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| Size | 6.0 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 35 items) |
| Abstract | Alice Noble (1891-1972) was a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., librarian and secretary of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, staff member of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation, and associate secretary and associate editor of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association. The collection includes genealogical and historical data, notes and copies, mounted clippings and pictures, writings, typescripts, and pertinent correspondence, compiled by Alice Noble, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The volumes are organized by family name or topic, and include genealogical scrapbooks on the Barron, Brice, Consolvo, Ellis, Graves, Hawks, Hooper, Jones, Lillington, Lister, Noble, Primrose, Robinson, Stephens, Turner, Watters, Yarborough, and related families; genealogical and historical scrapbooks on New Bern, Wilmington, and Hillsborough, N.C., and on the Reverend John La Pierre and the Palatine settlers in North Carolina; a history of the Chapel Hill, N.C., chapter of the American Red Cross during World War I; and a paper on "Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina." Also included are two Noble family photograph albums. |
| Creator | Noble, Alice. |
| Language | English |
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Alice Noble (1891-1972) was a native of Chapel Hill, N.C., librarian and secretary of the University of North Carolina School of Pharmacy, staff member of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Research Foundation, and associate secretary and associate editor of the North Carolina Pharmaceutical Association.
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The collection includes volumes, chiefly genealogical units of family and historical data, notes and copies, and mounted clippings and pictures, writings, typescripts, and pertinent correspondence, compiled by Alice Noble, mainly in the 1950s and 1960s. The volumes are organized by family name or topic, and include genealogical scrapbooks on the Barron, Brice, Consolvo, Ellis, Graves, Hawks, Hooper, Jones, Lillington, Lister, Noble, Primrose, Robinson, Stephens, Turner, Watters, Yarborough, and related families; genealogical and historical scrapbooks on New Bern, Wilmington, and Hillsborough, N.C., and on the Reverend John La Pierre and the Palatine settlers in North Carolina; a history of the Chapel Hill, N.C., chapter of the American Red Cross during World War I; and a paper on "Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina." Also included are two Noble family photograph albums.
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Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972.
| Folder 1 |
Original finding aid #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 1 |
| Folder 1a |
Volume 1: Barron and Osborne #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 1aIncludes information on John C. Osborn; David Barron; Samuel Graves Barron (died 1807); and New Bern, N.C. |
| Folder 2 |
Volume 2: Brice, Rice, and Carruthers #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 2Includes 18th century records, chiefly of Craven County, N.C.; information on William Brice, Nathaniel Rice, and others; and Carruthers family data and references to colonial records. |
| Folder 3 |
Volume 3: Consolvo (Gonzales) family #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 3 |
| Folder 4 |
Volume 4: Ellis, James #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 4 |
| Folder 5 |
Volume 5: Ellis, Richard #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 5 |
| Folder 6 |
Volume 6: Ellis #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 6Includes information on many other members of the Ellis family by name, also, Joseph Nelson, Sallie Sitgreaves and her two sisters who married George Ellis and Tom Ellis. |
| Folder 7 |
Volume 7: Graves #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 7Includes data on Thomas Graves, Lancelot G. Berry, Richard Graves and his son Thomas, the Fonvielle family, Elizabeth Graves Henry, Mary Graves Bright, Ann Graves Barron Ellis, Sarah Graves Oram, and Mary Graves Nixon. |
| Folder 8 |
Volume 8: Hawks, John #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 8 |
| Folder 9 |
Volume 9: Hooper #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 9William Hooper (1742-1790) and his descendants, their families and lives. William's brother George Hooper and George's father-in-law Archibald Maclain, and Thomas Hooper. |
| Folder 10 |
Volume 10: Jones #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 10Frederick Jones and Thomas Jones in colonial Craven County, N.C.; Mary Vail, widow of Frederick Jones; also, Dobbs, Nash, and Abner families, and John Knox Witherspoon (1791-1853). |
| Folder 11 |
Volume 11: Lillington #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 11Includes data on Lillington, Vail, Merrick, Howe, and Spaight families, and Mary Whiting Jones Ellis. |
| Folder 12 |
Volume 12: Lister in England #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 12Information on the Lister family of Shibden Hall, near Halifax, Yorkshire, England. |
| Folder 13 |
