Inventory of the John Parkhill Papers, 1813-1891
Collection Number 1826
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
- Parkhill, John, 1786-1856.
- Title
- John Parkhill Papers, 1813-1891.
- Call Number
- 1826
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 225 items (0.5 linear feet).
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Administrative Information
- Additional Descriptive Resources
- A more complete finding aid for this collection is available at the Southern Historical Collection.
- Preferred Citation
- [Identification of item], in the John Parkhill Papers, #1826, 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.
- Banks and banking--Florida--History--19th century.
- Centre College (Danville, Ky.)--Students--History--19th century.
- Confederate States of America. Army--Officers--Correspondence.
- Family--Florida--Social life and customs.
- Florida--History--19th century.
- Freedmen--Florida.
- Irish Americans--Florida--History--19th century.
- Irish Americans--Virginia--History--19th century.
- Migration, Internal--Southern States--History--19th century.
- Page, James.
- Parkhill, George Washington, 1822-1862.
- Parkhill, John, 1786-1856.
- Postal service--Florida--History--19th century.
- Southern States--Description and travel.
- Tallahassee (Fla.)--Social life and customs.
Biographical Note
Irish immigrant; banker of Tallahassee, Fla.
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Business papers and family correspondence of Parkhill, a native of Ireland who moved from Richmond, Va., to Leon County, Fla., in the 1820s and worked as a postmaster at Tuscawilla and a banker in Tallahassee. There are also papers and letters of some of Parkhill's sons and daughters. Included in the collection are deeds; travel accounts, Virginia to Florida, 1821 and 1827; biography and family history of John Parkhill; letters from sons at Centre College, Danville, Ky.; letters from son George Washington Parkhill (1822-1862), physician, Florida state legislator, and Confederate officer, to his wife, written primarily while he was stationed at Evansport, Va., in the months prior to his death in battle; and letters from James Page, a former Parkhill family slave, 1866- 1875.