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Collection Number: 00955

Collection Title: A.W. Graham Papers, 1805-1963 (bulk 1870-1963)

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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
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Restrictions to Access
No restrictions. Open for research.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the A.W. Graham Papers #955, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Received from Augustus Washington Graham Jr., of Oxford, N.C., in March 1945; from Nancy Johns Mohlere in October 2006 (Acc. 100522); and from Shirley O'Keefe in August 2011 (Acc. 101477).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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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.)

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This 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.

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Contents list

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 1. General Correspondence and Related Items, 1870-1936.

About 6,800 items.

Arrangement: chronological, then undated items alphabetical by writer.

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About 700 items.

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 5

Folder 6

1876

Folder 7

1877

Folder 8

1878

Folder 9

1879

Folder 10a-10c

1880

Folder 11-12

Folder 11

Folder 12

1881

Folder 13

1882

Folder 14-15

Folder 14

Folder 15

1883

Folder 16

1884

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Folder 18

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Folder 20

21-23

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Folder 21

Folder 22

Folder 23

1886

Folder 24

1887

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About 800 items.

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).

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Folder 25

Folder 26

Folder 27

1888

Folder 28-29

Folder 28

Folder 29

1889

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Folder 30

Folder 31

Folder 32

1890

Folder 33-34

Folder 33

Folder 34

1891

Folder 35-36

Folder 35

Folder 36

1892

Folder 37-38

Folder 37

Folder 38

1893

Folder 39-43

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Folder 42

Folder 43

1894

Folder 44

1895

Folder 45-47

Folder 45

Folder 46

Folder 47

1896

Folder 48-51

Folder 48

Folder 49

Folder 50

Folder 51

1897

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About 3,000 items.

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).

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Folder 53

Folder 54

Folder 55

Folder 56

1898

Folder 57-60

Folder 57

Folder 58

Folder 59

Folder 60

1899

Folder 61-65

Folder 61

Folder 62

Folder 63

Folder 64

Folder 65

1900

Folder 66-75

Folder 66

Folder 67

Folder 68

Folder 69

Folder 70

Folder 71

Folder 72

Folder 73

Folder 74

Folder 75

1901

Folder 76-82

Folder 76

Folder 77

Folder 78

Folder 79

Folder 80

Folder 81

Folder 82

1902

Folder 83-91

Folder 83

Folder 84

Folder 85

Folder 86

Folder 87

Folder 88

Folder 89

Folder 90

Folder 91

1903

Folder 92-97

Folder 92

Folder 93

Folder 94

Folder 95

Folder 96

Folder 97

1904

Folder 98-103

Folder 98

Folder 99

Folder 100

Folder 101

Folder 102

Folder 103

1905

Folder 104-107

Folder 104

Folder 105

Folder 106

Folder 107

1906

Folder 108-112

Folder 108

Folder 109

Folder 110

Folder 111

Folder 112

1907

Folder 113-120

Folder 113

Folder 114

Folder 115

Folder 116

Folder 117

Folder 118

Folder 119

Folder 120

1908

Folder 121-126

Folder 121

Folder 122

Folder 123

Folder 124

Folder 125

Folder 126

1909

Folder 127-134

Folder 127

Folder 128

Folder 129

Folder 130

Folder 131

Folder 132

Folder 133

Folder 134

1910

Folder 135-140

Folder 135

Folder 136

Folder 137

Folder 138

Folder 139

Folder 140

1911

Folder 141-146

Folder 141

Folder 142

Folder 143

Folder 144

Folder 145

Folder 146

1912

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About 2,100 items.

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 147

Folder 148

Folder 149

Folder 150

Folder 151

Folder 152

Folder 153

Folder 154

1913

Folder 155-158

Folder 155

Folder 156

Folder 157

Folder 158

1914

Folder 159-164

Folder 159

Folder 160

Folder 161

Folder 162

Folder 163

Folder 164

1915

Folder 165-170

Folder 165

Folder 166

Folder 167

Folder 168

Folder 169

Folder 170

1916

Folder 171-177

Folder 171

Folder 172

Folder 173

Folder 174

Folder 175

Folder 176

Folder 177

1917

Folder 178-188

Folder 178

Folder 179

Folder 180

Folder 181

Folder 182

Folder 183

Folder 184

Folder 185

Folder 186

Folder 187

Folder 188

1918

Folder 189-199

Folder 189

Folder 190

Folder 191

Folder 192

Folder 193

Folder 194

Folder 195

Folder 196

Folder 197

Folder 198

Folder 199

1919

Folder 200-204

Folder 200

Folder 201

Folder 202

Folder 203

Folder 204

1920

Folder 205-211

Folder 205

Folder 206

Folder 207

Folder 208

Folder 209

Folder 210

Folder 211

1921

Folder 212-215

Folder 212

Folder 213

Folder 214

Folder 215

1922

Folder 216

1923

Folder 217

1924

Folder 218-219

Folder 218

Folder 219

1925

Folder 220

1927-1928, 1934, 1936

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About 100 items.

Undated letters to Graham from Walter Clark, George W. Graham, W. A. Graham, and R. W. Lassiter, and others. There are also a few carbon copies of letters written by Graham.

Folder 221

A-G

Folder 222

H-L

Folder 223

M-S

Folder 224

T-W

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About 2,800 items.

