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           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #4243
                       ALFRED NIXON PAPERS
                       Initial Description

Abstract:      Correspondence, legal papers, and notes of Alfred
           Nixon (b. 1856), local historian and attorney of
           Lincoln County, N.C., and of his descendants, Kemp
           Battle Nixon and Joseph R. Nixon, superintendent of
           schools in Lincoln County in the 1920s; and a record
           book, 1885-1889, kept by J. A. Munday, concerning his
           work as a justice of the peace of Lincoln County. 
           Included are student notebooks kept by Alfred Nixon at
           the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1878,
           of lectures by President Battle), and notebooks kept
           by A. T. Davidson, Jr., 1878, and by Kemp Battle
           Nixon, 1900-1903.  There is also a letter, 1909, from
           R. D. W. Connor to Alfred Nixon.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Battle, Kemp P. (Kemp Plummer), 1831-1919.
   College students--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Connor, R. D. W. (Robert Digges Wimberley), 1878-1950.
   Davidson, Allen Turner, 1819-1905.
   Justices of the peace--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   Lincoln County (N.C.)--History.
   Munday, J. A.
   Nixon, Alfred, b. 1856.
   Nixon, Kemp Battle.
   Nixon, Joseph R. (Joseph Robert), 1887- .
   School notebooks--History--19th century.
   School superintendents--North Carolina--History--20th century.
   University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1793-1962)--
       Students--History--19th century.

Size:  About 30 items (0.5 feet)

Provenance:    Received from Peggy Nixon Simmons, of Lincolnton,
               N.C., in August 1980.

Access:  No restrictions.

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

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