Inventory of the John S. Lefevre Diary, 1952-1955
Collection Number 4040-z
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
- Lefevre, John S., d. ca. 1955.
- Title
- John S. Lefevre Diary, 1952-1955.
- Call Number
- 4040-z
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 3 volumes
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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 John S. Lefevre Diary, #4040-z, 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.
- Burnsville (Yancey County, N.C.)--Social life and customs.
- Lefevre, John S., d. ca. 1955.
- Older people--North Carolina--Social conditions--20th century.
- Retirees--North Carolina--Social life and customs--20th century.
- Rural churches--North Carolina--History--20th century.
Biographical Note
John S. Lefevre was an educator and Presbyterian leader in Burnsville, N.C., who was principal of McCormick School in Burnsville, which was modeled after the Danish folk schools, and later worked with rural churches.
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Three volumes of a detailed diary kept by Lefevre, then retired from his school work and probably in his seventies, about his personal life and neighborhood and church events.