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[Identification of item], in the Samuel Mills Meek Diary and Ledger, #2340, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

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• Alabama--Social life and customs.
• Clergy--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Meek, Samuel Mills.
• Methodist Church--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Methodists--Alabama--History--19th century.
• Physicians--Alabama--History--19th century.

• See also A. B. (Alexander Beaufort) Meek Papers, Duke University Library, Durham, N.C.

Samuel Mills Meek of Tuscaloosa, Ala., was a physician and Methodist minister. He received an honorary M.D. degree from Transylvania University in March 1846.

Collection consists of three items: a journal, January 1842- April 1846; a journal, October 1856-April 1858; and a ledger of expenses, 1835. Both journals record Meek's daily activities, his reading from the Bible, the visits he made, births, deaths, and business related to the church.