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#1373
HEARTT AND WILSON PAPERS
Summary

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Heartt and Wilson family.
Papers, 1802-1926.
264 items (1.0 linear ft.).

Heartt and Wilson families of North Carolina.  Prominent family members
represented include Alexander Wilson (1799-1867), who emigrated from
Ireland in 1818 and settled in Raleigh, N.C.  He was a Presbyterian
minister and a teacher and principal at several boys' schools, especially
the Caldwell Institute (first located in Greensboro, N.C., 1836-1845, and
then in Hillsborough, 1845-1850) and at an academy named for him at
Melville in Alamance County, N.C.

Family and personal correspondence of Alexander Wilson including letters
from him, his sons, Alexander and Robert W. Wilson, and daughters, and from
educators and historians.  Also included are papers of his Heartt
grandchildren; sermons; commonplace books and personal memoranda books; and
clippings.

Gift, 1947.

ONLINE CATALOG TERMS:
   Caldwell Institute (N.C.)--History.
   Clergy--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Greensboro (N.C.)--History--19th century.
   Heartt family.
   Hillsborough (N.C.)--History--19th century.
   Irish Americans--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Melville (N.C.)--History--19th century.
   Presbyterian Church--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Schools--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Sermons, American--19th century.
   Teachers--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Wilson, Alexander, 1799-1867.
   Wilson family.

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