Arrangement: by subject.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.1. Gattis vs. Kilgo, 1899-1906 and undated.

About 100 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.2. Cameron vs. North Carolina Highway Commission, 1919, 1924, and undated.

About 100 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.3. War Revenue Act, 1915-1919 and undated.

About 200 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.4. Cotton Futures Attorney, 1915-1919 and undated.

About 200 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.5. American Cotton Exchange, 1919-1922 and undated.

About 400 items.

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 242

Folder 243

1921

Folder 244

1922

Folder 245

Undated

Folder 246

Notebook

Folder 247

"John Doe Cotton Exchange Investigation"

Folder 248

Diary

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.6. Confederate Veterans' Affairs, 1891-1923 and undated.

About 400 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.7. Robert Davidson Graham Papers, 1870-1898.

About 100 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.8. Genealogical Material, undated.

About 150 items.

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 257

Folder 258

Moore family

Folder 259

Graham and Washington families

Folder 260

Miscellaneous genealogical material

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.9. Fisheries Committee, 1909.

About 150 items.

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 261

Folder 262

Folder 263

Folder 264

Fisheries Committee

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 2.10. Miscellaneous Subject Files, 1875-1918 and undated.

About 800 items.

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 265

Folder 266

UNC Class of 1868 50th Reunion, 1918

Folder 267

Oxford and Coast Line Railroad

Folder 268-269

Folder 268

Folder 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 273

Folder 274

Folder 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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 3. Other Papers, 1805-1926.

About 1,000 items.

Arrangement: by type of material.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.1. Miscellaneous Papers, 1805-1923 and undated.

About 500 items.

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 291

Folder 292

Folder 293

Undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.2. Invitations, 1872-1922 and undated.

About 100 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.3. Clippings, 1875-1926 and undated.

About 200 items.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Subseries 3.4. Other Printed Material, 1873-1921 and undated.

About 200 items.

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 310

Folder 311

Undated

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 4. Volumes, 1870s-1913.

6 volumes.
Folder 312

V-955/1

Voter lists, Cates Precinct, Bingham Township, Orange County, N.C., circa 1870s-1880s. Lists white, then African-American voters alphabetically.

V-955/2

Voter lists, White Cross Precinct, Bingham Township, Orange County, N.C., circa 1870s-1880s. Lists white, then African-American voters alphabetically.

V-955/3

Notes 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.

V-955/4

"Drill Reports," Co. E, 3rd Regiment, North Carolina State Guards, March 1897-November 1901.

Folder 313

V-955/5

Lists of names arranged by North Carolina county, presumably relating to a political campaign, circa 1900-1913.

V-955/6

Lists of names, some arranged by North Carolina county, presumably relating to a political campaign, undated.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Series 5. Pictures, 1895 and circa 1900-1910.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of October 2006 (Acc. 100522): Robert Davidson Graham Autograph Book, circa 1860s.

1 item.

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

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of August 2011 (Acc. 101477), 1828-1963 (bulk 1870-1963).

About 4,500 items.

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.

expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of August 2011: Graham Family Correspondence and Related Materials, 1828-1963.

About 3,000 items.

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

1843

Includes 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

1884

Correspondence concerns the death of A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham's young child.

Folder 330

1885

Folder 331

1886

Folder 332

1887

Includes 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 1888

Includes 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

1904

Family 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 354

Folder 355

1910

Folder 356

1911

Folder 357

1912

Folder 358

1913

Following 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 359

Folder 360

1914

Many 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 361

Folder 362

1915

Includes 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 363

Folder 364

Folder 365

Folder 366

1916

Correspondence relates chiefly to the death of Alice Robertson Graham Shirley.

Folder 367-368

Folder 367

Folder 368

1917

Folder 369-370

Folder 369

Folder 370

1918

Folder 371-372

Folder 371

Folder 372

1919

Folder 373

1920

Folder 374

1921

Folder 375-376

Folder 375

Folder 376

1922

Includes 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 381

Folder 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

1936

Letters 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

1957

Correspondence 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 399

Folder 400

1958

Folder 401

1959

Folder 402

1960

Correspondence primarily concerns racial integration (5 May 1960) and the 1960 presidential campaign.

Folder 403

1961

Includes 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 406

Folder 407

Folder 408

Folder 409

Undated correspondence

Folder 410

Clippings

Folder 411

Printed material

Includes 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.

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of August 2011: A.W. Graham and Lucy Horner Graham Correspondence, 1898-1922.

About 1,200 items.

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 431

Folder 432

Folder 433

1915

Folder 434-438

Folder 434

Folder 435

Folder 436

Folder 437

Folder 438

1916

Folder 439-442

Folder 439

Folder 440

Folder 441

Folder 442

1917

Folder 443-446

Folder 443

Folder 444

Folder 445

Folder 446

1918

Folder 447-448

Folder 447

Folder 448

1919

Folder 449-450

Folder 449

Folder 450

1920

Folder 451-452a

1922

Folder 452b

1926

Folder 453

Undated correspondence

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expand/collapse Expand/collapse Addition of August 2011: Legal, Business, and Financial Papers, circa 1870-1960.

About 300 items.

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 459

Folder 460

Ledgers

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