Inventory of the William J. Pattison Papers, 1847-1897
Collection Number 2315
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
- Pattison, William J., 1828-1897?
- Title
- William J. Pattison Papers, 1847-1897.
- Call Number
- 2315
- Language of Materials
- Materials in English
- Extent
- About 2,800 items (3.5 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 William J. Pattison Papers, #2315, 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.
- Commission merchants--Louisiana--History--19th century.
- Commission merchants--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Cotton trade--Louisiana--History--19th century.
- Cotton trade--New York (State)--New York--History--19th century.
- Estates (Law)--Louisiana.
- Family--Southern States--Social life and customs.
- First Presbyterian Church (Pass Christian, Miss.)--History.
- Louisiana--Economic conditions.
- New Orleans (La.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
- New Orleans (La.)--Politics and government.
- New York (N.Y.)--Commerce--History--19th century.
- Pass Christian (Miss.)--Church history--19th century.
- Pass Christian (Miss.)--Economic conditions.
- Pattison, William J., 1828-1897?
- Presbyterian Church--Mississippi--History--19th century.
- Real property--Southern States--History--19th century.
Biographical Note
New Orleans cotton factor.
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Business papers and family correspondence, chiefly 1866-1897, including business letters, bills, receipts, invoices, accounts, and legal papers concerning the sale of cotton, the purchase of goods for planters, the management of estates, and real estate of Pattison and various partners. Pattison had close business associates in New York City, where he lived from 1866 to 1867 while handling business for Louisianans. Also present are family letters and household accounts, material on civil and political matters in New Orleans, and papers about Pattison's property in Pass Christian, Miss., and the First Presbyterian Church there, of which he was treasurer in the 1870s and 1880s.