Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                 SOUTHERN HISTORICAL COLLECTION

                              #584
                   RICHMOND M. PEARSON PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      Richmond M. Pearson, who lived successively in
           Rowan, Davie, and Surry (later Yadkin) counties, N.C.,
           was a lawyer; legislator; Superior and Supreme Court
           judge, chief justice of North Carolina, 1858-1878;
           noted teacher of law; unionist Whig; and, after the
           Civil War, Republican.
               Papers include correspondence with physicians and
           others about the mental illness of Pearson's first
           wife; with his brothers, sisters, and children about
           family and plantation life; with his second wife, Mary
           (McDowell) Bynum Pearson; and with his son-in-law,
           Daniel Gould Fowle, lawyer of Raleigh, N.C., later
           governor of North Carolina.  Also included are
           scattered papers relating to personal finances,
           property, and estate settlements, and a few items
           pertaining to judicial and political affairs, several
           of them during the Civil War and Reconstruction
           periods.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Family--North Carolina--Social life and customs--19th century.
   Fowle, Daniel G. (Daniel Gould), 1831-1891.
   Mentally ill--Care--North Carolina--History--19th century.
   North Carolina--Politics and government--19th century.
   Pearson family.
   Pearson, Mary McDowell Bynum, fl. 1856-1874.
   Pearson, Richmond Mumford, 1805-1874.
   Plantation life--North Carolina.
   Reconstruction--North Carolina.

Size:  About 372 items (0.5 linear feet).

Provenance:    Received from Mrs. Richmond M. Pearson, Marjorie
               Pearson, and the North Carolina Historical
               Society. 

Access:        No restrictions.

Related Collection:    Richmond Pearson Papers (#3647).

Processing Note:   This collection was processed with support
                   from the Randleigh Foundation Trust.  

Copyright:     Retained by the authors of items in these papers,
               or their descendants, as stipulated by United
               States copyright law.