Inventory of the Alfred Abraham Kent Papers, 1828-1944
Collection Number 3885
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- 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
- Kent, Alfred Abraham, 1858-1944.
- Title
- Alfred Abraham Kent Papers, 1828-1944 (bulk 1895-1930).
- Call Number
- 3885
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 600 items (3.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- 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 Alfred Abraham Kent Papers, #3885, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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.
Biographical Note
Physician and businessman of Lenoir, N.C.
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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.