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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], in the Riddick Family Papers, #4120, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information

Received from Eugenia Riddick (Mrs. Fred) Steck of Chapel Hill, N.C., February 1977.

Additional Descriptive Resources

A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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• Americans--China--History--20th century.
• British-American Tobacco Co. (China)--History.
• China--Photographs.
• Engineering--Study and teaching--North Carolina.
• North Carolina State College--Administrators.
• North Carolina State College--Faculty.
• North Carolina State University--History.
• Philippines--History--20th century.
• Real property--North Carolina--History.
• Riddick family.
• Riddick, Ivy G., 1890-1956.
• Riddick, Margaret.
• Riddick, W. C. (Wallace Carl), 1864-1942.
• Scrapbooks--China.
• Shanghai (China)--History--20th century.
• Wake County (N.C.)--Economic conditions.

• Elsie Riddick Papers (#4115).

Wallace Carl Riddick (1864-1942), son of Wiley Goodman Riddick and Anna Ivy Jones Riddick, was raised in Wake County, N.C., and was educated at Wake Forest College, the University of North Carolina, and Lehigh University. After working briefly as an engineer he joined the faculty of the North Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College in Raleigh, N.C., as a professor of hydraulics and also coached athletic teams. He became the vice president of North Carolina State College in 1908 and the president in 1916. In 1923 he resigned that post to organize the School of Engineering at that institution and became its dean. He remained dean until his retirement in 1937. While at State College he served on the State Highway Commission, the Conservation Commission, and for one year on the Board of Visitors of the United States Naval Academy. He married Lillian Daniel in 1893.

Ivy Goodman Riddick Junior (1890-1956), son of Ivy Goodman Riddick and grandson of Wiley Goodman Riddick, began work in the sales department of the American Tobacco Company in North Carolina in 1914. In 1916 he was transferred to the leaf department and in 1919 he was sent to manage the leaf department of the American Tobacco Company's sister company, the British-American Tobacco Company, in Hankow, China. He worked as a factory supervisor, 1920-1939, and thereafter worked for another tobacco company in Shanghai. He remained in Shanghai until 1943 when he was forced to evacuate to the United States. He returned to North Carolina with his wife Margaret and daughter Frances.

The collection includes papers of Ivy Goodman Riddick; his wife, Margaret; his uncle, Wallace C. Riddick; and Wallace Riddick's father, Wiley G. Riddick. Wallace C. Riddick's material consists largely of items relating to land he bought and sold in Wake County, N.C., but includes some items relating to North Carolina State College and engineering education. Papers of Ivy Riddick and his wife include personal letters discussing conditions in Shanghai, China, and the Philippines, 1939-1943, and some items relating to Riddick's employment by the British-American Tobacco Company. Also included are photograph albums and scrapbooks kept by the Riddicks in China.

• Photographs (PF-4120/1/14)
• Oversize papers (X-OPF-4120/1)
• Photograph album (PA-4120/1)