Inventory of the George William Lay Papers, 1877-1972
Collection Number 417
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
- 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
- Lay, George William, 1860-1932.
- Title
- George William Lay Papers, 1877-1972.
- Call Number
- 417
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 1,600 items (2.0 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 George William Lay Papers, #417, 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.
- African Americans--Missions--North Carolina--History.
- Atkins family.
- Church schools--North Carolina--History.
- Civic improvement--North Carolina--History.
- Clergy--North Carolina--History.
- Episcopal Church--Education--North Carolina.
- Episcopal Church--Missions--North Carolina.
- Episcopal Church--North Carolina--History.
- Lay family.
- Lay, George William, 1860-1932.
- North Carolina--Genealogy.
- North Carolina--Social life and customs.
- Raleigh (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Related Material
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Henry Champlin Lay Papers (#418), Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
George William Lay (1860-1932) was an Episcopal clergyman and teacher or rector of St. Mary's School, Raleigh, N.C.; St. Paul's School, Concord, N.H.; and academies in Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New York.
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The collection includes correspondence concerning family matters, school and church activities, including work among blacks in eastern North Carolina, and various civic interests. Genealogical data on the Lay and Atkinson families also is included. Papers of G. W. Lay before 1886 are in a related collection, the papers of his father, Henry Champlin Lay, #418.