Volume 13: Lister in the colonies #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 13Includes information on William Lister; his daughters, Phoebe Lister van Dam and Mary Lister Stephens; and his widow, Susannah Lewes, who married Joseph Balch after William's death. |
| Folder 14 |
Volume 14: Noble #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 14Volume includes material on Alice Noble's father, M. C. S. Noble and immediate family. |
| Folder 15 |
Volume 15: Primrose, Robert S. #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 15Information related to the family of Robert Stuart Primrose (1782-1856) of Scotland. |
| Folder 16 |
Volume 16: Primrose, Cicero Stephens #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 16Volume includes Williams, Guion, Ferrand, Backhouse, Daily, Snead, Gillespie-Snead, Dudley-Hill, Chapman, and Primrose families. Also includes data from and correspondence with Mary F. Henderson. |
| Folder 17 |
Volume 17: Robinson and Smith #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 17 |
| Folder 18 |
Volumes 18-20: Stephens #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 18Volumes include material on Richard Nassau Stephens, Marcus Cicero Stephens (born circa 1774-1775), Mary Anne Ellis Stephens, Anne Stephens Primrose, Robert Primrose, Sam Barron Stephens (1812-1881 or 1882), and other family data. |
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Volume 21: Turner #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 21Includes descendants of Robert Turner of Beaufort County, N.C. |
| Folder 22 |
Volume 22: Watters #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 22Includes descendants of John Watters and Joseph Watters of Brunswick County, N.C., and William Watters. |
| Folder 23 |
Volume 23: Yarborough #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 23Includes genealogical material on the family of Alice Noble's mother, Alice Jackson Yarborough Noble (1863-1902). Also information on history and people of Salisbury, N.C., and Rowan County, N.C. |
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Volume 24: New Bern, N.C., biographies and families #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 24Contains brief sections on friends of the family and other New Bernians, not related to Alice Noble. |
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Volume 25: Wilmington and Hillsborough, N.C., biographies and families #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 25Contains sections on John Burgwyn (1731-1803); John Butler; Giles family; William Soranzo Hassell (1780-1815; James Hogg (1729-1805); and others. |
| Folder 26 |
Volume 26: Hillsborough's Burwell School: its pupils #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 26Compiled sheets on the individual pupils of the Burwell School, Hillsborough, N.C. |
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Volume 27: Supplementary material concernign the Burwell School #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 27Includes a list of Hillsborough, N.C., cemetery lots, brochures and bulletins published by the Hillsborough Historical Society in the 1960s, and some letters to Alice Noble about Hillsborough historical matters. |
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Volumes 28-30: "Historical Gleanings," 1959-1963 #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 28-30Notebooks contain mounted clippings from Elizabeth Moore's column, "Historical Gleanings," in the New Bern Mirror concerning New Bern and Craven County, N.C., history. See also Volume 31. Folder 28Folder 29Folder 30 |
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Volume 31: Miscellaneous clippings, 1954-1964 #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 31Includes mounted and loose clippings mainly from New Bern, Greensboro, and Raleigh, N.C., newspapers. They include articles related to North Carolina history, especially to the New Bern area. |
| Folder 32 |
Volume 32: Reverend John Lapierre #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 32Includes two papers by Lillian Fordham, memoranda, and other material related to John Lapierre. |
| Folder 33 |
Volume 33: "The Chapel Hill Chapter of American Red Cross in World War I," compiled by Alice Noble #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 33 |
| Folder 34 |
Volume 34: "Pharmacy, Drugs, and Medical Care in Colonial North Carolina," preliminary study by Alice Noble, 1963. #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 34 |
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Volume 35: Semons and papers, Reverend Herbert N. Tucker #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." Folder 35Includes sermons and papers on theological topics written by Tucker either while he was in Chapel Hill, N.C., in the late 1960s as chaplain to Episcopal students and the University of North Carolina, or during 1969-1970 while he was at the Seminary at Alexandria, Va. |
| Image Folder PF-3849/1 |
Photographs #03849, Series: "Alice Noble Volumes, 1950-1972." PF-3849/1 |
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Photographs (PF-3849/1).
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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Kate Stratton and Jodi Berkowitz, October 2009
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
Diacritics and other special characters have been omitted from this finding aid to facilitate keyword searching in web browsers.
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