Inventory of the Samuel Hairston Papers, 1877-1957

Collection Number 3820


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Biographical Note
Collection Overview
Contact Information:
Manuscripts Department
CB#3926, Wilson Library
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
Phone: 919/962-1345
Fax: 919/962-3594
Email: mss@email.unc.edu
URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
Hairston, Samuel, b. 1865.
Title
Samuel Hairston Papers, 1877-1957.
Call Number
3820
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
About 2,400 items (4.5 linear feet).
Abstract
Dairy farmer, real estate broker, railroad director, and Virginia agricultural official, of Oak Hill, Pittsylvania County, Va. Correspondence, business papers, and family letters of Hairston, his wife, May Jopling Hairston, and their seven children. Among the family letters are letters, 1897-1898, from Samuel Hairston to May Jopling, during their courtship; love-letters and personal correspondence, 1898- 1931, between Samuel J. Hairston and his wife; and letters, beginning in 1918, many of which are undated, from the children of Samuel and May Hairston to their parents, while the children were at preparatory schools and colleges, including Salem Academy and College, Virginia Episcopal School, Fishburne Military School, Virginia Military Institute, Duke University, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Moravian Seminary and College for Women, and Columbia University. Business papers relate to Hairston's interests in dairy farming, livestock, real estate, the Democratic Party, the Danville and Western Railroad, and the Virginia Board of Agriculture. Also included are papers, 1909-1911, of James Rufus Jopling, bank president, about the construction of the First National Bank, Danville County, Va.


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Administrative Information

Acquisitions Information
Acquired 1970-1971
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Additional Descriptive Resources
A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Samuel Hairston Papers, #3820, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Copyright Notice
Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Agriculture--Virginia--History--20th century.
Banks and banking--Virginia--History--20th century.
Building--Virginia--History--20th century.
College students--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
College students--Virginia--Social life and customs.
Columbia University--Students--History--20th century.
Courtship--Virginia--History.
Dairy farming--Virginia--History--20th century.
Danville & Western Railroad.
Democratic Party (Va.)--History--20th century.
Duke University--Students--History--20th century.
Family--Virginia--Social life and customs.
First National Bank (Danville, Va.)
Fishburne Military School--Students--History--20th century.
Hairston, May Jopling.
Hairston, Samuel, b. 1865.
Jopling, James Rufus.
Livestock--Virginia--History--20th century.
Love-letters--19th century.
Moravian Seminary and College for Women--Students--History--20th century.
Oak Hill (Pittsylvania County, Va.)
Pittsylvania County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
Railroads--Virginia--History--20th century.
Randolph-Macon Woman's College--Students--History--20th century.
Real property--Virginia.
Salem Academy and College (Winston-Salem, N.C.)--Students--History--20th century.
Virginia Episcopal School--Students--History--20th century.
Virginia Military Institute--Students--Social life and customs--20th century.
Virginia--Politics and government--20th century.
Virginia--Social life and customs.
Virginia. Board of Agriculture.
Women college students--Virginia--Social life and customs.
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Biographical Note

Dairy farmer, real estate broker, railroad director, and Virginia agricultural official, of "Oak Hill," Pittsylvania County, Va.

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Collection Overview

Correspondence, business papers, and family letters of Hairston, his wife, May Jopling Hairston, and their seven children. Among the family letters are letters, 1897-1898, from Samuel Hairston to May Jopling, during their courtship; love-letters and personal correspondence, 1898- 1931, between Samuel J. Hairston and his wife; and letters, beginning in 1918, many of which are undated, from the children of Samuel and May Hairston to their parents, while the children were at preparatory schools and colleges, including Salem Academy and College, Virginia Episcopal School, Fishburne Military School, Virginia Military Institute, Duke University, Randolph Macon Woman's College, Moravian Seminary and College for Women, and Columbia University. Business papers relate to Hairston's interests in dairy farming, livestock, real estate, the Democratic Party, the Danville and Western Railroad, and the Virginia Board of Agriculture. Also included are papers, 1909-1911, of James Rufus Jopling, bank president, about the construction of the First National Bank, Danville County, Va.