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[Identification of item], in the Jehu A. Orr Papers, #1099, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Gift 1946

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• Family--Mississippi--Social life and customs.
• Judges--Mississippi--History.
• Lawyers--Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Mississippi--Politics and government--1865-1950.
• Mississippi--Politics and government--To 1865.
• Orr family.
• Orr, Jehu A. (Jehu Amaziah), 1828-1921.
• University of Mississippi--History--19th century.
• Vardaman, James Kimble, 1861-1930.
• Women--Mississippi--Social life and customs.

Columbus, Miss., lawyer, judge, and Confederate congressman.

Papers of Jehu Amaziah Orr, scattered in dates and subjects, chiefly legal and personal in nature. There is some very dispersed correspondence pertaining to state and national politics, but not to secession or the Confederate Congress. The greatest concentration of papers are 1847-1859 and 1898-1910, the later group containing some items concerning the University of Mississippi during the administration of Governor James K. Vardeman but consisting primarily of letters among female family members discussing marriages, deaths, and social news.