919 |
Folder 449-450
Folder 449Folder 450 |
1920 |
Folder 451-452a |
1922 |
Folder 452b |
1926 |
Folder 453 |
Undated correspondence |
Arrangement: Chronological.
Legal, business, and financial papers of the Graham family. Materials include correspondence, legal notes, memoranda, financial ledgers, and receipts. There are also some professional papers of Robert Davidson Graham.
Folder 454 |
1870s-1880s |
Folder 455 |
1890s |
Folder 456 |
1900s-1960s |
Folder 457 |
Undated |
Folder 458 |
Robert Davidson Graham papers |
Folder 459-460
Folder 459Folder 460 |
Ledgers |