Inventory of the Jehu A. Orr Papers, 1751-1920
Collection Number 1099
Manuscripts Department, University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
- Contact Information:
- Manuscripts Department
- CB#3926, Wilson Library
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Chapel Hill, NC 27514-8890
- Phone: 919/962-1345
- Fax: 919/962-3594
- Email: mss@email.unc.edu
- URL: http://www.lib.unc.edu/mss/
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Descriptive Summary
- Repository
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
- Creator
- Orr, Jehu A. (Jehu Amaziah), 1828-1921.
- Title
- Jehu A. Orr Papers, 1751-1920.
- Call Number
- 1099
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- 344 items (4.0 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the Jehu A. Orr Papers, #1099, 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.
Online Catalog Headings
These and related materials may be found under the following headings in online catalogs.
- 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.
Biographical Note
Columbus, Miss., lawyer, judge, and Confederate congressman.
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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.