Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #3593
                  CHARLES EDWARD MADDRY PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Charles Edward Maddry (1876-1962) of Chapel Hill,
           N.C., was a Baptist minister and executive secretary
           of the Foreigh Mission Board of the Southern Baptist
           Convention, 1933-1945.
               Maddry's history of the Mount Moriah (Baptist)
           Church, Orange County, N.C., written in 1960, other
           essays, and scattered other items, including a letter,
           1916, from Josephus Daniels. 

Online Catalog Terms:
   Baptists--North Carolina--History.
   Churches--North Carolina--History.
   Daniels, Josephus, 1862-1948.
   Maddry, Charles Edward, 1876-1962.
   Mount Moriah Church (Orange County, N.C.).
   Orange County (N.C.)--Church history.

Size:      47 items  (0.25 linear feet)

Provenance:    History of Mount Moriah Church received from
               Eugene S. Sugg in 1962; other materials received
               from Katherine Maddry Severance of Chapel Hill,
               North Carolina, in August 1981.

Access:        No restrictions.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or 
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.

Table of Contents:
   Biographical Note
   Description
   Shelf List

                        BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

   Charles Edward Maddry was born in Chapel Hill in 1876, the son
of W.A. and Julia R. Sugg Maddry, and grew up in Hillsborough,
North Carolina.  He married Emma Parker (1881-1973) of
Hillsborough in 1909.

   Maddry attended the University of North Carolina from 1898 to
1903, during which time he served as minister of the First
Baptist Church in Hillsborough.  In 1892, he was superintendent
of the Orange County public schools.  Maddry continued his
studies at the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Louisville, Kentucky, and afterwards had pastorates in North
Carolina, Kentucky, and Texas.  From 1933 to 1945, he served as
executive secretary of the Foreign Mission Board of the Southern
Baptist Convention.

   Maddry wrote two books on missionary work:  Day Dawn in Yoruba
Land (1939), about mission work in Nigeria; and Christ's
Expendables (1949), a collection of case histories of
missionaries.

   He received many honorary degrees and awards and was a popular
speaker at university commencement exercises.  Maddry died in
1962.

                       SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

Series 1.  Correspondence
   1907-1946.  12 items
   Arrangement:  chronological

   Letters chiefly relating to requests for commencement speeches
or the conferring of honorary degrees.  Of note are two letters
from Josephus Daniels:  as a member of the Baptist Tabernacle in
Raleigh where Maddry was pastor, Daniels wrote on 23 May 1916 of
his regret that Maddry was leaving to accept a position in Texas;
in 1937, Daniels circulated a letter entitled "Reflections at
Seventy-five," a copy of which he sent to Maddry.  Also included
are letters of appreciation from University of North Carolina
presidents Harry Woodburn Chase (1922) and Frank Porter Graham
(1946) and a request from Governor J. Melville Broughton that
Maddry officiate at the Broughtons' 25th wedding anniversary in
1941.

   Folder 1        1907-1946

Series 2.  Writings
   1903 and undated.  3 items

   Folder 2    "The Work of the Prophet in Religious Life,"
                 thesis, University of North Carolina, 1903
                 [first 9 pages only]

               "The Duty of the South to the Country Boy,"
                 commencement oration, University of North
                 Carolina, 3 June 1903 [8 pages]

               History of the Mount Moriah Baptist Church
                 in Orange County, North Carolina, eight
                 chapters covering the years 1823 to 1960
                 [photocopies of typescript and holograph,
                 46 pages]

Series 3.  Other items
   32 items

   Folder 3        Receipts, clippings, and other items, chiefly
                   relating to payment of tuition at the
                   University of North Carolina, loans, and
                   taxes, and to the Mangum Medal for oratory won
                   by Maddry in 1903.

                           SHELF LIST

   Box 1 (only)