Inventory of the George Willcox McIver Memoirs, 1940

Collection Number 1674


Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Collection Information
Descriptive Summary
Administrative Information
Online Catalog Headings
Collection Overview
Related Material
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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, NC 27515-8890
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Descriptive Summary

Repository
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Creator
McIver, George Willcox, 1858-1947.
Title
George Willcox McIver Memoirs, 1940
Call Number
1674
Language of Materials
Materials in English
Extent
2 volumes (480 pages).
Abstract
MICROFILM ONLY. Autobiography of George Willcox McIver, written for his family in about 1930 and revised in about 1940. McIver was born at Carthage, N.C., 22 December 1858, son of educator Alexander McIver and Mary Ann Willcox McIver. The memoirs describe his family and his marriage to Helen Howard Smedburg; his childhood at Davidson, Chapel Hill, Bingham School, and Greensboro, N.C.; his education at the United States Military Academy, 1877-1882; his service in the United States Army, 1882-1922, including service in the American west, Cuba, Alaska, the Philippines, Washington, D.C., at West Point, in the Santiago campaign in the War of 1898, and as a brigadier general in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I; and his life in New England and in Washington, D.C., after his retirement from the army.


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Administrative Information

Location of Originals
Original returned to private owner in 1950.
Processing Information
Processed by: SHC Staff
Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the George Willcox McIver Memoirs, #1674, 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.
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Online Catalog Headings

These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.

Autobiographies--United States.
Bingham School (N.C.)--History.
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--History.
Chapel Hill (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
Children--North Carolina--Social life and customs.
Davidson College--History.
Greensboro (N.C.)--History.
Greensboro (N.C.)--Social life and customs.
McIver family.
McIver, Alexander, 1822-1902.
McIver, George Willcox, 1858-1947.
McIver, Helen Howard Smedberg, 1869-1953.
McIver, Mary Ann Willcox.
Spanish-American War, 1898.
United States Military Academy--Students--History--19th century.
United States. Army--History--War of 1898.
United States. Army--History--World War, 1914-1918.
United States. Army--Military life--History.
United States. Army--Officers--Biography.
United States. Army. American Expeditionary Forces.
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Related Material

See also Alexander McIver papers (#468) in the Southern Historical Collection, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Collection Overview

MICROFILM ONLY. Autobiography of George Willcox McIver, written for his family in about 1930 and revised in about 1940. McIver was born at Carthage, N.C., 22 December 1858, son of educator Alexander McIver and Mary Ann Willcox McIver. The memoirs describe his family and his marriage to Helen Howard Smedburg; his childhood at Davidson, Chapel Hill, Bingham School, and Greensboro, N.C.; his education at the United States Military Academy, 1877-1882; his service in the United States Army, 1882-1922, including service in the American west, Cuba, Alaska, the Philippines, Washington, D.C., at West Point, in the Santiago campaign in the War of 1898, and as a brigadier general in the American Expeditionary Forces in France during World War I; and his life in New England and in Washington, D.C., after his retirement from the army.