Inventory of the Lenoir Family Papers, 1819-1919
Collection Number 2262
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
- Lenoir family.
- Title
- Lenoir Family Papers, 1819-1919.
- Call Number
- 2262
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 2,300 items (2.5 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 Lenoir Family Papers, #2262, 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.
- Agriculture--Tennessee--History--19th century.
- Cherokee Indians--Tennessee.
- Family--Tennessee--Social life and customs.
- Indian agents--Tennessee--History--19th century.
- Indians of North America--Government relations.
- Lenoir family.
- Lenoir, Albert Sobieski, 1803-1861.
- Lenoir, Catharine Frieling Welcker.
- Military engineers--United States--History--19th century.
- Tennessee--Politics and government--To 1865.
- United States. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- Welcker, George Lewis, d. 1848.
Related Material
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Lenoir Family Papers (#426); Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Biographical Note
Albert Sobieski Lenoir (1803-1861) of Loudon County, Tenn., was one of the twelve children of William Ballard Lenoir (1775-1852), who moved from North Carolina to Tennessee in 1810. William B. Lenoir was one of seven children, and his father, General William Lenoir of North Carolina, was one of ten. Albert S. Lenoir married Catharine Frieling Welcker in 1837, and they had ten children. His brother-in-law, George Lewis Welcker, entered the United States Military Academy in in 1832, and died in 1848 having attained the rank of captain in the Corps of Engineers.
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These papers consist largely of personal letters addressed to Albert S. and Catharine Lenoir and to George Lewis Welcker, from their large family connection in North Carolina and Tennessee and from Welcker's friends in the army. There are also papers relating to Albert S. Lenoir's work as Federal issuing agent to the Cherokee Indians, and his business and planting interests, and to Welcker's army engineering work. The later papers are of the next generation. The seventeen volumes are farm records and albums.