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[Identification of item], in the Alfred Abraham Kent Papers, #3885, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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Gift 1969

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• Account books.
• Christian County (Ky.)--Social life and customs.
• College prose, American--North Carolina.
• Drugstores--Accounting--History.
• Fluvanna County (Va.)--Social life and customs.
• Kent, Alfred Abraham, 1858-1944.
• Kent, Archeleus Suddreth, fl. 1828-1843.
• Medicine--North Carolina--Societies, etc.--History.
• Medicine--Practice--Accounting--History.
• North Carolina Medical Society--History.
• North Carolina. Board of Medical Examiners--History.
• Physicians--North Carolina--History.
• University of North Carolina (1793-1962)--Students--History--19th century.

Physician and businessman of Lenoir, N.C.

Personal correspondence, business and medical papers, chiefly 1895-1930, dealing with Kent's varied business interests and his acitivities as member of the North Carolina Board of Medical Examiners and as a member and president (1912) of the North Carolina Medical Society. Also included are account books, 1886-1918, for Kent's medical practice and drugstore in Lenoir, and about thirty essays written by Kent when he was a student at the University of North Carolina. Early letters, 1828-1843, are from friends in Fluvanna County, Va., and Christian County, Ky., to Kent's grandfather, Archeleus Suddreth Kent, discussing crops and relatives and friends in those locations.